David Tizón-Couto

Senior Lecturer | LVTC Member

davidtizon@uvigo.es

David Tizón-Couto

Senior Lecturer | LVTC Member

Contact Details

Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución (office B29) · Campus Universitario · E-36310 Vigo (Spain)

Education

2015-2019 - Postdoc, Universidade de Vigo
2014-2015 - Postdoc, University of Edinburgh
2013-2014 - Postdoc, Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg
2011 - PhD English Linguistics, Universidade de Vigo
2005 - MA Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, Central Michigan University
2004 - MA English Linguistics, Universidade de Vigo
2002 - BA English Language and Literature, Universidade de Vigo and Central Michigan University

Employment

2019-2022 - Honorary research fellow and lecturer (Programa de Retención de Talento Investigador, UVigo)
2017-2019 - Senior postdoc researcher and lecturer (Juan de la Cierva - Incorporación, MINECO)
2013-2017 - Postdoc researcher and lecturer (I2C, Xunta de Galicia)
2009-2013 - EFL instructor and head of studies (2011-2013), Escola Oficial de Idiomas, Xunta de Galicia
2005-2009 - EFL instructor, Centro de Linguas, Universidade de Vigo
2004-2005 - Graduate Assistant Lecturer (English College Composition), Dpt. English Language and Literature, Central Michigan University
Spring 2004 - Writing Tutor (English College Composition), Writing Center, Central Michigan University
Spring 2002 + Spring 2004 - Spanish as a Foreign Language Instructor, Dpt. World Languages and Cultures, Central Michigan University

Research Interests and Projects

Cognitive Linguistics, Language Variation and Change, Language Learning

"Cognitive representation of multi-word sequences in English: Converging evidence", funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033; grant PID2020-118143GA-I00)
"Frequency effects in the production and perception of English", funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (grant IJCI-2015-25843)
"Frequency effects in English morphosyntax", funded by the Autonomous Galician Government (Xunta de Galicia, grant POS-B/2016/029-PR)

Research stays

May 2019 - Universität Rostock (superv. Prof. Lucia Kornexl)
June 2017 - Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg (superv. Prof. Christian Mair)
May 2014 - May 2015 - University of Edinburgh (superv. Prof. Graeme Trousdale)
April 2013 - April 2014 - Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg (superv. Prof. Christian Mair)
April-May 2009 - Carl Von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (superv. Prof. Ronald Geluykens)
March 2009 - University of Manchester (superv. Prof. David Denison)
February 2009 - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (superv. Prof. Hubert Cuyckens)

Publications

2024. Learning to predict: Second language perception of reduced multi-word sequences. Second Language Research, 0(0). doi 10.1177/02676583241246147 [with David Lorenz]
2024. Replication Data for: Learning to predict - second language perception of reduced multi-word sequences. DataverseNO, V1, https://doi.org/10.18710/TE5ZOG
2024. Coalescence and contraction of V-to-Vinf sequences in American English – Evidence from spoken language. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 20.1: 1-36. doi 10.1515/cllt-2015-0067 [with David Lorenz]
2022. A multivariate account of particle alternation after bare-form try in native varieties of English. English Language and Linguistics 26.4: 645-676. doi 10.1017/S1360674321000393
2022. Replication data for: A multivariate account of particle alternation after bare-form try in native varieties of English. DataverseNO, V1, https://doi.org/10.18710/GVUZWI
2021. Variables are valuable: making a case for deductive modeling. Linguistics 59.5: 1279-1309. doi 10.1515/ling-2019-0050 [with David Lorenz]
2021. Review of Holger Diessel, The grammar network: How linguistic structure is shaped by language use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. English Language and Linguistics. 25.3: 663-671. doi 10.1017/S1360674320000283
2021. The rise of COVID ‘snowclones’: The mother of all linguistic phrases. The Conversation (UK). 13.09.2021. https://theconversation.com/the-rise-of-covid-snowclones-the-mother-of-a...
2020. Not just frequency, not just modality: Production and perception of English semi-modals. In Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions: Categories, co-text, and context ed. by Pascal Hohaus and Rainer Schulze. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 79-107. doi 10.1075/slcs.216.04lor [with David Lorenz]
2019. Chunking or predicting – frequency information and reduction in the perception of multi-word sequences. Cognitive Linguistics 30.4: 751-784. doi 10.1515/cog-2017-0138 [with David Lorenz]
2019. Replication data for: Chunking or predicting – frequency information and reduction in the perception of multi-word sequences. TROLLing (The Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics). doi 10.18710/7TSABU [with David Lorenz]
2018. Realizations and variants of have to: What corpora can tell us about usage-based experience. Corpora 13.3: 371-392. doi 10.3366/cor.2018.0154 [with David Lorenz]
2018. Complexity and genre distribution of left-dislocated strings after the fixation of SVO syntax. In Explorations in English Historical Syntax. ed. by Hubert Cuyckens, Hendrik De Smet, Liesbet Heyvaert & Charlotte Maekelberghe. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 203-236. doi 10.1075/slcs.198.09tiz
2017. Exploring the Left Dislocation construction by means of multiple linear regression: Complexity and orality of Modern English left-dislocated NPs. Belgian Journal of Linguistics 31: 299-325. doi 10.1075/bjl.00012.tiz
2016. Left-dislocated strings in Modern English epistolary prose. A comparison with contemporary spoken Left Dislocation. In Outside the Clause. Form and function of extra-clausal constituents. ed. by Gunther Kaltenböck, Evelien Keizer and Arne Lohmann. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 203-239. doi 10.1075/slcs.178.08tiz
2016. Perception of reduced words: Chunking and predictability. In Proceedings of 7th Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics (ExLing 2016). ed. by Antonis Botinis. Saint Petersburg: International Speech Communication Association, pp. 99-102. doi 10.36505/ExLing-2016/07/0021/000280 [with David Lorenz]
2015. Review of Kate Beeching & Ulrich Detges (eds.), Functions at the left and right periphery: Crosslinguistic investigations of language use and language change, 2014. Folia Linguistica 49.2: 561-567. doi 10.1515/flin-2015-0020
2015. A corpus-based account of left-detached items in the recent history of English: Left Dislocation vs. Left Detached-sequences. English Text Construction 8.1: 21-63. doi 10.1075/etc.8.1.02tiz
2012. Left dislocation in English: a functional-discoursal approach. Bern: Peter Lang. ISBN: 978-303-431-037-6
2012. New trends and methodologies in applied English language research II. Studies in language variation, meaning and learning. Bern: Peter Lang. [with Beatriz Tizón-Couto, Iria Pastor-Gómez and Paula Rodríguez-Puente].
2012. Variation, meaning and learning: New studies in English linguistics within ‘the circle’. In New trends and methodologies in applied English language research II. Studies in language variation, meaning and learning. ed. by David Tizón-Couto et al. Bern: Peter Lang, pp. 7-14. [with Beatriz Tizón-Couto].
2010. Left dislocation and the theme-topic interface: Evidence from late modern English. In Interfaces in language, ed. by John Partridge. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, pp. 31-56
2010. Syntactic, informational and discursive features of left dislocation and left-detached items resembling left dislocation: A corpus study in 1650-1950 English. In Modos y formas de la comunicación humana / Ways and modes of human communication, ed. by Rosario Caballero Rodríguez & María Jesús Pinar Sanz. Cuenca: Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, pp. 1059-1072.
2009. On left dislocation in the recent history of English: theory and data hand in hand. In Dislocated elements in discourse: syntactic, semantic and pragmatic perspectives, ed. by Benjamin Shaer, Philippa Cook, Werner Frey & Claudia Maienborn. (Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics). London: Routledge, pp. 31-48. ISBN: 978-041-580-819-4 [with Javier Pérez-Guerra].
2009. New trends and methodologies in applied English language research. Diachronic, diatopic and contrastive studies. Bern: Peter Lang. [with Carlos Prado-Alonso, Lidia Gómez-González and Iria Pastor-Gómez].
2009. A corpus-based analysis of left dislocation in modern English. In Les linguistiques du détachement. Actes du colloque international de Nancy (7-9 juin 2006), ed. by Denis Apothéloz, Bernard Combettes and Franck Neveu. Bern: Peter Lang, pp. 551-566.
2008. What does left dislocation syntactically comprise? Evidence from late modern English. In Proceedings of the 31st international conference of AEDEAN, ed. María Jesús Lorenzo-Modia. A Coruña: Universidade da Coruña, pp. 815-825.
2008. A corpus-based analysis of left dislocation in late modern English. A functional approach to the construction and its discourse functions. Estudos Linguísticos / Linguistic Studies 2 (special issue), ed. by In H. T. Valentim & B. Moreira (eds.). Lisboa: Colibri/CLUNL, pp. 237-254.
2005. ‘The speaker, he dislocated no less than four of his formost teeth’: A corpus-based approach to left dislocation. In Actas XVIII congreso internacional AEDEAN, ed. by J.J. Calvo García de Leonardo et al. Valencia: Universitat de Valéncia. Departament de Filología Anglesa y Alemanya, pp 541-552. [with Javier Pérez-Guerra].
2004. ‘These hands they are apt enough to dislocate and tear thy flesh’: On left-dislocation in the recent history of the English Language. ZAS papers in Linguistics (ZASPIL) 35.2: 449-464. doi 10.21248/zaspil.35.2004.237 [with Javier Pérez-Guerra].

