RESEARCH
RESEARCH INTERESTS: I am interested in intonation, sociolinguistics, and languages in contact. In my research, I have studied Spanish-English code-switching and Spanish intonation in Peru and Ecuador. I have also examined Quechua and Aymara relative clauses, vowels in Aymara, and intonation of Cuzco Quechua (Peru) and Tena Quichua (Ecuador). I am also interested in investigating Spanish in the United States in contact with both English and other varieties of Spanish.
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. In Press. The realization of contrastive focus in Peruvian Spanish intonation. Lingua (2011) online at: 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.
§ O'Rourke, Erin. 2010. Dialect differences and the bilingual vowel space in Peruvian Spanish. In Selected
Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonology, ed. Marta Ortega-Llebaria,
20-30. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. www.lingref.com, document #2363. [abstract] [Volume TOC]
§ 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. [JIPA Abstract and Article]
§ 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: [abstract] [Volume TOC]
§ 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. Online at: http://aune.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~sprosig/sp2008/papers/id173.pdf
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§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. Online at:
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 Selected Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonetics and
Phonology, ed. Manuel Díaz-Campos, 62-74. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. www.lingref.com, document #1326. [abstract] [Proceedings TOC]
§ O’Rourke, Erin. 2004. Peak placement in two regional varieties of Peruvian Spanish intonation. Contemporary Approaches to Romance Linguistics. Selected Papers from the 33rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), eds. Auger, Julie, J. Clancy Clements and Barbara Vance, 321-341. Bloomington, Indiana, April 2003 (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 258). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
§ Pérez-Leroux, Ana Teresa, Gillian Lord, Erin O’Rourke and Beatriz Centeno-Cortés. 2002. Inalienable possession in Spanish: L2-acquisition at the lexicon-syntax interface. In The acquisition of Spanish morphosyntax, eds. Pérez-Leroux and Liceras, 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)]
