C h r i s t i n e 
E r i c s d o t t e r

Department of Linguistics,, Stockholm University.

Language Learning Resource Centre, Department of Education in Languages and Language Development, Stockholm University.

My email

CURRICULUM VITAE

~ ~ EDUCATION ~ ~

1995

Italian language and culture studies at Centro di cultura per stranieri dell'Università degli studi di Firenze, Italy

1997 - 2000

Undergraduate studies in Italian, Rhetorics, Philosophy, Leadership and Organization Theory, Linguistics and Phonetics at Stockholm University, Umeå University and Mid Sweden University.

2000 - 2005

Graduate studies in Phonetics at the Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University. My thesis work Articulatory-Acoustic Relationships in Swedish Vowel Sounds was supervised by Björn Lindblom and Olle Engstrand. It was defended in November 2005, with Peter Ladefoged as the opponent.

2008 - 2009

Part-time undergraduate studies in Music and Movement with Young Children at University College of Music Education in Stockholm

~ ~ ACADEMIC POSITIONS ~ ~

1997

Part-time assistant working with the APEX articulatory model in the research project "Music and Motion", financed by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Sweden. Principal Investigator: Johan Sundberg, KTH.

1998 - 2000

Full-time assistant in the project "X-ray analyses of speech", financed by Humanistiska Samhällsvetenskapliga Forskningsrådet. Principal Investigator: Björn Lindblom.

1999 - 2000

Amanuensis in phonetics at Stockholm University

2000 - 2001

Full-time assistant in the research project "Modeling Coarticulation - and integrated phonetic approach", financed by the NIH. Principal Investigators: Harvey Sussman, University of Texas at Austin, and Björn Lindblom, Stockholm University and University of Texas at Austin.

2001 - 2006

Full-time position as a research student, financed by Humanistiska fakulteten, Stockholm University

~ ~ TEACHING ~ ~

I have qualifications in University Teaching from Stockholm University, Universitetspedagogiskt centrum.

Teaching assistant:

Basic course of linguistics: laboratory course and tutorials, with Robert McAllister or Olle Engstrand at Stockholm University, Department of Linguistics 1998-2001; 2007, and with Pétur Helgason at Uppsala University, Department of Linguistics and Philology in 2007-2008

The Acoustics of the Singing Voice, with Johan Sundberg, KTH, Department of Speech, Music and Hearing, Stockholm, 2002; Sandvik, 2007 and 2008.

Lecturer:

Phonetics and Phonology in Swedish as a second language, with focus on contrastive phonology and L2 methods, Stockholm University, Department of Scandinavian Languages, 2003

Phonology for linguists, with practical use and critical reviews of current theories, with Eva Lindström at Stockholm University, Department of Linguistics, 2003; level 2 of this course at the same department in 2008

Phonetics and Phonology for audiologists, including a contrastive approach of the communication development and types used by deaf, hearing impaired and hearing children and adults, Karolinska Institutet, Audionomutbildningen, 2005; 2007

Phonetics and Phonology for linguists and speech therapists, including language development and impairment, with Pétur Helgason at Uppsala University, Department of Linguistics and Philology, 2007-2008

Phonetics Students Seminar series, at the Department of linguistics, Stockholms University. Themes: Phonetic and phonological aspects of sex, gender and sexuality (spring 2008); Phonetic and phonological aspects of the relationships between music and language (autumn 2008).

~ ~ SELECTED PUBLICATIONS ~ ~

~ ~ ADMINISTRATION ~ ~

1999, June

Organizer together with Francisco Lacerda of the symposium "Speech Communication and Language Development" in honour of Björn Lindblom (papers published in the special issue of Phonetica, number 57, 2000).

1999 - 2005

Site administrator together with Hartmut Traunmüller of the web version of PERILUS, the working paper series in phonetics at the Department of linguistics, Stockholm University.

2008 -

Full-time Educational Administrator at the Language Learning Resource Centre, Department of Education in Languages and Language Development, Stockholm University.

~ ~ LANGUAGES ~ ~

Mother tongue:

Swedish

Foreign languages:

Fluent in English, good competence in Italian and German

~ ~ PERSONAL HISTORY ~ ~

1974

I was born in Brunflo, in Jämtland, Sweden (about 600 km north of Stockholm)

youth

I spent most of my time doing music (piano, church organ, cello, choir, choir directing) or working with my dad at his petrol station, where I learnt everything from how to count to how to run a business. At upper secondary school, I did Liberal Arts.

20s

After finishing school I did some travelling and had different jobs (babysitter while studying in Florence, piano teacher, administrative work), started studying at three universities, got married to a lovely Italian guy

30s

I finished my PhD, got two great sons with a Great Brit in Jena, Germany. I'm back in Stockholm since October 2007.

updated Sept 2009 - back to main page