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Education

2022 -

present

University of California, Los Angeles |
Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literature

Advanced to Candidacy, June 2025

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Dissertation Committee: Ji Young Kim (Chair), Rodrigo Ranero, Norma Mendoza-Denton, Joshua Javier Guzman, Justin Davidson (UC Berkeley).

2024

University of California, Los Angeles |
M.A. in Spanish

2022

University of California, Berkeley |
B.A. in Hispanic Languages, Linguistics, and Bilingualism

Highest Honors

2022

University of California, Berkeley |
B.A. in Linguistics

Professional Experience

2026 -

Present

Lecturer | California State University, Fullerton

Courses taught:

2022 -

Present

Teaching Fellow | University of California, Los Angeles

Courses taught:

  • Spanish 1-3: Elementary Spanish

  • Spanish 4-5: Intermediate Spanish

  • Spanish 27: Advanced Spanish Composition for Heritage Speakers

  • Spanish M35: Spanish, Portuguese, and Nature of Language

  • Study Abroad Program in Granada

Publications and Presentations

  • Kim, J.-Y., & Duarte, J. (accepted). Predicting areas of convergence and divergence in heritage language
    speech sounds.
    In M. Amengual, J. Kim, & J. Davidson (Eds.), Spanish-English Bilingual Practices in California:
    Investigating Language Acquisition, Cross-linguistic Interactions, and Patterns of Variation. Routledge.

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  • Duarte, J. (2025). Differences in Phonation of Lesbian Spanish Speakers. Mester, 53.
    https://doi.org/10.5070/M3.38042

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  • Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE), 2025
    “Effects of Sexuality on the Phonation of Female Spanish Speakers” (Poster Presentation)

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  • 1st Symposium on Spanish-English Bilingualism in California, 2024
    “Predicting areas of convergence and divergence between heritage and monolingual Spanish based on the phonological development of Spanish and English” with Ji Young Kim (co-author)

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  • Current Approaches to Spanish and Portuguese Second Language Phonology, 2024
    “Role of Salience in Dialect Contact in Los Angeles” with Jack Carter (PI), Ji Young Kim, Joo Kyeong Kim, and Jenny Choi

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  • Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, 2023
    “Dialect Contact in Heritage Spanish of Los Angeles” with Jack Carter (PI), Ji Young Kim, Joo Kyeong Kim, and Jenny Choi

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  • Linguistics Society of America 98th Annual Meeting, 2023
    “Perception of Acoustic Cues of Voiced Coronal Stops by Spanish-English Bilinguals” with Ernesto Gutierrez Topete

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  • Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, 2022
    “Stereotypes and their Effect on Speech Production and Perception: A Sociophonetic Analysis of Queer Speech of Spanish Speakers”

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  • 28th Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference, 2022
    “Gender in Morphological Gender Languages” with Sebastian Clendenning-Jimenez, Keira Colleluori, and Zaphiel Kiriko Miller

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  • 28th Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference, 2022
    “Sociophonetics of Queer Spanish Speakers”

Mentorship

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  • M.A. Thesis Mentor | California State University Fullerton
    Graduate Mentee: Jennifer Segovia

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  • Undergraduate Research Mentor | University of California, Los Angeles 

     "From Classroom to Clinic: Linguistic Profiling and                    Institutional Inequality"

     Undergraduate Mentees: Ashley Flores, Carolina Jimenez,          Guadalupe Morales, Fernando Romero, Eugenio Serna,            Isabella Anaya, Emilia Magdaleno

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Contact me:

jesedduarte [at] ucla [dot] edu

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