Text Box: LAURA J. TEJADA						ltejada@usc.edu

 

3601 Watt Way, GFS 301, Los Angeles, CA 90089

 

Text Box: EDUCATION

 

2006 – Present            University of Southern California                                   Los Angeles, CA

Ph.D., Linguistics

Anticipated completion  May 2011

 

2006-2008                  University of Southern California                                   Los Angeles, CA

M.A., Linguistics

 

2004-2006                     California State University, Fullerton                             Fullerton, CA

M.A., Anthropological Linguistics

 

2000-2003                     Georgetown University                                                   Washington, DC

B.A., Spanish, Political Science

 

Text Box: TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

Fall 2007          Department of Spanish and Portuguese                                   University of Southern California

                          Assistant Lecturer, Spanish 120 ~ Basic Language Program

 

Fall 2008          Department of Spanish and Portuguese                                   University of Southern California

                          Assistant Lecturer, Spanish 150 ~ Basic Language Program

 

Spring 2009      Department of Spanish and Portuguese                                   University of Southern California

                          Assistant Lecturer, Spanish 220 ~ Basic Language Program

 

 

Text Box: HONORS AND AWARDS

Graduate Diversity Research Grant, Summer, 2009                                                                               

 

Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE) Fellowship, Summer, 2008

 

USC Linguistics Department Community Service Award, 2008

 

USC Merit Fellowship  , 2006-2007

 

Patricia Bruner Memorial Award, California State University, Fullerton, 2006

 

Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society  , 2006-present

 

Sigma Delta Pi National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society  , 2001-present

 

Text Box: PRESENTATIONS & PUBLICATIONS

 

Phonation Categories in Cajonos Zapotec     [abstract]                      

Proceedings of the 157th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America Portland, OR,  18-22 May, 2009                       

 

Documentation of Phonation Categories in Cajonos Zapotec

Seminar on Indigenous Languages of the Americas  UCLA, 14 April, 2009

 

Electroglottography (EGG) and acoustic analyses in the documentation of Cajonos Zapotec

1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC) , University of Hawai’i, Manoa, 12 March, 2009

 

Vowel Phonation Contrasts in San Miguel Cajonos Zapotec

Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, San Francisco, CA 14 Jan, 2008

 

Segmental Ordering Restrictions in Bolivian Quechua

Linguistics Graduate Student Workshop University of Southern California 8 May, 2008

              

Quichua Influences on the Spanish of Cuenca, Ecuador 

15th Annual Linguistics Symposium, California State University Fullerton, 17 April, 2006

                                                     

 

Text Box: Organizational Affiliations

Acoustical Society of America

Linguistic Society of America

The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas

 

Text Box: LANGUAGES

 

         English and Spanish

 

 

 

      

 

 

 

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