Language Analysis and Experimentation Labs (LAE Labs)

The Language Analysis and Experimentation Labs are a research and teaching facility dedicated to human language and the cognitive mechanisms responsible for it. The LAE Labs house research on the articulation, acoustics, and perception of speech, the production and recognition of words, and the processing of sentences and discourse. Tools used by faculty and student researchers interested in all areas of language in these labs include audio and video recording hardware, acoustic analysis software, articulatory measurement devices, eye-tracking equipment, large language corpora, tools for building computational models of linguistic and cognitive behavior, and experiment design and analysis software.”

All lab users must read the introduction for new users, sign the user agreement form, and join the labs’ mailing list. For more information, go to http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/lae/.

Facilities

The LAE Labs are currently spread over four spaces. There is a General Lab, a Phonetics Lab, a Tracker (eye-tracking) Lab, and a Second Language Acquisition Lab (SLAB). See the website for locations and uses.

Resources

The labs house resources for teaching and research in the following areas:

  • Acoustics
  • Connectionist modeling
  • Corpus research
  • First and second language acquisition
  • Machine learning
  • Sentence comprehension
  • Sentence production
  • Speech perception
  • Speech production
  • Statistical analysis

Software

  • PitchWorks – prosodic and acoustic analysis
  • PRAAT – speech analysis, phonological analysis, speech synthesis, machine learning, among others
  • SoundEdit – acoustic analysis
  • PsyScope – experiment design and operation
  • E-Prime – experiment design and operation
  • PCquirer – acoustic recording and analysis
  • SynthWork – speech synthesis
  • Language corpora – CLAN/CHILDES-language analysis software & corpora
  • Tlearn – program for connectionist modeling
  • SPSS – statistical analysis
  • Statview – statistical analysis
  • Video editing programs: Adobe Premiere, Final Cut, iMovie – video editing
  • Graphics and graph-making programs: Adobe Photoshop – graphics editing
  • SIL IPA 93 Fonts
  • Microsoft Office Pro (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc.)

Hardware

 

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