RESEARCH
RESEARCH INTERESTS: I am interested in intonation, sociolinguistics, and languages in contact. In my research, I have studied Spanish intonation in Peru and Ecuador, and intonation of Cuzco Quechua (Peru) and Tena Quichua (Ecuador). I have also examined Quechua and Aymara relative clauses, vowels in Aymara, and Spanish-English code-switching. I am also interested in investigating Spanish in the United States in contact with both English and other varieties of Spanish.
RESEARCH GROUPS, LABS
PRESEEA - Ecuador (Quito): Project for the Sociolinguistic Study of Spanish from Spain and America
http://preseea.linguas.net/Equipos/Quito.aspx
BOOKS, EDITED VOLUMES
Gómez, Rosario, Erin O’Rourke & Christina García (eds.). 2022. Ecuadorian Spanish in the 21st Century: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Cambridge Scholars.
Hualde, José Ignacio, Antxon Olarrea & Erin O'Rourke (eds.). 2012. Handbook of Hispanic Linguistics. Malden, MA & Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. Website.
Masullo, Pascual, Erin O'Rourke & Chia-Hui Huang (eds.). 2009. Selected Proceedings from the 37th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 2007. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. benjamins.com/catalog/cilt.304
DISSERTATION
O’Rourke, Erin. 2005. Intonation and Language Contact: A Case Study of Two Varieties of Peruvian Spanish. Doctoral dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Proquest Copy
PUBLICATIONS and DOWNLOADABLE PAPERS, POSTERS
O'Rourke, Erin. 2023. Depalatalization and delateralization in the Ecuadorian Amazon: Spanish and Quichua in contact. In Margarita Jara, Roberto Zariquiey, Pilar Valenzuela & Anna María Escobar (eds.), Spanish Diversity in the Amazon: Dialect and Language Contact Perspectives, 185-217. Brill. https://brill.com/view/title/55731; https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004514645_008
O’Rourke, Erin. 2022. The intonation of secondary stress in Ecuadorian Spanish in contact with Quichua. In Rosario Gómez, Erin O’Rourke & Christina García (eds.), Ecuadorian Spanish in the 21st Century: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, 145-177. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-8680-2
Fafulas, Stephen, Nicholas Henriksen & Erin O’Rourke. 2022. Sound change and gender-based differences in isolated regions: Acoustic analysis of intervocalic phonemic stops by Bora-Spanish bilinguals. Linguistics Vanguard 8 (s5), 557-568. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2021-0078.
Henriksen, Nicholas, Stephen Fafulas & Erin O’Rourke. 2020. Intervocalic phonemic stop realization in Amazonian Peru: The case of Yagua Spanish. In Rajiv G. Rao (ed.), Spanish phonetics and phonology in contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain, 142-161. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. https://benjamins.com/catalog/ihll.28.06hen
O’Rourke, Erin. 2020. Phonological processes in flux: Variation in palatal lateral production in the Ecuadorian Amazon. In Stephen Fafulas (ed.), Amazonian Spanish: Language Contact and Evolution, 224-258. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. https://benjamins.com/catalog/ihll.23.09oro
O'Rourke, Erin & Kim Potowski. 2016. Phonetic outcomes of dialect contact: Variation among Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and 'MexiRicans' in Chicago. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 9(2). 355-399. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/shll-2016-0015
O'Rourke, Erin & Stephen Fafulas. 2015. Spanish in Contact in the Peruvian Amazon: An Examination of Intervocalic Voiced Stops. In Erik W. Willis, Pedro Martín Butragueño, & Esther Herrera Zendejas (eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Laboratory Approaches to Romance Phonology, 145-162. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. www.lingref.com, document #3198.
Pérez-Leroux, Ana Teresa, Erin O’Rourke & Gretchen Sunderman. 2014. Language dominance and codeswitching asymmetries. In Jeff McSwan (ed.), Grammatical Theory and Bilingual Codeswitching, 283-312. Cambridge: MIT Press. Website
O’Rourke, Erin & Tod D. Swanson. 2013. Tena Quichua. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 43(1). 107-120. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025100312000266
O'Rourke, Erin. 2012. Intonation in Spanish. In José Ignacio Hualde, Antxon Olarrea & Erin O'Rourke (eds.), Handbook of Hispanic Linguistics, 173-191. Malden, MA & Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118228098.ch9
O'Rourke, Erin. 2012. The realization of contrastive focus in Peruvian Spanish intonation. Lingua 122(5): 494–510. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2011.10.002
O’Rourke, Erin. 2010. Ecuadorian Andean Spanish intonation. In Pilar Prieto & Paolo Roseano (eds.), Transcription of Intonation of the Spanish Language. Munich: Lincom Europa. http://prosodia.upf.edu/home/arxiu/activitats/4th_workshop/protegit/Ecuadorian_final.pdf
O'Rourke, Erin. 2010. Dialect differences and the bilingual vowel space in Peruvian Spanish. In Marta Ortega-Llebaria (ed.), Selected Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonology, 20-30. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. www.lingref.com, document #2363.
O'Rourke, Erin. 2009. Phonetics and Phonology of Cuzco Quechua declarative intonation: An instrumental analysis. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 39(3). 291-312. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025100309990144
O’Rourke, Erin. 2008. Correlating speech rhythm: Evidence from two Peruvian dialects. In Selected Proceedings of the Hispanic Linguistic Symposium. University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario (Canada): October 19-22, 2006. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. www.lingref.com, document #1803.
O’Rourke, Erin. 2008. Speech rhythm variation in dialects of Spanish: Applying the Pairwise Variability Index and Variation Coefficients to Peruvian Spanish. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2008: Fourth Conference on Speech Prosody, 431-434. Campinas (Brazil), May 6-9, 2008. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.585.5904&rep=rep1&type=pdf
O’Rourke, Erin. 2008. Intonation in Quechua: Questions and analysis. International Congress of Phonetics Sciences’ (ICPhS) Satellite workshop on ‘Intonational Phonology: Understudied or Fieldwork Languages’. Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken (Germany): August 6-10, 2007.
http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/jun/Workshop2007ICPhS/Papers/Erin%20O%27Rourke-paper.pdf
O’Rourke, Erin. 2006. The Direction of Inflection: Downtrends and Uptrends in Peruvian Spanish Broad Focus Declaratives. In Manuel Díaz-Campos (ed.), Selected Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonetics and Phonology, 62-74. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. www.lingref.com, document #1326.
O’Rourke, Erin. 2004. Peak placement in two regional varieties of Peruvian Spanish intonation. In Julie Auger, J. Clancy Clements & Barbara Vance, Contemporary Approaches to Romance Linguistics. Selected Papers from the 33rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), 321-341. Bloomington, Indiana, April 2003 (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 258). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Excerpt
Pérez-Leroux, Ana Teresa, Gillian Lord, Erin O’Rourke & Beatriz Centeno-Cortés. 2002. Inalienable possession in Spanish: L2-acquisition at the lexicon-syntax interface. In Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux & Juana Liceras (eds.), The acquisition of Spanish morphosyntax, 179-205. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic.
Pérez-Leroux, Ana Teresa, Gillian Lord, Beatriz Centeno-Cortés and Erin O’Rourke. 2000. The acquisition of inalienable possession syntax in L2 Spanish. In University of Pittsburgh Working Papers in Linguistics: Proceedings from GASLA IV. 141-151.
POSTER: Where does the question begin?: Initial and final intonation cues in Peruvian Spanish interrogatives. Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. June 20-21, 2005 . Poster (.pdf)
