CURRICULUM VITAE

Winter 2004

Laura Catharine Smith

[email protected]

Citizenship: Canadian

EDUCATION:

September 1998- University of Wisconsin—Madison

Joint Doctoral Programme in German and Linguistics

Master of Arts in Linguistics (Conferred August 2000)

PhD Defence January 13, 2004: Summa cum laude

October 1997- The University of Munich—DAAD Fellowship

July 1998 Germanic Linguistics, Theoretical Linguistics and Phonetics

August 1995- The University of Calgary

July 1997 Master of Arts in Linguistics (Conferred November 1997)

Specialisation: Historical linguistics

1990-1995 Queen’s University

Concurrent Education Programme

June 1994-B.A.(Hon) (I Class Honours), Language and Linguistics with German Specialisation

June 1995-B.Education, Secondary Education (French/History and Social Sciences)

Summer 1990 Université de Montréal – 6 week Summer Language Bursary Program; level 5 (strong) in the French immersion program

1985-1990 Dunbarton High School in Pickering, Ontario

Graduated from OAC (Grade 13) with Honours and as an Ontario Scholar

THESES:

Masters Thesis Topic and Title:

Holtzmann’s Law (historical, Germanic phonology)

Title: “Holtzmann’s Law: Getting to the hart of the Germanic Verschärfung.”

Committee: Robert W. Murray (Chair), John Archibald, Douglas Walker

Doctoral Dissertation Topic and Title:

Phonology, West Germanic, Foot Structure and Templatic Phonology

Title: “Cross-level interactions in West Germanic phonology and morphology.”

Advisors: Joseph Salmons (German), Thomas Purnell (Linguistics)

PUBLICATIONS:

In Preparation. With Joseph Salmons. “A note on the status of the Indo-European labiovelars.” To be submitted to General linguistics.

In Preparation. With Thomas Purnell. “Perception and production of English /‹/ and /l/ by Japanese and Korean learners.”

2003. “West Germanic jan-verbs: A templatic approach.” Proceedings of WIGL 2003. Department of Linguistics, University of Wisconsin–Madison.

2001. “L2 Acquisition of English Liquids: Evidence for Production Independent from Perception.” In Xenia Bonch-Bruevich, William J. Crawford, John Hellermann, Christina Higgins, and Hanh Nguyen (Eds.), The Past, Present, and Future of Second Language Research: Selected Proceedings of the 2000 Second Language Research Forum. Somerville, MA.: Cascadilla Press, 3-22.

2000. “Acquisition of /r/ and /l/ by learners of English: Evidence for production and perception as two distinct processes in SLA.” The University of Wisconsin — Madison LSO Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 1.

1999. “What’s all the fuss with sixteen words? A new approach to Holtzmann’s Law.” GLOP (Germanic Linguistics Occasional Papers). Reprinted from Göttinger Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, 97-127.

1998. “What’s all the fuss with sixteen words? A new approach to Holtzmann’s Law.” Göttinger Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, 1:75-100.

1997. “The role of L1 feature geometry in the acquisition of L2 segmental phonology: Acquiring /›/ and /ð/ in English.” Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, 19: 45-70.

1996. “Vennemann’s bifurcation theory of the Germanic and German consonant shifts.” Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, 18: 68-75.

PRESENTATIONS:

2004. With Mary Grantham O’Brien. “The impact of first language dialect on the production of German vowels.” Paper submitted to GLAC, April 2004.

2004. “West Germanic jan-verbs: From feet to prosodic templates.” Paper given at the Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting January 2004 in Boston, MA.

2003. “The role of prosodic templates in West Germanic jan-verbs.” Paper given at Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC), April 2003, The State University of New York at Buffalo.

2003. “West Germanic jan-verbs: A templatic approach.” Paper given at Workshop in General Linguistics (WIGL), February 7, 2003, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin.

2002. “‘Prosodic Templates’ in der Geschichte der westgermanischen Sprachen/‘Prosodic Templates’ in the history of West Germanic.” Invited Talk to Oberseminar: Besprechung neuerer linguistischer Arbeiten, December 2002, Institut für deutsche Philologie, The University of Munich.

2002. “Keeping the i in the Old Saxon i-stems: Perceptual cues vs. prosodic structure.” Paper given at Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC), April 2002, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

2002. “Sociological and economic factors in contact induced language change: The case of French influence on Brussels Dutch.” Paper given at UW-Madison German Studies Graduate Student Conference, April 2002, The University of Wisconsin-Madison.

2002. “Arguments for prosodic factors over perceptual cues in the development of the Old Saxon i-stems.” Linguistics Students Organization (LSO) Brown Bag Lunch Presentation, April 2002, Department of Linguistics, The University of Wisconsin-Madison.

2001. With Thomas Purnell. “Perception vs. Production: Korean and Japanese learners of English /l-r/.” Pacific-Second Language Research Forum (PAC-SLRF) October 4-7, University of Hawai’i at Manoa.

2000. “L2 Acquisition of English liquids: Evidence for production preceding perception.” Presented at Second Language Research Forum (SLRF) 2000, Madison, WI.

2000. “The rise and fall of French influence on Brussels Dutch.” Paper presented at Language and Immigration Seminar Mini-Conference, Madison, WI May 2000.

