Margaret (Peggy) Renwick

I'm studying linguistics as a graduate student at Cornell University. I am focusing on phonology and phonetics, in Italian, English and Romanian. My current main research project involves speech rhythm; I'm also interested in prosody. I work as a Research Assistant for Michael Wagner.

In the fall of 2006 and summer of 2007, I analyzed ultrasound data as part of an NSF-funded project headed by Amanda Miller, Chris Collins, and Bonny Sands. Cornell linguistics grad Johanna Brugman also plays a major role in this project.

As of Spring 2008, I am a teaching assistant for Italian 122 (Elementary Italian) at Cornell. My ore di ricevimento for the spring are on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11am - 12pm, in Morrill Hall B06.

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.

Following graduation from Wellesley, I took a couple years "off" from school, and headed out to the Black Hills of South Dakota, where I volunteered full-time for the Resource Management team at Jewel Cave National Monument. Jewel Cave is now the second-longest cave in the world, and new discoveries happen all the time! I spent another year in Clarksville, Tennessee, where I eventually found a job at Dunbar Cave State Natural Area. As you can tell, caving is a major hobby of mine! It's been said that I enjoy phonetics and caving because they both involve getting to the "bottom" of things...

POSTERS

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.

PUBLICATIONS

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.