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. Please note:
- 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
Participating Courses in Summer 2018
(click the course for more information)
| Research Area | Title | Ethics Number | Language Requirements | Contact | Place | More Information |
| Sociolinguistics | An all-inclusive speech community: Language variation and change in Vancouver English | 2015s0264 | -South-Asian-Canadian, born to South Asian parents, raised in the Metropolitan Vancouver area from birth or age under 5; MALES - Age 18-21 |
Irina Presnyakova ipresnya@sfu.ca 604 368 1583 |
One of SFU campuses |
2 credits (1 hour) |
| Psycholinguistics | The influence of structural probability on prosodic structure building | 2017s0487 | - At least 19 years old -Normal hearning -Native mono-lingual speaker of Canadian English
|
Claire Moore-Cantwell clairemoorecantwell@gmail.com |
RCB 7301 (Phonological Processing Lab)
|
2 course credits (1 hour) |
| Phonology | Producing and perceiving English as a childhood second language | 2017s0331 | - At least 19 years old - Normal hearing |
Danica Reid or Claire Moore-Cantwell |
RCB 7301(Phonological processing lab) | 1 credit (30 minutes) |
| Perception, processing, multi-modal speech | FaceScan: Visual Processing of Speech Cues | 2017s0350 | 19-50 years old; normal hearing; normal/corrected-to-normal vision; native speakers of either English or Mandarin; no significant learning or language-related impairments |
Elise McClay (or Erin Jastrzebski) langdev@sfu.ca 778-782-3955 |
RCB 7301 (Phonetics Lab) |
2 credits (1 hour) |
| First-language bias, phonology/phonetics | EngManITL: Language experience and rhythmic perception of non-speech sounds | 2017s0190 | 19-30 years old; non-impaired hearing; Native English speakers or native Mandarin speakers No/little experience in German, Danish, or non-Mandarin tone languages (like Cantonese & Punjabi) |
Elise McClay (or Sarah Mulhall) langdev@sfu.ca 778-782-3955 |
RCB 7410 (LangDev Lab) |
1 credit (30 minutes) |
| Phonology/phonetics | MusicLang: Foreign language learning & the perception of musical rhythm & melody | 2016s0373 | 19-30 years old, non-impaired hearing; native English speakers with little/no experience in German, Danish, Mandarin, Cantonese, or Punjabi | Kim Mann or Elise McClay langdev@sfu.ca 778-782-3955 |
RCB 7410 (LangDev Lab) |
2 credits (1 hour) or $10 |
Phonology
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Acoustic Cues used by Learners of English | 2017s0023 | -Between the ages of 19 to 45; normal hearing; normal or corrected-to-normal vision; -Native Punjabi, native French, and native Spanish speakers who learned English as an additional language |
Danica Reid danicar@sfu.ca; 778-782-9909 |
RCB 7204 |
2 credits (± 1 hour) |
| Phonology | Phonological Representations – Word Identification | 2013s0763 | -Monolingual native English speakers between the ages of 19 and 35 with normal hearing | Danica Reid phono@sfu.ca; 778-782-9909 |
RCB 7204 | 1 credit (30 minutes) |
| Phonetics | Wavslang Study - Audiovisual speech perception of simultaneiy | 2018s0182 | -Native English speakers, native Estonian speakers
|
Sylvia Cho sylvia_cho@sfu.ca; 778-782-6924
|
RCB 6203 (Language and Brain Lab) |
2 credit (1 hour) |
Instructions to Students
If you would like to participate in a study, please send an email to the contact person of the study to make an appointment.
Instructions to Researchers
If you or your students would like to recruit research participants through the Research Participation System (RPS), please see detailed instructions at the faculty portal page.
Instructions to Instructors
If you would like to offer course credit for research participation, please visit the faculty portal page for detailed information.