JOSÉ ELÍAS-ULLOA

Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature                          

SUNY, Stony Brook

Frank Melville Library, N3029

E-mail: Jose.Elias-Ulloa at sunysb.edu                                

2005 to the present: Assistant Professor (Stony Brook University - SUNY)

2006:            Rutgers University Ph.D. degree

2000-2005: Rutgers University, USA (PhD. candidate).

1994-2000:   San Marcos University, Peru.

DEGREES:    

Ph.D. Rutgers University (2006)

Licenciatura in Linguistics (San Marcos University) (2000)

BA in Linguistics (San Marcos University) (1999)

PhD DISSERTATION TITLE:

“Theoretical Aspects of Panoan Metrical Phonology: Footing and Syllable Weight” (Director: Alan Prince)

PUBLICATIONS:

(2009) “The Distribution of Laryngeal Segments in Capanahua” in International Journal of American Linguistics, vol. 75.

(2008) “Subject Doubling and the Mixed Null Subject System of Capanahua” Proceedings of the Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America-III (CILLA-III), University of Texas at Austin.

(2007) Review: Maria Helena Mateus and Ernesto d’Andrade. The Phonology of Portuguese. In Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies, volume 15.

(2006) “Phonological Divergences between Adult Speech and the Speech of Children in the Spanish of Lima (Peru)”. In Revista Logopedia, Foniatría y Audiología, volume 26.4: 215-230. Co-authors: C. Ciccia, O. Montezuma, G. Gabillo, M. Echenique, G. Raffo and A. Seminario.

(2006) Review: Sónia Frota. Prosody and Focus in European Portuguese: Phonological Phrasing and Intonation. In Ellipsis - The Journal of the American Portuguese Studies Association, volume 4 (2006): 174-176.

(2005) “Variable Syllable Weight and Quantity-Insensitive Allomorphy in Shipibo.” In Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 35), volume 1.

(2004) “Quantity-(In)Sensitivity and Underlying Glottal Stop Deletion in Capanahua”, in The University of Arizona Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 13. Special Volume Dedicated to the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (2004): 1-16.

(2003) Review: João Costa (ed). Portuguese Syntax: New Comparative Studies. In Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies 10:  277-80.

(2001) “Un Análisis Métrico del Acento en Shipibo” [A Metrical Analysis of the Stress in Shipibo]. In Lenguaje y Sociedad 3: 27-46.

(2000) “¿Sílabas Pesadas Monomoraicas?: Reflexionado sobre el Peso Silábico en Shipibo” [Monomoraic Heavy Syllables?: Reflecting on Syllable Weight in Shipibo]. In Primer Congreso de Lenguas Indígenas de Sudamérica 1, (Ed.) Luis Miranda. Lima: Ricardo Palma University (2000): 135-49.

(1988) “Algunas Asimetrías Morfofonológicas del Shipibo” [Some Morphophonological Asymmetries in Shipibo]. In Reporte Técnico sobre la Investigación Lingüística, Cultural y Aplicada de las Lenguas Amerindias. Lima: San Marcos University (1998): 122-30.

ARTICLES ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION:

“La adquisición de la Estructura Silábica: El Caso del Castellano Limeño” [The Acquisition of Syllable Structure: The Case Study of the Spanish Spoken in Lima], co-authorred with Oriele Montezuma, Cecilia Ciccia, Gabriela Gabillo, Mery Echenique, Gissella Raffo, and Ana Seminario; to appear in 2009 in Persona, the journal of the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Lima, vol. 12.

Book review: Maria Helena Mateus and Ernesto d’Andrade. The Phonology of Portuguese. To appear in 2008 in Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies, volume 15.

ARTICLE SUBMITTED FOR PUBLICATION:

“Shipibo-Spanish: Residual transfer at the syntax/morphology and syntax/pragmatics interfaces” (co-authored with Liliana Sanchez and Jose Camacho) - currently under revision.

“Pro-drop systems in Shipibo switch-reference systems” (co-authored with Jose Camacho) - currently under revision.

