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.
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