Research Opportunities for Undergrads
Are you interested in becoming involved in linguistics research? We are currently recruiting for the project listed below (marked in green). For other opportunities, please check back in November when we will be recruiting candidates for Spring 2025.
NEW OPPORTUNITY ADDED for FALL 2024: RAship for culturally Francophone RA
APPLICATION DEADLINE: September 20, 2024 at 12pm
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Application Instructions: Please fill out this application form to apply for the RA position marked in green (L1-French, with Drs. Yeung, Taboada and Wang). You will be asked to attach a current copy of your advising transcript and resume.
Please note that the application period for the opportunities marked in amber has closed and all positions have been filled.
FUTURE APPLICATION PERIODS:
Spring 2025: November, 2024
Summer 2025: March, 2025
Fall 2025: July, 2025
Summer 2025: March, 2025
Fall 2025: July, 2025
The types of positions we advertise are either:
- Volunteer: Unpaid; hours and length of commitment are variable (often entry stage to a paid RAship);
- Paid Research Assistant: Paid from a research grant or department funds; hours and length of commitment are variable.
Applications are assessed on the basis of academic excellence and stated qualifications. All applicants will be informed by email regarding the outcome of their submission.
Please check back regularly, as this page is updated frequently.
| Professor, Project Information | Seeking Students? |
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| Henny Yeung, Maite Taboada & Yue Wang Phonetics, Psycholinguistics, Media RA, L1-French: Seeking a culturally Francophone RA for the project: Consuming text and audio fake news in a first and second language. Interest in digital media—particularly in disinformation, or “fake news”—has surged. Almost all work on this topic, however, has looked only at native speakers’ consumption of English-language media. We ask here how fake news is consumed in one’s first language (L1) vs. in a second language (L2). Objective 1 of this project asks how text and acoustic signatures of truthfulness differ in written and audio news excerpts in English, French, and Mandarin. We are currently hiring a student (undergraduate or graduate) who is a native French speaker to work on this project. Duties will include attendance at regular group meetings, internet scraping, audio and text annotation, and writing of documentation (in English). Possibility of extension in Spring 2025. Open to: Current ¶ˇĎăÔ°AV students (undergraduate or graduate) in any field Application deadline: Sept. 20, 2024 at 12pm --------------- |
YES: 1 RA (paid) for 40 hours, Fall 2024 Qualifications:
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| John Alderete Morphology, Cognition, Experimental Linguistics, Computational Linguistics Language Production Lab: Seeking 1 paid RA for the project: Using machine learning to discover the predictability of gender and inflection class in Hindi. Applicants must be linguistics students who are native Hindi speakers. The project involves processing words in Hindi and filling in the noun paradigms (such as providing the plural form of a singular noun) in a web format. The data work is part of a larger project on studying gender and inflection class in the morphology of Hindi using machine learning methods. The research assistant will attend lab meetings where they will learn about these topics. Initial pilot work involves approximately 50 hours of work to be completed by end of September 2024, and this pilot may lead to additional work. Open to: Current ¶ˇĎăÔ°AV undergraduate students in LING, Cognitive Science, or related fields. Must have some linguistics training, and be a native speaker of Hindi --------------- |
No (closed): 1 RA (paid) for 50 hours, Aug-Sept, 2024 Qualifications:
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| Yue Wang Experimental Phonetics, Psycholinguistics, Computational Linguistics Language and Brain Lab: Seeking 1-2 volunteer RAs to work on the project Adaptations in Conversation: Engaging voices, faces, brains and AI. Paid position may be available after a semester's involvement. Duties may include:
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No (closed): 1-2 volunteer RAs for Fall 2024 5 hrs/wk (plus 1-hr lab meeting) Preferred experience:
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| Yue Wang & Henny Yeung Experimental Phonetics, Psycholinguistics, Computational Linguistics Language and Brain Lab & Language Learning and Development Lab: Seeking 1 paid RA to work on the project Creating Adaptive Vocal Interfaces in Human-AI Interactions. Duties may include:
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No (closed): 1 RA (paid) for Fall 2024 5 hrs/wk Preferred experience:
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| Ashley Farris-Trimble Phonology, Learning Phonological Processing Lab: Seeking 1 volunteer RA to work on the project Phonological Opacity and Acquisition. Paid position may be available after a semester's involvement. The RA will gain experience developing and implementing research studies, using the eye-tracker, and working collaboratively with other researchers. Open to: Current ¶ˇĎăÔ°AV undergraduate students in LING --------------- |
No (closed): 1 volunteer RA for Fall 2024 6 hrs/wk (includes 1-hr lab meeting) Qualifications:
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| Henny Yeung Language Acquisition, Phonetics, Psycholinguistics, Word Learning Language Learning and Development Lab: Seeking 2 volunteer RAs to work on the project Babytalk in a Second Language. RA#1 will recruit Mandarin-speaking families, and RA#2 will recruit Cantonese, French, and/or Punjabi families. RA duties will also include analysis of speech directed to infants. Open to: Current ¶ˇĎăÔ°AV undergraduate students in LING, Cognitive Science, or related fields --------------- |
No (closed): 2 volunteer RAs for Fall 2024 5 hrs/wk Qualifications:
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If you have any questions about the application process, please contact the Research Grants and Projects Coordinator.