Isaac McAlister

Isaac McAlister is from Hartford, CT. He graduated with a B.A. in French Language and Culture and Anthropology from Guilford College in 2010 and earned a M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2016. He began a Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics in Fall 2016 at UMass Amherst. Isaac’s research interests include language acquisition, multilingualism, first- and second-language semantic/pragmatic and morphosyntactic development, language-based discrimination, and Romance dialectology. Isaac’s ongoing doctoral research focuses on the development of temporal and aspectual knowledge in L2 and heritage Spanish and Portuguese.