Aarnes Gudmestad

• Second Language Acquisition
• Sociolinguistics
• Hispanic Linguistics
• Morpho-Syntactic Variation in Spanish
• Morpho-Syntactic Variation in French

• PhD, Indiana University
• MA, Indiana University
• BA, Concordia College

• Associate Editor, Journal of the European Second Language Association
• Associate Chair, Virginia Tech Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures
  
• Director of the Spanish Program, Virginia Tech Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures
  
• University Graduate Curriculum Committee
  

• Excellence in Advising Award, 2020
• Excellence in Research and Creative Scholarship Award, 2019

Edited Volumes

Edmonds, A., Leclercq, P., & Gudmestad, A. (Eds.). (2020). Interpreting language-learning data (Eurosla Studies 4). Language Science Press.

Gudmestad, A., & Edmonds, A. (Eds.). (2018). Critical reflections on data in second language acquisition. John Benjamins.

Journal Articles

Edmonds, A., & Gudmestad, A. (2021). Collocational development during a stay abroad. Languages, 6(1), 12.

Edmonds, A., Gudmestad, A., & Metzger, T. (2020). A longitudinal study of grammatical-gender marking in French as an additional language. Applied Linguistics, 41, 733-755.

Gudmestad, A., Edmonds, A., Donaldson, B., & Carmichael, K. (2020). Near-native sociolinguistic competence in French: Evidence from variable future-time expression. Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 23(1), 169-191.

Gudmestad, A., Edmonds, A., & Metzger, T. (2020). Modeling variability in number marking in additional-language Spanish. Journal of the European Second Language Association, 4(1), 24-34.

Carmichael, K., & Gudmestad, A. (2019). Language death and subject expression: First-person-singular subjects in a declining dialect of Louisiana French. Journal of French Language Studies, 29, 67-91.

Gudmestad, A., & Clay, R. (2019). Prepositions in contexts of coordination: The developmental trajectory and language variation. Hispania, 102(1), 75-90.

Gudmestad, A., Edmonds, A., & Metzger, T. (2019). Using variationism and learner corpus research to investigate grammatical gender marking in additional-language Spanish. Language Learning, 69(4), 911-949.

Edmonds, A., & Gudmestad, A. (2018). Gender marking in written L2 French: Before, during, and after residence abroad. Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education, 3(1), 58-83.

Gudmestad, A., Edmonds, A., Donaldson, B., & Carmichael, K. (2018). On the role of the present indicative in variable future-time reference in Hexagonal French. Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 63(1), 42-69.

Edmonds, A., Gudmestad, A., & Donaldson, B. (2017). A concept-oriented analysis of future-time reference in native and near-native Hexagonal French. Journal of French Language Studies, 27(3), 381-404.

Geeslin, K. L., & Gudmestad, A. (2016). Subject expression in Spanish: Contrasts between native and non-native speakers for first and second-person singular referents. Spanish in Context, 13(1), 53-79.

Gudmestad, A., & Edmonds, A. (2016). Variable future-time reference in French: A comparison of learners in a study-abroad and a foreign-language context. Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 61(3), 259-285.

Edmonds, A., & Gudmestad, A. (2015). What the present can tell us about the future: A variationist analysis of future-time expression in native and non-native French. Language, Interaction and Acquisition, 6(1), 15-41.

Gudmestad, A. (2015). The case of the conditional and the imperfect in variable mood-choice contexts in second-language and native-speaker Spanish. Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics, 28(1), 118-144.

Gudmestad, A., & Edmonds, A. (2015). Categorical and variable mood distinction in Hexagonal French: Factors characterising use for native and non-native speakers. Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 18(1), 107-131.

Edmonds, A., & Gudmestad, A. (2014). Your participation is greatly/highly appreciated: Amplifier collocations in L2 English. Canadian Modern Language Review, 70(1), 76-102.

Gudmestad, A. (2014/2012). Individual lexical triggers and variable mood use in Spanish.  International Journal of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest, 31(2), 3-27.

Gudmestad, A. (2013). Tense-aspect distinctions within the subjunctive mood in the Spanish of native speakers and second-language learners. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 6(1), 4-35.

Gudmestad, A., House, L., & Geeslin, K. L. (2013). What a Bayesian analysis can do for SLA: New tools for the sociolinguistic study of subject expression in L2 Spanish. Language Learning, 63(3), 371-399.

Gudmestad, A. (2012). Acquiring a variable structure: An interlanguage analysis of second-language mood use in Spanish. Language Learning, 62(2), 373-402.

Geeslin, K. L., & Gudmestad, A. (2011/2008). The acquisition of variation in second-language Spanish: An agenda for integrating studies of the L2 sound system. Journal of Applied Linguistics, 5(2), 137-157.

Gudmestad, A., & Geeslin, K. L. (2011). Assessing the use of multiple forms in variable contexts: The relationship between linguistic factors and future-time reference in Spanish. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 4(1), 3-33.

Geeslin, K. L., & Gudmestad, A. (2010). An exploration of the range and frequency of occurrence of forms in potentially variable structures in second-language Spanish. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 32(3), 433-463.

