CV
Education
Ph.D., Hispanic Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh (2023)
M.A., Hispanic Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh (2020)
M.A., Spanish, Auburn University (2018)
B.A. (Licenciatura), Translation and Interpreting, Universidad Central de Venezuela (2015)
Academic Appointments
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures
California State University, Fresno
August 2023 – Present
Publications
Kanwit, M., Berríos, J., & Hernández Hurtado, A. (in press). "Communicative competence and the acquisition of variation by heritage speakers abroad: Main methods, principal findings, and future directions." Spanish as a Heritage Language.
Fafulas, S., Guo, J., Berríos, J., & Geeslin, K. L. (2025). "A study of lexical bases and variation of progressive constructions in the Spanish of English-speaking learners." In M. Solon, M. Kanwit, & A. Gudmestad (Eds.), Research at the Intersection of Second Language Acquisition and Sociolinguistics: Studies in honor of Kimberly L. Geeslin (pp. 10–34). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.43.01faf
Berríos, J., & Kanwit, M. (2024). "Progressive aspect across temporalities: variation between synthetic and analytic forms in L1 and L2 Spanish." Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 17(2), 161–195. https://doi.org/10.1515/shll-2024-2008
Berríos, J., Swain, A., & Fricke, M. (2023). "Implementing the map task in applied linguistics research: What, how, and why." Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 2(3), 100081. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmal.2023.100081
Swain, A., Berríos, J., & Kanwit, M. (2023). "Exploring future-in-the-past variation in Seville and Caracas: ¿Cambiaría o iba a cambiar?" In S. Fernández Cuenca, T. Judy, & L. Miller (Eds.), Innovative Approaches to Research in Hispanic Linguistics: Regional, diachronic, and learner profile variation (pp. 58–80). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.38.03swa
Kanwit, M., & Berríos, J. (2023). "Corpora, cognition, and usage-based approaches." In M. Díaz-Campos & S. Balasch (Eds.), The Handbook of Usage-Based Linguistics (pp. 269–286). Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119839859.ch15
Kanwit, M., & Berríos, J. (2021). "No se sabía de que eso iba a pasar: Variation in the use of the ‘dequeísmo’ structure in Spanish." In M. Díaz-Campos (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Variationist Approaches to Spanish (pp. 653–669). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429200267-41
Scholarly Presentations
November 20, 2025
Conference presentation at Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA
Karamanlian, D.; Berríos, J.
November 13, 2025
Conference presentation at Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, University of Arizona
Fafulas, S.; Collados Salmerón, C.; Berríos, J.; Raymond, C. W.
November 13, 2025
Conference presentation at Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, University of Arizona
Fafulas, S.; Berríos, J.; Guo, J.
November 13, 2025
Conference presentation at Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, University of Arizona
Berríos, J.; Swain, A.; Fricke, M.
November 07, 2024
Conference presentation at Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Palm Springs, CA
Hashemi, T.; Berríos, J.
November 07, 2024
Conference presentation at New Ways of Analyzing Variation, Miami Beach, FL
Guo, J.; Berríos, J.; Fafulas, S.; Geeslin, K.
October 25, 2023
Conference presentation at Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Portland, OR
Berríos, J.
March 18, 2023
Conference presentation at American Association for Applied Linguistics, Portland, OR
Berríos, J.; Marcos Miguel, N.
May 26, 2022
Conference presentation at 8th Annual Symposium on Language Research, University of California, Davis
Berríos, J.
April 21, 2022
Conference presentation at Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky
Berríos, J.
March 19, 2022
Conference presentation at American Association for Applied Linguistics, Pittsburgh, PA
Berríos, J.
October 07, 2021
Conference presentation at Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Wake Forest University (remote)
Swain, A.; Berríos, J.; Kanwit, M.
March 20, 2021
Conference presentation at American Association for Applied Linguistics, Remote
Berríos, J.
April 01, 2020
Conference presentation (accepted, canceled due to COVID-19) at International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, Georgia Tech
Kanwit, M.; Berríos, J.
February 21, 2020
Conference presentation at 12th Graduate Portuguese and Hispanic Symposium, Georgetown University
Berríos, J.
October 24, 2019
Conference presentation at Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, University of Texas at El Paso
Berríos, J.; Kanwit, M.
April 19, 2018
Conference presentation at Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky
Berríos, J.
Teaching Experience
California State University, Fresno:
- The Acquisition of Spanish as a Second Language (Graduate seminar)
- Applied Spanish Linguistics
- Introduction to Spanish Linguistics
- Advanced Translation
- Basic Principles of Translation
- Advanced Medical Interpreting
- Essentials of Medical Interpreting
- Advanced Legal Interpreting
- Essentials of Legal Interpreting
University of Pittsburgh:
- Overview of Spanish Linguistics
- Spanish Grammar and Composition
- Spanish Conversation
- Intermediate Spanish
- Elementary Spanish I
Auburn University:
Universidad Central de Venezuela:
- English–Spanish Simultaneous Interpreting
- English–Spanish Consecutive Interpreting
- French–Spanish Translation