Lab

The UNH Linguistics Lab

Naomi Nagy, Director

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. For information, contact Professor Naomi Nagy in the English Department.

Currently, the lab contains the following equipment for collecting and analyzing linguistic data (which students may check out for off-campus use):

	3 Macintosh G3 computers and 1 printer
	Internet access from one computer (Internet Explorer and Netscape)
	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. (Soundscope instructions) (Note onSoundscope instructions)
	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). Goldvarb manual
	Ref50, a searchable database of (socio-)linguistic articles and books.
	scanning and OCR software

Reports and data recorded by speakers from Field Methods courses

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
	Barbara Carter
	Michael Bagg '97
	The Electro-Optic Technology Center of Tufts University
	Dr. William Labov, University of Pennsylvania
	Julie Boas

for which we are extremely grateful.

For other interesting information about phonetic analysis, and some examples of lab demos, see the homepage for Swarthmore College's phonetics course.

A little information about how singers can use acoustic analysis to monitor their voice

Return to Ling 779/879's home page.
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This page was last updated by Naomi Nagy on 07/22/03.