People
Erin O’Rourke
Assistant Professor of Hispanic Linguistics, Hispanic Linguistics Program
(PhD, University of Illinois)
2822 Cathedral of Learning
Phone: 412-624-5921
E-mail: eorourke@pitt.edu
Erin O’Rourke is interested in sociolinguistics and languages in contact. Her research so far has been involved mainly with Spanish-English code switching and Peruvian Spanish intonation. O’Rourke also has examined Quechua and Aymara relative clauses, vowels in Aymara, and Cusco Quechua intonation. She also is interested in investigating Spanish in the United States in contact with both English and other varieties of Spanish.
Courses Taught
LING 1000 Introduction to Linguistics
LING 1578 Phonetics and Phonemics
LING 2250/ADMPS 2202 Language Policy and the Education of Linguistic Minorities
LING 2391 Phonology of Spanish
LING 2392 History of the Spanish Language
Selected Publications
O'Rourke, Erin. 2006. The Direction of Inflection: Downtrends and Uptrends in Peruvian Spanish Broad Focus Declaratives. In Selected Proceedings of the Second Conference on Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonetics and Phonology, ed. Manuel Díaz-Campos, 62–74. Somerville, Mass.: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, document #1326. Abstract, proceedings table of contents
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, Ind., April 2003 (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 258). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Peréz-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.