Jeanne Heil, PhD

Associate Professor, Linguistics
Department Chair

(207) 780-4582

jeanne.heil@maine.edu

310 A-Wing Science Building, Portland Campus

Education

PhD, Hispanic Studies (Linguistics), University of Illinois at Chicago, 2015

Research Interests

Linguistic and psycholinguistic approaches to bilingualism (adult second language acquisition, heritage language acquisition); Methodology in second language acquisition and code-switching research

Department of Linguistics College of Science, Technology, and Health

Previous Experience: Researcher with the Bilingualism Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago (2008-2016). Taught in the Department of Language and Literature at Eastern Mennonite University (2016-2017), and the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago (2007-2016).

Professional Service: Book proposal reviewer for Routledge and abstract reviewer for the Bilingualism Research Forum.

Selected Publications

Heil, Jeanne & Luis López. 2021. Why is there no Raising to Object in Spanish? A study of code-switching. Languages, 6(4), 172.

Heil, J., & López, L. (2020). Acquisition without evidence: English infinitives and poverty of stimulus in adult second language acquisition. Second Language Research, 36(4), 415-443.

Morgan-Short, K., Marsden, E., Heil, J., Issa II, B.I., Mikhaylova, A., Mikołajczak, S., Moreno, N., Leow, R.P., Slabakova, R., & Szudarski, P. (2018). Multi-site replication in SLA research: Attention to form during listening and reading comprehension in Spanish L2. Language Learning, 68(2), 392-437.

Heil, J., & Ebert, S. (2018). Extra-syntactic factors in the that-trace effect. In Contemporary Trends in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics: Selected papers from the Hispanic Linguistic Symposium 2015 (Vol. 15, p. 309). John Benjamins Publishing Company.

González-Vilbazo, K., Bartlett, L., Downey, S., Ebert, S., Heil, J., Hoot, B., Koronkiewicz, B., & Ramos, S. (2013). Methodological considerations in code-switching research. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 6(1), 119-138.