Sergio Robles-Puente

University of Southern California
Department of Linguistics
Grace Ford Salvatori 301,
Los Angeles, CA 90089-1693

University of Southern California
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Taper Hall of Humanities, THH 152
Los Angeles, California 90089-0358

roblespu at usc dot edu

http://www-scf.usc.edu/~roblespu

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EDUCATION

2008-present:
Ph.D. in Linguistics (Hispanic Linguistics) – University of Southern California.
2008-2010:
M.A. in Linguistics (Hispanic Linguistics) – University of Southern California.
Dissimilation and deletion of vowels in Basque Dialects: an OT analysis - Chair: Rachel Walker
2006-2008:
M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
M.A. Exams: A+
2005-2006:
Completion of all the required courses of Ph.D. in Linguistics – Program with a "Quality Award" (Mención de Calidad) from the Ministry of Education and Science of Spain - University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), Vitoria, Spain.
2003-2004:
Erasmus Exchange Program (Undergraduate student) English, Spanish and Linguistics Departments – University College Dublin, Ireland.
Full Year - I took several linguistics and literature courses as part of an exchange program - Arts (Erasmus)
2001-2005:
BA in English Language and Literature Studies - University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain.


ADITIONAL TRAINING

December 2011:
4-Day Oral Proficiency Interview Assessment Workshop-Spanish (28 hours of Professional Development) - Americal Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages - University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
2004-2005:
C.A.P. (Curso de Aptitud Pedagógica - Teachers' Training Course - 300 hours) - University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain.


PRESENTATIONS

November 2011 - Modeling Imperatives in Spanish. Poster presented at the 162nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, California (Novermber 3, 2011)
April 2011 - Invited speaker for the Euskera (Basque) Language Workshop. Event organized by the Ungergraduate Students in Linguistics (USIL) - University of Southern California. (April 14, 2011).
October 2010 - Absolute Questions Do Not Always Have a Rising Pattern: Evidence from Bilbao Spanish. Laboratory Approaches to Romance Phonology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT. (October 23-25, 2010).
October 2010 - Looking for the Spanish Imperative Intonation: Combination of Global and local Pitch-Accent Level Strategies. Laboratory Approaches to Romance Phonology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT. (October 23-25, 2010).
December 2008 - The Intonation of Yes/No Questions in Bilbao Spanish. Graduate Student Workshop 2008 - University of Southern California. (December 6, 2008).


PUBLICATIONS

Selected Proceedings

Robles-Puente, Sergio. 2011. Absolute Questions Do Not Always Have a Rising Pattern: Evidence from Bilbao Spanish. In Selected Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Laboratory Approaches to Romance Phonology, ed. Scott M. Alvord, 98-107. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. www.lingref.com, document #2638.
Robles-Puente, Sergio. 2011. Looking for the Spanish Imperative Intonation: Combination of Global and Pitch-Accent Level Strategies. In Selected Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Laboratory Approaches to Romance Phonology, ed. Scott M. Alvord, 153-164. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. www.lingref.com, document #2644.
Published Abstracts
Robles-Puente, Sergio. 2011. Modeling Imperatives in Spanish. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 130, issue 4, p. 2553.


RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2009-2011:
Research Assistant for Professor Carmen Silva-Corvalan - University of Southen California.

Research consisted in the analysis of the data produced by Spanish-English bilingual children.



TEACHING EXPERIENCE

University level
2009-2011:
Spanish Assistant Lecturer – University of Southern California.

Fall 2009: SPAN 120 (Elementary Spanish)
Spring 2010: SPAN 120 (Elementary Spanish)
Fall 2010: SPAN 120 (Elementary Spanish)
Spring 2011: SPAN 220 (Advanced Spanish))
Fall 2011: SPAN 120 (Elementary Spanish)
Spring 2012: SPAN 220 (Advanced Spanish)
2009-2011 (Summer):
Spanish Teacher – University of Deusto (Bilbao, Spain) Español II (Intermediate Spanish).
October 2010:
Guest Lecturer – University of Southern California SPAN 413: Social and Geographic Varieties of Spanish - "Language contact and attitude in the Basque Country".
2006-2007:
Spanish Teaching Assistant – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Fall 2006: SPAN 122 (Elementary Spanish)
Spring 2007: SPAN 103 (Intermediate Spanish)
Fall 2007: SPAN 141 (Introduction to Spanish Grammar)
Spring 2008: SPAN 204 (Practical Review of Spanish Grammar)
Private classes
2005-2006:
Gave private English classes to a Spanish businessman. Getxo, Spain.
2004:
Gave private Spanish classes to Irish children. Dublin, Ireland.


SERVICE

2010-2012
President of the University of Southern California Hispanic Linguistics Students Association.
2010-2011:  
Co-President of the University of Southern California Graduate Students in Linguistics.
May 2011:  
Volunteer for Parallel Domains: a Workshop in Honor of the Work of Jean-Roger Vergnaud – University of Southern California.
February 2010:  Food & Hospitality Co-Chair
Member of the Abstracts Committee
West Coast Conference for Formal Linguistics 28
WCCFL 2010 – University of Southern California
May 2008:
Member of the Linguistics Student Workshop Committee (Spring 2008), Department of Linguistics – University of Southern California.


AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

2011 (Summer):
University of Southern California Del Amo Foundation Research Award. ($2600)
2010 (Summer):
University of Southern California Del Amo Foundation Research Award. ($5000)
2009 (Summer):
University of Southern California Del Amo Foundation Research Award. ($3250)
2008 (Spring):
Ranked as excellent teacher (outstanding) by Spanish 204 (Practical Review of Spanish Grammar) students at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign.
2007 (Fall): 
Ranked as excellent teacher by Spanish 141 (Introduction to Spanish Grammar) students at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign.
2007 (Spring):  
Ranked as excellent teacher (outstanding) by Spanish 103 (Intermediate Spanish) students at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign.
2006 (Fall):
Ranked as excellent teacher by Spanish 122 (Elementary Spanish) students at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign.


GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

2008-2009: 
Del Amo Graduate Fellowship - University of Southern California.
2006-2007 & 2007-2008:
Graduate TA tuition waiver - University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign.
2005-2006:
Mobility Grant by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (MEC) to study at U.P.V. in the Ph.D. Linguistics program, program with a "Quality Award" (Mención de Calidad).
2003-2004:
ERASMUS Grant by the European Commission to study for a year at University College Dublin (Ireland).


LANGUAGES

Spanish: Native speaker.
English: Near native speaker.
Basque: Advance speaker.
French: Intermediate speaker.
German: Basic level knowledge.

Praat: Intermediate.
Matlab: Intermediate.



REFERENCES
 
Available upon request

 

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