Jacqueline Serigos

Spanish Graduate Advisor

Assistant Professor

Spanish: language contact, corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, sociolinguistics

Jacqueline Serigos is an Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages. Her research focuses on various aspects of language contact – including loanwords, code-switching, and calques – and draws from multiple disciplines and linguistic subfields including corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, sociolinguistics, semantics, and statistics. She has several publications on Spanish and English contact using large datasets and develops computational methods, metrics and visualizations to analyze mixed language corpora.

Selected Publications

Serigos, J. (2022). Métodos de análisis estadísticos basados en corpus del español. In Lingüística de corpus en español (pp. 529-544). Routledge.
Serigos, J. (2020). Using automated methods to explore the social stratification of anglicisms in Spanish. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory.
Bullock, B. E., Serigos, J., & Toribio, A. J. (2021). Exploring a loan translation and its consequences in an oral bilingual corpus. Journal of Language Contact, 13(3), 612-635.
Serigos, J. (2017). Using distributional semantics in loanword research: A concept-based approach to quantifying semantic specificity of Anglicisms in Spanish. International Journal of Bilingualism, 21(5), 521-540.
Guzmán, G. A., Ricard, J., Serigos, J., Bullock, B. E., & Toribio, A. J. (2017, August). Metrics for Modeling Code-Switching Across Corpora. In INTERSPEECH (pp. 67-71).
Guzman, G. A., Serigos, J., Bullock, B., & Toribio, A. J. (2016, November). Simple tools for exploring variation in code-switching for linguists. In Proceedings of the second workshop on computational approaches to code switching (pp. 12-20).

Education

BA (Anthropology & Latin American Studies) Emory University
MA (Hispanic Linguistics) University of Texas at Austin
PhD (Hispanic Linguistics) University of Texas at Austin