Laboratories
The LAE Labs are made up of five physical labs and three virtual labs. Certain labs are more or less appropriate for different kinds of research.
The Phonetics lab has workstations to make sound recording edits. Members can make, edit and transcribe sound recordings in this lab. Some fieldwork equipment may also be borrowed from the phonetics lab.
The tracker lab has a remote eye tracking system (SMI RED250) and a portable eye tracking system (SMI REDn) used for experiment research on processing.
The acquisition laboratory has a child friendly atmosphere for observing children's language behaviours. It houses equipment for conducting preferential looking research.
SLAB (Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism lab) has been optimized for running experiments with human participants to study various aspects of human language and communication.
The Psycholinguistics Lab is a virtual lab that supports research on how language is produced, perceived, comprehended, and learned as a first or additional language.
The Sociolinguistics Lab is a virtual lab that focuses on investigating socially conditioned variation in the production and perception of speech.
Elena Indjieva Language Documentation Virtual Lab
The Language Documentation Virtual Lab is housed in the Phonetics Lab and has two components. The first of these is a collection of portable linguistic-fieldwork related equipment that students may check out and bring with them into the field (coming soon). The second component of the Language Documentation Virtual Lab is a suite of professional-quality digitization equipment that is shared with the Kaipuleohone University of Hawaii Digital Language Archive.
Kaipuleohone is the University of Hawai'i's digital ethnographic archive for audio and video recordings as well as photographs, notes, dictionaries, transcriptions, and other materials related to small and endangered languages.
The newly named Kūpina'i Language Center in Moore 151 is still under construction. That said, it is still open and able to be used by members of the Linguistics/SLS Departments while LAELab GAs Carolyn Siegman and Nicki Butler are on monitor duty. If you would like to use the Kūpina'i Language Center as a study space, informal elicitation space, or for community-based language work, please go to Moore Hall 162 when Carolyn or Nicki are in and ask them for access. Please see the LAELab monitor calendar to view the room's availability and reserve the space. Note that the lab currently has a “living room” space for informal interviews, a sound booth (though you’ll need to check out a microphone from the Phonetics lab and any other necessary equipment), a conference table, and a kitchenette equipped with a fridge and microwave.
Resources at the LAE Labs
Hardware
PsyScope button box
Video recording and playing devices
Sound-attenuated booths for recording and conducting experiments
Static Palatography supplies
MacQuirer Multi-channel device for studying articulation (e.g., oral airflow, nasal airflow)