John Grinstead
Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
The Ohio State University

 


Department of Spanish & Portuguese Hispanic Linguistics Graduate Program Spanish Psycholinguistics Laboratory
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Selected Publications and Presentations

Hispanic Child Languages: Typical and impaired development. John Grinstead (Ed.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 2009. (Click here for description.)
 
"Comprehension of Prototypical Tense and Aspect Combinations in Child Spanish" with Teresa Pratt and Dan McCurley. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 2, 2 (2009), 435-450. (Click here to download a PDF copy of this paper.)
 
"The clausal left periphery in child Spanish and German" with Patti Spinner. Probus, 21 (2009), 51-82. (Click here to download a PDF copy of this paper.)
 
"Canonical and Epenthetic Plural Marking in Spanish-Speaking Children with Specific Language Impairment." with Myriam Cantú-Sánchez and Blanca Flores-Ávalos. Language Acquisition, 15 (2008), 329-349. (Click here to download a PDF copy of this paper.)
 

"Multiple Measures of Finiteness in Spanish-Speaking Children with Specific Language Impairment" with Juliana De la Mora, Amy Pratt and Blanca Flores, in Proceedings of 37th WECOL, 18, 56-67. 2008. (Click here to download a PDF copy of this paper.)

 
"The optional infinitive stage in child Spanish" with Amy Pratt. In A. Belikova, L. Meroni & M. Umeda (Eds.), Proceedings of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition - North America. McGill University, Montréal: Cascadilla Press. 2007. 351-362. (Click here to download a PDF copy of this paper.)

 
"Receptive measures of the optional infinitive stage in child Spanish" with Amy Pratt. In J. B. d. Garavito & E. Valenzuela (Eds.), Proceedings of the Hispanic Linguistic Symposium. University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario: Cascadilla Press. 2008 . (Click here to download a PDF copy of this paper.)

 
"Connections Between Theory of Mind and Pronoun Competence in Development" with Laura Wagner and Valerie Niemiec, presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, 2007. (Click here to download a PDF copy of this poster.)
 
"Subjects, Topicalizations and Wh- Questions in Child German and Southern Romance" with Patti Spinner, in Selected Proceedings of the 9th Hispanic Linguistic Symposium. Ed. Nuria Sagarra & Almeida Jacqueline Toribio. Cascadilla Press. 2006. 241-251. (Click here for a PDF copy of this paper.)

 
"Nominal Number & Gender Agreement in Child Spanish SLI." with Myriam Cantú Sánchez, presented at Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America, University of Hawai’i, Manoa, 2004. (Click here to download a PDF copy of this poster.)
 
“Root Non-finite Forms in Child Spanish” with Elena Davidiak, presented at Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America, University of Hawai’i, Manoa, 2004. (Click here to download a PDF copy of this poster.)
 
“The production of object clitics in Mexican Spanish-speaking children, with and without SLI.” With Juliana De la Mora, Johanne Paradis, Blanca Flores and Myriam Cantú, presented at the Symposium for Research on Child Language Disorders, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2004. (Click here to download a PDF copy of this poster.)
 
"Subjects and Interface Delay in Child Spanish and Catalan." Language, 80.1 (2004), 40-72. (Click here to download a PDF copy of this article.)
 
“Processing and Post-verbal Subjects in Child Spanish and Catalan.” presented at the 5th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages, University of Iowa, October, 2002.
 
"Constraints on the Computational Component vs. Grammar in the Lexicon: A Discussion of Bates & Goodman." in Journal of Child Language 27.3 (2000): 737-743. (Click here to download a PDF copy of this article.)
 
"Tense, Number and Nominative Case Assignment in Child Catalan and Spanish." Journal of Child Language 27.1 (2000): 119-155. (Click here to download a PDF copy of this article.)

 


Courses (2009-2010)

Autumn
Winter
Spring

On Duty

Honors Introduction to Spanish Linguistics

(Spanish H530)

Introduction to Spanish Linguistics

(Spanish 430)

 

Syntax II (Graduate)

(Spanish 832)

Studies in Spanish Psycholinguistics (Graduate)

(Spanish 837)

 

 


 

Ohio State Language Science Resources
 
Laura Wagner's Developmental Language and Cognition Laboratory
 
Susan Nittrouer's Speech Development Laboratory
 
Mary Beckman's Language Acquisition Laboratory
 
Lisa Milman's Webpage
 
Linguistics Department
 
Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences
 
Center for Cognitive Science