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Contact: Dean Chris Comer
LA 136, Missoula, MT 59812
Telephone: 243-2632
Fax: 406-243-4076

Office Location: LA 432
Office Telephone: (406) 243-5702
E-mail: naomi.shin@mso.umt.edu

Description:

I teach a variety of courses including Spanish Linguistics, Spanish phonetics & phonology, Methods of Teaching Foreign Languages, Introduction to Spanish. I coordinate the first-year Spanish courses (101-102), and I advise students pursuing their Spanish teacher certification. 

I'll be leading the Spanish Section's Study Abroad Program to Oaxaca, Mexico during the Spring 2010 semester. 

Office Hours:

M/W 1:30 - 2:30 & by appointment

Field Of Study:

 Spanish in the US, bilingualism, language contact, first language acquisition, pronouns

Research Interests:

Currently I'm working on differences/similarities between first and second generation Spanish spoken in the United States. This work is in collaboration with Ricardo Otheguy (Graduate Center, CUNY), and primarily focuses on the variable use of subject pronouns.

My other main area of interest is Spanish child language. For my dissertation research I conducted an experiment and collected narratives from children in Queretaro, Mexico. I'm currently looking at pronoun use in these children's narratives.

Courses:

Fall 2009

Spanish 305: Spanish phonetics & phonology (MW 3:10 - 4:30)

Spanish 400 (cross-listed as Ling405): Spanish Applied Linguistics (MW 5:10 - 6:30)

Spanish 291: Oaxaca 2010 Orientation (M 12:10-1:00)

 

Education:

PhD in Linguistics, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (2006). Dissertation title: The development of null vs. overt subject pronouns in monolingual Spanish-speaking children: The influence of continuity of reference. 

BA (Major: English, Minor: Philosophy), Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio (1994).

 

Teaching Experience:

COURSES TAUGHT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA:

Spanish Applied Linguistics, Spanish phonetics & phonology, Theories of Language Learning, Methods of Teaching Foreign Languages, Introduction to Spanish.

PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

• Graduate Teaching Fellow, Dept. of Linguistics & Communication Disorders, Queens College, Flushing, NY, 2001-2003. Taught: Intro. to Bilingualism, Intro to Language; Co-taught: Intro. to Psycholinguistics, First Language Acquisition, Research Methods for Second Language Acquisition.
• Instructor, Dept. of Foreign Languages, UNLV, Las Vegas, NV, 2005-2006. Taught: Linguistics Applied to the Teaching of Languages, Intro. to Linguistics.

Selected Publications:

 

Shin, Naomi Lapidus (Forthcoming). Efficiency in lexical borrowing in New York Spanish. International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 

Shin, Naomi Lapidus & Helen Smith Cairns (2009). Subject Pronouns in Child Spanish & Continuity of Reference. In Joseph Collentine et al. (Eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 2007 Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, 155-164. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

Shin, Naomi Lapidus & Ricardo Otheguy (2009). Shifting Sensitivity to Continuity of Reference: Subject Pronoun Use in Spanish in New York City. In Lacorte, M. & Leeman, J. (Eds.) Español en Estados Unidos y otros contextos de contacto: Sociolingüística, ideología y pedagogía. Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuert Verlag, pp. 111-136.

Lapidus, Naomi & Ricardo Otheguy (2005a). Overt nonspecific ellos in Spanish in New York. Spanish in Context 2:2, 157-174.

Lapidus, Naomi & Ricardo Otheguy (2005b). Contact Induced Change? Overt Nonspecific Ellos in Spanish in New York. In Sayahi, L. & Westmoreland, M. (Eds.), Selected Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, pp. 67-75. 

Otheguy, Ricardo & Naomi Lapidus (2005). Matización de la teoría de la simplificación en las lenguas en contacto: El concepto de la adaptación en el español de Nueva York. In Ortiz López, L. & Lacorte, M. (Eds.), Contactos y contextos lingüísticos: El español en los Estados Unidos y en contacto con otras lenguas. Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, pp. 143-160.

Otheguy, Ricardo & Naomi Lapidus (2004). Adaptación y simplificación en el género de los neologismos ingleses en el español de Nueva York. In Piña-Rosales, G., Toscano Liria, N., Fernández Klohe, C., Corbalán, R., Sánchez, O & Henao, E. (Eds.), Hispanos en los Estados Unidos: Tercer Pilar de la Hispanidad. Actas del II Simposio Internacional Presencia Hispánica en los Estados Unidos., pp. 249-269.

Otheguy, Ricardo & Naomi Lapidus (2003). An adaptive approach to noun gender in New York contact Spanish. In Cameron, R., Ortiz López, L. Núñez-Cedeño, R (Eds.), A Romance perspective on language knowledge and use. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Co., pp. 209-229.   

Affiliations:

Linguistics Society of America

American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese

Montana Association of Language Teachers (MALT)

International Experience:

Have lived in Barcelona, Spain; Lima, Peru; Cajamarca, Peru; Querétaro, Mexico; Tours, France; Dublin, Ireland.