College of Humanities People
Meghan Armstrong, Graduate Teaching Associate
Department of Spanish and Portuguese: http://sppo.osu.edu/
Office Information
288 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road, Columbus, OH, 43210
Email: armstrong.336@osu.edu
Phone: 614-247-8826
Fax: 614-292-7726
Office Hours:
By appointment
288 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road, Columbus, OH, 43210
Email: armstrong.336@osu.edu
Phone: 614-247-8826
Fax: 614-292-7726
Office Hours:
By appointment
General Background:
Education:
B.A. Spanish, Concentration in Translation - University of Maryland at College Park, 2000M.A. Hispanic Linguistics - The Ohio State University, 2007
Work Experience:
ESPN International (Latin American Network), ESPN Deportes 2000 - 2002Procuri, Inc. 2003-2005
Interests:
Intonation and meaningConference Presentations:
"Prosody and Information Structure in Brazilian Portuguese Sentence Negation" with Scott Schwenter. 38th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Urbana-Champaign, IL - April 2008
"Prosodic Correlates of Information Structure in Brazilian Portuguese Sentence Negation" with Scott Schwenter. The 34th Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley, CA - February 2008
"The Portuguese Affirmative Response System: Accounting for Typological Divergence" 2007 Mid-America Linguistics Conference, Lawrence, KS - October 2007.
"Polar Questions and the Choice of Affirmative Response in Brazilian Portuguese" First International Conference on Spanish and Portuguese Dialogue Studies / Estudios del Diálogo, The University of Texas at Austin, April 2007.
" 'Yes' is more: The affirmative response in Brazilian Portuguese" The Ohio Latinamericanist Conference, Columbus, OH - April 2007
"Saying yes in Brazilian Portuguese" The 10th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, October 2006.
"An Analysis of Affirmative Responses in Brazilian Portuguese" IX Annual Ohio State University Symposium On Hispanic And Luso-Brazilian Literatures, Linguistics, And Cultures, Columbus, OH - April 2006
Grants and Awards:
FLAS Fellow: Summer 2006 - Fortaleza, Brazil
College of Humanities Small Research Grant - Spring 07
Tinker Grantee - Summer 2007
Office of International Affairs Student Travel Grant - Summer 09
Current Projects
Intonation of Puerto Rican Spanish
Acquisition of intonation
Pitch scaling in Brazilian Portuguese
Professional Memberships:
Linguistic Society of America
