Liliana Paredes, Faculty

Office Location:  205 Languages Bldg., Box 90257
Office Phone:  (919) 660-3100
Email Address: send me a message

Teaching (Fall 2009):

Education:

PhD in Spanish LinguisticsUniversity of Southern California1996
Masters in LinguisticsState University of New York at Stony Brook1990
BA in LinguisticsPontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru1989
Specialties:

Spanish
Research Interests:

Current projects: “The sociolinguistics of the Spanish-Quechua contact” (book), " Task-based assessment tools" (presentation paper), " Gente Intermedio" (text-book)

Sociolinguistic aspects of Bilingualism, Bilingualism in the Andes, Languages in contact, Spanish in the USA, Second Language Acquisition, Second Language Instruction, Testing and Assessment

Keywords:

Linguistic contact in the Andes • Spanish phonetic variation • Amerindian languages in the USA

Recent Publications

  1. L. Paredes, The Implications of the authentic text, in forthcoming volume on Electronic Discourse for language learning and teaching, edited by Lee, Abraham and Lawrence Williams (Accepted, Spring, 2009), John Benjamins  [abs] [author's comments]
  2. L. Paredes and Joan Clifford, The Discourse of Podcast in Spanish, in Electronic Discourse for Language Learning and Teaching, Language Learning & Language Teaching, edited by Lee B. Abraham Lawrence Williams (Accepted, Spring, 2009), John Benjamins Publishing Co.  [author's comments]
  3. L. Paredes and Maria Luz Valdez, Language Contact and Change: Direct Object Leísmo in Andean-Spanish, in Selected Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, edited by Maurice Westmoreland and Juan Antonio Thomas (Accepted, Winter, 2008), pp. vii+161 pages, Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA  [abs]
  4. with J. Camacho, L. Sánchez, The genitive clitic and the genitive construction in Andean Spanish, in Clitics, Pronouns and Movement, edited by James R. Black and Virginia Motapanyane (1997), John Benjamins