BOOK NOTICE:

2003. Book notice on Brian D. Joseph and Richard D. Janda, The handbook of historical linguistics. Diachronica 20.

1999. Book notice on Charles M. Barrack, Sievers’ Law in Germanic. Diachronica 16(2).

WORK EXPERIENCE AND SERVICE:

Fall 2003-Spring 2004 Linguistics graduate student representative on Round Table Organising Committee, Department of German.

Winter 2001 & 2003 Project Assistant for LangNet Project, German Board (2003, Supervisor: Monika Chavez) and Professional Development Committee (2001, Supervisor: Charles James)

Fall 2000 Mentor for German 101 Teaching Assistants, Department of German, The University of Wisconsin–Madison. Duties involved helping beginning TAs, providing materials, organising midterm and final exams, and TA observations and evaluations.

Summer 2000 Conference Programme Co-Editor for Second Language Research Forum (SLRF) 2000

Winter 2000 Reviewer of abstracts for Second Language Research Forum (SLRF) 2000

Winter 2000 Co-Editor The University of Wisconsin—Madison LSO Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 1

Fall 1999-Spring 2000 Colloquia Co-Chairperson for the Linguistics Students Organization

Fall 1999 Conference Assistant for the Workshop on Comparative Linguistics, 8: Variation and Reconstruction (Oct. 29-31, 1999)

July 1998-Jan 1999 English corrections for a textbook on Ancient Egyptian phonology.

Fall 1995-Winter 1997 Co-editor on Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics (Volumes 18 and 19) and The Proceedings of the Canadian Linguistics Association 1996 Annual Conference.

Fall 1993-Winter 1994 Marker (Grader) for Introduction to Linguistics Course, Queen’s University, Instructor: Hitay Yukseker

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Spring 2004 Teaching Assistant, Linguistics Department, The University of Wisconsin-Madison

Linguistics 101 (Human language)

Fall 1999-Fall 2003 Teaching Assistant, German Department, The University of Wisconsin–Madison

German 101 (First Semester German) – Fall 1999

German 102 (Second Semester German) – Spring 2000

German 203 (Third Semester German) – Fall 2000

German 101 (First Semester German, Second half of course) – Summer 2002

German 101 (First Semester German, Second half of the course) – Summer 2003

German 204 (Fourth Semester German) – Fall 2003

April-July 1998 English as a Second Language Tutor, Munich, Germany

Fall 1996 Teaching Assistant, Department of Linguistics, The University of Calgary

LING 205 (Introduction to Applied Linguistics)

LING 353 (Historical Linguistics)

Fall 1994-Winter 1995 Practica for B.Education at Queen’s University (Kingston, Ontario)

Grade 11 Sociology and Grade 10 Ancient history (Lasalle H.S, 3 Weeks Fall 1994)

Grades 5-8 French (Churchill Public School, 4 Weeks Winter 1995)

Grade 9 and 10 French (Queen Elizabeth Collegiate and Vocational Institute, 2 Months Winter 1995)

Grade 10 French and German (Sir Winston Churchill Senior High School, Calgary, Alberta, 3 Weeks Winter 1995).

Summer 1994 Participant at one week Teaching Assistant Seminar for German at the Goethe Institut in Toronto.

Spring 1993 Grade 10 Canadian history and Assisted with Grade 10 German class (Napanee District Secondary School, 2 Week Teaching Practicum)

Spring 1992 Grade 9 French (Napanee District Secondary School, 2 Week Teaching Practicum).

Fall 1990-Winter 1991 Grade 5 French (First Avenue Public School, Kingston, 30 Hour+ Service Learning Practicum helping and teaching class)

SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS HELD:

C DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) Short-Term Grant, taken up at the University of Munich Institut fur deutsche Philologie (Fall 2002)

C Dissertator Fellowship, University of Wisconsin–Madison (Spring Semester 2002)

C Schultz Distinguished Fellowship for German Studies, The University of Wisconsin–Madison (Fall 2001)

C French-Felton Award for Inspirational Teaching, College of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin– Madison (Fall 2000)

C SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) Doctoral Fellowship Recipient (May 1999– 2002 April)

C WARF Fellowship, University of Wisconsin– Madison (September 1998 September– June 1999)

C DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) Annual Grant, taken up at the University of Munich Institut fur deutsche Philologie (October 1997– July 1998)

C Graduate Research Scholarship, The University of Calgary (May 1997– August 1997)

C Graduate Research Scholarship, The University of Calgary (January1997– April 1997)

C The Dean's Special Masters Scholarship, The University of Calgary (May 1996-August 1996)

C The Dean's Special Masters Scholarship, The University of Calgary (January 1996–April 1996)

C Province of Alberta Graduate Scholarship, The University of Calgary (September 1995– December 1995)

C Dean's Special Full Fee Remission, The University of Calgary (September 1995)

C Elizabeth and Hilda Laird Scholarship in German, Queen’s University (September 1993)

C Queen's Appeal Undergraduate Scholarship, Queen’s University (September 1993)

C Dean’s List, Queen’s University (1993)

C Dean's Special Award, Queen’s University (September 1991)

C Dean’s List, Queen’s University (1991)

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND ASSOCIATIONS:

Member, Linguistics Society of America (LSA)

Member, Modern Language Association (MLA)

Member, Canadian Linguistics Assocation (CLA)

Member, Society for Germanic Linguistics (SGL)