Christina M. Esposito

Department of Linguistics

Macalester College

1600 Grand Ave

St. Paul, MN 55105

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I am currently a visiting Professor of Linguistics at Macalester College. 

 

Research Interests

 

·        The perception of phonation

·        The interaction between voice quality and prosody

·       Languages that use different voice qualities (e.g., creaky, breathy etc.) to make phonological contrasts.

 

Education

·        Ph.D. in Linguistics (2006) University of California, Los Angeles.  Dissertation: The Effects of Linguistic Experience on the Perception of Phonation.

·        C. Phil. in Linguistics (2004) University of California, Los Angeles. 

·        M.A in Linguistics (2003) University of California, Los Angeles.  Thesis: Phonation in Santa Ana del Valle Zapotec

·        B.A. in Linguistics (with honors) and Anthropology (2000) State University of New York at Albany.  Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa. Thesis: Tone and Possessives in San Dionicio Ocotepec Zapotec.

 

Papers  

·                                Keating, Patricia, and Christina M. Esposito (in press) Linguistic voice quality. Proceedings of the Eleventh Australasian International Conference on Speech Science  and Technology 2006, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, December 6-8 2006. To be made available at http://www.assta.org/sst/2006/papers.php.

·        Esposito, Christina M., Sameeruddowla Khan, and Alex Hurst (2005) Breathy nasals and /Nh/ clusters in Bengali, Hindi, and Marathi. UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, no. 104.

·        Esposito, Christina M. (2004) Santa Ana del Valle Zapotec Phonation. UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, no. 103.

·        Esposito, Christina M. (2003) The Effects of f0 and Position-in-utterance of Phonation in Santa Ana del Valle Zapotec.  Proceedings of the XVth International Congress of Phonetics Science (ICPhS).  (Download a .pdf version of the poster here.)

·       Barjam, Patrick J. and Christina M. Esposito. (2003) The Intonation of Yes/No Questions in Farsi (UCLA Ms.).

Presentations

phonation. Presented at the 80th meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Albuquerque, NM.

·        Esposito, Christina M., Sameeruddowla Khan, and Alex Hurst (2005) Breathiness in Indic Languages. Poster presented at the 149th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Vancouver, BC, 17 May 2005.

·        Esposito, Christina M. (2005) An Acoustic and Electroglottographic Study of Phonation in Santa Ana del Valle Zapotec. Poster presented at the 79th meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco, CA. 

·        Esposito, Christina M. and Rebecca Scarborough (2004) An acoustic and electroglottographic study of VʔV in two indigenous American languages.  Poster presented at the Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, CA.

 

Teaching Experience

 

Visiting Assistant Professor (at Macalester College)

·        Ling 100: Introduction to Linguistics

·        Ling 104: Sounds of Languages                              

·        Ling 175/Sociology 175: Sociolinguistics

·        Ling 194: Endangered Languages                 

·        Ling 205: Phonology                                                         

 

Instructor (at UCLA)

·        Ling 1: Introduction to the Study of Language

·        Ling 103: Introduction to General Phonetics           

·        Teaching Assistant Training class               

·        Teaching with Technology                                       

 

Teaching Assistant (at UCLA)

·        Ling 1: Introduction to the Study of Language         

·        Ling 20: Introduction to Linguistics

·        Ling 103: Introduction to General Phonetics             

·        Ling 104/204: Experimental Phonetics

·        Ling 120A: Phonology                                                  

Research Experience

 

·        Graduate Research Assistant, Supervisor: Patricia Keating

§        Created a databases of languages with phonation contrasts

§        Continued work with EGG 

·        Graduate Research Assistant, Supervisor: Patricia Keating

§        Developed instructional webpage for the Electroglottograph

·        Graduate Research Assistant, Supervisor: Patricia Keating

§        Performed statistics for a project on dyslexia

·        Graduate Research Assistant, Supervisor: Daniel Büring

§        Collected and labeled English intonation data for semantics web page

·        Graduate Research Assistant, Supervisor: Pat Keating

§        Labeled degree of junctures in English utterances

·        Graduate Research Assistant, Supervisor: Melissa Epstein

§        Labeled English intonation data using ToBI model

·        Graduate Research Assistant, Supervisor: Pat Keating

§        Measured Qualisys data for eyebrow movement

·        Created (with Rebecca Scarborough) UCLA Phonetics Lab webpage on Aerodynamics

 

Languages

Fieldwork

·        Kiowa (2002-2003)

·        Santa Ana del Valle Zapotec (2002-2004)

·        San Dionicio Ocotepec Zapotec (1999-2001)

·        San Juan Copala Triqui  (1999)

·        Kikuyu (1998)

 

Languages Studied

 

·        Colonial Nahuatl

·        Spanish

 

Awards 

·        Mabel Wilson Richards Fellowship

·        UCLA Summer Research Mentorship Award

·        Graduate Fellowship, UCLA Department of Linguistics

University Services

·        Member, UCLA Linguistics Colloquium Committee (2002-2003)

·        Member, UCLA Linguistics Teaching Evaluation Committee (2000-2002)

·       Assisted with UCLA Phonetics Lab Open House for Friends of Linguistics