LIGN199 – Independent Study
LIGN199 provides undergraduates with the opportunity to participate in linguistic research conducted in the Department of Linguistics, both by graduate students and faculty members. This is an excellent opportunity to see how research is conducted, and it provides foundational training for graduate school.
Students assist in running experiments, analyzing data, or participating in field research.
LIGN199 is taken for Pass/No Pass. Students may take more than one LIGN199. Only four units of LIGN 199 taken for pass/no pass count towards the major or minor.
Opportunities for each quarter will be posted here with contact information.
Undergraduate students can submit a LIGN 199 request via the Enrollment Authorization System, EASy. This can be found on TritonLink under TritonLink Tools.
Students must fill out the “Requested Course” and “Student Input” sections, and the instructor will then need to complete the “Instructor Input” section of the form.
Program for Undergraduate Research in Linguistics (PURL)
The Program for Undergraduate Research in Linguistics (PURL) pairs undergraduate students who are interested in participating in research with graduate student research mentors. If you are a UCSD undergraduate linguistics student and would like to learn more about the process of conducting research in linguistics, apply to be a research assistant (RA) through PURL. Applications are open every quarter. Learn more about the program and application process.
Language Comprehension Lab
How do speakers get from thought to language? How do comprehenders get from form to meaning?
What are the biological underpinnings of this magical process? How did evolution get us here?
What is the best way to test our hypotheses on language and cognition?
Those are the questions that the Language Comprehension Lab at UCSD seeks to answer. We are looking for curious, interested, quick-thinking and independent students to assist in all tasks relevant to running a lab: designing, programming and running experimental studies; literature searches, scheduling and organizing; asking questions and thinking about ways of answering them. If you join us, you will be an integral part of our lab-building process. Some of the tasks will be boring, some of them will be exciting, but you will definitely learn something.
You MUST be interested in linguistic structure, the structure of thought, experimental design and execution, and theory.
You MUST be absolutely reliable, efficient, organized, communicative, and a team player.
You MUST commit to two quarters of 10 hours/week minimum.
To apply, please visit our website (http://lcl.ucsd.edu/join-our-lab/) and fill out the undergraduate volunteer application form.
What are the biological underpinnings of this magical process? How did evolution get us here?
What is the best way to test our hypotheses on language and cognition?
Those are the questions that the Language Comprehension Lab at UCSD seeks to answer. We are looking for curious, interested, quick-thinking and independent students to assist in all tasks relevant to running a lab: designing, programming and running experimental studies; literature searches, scheduling and organizing; asking questions and thinking about ways of answering them. If you join us, you will be an integral part of our lab-building process. Some of the tasks will be boring, some of them will be exciting, but you will definitely learn something.
You MUST be interested in linguistic structure, the structure of thought, experimental design and execution, and theory.
You MUST be absolutely reliable, efficient, organized, communicative, and a team player.
You MUST commit to two quarters of 10 hours/week minimum.
To apply, please visit our website (http://lcl.ucsd.edu/join-our-lab/) and fill out the undergraduate volunteer application form.
Border Spanish Project
Coding interviews from San Diego and Tijuana on a project that examines Spanish, as spoken on the San Diego-Tijuana border region. Native or near-native Spanish required. If interested, please contact Professor John Moore, moore@ling.ucsd.edu.
Phonetics Lab
The UCSD Phonetics Lab often has 199 research assistant positions open for up to 10 hours/week (4 credits). Duties include generating experimental stimuli, recruiting participants and running experiments, as well as phonetic and statistical analyses. Preference is given to students with some phonetic training (e.g., LIGN 110), native or near-native ability in English or the language of study, and basic computer skills in Word and Excel. Knowledge of basic statistics is useful. More details of current projects led by members of the Lab can be found at http://grammar.ucsd.edu/phoneticslab/. If interested, please contact Marc Garellek at mgarellek@ucsd.edu.
Linguistics Language Program
A 199 research assistant position is open in the Linguistics Language Program for up to 5 hours/week (2 credits). This work involves analyzing data that we have collected regarding the proficiency level of second language learners (UCSD students) in 7 languages and 4-5 levels of study. We are looking for possible differences among languages, different rates of increase from quarter to quarter, etc. This position is ideal for someone with an interest in second language acquisition who enjoys quantitative work. Training will be provided, but knowledge of Excel, statistical analysis, and language acquisition is a plus. If interested, please contact Grant Goodall at ggoodall@ucsd.edu.
Experimental Syntax Lab
The Experimental Syntax Lab has 199 research assistant positions open for up to 5 hours/week (2 credits). Duties vary but may include generating experimental sentences, recruiting participants and running experiments, compiling results, and assisting with analysis. Training is provided. Preference is given to those with a background in basic syntactic analysis (such as in LIGN 121) and basic computer skills in Word and Excel. If interested, please contact Grant Goodall at ggoodall@ucsd.edu.
Sign Language Research
199 positions are available involving sign language research under the supervision of Professor Rachel Mayberry and other members of Mayberry Lab for Multimodal Language Development. Research involves using computerized transcription software known as ELAN, video transfer, and assisting the researchers responsible for analyzing the data. Attendance at weekly research laboratory meetings is recommended when schedule permits. Preference will be given to students who know some ASL and are linguistic majors. A minimum of three hours per week commitment is preferred.
Contact: Marla Hatrak mhatrak@gmail.com
Computational Linguistics Lab
If you are interested in research, please contact Professor Kehler directly at akehler [at] ucsd [dot] edu.