Some linguistics resources at NUS

NUS Psycholinguistics Lab

My colleague Aine Ito and I co-manage the psycholinguistics lab. This is a sound-proofed lab located in the same building as our department (AS5, #02-04), well-equipped for in-person experiments and data analysis. Listed below are some of the resources that we have:

• Equipment
  • SR EyeLink 1000 Plus eyetracker
  • A HP desktop computer
• Software
  • Qualtrics
  • Ibex (created by Alex Drummond), locally installed on the lab computer
  • A standard suite of software: Praat, Python, R, Microsoft Office
• Corpora
  • ICE-SIN
  • ICE-GB
  • Corpus of Contemporary American English
  • Penn Treebank
  • English Web Treebank
  • Chinese Treebank
  • National Corpus of Singapore English – a treebank that Bao Zhiming and I have been developing. We are unable to make the raw files publicly available, but please reach out if you have any questions.
  • … (NUS has a subscription to the Linguistic Data Consortium)

Language and Linguistics Cluster

The NUS Language and Linguistics Cluster organises talks and seminar around psycholinguistics, linguistic theory, and sociolinguistics. There are also reading groups on sociolinguistics and syntax-semantics (and some experimental linguistics)

Other resources

• Phrase Structure Tree Editor. An online drag-and-drop syntax tree editor I created as part of a Singapore English corpus project.
• I gave a short tutorial on pros/cons of Qualtrics vs. PCIbex at a lab meeting in Sep 2023. Notes and some useful links here.