Labfon – Summer Training in Experimental Methods
Goals
Acquiring applied knowledge about experimental methodologies to study voice, speech, language and behaviour, following a hands-on approach.
Audience
Students (undergraduate and graduate) and researchers interested in language, and language related areas, professionals (educators, teachers, psychologists, audiologists, and speech therapists).
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Registration is now open for the Summer School (organization: Laboratório de Fonética, Departamento de Linguística Geral e Românica, FLUL)
Register until July 31st 2017.
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Course I:
Praat - introduction to acoustic analysis with Praat; basic and advanced functions; analysis of typical and atypical adult and child speech; speech analysis in forensics.
References:
Colombo, J. & D. Wayne Mitchell. 2009. Infant Visual Habituation.
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 92(2): 225–234.
ELAN – Linguistic Annotator, version 5.0.0-alpha. Manual (and tool) developed by Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Language Archive, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Available at
http://www.mpi.nl/corpus/manuals/manual-elan.pdf
Ekman, P., W. V. Friesen & J. C. Hager. 2002.
Facial Action Coding System. Salt Lake City, UT: A Human Face.
Falck-Ytter, T., S. Bölte & G. Gredebäck. 2013. Eye Tracking in Early Autism Research.
Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders 5(1): 1-13.
Friederici, A. D. & M. A. Skeide. 2015. Neurocognition of language development. In Edith L. Bavin & Letitia R. Naigles (eds.)
The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language (pp. 61-88). [Online]. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Gredebäck, G., S. Johnson & C. Von Hofsten. 2009. Eye Tracking in Infancy Research.
Developmental Neuropsychology 35(1): 1-19.
Holmqvist, K. 2011.
Eye Tracking: A Comprehensive Guide to Methods and Measures. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Picton, T.W., S. Bentin, P. Berg, E. Donchin, S. A. Hillyard, R. Johnson, G. A. Miller, W. Ritter, D. S. Ruchkin, M. D. Rugg & M. J. Taylor. 2000. Guidelines for using human event-related potentials to study cognition: recording standards and publication criteria.
Psychophysiology 37: 127-152.
Simonet, M. (2001) Technology in Phonetic Science: Setting Up a Basic Phonetics Laboratory.
Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, volume 4, Issue 2.
Styler, W. 2016.
Using Praat for Linguistic Research. Will Styler’s Homepage. URL: http://savethevowels.org/praat/.
Turk, A., S. Nakai & M. Sugahara. 2006. Acoustic segment durations in prosodic research: a practical guide. In Stefan Sudhoff, Denisa Lenertova, Roland Meyer, Sandra Pappert, Petra Augurzky, Ina Mleinek, Nicole Richter & Johannes Schliesser (eds.).
Methods in Empirical Prosody Research. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Wittenburg, P., H. Brugman, A. Russel, A. Klassmann & H. Sloetjes. 2006. ELAN: A professional framework for multimodality research. In
Proceedings of LREC (Vol.
2006, p. 5th). Available at
http://hnk.ffzg.hr/bibl/lrec2006/pdf/153_pdf.pdf
Course II:
Praat (for advanced users) - using scripts, manipulating sound files, and extracting data.
References:
Colombo, J. & D. Wayne Mitchell. 2009. Infant Visual Habituation.
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 92(2): 225–234.
ELAN – Linguistic Annotator, version 5.0.0-alpha. Manual (and tool) developed by Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Language Archive, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Available at
http://www.mpi.nl/corpus/manuals/manual-elan.pdf
Ekman, P., W. V. Friesen & J. C. Hager. 2002.
Facial Action Coding System. Salt Lake City, UT: A Human Face.
Falck-Ytter, T., S. Bölte & G. Gredebäck. 2013. Eye Tracking in Early Autism Research.
Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders 5(1): 1-13.
Friederici, A. D. & M. A. Skeide. 2015. Neurocognition of language development. In Edith L. Bavin & Letitia R. Naigles (eds.)
The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language (pp. 61-88). [Online]. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Gredebäck, G., S. Johnson & C. Von Hofsten. 2009. Eye Tracking in Infancy Research.
Developmental Neuropsychology 35(1): 1-19.
Holmqvist, K. 2011.
Eye Tracking: A Comprehensive Guide to Methods and Measures. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Picton, T.W., S. Bentin, P. Berg, E. Donchin, S. A. Hillyard, R. Johnson, G. A. Miller, W. Ritter, D. S. Ruchkin, M. D. Rugg & M. J. Taylor. 2000. Guidelines for using human event-related potentials to study cognition: recording standards and publication criteria.
Psychophysiology 37: 127-152.
