After more than six years, on Wednesday December 6th, 2017, the LVC lab bid our old home, at the Center for Medical Education and Research, adieu. Along with all the other labs in CMER, we moved to the third floor of 1600 Millrace Drive, part of Riverfront Research Park (directions).
Stop by the lab if you’re in the area.
Emma and Charlie in the new lab space
Congratulations to LVC Lab Director Tyler Kendall on winning a University of Oregon Fund for Faculty Excellence Award! To quote from the announcement, “This honor is granted in recognition of the significant impact of your scholarly work and your enduring commitment and contribution to our shared institutional spirit of learning, intellectual inquiry, and service.” Tyler’s work continues to be on the cutting edge of sociolinguistics and related work, and we are happy to see his work being recognized within the university.
For more information on Tyler and the other recipients of this year’s award, see this news brief from Around the O.
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
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.
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.