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The Linguistics Lab's equipment includes speech analysis software, speech therapy games, an electroglottograph, and more.

The Linguistics Reading Room

The Linguistics Reading Room and Phonetics lab are located in Humanities 225. Both were renovated in the fall of 2006.

The linguistics reading room is a great place to rest your weary velum. It contains a refrigerator, microwave, and plenty of comfy furniture.

In addition, the reading room contains a variety of linguistic books. You can find books through our on-line database; you can search by title, by author, or look through our collection of journals. Please note – feel free to use any of the books in the reading room, but please do not take them out of the room.

Once a month, linguistics professors, majors, minors, and guests have lunch together in the reading room. Check out events for more information on the next lunch.

Any Macalester student is welcome to use the reading room to study, do homework, research a paper, or simply hang out.

The reading room is currently maintained and staffed by Stephanie Farmer. You can stop by the reading room during the reading room hours (which change each semester).

Spring 2007 reading room hours
Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 2:30—4:30 pm
Tuesday: 10:00—11:30 am
Thursday: 3:00—4:30 pm

Macalester Phonetics Lab

The lab contains four computers (two Macs and two PCs), and a variety of equipment, software for research in speech production and acoustics, and some speech therapy software.

Below are pictures of some of the equipment and software that we have in the Macalester Phonetics Lab.

Click on a link to learn more about the piece of equipment and/or software. (Note: most of the links are to the UCLA Phonetics lab instructional webpages.)

Equipment:

Software: