The Linguistics Lab
This is a lab in which UNH students can conduct linguistic analyses of data that they have collected or that is available in the lab. It is available for use to any students currently enrolled in a linguistics course, or by permission from Naomi Nagy, the lab director.
The lab is located in 234 Hamilton Smith Hall at the University of New Hampshire.
Currently, the lab contains the following equipment for collecting and analyzing linguistic data (which students may check out for off-campus use):
- an iMac, 2 Macintosh G3 computers, and 1 printer
- Internet access
- 2 digital recorders
- 3 Sony Walkman Professional portable cassette-recorders
- 3 microphones
- headphones
- 3 transcribers
- 2 telephone recording jacks
- Tape player to computer transfer input cable
- Software including Praat for acoustic analysis and IPAPhon for phonetic transcription
- SoundEdit Pro (for acoustic analysis)
- SoundScope, for analysis of waveforms, spectrograms, formant tracks, pitch tracks, and LPC slices.
- Sounds of the World's Languages, a collection of pronunciations and transcriptions from hundreds of languages, searchable by country, language, or phoneme type.
- The LX Problems, a series of interactive programs for learning about linguistics
- Goldvarb, a program for statistical analysis (multiple regression) of variation data. (Instructions for Goldvarb)
- Ref50, a searchable database of (socio-)linguistic articles and books.
- scanning and OCR software
- Reports and data recorded by speakers from Field Methods courses
Resources on this website
Downloading and Using Goldvarb
Guidelines for Transcribing Interviews
The lab has been made possible by generous contributions from:
The Office of the Dean of Research of UNH, The Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs of UNH, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, The English Department, Barbara Carter, Michael Bagg '97, The Biomedical Center of Tufts University, Dr. William Labov of the University of Pennsylvania, and Julie Boas
We are extremely grateful.