My primary area of research is in the field of variationist sociolinguistics with a special attention to contact situations in minoritized contexts such as Basque-Spanish in Spain and Spanish-English in the US. I combine both qualitative analysis (metapragmatic commentaries, discourse, ideologies) with quantitative methods of speech data to uncover the processes behind contact-induced variation and to explain why such variation occurs the way it does, especially in social situations of rapid social change (i.e. language revitalization, gentrification).
