The Linguistics Department Lab Facilities

The Linguistics Department has four laboratory facilities all located in the Bunn Intercultural Center (ICC Building). These are:

(a) The Linguistics Lab (housed in ICC 201)

The Linguistics Lab is located on the 2nd floor of the Intercultural Center (ICC), room 201. Recently renovated, the Linguistics Lab provides faculty and students with access to:

• equipment for recording and transcribing audio data (transcribers, tape-recorders, microphones)
• equipment for recording digital videos and stills (digital camcorders, digital camera, scanner)
• software suites for multimodal discourse analysis and multimedia development
• software for audio-visual editing, development and presentation
• software to analyze and synthesize speech for phoneticians
• computing and printing facilities

The Linguistics Lab plays an important role in facilitating research in a variety of areas which reflect some of the interests of the Department:

• Phonetics/Phonology
• Discourse Analysis
• Second Language Acquisition
• Multimodal Discourse Analysis and Visual Semiotics
• Sociolinguistic Variation
• Ethnography of Communication
• Classroom Discourse
• Computational Linguistics
  

(b) The Multimodal Discourse Laboratory (housed in ICC 201)

The Multimodal Discourse Laboratory was launched in 2001 thanks to a Graduate School Research Infrastructure Award and is in Phase I of its development. The Multimodal Discourse Laboratory provides facilities for capturing, editing and analyzing audio and video data for discourse analysis and other linguistic analysis. Currently housed in the Linguistics Lab, the Multimodal Discourse Laboratory provides access to digital capture equipment (digital camcorders, digital still camera, scanner) and several software packages for audio and video editing, analysis and presentation.

(c) The Data Acquisition Lab (housed in ICC 233)

The Data Acquisition Lab is located on the second floor of the Intercultural Center, Room 233. The Data Acquisition Lab provides facilities for phonetics and phonology research, as well as for conducting single or small group experiments or interviews (for example, response time research, interaction research, sociolinguistic interviews, small focus group research, moving window research). Equipped with a CSL and a palatometer, the Data Acquistion Lab also comprises a soundproof booth with omnidirectional and unidirectional professional microphones linked to a computer station, a mixing board and amplifiers for the collection and processing of data. A Power Mac G4 is available for experimental research and three PC workstations are also available in the Data Acquisition Lab for transcription and coding purposes.

(d) The Observation Classroom (housed in ICC 204a)

The Observation Classroom is located on the second floor of the Intercultural Center, Room 204a. Equipped with two cameras, an omnidirectional ceiling microphone, and lavaliere microphones, the Observation Classroom is connected to computer and video capture facilities in the Linguistics Lab to allow easy audio/video data collection, duplication and digitization. The Observation Classroom is designed for classroom research, or any other research in group processes. The Observation Classroom can be used for classroom teaching practica, and more generally to record the teaching of any class for subsequent analysis. The Observation Classroom is used for regularly scheduled classes. Eventually, the Observation Classroom may be used for distance learning. For information about the Observation Classroom please contact linglab@georgetown.edu.

If you have questions or comments about the Linguistics Lab Web site, please email the Linguistics Lab Webmaster. Note that there is no Lab assistant (the Webmaster) during the summer. If you have questions about the Department of Linguistics, please email the department.