Research

If you would like a copy of any work listed below, please email pristina@sas.upenn.edu.

Broad Research Interests

• Language contact, to include bi/multilingualism
• Morphological processing
• Experimental syntax
• Mixed languages & Creolistics

Presentations

Lexical-Selection Requirements are Stricter in Unilingual than Code-Switched Utterances. Poster presented at Boston Morphology Workshop, Boston University, Boston, United States. 1-2 May 2026.

Navigating conflicting requirements: L-selection in Indonesian-English bilinguals. Talk presented at Rutgers Graduate Syposium (Interfaces in Languages: Insights from SLA & Bilingualism), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, United States. 17 April 2026.

Contact-Induced Change of Betawi Suffix -nya/nye. Talk presented at Society of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics 2026, Virtual. 14-15 January 2026.

Variation and Contact-Induced Change in Manado Possessives. Poster presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 53, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States. 5-7 November 2025.

Expansion of Betawi ber- -nya Nominalization Under Prolonged Contact with Indonesian. Talk presented at Societas Linguistica Europaea 58, Morphological Boundaries in Creole Languages Workshop (WS13). Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Bordeaux, France. 26-29 August 2025.

Comparing the Pronominal Paradigms of Two Malayophone Creoles - Manado Malay and Betawi. Talk presented at Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 34, Bali, Indonesia. 10-13 June 2025. (Virtual)

Contact-Induced Change in Betawi Free and Enclitic Pronouns. Poster presented at Linguistic Society of America 2025, Philadelphia, United States. 9-12 January 2025.

Examining Language Attitudes and Ideologies in Naming Practices: The Case of Betawi. Talk presented at Society of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics 2025, Philadelphia, United States. 11-12 January 2025.