The
Experimental Linguistics Laboratory
Director: Vsevolod (Volya) Kapatsinski
Directions for participants:
The
laboratory is on the second
floor (room 207)
of the Center for Medical
Education and Research (CMER) building at
722 E. 11th Ave. on the
corner of 11th Ave. and Hilyard St.
From
Straub, head west on 13th towards the restaurant strip
Cross
Kincaid and Alder and turn right on Alder towards 11th (north).
You
will see an alley way on your left just before 11th.
Turn
in there and walk towards Hilyard (west).
Ours
is the last building on your right before you reach Hilyard.
Come
in the east entrance, which has a sign outside that says "Center for
Medical Education and Research".
When you come in, take the elevator to the second floor.
Don't go into the main office.
There
will be signs for the study (‘Beauceron’, ‘Japanese
Chin’, ‘Jasmine’) inside the building pointing you to the room.
Please
print these directions and bring them along. That way people
can point you to the right place if you get lost.
Equipment:
The laboratory is equipped
with
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a desktop-mounted
Eyelink
1000 eyetracker, which allows for real-time
investigation of spoken language processing (see this
review article, and here it is in action)
-
four computers
for behavioral studies involving response time measurement for button press or
spoken responses
o
the computers are
running E-prime 2.0 Professional,
which provides a windows-like graphical user interface for experiment design,
under Windows XP
o
the computers are
equipped with serial
response boxes and voice keys from Psychology Software Tools for
computer-independent response-time measurement
o
the computers
have either Sennheiser HMD-280 headsets or Sony
MDR7506 headphones for high-fidelity audio stimulus presentation
o
up to 4 subjects
can be run simultaneously if no spoken responses are required; with spoken
responses, up to 2 can be run at the same time
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equipment for
recording speech
o
the lab currently
has a Marantz PMD671 portable solid-state recorder, a pair of
Sennheiser HMD-280 headsets, and desk-mounted Audiotechnica microphones
o
while there is no
sound-attenuated booth, the recordings are reasonably non-noisy when the
HMD-280 is used for recording
-
data analysis
computer equipped with Praat,
R, Matlab, Spore Creature
Creator (for creating novel pictures and animations), and MS Office
Any of the above equipment
can be used in combination in a single study,
-
e.g., one can
easily record spoken responses, button presses and their latencies and track
eye movement trajectories at the same time
The lab is an authorized
location to run studies under the Linguistic Department’s “Laboratory
Speech and Language” human subjects protocol.
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See the Linguistics
page on Blackboard for more information (under ‘Human Subjects’)
If you are a graduate student
in linguistics and would like to use the lab for your research, feel free to
contact me.
