University of Southern California
USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Sandra Ferrari DisnerAssistant Professor (Teaching) of LinguisticsContact Information E-mail: sdisner@usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-3884 Office: GFS 301 LINKS Curriculum Vitae Personal Website |
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 Ph.D. Linguistics, UCLA, 6/1983
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M.A. Linguistics, UCLA, 6/1978
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B.A. , Wellesley College, 6/1972
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Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History |
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Non-Tenure Track Appointments |
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Assistant Professor (Teaching) , USC, 2012-2013
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Lecturer, USC, 2011-2012
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Lecturer, USC, 2010-2011
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Lecturer, USC, 2009-2010
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Visiting and Temporary Appointments |
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Lecturer, USC, 2008-2009
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Lecturer, USC,
Fall
2007
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Lecturer, USC,
Spring
2006
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Lecturer, UCLA,
Spring
2006
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Lecturer, U.C. Riverside,
Fall
1981
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Funded Research |
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USC Funding |
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Larger Faculty Development Grant. West Coast Roundtable on Language & Law: Travel funds to attend West Coast Roundtable on Language and Law, Vancouver, Canada, $1,500, 2012-2013
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Faculty Travel Grant. International Assn of Forensic Linguists: Travel funds to attend the International Assn of Forensic Linguists in Birmingham, England., $500,
Fall
2011
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Fund for Innovative Undergraduate Teaching. Speaker Identification: Support for research into forensic linguistic issues, particularly the identification of a speaker by means of vocal acoustics., $5,000, 05/2009-05/2010
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Conferences and Other Presentations |
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Conference Presentations |
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"Examining the voice bar", Acoustical Society of America, Poster, Refereed Abstract, San Diego, CA,
Fall
2011
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"The fine structure of phonation as a biometric", Acoustical Society of America, Poster, Refereed Abstract, Cancun, Mexico, 2010-2011
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"Individuating vocal characteristics with the reassigned spectrogram", International Association of Forensic Linguists, Poster, Refereed Abstract, Birmingham, England,
Spring
2011
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"Advanced time-frequency displays applied to forensic speaker identification ", Acoustical Society of America, Poster, Refereed Paper, Portland, Oregon, 2008-2009
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Other Presentations |
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"Phonetic complements to linguistic evidence", 5th West Coast Roundtable on Language and Law, Vancouver, Canada, 07/2012-
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"Cross-language differences in related vowels", Participant in "Pisa Lectures" series, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy,
Spring
1988
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Publications |
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Abstract |
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Fulop, S., Disner, S. F.
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Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Acoustical Society of America.
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Disner, S. F., Fulop, S., Hsieh, F.
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The fine structure of phonation as a biometric. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
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Book |
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Ladefoged, P., Disner, S. F.
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Vowels and Consonants. Hoboken NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
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Guest Lectures in Courses |
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Ling 412: Linguistic Interpretation of the Law Guest lecture on Forensic Phonetics
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Fall
2011
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Trial Practice (UCLA Law School) Served as an expert witness in the students' Trial Practice term project. (Invited to lecture by Prof. Paul Bergman of UCLA Law School), 1998-2001
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New Courses Developed |
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Leaving Our Own Imprint: Adaptations of the novel, poem, story and play through the centuries, Arts and Letters, Freshman seminar on adaptations through the centuries of four great works of literature: The Divine Comedy, The Decamoeron, King Lear, and Don Quixote, 2010-2011
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New Horizons in Speaker Identification, Linguistics, An overview of forensic phonetics, with an opportunity for hands-on research into the identifiability of voices based on their acoustic characteristics.,
Spring
2010
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Service to the University |
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Other Service to the University |
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Presented research findings at the annual breakfast meeting of the Fund for Innovative Undergraduate Teaching, 2010-2011
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Service to the Profession |
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Committees |
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Member, Linguistics Department Consultative Committee on the selection of a Department Chair., 2012-2013
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Professional Memberships |
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Acoustical Society of America, 2012-2013
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International Association of Forensic Linguists, 2012-2013
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International Phonetic Association, 2010-2011
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Linguistic Society of America, 2010-2011
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The Association for Laboratory Phonology, 2010-2011
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Reviewer for Publication |
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The Phonetician, International Society of Phonetic Sciences, Book reviews in the field of phonetics, 2012-2013
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Journal of the International Phonetic Association, Refereed papers on Western European languages, 2003-2004
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