Research

Peer Reviewed Publications

1. Michalski, I., & Cook, M. (2025). Measuring the Effects of Teacher Candidate Preparation: A Novel Assessment of Attitudes Toward NonStandard Features of English. Issues in Teacher Education, 34 (1), 68-77.

2. Michalski, I., & Gudmestad, A. (2025). An exploration of L1 attitudes and individual characteristics in the study of sociolinguistic perception in additional-language Spanish. In Solon, M., Kanwit, M., & Gudmestad, A. (Eds), Research at the intersection of second language acquisition and sociolinguistics: Studies in honor of Kimberly L. Geeslin. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

3. Balam, O., Pérez Leutza, L., Michalski, I., & Parafita Couto, M. del C. (2024). A semantic analysis of bilingual compound verbs in two contact Spanish communities. Research in Corpus Linguistics, 12(1), 140–170.

4. Michalski, I. (2023). L2 Sociolinguistic Perception of Stylistic Variation: Attitudes toward two variable linguistic features of Spanish. In Fernández Cuenca, S., Judy, T. & Miller, L. (Eds), Innovative Approaches to Research in Hispanic Linguistics: Diachronic, Regional and Learner Profile Variation. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

5. Gurzynski-Weiss, L., Geeslin, K. L., Daidone, D., Linford, B., Long, A. Y., Michalski, I., & Solon, M. (2018). L2 classrooms as multifaceted sources of input: The synergy of variationist and usage-based approaches. In A. Tyler, L. Ortega, M. Uno, & H.I. Park (Eds), Usage-Inspired L2 Instruction: Researched Pedagogy. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

6. Michalski, I. (2017). Morphological case and argument structure variation with hybrid Spanish-Yucatec Maya verbs: ‘hacer + V” in monolingual Yucatán Spanish. Proceedings of the Forty-Third Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society,  Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society.

Conference Presentations

1. Michalski, I. (2025, October). The social meaning of Spanish future-time expression: A look at L1 and L2 attitudes [Paper presentation]. Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Spokane, WA.

2. Michalski, I., & Gudmestad, A. (2024, November 7-9). An exploration of L1 attitudes and individual characteristics in the study of sociolinguistic perception in additional language Spanish [Paper presentation]. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 52, Miami Beach, FL.

3. Michalski, I. (2024, November 7-9). Variable case-marking with Spanish-Yucatec Maya bilingual compound verbs: Comparing acceptability ratings by Yucatec Maya-Spanish bilinguals and Spanish monolinguals [Paper presentation]. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 52, Miami Beach, FL.

4. Michalski, I., & Gudmestad, A. (2024, March 16-19). Avoiding native-speaker bias in the study of sociolinguistic awareness in additional-language Spanish: An exploration of L1 attitudes and individual characteristics [Paper presentation]. American Association of Applied Linguistics Annual Conference, Houston, TX.

5. Pérez Leutza, L., Balam, O., Michalski, I., & Parafita Couto, M. C. (2023, April 20-21). Bilingual compound verbs: A comparison of Orange Walk, Belize and the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico [Paper presentation]. International Conference on Multilingual Theories and Practices, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland.

6. Michalski, I. (2023, April 13-15). A small-scale detailed analysis of sociolinguistic awareness among heritage Spanish speakers: Social perceptions of five variable linguistic features [Paper presentation]. 10th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language, Cambridge, MA.

7. Cook, M., & Michalski, I. (2023, March 1-4). Pre-service teachers: Attitudinal responses toward non-standard, socially variable features of American English [Poster presentation]. Council for Exceptional Children Convention and Expo, Louisville, KY.

8. Michalski, I. (2022, November 3-5). Perceived dialect and language variation as conditioning factors of language attitudes in Spanish [Paper presentation]. Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (Online).

9. Michalski, I. (2022, March 25-29). Listener characteristics and sociolinguistic perception in L2 Spanish [Paper presentation]. American Association of Applied Linguistics Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.

10. Michalski, I. (2021, October 7-9). Sociolinguistic perception in L2 Spanish: Learner attitudes toward stylistic variation [Paper presentation]. Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (Online).