Simonet, M. (2001) Technology in Phonetic Science: Setting Up a Basic Phonetics Laboratory.
Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, volume 4, Issue 2.
Styler, W. 2016.
Using Praat for Linguistic Research. Will Styler’s Homepage. URL: http://savethevowels.org/praat/.
Turk, A., S. Nakai & M. Sugahara. 2006. Acoustic segment durations in prosodic research: a practical guide. In Stefan Sudhoff, Denisa Lenertova, Roland Meyer, Sandra Pappert, Petra Augurzky, Ina Mleinek, Nicole Richter & Johannes Schliesser (eds.).
Methods in Empirical Prosody Research. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Wittenburg, P., H. Brugman, A. Russel, A. Klassmann & H. Sloetjes. 2006. ELAN: A professional framework for multimodality research. In
Proceedings of LREC (Vol.
2006, p. 5th). Available at
http://hnk.ffzg.hr/bibl/lrec2006/pdf/153_pdf.pdf
Course III:
ELAN - basic functions of audiovisual annotation.
References:
Colombo, J. & D. Wayne Mitchell. 2009. Infant Visual Habituation.
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 92(2): 225–234.
ELAN – Linguistic Annotator, version 5.0.0-alpha. Manual (and tool) developed by Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Language Archive, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Available at
http://www.mpi.nl/corpus/manuals/manual-elan.pdf
Ekman, P., W. V. Friesen & J. C. Hager. 2002.
Facial Action Coding System. Salt Lake City, UT: A Human Face.
Falck-Ytter, T., S. Bölte & G. Gredebäck. 2013. Eye Tracking in Early Autism Research.
Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders 5(1): 1-13.
Friederici, A. D. & M. A. Skeide. 2015. Neurocognition of language development. In Edith L. Bavin & Letitia R. Naigles (eds.)
The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language (pp. 61-88). [Online]. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Gredebäck, G., S. Johnson & C. Von Hofsten. 2009. Eye Tracking in Infancy Research.
Developmental Neuropsychology 35(1): 1-19.
Holmqvist, K. 2011.
Eye Tracking: A Comprehensive Guide to Methods and Measures. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Picton, T.W., S. Bentin, P. Berg, E. Donchin, S. A. Hillyard, R. Johnson, G. A. Miller, W. Ritter, D. S. Ruchkin, M. D. Rugg & M. J. Taylor. 2000. Guidelines for using human event-related potentials to study cognition: recording standards and publication criteria.
Psychophysiology 37: 127-152.
Simonet, M. (2001) Technology in Phonetic Science: Setting Up a Basic Phonetics Laboratory.
Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, volume 4, Issue 2.
Styler, W. 2016.
Using Praat for Linguistic Research. Will Styler’s Homepage. URL: http://savethevowels.org/praat/.
Turk, A., S. Nakai & M. Sugahara. 2006. Acoustic segment durations in prosodic research: a practical guide. In Stefan Sudhoff, Denisa Lenertova, Roland Meyer, Sandra Pappert, Petra Augurzky, Ina Mleinek, Nicole Richter & Johannes Schliesser (eds.).
Methods in Empirical Prosody Research. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Wittenburg, P., H. Brugman, A. Russel, A. Klassmann & H. Sloetjes. 2006. ELAN: A professional framework for multimodality research. In
Proceedings of LREC (Vol.
2006, p. 5th). Available at
http://hnk.ffzg.hr/bibl/lrec2006/pdf/153_pdf.pdf
Course IV:
ELAN (for advanced users) - Audiovisual annotation using coding systems; Praat/ELAN interface.
References:
Colombo, J. & D. Wayne Mitchell. 2009. Infant Visual Habituation.
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 92(2): 225–234.
ELAN – Linguistic Annotator, version 5.0.0-alpha. Manual (and tool) developed by Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Language Archive, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Available at
http://www.mpi.nl/corpus/manuals/manual-elan.pdf
Ekman, P., W. V. Friesen & J. C. Hager. 2002.
Facial Action Coding System. Salt Lake City, UT: A Human Face.
Falck-Ytter, T., S. Bölte & G. Gredebäck. 2013. Eye Tracking in Early Autism Research.
Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders 5(1): 1-13.
Friederici, A. D. & M. A. Skeide. 2015. Neurocognition of language development. In Edith L. Bavin & Letitia R. Naigles (eds.)
The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language (pp. 61-88). [Online]. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Gredebäck, G., S. Johnson & C. Von Hofsten. 2009. Eye Tracking in Infancy Research.
Developmental Neuropsychology 35(1): 1-19.
Holmqvist, K. 2011.
