Ohio University faculty from the College of Health Sciences and Professions and the College of Arts & Sciences have joined together as an institute to collaborate on research and share facilities in empirical investigations of language use.
Our members come from departments as diverse Hearing, Speech, and Language Sciences as well as Linguistics, Modern Languages and Psychology.
Experimental Study of Language Certificates
These interdisciplinary certificates are available to both undergraduate and graduate students.
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Undergraduate Certificate
The undergraduate Experimental Study of Language Certificate is interdisciplinary, requiring students to take coursework from outside their academic majors and offering them research opportunities in the form of individual, guided research experiences in faculty research labs. The certificate also includes core coursework that provides content in the areas of linguistics, psycholinguistics, statistics, and research methods.
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Graduate Certificate
The undergraduate Experimental Study of Language Certificate is for graduate students who wish to broaden their education in the study of language and gain research knowledge and experience. It is anticipated that this certificate will be attractive to students in Spanish, Linguistics, Latin American Studies, International Studies, Psychology, and Communication Sciences and Disorders.
Mission Statement
The mission of the institute is to enhance research on the processes of perception, production, and acquisition of language.
Unique Value of the Institute
The concept of an institute for the empirical study of language is unique in Ohio, though similar kinds of groups exist in other parts of the United States. Bringing faculty, students, and laboratories into a collaborative unit permits research that is not possible for an individual investigator.
The institute increases the visibility of language research at Ohio University and increases opportunities for external funding. Schools and departments are also able to use the institute to assist in recruiting new faculty and graduate students because of the opportunity to work collaboratively with faculty and graduate students from several disciplines.
Research Areas
- Development of the ability to recognize differences among languages
- Speech perception
- Word recognition
- Assessment of speech and language disorders
- Remediation of speech and language disorders
- Second language acquisition
- Bilingualism
- Discourse analysis
- Pragmatics