Alejandro Cuza
Psychology · Purdue University West Lafayette
Publications
74
Citations
1,021
Est. group size
~1
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
26
Publishing since 2000
Alejandro Cuza studies how children and adults acquire and use grammar in heritage languages and second languages, with a strong focus on Spanish spoken by bilinguals in the US and other countries, as well as other language pairs like Korean-English and Chinese-Spanish. His work examines specific grammatical features—such as verb forms, clitics (small pronoun-like words), gender marking, and mood—to understand how bilingual experience and language contact shape linguistic development. This research is relevant to students interested in bilingualism, language acquisition, and how minority or 'heritage' languages are maintained or changed across generations.
Publication output has been fairly steady over the past decade, with a peak in 2020 and a slight decline to a stable rate of about 3 papers per year in 2023-2025.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Genericity expression in child heritage Spanish
Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics · 2025
- La variación gramático‐léxica del español cubano
2025
- <i>Nadando es mi deporte favorito</i> : Infinitives and gerunds in the speech of Spanish/English bilingual children and adolescents
Bilingualism Language and Cognition · 2025
- Phrasal verb production in child heritage speakers of English residing in Mexico: Chronological age, experience, and protracted development
International Journal of Bilingualism · 2024
- The Acquisition of Inalienable Possession in L2 and Heritage Spanish
Heritage Language Journal · 2024
- On the production of bare nouns and case marking in Korean heritage speakers in contact with English
Lingua · 2024
- The Phonetic and Morphosyntactic Dimensions of Grammatical Gender in Spanish Heritage Language Acquisition
Heritage Language Journal · 2023
- The Distribution of Manner and Frequency Adverbs in Child Heritage Speakers of Spanish
Languages · 2023
- Protracted development in child heritage Spanish: Evidence from inalienable possession
Second language Research · 2023
- Infinitive vs. Gerund Use and Interpretation in Heritage Spanish
Languages · 2023
- Structured variation, language experience, and crosslinguistic influence shape child heritage speakers’ Spanish direct objects
Bilingualism Language and Cognition · 2022
- Early exposure and input type in the production of Spanish accusative clitics by Chinese-Spanish bilinguals
Glossa a journal of general linguistics · 2022
- Crosslinguistic Influence in the Discrimination of Korean Stop Contrast by Heritage Speakers and Second Language Learners
Languages · 2022
- The acquisition of grammatical gender in child and adult heritage speakers of Spanish
Studies in bilingualism · 2022
- Object clitic use and intuition in the Spanish of heritage speakers from Brazil
Second language Research · 2021
- Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics×5
- Languages×4
- Lingua×3
- Second language Research×3
- Heritage Language Journal×3
- Rachel Wright Karem
Psychology · Indiana University
- Laura Wagner
Psychology · The Ohio State University
- Windi Krok
Psychology · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Jissel B. Anaya
Psychology · The Ohio State University
- Raquel T. Anderson
Psychology · Indiana University
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.
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