Manuel Pulido-Azpíroz

Manuel Pulido-Azpíroz is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Linguistics at The Pennsylvania State University, with affiliations in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. His research focuses on second language acquisition, cognitive science, and psycholinguistics, particularly exploring how adults process and learn multiword units and how individual cognitive differences affect L2 learning outcomes. He directs the CoALA lab (Cognition of Adult Language Acquisition), utilizing methods like ERP, eye-tracking, and corpus data analysis. Key research themes include the role of input optimization, cognitive load, and cross-linguistic influences in L2 acquisition. His recent work examines nested collocations, Zipfian input effects, and neural correlates of L2 processing. Pulido holds a PhD and MA from Penn State and an MA from the University of Navarra.