Estilita Cassiani Obeso
Biography:
Lab Affiliation
- The Brain Tracking Lab
Estilita María Cassiani-Obeso was a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese at Penn State. She got her bachelor’s degree in Spanish and Literature at the Universidad del Atlántico in Colombia, and her M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics at Penn State. Estilita is a member of the community of San Basilio de Palenque (Colombia), the first free African settlement in the Americas, and declared a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in 2005. Estilita’s research primarily focuses on the second/ heritage language acquisition of the Afro-Hispanic creole language Palenquero (spoken in San Basilio de Palenque), with particular emphasis on educational strategies for teaching minority languages, and in the process of language revitalization. She also studies morphological aspects of the Palenquero language using the usage-based approach to examine sociolinguistic variation and generational language change.
Research Interests
Pidgins and Creole Languages, Language Variation and Change, Sociolinguistics, Second Language Acquisition, and Instruction.
Publications
- Cassiani Obeso, E., & Smith, H. (2020). Variable plural marking in Palenquero Creole. Language Variation and Change, 32(3), 293-315. doi:10.1017/S0954394520000204
- Cassiani Obeso, E. M. (2021). Reinforcement of Grammatical Structures through Explicit Instruction in Palenquero Creole: A Pilot Study. Languages 6(41). https://doi.org/10.3390/languages6010041
Lab Affiliation
- The Brain Tracking Lab
Estilita María Cassiani-Obeso was a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese at Penn State. She got her bachelor’s degree in Spanish and Literature at the Universidad del Atlántico in Colombia, and her M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics at Penn State. Estilita is a member of the community of San Basilio de Palenque (Colombia), the first free African settlement in the Americas, and declared a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in 2005. Estilita’s research primarily focuses on the second/ heritage language acquisition of the Afro-Hispanic creole language Palenquero (spoken in San Basilio de Palenque), with particular emphasis on educational strategies for teaching minority languages, and in the process of language revitalization. She also studies morphological aspects of the Palenquero language using the usage-based approach to examine sociolinguistic variation and generational language change.
Research Interests
Pidgins and Creole Languages, Language Variation and Change, Sociolinguistics, Second Language Acquisition, and Instruction.
Publications
- Cassiani Obeso, E., & Smith, H. (2020). Variable plural marking in Palenquero Creole. Language Variation and Change, 32(3), 293-315. doi:10.1017/S0954394520000204
- Cassiani Obeso, E. M. (2021). Reinforcement of Grammatical Structures through Explicit Instruction in Palenquero Creole: A Pilot Study. Languages 6(41). https://doi.org/10.3390/languages6010041
