Second Language Psycholinguistics Lab
The Second Language Psycholinguistics Lab at Indiana University is directed by Isabelle Darcy. Our lab examines the nature and scope of phonological knowledge in L1 and L2, individual differences in phonological acquisition, and instruction methods for pronunciation.
IU Phonetics Lab
The website of the Phonetics Lab at Indiana University includes approximately 175 links to online resources about fundamental concepts in phonetics and resources for conducting research. It also has links to various free software programs for conducting acoustic analyses and information about over 40 different software resources for conducting perception/production experiments.
Research Resources
WORD PROPERTIES
EsPal
EsPal is searchable database of Spanish word properties, which include word and bigram frequencies, phonological structure and neighborhoods, orthographic structure and neighborhoods, and subjective ratings like concreteness. You can find the properties of a list of words or search for words that have specific properties.
English Lexicon Project
This site allows the user to generate lists of words or non-words that have specific lexical characteristics, such as a certain frequency, phonological neighborhood density, part of speech, number of syllables, etc.
English Minimal Pairs / Homographs / Homophones
At the bottom of the page are links to comprehensive lists of minimal pairs, homographs, and homophones in British English.
EsPal is searchable database of Spanish word properties, which include word and bigram frequencies, phonological structure and neighborhoods, orthographic structure and neighborhoods, and subjective ratings like concreteness. You can find the properties of a list of words or search for words that have specific properties.
English Lexicon Project
This site allows the user to generate lists of words or non-words that have specific lexical characteristics, such as a certain frequency, phonological neighborhood density, part of speech, number of syllables, etc.
English Minimal Pairs / Homographs / Homophones
At the bottom of the page are links to comprehensive lists of minimal pairs, homographs, and homophones in British English.
STIMULUS PICTURE SETS
Cogsci.nl
This site has a very comprehensive list of standardized picture and video sets that can be used in experiments. A description, link, reference, and license information are provided where available.
CNBC Wiki
The Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition Wiki also has a list of image databases.
IPNP
The International Picture-Naming Project has pictures normed in American English, German, Mexican Spanish, Italian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, and Taiwanese Mandarin.
MultiPic
MultiPic is a standardized set of 750 drawings, normed in Spanish, British English, German, Italian, French, Dutch (Belgium and the Netherlands).
This site has a very comprehensive list of standardized picture and video sets that can be used in experiments. A description, link, reference, and license information are provided where available.
CNBC Wiki
The Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition Wiki also has a list of image databases.
IPNP
The International Picture-Naming Project has pictures normed in American English, German, Mexican Spanish, Italian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, and Taiwanese Mandarin.
MultiPic
MultiPic is a standardized set of 750 drawings, normed in Spanish, British English, German, Italian, French, Dutch (Belgium and the Netherlands).
EXPERIMENT PRESENTATION
jsPsych
jsPsych is a library of JavaScript plugins that can be used to create behavioral experiments that run through a web browser. It is extremely versatile; if it can be coded in JavaScript, it can be part of your experiment. If you have limited coding experience though, it's a very steep learning curve (trust me!). Additionally, playing sound files is not currently well supported. For example, because so far there is only a single-audio plug-in available, you need to concatenate the three sound files of an oddity trial into a single sound file. Despite these drawbacks, the ability to run experiments through a web browser and have results automatically save to a server has been VERY useful.
DMDX
DMDX is a free program for running experiments. It allows a lot of versatility in how you display images and play sound files, and it has accurate reaction time measures. However, learning to write the scripts can take some time. Visual DMDX is a website that says it provides a user-friendly web interface for creating a DMDX script, so that may be worth checking out.
OpenSesame
OpenSesame is a free program for creating and running behavioral experiments. I haven't personally used it, but some researchers in our lab recommend it, especially due to its user-friendly drag-and-drop interface.
jsPsych is a library of JavaScript plugins that can be used to create behavioral experiments that run through a web browser. It is extremely versatile; if it can be coded in JavaScript, it can be part of your experiment. If you have limited coding experience though, it's a very steep learning curve (trust me!). Additionally, playing sound files is not currently well supported. For example, because so far there is only a single-audio plug-in available, you need to concatenate the three sound files of an oddity trial into a single sound file. Despite these drawbacks, the ability to run experiments through a web browser and have results automatically save to a server has been VERY useful.
DMDX
DMDX is a free program for running experiments. It allows a lot of versatility in how you display images and play sound files, and it has accurate reaction time measures. However, learning to write the scripts can take some time. Visual DMDX is a website that says it provides a user-friendly web interface for creating a DMDX script, so that may be worth checking out.
OpenSesame
OpenSesame is a free program for creating and running behavioral experiments. I haven't personally used it, but some researchers in our lab recommend it, especially due to its user-friendly drag-and-drop interface.
Teaching Resources
Fonética: Los sonidos del español
This website from the University of Iowa is extremely useful for teaching Spanish phonetics. It shows how each segment is articulated with an animation and a step-by-step description, and it has video and audio of example words for each segment. The University of Iowa also has an audiovisual library of Spanish dialects with descriptions of their features, though it can be a little too detailed for an introductory Hispanic linguistics class.
La Lingüística Española
This website has information about Spanish phonology and dialectal features of different regions. It includes information about the Spanish of Louisiana and Texas, Spanish creoles, and Judeo-Spanish, which other sites don't often mention. A really nice feature are the examples of each dialect from YouTube with a summary of the different features that you can hear; however, not all of the links work.
Audio Lingua
Here you can listen to and download short audio clips of Spanish speakers talking about various topics. I've used it to find examples of different dialects, but it could also be useful in teaching Spanish because you can search by topic and appropriate proficiency level. Other languages are available as well.
Ignite CASPSLaP: Teaching Spanish and Portuguese pronunciation
This website collects lesson plans and materials that have been presented at the pronunciation-focused Ignite sessions at CASPSLaP (Current Approaches to Spanish and Portuguese Second Language Phonology). Materials from the 2014, 2016, and 2018 sessions are available.
This website from the University of Iowa is extremely useful for teaching Spanish phonetics. It shows how each segment is articulated with an animation and a step-by-step description, and it has video and audio of example words for each segment. The University of Iowa also has an audiovisual library of Spanish dialects with descriptions of their features, though it can be a little too detailed for an introductory Hispanic linguistics class.
La Lingüística Española
This website has information about Spanish phonology and dialectal features of different regions. It includes information about the Spanish of Louisiana and Texas, Spanish creoles, and Judeo-Spanish, which other sites don't often mention. A really nice feature are the examples of each dialect from YouTube with a summary of the different features that you can hear; however, not all of the links work.
Audio Lingua
Here you can listen to and download short audio clips of Spanish speakers talking about various topics. I've used it to find examples of different dialects, but it could also be useful in teaching Spanish because you can search by topic and appropriate proficiency level. Other languages are available as well.
Ignite CASPSLaP: Teaching Spanish and Portuguese pronunciation
This website collects lesson plans and materials that have been presented at the pronunciation-focused Ignite sessions at CASPSLaP (Current Approaches to Spanish and Portuguese Second Language Phonology). Materials from the 2014, 2016, and 2018 sessions are available.
For Fun
Linguist Llama
Linguistics memes plus my favorite animal!
PHD Comics
When you laugh but then cry because these are sadly accurate
Shit Academics Say
You should be writing
The Onion
Because who can tell what's fake news now anyway
Linguistics memes plus my favorite animal!
PHD Comics
When you laugh but then cry because these are sadly accurate
Shit Academics Say
You should be writing
The Onion
Because who can tell what's fake news now anyway