Paredes is the Director and a Professor of the Practice of the Spanish Language Program at Duke. She holds a Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics from the University of Southern California and her areas of interest include sociolinguistics, minority languages and bilingualism, linguistic human rights and Amerindian languages. Her publications include The Use of the Past Tense in the Narratives of Bilingual Children: The Acquisition of Aspectual Distinctions (2000), “The Proficiency Continuum in Quechua-Spanish Bilingual Speakers: An Analysis of the Verbal Clitic System” (2001), “Language Contact and Change: Direct Object Leísmo in Andean‐Spanish” (2008), “Todos tienen un acento menos yo” (2011) and Gente Nivel Intermedio (2013).
Liliana Paredes
Upcoming Events
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In Plain Sight: Reflections Past & Actions Present in Durham’s Geer Cemetery
January 23 @ 10:00 am - March 7 @ 5:00 pm -
Pauli Murray Center: January Book Club
January 27 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm -
Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret
February 3 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Other Human Rights Events at Duke
- Duke Research Week 2021
- 14th Feminist Theory Workshop 2021 Virtual Series
- Health Humanities and Disability Studies