Experimental Linguistics

How do we process language and speech? How do we integrate information at different levels – intonation, sentence structure, meaning, tone, words, sounds - and how does information at one level interact with information at another level?

At LUCL, Experimental Linguistics brings together research on how language is learned, processed and represented, using carefully designed experiments with children and adults, behavioural methods, neuroscience techniques and computational modelling. 

Research takes place in multifunctional soundproof booths, in which various methods and techniques are combined. For example,  EEG, eye-tracking, experimental set-ups for infant research and speech production and comprehension.