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Liliana Paredes, Associate Professor of the Practice of Spanish and Director of the Spanish Language Program

Liliana Paredes

Director of the Spanish Language Program

Contact Info:
Office Location:  106 Bell Tower #2
Office Phone:  919-684-8501
Email Address: send me a message

Teaching (Fall 2012):

  • SPANISH 190FS.01, FOCUS TOP: SP/LAT AM LIT/CULT Synopsis
    Carr 114, TuTh 11:45 AM-01:00 PM
    (also cross-listed as LAW 359.01, LINGUIST 195FS.02)
Office Hours:

Tu 2:00-3:00, W 10:00-11:00 or by appointment
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
Linguistics and Theories of Pedagogy
Research Interests:

Current projects: " 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

Curriculum Vitae
Recent Publications

  1. with Joan Munne, Gente Intermedio (March 11, 2012), Pearson, New Jersey, ISBN 0132278081  [abs]
  2. L. Paredes, Enseñar español en México (June, 2011) (Interview for a professional blog: http://eledelengua.com/ldelengua49-ensenar-espanol-en-mexico/.) [available here]  [abs] [author's comments]
  3. L. Paredes, Todos tienen un acento menos yo, in Mitos de la lengua, edited by Maria Montes de Oca, Luis Navarro (2011), pp. 224, Otras Inquisiciones, Pitágoras 736/Colonia del Valle/CP03100/Mexico, DF, ISBN 978-607-457-168-4  [abs]
  4. 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]
  5. 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
Conferences Organized

  • Abstract reviewer for the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, 2005 - present  
Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics from the University of Southern California, 1996. Areas of interest are sociolinguistics, minority languages and bilingualism; linguistic human rights; amerindian languages; inter-culturalism. Interested in the study of development of discourse strategies in the L2 classroom. Publications include The Use of the Past Tense in the Narratives of Bilingual Children: The Acquisition of Aspectual Distinctions, Spanish in the U.S., Ana Roca; Editor, (2000). "The Proficiency Continuum in Quechua-Spanish Bilingual Speakers: An Analysis of the Verbal Clitic System," Journal of Southwestern Linguistics, Volume 20, Number 1, (2001).“Language Contact and Change: Direct Object Leísmo in Andean‐Spanish." (with Maria Luz Valdez) Ed. Maurice Westmoreland and Juan Antonio Thomas. Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA, Winter, 2008, vii+161 pages.;"Todos tienen un acento menos yo" Ed.Maria Montes de Oca y Luis Navarro.Nuevas Inquisiciones. Mexico. 2011

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