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Ling Buzz – Archive of linguistic articles (including unpublished manuscripts)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