Employment
2010- Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics
University of California, San Diego
2008-2009 ELDP Post-doctoral Fellow
Project: A reference grammar of Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara)
Seminario de Lenguas Indígenas, Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas,
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (09/2009 - 12/2009)
State University of New York, Stony Brook (09/2008 - 08/2009)
Education
2008 Ph.D., Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation: Choguita Raramuri (Tarahumara) phonology and morphology
Committee: Andrew Garrett (chair), Sharon Inkelas, Johanna Nichols
2004 Master of Arts, Linguistics, University of California Berkeley
2003 Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute
Michigan State University
2002 Universidad de Sonora (Mexico)
Licenciatura (B.A.), Linguistics
Honors thesis: Mecanismos de transitividad en Rarámuri
Awards and Fellowships
2013-2014 Faculty Career Development Program (FCDP), UCSD
2012-2015 National Science Foundation Documenting Endangered Languages Program
A Reference Grammar of Choguita Raramuri (Tarahumara) [ISO 639-3: tar]
2011-2012 Hellman Fellowship, UCSD
2011-2012 Faculty Career Development Program (FCDP), UCSD
2006-2008 Endangered Language Documentation Programme, HRELP
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Individual Graduate Studentship
Project: Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara) Documentation and Description
2006-2008 UCMEXUS Dissertation Research Grant
2005-2006 Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship, UC Berkeley
2004-2007 UCMEXUS Doctoral Fellowship
2003-2004 UC Berkeley Department of Linguistics Summer Grant
2003-2005 Survey of California and Other Indian Languages Fieldwork
Summer Grant
2002-2005 Fulbright Doctoral Fellowhip
2002-2007 CONACYT (Mexican National Science and Technology Council)
Doctoral Fellowship
2001-2002 CONACYT Thesis Project Grant
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Publications
Listed in the Papers page
Colloquia and invited talks
2015 Lenition and prosodic structure in Choguita Rarámuri.
Texts in Transition: Languages and Linguistics in the Native West, UCSC,
November 20-21.
Debilitamiento consonántico y estructura prosódica en el rarámuri de Choguita.
Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America VII/Congreso de
Idiomas Indígenas de Latinoamérica VII, UT Austin October 29-31, 2015
2014 Tone-intonation interactions in Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara) - with Lucien
Carroll & Mark Garellek
Workshop on the Sound Systems of Mexico and Central America, Yale University
April 4-6
2013 Loanword prosodic adaptation processes in two Mexican languages
Group in American Indian Languages (GAIL), UC Berkeley, November 12
2012 Assessing functionality of Multiple Exponence in Choguita Rarámuri
UCLA Department of Linguistics colloquium - December 7
Stress and tone in Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara) word prosody
UC Santa Cruz Department of Linguistics colloquium - March 16
Stress and tone in Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara) word prosody
WSCLA 17 (Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the
Americas) - University of Chicago, March 9-11
2011 The linguistic, social and political context of language documentation in Northern
Mexico: the case of Choguita Rarámuri
UC Berkeley Fieldwork Forum, March 17
Documenting word prosody in Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara).
UC Berkeley Group on American Indian Languages, March 16
Documenting word prosody in Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara)
UCSD Linguistic Anthropology Workshop, March 7
2009 Estructura morfofonológica del verbo y selección de alomorfos supletivos
en rarámuri (tarahumara) de Choguita.
Seminario de Lenguas Indígenas colloquium, Instituto de Investigaciones
Filológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, December 10
Scope, phonology and templates in an agglutinating language:
Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara) variable suffix order.
University of California, San Diego colloquium, February 13
Scope, phonology and templates in an agglutinating language:
Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara) variable suffix order.
Rice University colloquium, February 19
Posters and presentations
2015 Garellek, M., Aguilar, A., G., Caballero & L. Carroll.
Lexical and Post-Lexical Tone in Choguita Rarámuri. 18th International Congress
of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow, Scotland, August 10-14.
Caballero, Gabriela.
The development of lexical stress in initial three-syllable windows in Tarahumara-
Guarijío (Uto-Aztecan).
Workshop on Diachronic Morphophonology: Lexical Accent Systems
22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics. Naples, July 27-31.
Andrés Aguilar, Gabriela Caballero, Lucien Carroll & Marc Garellek
Multi-dimensionality in tonal realization of Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara)
The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA)
Annual Meeting, Portland, January 9.
2013 Gabriela Caballero & Lucien Carroll
Documenting tone and intonation in Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara
Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 4, SOAS, London,
December 7-8
Gabriela Caballero & Lucien Carroll
Loanword prosody in Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara) and Ixpantepec Nieves
Tu’un Savi (Mixtec) - VI Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America,
UT Austin, October 24-26, 2013
2012 Gabriela Caballero & Volya Kapatsinski (U or Oregon)
Perceptual functionality of multiple exponence: experimental evidence from
Choguita Rarámuri
American International Morphology Meeting, UMass, Amherst, September 22.
Gabriela Caballero & Volya Kapatsisnki
Redundant marking helps morpheme recognition in noise: Experimental evidence
from Choguita Raramuri (Tarahumara) (poster)
The Mental Lexicon, Université de Montréal and McGill University, Oct. 24-26.
Gabriela Caballero & Ana Paula Pintado (INAH, Mexico)
Frames of reference in the language of space in Coyachique Rarámuri and
Choguita Rarámuri
The Language of Space in Latin American Indigenous Languages,
54 International Congress of Americanists, Vienna, July 16, 2012
Tono y acento en el sistema prosódico del rarámuri (tarahumara) de Choguita.
