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.
- Deadline to participate: April 9, 2020
Participating Courses in Spring 2020
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COGS 200 - Foundations in Cognitive Science
LING 100 (Bby) - Communication and Language
LING 220 - Introduction to Linguistics
LING 324 - Semantics
LING 330 - Phonetics
LING 415 - Neurolinguistics
LING 482W - Topics in Linguistics III
Participating Research Projects in Spring 2020
| Research Area | Title | Ethics Number | Requirements | Contact | Location | Number of credits |
Phonology |
Spoken word recognition in L2 learners of English | 2018s0238 |
-Monolingual English speakers, OR -English/Mandarin bilingual speakers -19-45 years old -normal hearing; normal/corrected-to-normal vision |
[Click here for direct booking] Danica Reid phono@sfu.ca 778-782-9909 |
RCB 7301 |
3 credits |
Phonetics |
Wavslang: Audiovisual speech perception of simultaneity |
2018s0182 |
- native English speakers |
avcstudy@sfu.ca 778-782-6924 |
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 - native English speakers who has learned Mandarin for 1-4 months |
[Click here for direct booking] Keith Leung kwl23@sfu.ca 778-782-6957 |
RCB 6203 (Language and Brain 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 or older than 30) - No significant learning or language-related pathologies |
[Click here for Direct Booking] Paula Correa or Elise McClay langdev@sfu.ca 778-782-3955 |
RCB 7301 (Common Research Lab) or online |
(30 min - 1 hour) |
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 or Elise McClay langdev@sfu.ca 778-782-3955 |
RCB 7301 (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 7301 (Common Research Lab) |
2 credits (1 hour) |
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 xizi_deng@sfu.ca 604-782-7957 |
RCB7301 (Common Research 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 7301 (Common Research Lab) |
4 credits (2 one-hour sessions) |
| Phonetics, perception |
Audiovisual recalibration in English-speaking adults | 2018s0501 | - Normal hearing - 19-30 years old (including any registered SFU students who are younger than 19) - no significant learning or language-related pathologies - Native speaker of English |
[Click here for direct booking] Elise McClay langdev@sfu.ca 778-782-3955 |
RCB 7301 (Common Research Lab) |
(30 min - 1 hour) |
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) |
Phonology, Perception |
NaP: Name a Picture |
2019s0126 |
-English speaking (native or non-native) |
[Click here for direct booking] phono@sfu.ca 778-782-9909 |
online |
1 credit (30 min) |
| Phonetics | Multilingual Voice Comparison Study | 2019s0099 | - Bilingual Speakers of French and English, Korean and French, Mandarin Chinese and English, Cantonese and English, or Japanese and English | Sylvia Cho 778-870-1753 |
RCB 9206 | 2 credits (1 hour) |
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