Linguistics Labs at the University of Arizona
Anthropological Linguistics Lab
Arizona Center for Theoretical Syntax
- website
- Directors: Andrew
Carnie,
Heidi
Harley
- Affiliated Faculty: Tom
Bever,
Andrew
Barss, Shelia Dooley Collberg, Simin
Karimi,
Eloise
Jelinek,
Terry Langendoen,
Mario Montalbetti, Janet
Nicol, Antxon Olarrea, Rudy Troike, Mary
Willie
- The Syntax Center provides computing and resource materials for the
study of topics in theoretical syntax. The center has regular meetings
to discuss on going projects, and sponsors a salon on talks and
presentations.
Students are strongly encouraged to attend lab meetings. Current
projects
include: Verb Initial Syntax, telicity and argument structure.
Uto-Aztecan
and Athapaskan Syntax, scrambling, binding and the interface conditions.
Arizona Phonological Imaging Lab
- Director: Thomas Bever
- This lab works with undergraduates and graduate students in two
labs.
One is devoted to studying human language and cognition, while people
understand
sentences. The second lab is devoted to studying spatial behavior and
cerebral
asymmetries in rats.
Developmental Psycholinguistics Lab
- Director: Cecile
McKee
- This lab studies language development, especially in children. The
emphasis
is on experimental studies of syntax. An example of recent research
produced
by the Developmental Psycholinguistics Lab is a series of studies of
children’s
production and judgements of relative clauses. This research shows, for
example, the importance of frequency factors but distinguishes them
from
syntactic competence.
Douglass Phonetics Lab
- Douglass
Phonetics Lab
- Director: Natasha
Warner
- The phonetics lab in the Douglass Building is outfitted for research and
teaching in articulatory phonetics, acoustic phonetics, speech perception,
psycholinguistics, and speech technology. Current research focuses on the
perception and processing of phonetic variability, including allophonic
variability and the reduction typical of fast, casual speech.
- Location: Douglass Rooms 316, 318-A, 318-D
Human Language Technology Lab
The Native American Languages Dictionary
Phonological Acquisition Lab (PAL)
- Director: Diane Ohala
- The Phonological Acquisition Lab works with pre-school age
children with normal language development as well as children with
speech-language impairment. Our focus is on children's developing
speech with an aim towards understanding how and why children make the
particular sound errors they do, with the ultimate goal of explaining
the consistent, non-random and cross-linguistic patterns that occur in
the speech of young children as well as the deviations from the norm.
- Location: Douglass 220 (the Nemo Room)
Phonetics Research Lab
- Director: Dick
Demers
- The Phonetics lab is a resource available to the faculty and
students
of the Linguistics Department.
- Location: Communication Room 303
Psycholinguistics and Computational Linguistics
Lab (PsyCoL)
- website
- Directors: Adam
Ussishkin and Andy Wedel
- The PsyCoL lab works on issues relating to lexical
access, psycholinguistics, computational modeling of language evolution,
and electronic resources for linguistic research such as electronic
dictionaries.
Psycholinguistics West
- Director: Janet
Nicol
- This lab contains multiple test booths, each furnished with
equipment
suitable to conducting psycholinguistics experiments. Including
eye-tracking
devices that monitor eye-movements during reading.
- Location: Communication Room 314, phone: (520) 626-8187
SPAM Lab
Tweety Language Development Lab
- website
- Director: LouAnn
Gerken
- The Tweety Language Development Lab asks how infants and young children infer aspects of linguistic structure, including phonology and syntax.
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