M Angeles Escobar Alvarez Department of English Studies and Linguistics Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Pº Senda del Rey, 7 28040-MADRID (SPAIN) Telephone: 34 91 3987354 E-Mail: maescobar@flog.uned.es PROFILE Head of Department Modern Languages Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Associate Professor of English Studies and Linguistics at UNED. Senior Researcher in Linguistics. Visiting Scholar: University of South California (USC), University of Massachusetts Boston (UMAS) and MIT (USA). PhD in Linguistics by Utrecht University (The Netherlands). KEY AREAS OF RESEARCH Theoretical Linguistics Acquisition Research Projects PhD Thesis: Left-hand Satellites in Spanish. OTS. Utrecht University NPs and Syntax/Semantics Interface. Romance Clitics. Sentential Structure in Spanish. English and Spanish Contrastive Grammar. Genertaive Grammar. English/Spanish Syntax. First Language Acquisition: Spanish L1. Second Language Acquisition: English L2, Spanish L2. Bilingualism: English/Spanish; Catalan/Spanish Multilingualism: Catalan/Basc as 3rd Language. Participation in a wide range of research projects within international research groups such as: FunGram (2012-2014). Linguistic Institute-Madrid (2004-2008; 2008-2012; 2012-2016). Acquisition of Spanish Relatives and Romance Clitics. Univerisdad Autonoma de Barcelona (1998-2001) Spanish Syntax. UMass Boston (1996-1998) NPs and Syntax/Semantics Interface. OTS. Utrecht University (1991-1995). EDUCATION 1995 PhD in Linguistics. Utrecht University (The Netherlands). 1993 Degree in Linguistics. Utrecht University (The Netherlands).
1988 Bachelor in English Philology. Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) 1986. Degree in Teaching Training (Spanish/English). FOMENTO College. Madrid (Spain). LANGUAGES Spanish English Dutch Catalan Native speaker Completely bilingual in both oral and written English Intermediate level Intermediate level TEACHING EXPERIENCE 1995-1996 University: Utrecht University Position: Assistant Professor 1996-1997 University: UMass-Boston / MIT Position: Visiting Scholar 1998-2000 University: Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona Position: Senior Lecturer 2001-2002 University: Universidad Antonio de Nebrija (Madrid) Position: Senior Lecturer 2003-2008 University: Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Madrid) Position: Senior Lecturer/ Assistant Professor 2009- University: Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Madrid) Position: Associate Professor
PUBLICATIONS BOOKS AUTHORS: Escobar Álvarez, M Ángeles TITLE: English Grammar and Learning Tasks for Tourism Studies PUBLISHER: Publicaciones UNED, 2011 AUTHORS: Vicenç Torrens, Linda Escobar, Anna Gavarró & Juncal Gutiérrez TITLE: Movement and Clitics: Adult and Child Grammar. PUBLISHER: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, 2010 AUTHORS: Vicent Torrens y Linda Escobar TITLE: The Acquisition of Syntax in Romance Languages PUBLISHER: John Benjamins, 2006 AUTHORS: Mairal, R., Escobar, M, Peña,S. Samaniego, E. TITLE: Current Trends in Linguistic Theory. PUBLISHER: Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, 2006. AUTHORS: Mª Angeles Escobar Álvarez TITLE: Left-hand Satellites in Spanish PUBLISHER: OTS Dissertation Series, Utrecht University (The Netherlands), 1995. BOOK CHAPTERS AUTHORS: Escobar, Linda & Torrens, Vicens. TITLE: The effect of clitics on the aspectual properties of Child Spanish VOLUME: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, PUBLISHER: New Directions in Language Acquisition: Romance Languages in the Generative Perspective, Newcastle 2010 AUTHORS: Escobar, Linda TITLE: Hacia una orientación lingüística de la traducción: léxico y aspecto verbal VOLUME: Estudios de Filología Inglesa: Homenaje a la Dra. Asunción Alba Pelayo, pp 95-109 PUBLISHER: Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, 2009 AUTHORS: Torrens, Vicens & Escobar, Linda. TITLE: Specific Language Impairment in Spanish and Catalan VOLUME: Perspectives on Typical and Atypical Hispanic Child Language Development PUBLISHER: John Benjamins, 2009
