Where to Find Us
Our lab space is located in Tucker Hall 020, on William & Mary's historic old campus at 350 James Blair Drive, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA.
DA@W&M is part of the William & Mary Linguistics Program. If you would like to learn more about this program, you can visit the website here.
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Affiliated Labs:
Child Language Lab
The William & Mary Child Language Lab investigates children’s development of their first language(s) with short virtual and in-person studies. Dr. Kate Harrigan (https://www.wm.edu/as/linguistics/faculty/harrigan_k.php), who runs the lab, states that the lab’s goal is “conducting language acquisition research that explores deep questions about how learning interacts with the innate, universal components of language.” Currently, the lab has three ongoing projects focused on verb learning for English monolinguals ages 4-7. Past projects include how bilingual children learn motion verbs and how pretend play can facilitate social development.
Lab: Blow 203
Email: ChildLanguage@wm.edu
Website: https://childlanguage.wm.edu/home
DATLaS (Lab for the Documentation, Analysis and Translation of Language in Society)
DATLaS is a sociolinguistics lab whose faculty and students work on projects related to language use in its social context, both qualitative and quantitative, theoretical and applied. The lab is run by Dr. Rachel Varra (https://www.wm.edu/as/modernlanguages/faculty/varra_r.php) and her research assistants, but its resources and space are available for use by other faculty and their teams engaged in language research. Currently, the main project of the lab examine the use of Spanish in the U.S. and build a corpus of spoken Spanish in Virginia.
Lab: Washington Hall 301a
Email: datlas@wm.edu
Website: datlas.wm.edu
LabPhon Lab
LabPhon Lab is William & Mary's laboratory phonology lab led by Professor Anya Hogoboom (https://www.wm.edu/as/linguistics/faculty/hogoboom_a.php) and her undergraduate research assistants. They use experimental methods to investigate sound systems and patterns.
Lab: Tucker Hall 27
Email: ahogoboom@wm.edu