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Faculty: to add or update a listing, please email lingadmn@uw.edu.
American Sign Language Projects
| Faculty Name/Lab and Email | Project and Project Website | Tasks | Prerequisites | Desired Languages/other skills | Other notes (e.g. start date, non 499, compensation) |
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ASL Processing |
Conducting online ASL experiments with Deaf participants, labeling ASL videos | ASL 203 (or equivalent) | Intermediate ASL | Starts Autumn 2021 |
Computational Linguistics Projects
| Faculty Name/Lab and Email | Project and Project Website | Tasks | Prerequisites | Desired Languages/other skills | Other notes (e.g. start date, non 499, compensation) |
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Grammar Matrix Project |
Grammar engineering, web UI, system testing | 566, 567 |
Language Development & Processing Lab Projects
| Faculty Name/Lab and Email | Project and Project Website | Tasks | Prerequisites | Desired Languages/other skills | Other notes (e.g. start date, non 499, compensation) |
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| LDP Research Description | None | Spanish desirable but not required | Fall 2021 start date; requesting 2 quarter commitment |
Phonetics Projects
| Faculty Name/Lab and Email |
Project and |
Tasks | Prerequisites | Desired Languages/other skills | Other notes (e.g. start date, non 499, compensation) |
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Richard Wright rawright@uw.edu Marina Oganyan marina0@uw.edu |
Investigating consonant cluster production and perception in children and adults using eye-tracking |
Eye-tracking data analysis and preparation for analysis using R, excel, and or python |
Ling 450&451 or equivalent preferred |
Experience coding in at least one of following: R, excel, python (or potentially another programming language) |
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Richard Wright |
Development of Corpus for Modern Hebrew |
Primarily data entry, e.g. transcriptions, corrections, as well as some analysis |
LING 200 or equivalent |
native or near-native Modern Hebrew fluency or high academic proficiency |
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| Richard Wright rawright@uw.edu |
Phoible | data entry of phonemic and allophonic inventories from published grammars and databases | Ling 450 | Computer skills, familiarity with IPA and unicode, ability to read grammars in other languages is a plus (but not required) | |
| Richard Wright rawright@uw.edu |
Linguistic factors-Human Adaptation to Perceptual Distortion Phonetics Lab Projects |
varies depending on experience / interest. Possible tasks include: acoustic measurements in Praat, Praat scripting, speech synthesis, running subjects in perception experiments, data analysis (preferably using R). | Ling 453 | basic familiarity with Praat is required. Statistical training, programming and/or scripting ability is a plus. Familiarity with dialectal variation in North American English might be helpful. Coursework in auditory perception also helpful but not required. |
Phonology Projects
| Faculty Name/Lab and Email | Project and Project Website | Tasks | Prerequisites | Desired Languages/other skills | Other notes (e.g. start date, non 499, compensation) |
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| None currently |
Semantics Projects
| Faculty Name/Lab and Email | Project and Project Website | Tasks | Prerequisites | Desired Languages/other skills | Other notes (e.g. start date, non 499, compensation) |
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| Toshiyuki Ogihara ogihara@uw.edu |
Answering questions about English examples about native speaker intuitions. Proofreading manuscripts while learning something about formal semantics research |
Corpus searches, proofreading, English native speaker intuitions | Ling 200/400 minimum, Ling 478 or more, depending on project | Native English |
Sociolinguistics Projects
| Faculty Name/Lab and Email | Project and Project Website | Tasks | Prerequisites | Desired Languages/other skills | Other notes (e.g. start date, non 499, compensation) |
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| Betsy Evans evansbe@uw.edu |
Seattle to Spokane Mapping perceptions of English in Washington State Folkling Website |
content analysis, data entry in ArcGIS | Ling 432 | computer skills, statistics, familiarity with ArcGIS would be great but not required | |
| Alicia Beckford Wassink wassink@uw.edu |
1) PNWE English Project 2) Jamaican Creole project 3) Sociolinguistic Competence in Children Project |
conversational transcription (orthographic level), library research, catalog and backup audio recordings, possibility of simple acoustic analysis (if prerequisites met), data search and extraction in an annotated corpus of child speech | Ling 450 | experience with PRAAT software |
Syntax Projects
| Faculty Name/Lab and Email | Project and Project Website | Tasks | Prerequisites | Desired Languages/other skills | Other notes (e.g. start date, non 499, compensation) |
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None Currently |