AUTHORS: Escobar, Linda & Torrens, Vicens TITLE: The Acquisition of Universal Quantifiers in Spanish L1 VOLUME: First Language Acquisition of Morphology and Syntax: Perspectives across Languages and Learners PUBLISHER: John Benjamins, 2008 AUTHORS: Escobar, Linda & Torrens, Vicens TITLE: On the Acquisition of Aspect in Spanish L1 VOLUME: The Acquisition of Romance Languages, Occasional Series 8, pp 59-71. PUBLISHER: LOT, Utrecht, 2007 AUTHORS: V. Torrens, L. Escobar, K. Wexler TITLE: The Acquisition of Experiencers in Spanish L1 and the External Argument Requirement Hypothesis VOLUME: Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, VOL 41, pp 183-202 PUBLISHER: John Benjamins, 2006 AUTHORS: Escobar, Linda TITLE: An Overview of Generative Grammar. VOLUME: Current Trends in Linguistic Theory PUBLISHER: Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia. 2006 AUTHORS: Escobar, Linda & Gavarró, Anna TITLE: The Acquisition of Catalan Clitics and its Implication for Complex Verb Structure. VOLUME: The Process of Language Acquisition, pp 99-115 PUBLISHER: Peter Lang, 2002 AUTHORS: Escobar, Linda & Gavarró, Anna TITLE: The Acquisition of Clitics and Strong Pronouns in Catalan. VOLUME: Clitics in Phonology, Morphology and Syntax.pp 161-181 PUBLISHER: John Benjamins, 2000 AUTHORS: Escobar, Linda TITLE: Clitic Left Dislocation and other Relatives VOLUME: Materials on Left Dislocation, pp 233-273 PUBLISHER: John Benjamins, 1997
ARTICLES & Ivan Teomiro TITLE: THE ACQUISITION OF DATIVE SE IN L1 SPANISH AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE WEAK CONTINUITY HYPOTHESIS OF ACQUISITION OF FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES JOURNAL: REVISTA ESPAÑOLA DE LINGÜÍSTICA APLICADA (RESLA), VOL 26 RESLA 26, 2013 PP. 475-490 TITLE: THE ADULT L2 ACQUISITION OF THE SAXON GENITIVE: ITALIAN AND SPANISH RESULTS JOURNAL: REVISTA ESPAÑOLA DE LINGÜÍSTICA APLICADA (RESLA), VOL 24, 2011 TITLE: A pilot study of quantification in child Catalan JOURNAL: Zeitschrift für Katalanistik, VOL 24, 183 211, 2011. TITLE: The Age Factor in L2 Acquisition: An Empirical Investigation into the Choice of +/- Human Relative Pronouns by Spanish Learners of English and the Resetting of Parameters JOURNAL: Catalan Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol 9, pp 11-35, 2001. TITLE: Evidence for a Principles and Parameters Theory of L2 Acquisition: Transfer and Development in the L2 Acqusition of Spanish Relative Clauses JOURNAL: Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada (RESLA), Vol 12, pp 179-182, 1997. TITLE: Spanish Relative Clauses and the Transfer Effect JOURNAL: McGill Working Papers in Linguistics 13, McGill University (Canada), 1997.
RECENT PROCEEDINGS Escobar, Maria Angeles & Iván Teomiro TITLE: The Acquisition of Low Applicatives and Dative se in L1 Spanish CONFERENCE: Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada (AESLA) 2013. Universidad de la Laguna. Tenerife (Spain) Escobar, Maria Angeles TITLE: The Acquisition of Resumptive Pronouns and Relatives in L2 English CONFERENCE: Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada (AESLA) 2008. UNED-Madrid (Spain) Others: Escobar, L. & A. Gavarró (1999) The acquisition of Catalan clitics and its implications for complex verb structure. Proceedings Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition GALA 99, Universität Potsdam, 9/99, 1999 / Proceedings Conference on L1 and L2 Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese, Georgetown University 11/99, 1999. Escobar, L. & A. Gavarró (1999) The acquisition of Catalan clitics and its implications for complex verb structure, Proceedings of International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Donostia, 7/99, 1999. Escobar, L. & A. Gavarró (1999) On the delay of principle-b effect in the acquisition of Catalan clitics, 21 Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft - Klitika, Konstanz, 2/99, 1999.