Lab

Rutgers Applied Phonetics Group

Research

The RAP group conducts research focused on the phonetics and phonology of second language acquisition and bilingualism. Specifically, we explore the production, perception and spoken word recognition of bilinguals with varying linguistic experience.

Equipment

Our lab is houses professional equipment used to conduct behavioral experiments related to speech perception and speech articulation. Furthermore, we use open-source software for stimuli presentation (Python), data management (git), and statistical analysis (R). Here is a list of some of the equipment we use:

• Whisper room 6084 E sound booth
• Fostex DC-R302 digital recorder
• Sound Devices MM1 Pre-amp
• Sure SM10A head-mounted microphones
• Eye tribe eye-tracking devices
• Macbook Pro field laptops
• Cedrus response button boxes

Coming soon…

• Mac Mini computers
• Tobii eye-trackers
• Additional field microphones
• Aloka ultrasound imager

Location

The lab is located on the 4th floor of 1 Spring Street (Room 413) in downtown New Brunswick.

Join us

If you are interested in working in the lab in some capacity or studying bilingualism/second language acquisition at Rutgers, please contact Professor Casillas. If you are interested in participating in an experiment click here.

Participate in an experiment