Nofiya Denbaum de Restrepo
List of John Benjamins publications in which Nofiya Denbaum de Restrepo is involved.
2025 Chapter 4. Implicit language attitudes toward polymorphism of second person singular forms of address in Medellín, Colombia Beyond Binaries in Address Research: Politeness and identity practices in interaction, Fernández-Mallat, Víctor and María Irene Moyna (eds.), pp. 69–95 | Chapter
Polymorphism of second person singular forms of address (2sg) is the usage of more than one 2sg directed toward the same person during the same interaction. Participants from Medellín (N = 32), Cali (N = 24), and Bogotá (N = 24) completed a matched-guise task and a soap opera perception task.… read more
2023 Chapter 8. The role of language attitudes in the L2 acquisition of sociolinguistic variation: The case of pre-verbal subjects in wh-questions Study Abroad and the Second Language Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Variation in Spanish, Zahler, Sara, Avizia Y. Long and Bret Linford (eds.), pp. 229–265 | Chapter
Previous studies have examined second language learners’ attitudes toward various Spanish dialects. Nonetheless, few studies have used matched guise to assess implicit language attitudes with respect to morphosyntactic variables. The present study explores the relationship between language… read more
2023 The role of perceptual salience in a strengthening sound change: A comparison of /j/ perception by Colombian and Dominican listeners Spanish in Context 20:3, pp. 411–437 | Article
The current study examines the extent to which perceptual factors may account for the emergence of assibilated variants of the alveopalatal approximant /j/ in two geographically remote varieties of Spanish. Participants from Medellin, Colombia and Santiago, Dominican Republic completed a… read more
2022 The benefits of social interaction and proficiency for foreign language acquisition of Spanish conventional expressions: Evidence from foreign language Spanish learners Spanish in Context 19:2, pp. 337–360 | Article
Several studies have examined the second language acquisition of English conventional expressions (CEs) in the study abroad context. However, there is a lack of studies that investigate Spanish CEs and CEs in general in the at-home context. This study examines the foreign language acquisition of… read more



