Labs

Research Opportunities for Graduate Students

Graduate students have many opportunities to work with faculty on their research projects, as well as to conduct research on their own. Both the College of Liberal Arts and the Graduate School offer competitive funding for research and conference participation, including the Termini Graduate Student Research Grant and the Research Activity Awards. This support has helped our graduate students do fieldwork in places like Burma and Nepal, as well as conduct research locally.

Linguistics Lab

The Linguistics Lab is a multi-use space with an LCD projector, white board, and computers. The lab includes both iMacs and Dell desktops. The machines allow access to department-owned corpora of written and spoken language, software for concordancing, phonetic analysis, audio editing, and statistical analysis. There is also a dedicated iMac for video and audio editing.

Native American Languages Lab

The Native American Languages Lab, under the direction of Dr. Colleen Fitzgerald, facilitates faculty and student research and service learning projects involving Native American Languages of the Southwest. The lab is equipped with digitization equipment, an iMac, a Dell, and a small language revitalization library.

Psycholinguistics Lab

The Psycholinguistics Lab, under the direction of Dr. Jeffrey Witzel, is equipped with an Eye Tracker and multiple computer workstations for conducting experiments on language processing.

Speech Sounds Lab

The Speech Sounds Lab, under the direction of Dr. Cynthia Kilpatrick, houses a soundproof booth for recording, computers for running experiments and data analysis, and an ultrasound for phonetics research.