Projects

Choose Your Own Adventure: Teleporting to a Virtual Phonetics Laboratory

The project “Choose Your Own Adventure: Teleporting to a Virtual Phonetics Laboratory” by Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang, Dr. Chris Geissler and Eoin O’Reilly will be funded by the E-Learning Förderfonds.

Interactive web-based review units for phonetics and phonology

We are creating a new set of web-based interactive learning units in phonetics and phonology. These serve two purposes: supplementing student learning in the English Linguistics Basismodul, and providing review material for intermediate/advanced-level courses.

NEH: Reanimating African American Oral Histories of the Gulf South: Tailoring Education and Research through Natural Language Understanding

The project, “Reanimating African American Oral Histories of the Gulf South: Tailoring Education and Research through Natural Language Understanding”, involves the reformatting and annotation of 500 oral histories of African Americans from the Gulf South, representing the stories of people who lived through the transatlantic slave trade up to the present day, as well as the development of a new web search interface and 150 curriculum modules for K–12 educators.

NSF: SenSE: Smart Electropalatography for Linguistic and Medical Applications (SELMA)

Speech as a non-invasive biomarker could provide researchers and clinicians with new means to capture fine changes in speech articulation patterns associated with linguistic phenomena in the normal population or functional changes in articulation in individuals with disorders.

NVIDIA Academic Hardware Grant, "FOSStering Digital Humanities through Accent Diversity & Conversational Devices"

The NVIDIA Academic Hardware Program The NVIDIA Academic Hardware Grant Program endeavors to advance education and research by: Enabling groundbreaking, innovative, and unique academic research projects with world-class computing resources.