Hurtado, Luz

• Hurtado, L. M., Ortega-Santos, I. (2019). On the use of uno in Colombian Spanish: the role of transitivity in the Spanish of Barranquilla. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 12(1), 35-64.

• Torres Cruz, D. L., Hurtado, L. M. (2016). Mecanismos de control que determinan la identidad a través del lenguaje en un contexto escolar. Un estudio para la interacción social. (Control Mechanisms that Determine Identity Through Language in a School Environment. A study for Social Interaction). Cuadernos de Lingüística Hispánica 28, 19-40.
• Hurtado, L. M., Gutierrez-Rivas, C. (2016). The versatility of the Spanish pronoun uno to express the speaker´s stance in relationship to the utterance, in the Spanish of Barranquilla, Colombia. Revista Forma y Función, 29 (1), 37-60.
• Social Dynamics in the Expression of Impersonality in Bogotá: A linguistic change evident in three periods. Revista Lingüística y Literatura 69. (2016).
• The Predominant Use of uno in Bogotá: A Strategy for Defocusing or for subjectification? Anuario de Letras 3 (2) (2015).
• The Variable Expression of Impersonality in Colombian Spanish. Colombian Varieties of Spanish. Eds. Rafael Orozco and Richad File. Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/ Vervuert, 2012. 141-168. Print.
• Factors Influencing the L2 Acquisition of Spanish Vibrants. The Modern Language Journal 94. 1. (2010): 74-86.

• Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics from the University of Florida
• M.A in Hispanic Linguistics from the Instituto Caro y Cuervo (Bogotá, Colombia)
• B.A in Linguistics and Literature from the Universidad Distrital (Bogotá, Colombia)

Dr. Hurtado works primarily in the discipline of variationist sociolinguistics supported by quantitative analysis. She specializes in the fields of Hispanic linguistics and Spanish L2 pronunciation and syntax acquisition. She has carried out field work in Colombia and Chile.

• Spanish Phonetics and Syntax
• Spanish in the US
• History of Spanish Language