UMass Boston

Quechua and Spanish language acquisition, Bilingualism, Endangered language documentation, Linguistic fieldwork

PhD, Linguistics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
MA, Applied Linguistics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
MA, Education, English as a Second Language Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston
BA, Hispanic Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI

• Kalt, SE 2016 “Duck and Frog Stories in Chuquisaca Quechua.” The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America: www.ailla.utexas.org. Media: video, text.

• Kalt, SE 2009 “The Speech of Children from Cusco and Chuquisaca.” The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America: www.ailla.utexas.org. Media: video, text.
• Kalt, SE 2021 “Acquisition, Loss and Innovation in Chuquisaca Quechua—What Happened to Evidential Marking?” Languages 6, no. 2: 76. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages6020076
• Kalt, SE and Geary, JA 2021 “Typological Shift in Bilinguals’ L1: Word Order and Case Marking in Two Varieties of Child Quechua” Languages 6, no. 1: 42. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages6010042

• Kalt, SE 2015 “Pointing in space and time: deixis and directional movement in schoolchildren’s Quechua” in Marilyn Manley and Antje Muntendam, eds., Quechua Expressions of Stance and Deixis. Brill Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Leiden.  

•  Manley, M, Muntendam, A and Kalt, SE 2015 “Introduction” in Marilyn Manley and Antje Muntendam, eds., Quechua Expressions of Stance and Deixis. Brill Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Leiden.
• Kalt, SE 2012 “Spanish as a second language when L1 is Quechua: Endangered languages and the SLA researcher.” Second Language Research, Sage Publications, 28(2) 1-15.
• Kalt, SE “Cambios morfosintácticos en castellano impulsados por el quechua hablante.” In Philipp Dankel, Victor Fernandez Mallat, Juan Carlos Godenzzi and Stefan Pfänder eds., El español de los Andes: estratégias cognitivas en interacciones situadas. Neue Romania 41:165-192
• Kalt, SE 2009 “Bilingual children’s object agreement and case marking in Cusco Quechua” In Heather Bliss and Raphael Girard, eds. University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics, 26.
• Kalt, SE 2002 Second Language Acquisition of Spanish Morpho-Syntax by Quechua-Speaking Children. Doctoral dissertation, University of Southern California Department of Linguistics.
• Kalt, SE 2000 “Non-direct Object Agreement in the Second Language Spanish of Southern Quechua Speakers” in Social and Cognitive Factors in Second Language Acquisition: Selected Proceedings of the 1999 Second Language Research Forum, eds. Bonnie Swierzbin et al. Cascadilla, Somerville, MA.

Research interests:
Susan Kalt is an award-winning linguist and language curriculum designer whose research focuses on the sequential language acquisition of Quechua and Spanish. She is especially interested in documenting varieties of Southern Quechua as they are spoken in rural communities today and comparing the ways Quechua and Spanish have influenced each other’s morphosyntax (word structure and word order) as well as their discourse pragmatics. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities Documenting Endangered Languages Program, American Council of Learned Societies and Andrew Mellon Foundation, the Foundation for Endangered Languages, London and the Community College Humanities Association. 

Classes Taught
APLING 601: Linguistics
APLING 603: Language, Culture, and Identity 
APLING 705: Advanced Ethnography