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.
- Deadlines: December 2, 2019
Participating Courses in Fall 2019
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LING290 - The Science of Speech
LING322 - Syntax
LING350 - First Language Acquisition
Participating Research Projects in Fall 2019
| Research Area | Title | Ethics Number | Requirements | Contact | Location | Number of credits |
| Phonology | Online Investigations of Word Structure | 2019s0126 | - English speaking (native or non-native) - normal hearing |
[Click here for direct booking] Larissa Melville, phono@sfu.ca, 778-782-9909 |
online | 1 credit (30 min) |
| Phonetics | Wavslang: Audiovisual speech perception of simultaneity | 2018s0182 | - native English speakers, or - native Estonian speakers |
avcstudy@sfu.ca |
RCB 6203 (Language and Brain Lab) |
(1 hour) |
| Phonetics | TPP: The relationship between lexical tone perception and production | 2018s0499 | - native Mandarin speakers (raised (from age 0-12) in mainland China or Taiwan, speak Mandarin as their first and dominant language | [Click here for direct booking] Keith Leung |
RCB 6203 (Language and Brain Lab) |
2 credits (1 hour) |
| Syntax | Grammar and Processing of Anaphoric Forms | 2014s0209 | - native English speakers |
Kyeong-min Kim; kka68@sfu.ca; 778-984-0543 | RCB 7420 (Experimental Syntax Lab) |
2 credits (less than 1 hour) |
| Syntax | Grammar and Processing of Anaphoric Forms | 2014s0209 | - native Korean speakers | Kyeong-min Kim; kka68@sfu.ca; 778-984-0543 | RCB 7420 (Experimental Syntax Lab) |
1 credit (less than 30 min) |
Tone & Vowel Perception, semantics |
Towel: Contextual effects on processing tonal and segmental information in Mandarin |
2018s0455 |
- 19-30 years old (including any registered SFU students who are younger than 19) - Normal hearing - Native speakers Mandarin born in mainland China, not speaking any other varieties of Mandarin - Have not studied other Chinese languages (e.g. Cantonese, Shanghainese, Taiwanese) or not speaking those languages as a first language - Not exposed to other languages before the age of 5 |
[Click here for direct booking] Xizi Deng |
RCB7301 (Common Research Lab) |
2 credits (1 hour) |
Phonology/ Phonetics |
MusicLang: Foreign language learning & the perception of musical rhythm & melody | 2016s0373 |
- 19-30 years old - non-impaired hearing - able to read French, Mandarin, or German |
[Click here for direct booking] Elise McClay langdev@sfu.ca 778-782-3955 |
RCB 7310 (Common Research Lab) |
2 credits (1 hour) |
Phonetics, Perception |
RespOnline: Breathing and the perception of auditory sounds | 2018s0215 |
- Normal hearing - 19-30 years old (including any registered SFU students who are younger than 19) - No significant learning or language-related pathologies |
[Click here for Direct Booking] Paula Correa or Elise McClay langdev@sfu.ca 778-782-3955 |
RCB 7310 (Common Research Lab) or online |
(30 min - 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 7310 (Common Research Lab) |
4 credits (2 one-hour sessions) |
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 7310 (Common Research Lab) |
2 credits (1 hour) |
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