Faculty Mentor

Professor Nuria Sagarra is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.  She received her Ph.D. from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.  Her research straddles the domains of cognitive science, linguistics, and second language acquisition, seeking to identify what factors explain adults’ difficulty learning morphosyntax in a foreign language, with the aim of informing linguistic and cognitive models, as well as instructional practices. She investigates these topics using self-paced reading, eye tracking, and more recently, event-related potentials.