Gudmestad, A. (2010). Moving beyond a sentence-level analysis in the study of variable mood use in Spanish. Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 29(1), 25-51.

Book Chapters

Edmonds, A., & Gudmestad, A. (2021). The role of transparency in grammatical-gender marking among stay-abroad learners of Spanish and French. In M. Howard (Ed.), Study abroad and the second language learner: Expectations, experiences and development (pp. 233-253). Bloomsbury.

Geeslin, K. L., Gudmestad, A., Hasler Barker, M., Kanwit, M., Long, A. Y., & Solon, M. (2021). Sociolinguistic competence among heritage speakers of Spanish abroad: Key findings, critical gaps, and contributions to variationist theory. In R. Pozzi, T. Quan, & C. Escalante (Eds.), Heritage speakers of Spanish and study abroad (pp. 13-32). Routledge.

Gudmestad, A., (2021). An exploration of advanced-level learners' verb choices in variable mood distinction contexts. In M. R. Menke & P. A. Malovrh (Eds.), Advancedness in second language Spanish (pp. 172-191). John Benjamins.

Gudmestad, A. (2021). Variationist approaches. In N. Tracy-Ventura & M. Paquot (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of second language acquisition and corpora (pp. 230-241). Routledge.

Gudmestad, A. (2020). On the relationship between epistemology and methodology: A reanalysis of grammatical gender in additional-language Spanish. In A. Edmonds, P. Leclercq, & A. Gudmestad (Eds.), Interpreting language-learning data (Eurosla Studies 4) (pp. 111-137). Language Science Press.

Edmonds, A., & Gudmestad, A. (2018). Operationalizing variables: The case of future-time expression in additional-language French. In A. Gudmestad & A. Edmonds (Eds.), Critical reflections on data in second language acquisition (pp.125-148). John Benjamins.

Geeslin, K. L., Gudmestad, A., Kanwit, M., Linford, B., Long, A. Y., Schmidt, L., & Solon, M. (2018).  Sociolinguistic competence and the acquisition of speaking. In R. Alonso Alonso (Ed.), Speaking in a second language (pp. 1-25). John Benjamins.

Gudmestad, A. (2018). Advanced-level mood distinction. In P. A. Malovrh & A. G. Benati (Eds.), The handbook of advanced proficiency in second language acquisition (pp. 343-360). Wiley Blackwell.

Gudmestad, A. (2014). Variationist approaches to second language Spanish. In K. L. Geeslin (Ed.), Handbook of Spanish second language acquisition (pp. 80-95). Wiley-Blackwell.

Selected Conference Proceedings

Gudmestad, A. (2014). On the role of lexical items in the second-language development of mood use in Spanish. In R. T. Miller, K. I. Martin, C. M. Eddington, A. Henery, N. M. Miguel, A. Tseng, A. Tuninetti, & D. Walter (Eds.), Selected proceedings of the Second Language Research Forum 2012: Building bridges between disciplines (pp. 120-133). Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

Gudmestad, A., & Geeslin, K. L. (2013). Second-language development of variable future-time expression in Spanish. In A. Carvalho & S. Beaudrie (Eds.), Selected proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics (pp. 63-75). Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

Gudmestad, A. (2012). Toward an understanding of the relationship between mood use and form regularity: Evidence of variation across tasks, lexical items, and participant groups. In K. Geeslin & M. Díaz-Campos (Eds.), Selected proceedings of the 14th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (pp. 214-227). Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

Geeslin, K. L., & Gudmestad, A. (2011). Using sociolinguistic analyses of discourse-level features to expand research on L2 variation: Native and non-native contrasts in forms of Spanish subject expression. In L. Plonsky & M. Schierloh (Eds.), Selected proceedings of the Second Language Research Forum (pp. 16-30). Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

Gudmestad, A., & Geeslin, K. L. (2010). Exploring the roles of redundancy and ambiguity in variable subject expression: A comparison of native and non-native speakers.  In C. Borgonovo, M. Español-Echevarría & P. Prévost (Eds.), Selected proceedings of the 12th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (pp. 270-283). Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

Geeslin, K. L., & Gudmestad, A. (2008). Comparing interview and written elicitation task in native and non-native data: Do speakers do what we think they do? In J. Bruhn de Garavito & E. Valenzuela (Eds.), Selected proceedings of the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (pp. 64-77). Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

Geeslin, K. L., & Gudmestad, A.  (2008). Variable subject expression in second-language Spanish: A comparison of native and non-native speakers. In M. Bowles, R. Foote, & S. Perpiñán (Eds.), Selected proceedings of the 2007 Second Language Research Forum (pp. 69-85). Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

Gudmestad, A. (2006). L2 variation and the Spanish subjunctive: Linguistic features predicting mood selection. In C. Klee & T. Face (Eds.), Selected papers of the 7th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages (pp. 170-184). Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

• Global Project Partnership Award, CLAHS, $5000, 2016
• Research support, Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment, with Katie Carmichael, $1500, 2015
• Niles Research Grant, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, $4000, 2014