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: Diane Ringer Uber, Ph.D.
Professor of Spanish
The College of Wooster
Wooster, Ohio 44691
USA
Office: Kauke 208
duber@wooster.edu
Phone: (330) 263-2382
FAX: 1-330-263-2693, 1-330-263-2614
Educational Background
Ph.D.
Linguistics
1981
University of Wisconsin--Madison, WI
M.A.
Linguistics
1977
The Pennsylvania State University--University Park, PA
B.A.
Spanish
1974
The College of Wooster--Wooster, OH
Research Interests
Hispanic Sociolinguistics
Hispanic Dialectology
Quantitative Analysis
Topics include:
discourse analysis of Spanish in business contexts
neutralization of /r/ and /l/ in Caribbean Spanish
phonological, morphological, and discourse consequences of /s/ deletion and /n/ velarization in Caribbean Spanish
pronouns of address (
tú
vs.
usted
) in Latin American Spanish
third-person clitic pronoun usage (
le(s)
vs.
lo(s)/la(s)
)
Teaching Interests
Beginning Spanish I (101)
Beginning Spanish II (102)
Intermediate Spanish for Conversation and Composition (201)
Intermediate Spanish for Grammar, Composition and Style (202)
Commercial Language and Culture in the Hispanic World (250)
Spanish Phonology (270)
Structure of Modern Spanish (310)
Applied Linguistics (319)
Special Topics (Hispanic Dialectology, Sociolinguistics and Bilingualism) (211)
Direction of Independent Study Theses in Hispanic Language, Linguistics, Pedagogy, Commerce, and Culture (401, 451, 452)
Links to Other Sites
Spanish Department Home Page
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Send me e-mail to:
duber@wooster.edu
This page last updated on July 30, 2007.
Copyright © 2007
Diane Ringer Uber
