Patricia Irwin Status Third-year Ph.D. student Contact 726 Broadway New York, NY 10003 Phone: +1 212.998.7950 Fax: +1 212.995.4707 Email:

Interests: Syntax, semantics, prosody, variation

Advisors: Chris Collins, Chris Barker

Research
Work in progress

•  Prosody and argument structure
•  the "so totally" construction and other expressions of high degree
•  Light adjectives in African American Englis

Recent work

"Polarity and Degree in so totally Constructions." 2009. CUNY Syntax Supper. CUNY Graduate Center. (handout)

"SO [totally] positive." 2008. Paper presented at the 10th Annual SUNY-CUNY-NYU-YU Miniconference. New York University. (handout)

"Proper Names and the Structure of the English DP." 2007. Paper presented at the 9th Annual SUNY-CUNY-NYU Miniconference. New York University. (handout)

"The Return of R." 2007. Paper presented with Naomi Nagy at NWAV36 October 11-14, 2007 9-12, 2006. (handout)

Irwin, Patricia & Naomi Nagy. (2007). "Bostonians' /r/ speaking: A Quantitative look at (R) in Boston." Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 13.2: Selected papers from NWAV 35. (.pdf)

"Bostonians /r/ speaking." 2006. Paper presented with Naomi Nagy at NWAV35 November 9-12, 2006.

"The Centralization of Low Back Vowels in a Small New Hampshire City." 2005. Paper presented at SECOL LXXII, April 7-9, 2005

Teaching

Teaching Assistant, Sound and Language, taught by Professor Lisa Davidson, Fall 2008.

Teaching Assistant, Language, taught by Professor Anna Szabolcsi, Fall 2007.

Coursework

Fall 2008	Spring 2009
Sentence Processing (Fodor) Qualifying Paper: Prosody & Argument Structure (Marantz) Intermediate Masters Statistics (Bauer)	Qualifying Paper: Prosody & Argument Structure (Marantz) Phonology II (Gafos) Syntax Seminar: Argument Structure (Marantz)

Fall 2007	Spring 2008
Syntax Seminar: Camouflage Constructions (Collins) Semantics Seminar: Scope and Quantification (Szabolcsi) Syntax Seminar: English Dialects (Tortora)	Laboratory Phonology (Davidson) Syntax Seminar: (Baltin & Kayne) Qualifying Paper: Evidence for overt adjectival heads in AAE (Collins)

Fall 2006	Spring 2007
Syntax I (Collins) Semantics I (Szabolcsi) Phonology I (Gouskova)	Syntax II (Kayne) Semantics II (Barker) Variation (Guy)

Education

Before coming to NYU, I studied linguistics at the University of New Hampshire, where I wrote my M.A. paper with Shelly Lieber. I studied sociolinguistics at UNH with Naomi Nagy (now at UToronto), whom I continue to work with on post-vocalic /r/ in Boston and the New England Dialects Project.

Some links

University of New Hampshire Linguistics
Malcah Yaeger-Dror
a good read
Robot Repair

Beyond Linguistics

Google Map Subway hack
On the Street