FIELDWORK:

Experiment design and empirical data collection on Shipibo Segmental and Supra-segmental Patterns. (Peru, May – June 2008)

Experiment design and empirical data collection on Intonational Patterns of Shipibo. (Peru, May – June 2007)

Experiment design and empirical data collection on foot-based alternating suffix in Shipibo. Eight subjects canvassed (Peru, July – August 2003, 2004)

Experiment design and empirical data collection on Shipibo stress. Thirty subjects canvassed (Peru, July – August 2002)

Empirical data collection on Capanahua Coordination. Fifteen subjects canvassed. (Iquitos - Peru, July – August 2001)

Empirical data collection on focused DPs in Spanish from Bilingual Shipibo Speakers. Thirty subjects canvassed. (Pucallpa – Peru, July 1998)

Evaluation of the Syntactic Competence in the Spanish of Bilingual Ashaninka Children. One hundred and fifty children canvassed. (Junin – Peru, October 1996, July 1997)

RESEARCH:

(2006 to the present) Stony Brook Univ. (Dep. of Hispanic Languages and Literature)

   Project: The acoustic phonetics of Shipibo.

(2002-2005) Rutgers University (Department of Linguistics)

   Project: Metrical System of Panoan Languages: Shipibo and Capanahua (Ph.D. dissertation).

(2001-2) Rutgers University (Department of Spanish and Portuguese)

                Project: Focus in Andean Bilingual Spanish, led by Dr. Liliana Sánchez (2001, 2002).

(1999-2000) Católica University (Department of Linguistics), Peru

                   Project: The Configuration of Morphosyntactic Features in the Third-Person Pronominal System in Bilingual Spanish from Lamas and Spanish from Lima, led by Dr. Liliana Sánchez (1999, 2000).

(1998-200) EDUCERE, Peru

      Project: Research on Spanish Phonological Acquisition in 2-to-5-Year-Old Children from Lima – Peru, led by Dr. Oriele Montezuma and Dr. Cecilia Ciccia (1998 - 2000).

(1998-1999) San Marcos University (Department of Linguistics), Peru

      Project: Research on the Morphology and Phonology of Shipibo. Led by Dr. María Cortez-Mondragón (1998, 1999).

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

April 2009: Workshop on Field Research. Invited by the The Romance Linguistics Lecture Series, organized by Francisco Ordóñez and Lori Repetti, Stony Brook University.

November 2008: “Los patrones de acentuación de los préstamos castellanos en el shipibo” (Stress Patterns of Shipibo in Loanwords from Spanish) 10th Northwest International Linguistics Conference (Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste). Universidad de Sonora. Hermosillo, Mexico.

August 2007: Workshop on Acoustic Phonetics. Invited to teach it ad honorem by the department of Linguistics at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Peru).

July 2007: “La Coalescencia Glótica del Capanahua.” 4th Encuentro de Gramática Generativa, Mendoza – Argentina.

May 2007: “Sistemas Pro-drop Mixtos, Copias de Sujeto y Concordancia en Tres Lenguas Pano” (Mixed Pro-drop suystems, subject copies and Agreement in three Panoan Languages), invited talk at San Marcos University, Peru.

December 2006: “Words with Two Main Stresses in Guugu Yimidhirr.” Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA), Philadelphia.

December 2006: “Metrically-Driven Glottal Coalescence: A Case Study
from Capanahua.” Linguistics Colloquium at Stony Brook University.

October 2006: (with Liliana Sanchez and José Camacho – Rutgers University) “Mixed pro-drop in contact: the case of Shipibo Spanish” The Second Language Research Forum (SLRF), University of Washington, Seatle.

April 2006: “Positional Effects and Glottal Coalescence in Capanahua.” Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL 2006), University of California, Santa Barbara.

March 2006: “On the Distribution of Capanahua Glottal Segments.” CELCNA-2, University of Utah, Salt Lake City.

Dec 2005: “Metrical Structure and the Distribution of Glottal Stops in Capanahua” Convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA) in Washington D.C.

Sept 2005: “Theoretical Aspects of Panoan Metrical Phonology: Footing and Syllable Weight”. Talk at Rutgers University.