Eye Tracking: A Comprehensive Guide to Methods and Measures. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Picton, T.W., S. Bentin, P. Berg, E. Donchin, S. A. Hillyard, R. Johnson, G. A. Miller, W. Ritter, D. S. Ruchkin, M. D. Rugg & M. J. Taylor. 2000. Guidelines for using human event-related potentials to study cognition: recording standards and publication criteria.
Psychophysiology 37: 127-152.
Simonet, M. (2001) Technology in Phonetic Science: Setting Up a Basic Phonetics Laboratory.
Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, volume 4, Issue 2.
Styler, W. 2016.
Using Praat for Linguistic Research. Will Styler’s Homepage. URL: http://savethevowels.org/praat/.
Turk, A., S. Nakai & M. Sugahara. 2006. Acoustic segment durations in prosodic research: a practical guide. In Stefan Sudhoff, Denisa Lenertova, Roland Meyer, Sandra Pappert, Petra Augurzky, Ina Mleinek, Nicole Richter & Johannes Schliesser (eds.).
Methods in Empirical Prosody Research. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Wittenburg, P., H. Brugman, A. Russel, A. Klassmann & H. Sloetjes. 2006. ELAN: A professional framework for multimodality research. In
Proceedings of LREC (Vol.
2006, p. 5th). Available at
http://hnk.ffzg.hr/bibl/lrec2006/pdf/153_pdf.pdf
Course V:
Eye-tracking - introduction to eye-tracking; basic and advanced software functions to design and run experiments (SMI RED 500 system, iView, Experiment Centre, BeGaze, Observational Package and Video Package).
References:
Colombo, J. & D. Wayne Mitchell. 2009. Infant Visual Habituation.
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 92(2): 225–234.
ELAN – Linguistic Annotator, version 5.0.0-alpha. Manual (and tool) developed by Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Language Archive, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Available at
http://www.mpi.nl/corpus/manuals/manual-elan.pdf
Ekman, P., W. V. Friesen & J. C. Hager. 2002.
Facial Action Coding System. Salt Lake City, UT: A Human Face.
Falck-Ytter, T., S. Bölte & G. Gredebäck. 2013. Eye Tracking in Early Autism Research.
Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders 5(1): 1-13.
Friederici, A. D. & M. A. Skeide. 2015. Neurocognition of language development. In Edith L. Bavin & Letitia R. Naigles (eds.)
The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language (pp. 61-88). [Online]. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Gredebäck, G., S. Johnson & C. Von Hofsten. 2009. Eye Tracking in Infancy Research.
Developmental Neuropsychology 35(1): 1-19.
Holmqvist, K. 2011.
Eye Tracking: A Comprehensive Guide to Methods and Measures. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Picton, T.W., S. Bentin, P. Berg, E. Donchin, S. A. Hillyard, R. Johnson, G. A. Miller, W. Ritter, D. S. Ruchkin, M. D. Rugg & M. J. Taylor. 2000. Guidelines for using human event-related potentials to study cognition: recording standards and publication criteria.
Psychophysiology 37: 127-152.
Simonet, M. (2001) Technology in Phonetic Science: Setting Up a Basic Phonetics Laboratory.
Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, volume 4, Issue 2.
Styler, W. 2016.
Using Praat for Linguistic Research. Will Styler’s Homepage. URL: http://savethevowels.org/praat/.
Turk, A., S. Nakai & M. Sugahara. 2006. Acoustic segment durations in prosodic research: a practical guide. In Stefan Sudhoff, Denisa Lenertova, Roland Meyer, Sandra Pappert, Petra Augurzky, Ina Mleinek, Nicole Richter & Johannes Schliesser (eds.).
Methods in Empirical Prosody Research. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Wittenburg, P., H. Brugman, A. Russel, A. Klassmann & H. Sloetjes. 2006. ELAN: A professional framework for multimodality research. In
Proceedings of LREC (Vol.
2006, p. 5th). Available at
http://hnk.ffzg.hr/bibl/lrec2006/pdf/153_pdf.pdf
Course VI:
Eye-tracking (for advanced users) - experimental design with different paradigms; data analysis functions.
References:
Colombo, J. & D. Wayne Mitchell. 2009. Infant Visual Habituation.
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 92(2): 225–234.
ELAN – Linguistic Annotator, version 5.0.0-alpha. Manual (and tool) developed by Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Language Archive, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Available at
http://www.mpi.nl/corpus/manuals/manual-elan.pdf
Ekman, P., W. V. Friesen & J. C. Hager. 2002.
Facial Action Coding System. Salt Lake City, UT: A Human Face.
