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Welcome to my website! I joined Northern Illinois University as an assistant professor of Spanish Linguistics in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures in 2012. I'm also the director of Foreign Language Teacher Licensure.
Click here to download my CV.
I did my Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of Illinois. My advisor was Tania Ionin, and my main research area was second language acquisition (specifically, child-adult differences in implicit/explicit knowledge of second languages). I also worked on phonology (articulatory phonetics/phonology with Chilin Shih, phonotactic learning with Jennifer Cole), and field linguistics of Q'anjob'al, a Mayan language. I was active in the Linguistics Student Organization and the Graduate Employees' Organization.
I'm originally from Alfred, New York. I find the midwest a bit flat, but DeKalb is a very nice town.
Here is my google scholar site.
My email is klichtman (at) niu.edu.
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| Research Projects: |
SLA: Child-adult differences in implicit/explicit knowledge of a second language (dissertation)
Phonetics: Variation in tongue gestures for coda /t/ in American English
Phonology: Second-order phonotactic constraints based on speaker voice
Q'anjob'al: IPA illustration, kinship terms, predicate nominals
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| Recent Publications: |
2013: Lichtman, K. In press. "Developmental Comparisons of Implicit and Explicit Language Learning." To appear in Language Acquisition in 2013.
2012: Winters, S. & Lichtman, K. In press. "The role of linguistic knowledge in the encoding of words and voices in memory." SLRF (Second Language Research Forum) proceedings.
2012: Lichtman, K. Review of Teaching Linguistics: Reflections on Practice (Koenraad Kuiper, ed.) Journal of Sociolinguistics, 16:5.
2010: Lichtman, Karen; Chang, Shawn; Cramer, Jennifer; Crespo del Rio, Claudia; Hallett, Jill; Huensch, Amanda; & Morales, Alexandra. "IPA Illustration of Q'anjob'al." Studies in the Linguistic Sciences: Illinois Working Papers 2010: 1-23. (peer reviewed)
2009: Acquisition of Attributive and Predicative Adjective Agreement in L2 Spanish, GASLA proceedings
2009: "Deutsche Sprache, Schwere Sprache: Germany's Immigrant Language Policy." Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education, 12, 1, 43-67.
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| Teaching at NIU: |
FLMT 491, Methods of Foreign Language Teaching in the Middle and High Schools, Fall 2012
FLMT 490, Teaching Methodologies for the Elementary School Foreign Language Classroom, Spring 2013
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| Past Teaching: |
LING 100, Fall 2010 & Spring 2011 (Head Instructor), UIUC
LING 100, Fall 2009 & Spring 2010 (TA), UIUC
SPAN 122, Spring 2007 (4 sections), UIUC
SPAN 101, Fall 2006, UIUC
5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th grade Spanish at the Rippowam Cisqua School, 2002-2005
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| Education: |
Ph.D. in Linguistics from UIUC, 2012
M.A. in Linguistics from UIUC, 2009
B.A. in Spanish and Psychology from Williams College, 2002
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| My favorite languages: |
Spanish
German
French
Q'anjob'al
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