Falcon Ramos Restrepo

Research/Teaching Interests

• Hispanic linguistics
• Sociolinguistics
• Sociophonetics
• Computational Linguistics
• Second Language Acquisition

Education

Ph.D., Hispanic Linguistics, University of Florida

M.A. Computational Linguistics, Indiana University

M.A. Linguistics and TESL, West Virginia University

B.A. Translation English-French-Spanish, University of Antioquia, Colombia

Software Development, Corpus Creation, and AI Models

•  SEÑAL - Software de procesamiento de Ensayos en espaÑol y Análisis Lingüístico. Free and available here: https://senal-prototype-deployment.onrender.com/
•  The Western Caribbean Creole Corpus - A free-access, annotated corpus archived at AILLA, the Archive of Indigenous Languages of Latin America. The corpus currently has data on Islander Creole (Archipelago of San Andres, Colombia). Free and available here: https://ailla.utexas.org/islandora/object/ailla%3A277993
•  Deep Learning Model of South American Voseo (CAT_SCORE 0.84 - AUC ROC 0.88) - Deep Learning model trained on a dataset of around 20000 tweets. Model can classify Voseo utterances from Colombia and Argentina. Dataset and model are publicly available for deployment at: https://huggingface.co/FalconRR

Publications

Edited Volumes

• 2027 - The Second Language Acquisition of Second Person Singular forms (SLA of 2PS). Co-edited with Nofiya Denbaum-Restrepo.

Peer Reviewed Articles

• 2025 - Maimone, L., Restrepo-Ramos, F., & Jolley, J. (Accepted) Automated Detection of Machine Translation Use in L2 Spanish Writing. Language Teaching Research, (29)4. https://doi.org/10.1177/13621688251352263
• - Restrepo-Ramos, F. A Sociolinguistic Analysis of a Deep Learning Based Classification model of South American Voseo in X Posts. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics: Spanish Sociolinguistics in the 21st Century: Current trends and methodologies, 42. https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.42.09res
• - Denbaum-Restrepo, N. & Restrepo-Ramos, F. The Second Language Acquisition of Second-Person Singular Forms of Address: Navigating Usage and Perception in a Tripartite System in Medellin, Colombia. Languages (10)5. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages10050107
• 2024 - Restrepo-Ramos, F. Tap/Trill Variation and Change across Generations of Spanish-Creole Bilinguals. Linguistic Variation, 24(2). https://doi.org/10.1075/lv.22021.res
• - Denbaum-Restrepo, N. & Restrepo-Ramos, F. A sociolinguistic examination of the dual usted in Medellin, Colombia: Evidence from semi-spontaneous speech and implicit language attitudes. Hispania, 107(1). https://doi.org/10.1353/hpn.2024.a921463
• 2022 - Restrepo-Ramos, F. & Denbaum-Restrepo, N. The syntactic and discursive properties of second person singular forms of address in Paisa Spanish. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics (15)2. https://doi.org/10.1515/shll-2022-2067
• - Restrepo-Ramos, F. Contrastive language policies: A comparison of two multilingual linguistic landscapes where Spanish coexists with regional minority languages. International Journal of Multilingualism (19)3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2022.2098300
• - Denbaum-Restrepo, N. & Restrepo-Ramos, F. Formas de tratamiento de segunda persona singular en el español de Medellín, Colombia: producción y actitudes lingüísticas. Pragmática Sociocultural (10)1. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/367512345_Formas_de_tratamiento_de_segunda_persona_singular_en_el_espanol_de_Medellin_Colombia_produccion_y_actitudes_linguisticas
• - Restrepo-Ramos, F. Neutralization of the tap/trill contrast in the bilingual Spanish-Creole community of the Archipelago of San Andres, Colombia. Ikala: Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura, 27(1). https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.v27n1a07
• - Restrepo-Ramos, F. Converging paths of variation: Bilingual rhotics and linguistic change in the Archipelago of San Andres, Colombia. Isogloss: Open Journal of Romance Linguistics (8)1. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.115
• 2021 - Restrepo-Ramos, F. Writing to increase complexity: Spanish L2 learners’ complexity gains in a college composition class. Hispania: Special Edition on Digital Humanities, 104(4). https://doi.org/10.1353/hpn.2021.0120
• - Restrepo-Ramos, F. Non-vibrant bilingual rhotics in a Creole-Spanish Contact Scenario. IULC Working Papers, 21(1). https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/iulcwp/article/view/31623
• - Restrepo-Ramos, F. A changing landscape of Voseo in Medellin? The momentum of Voseo in the public signage of the Valle de Aburra, Colombia. In Gubitosi, P., Ramos-Pellicia, M. (Eds), Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 35. John Benjamin Publishings. https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.35.02res
• - Restrepo-Ramos, F. If signs could talk: The linguistic landscape of the archipelago of San Andres, Colombia. In Leung G., Loschky M., & Leusman H. (Eds.), When Creole and Spanish collide: Language and cultural contact in the Caribbean. Brill’s Caribbean Series. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004460157
• 2020 - Restrepo-Ramos, F. Public signage in a multilingual Caribbean enclave: The linguistic landscape of Old Providence and Santa Catalina, Colombia. In Pascual y Cabo D., Elola I. (Eds.), Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 27, pp. 273–294. John Benjamin Publishings. https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.27.13res
• 2019 - Restrepo-Ramos, F. A sociophonetic analysis of Islander Creole rhotics. Proceedings of the Florida Linguistics Yearly Meeting, 6(1), pp. 76-90. https://journals.flvc.org/floridalinguisticspapers/article/view/116773
• 2015 - Restrepo-Ramos, F. Incidental vocabulary learning in second language acquisition: A literature review. PROFILE Issues in Teachers’ Professional Development, 17(1), 157-166. http://dx.doi.org/10.15446/profile.v17n1.43957