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
- Two abstracts from the lab were accepted by OCP18
- Prof. Wayland gave a virtual talk at Nankai University in China
- Dr. Tang was invited by Trinity College Dublin to give a speech on the predictability of linguistic units
- One NSF funded PhD position available at UF: Phonetics, Laboratory Phonology and Computational Linguistics
- Dr. Tang will give a speech on NLP in the CLAS AI Workshop
- Three abstracts from SLAMers are accepted by LSA 2021 Annual Meeting
- Drs. Kevin Tang and Ratree Wayland win $750,000 NSF Funding
- 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
Upcoming Presentations
- February 11, 2021: Dr. Tang’s talk at Potsdam University
- January 27-30, 2021: OCP18
- January 7-10, 2021: LSA 2021 Annual 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
- 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