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Psycholinguistics Laboratory
Department of Linguistics
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The Psycholinguistics/Neurolinguistics Lab is equipped for research and teaching
in a variety of experimental and corpus-based techniques. Specialized
experimental hardware includes:
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an infant lab equipped for both preferential looking experiements
(using a large TV screen) and the head-turn preference procedure (using laterally
mounted speakers and lights);
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an eye-tracking system for conducting experiments in reading and
visually-based language processing paradigms.
In addition, numerous computers allow access to such resources as:
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the UCLA Speech Error Corpus (UCLASEC), a computer database of more
than 5,000 speech errors in English, French, Italian, and other languages,
from normal and aphasic individuals. The corpus is constantly expanding as
new errors are collected and researchers from around the world send in errors
to be entered;
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the CHILDES database, a large public-domain collection of transcripts
of naturalistic speech of children acquiring a large variety of languages,
both normal and impaired, crosslinguistic data from acquired aphasia, and
sophisticated software for automatically extracting information from these
transcripts;
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the Penn Treebank, a collection of parsed corpora of written English
that is searchable according to tree structures;
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several very large unparsed corpora and word lists of English and
numerous other languages, as well as word frequency lists (e.g. CELEX) and
other material useful for constructing experimental stimuli;
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software for constructing various sorts of reaction-time experiments.
The lab also has space for conducting interviews and naturalistic experiments,
toys for use with children, and facilities to allow easy transcription of
audio tapes of linguistic interactions with subjects, including a TEAC graphic
equalizer for enhancing and filtering recorded speech. The lab is also
participating in interdisciplinary projects with the departments of
Psychology,
Neurology, the
Neuropsychiatric Institute, the
Brain Research Institute,
Radiology, and the Brain Mapping
Institute, and as such has access to PET, MRI, and fFMRI laboratories and
their equipment for carrying out research.
The Psycholinguistics Laboratory is located in
2210
Campbell Hall. It is administered by a faculty committee;
for current membership, click
here.
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Last updated: February 13, 2006