Rodrigo Delgado

Rodrigo Delgado is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Illinois, also affiliated with the Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies. His research focuses on bilingual language processing, particularly code-switching phenomena in Spanish-English contexts, acceptability judgment tasks, and sociolinguistic factors influencing language use. He employs experimental methods to explore linguistic theory, psycholinguistics, and bilingual cognition.

• Education: PhD in Linguistics

Key research interests include code-switching triggers, lexical influences on judgment tasks, and the sociocultural dimensions of bilingual speech. His work integrates psycholinguistic experiments with theoretical linguistic analysis, addressing topics like reggaetón's impact on code-switching and prosocial behavior in bilingual contexts. Recent studies examine how music labels and lexical triggers affect code-mixing acceptability.

Publications span 2018-2024, with a focus on experimental linguistics and bilingualism. His 2018 work on gender assignment in mixed DPs contributes to syntactic theory, while 2024 articles explore music's role in code-switching contexts.

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Labs/Teams: Affiliated with interdisciplinary groups studying bilingualism and sociolinguistics at the University of Illinois.