Jan 2005: (with José Camacho – Rutgers University) “The Syntactic Structure of Evidentiality in Shipibo”. Conference: Language under Uncertainty:
Modals, Evidentials, and Conditionals in Kyoto University, Japan.

Jan 2005: “Relations between Quantity and Weight Categorizations: The Case of Lhasa Tibetan”. Second Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP2), University of Tromsø, Norway.

Oct 2004: “Variable Syllable Weight and Quantity-Insensitive Allomorphy in Shipibo”. 35th Conference of the North Eastern Linguistic Society (NELS 35), University of Connecticut Storrs.

   May 2004: “Non-Uniformity of Syllable Weight and Foot-Type in Capanahua”. 12th Manchester Phonology Meeting (12mfm), Manchester University, England.

   April 2004: “Metrical Feet and the RIBA-Allomorphy in Shipibo”. 7th Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL 7), University of California, Santa Barbara.

   Feb 2004: “Metrical Structure and Variable Closed Syllable Weight in Capanahua”. 28th Penn Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania.

   Oct 2003: “Contextually Variable Closed Syllable Weight in Panoan Languages”. Michigan Linguistic Society, University of Michigan.

   Aug 2003: “La Ritmicidad y la Cantidad en Shipibo” [Rhythmic Aspects and Quantity in Shipibo]. Invited lecture at San Marcos University, Peru.

   April 2002: “Subject Doubling in Capanahua.” HUMDRUM, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

 Nov 2001: “Coordination and Switch-Reference: Evidence from Capanahua”. The 4th North West Centre For Linguistics Annual International Conference on Coordination: Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics, University of Salford, England. (Co-presented with José Camacho)

Feb 2000:  “Syllable Weight in Shipibo, Tiberian Hebrew and Kashmiri”. The Linguistics Workshop. Universidad Católica, Lima.

July 1999: “¿Sílabas Pesadas Monomoraicas?: Reflexionado sobre el Peso Silábico en Shipibo” [Monomoraic Heavy Syllables?: Reflecting on Syllable Weight in Shipibo]. Congreso de Lenguas Indígenas de Sudamérica. Ricardo Palma University, Lima.

MA THESIS COMMITTEES

(2009) Miguel Garcia (MA student, Department of Hispanic Languages): Intonational Patterns of Peruvian Spanish.

 (2008-9) Stéphanie Lewis (MA student, Department of Hispanic Languages): The Phonetics of S-dropping in Dominican Spanish.

QUALIFYING PAPER COMMITTEES

(2008) Yu-An Lu (PhD student, Department of Linguistics): UM Infixation in Thao.

(2009) Hijo Kang (PhD student, Department of Linguistics): A Phonetic Study on the Asymmetries in Hiatus Resolution: An Acoustic Analysis on Korean Hiatus.

ADVISING TO OTHER GRADUATE STUDENTS

(2006-7) Susana Hiudobro (PhD student, Department of Linguistics): Stressed Clitics in Argentinean Spanish.

(2006-9) Miran Kim (PhD student, Department of Linguistics): Phonetic details of prosody-driven segment variation: variability, syllable constituency, and rhythm.

AWARDS:

NSF Grant - Documentation of Endangered Languages (2009): Documentation of the Acoustic Phonetics of Shipibo. Status: competitive but not funded.

UPP Individual Development Award (2009)

FAHSS Individual Award Grant (2008): Data Collection of the Intonational Patterns of Shipibo (Phase II)

FAHSS Individual Award Grant (2007): Data Collection of the Intonational Patterns of Shipibo

UPP Individual Development Award (2007).

FAHSS Individual Award Grant (2006): The Metrical System of Shipibo Spanish

UPP Individual Development Award (2006).

University and Louis Bevier Graduate and Dissertation Fellowship (2004)

Rutgers University Teaching Assistantship (2002-2003)

Department of Spanish and Portuguese Classroom Teaching Award (2002)

Rutgers University Graduate School Fellowship (2000-2001)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

·         Linguistic Society of America (member from 2005).

·         The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (from 2005).

·         Modern Language Association (member from 2005).