Graduate Student
About
Specialization & interest:
Sociolinguistics; language contact and variation; language ideologies and linguistic attitudes; loanwords; code-switching; code-mixing; congruent lexicalization; Haitian Creole in contact with French and Spanish; Spanish in contact; interest in Cuicatec (Otomanguean) and Miskitu (Misumalpan).
Post-colonial linguistics and Anti-exceptionalist approaches to creole languages in linguistics, education, and beyond.
Bio:
Yanira is a linguist from León, Nicaragua. She received a B.A. in Anthropology from UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) in the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences (FCPyS).