St Cross College, Oxford

Dr E Paloma García-Bellido

BA in Hispanic Linguistics, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain; MA in General Linguistics, University of Austin, Texas, USA; DPhil in Hispanic Linguistics Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain

University Lecturer in Spanish Linguistics, Faculty of Modern Languages; Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford

Phone: 01865 270490
E-mail: paloma.garcia-bellido(@)mod-langs.ox.ac.uk

Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages Website and Personal Page

My interest in exploring model theoretical predictions for language comprehension and production led me, after graduation, to visit, teach and work in some of the most thriving linguistics departments of the United States (Austin, Amherst). I benefited from a Fulbright scholarship during all this period of academic development. I was then appointed Assistant Professor in the department of Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin.

My research in these overseas universities concentrated on testing the predictions of representational theories which were using a nonlinear approach for sequencing linguistic elements. Seeking to teach these new methods of analysis in Spanish universities, I was appointed University professor at the Universidad Autónoma in Madrid, Spain where I developed nonlinear representations for phonological dependencies (metrical models).

Since 1990 I have been teaching in Oxford. I have been working on a recursive representation for the sequencing of articulations based on binary and ternary dependencies. At present I am focusing on the biological causes of language disorders under a John Fell grant. In particular I am testing which concrete speech and language disorders are induced by a chromosomal translocation affecting 7q31 in a bilingual child and how these impairments may derive consequently from particular brain dysfunctions.