The UCLA Phonetics Laboratory was established by Peter Ladefoged in the English Department in 1962 and moved with him to the new Linguistics Department in 1966. Members of the lab include faculty, postdocs, graduate students, staff, and visiting scholars in Linguistics. In our research we document sounds from a range of languages, and describe the behavior of a language's sounds as part of a linguistic system. The UCLA Linguistics Department is well-known for the close cooperation between its phonetics and phonology programs.

The lab maintains facilities for teaching and research in speech production, acoustics, and perception. Descriptions of our current facilities, and information about how to use them, are in the Facilities section of this site, while some illustrative data are posted under Demos. Dissertations, grants, and some of our other current projects are listed under Research Projects. Current and past members of the lab, and local colleagues with whom we collaborate, are listed under People.


  We welcome our new colleague Asst. Prof. Megha Sundara, who arrived in Spring 2007, and we look forward to the Spring 2008 opening of her infant speech perception lab within the phonetics lab.

 

People

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UCSC Speech Research link