11. Michalski, I. (2021, September 23-25). Exploring sociolinguistic perception in Spanish: First- and second-language attitudes toward three variable structures [Paper presentation]. Linguistic Association of the Southwest Annual Meeting (Online).

12. Michalski, I. (2019, June 17). Linguistic landscapes and the university Spanish language curriculum: Fostering awareness and engagement with local linguistic diversity [Poster presentation]. Conference on Second Languages and Cultures: Theory, Practice, and Instructional Strategies, Cincinnati, OH.

13. Michalski, I. (2017, February 3-5). The case of bilingual verbs and their objects: A syntactic analysis of dative/accusative case-marking and Hacer + MayaV in Yucatán Spanish [Paper presentation]. Berkeley Linguistics Society 43, Berkeley, CA.

14. Michalski, I. (2016, October 5-8). Yucatecan verbs that “do”: A syntactic analysis of Hacer + MayaV in Yucatán Spanish [Paper presentation]. Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Washington, DC.

15. Michalski, I. (2016, April 8-12). Aid and development work in bilingual migrant communities in the Dominican Republic: A language policy challenge [Paper presentation]. American Association of Applied Linguistics Annual Conference, Orlando, FL.

16. Michalski, I. (2015, March 26-29). Spanish and Yucatec Maya language contact: The case of hybrid verb constructions as evidence for linguistic transfer through bilingualism and language shift [Paper presentation]. Spanish Contact, Expansion, and Transformation: 25th Conference on Spanish in the United States and 10th Conference on Spanish in Contact with Other Languages, New York, NY.

17. Michalski, I. (2015, March 13-15). A sociocultural approach to language policy analysis: The case of language policy and migration politics in the Dominican Republic [Paper presentation]. Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics: Diversity and Super-Diversity: Sociocultural Linguistic Perspectives, Washington, DC.

18. Michalski, I. (2014, November 14-16). Variation within a hyper-corrected norm: Intra-speaker socio-phonetic domain and style variation among Dominican television reporters [Paper presentation]. Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, West Lafayette, IN.

19. Michalski, I. (2014, April 24-26). Questions and answers “Al Punto”: Exploring pragmatic variation in a political interview [Paper presentation]. Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning, Bloomington, IN.

20. Gurzynski-Weiss, L., Whatley, M., & Michalski, I. (2014, March 14-16). Variable subject expression in the written pedagogical materials used for teaching L2 Spanish [Paper presentation]. Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics: Usage-Based Approaches to Language, Language Learning, and Multilingualism, Washington, DC.

21. Michalski, I. (2014, February 22). Hypercorrection and intra-speaker socio-phonetic variation among Dominican television journalists [Paper presentation]. Dialogos 11: Graduate Student Research Conference in Linguistics, Literature, and Culture, Bloomington, IN.

22. Michalski, I. (2013, February). Language ideology, linguistic culture, and language policy in the Dominican Republic [Paper presentation]. Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Graduate Student Conference: Shifting Social Landscapes, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

23. Michalski, I., & Michalski, A. (2012, April). Gringo vs. jíbaro: U.S. food imperialism, Puerto Rico, and the “better diet” [Paper presentation]. 4th Biennial Mercyhurst Colloquium of the Americas: Food and Foodways in the Americas, Erie, PA.

Manuscripts in Preparation / Research in Progress 

Michalski, I. Recentering the listener in additional language sociolinguistic perception: A focus group examination of learner attitudes toward Spanish sociophonetic variation [in preparation]

Michalski, I. Language attitudes and identity in Yucatán, México: Potential subjective factors influencing variation, change, and standardization in a regional contact variety of Spanish. [revising for submission]

Gudmestad, A., Edmonds, A., Henderson, C., Lindqvist, C., & Michalski, I. Variable interpretation of verbal moods: A conceptual replication of Kanwit and Geeslin (2014). [in preparation]

Michalski, I. The social meaning of Spanish future-time expression: A look at L1 and L2 perception. [in preparation]

Michalski, I. Linguistic insecurity, language attitudes and style shifting in Dominican Spanish. [in preparation]

Michalski, I. Language-contact features in an Afro-indigenous language of Central America: An evaluation of four hypothesis. [in preparation]