Recent News
- Robin Fintz selected for the Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program
- SLaM lab (Kevin Tang & Josh Martin) received UF Clinical and Translational Science Institute Precision Health Initiative Pilot Award
- Ryan Aponte participating in DIMACS REU Program
- Rayyan Merchant awarded STEM Summer Boren Scholarship to study Tajik Persian in Tajikistan during the summer of 2021
- Kevin Tang awarded UF Informatics Institute’s COVID-19 Response Seed Fund
- Josh Martin awarded O. Ruth McQuown Scholarship
- Kevin Tang featured on CLAS News: How Genetics Guide the Evolution of Language
- UF Virtual Student Research Symposium on Computational Linguistics (22nd — 24th April 2020)
- Research in Assam, India
Upcoming Presentations
- July 6-8 2020: LabPhon17
- February 7-9, 2020: NEIL Conference
- January, 2020 : Where Do Negative Stereotypes Come From? The Case of Indian English
- December 13, 2019 at Yale: Revealing mental representation through the lens of predictability
- December 2-6, 2019 : Analysis of Breathiness as an Acoustic Correlate of Nasality in Hindi
- December 2-6, 2019: Calibrating Rhythms in L1 Japanese and Japanese Accented English
- December 2-6, 2019 : Acoustical Society of America
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.