I am interested in intonation, sociolinguistics, and languages in contact. In my research, I have studied Spanish intonation in Peru and Ecuador, and intonation of Cuzco Quechua (Peru) and Tena Quichua (Ecuador). I have also examined Quechua and Aymara relative clauses, vowels in Aymara, and Spanish-English code-switching. I am also interested in investigating Spanish in the United States in contact with both English and other varieties of Spanish.
Dr. O’Rourke’s research interests include Intonation and prosodic variation; Spanish dialectology and sociolinguistics; Language contact; Acoustic and articulatory phonetics; Sociophonetics; Quechua dialectology, and Andean and Amazonian linguistics; Indigenous languages of Latin America. Additional interests include code-switching, Spanish in the US, psycholinguistics, second language acquisition, and statistical methods in linguistic research.
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