Rodrigo Delgado

Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

Research Interests

Bilingualism 

Code-switching

Heritage Speakers

Spanish in the U.S. 

Grammatical Gender 

Preposition Stranding 

Education

Ph.D. | University of Illinois at Chicago

M.A. | University of Illinois at Chicago

Courses Taught

SPAN 308: Spanish in the U.S. 

Additional Campus Affiliations

Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Assistant Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Recent Publications

Callesano, S., Delgado, R., Ma, W., & Trybulec, E. (2026). Social variation of code-switching acceptability. International Journal of Bilingualism. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/13670069251404838

Delgado, R., Mora-Moreno, S., & Cervantes-Gómez, X. V. (2026). Sounds Like Politics: Cardi B and the Discourse of Español Ratatá. Latino Studies, 24(2), 168-186. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41276-026-00579-w

Delgado, R., Callesano, S., & Ma, W. (2026). Variable bilingual experiences and their influence on a contextualized acceptability judgment task. Applied Psycholinguistics, 47, Article e45. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716426100873

Delgado, R. (2025). A Grammatical Analysis of the Code-switching in Gentefied. In R. Attig, & R. A. Derrick (Eds.), Translating Spanglish in US Latinx Audiovisual Stories (pp. 73-94). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003488057-7

Delgado, R., & Koronkiewicz, B. (2025). Asymmetrical p-stranding: Acceptability data from Spanish-English code-switching. Isogloss, 11(4), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.454

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