Experimental linguistics at UBC incorporates a wide range of paradigms, methods, and equipment to test hypotheses and gather basic empirical data about language behaviour and linguistic knowledge, including real-time language processing and development across the lifespan.
Our methods include artificial language, perceptual, and word-recognition paradigms, including eye-tracking; investigations into spoken and signed language production using acoustic analysis, ultrasound, biomechanical modeling, electromyography, and optical flow analysis; human and machine learning studies, including the incorporation of biofeedback; and computational modelling of speech, language behaviour and learning.