LingLab: quantitative/experimental linguistics at GMU
Ongoing Research
Miniature Language Learning
Investigating how adults learn languages, and relating learners' biases--which linguistic patterns they find easier or more
difficult to learn--to the distribution of language types across the world.
Language Perception and Production
Experiments uncovering unconscious knowledge of language in native and non-native speakers, and investigating how
language users perceive syntactic, semantic, and phonological categories.
Foreign Accents (Speech Accent Archive)
Collecting and analyzing a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native
speakers of English read the same paragraph and are carefully transcribed.