Isabelle Darcy's research group in second language psycholinguistics
Welcome!
We conduct research on many aspects of speech processing in bilinguals.
The Second Language Psycholinguistics Lab at Indiana University studies how second language learners learn to perceive, pronounce and encode the sound system of their new language(s). The lab's research focuses on the mechanisms and architecture underlying speech processing, spoken word recognition and phonological acquisition. Our findings help us better understand the linguistic representations that multilinguals create for the words and the phonological units of each of their languages, and how the precision of these representations changes over time. The lab also addresses the pedagogical applications of these findings and explores which methods are most effective for helping learners improve their pronunciation, word learning, and listening in a second language.
We conduct research on many aspects of speech processing in bilinguals.
The Second Language Psycholinguistics Lab at Indiana University studies how second language learners learn to perceive, pronounce and encode the sound system of their new language(s). The lab's research focuses on the mechanisms and architecture underlying speech processing, spoken word recognition and phonological acquisition. Our findings help us better understand the linguistic representations that multilinguals create for the words and the phonological units of each of their languages, and how the precision of these representations changes over time. The lab also addresses the pedagogical applications of these findings and explores which methods are most effective for helping learners improve their pronunciation, word learning, and listening in a second language.
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Research
We research how L2 learners form and process word and sound representations. Our work examines phonological mechanisms and aims to apply findings to improve language teaching. |
Publications
Explore our publications and dissertations on Second Language Psycholinguistics. Examine our research on phonological acquisition, word processing, and improved L2 teaching methods. |
People
Meet the Second Language Psycholinguistics Lab team, led by Professor Isabelle Darcy. Our members specialize in L2 phonology, speech processing, and pronunciation instruction. |
Hoosier Vocal Emotions Corpus
Please click on this link to access information about this free resource.
Our publication detailing the corpus can be found here:
Darcy, I., & Fontaine, N. M. G. (2020). The Hoosier Vocal Emotions Corpus: A validated set of North American English pseudo-words for evaluating emotion processing. Behavior Research Methods, 52(2), 901-917. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-019-01288-0
Our publication detailing the corpus can be found here:
Darcy, I., & Fontaine, N. M. G. (2020). The Hoosier Vocal Emotions Corpus: A validated set of North American English pseudo-words for evaluating emotion processing. Behavior Research Methods, 52(2), 901-917. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-019-01288-0
View from the 8th floor of Ballantine Hall on an early winter day
our commitment to open scienceNovember 08, 2018We're celebrating 10 years of the Second Language Psycholinguistics Lab this November! Ten years ago, in the Fall of 2008, the lab started its research and we haven't stopped since (nor are we planning to!). About 6 months later, on April 29, 2009, its website was launched - in its first html version. The picture below shows you what it looked like! Today, to celebrate 10 years for the lab, I also decided that going forward, we would make a definite move towards Open Science practices. As much as we can, we pledge to make our research accessible, transparent, to encourage replications and reanalyzes, as well as to systematically preregister our studies and share our materials and data (responsibly).
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