Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes is a Full Professor in Spanish linguistics at the University of the Balearic Islands and has headed multiple projects on the acquisition of various phenomena on Spanish language including, but not limited to, the acquisition of ser/estar, tense and mood, differential object marking, object omission, deixis all funded by the British Academy, Art and Humanities Research Council, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and more recently by the European Union research foundation under the Horizon2020. He has authored and co-authored numerous journal articles, book chapters and books, published by various international publishers and in high impact journals. He has organized many professional meetings and has been a participant in many professional conferences.

Research Projects:

2022-2026              Proyecto: Attrition and Ultimate Attainment (LAUA)

                                                Tipo de proyecto: Plan Nacional I+D+i.

Referencia: PID2021-122127NB-I00)

Entidad financiadora: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación.

IP: Pedro Guijarro Fuentes (Universitat de les Illes Balears, España).

Publications (Last 5 years):

• Ahern, A. K., Amenós-Pons, J., & Guijarro–Fuentes, P. (2017). Interpreting mood Choice Effects in L2 and L1 Spanish: Empirical evidence and theoretical implications. Applied linguistics review, 10(4), 469-490. https://doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2017-0097

• Amenós-Pons, J., Ahern, A. K., & Guijarro–Fuentes, P. (2018). Feature reassembly across closely related languages: L1 French vs. L1 Portuguese learning of L2 Spanish past tenses. Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 26(2), 183-209. https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2018.1508466

• Cuza, A., & Guijarro-Fuentes, P. (2018). Language acquisition and contact in the Iberian Peninsula. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG.

• Guijarro–Fuentes, P. (2018). Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theory: When Linguistic Theory meets Empirical data. Applied linguistics review. https://doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2017-0102

• Guijarro-Fuentes, P., & Pires, A. (2018). When the burden of age does not wait: early and late L2 acquisition of differential oject marking in Spanish. In: Parodi, T., & Torrens, V. (eds) Language processing and disorders (pp. 166 - 191). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

• Diaubalick, T., & Guijarro–Fuentes, P. (2019). The strength of L1 effects on tense and aspect: How German learners of L2 Spanish deal with acquisitional problems. Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 26(3), 282-301. https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2018.1554663

• Guijarro–Fuentes, P. (2019). Cross-linguistic influence in Bilingual Language acquisition: determining onset and end. Probus, 31(2), 233-244. https://doi.org/10.1515/probus-2016-0010

• Ahern, A. K., Amenós-Pons, J., & Guijarro–Fuentes, P. (2020). Future Tense Acquisition by French-Speaking Learners of L2 Spanish: Chronology, Conjecture and Concession. En Studies in theoretical psycholinguistics. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1932-0_2

• Diaubalick, T., Guijarro-Fuentes, P., Schmitz, K. (2020). Tense and Aspect in Spanish Heritage Speakers Living in Germany. In: Guijarro-Fuentes, P., Suárez-Gómez, C. (eds) New Trends in Language Acquisition Within the Generative Perspective. Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, vol 49. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1932-0_3 

• González-Peña, P., Doherty, M., & Guijarro–Fuentes, P. (2020). Acquisition of demonstratives in English and Spanish. Frontiers in Psychology, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01778

• Guijarro-Fuentes, P., & Suárez-Gómez, C. (2020). New trends in language acquisition within the generative perspective. Springer Nature.

• Todisco, E., Guijarro–Fuentes, P., Collier, J., & Coventry, K. R. (2020). The Temporal Dynamics of Deictic Communication. First language, 41(2), 154-178. https://doi.org/10.1177/0142723720936789

• Todisco, E., Guijarro–Fuentes, P., & Coventry, K. R. (2021). Analogical levelling in the Majorcan Catalan demonstrative system. Probus, 33(1), 33-56. https://doi.org/10.1515/prbs-2021-0001

• Vulchanova, M., Guijarro–Fuentes, P., Collier, J., & Vulchanov, V. (2020). Shrinking your Deictic system: How far can you go? Frontiers in Psychology, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.575497

• Diaubalick, T., & Guijarro–Fuentes, P. (2022). Consequences of the comparative fallacy for the acquisition of grammatical aspect in Spanish. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1515/iral-2021-0110

• Guijarro–Fuentes, P., Gudde, H. B., González-Peña, P., & Coventry, K. R. (2022). Children’s use of demonstrative words: spatial deictics beyond infancy. Journal of Child Language, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1017/s030500092200054x

• Guijarro-Fuentes, P., Suarez-Gomez, C., Vulchanova, M., Sorace, A., & Vulchanov, V. (2022). The notion of the native speaker put to the test: recent research advances. Frontiers Media SA.

• Vulchanova, M., Collier, J., Guijarro–Fuentes, P., & Vulchanov, V. (2022). Variation in first-generation L1 Deictic systems: language attrition and bilingualism effects. International Journal of Bilingualism, 27(1), 104-121. https://doi.org/10.1177/13670069221078610

• Vulchanova, M., Vulchanov, V., Sorace, A., Suárez‐Gómez, C., & Guijarro–Fuentes, P. (2022). Editorial: The notion of the Native Speaker put to the test: Recent research advances. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.875740

• Williams, S. B., Guijarro–Fuentes, P., & Vulchanova, M. (2022). U-shaped trajectories in an L2 context: Evidence from the acquisition of verb morphology. Vigo international journal of applied linguistics, 19, 223-266. https://doi.org/10.35869/vial.v0i19.3764

• Ahern, A. K., Amenós-Pons, J., & Guijarro–Fuentes, P. (2023). Relevance Theory and the study of Linguistic interfaces in second Language acquisition. Intercultural Pragmatics, 20(4), 429-453. https://doi.org/10.1515/ip-2023-4004

• Guijarro–Fuentes, P., Amenós-Pons, J., & Ahern, A. K. (2023). Acquisition of Estar + adjective in L2 Spanish by L1 French and Portuguese speakers. Spanish in Context. https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.00085.gui

• Guijarro-Fuentes, P. & Pires, A. (2023). Feature Acquisition: Object Drop in L2 Spanish. Probus. https://doi.org/10.1515/probus-2023-0002 

• Guijarro–Fuentes, P., & Suárez‐Gómez, C. (2021). Tense in speakers of English as a contact language: world Englishes and first generation long-immersed immigrants. English Studies, 102(5), 601-622. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2021.1943919

• Lerner, I., Guijarro–Fuentes, P., Filippi, R., Li, F., & Schwieter, J. W. (2023). Editorial: New Ideas in Language Sciences: Language Acquisition. Frontiers in Psychology, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1250307

• Romano, F., & Guijarro–Fuentes, P. (2023). Task effects and the yes-bias in heritage language bilingualism. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2023.2206949