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Susan Kalt is a Lecturer in the Applied Linguistics department at UMass Boston, specializing in Quechua and Spanish language acquisition, bilingualism, and endangered language documentation. Her research focuses on documenting varieties of Southern Quechua as spoken in rural communities and examining how Quechua and Spanish influence each other's morphosyntax and discourse pragmatics.
Dr. Kalt earned her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, following an MA in Applied Linguistics from the same institution. She also holds an MA in Education with a focus on English as a Second Language Studies from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and a BA in Hispanic Studies from Brown University.
Her research examines sequential language acquisition of Quechua and Spanish, with particular attention to documenting Southern Quechua varieties in rural communities. She investigates how Quechua and Spanish influence each other's morphosyntax and discourse pragmatics, with a focus on endangered language documentation. Her work often involves linguistic fieldwork in rural Andean communities, particularly in Cuzco, Peru and Chuquisaca, Bolivia.
Dr. Kalt's publications reveal a consistent focus on Quechua language acquisition, morphosyntactic changes in bilingual contexts, and language documentation. Her recent work examines typological shifts in bilingual Quechua speakers, particularly looking at word order and case marking patterns in child language. She has made significant contributions to understanding how language contact affects grammatical structures in endangered languages.
- National Endowment for the Humanities Documenting Endangered Languages Program
- American Council of Learned Societies and Andrew Mellon Foundation
- Foundation for Endangered Languages, London
- Community College Humanities Association
As an award-winning linguist and language curriculum designer, Dr. Kalt teaches courses including APLING 601: Linguistics, APLING 603: Language, Culture, and Identity, and APLING 705: Advanced Ethnography. Her work bridges theoretical linguistics with practical applications for language preservation and education.