Falck-Ytter, T., S. Bölte & G. Gredebäck. 2013. Eye Tracking in Early Autism Research.
Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders 5(1): 1-13.
Friederici, A. D. & M. A. Skeide. 2015. Neurocognition of language development. In Edith L. Bavin & Letitia R. Naigles (eds.)
The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language (pp. 61-88). [Online]. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Gredebäck, G., S. Johnson & C. Von Hofsten. 2009. Eye Tracking in Infancy Research.
Developmental Neuropsychology 35(1): 1-19.
Holmqvist, K. 2011.
Eye Tracking: A Comprehensive Guide to Methods and Measures. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Picton, T.W., S. Bentin, P. Berg, E. Donchin, S. A. Hillyard, R. Johnson, G. A. Miller, W. Ritter, D. S. Ruchkin, M. D. Rugg & M. J. Taylor. 2000. Guidelines for using human event-related potentials to study cognition: recording standards and publication criteria.
Psychophysiology 37: 127-152.
Simonet, M. (2001) Technology in Phonetic Science: Setting Up a Basic Phonetics Laboratory.
Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, volume 4, Issue 2.
Styler, W. 2016.
Using Praat for Linguistic Research. Will Styler’s Homepage. URL: http://savethevowels.org/praat/.
Turk, A., S. Nakai & M. Sugahara. 2006. Acoustic segment durations in prosodic research: a practical guide. In Stefan Sudhoff, Denisa Lenertova, Roland Meyer, Sandra Pappert, Petra Augurzky, Ina Mleinek, Nicole Richter & Johannes Schliesser (eds.).
Methods in Empirical Prosody Research. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Wittenburg, P., H. Brugman, A. Russel, A. Klassmann & H. Sloetjes. 2006. ELAN: A professional framework for multimodality research. In
Proceedings of LREC (Vol.
2006, p. 5th). Available at
http://hnk.ffzg.hr/bibl/lrec2006/pdf/153_pdf.pdf
Course VII:
Electroencephalography and Event Related Potentials – Introduction to EEG and ERP; basics of how to conduct an ERP study; data collection and data analysis; artifacts, filtering, segmentation, averaging (Synamps RT, Curry Package).
References:
Colombo, J. & D. Wayne Mitchell. 2009. Infant Visual Habituation.
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 92(2): 225–234.
ELAN – Linguistic Annotator, version 5.0.0-alpha. Manual (and tool) developed by Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Language Archive, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Available at
http://www.mpi.nl/corpus/manuals/manual-elan.pdf
Ekman, P., W. V. Friesen & J. C. Hager. 2002.
Facial Action Coding System. Salt Lake City, UT: A Human Face.
Falck-Ytter, T., S. Bölte & G. Gredebäck. 2013. Eye Tracking in Early Autism Research.
Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders 5(1): 1-13.
Friederici, A. D. & M. A. Skeide. 2015. Neurocognition of language development. In Edith L. Bavin & Letitia R. Naigles (eds.)
The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language (pp. 61-88). [Online]. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Gredebäck, G., S. Johnson & C. Von Hofsten. 2009. Eye Tracking in Infancy Research.
Developmental Neuropsychology 35(1): 1-19.
Holmqvist, K. 2011.
Eye Tracking: A Comprehensive Guide to Methods and Measures. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Picton, T.W., S. Bentin, P. Berg, E. Donchin, S. A. Hillyard, R. Johnson, G. A. Miller, W. Ritter, D. S. Ruchkin, M. D. Rugg & M. J. Taylor. 2000. Guidelines for using human event-related potentials to study cognition: recording standards and publication criteria.
Psychophysiology 37: 127-152.
Simonet, M. (2001) Technology in Phonetic Science: Setting Up a Basic Phonetics Laboratory.
Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, volume 4, Issue 2.
Styler, W. 2016.
Using Praat for Linguistic Research. Will Styler’s Homepage. URL: http://savethevowels.org/praat/.
Turk, A., S. Nakai & M. Sugahara. 2006. Acoustic segment durations in prosodic research: a practical guide. In Stefan Sudhoff, Denisa Lenertova, Roland Meyer, Sandra Pappert, Petra Augurzky, Ina Mleinek, Nicole Richter & Johannes Schliesser (eds.).
Methods in Empirical Prosody Research. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Wittenburg, P., H. Brugman, A. Russel, A. Klassmann & H. Sloetjes. 2006. ELAN: A professional framework for multimodality research. In
Proceedings of LREC (Vol.
2006, p. 5th). Available at
http://hnk.ffzg.hr/bibl/lrec2006/pdf/153_pdf.pdf
