Splash Biography

CLAUDIA VALDIVIA, UCB Senior doubling in linguistics and Spanish

Major: Linguistics

College/Employer: UC Berkeley

Year of Graduation: 2018

Brief Biographical Sketch:

Hello! My name is Claudia and I am very excited to be teaching a course for Splash! I am interested in linguistics and bilingualism especially in the context of speech-language pathology.

At Berkeley I am an officer for the Society of Linguistics Undergraduate Students (SLUgS) and I work as a research assistant at the Language and Cognitive Development Lab.

In my free time I enjoy vinyasa yoga and cooking fancy dinners with my roommates!

Past Classes

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O258: Language & Society: Dialects, Accents & Identity in Splash Fall 17 (Nov. 04, 2017)

Have you ever wondered why people speak differently? Why we say that some people ‘have an accent’ and some people don’t? What it means to speak ‘correctly’ and ‘incorrectly’? In this crash course on sociolinguistics we will be discussing the connection between the way you speak and how you view yourself and those around you.