Research Participation System
The Research Participation System (RPS) at the Department of Linguistics at SFU provides students with the opportunity to experience what research in linguistics is like by participating as subjects in projects conducted or supervised by various faculty. At the same time, students can earn credit towards participating linguistics courses.
Instructions to Students
- Students are allowed to participate in more than one project.
- Each set of points can be applied to ONE course only (no duplication of points)
- All points will be used during the current semester (no banking of points)
- If the project runs in the period between semesters, the points can be used in courses of the next semester.
- Different instructors may have different ways of including RPS points in their overall grade assessment. Please see their course syllabus for the grading policy
- If you would like to participate in a study, please use the direct booking link or send an email to the contact person of the study to make an appointment.
Participating Courses in Spring 2019
(click the course for more information)
- LING100 - D100 (Communication and Language)
- LING160 (Language, Culture and Society)
- LING200 (Introduction to English Sentence Analysis)
- LING282QW (Writing for Linguistics)
- LING290 (The Science of Speech)
- LING321 (Phonology)
- LING330 (Phonetics)
- LING350 (First Language Acquisition)
- LING401 (Topics in Phonetics)
Participating Research Projects in Spring 2019
| Research Area | Title | Ethics Number | Language Requirements | Contact | Location | Number of credits |
| Phonetics | Wavslang: Audiovisual speech perception of simultaneiy | 2018s0182 | - Male native English speakers, or - native Estonian speakers |
[Click here for direct booking] avcstudy@sfu.ca 778-782-6924
|
RCB 6203 (Language and Brain Lab) |
2 credits (1 hour) |
Phonology |
Acoustic Cues used by Learners of English |
2017s0023 |
- Between the ages of 19 to 45; normal hearing; normal or corrected-to-normal vision - Native French speakers who have learned English as an additional language |
Danica Reid danicar@sfu.ca 778-782-9909 |
RCB 7204 (Phonological Processing Lab) |
2 credits (1 hour) |
| Psycholinguistics | ITL: Language experience and rhythmic perception of non-speech sounds | 2017s0190 | - Native Mandarin speakers - 19-30 years old - non-impaired hearing; |
[Click here for Direct Booking] Elise McClay langdev@sfu.ca 778-782-3955 |
RCB 7410 (LangDev Lab) |
1 credit (30 minutes) |
| Perception, psycholinguistics, multi-modal speech | FaceScan: Visual Processing of Speech Cues | 2017s0350 | - Native English speakers with no or little experience in Mandarin - 19-50 years old - Normal hearing; normal/corrected-to-normal vision |
[Click here for Direct Booking] Xizi Deng, Lydia Castro, or Elise McClay langdev@sfu.ca 778-782-3955 |
RCB 7410 (LangDev Lab) |
2 credits (1 hour) |
| Phonetics, Second language acquisition | ConTrain: Effects of perception and production on perceptual learning of Marathi stops | 2017s0330 | - Native English or Mandarin speaker (not both) - Does not speak Indian languages (e.g. Hindi, Punjabi, etc) |
[Click here for Direct Booking] Luca Cavasso lcavasso@sfu.ca |
RCB 7410 (LangDev Lab) |
4 credits (2 one-hour sessions) |
Psycholinguistics |
The influence of structural probability on prosodic structure building |
2017s0487 |
- At least 19 years old - Normal hearing
|
[Click here for direct booking] Claire Moore-Cantwell clairemoorecantwell@gmail.com |
RCB 7204 (Phonological Processing Lab)
|
2 credits (2 half-hour sessions) |
| Phonetics |
A Corpus of BC English: investigating sociolinguistic variation and language change | 2009s0381 | - Basic computer skills | Panayiotis A Pappas panayiotis_pappas@sfu.ca |
RCB9217 | 2 credits (1 hour) |
| Tone & Vowel Perception, semantics | Contextual effects on processing tonal and segmental information in Mandarin | 2018s0455 | - 19-40 years old - Non-impaired hearing - Native speakers of mainland Mandarin with no/little experience in Cantonese/ Taiwanese - Have not participated in Part 1 (an online survey) of the study |
[Click here for direct booking] Xizi Deng (604)782-7957 |
RCB7301 | 2 credits (1 hour) |