Workshop: Tono, acento y estructuras métricas en lenguas mexicanas.
El Colegio de México, February 21st, 2012 Programa Phonologica 2012.pdf
The prosody of interrogative and focus constructions in Choguita Rarámuri
(poster), SSILA Annual meeting, Portland, January 8, 2012
2011 La fonología y morfología de los dominios morfológicos del rarámuri de Choguita
Fifth Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America, University
of Texas at Austin, October 6-8
Morphology and phonology in Choguita Rarámuri morphological domains
Challenges of Complex Morphology to Morphological Theory Workshop
Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, Boulder, Colorado, July 27
The linguistic, social and political context of language documentation in
Northern Mexico
2nd International Conference on Language Documentation and
Conservation, University of Hawai’i, February 11-13
2010 Lilián Guerrero (UNAM) & Gabriela Caballero
La complejidad de las causativas indirectas en lenguas taracahitas
IX Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste, Hermosillo,
November 17-20
Tono y estructura métrica en el rarámuri (tarahumara) de Choguita
Taller de los amigos de las lenguas yutoaztecas/Friends of Uto-Aztecan
Conference, Guadalajara, September 1-3
Gabriela Caballero & Alice C. Harris (UMass, Amherst)
A Working Typology of Multiple Exponence: Cross-linguistics Variation
and Theoretical Implications
14th International Morphology Meeting, Budapest, May 13-16
Non-optimizing outward conditioning in Tarahumara allomorph selection.
LSA Annual Meeting, Baltimore, January 7-10
Tone in Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara) word prosody.
SSILA Annual Meeting, Baltimore, January 7-10
2008 Multiple Exponence and the phonology-morphology interface
North East Linguistic Society 39, Ithaca, NY, November 7-9
Sharon Inkelas (UC Berkeley) & Gabriela Caballero
An Inside-Out Approach to Multiple Exponence
Berkeley Workshop on Affix Ordering, Berkeley, October 4-5
Variable affix ordering and multiple exponence in Rarámuri: parsability,
semantic scope and selectional restrictions in an agglutinating language.
13th International Morphology Meeting
Workshop on Affix Ordering, Vienna, February 3-6
Output optimization and truncation in Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara)
SSILA Annual Meeting, Chicago, January 3-6
2007 La truncación de sufijos en el Rarámuri de Choguita
III Congreso de Idiomas Indígenas de Latinoamérica/Conference on
Indigenous Languages of Latin America - UT Austin – October
Multiple exponence of derivational morphology in Raramuri (Tarahumara)
Berkeley Linguistics Society – Berkeley, February 9.
Gabriela Caballero & Lilián Guerrero (SLI, UNAM)
The complexity of verbal causation, the case of Rarámuri and Yaqui
SSILA Annual Meeting, Anaheim, January 4-7
2006 Multiple exponence of derivational morphology in Rarámuri (Tarahumara)
Linguistic Association of Great Britain
Special session: Multiple Exponence in Morphology and Syntax,
Newcastle, Great Britain, August 30-September 2
With J. Nichols, M. Houser, N. Marcus, T. McFarland, A. Pycha, M.
Toosarvandani, and S. Wilhite
A nonsyntactic template for syntactic noun incorporation
LSA Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, January 5-8
The development of Tepiman truncation
SSILA Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, January 5-8
An initial three-syllable stress window in Rarámuri
LSA Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, January 5-8
2005 Stress assignment in Central Raramuri: Root Privilege, Prosodic
faithfulness and markedness reversals
TREND (Tri-Lateral Phonology Weekend), Stanford, April 17
Templatic back-copying in Guarijío
LSA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, January 6-9
2004 El sistema acentual del rarámuri (tarahumara) de Choguita
VIII Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste.
Hermosillo, México.
Obviation and antilogophoricity in Spanish
LSA Annual Meeting, Boston.
2003 Antilogophoric effects in Spanish: an alternative analysis of condition B
effects
Workshop on the Form and Function of Pronouns, University of British
Columbia, Vancouver.
Field and other research
2003-present Fieldwork on Choguita Raramuri
2001-2002 Fieldwork on Ojachichi Raramuri
2003-2005 Research Assistant for Autotyp (PI: Johanna Nichols & Balthasar
Bickel), Alignment typology, word domains, noun incorporation
2000 Research Assistant for Aspects of morphology and argument structure
in Pima and Yaqui (PI: Zarina Estrada Fernández (U. de Sonora))
Service
2013 Organizing committee - American International Morphology Meeting 2
UC San Diego, November 8-10
2012 Advisory committee - First American International Morphology Meeting
With Farrell Ackerman (UCSD), Mark Aronoff (Stony Brook), Greville Corbett
(Surrey), Gregory Stump (Kentucky). Organizing committee: Alice Harris, Seth
Cable, and John McCarthy - UMass, September 22.
2011 Co-organizer (with Farrell Ackerman, Mark Aronoff, James P. Blevins, Alice C.
Harris, and Rob Malouf)
Challenges of Complex Morphology to Morphological Theory Workshop
LSA Summer Institute, Boulder, Colorado, July 27
2010- Reviewer for International Journal of American Linguistics
Abstract reviewer for the LSA Annual Meeting 2011
2009- Reviewer for Morphology and Word Structure
2008 Co-organizer (with Yuni Kim, Keren Rice and Tanya Slavin)
Berkeley Workshop on Affix Ordering
Berkeley, October 4-5
2003-2007 Abstract reviewer for Berkeley Linguistics Society
Professional Affiliations
2004- The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas
(SSILA)
2003- Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
Curriculum Vitae
