Margaret E. L. Renwick

Dr. Margaret Renwick is a laboratory phonologist, and her work centers on sources of phonological contrast in spoken language. For example, when are two sounds distinct from one another, and when do they count as “the same” for speaker and hearer? How does our knowledge of the contexts where a sound tends to occur affect the way we produce and perceive it? Are some pairs of sounds more distinct than others? Her research includes Romance languages (Romanian, Italian, Catalan) and varieties of English, especially as spoken in the US South.