Gregory D. Keating

Gregory D. Keating is a Professor of Linguistics at San Diego State University and director of the SDSU Language Processing Lab. His research focuses on grammatical processing in monolingual and bilingual Spanish-English speakers, examining non-convergence and attrition in bilingual acquisition.

• B.A. in Spanish, University of Texas at Austin
• M.A. in Spanish Literature, University of Notre Dame
• Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics/Second Language Acquisition, University of Illinois at Chicago

Using psycholinguistic methods like eye-tracking and self-paced reading, Keating investigates how bilinguals utilize grammatical cues compared to monolinguals, with a focus on working memory capacity and acquisition age variables. His work primarily studies adult second language learners and Spanish heritage speakers.

He directs the SDSU Language Processing Lab, which employs online experimental techniques to analyze real-time sentence comprehension differences between linguistic groups.