Conference presentations and seminars (last 10 years)

"Grammaticalization, reduction and prosodic prominence. The sort/kind/type of X construction in spoken American English". Workshop: Prosody – The missing link? Towards a new appraisal of the role of prosody in grammaticalization and pragmaticalization. LVII Congresso internazionale della Società di Linguistica Italiana, Catania, 09/2024. [with D. Lorenz]
D. Tizón-Couto & D. Lorenz. "Grammaticalization, reduction and the emergence of variants. The sort/kind/type of X construction in spoken American English". ICAME45 Conference, Universidade de Vigo, 06/2024. [with D. Lorenz]
"Aprendiendo a predecir en una segunda lengua: percepción de secuencias multipalabra reducidas". Pint of Science Festival, Vigo. 05/2024.
"Frequency information and reduction in second language perception of multi-word sequences". 41 AESLA Conference, Universitat Politécnica de Valencia, 04/2024. [with D. Lorenz]
"Prediction in L2 perception of reduced multi-word sequences". 14th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics (Exling 2023), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 10/2023. [with D. Lorenz]
"Crossing the border between statistical approaches and research practices: tackling variation in multilingual data". Interdisciplinary workshop on language variation, Radboud University Nijmegen, 12/2022. [with M.C. Parafita Couto]
"Linguistic co(n)text and the constructional status of coalesced variants: evidence from the production and perception of English semi-modals". Constructions et Contexte(s) 2022, Université Paris 8, 11/2022. [with D. Lorenz]
"A multifactorial study of the try to/and alternation in native varieties of English". 9th Biennial International Conference of the Linguistics of Contemporary English (BICLCE 9), University of Ljubljana, 09/2022.
“Learning to predict - second language perception of reduced multi-word sequences”. 9th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association (DGKL/GCLA-9), University of Erfurt, 03/2022. [with D. Lorenz]
“Learning to predict - second language perception of reduced multi-word sequences”. 5th Variation and Language Processing Conference (VALP 5), University of Copenhagen, 08/2021. [with D. Lorenz]
“A multivariate account of particle alternation after bare-form try in native varieties”. The 6th International Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE 6), University of Eastern Finland, 06/2021.
“Let’s try to/and grow a tree: Determinants of particle alternation after base-form try in five ENL varieties”. 8th Biennial International Conference of the Linguistics of Contemporary English (BICLCE 8), Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, 09/2019.
“What speakers do, what hearers know – Reduction and prediction of 'verb+ to-infinitive' in spoken English”. Linguistics Gastvortrag, Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik. Universität Rostock, 05/2019. [with D. Lorenz]
“Everything matters, or what to do with all those variables”. Workshop The “quantitative crisis”, cumulative science, and English linguistics at The 5th International Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE 5), University College London, 07/2018. [with D. Lorenz]
“Conservative reduction and probabilistic prediction: production and perception of the V-to-Vinf construction”. International Conference “Modelling the Linguistic Architecture of English: Theories and Methods”, Universidade de Vigo, 05/2018. [with D. Lorenz]
“The V-to-Vinf construction: the role of frequency in the production and processing of reduced and chunked forms”. 7th Biennial International Conference of the Linguistics of Contemporary English (BICLCE 7), Universidade de Vigo, 09/2017. [with D. Lorenz]
“The role of frequency information in the perception of reduced words”. The 14th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 14), Tartu Ülikool, 07/2017. [with D. Lorenz]
“The role of frequency (information) in the production and processing of reduced and coalesced forms: the case of the V-to-Vinf construction”. International Workshop on Frequency Information in Speech Perception, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 05/2017. [with D. Lorenz]
“How chunking and reduction affect word recognition” XIII International Symposium of Psycholinguistics. Universidade do Minho, 04/2017. [with D. Lorenz]
“Chunking and reduction in speech perception”. ExAPP 2016: 3rd Conference on Experimental Approaches to Perception and Production of Language Variation. Universität Wien, 09/2016. [with D. Lorenz]
“Perception of reduced words: Chunking and predictability”. ExLing 2016: Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics, International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). St. Petersburg State University, 06/2016. [with D. Lorenz]
“Left-Dislocated Noun Phrases in Modern English Epistolary Prose: A Comparison with Contemporary Spoken Left Dislocation, International Conference Diachronic Corpora, Genre and Language Change, The University of Nottingham, 04/2016.
“Coalescence, Reduction, Contraction – some insights from the V to Vinf construction”. Oberseminar, Englisches Seminar, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 12/2015. [with D. Lorenz]
“Speech rate and phonological environment as determinants of reduction: ‘havda’ and ‘uzda’ in spoken American English”. Phonetics and Phonology Workshop, University of Edinburgh, 03/2015. [with D. Lorenz]
“A corpus-based account of Left Dislocated Noun Phrases in the recent history of English”. English Language Research Seminar, University of Edinburgh, 11/2014.
“The V-to-Vinf construction and its Realization in American English”. 2014 International Symposium on Verbs, Clauses and Constructions, Universidad de La Rioja, 10/2014. [with D. Lorenz]
“Reducing ‘have to’ to ‘hafta’: Stored pronunciation variant or on-line reduction?”. 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan, 09/2014. [with D. Lorenz]
“Left-dislocated noun phrases in the recent history of English: evolution, genre distribution and discourse functions”. 18th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 07/2014.
“Left-dislocated Noun Phrases in Modern English: Discourse function and genre”. International Workshop ‘Outside the Clause’, Universität Wien, 07/2014.
“What makes a contraction: The import of speech rate on the realization of ‘have to’”. International Conference on Spoken English, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 06/2014. [with D. Lorenz]
“Left-dislocated NPs across the ‘speech-like’-‘written’ genre continuum in the recent history of English”. International Conference on Spoken English, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 06/2014.

