The Speech, Lexicon and Modelling (SLaM) lab
SLaM is dedicated to advancing applied and theoretical research involving spoken speech and grammar (phonetics and phonology) and word knowledge (lexicon) with experimental and computational methods.
It is co-directored by Dr. Kevin Tang, Dr. Ratree Wayland and Dr. Caroline Wilshire at UF Linguistics. It provides research opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. We welcome curious and motivated UF students from a wide range of disciplines (from Engineering to Digital Humanties) to join us. SLaM collaborates closely with other research groups on campus and runs a biweekly reading group.
Wanna be a SLAMer?
Please see what opportunities are available here. For more information, please contact Dr. Kevin Tang. Location: 4017 Turlington Hall (tang.kevin@ufl.edu).
Wanna be a graduate SLAMer?
Dr. Kevin Tang is seeking a new PhD student to join the lab beginning Fall 2021, with a strong background in computational/experimental linguistics, preferably with a focus in phonetics, phonology, and lexical access. Please review SLAM’s PhD Guidelines and apply prior to 1 December. If you are a junior/senior undergraduate student and would like to apply for the graduate programme, please check out the SURF programme. If interested, please contact Dr. Kevin Tang (tang.kevin@ufl.edu) prior to submitting your application.
Recent News
- UF Virtual Student Research Symposium on Computational Linguistics (21st — 23rd April 2021)
- Graduate SLAMer Josh Martin presented at FAccT 2021
- Undergraduate SLAMers were accepted into Scholars Program
- Dr. Wayland published a new volume regarding second language speech learning
- Dr. Tang published a paper about prosody at the journal Cognition
- One co-authored abstract from Ryan Aponte and Robin Fintz was accepted for NCUR 2021
- Dr. Tang published a co-authored paper on autonomous vehicle
- SLAM members presented at LSA 2021
- Dr. Tang presented at the UFII Covid-19 Seed Awardees Virtual Seminar Series
- Prof. Wiltshire Published a Monograph about Indian English Accent Online
Upcoming Presentations
- April 12-14, 2021: NUCR 2021
- February 11, 2021: Dr. Tang’s talk at Potsdam University
- January 27-30, 2021: OCP18
- January 7-10, 2021: LSA 2021 Annual Meeting
- December 7 – 11: 179th ASA Meeting
- October 30, 2020: Workshop on Speech Technologies for Code-switching
- October 25-29, 2020: Interspeech 2020
- October 20, 2020: CLAS AI Workshop
- July 6-8 2020: LabPhon17
- February 7-9, 2020: NEIL Conference