Dr. Jacqueline Toribio

Biography

Jacqueline Toribio is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin, with affiliations in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies and the Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies. Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New York, she earned her M.A. in Linguistics and Cognitive Science from Brandeis University and her Ph.D. in Linguistics from Cornell University. Professor Toribio has held tenure-stream positions at the University of California at Santa Barbara and The Pennsylvania State University, and she has also been involved with the Linguistic Society of America's Summer Institute. Her research focuses on bilingualism, language contact, morphology, syntax, sociolinguistics, Caribbean studies, and Latino border studies. Notably recognized for her work on multilingual code-switching, she explores morpho-syntactic and phonetic mixing patterns across diverse populations, examining the implications of unique language structures as indicators of ethnicity, race, gender, and social variables. Currently, she co-directs the Bilingual Annotation Tasks research group, which collaborates with students in the humanities and natural sciences to develop Natural Language Processing tools for analyzing multilingual texts. In addition, her research investigates the language practices of residents in rural Dominican Republic communities and their counterparts in the U.S. diaspora, addressing cultural and social dynamics in language use.

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