Organization of Events (last 10 years)

International Conference "Variation and Language Processing 6" (Univ. de Vigo, June 2024).
International Workshop "Modelling the linguistic architecture of English: cognitive and empirical developments” (Univ. de Vigo, Jan 2023).
International Workshop "Advancing code-switching research" (Univ. de Vigo, Oct 2022).
Workshop “Today’s innovations, tomorrow’s conventions” at the 9th Biennial International Conference of the Linguistics of Contemporary English (University of Ljubljana, Sep 2022).
"Workshop on Language and the Brain" (Univ. de Vigo, Oct 2019).
International Workshop "Modelling the linguistic architecture of English: theories and methods” (Univ. de Vigo, May 2018).
Research Seminar "Frequency Effects in Language" (Univ. de Vigo, Dec 2017).
Workshop “Constructions and language processing: Performance-driven constraints on perception and production” at the 7th Biennial International Conference of the Linguistics of Contemporary English (Univ. de Vigo, Sep 2017).
7th Biennial International Conference of the Linguistics of Contemporary English (Univ. de Vigo, Sep 2017).
International Workshop “Frequency Information in Speech Perception” (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, May 2017).
Research Seminar “Introduction to R: Linguistic Data Analysis and Statistics” (Univ. de Vigo, Sep 2015).

Reviewing

Journals: System, Linguistics, Constructions, Research in Corpus Linguistics, Quaderns de Filologia, Cuadernos de Investigación Filológica.
Chapters in collective volumes: John Benjamins, Bloomsbury, Peter Lang.

Awards

2018 - Obtained permanent position in Specialised Foreign Language Education [Escola Oficial de Idiomas] (Oposicións Xunta de Galicia).
2014 - Honourable Mention, ESSE Book Awards on Language and Linguistics by the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE).
2013 - ‘Leocadio Martín Mingorance’ Award to the best book-long publication in the field of English Language and Linguistics, Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-norteamericanos (AEDEAN).
2012 - PhD Extraordinary Award in 2012 (‘Premio Extraordinario de Doutorado’), Univ. de Vigo.
2008 - Obtained permanent position as Secondary School Instructor (Oposicións Xunta de Galicia).