Dr Margaret (Peggy) Renwick
margaret.renwick [at] phon.ox.ac.uk
I'm now an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the Universty of Georgia (USA).
I study spoken language in order to improve our models of speech from both the speaker’s and the listener’s point of view. My research projects are rooted in the tradition of laboratory phonology, an approach which integrates experimental methods with more abstract linguistic representations of sound structure. I apply phonetic methodologies to gain insight on topics such as the nature of phonological contrast, the realization of phonological rules in everyday speech, the origins of phonological alternations, and the role of phonotactics in speech production and perception.
In the phonetics lab at Oxford, I am part of the Word Joins project. I carry out large-scale phonetic analyses on the Audio BNC, using a variety of computational tools to gather data and model it.
Research interests:
Laboratory phonology
Phonetics
Phonology
Romance linguistics
Speech perception
Ph.D. Dissertation (Cornell University, 2012):
Vowels of Romanian: Historical, Phonological and Phonetic Studies
Additional information and downloadable papers are available here.
Recent presentations:
Renwick, Margaret E. L., Ladan Baghai-Ravary, Rosalind Temple and John Coleman. "Assimilation of word-final nasals to following word-initial place of articulation in UK English." Interspeech 2013, Lyon, France. August 29, 2013.
Renwick, Margaret E. L., Ladan Baghai-Ravary, Rosalind Temple and John Coleman. "Assimilation of word-final nasals to following word-initial place of articulation in United Kingdom English." 21st International Congress on Acoustics, Montreal, Canada. June 7, 2013.
Paper in Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics vol. 19, pp. 060257 (June 2013)
Renwick, Margaret E. L., Ladan Baghai-Ravary, Rosalind Temple and John Coleman. "Testing Phonological Models of English on the Audio BNC." PAC 2013, Aix-en-Provence, France. May 31, 2013.
"Unpredicted assimilations in UK English: Initial results from the Audio BNC," at the Phonetics/Phonology Workshop, University of Edinburgh. February 7, 2013.
"Romanian Vowels: A laboratory phonology perspective," at the General Linguistics Seminar, Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford. January 21, 2013.
"Word joins in real-life speech: a large corpus-based study," at Speech Lunch, Linguistics Centre, University of Oxford. November 9, 2012.
"Beyond metaphony: At the interface of phonetics and phonology in Romanian," at the Research Centre for Romance Linguistics, University of Oxford. October 25, 2012.
"Phonological Effects on Vowel Coarticulation and Variability," LabPhon 13, Stuttgart, Germany. July 27, 2012.
