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Useful Resources

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Lab Manual and Lab Policies

Lab manual is available here.

Check out the lab rules too! here.



Help resources

General Software


  • A helpful tutorial of DMDX: http://www2.gsu.edu/~eslnxj/dmdx/usedmdx.html


  • A complete DMDX tutorial: dmdx-tutorial


  • Some advice on using DMDX with Windows 7: Configure DMDX for Win7


  • Automatic sound file splicing: http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~darcy/
    (click on "Research" at the bottom of the page)


  • PsyScope Manual: http://psyscope.psy.cmu.edu/PsyMan.pdf


  • SAMPA guidelines for computer readable phonetic alphabet: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/


    • Stimuli creation and verification


  • Prepare your audiofiles and your experiment: Prepare your audiofiles and experiment

    • A Praat script to cut up a long file into small ones

    A pdf of this script with comments


  • Generate random numbers with Excel: Random number generation


  • ARC Nonword Database: http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/~nwdb/nwdb.html


  • Research randomizer (good tool for randomization of stimuli): http://www.randomizer.org/


  • Norms and stimuli for timed picture naming in seven different languages (American English, German, Mexican Spanish, Italian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, and the variant of Mandarin Chinese spoken in Taiwan)
    http://crl.ucsd.edu/~aszekely/ipnp/index.html


  • CELEX Database for word frequencies in English, Dutch and German: http://celex.mpi.nl/. Its use is quite complex at first. Ask me if you have trouble. There is a "how-to" on the intranet too. Here is the user guide in English, and in German


  • LEXIQUE Database for word frequencies in French: http://www.lexique.org/. Much easier to use, but mainly in French. It has a useful Google translate button.


    • Stimuli analysis


  • Praat Website: http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/


  • Akustik Website, a free "add-on" program to Praat, enabling lots of exciting analysis features (including vowel nasalization): http://bartus.org/akustyk/akustyk_features.html


  • Mietta Lennes' Praat Scripts collection: http://www.helsinki.fi/~lennes/praat-scripts/


  • Pauline Welby's Praat Scripts collection:
    http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~welby/praat.html


    • Data analysis, statistics, and write-up


  • Important Guidelines to paper writing.


  • Use DMDX utils step by step: DMDX utils.pdf


  • Prepare your files for SPSS input: Prepare files for SPSS


  • Great page about statistics "do it yourself" from the UCLA phonetics lab (with lots of useful stuff from error bars in excel to ANOVA and discrimination analysis): Click here




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    Links to other Labs and Colleagues

  • Le Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique at the Ecole Normale Superieure and EHESS in Paris, France

  • Indiana University's Speech Research Laboratory in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences (Prof. David Pisoni)

  • Indiana University's Phonetics Lab in the Department of Linguistics (Prof. Ken de Jong)

  • Rachel Hayes-Harb's Speech Acquisition Lab at the University of Utah

  • Haskins Laboratories

  • UCLA Phonetics Lab

  • UCLA Phonetics Database (with sounds examples)

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