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Meritxell Feliu Ribas

Ph.D. Candidate in Spanish Linguistics

Rutgers University

I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Rutgers University. My principal areas of research encompass sociolinguistics and language variation and change in multilingual populations. In particular, I study morphosyntax variation among bilinguals in the United States. Outside of academia, I love discovering new places, spending time (either virtually or in person) with my loved ones, and cooking Catalan and Spanish food!

Interests

  • Sociolinguistics
  • Language Variation and Change
  • Morphosyntax and Phonetic Variation
  • Bilingualism/Second Language Acquisition
  • Statistics/Bayesian Data Analysis

Education

  • Ph.D. in Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition, 2026 (expected)
    Rutgers University
  • MA in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign and Second Language, 2020
    Universitat de Barcelona & Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain)
  • BA in Modern Languages and Literature (German and Russian), 2018
    Universitat de Barcelona (Spain)