Congratulations to Dr. Kevin Tang and his co-author Dr. Jason Shaw (Yale University), whose article titled, “Prosody leaks into the memories of words” was recently published online as an advanced article in Cognition. The link to the article is here and the abstract is below. The average predictability (aka informativity) of a word in context […]
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Congratulations! One co-authored abstract by two undergraduate SLAMERs Ryan Aponte and Robin Fintz was recently accepted for a presentation at National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR 2021) on April 12-14, 2021. Their abstract for presentation, titled “The Environmental, Genetic, and Demographic Factors of Linguistic Diversity”, underwent a rigorous review by experts in the discipline and […]
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Dr. Tang is invited to present at the UFII Covid-19 Seed Awardees Virtual Seminar Series and his talk is titled: Covid-19, an accelerator of science: Evidence from convergence in collaboration and language Friday, December 11, 2020 12:00PM – 1:00PM Via Zoom Dr. Tang looked at evidence for convergence in collaboration and language driven by COVID-19 […]
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Dr. Tang was invited by the MAPS (Multicultural Association for Pre-Health Students) Fall Research Forum and gave a talk titled “Science without borders: where linguistics meets human health research” on November 23rd, 2020. In the talk, he illustrated how linguistics, the science of language, can play a role in human health research. He presented an […]
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Dr. Tang was invited by the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering of Trinity College Dublin to give a talk on the predictability of linguistic units in spoken spontaneous speech. In the talk, he will demonstrate how understanding fine-phonetic variations will not only reveal the different communicative strategies employed by interlocutors but also how the mental […]
The Speech, Lexicon and Modeling Lab (slam.lin.ufl.edu) within the Department of Linguistics (lin.ufl.edu) at the University of Florida is accepting applicants to the Linguistics PhD program. A PhD student position is available fully funded for three years to work in the Speech, Lexicon and Modeling Lab with Dr. Kevin Tang and Dr. Ratree Wayland in […]
Congratulations! Our lab has three abstracts accepted by LSA 2021 Annual Meeting and hopes they will give a wonderful presentation at the conference! Non-homophonic homophones in Mandarin Chinese: evidence for phonetic detail in the lexicon Poster Session: Phonetics II Authors: Kevin Tang (University of Florida), Jason Shaw (Yale University) Reducing Racial Bias in […]
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A new interdisciplinary collaboration spanning three UF departments and research groups has been formed thanks to the UF Informatics Institute’s COVID-19 Response Seed Funding initiative. The project titled “The emergence of Covid-19 team science: tracking topics, networks and expertise in global Covid-19 research” has been awarded $18,875 and is jointly led by Raffaele Vacca, Assistant […]
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