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Christina M. Esposito Department of Linguistics Macalester College 1600 Grand Ave St. Paul, MN 55105 email: |
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I am currently a Professor of Linguistics at Macalester
College.
Research Interests
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The perception of phonation
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The interaction between voice quality
and prosody
· Languages
that use different voice qualities (e.g., creaky, breathy etc.) to make
phonological contrasts.
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Ph.D. in Linguistics
(2006) University of California, Los
Angeles. Dissertation:
The Effects of Linguistic Experience on the
Perception of Phonation.
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C. Phil. in Linguistics (2004)
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M.A in Linguistics (2003)
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B.A. in Linguistics (with honors) and
Anthropology (2000) State University of New York at
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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.
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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.
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Esposito, Christina M. (2004) Santa Ana del Valle Zapotec Phonation. UCLA Working
Papers in Phonetics, no. 103.
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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
- Esposito,
Christina M. (2007) Linguistic
experience and the perception of phonation. Presented at the 81st
meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Anaheim, CA.
- Esposito, Christina M. (2006) The effects of linguistic experience on the
perception of
phonation. Presented at the 80th meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Albuquerque, NM.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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Ling 100: Introduction to Linguistics
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Ling 104: Sounds of Languages
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Ling 175/Sociology 175: Sociolinguistics
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Ling 194: Endangered Languages
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Ling 205: Phonology
Instructor (at UCLA)
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Ling 1: Introduction to the Study of Language
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Ling 103: Introduction to General Phonetics
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Teaching Assistant Training class
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Teaching with Technology
Teaching Assistant (at UCLA)
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Ling 1: Introduction to the Study of Language
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Ling 20: Introduction to Linguistics
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Ling 103:
Introduction to General Phonetics
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Ling 104/204:
Experimental Phonetics
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Ling 120A:
Phonology
Research Experience
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Graduate Research Assistant, Supervisor:
Patricia Keating
§ Created
a databases of languages with phonation contrasts
§ Continued
work with EGG
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Graduate Research Assistant, Supervisor:
Patricia Keating
§ Developed
instructional webpage
for the Electroglottograph
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Graduate Research Assistant, Supervisor:
Patricia Keating
§ Performed
statistics for a project on dyslexia
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Graduate Research Assistant, Supervisor:
Daniel Büring
§ Collected
and labeled English intonation data for semantics web page
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Graduate Research Assistant, Supervisor:
Pat Keating
§ Labeled
degree of junctures in English utterances
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Graduate Research Assistant, Supervisor:
Melissa Epstein
§ Labeled
English intonation data using ToBI model
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Graduate Research Assistant, Supervisor:
Pat Keating
§ Measured
Qualisys data for eyebrow movement
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Created (with Rebecca Scarborough) UCLA
Phonetics Lab webpage
on Aerodynamics
Languages
Fieldwork
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Kiowa (2002-2003)
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Santa Ana del Valle Zapotec (2002-2004)
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San Dionicio Ocotepec Zapotec
(1999-2001)
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San Juan Copala Triqui (1999)
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Kikuyu (1998)
Languages Studied
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Colonial Nahuatl
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Spanish
Awards
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Mabel Wilson Richards Fellowship
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UCLA Summer Research Mentorship Award
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Graduate Fellowship, UCLA Department of
Linguistics
University Services
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Member, UCLA Linguistics Colloquium
Committee (2002-2003)
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Member, UCLA Linguistics Teaching Evaluation
Committee (2000-2002)
· Assisted
with UCLA Phonetics Lab Open House for Friends of Linguistics