Carvalho holds a
PhD in Hispanic Linguistics from the
University of California at Berkeley. Currently, she holds the title of
Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the
University of Arizona and is also a member of the faculty of the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) Program and the Center for Latin American Studies. Her research interests include
language change and
variation,
bilingualism,
language contact, language attitude, and
dialect and
language acquisition. Much of her work has explored the relationship between Portuguese and Spanish as it relates to both
language acquisition and
sociolinguistics, the latter marked by her contributions to the study of
Portuñol. ==Bibliography==