interact, it can be difficult to decide which language to speak. Sometimes when non-Spanish speakers use the few Spanish words in their vocabularies to communicate, they come across as genuine and considerate, while at other times their use of phrases such as “no problemo” and “comprendee” comes off as offensive or mocking of Spanish speakers. She has explored how specific linguistic features may shift in their distribution when different groups of speakers converge. As an example, she and her colleagues have explored the overt use of pronouns as a marker of the linguistic identities of different groups of Spanish-speakers residing in New York City. In another study, she recorded the language practices of high school and college students who live in Tijuana, Mexico, but travel to San Diego, California on a daily basis to attend school. Through interviews with these students, known as transfronterizos, she documented the conflicts they experience around language use and identity, and stigma associated with their use of Spanglish. Books Otheguy, R., & Zentella, A. C. (2012). Spanish in New York: Language contact, dialectal leveling, and structural continuity. Oxford University Press. Zentella, A. C. (1997). Growing up bilingual: Puerto Rican children in New York. Blackwell Publishers. Zentella, A. C. (Ed.). (2005). Building on strength: Language and literacy in Latino families and communities. Teachers College Press. Zentella, A. C. (Ed.) (2009). Multilingual San Diego: Portraits of language loss and revitalization. University Readers. Awards and honors National Honors Societies and Student Fellowships Phi Beta Kappa (1960) Sigma Delta Pi (Spanish, 1960) Kappa Delta Pi (Education, 1960) NYS Regents Fellowship, Class of 1878 Fellowship (1960) Pennsylvania State University Teaching Assistantship (Romance Langs) University of Kansas Graduate Fellowship (Linguistics) Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute Fellowship University of Pennsylvania Graduate Fellowship Research Fellowships School of American Research NEH Fellow, Santa Fe, NM, 1998-99 Stanford University Humanities Center Fellow, 1991-1992 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency, Italy, summer 1991 References External links UCSD Faculty Homepage Bilingualism Multilingualism Ethnic studies Hispanic and Latino American people Hunter College alumni Pennsylvania State University alumni University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences alumni Hunter College faculty University of California, San Diego faculty Living people Year of birth missing (living people)