Gemma Repiso Puigdelliura

Gemma Repiso Puigdelliura

Teaching

LINGUIST 2PS3:Psycholinguistics

Undergraduate, McMaster University Linguistics & Languages, 2022

In this course students will learn to describe cognitive processes involved in speech perception, word recognition and sentence comprehension, examine (describe and evaluate) experimental methods from behavioural psychology for investigating language comprehension, interpret experimental data to investigate language comprehension, and implement research methods in psycholinguistics by designing a research experiment on speech perception, speech production, word learning or sentence parsing.

COGSCIL 6D03:Computers and Linguistic Analysis

Undergraduate, McMaster University Linguistics & Languages, 2022

The objective of this course is to become familiar with the fundamentals of corpus linguistics and analysis of corpora using the R language. Students will be trained in conceptual and practical aspects of corpus analysis using R and the package quanteda. By the end of the course, students will be able to compile and annotate textual corpora, use a variety of corpus tools to perform searches and return lexical frequency lists, concordances, etc., visualize linguistic patterns in corpora, and carry out a small-scale-corpus-based research project.

LINGUIST 2DD3:Statistics for Language Research

Undergraduate, McMaster University Linguistics & Languages, 2022

This is an introductory course to common statistical methods used in linguistics research. Students will learn how to design research projects in order to statistically analyse their results. To do so, students will learn how to formulate hypotheses, determine types of variables, describe central tendency and variance of the data, and select and apply the most appropriate statistical tests for each type of hypothesis, variable, and data distribution. Moreover, students will learn how to use R to conduct statistics research. This class will cover the following statistical methods: chi-square tests, correlation, parametric tests, non-parametric-tests, ANOVAs, and regression.

1A03 Sounds, Speech and Hearing

Undergraduate, McMaster University Linguistics & Languages, 2022

By the end of this course, students will be able to understand the main ways of thinking in the discipline of linguistics, use the tools of phonetics and phonology to analyze human language behaviour in everyday life, explain how humans produce speech sounds and how linguists analyze such sounds, transcribe the sounds of Canadian English using the International Phonetic Alphabet, analyze the organization of speech sounds in a variety of languages.

2PH3 Phonology

Undergraduate, McMaster University Linguistics & Languages, 2022

This course is an introduction to the phonological structure of language. We will build on concepts such as phonemes, allophones, distinctive features, rules, syllabification, and stress to familiarize students with the principles of phonological analysis. In addition, we will examine the interaction between phonology and other areas of the language faculty, such as morphology or syntax, and discuss the notion of abstractness in phonology. By being presented with phonological data on a wide range of languages, students will learn to describe phonological alternations, formulate hypotheses on phonological processes, write and interpret rule notation, analyze syllabification, stress and intonational systems.

4D03 Computers&Linguistic Analysis

Undergraduate and graduate course, McMaster University Linguistics & Languages, 2022

The objective of this course is to become familiar with the fundamentals of corpus linguistics and analysis of corpora using the R language. Students will be trained in conceptual and practical aspects of corpus analysis using R and the package quanteda. By the end of the course, students will be able to compile and annotate textual corpora, use a variety of corpus tools to perform searches and return lexical frequency lists, concordances, etc., visualize linguistic patterns in corpora, and carry out a small-scale-corpus-based research project.

2PS3 Psycholinguistics

Undergraduate course, McMaster University Linguistics & Languages, 2022

In this course, students will describe cognitive processes involved in speech perception, word recognition and sentence comprehension, examine (describe and evaluate) experimental methods from behavioural psychology for investigating language comprehension, interpret experimental data to investigate language comprehension, implement research methods in psycholinguistics by designing a research experiment on speech perception, speech production, word learning or sentence parsing

3PG3 Intro Programming Linguistics

Undergraduate course, McMaster University Linguistics & Languages, 2022

The objective of this course is to become familiar with the fundamentals of programming and apply them to linguistic research. Students will be trained in conceptual and practical aspects of programming using R to tackle practical issues that arise in linguistic research. By the end of the course, students will be able to identify a programmable problem, determine the necessary steps to achieve a solution, apply common programming techniques, and evaluate the results of the output.

Spanish, Portuguese and the Nature of Language

Undergraduate course, University of California, Los Angeles, Spanish and Portuguese Department, 2020

You can find the syllabus for this course here What is the internal structure of language? Can we classify the sounds of the world’s languages? Do all languages obey the same syntactic principles? What are some beliefs that speakers share during a conversation? In this course we will answer questions related to the nature of language and the main theories in linguistics. In the course we will define the properties of Human Language, identify its differences with animal communication and engage with the concept of mental grammar and linguistic knowledge. You will be introduced to the basic tools to analyze language and we will explore linguistic phenomena in morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, phonetics, and phonology. This is a 6-week hybrid course that has a synchronous and an asynchronous component. You will be introduced to the content with video lectures and we will meet once a week in a synchronous session to discuss the content and practice in collaborative assignments. This course is designed for undergraduate students with no previous knowledge in linguistics.

Catalan in the United States

Publications, University of California, Los Angeles, Spanish and Portuguese Department, 2020

Over my years as a lecturer at UCLA, I have collaborated in several projects to better understand the demographic characteristics of my students. The results of these projects have resulted in the following publications: