Margaret (Peggy) Renwick

I'm a Candidate for Ph.D. in Linguistics at Cornell University. My dissertation is entitled Vowels of Romanian: Historical, Phonological and Phonetic Studies; in fall 2010 I traveled to Cluj-Napoca, Romania for fieldwork.

When I'm on campus, I can often be found in the phonetics lab, where I also have an office.

I'm currently the Editorial Manager for The Oxford Handbook of Laboratory Phonology, edited by Abby Cohn, Cecile Fougeron and Marie Huffman.
I worked part-time at NovaSpeech LLC, a speech synthesis company here in Ithaca, during summer and fall 2008.
During the '07-'08 year, I worked as a Research Assistant for Michael Wagner.
In the fall of '06 and summer of '07, I analyzed ultrasound data as part of an NSF-funded project headed by Amanda Miller, Chris Collins, and Bonny Sands.

I'm a member of the Linguistic Society of America and the Association for Laboratory Phonology, and I helped organize NELS 39, the annual meeting of the North East Linguistic Society.

Here's my CV.

PUBLICATIONS

Renwick, Margaret E. L. Ms., Cornell University. What does %V Actually Measure?

Renwick, Margaret E. L. To appear (expected November 2011). On the Origins of /ɨ/ in Romanian. In Romance Linguistics 2010: Selected papers from the 40th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Seattle, March 2010.

Renwick, Margaret E. L. 2011. Phoneme Type Frequency in Romanian. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Proceedings of the 34th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium.

Renwick, Margaret E. L. To appear. Distinctive Distributions: A New Look at the Sonority-Intensity Relationship. Proceedings of the 39th Meeting of the Northeast Linguistic Society. Amherst, MA: GLSA.

Yasinnik, Yelena, Margaret Renwick and Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel. 2004. The timing of speech-accompanying gestures with respect to prosody. Paper presented at "From Sound to Sense: 50+ years of Speech Research" conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

PRESENTATIONS

Quantifying Rhythm: Interspeaker Variation in %V. Oral presentation at the 162nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Special Session: Speech Rhythm in Production, Perception and Acquisition. San Diego, California. November 4, 2011.

Phonetic and Phonological Manifestations of Metaphony in Romanian. Oral presentation at the 85th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. January 9, 2011.

On the origins of /ɨ/ in Romanian. Margaret Renwick. Oral presentation at the 40th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. Seattle, Washington. March 26, 2010.

Phoneme Type Frequency in Romanian. Margaret Renwick. Oral presentation at the 34th Penn Linguistics Colloquium. University of Pennsylvania. March 20, 2010.

Revisiting Phonetic Correlates of Rhythm and Intensity. Margaret Renwick. Oral presentation at the Linguistics Student Conference. Cornell University, Ithaca NY. December, 2008.

Distinctive Distributions: A New Look at the Sonority-Intensity Relationship. Margaret Renwick. 39th Meeting of the Northeast Linguistic Society. Ithaca, New York. November 7, 2008.
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POSTERS

The %V Ratio: Rhythm Class or Phonotactics? Margaret Renwick. 83rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. San Francisco, California. January 10, 2009.
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The timing of speech-accompanying gestures with respect to prosody. Margaret Renwick, Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel and Yelena Yasinnik. 147th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. New York, New York. May 24, 2004.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Since Fall 2007, I've taught Introductory Italian (1210-1220) as a TA in the Romance Studies Department at Cornell.

In Spring 2011, I was the TA for Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology (LING 3302) at Cornell.

BACKGROUND

I graduated from Wellesley College in 2004, having double-majored in Cognitive & Linguistic Sciences and Italian Studies. Beginning in the summer of 2002 I worked for MIT's Speech Communication Group, part of the Research Lab for Electronics, where I studied phonology, prosody, and the relationship between gesture and prosody. After college, I spent a year at Jewel Cave National Monument, where I was the Cave Management Intern.

In my copious free time I like to run, cook, explore new places, and keep my dog entertained. I also keep a list of all the rock concerts I've attended; it's approaching 200 entries.