María Luisa Zubizarreta
Department of Linguistics
University of Southern
California
Grace Ford Salvatori 301
Los Angeles, CA 90089-1693
Phone: (213) 740-2986
Fax: (213) 740-9306
Email: zubizarr@usc.edu
Maria Luisa Zubizarreta was born and raised in Asunción, Paraguay.
She obtained her Maîtrise de Linguistique Générale from L’Université de Paris 8 in 1978, and her PhD in Linguistics from
M.I.T. in 1982. From 1983-85, she was a post-doctoral researcher at the
Laboratoire de Psychologie Expérimentale at L’Université Paris 5/CNRS (France). In
1985-86, she was a Visiting Professor at Tilburg University
(The Netherlands). In 1987-88, she was an Assistant Professor at the
Linguistics Program and the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at University of Maryland,
College Park, MD. In 1988, she joined the Linguistics
Department at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles) as an Associate Professor and in
1998, she was promoted to Full Professor.
Research interests
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Lexicon and syntax
·
Prosody, focus, and syntax
·
The semantics of focus
·
Grammatical theory and second language
acquisition
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Spanish, French, English, German, Korean and
Japanese
Research Statement
Selected
Publications
Links
The USC Second Language
Acquisition Group