Christina M. Esposito
Assistant Professor
Department of Linguistics
Macalester College
1600 Grand Ave
St. Paul, MN 55105
email: esposito@macalester.edu
Research Interests:
- The production and perception of phonation
- The interaction between phonation and prosody
- Languages that use different voice qualities (e.g. creaky, breathy, etc.) to make phonological contrasts
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Education:
- Ph.D. in Linguistics (2006) University of California, Los Angeles. Dissertation: The Effects of Linguistic Experience on the Perception of Phonation.
- M.A in Linguistics (2003) University of California, Los Angeles. Thesis: Phonation in Santa Ana del Valle Zapotec.
- B.A. in Linguistics (with honors) and Anthropology (2000) State University of New York at Albany. Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa. Thesis: Tone and Possessives in San Dionicio Ocotepec Zapotec.
Papers:
- Esposito, C. M., Khan, S.U. & Hurst, A. (2007). Breathy nasals and /Nh/ clusters in Bengali, Hindi, and Marathi. Indian Linguistics. vol. 68. No.1-2.
- Keating, P.A. & Esposito, C.M. (2007). 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. Available at http://www.assta.org/sst/2006/papers.php.
- Esposito, C.M. (2003). The effects of f0 and position-in-utterance on phonation in Santa Ana del Valle Zapotec. Proceedings of the XVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Barcelona, Spain.
Presentations:
- Esposito, C.M. (2009). Variation in phonation in Santa Ana del Valle Zapotec. University of Minnesota Linguistics department colloquium series. Minneapolis, MN.
- Keating, P.A. & Esposito, C.M. (2006). Linguistic voice quality. Invited keynote paper at The Eleventh Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology 2006, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
- Esposito, C.M. (2007). The effects of linguistic experience on the perception of pathologically-disordered phonation. Acoustical Society of America, New Orleans, LA.
- Esposito, C.M. (2007). Linguistic experience and the perception of phonation. 81st meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Anaheim, CA.
- Esposito, C.M. (2006). The effects of linguistic experience on the perception of phonation. 80th meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Albuquerque, NM.
- Esposito, C.M., Khan, S.U. & Hurst, A. (2005). Breathiness in Indic languages. Acoustical Society of America, Vancouver, BC.
- Esposito, C.M. (2005). An acoustic and electroglottographic study of phonation in Santa Ana del Valle Zapotec. 79th meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco, CA.
- Esposito, C.M. & Scarborough, R. (2004). An acoustic and electroglottographic study of V?V in two indigenous American languages. Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, CA.
- Esposito, C.M. (2003). The effects of f0 and position-in-utterance on phonation in Santa Ana del Valle Zapotec. XVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPHS), Barcelona, Spain.
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