RESOURCES

Courses

Useful Software/Tools

Amazon’s ‘Mechanical Turk’ – Tool to create surveys and collect data

PC Ibex – Free tool to create and run experiments online

CLAN (Carnegie Mellon University) – Program to analyze data in CHAT format (CHILDES,  BilingBank, AphasiaBank…)

Google Forms – User-friendly tool to create simple surveys and collect data

IPA keyboard – IPA chart / keyboard

Storyboardthat – User-friendly tool to create visual stimuli for adults or children experiments

Praat (University of Amsterdam) – Free software to analyze speech acoustically

R – Free tool for statistical analysis 

TreeForm (UBC) – Software to draw syntactic trees 

Databases

COCA (Brigham Young University) – Corpus of American English, 1990-2012

Corpus del Español (Mark Davies) – Corpus of different varieties and registers of Spanish across several centuries

TalkBank (Carnegie Mellon University) – Speech databases for L1, L2, bilingual, SLI, or aphasia, a.o.

  • CHILDES – L1 acquisition corpora (including clinical and bilingual corpora)

  • BilngBank – Bilingual corpora

  • SLABank – L2  corpora

 How-to guide for TalkBank and CLAN (created by myself, May 2020)

Terraling (NYU, UCLA)

Other Useful Resources

APA Formatting Style Guide (Purdue University)

LinguistList – THE resource for Linguists (search for jobs, conference calls, support projects, etc.)

Ling Buzz – Archive of linguistic articles (including unpublished manuscripts)

Job Market Insights – Insights on the current academic job market (focus on Linguistics)

Academic Job Dossier – How to create a dossier for your academic job application (focus on Linguistics)

Campus Visits, Job Talks & Interviews – What to expect in the academic job application process (focus on Linguistics).

Collaborators and Departments/Labs

Isabelle Charnavel (University of Geneva)

Bruce Hayes (UCLA)

Nina Hyams (UCLA)

Ji Young Kim (UCLA)

Kevin Liang (UCLA)

Minqi Liu (UCLA)

Erin Mauffray (University of Mississippi)

Laurel Perkins (UCLA)

Rodrigo Ranero (UCLA)

Emanuela Sanfelici (University of Padova)

Megha Sundara (UCLA)

 

UCLA Department of Spanish & Portuguese

UCLA Department of Linguistics

UCLA Language Acquisition Lab

UCLA Latin American Institute