The AVA (Audio-Visual Accent) Project @ #SFU LABlab
07 Jun 2011 Leave a Comment
in Linguistics, Simon Fraser University Tags: 2011, Brain, Cognitive Science, Language, Linguistics, SFU, Simon Fraser University
BAZINGA! I haz a project to work on this summer! Courtesy of the excellent Saya Kawase, Linguistics MA student.
If you haven’t already, go forth and visit the Language and Brain Lab @ Simon Fraser University – http://www.sfu.ca/~lablab
We’re calling it The AVA Project (pronounced “ah-vah”, as “AVA” is one of our VCV stimuli for the experiment).
AVA stands for “Audio-Visual Accent” – we’re pairing audio recording of the stimulus with a video recording of the mouth and jaw movements of the speakers, and then asking participants to judge the degree of foreign accent of the speaker.
Hah. I think this is very funny science. (Hey you! You sound funny. Just kidding.)
So thus far we’ve piloted the bit for recording stimuli of speakers…and we’ll be doing that sometime next week, hopefully.
Details pertinent to what we are hoping to find will remain secret for now.
Hopefully we’ll get a paper published out of this project…so I can knock that off my bucket list.
Yay brains!
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