The Department of Linguistics has a number of faculty members who are actively involved in experimental research Undergraduate students play an active and central role in our linguistics labs as Research Assistants (RAs). If you are interested in becoming an RA in a faculty member's lab, please contact the director of the lab listed below. We encourage all undergraduate students to apply to be an RA through the Aresty Research Center and interview with us during the spring semester.
If you are an undergraduate student participating in experiments for course extra credit, please view this tutorial:
Experiment System Tutorial
Computational Linguistics Laboratory
Members of the Rutgers Computational Linguistics Lab work on the theory of computation as it applies to linguistic cognition and learning. The PI and director is Dr. Adam Jardine.
Laboratory for Developmental Language Studies
The Laboratory for Developmental Language Studies investigates how children acquire their native language, how children and adults process and represent their language, and how experimental and theoretical research in linguistics are mutually informative. The PI and Director is Dr. Kristen Syrett.
Meaning across Languages Laboratory
The Meaning Across Languages lab (the MAL lab) explores how meaning is encoded and used across languages. The projects in our lab involve discussion of semantics, pragmatics, and their interface with other domains of language, investigating the relationship between language meaning, use, and cognition. The PI and director is Dr. Dorothy Ahn.
Phonology Laboratory
The Phonology Laboratory houses equipment for high quality audio recording within the lab, including a sound-attenuated booth and portable recording devices.
Comparative and Experimental Syntax Lab
The Comparative and Experimental Syntax Lab theoretically and experimentally explores and compares what constitutes knowledge of language for adult native speakers of various languages, centering principally on Romance and Creole languages, and for second language acquirers. The PI and director is Dr. Viviane Deprez.
This lab is currently not accepting new members.