Sociolinguistics & Language Structures Lab @ University of Nebraska at Omaha

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We investigate how social factors (e.g., community, identity, contact, and context) shape language use, and how language structures (sounds, words, syntax, discourse) vary and change across speakers and communities. Our work blends various approaches to studying sociolinguistics and language structures from fieldwork to laboratory experiments.

If you’re interested in current studies or future participation opportunities, feel free to send us an email or visit us in person.

@ UNO

Our studies are conducted in the SoLaS Lab in the Department of English at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO). The tasks are administered in our research space, and some (or portion of the) studies may be completed remotely depending on their design.

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Your participation in the studies typically include some combination of background questionnaires (language history, demographics), language-related tasks (e.g., judgments, reading, picture naming), speech recording (speaking into a microphone), and listening tasks with simple responses (e.g., button presses or ratings).

Corpus & Lab Resources

The SoLaS Lab hosts the Philippine Multilingual English (PhilME) Corpus, a collection of read and spontaneous interview recordings from over 50 Filipino speakers of English, including speech in English, Cebuano, and Tagalog. The project was supported in part by the Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship, Boston University, 2023.
The lab features recording and computing facilities for data collection (recording devices) and analysis (workstations).

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