April 2017

The LVC Lab is thrilled to be a part of the SPADE project (“SPeech Across Dialects Of English: Large-Scale Digital Analysis Of A Spoken Language Across Space And Time”), which has just been awarded a grant in the fourth Trans-Atlantic Partnership Digging into Data challenge.  Our team from the University of Oregon is working with an international partnership, including North Carolina State University (US), Glasgow University (UK), and McGill (Canada), to develop new tools and resources for advancing large-scale analysis of speech data.

See more on the DiD website: https://diggingintodata.org/awards/2016/project/speech-across-dialects-english-spade-large-scale-digital-analysis-spoken

August 2016

Congratulations to lab member Jason McLarty for receiving NSF grant funding for his dissertation research examining ethnic differences in naive listener prominence perception.  Jason’s NSF grant supports his work to better understand differences and similarities in the prosodic patterns of African American and European American English varieties and how African American and European American listeners perceive these patterns.

April 2016

Congratulations to LVC Lab member Nate Severance who was just awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation.  This award will help him conduct his doctoral research on documentation and sociophonetic analysis of languages in Burkina Faso.