J. Adolfo Hermosillo

About me

Hi! I am Adolfo, a fifth-year PhD student in the Department of Linguistics at Stanford advised by Christopher Potts and I am affiliated with The Stanford NLP Group, Interactional Sociophonetics Lab, and Contact Variation and Change Lab. I am broadly interested in sociolinguistics, lexical semantics, pragmatics, and computational linguistics. I use computational and data-driven methodologies to study language variation and change at the level of semantics and pragmatics.

Presentations

  1. Samamé-Rispa, A. & Hermosillo, J. A. (March,2025) “A Comparative Socio-semantic Analysis of -ísimx in Mexican and Peruvian Spanish” The 28th Annual Ohio State University Congress on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics (OSUCHiLL), Columbus, OH.
  2. Hermosillo, J. A. , WuWong, J, Tan, Y. L., & Yi, I.(January, 2025) “Intensifier Variation and Change in Salinas, California.” Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
  3. Hermosillo, J. A. (October, 2024) “Different ways to intensify: (Extreme degree) adjectives of taste in Mexican Spanish.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation, Miami, FL.
  4. Hermosillo, J. A. , WuWong, J, Tan, Y. L., Yi, I., & Kapur, R. (October, 2024) “A very subjective but really interesting phenomenon: Intensifier Variation and Change in Salinas, California.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation, Miami, FL.
  5. Hermosillo, J. A. & Fernandez-Lizarraga, E. F. (May, 2024). “Constructing Corpora for Interactional Sociopragmatics Research.” Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Provo, UT. (Slides)
  6. Hermosillo, J. A. (October, 2023). “Toward a Sociopragmatics of Copula + Adjective Constructions in Spanish.” Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Provo, UT.

Papers

  1. Hermosillo, J. A. Dialect and Language Contact among Hispanics in Houston, Texas: A Lexical Leveling. The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Journal 2018, 25.
  2. Kreiss, E., Srinivasan, K., Piccardi, T., Hermosillo, J. A., Bennett, C., Bernstein, M. S., Morris, M. R., and Potts, C. (May, 2023) Characterizing image accessibility on Wikipedia across languages. Wiki Workshop 2023.

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