Language Acquisition & Linguistics Research Laboratory

UTEP Language Acquisition & Linguistics Research (LALR) Lab (LART 220)

Director:    Dr. Natalia Mazzaro ( nmazzaro@utep.edu ) 747-7040, LART 217

The UTEP Language Acquisition and Language Research (LALR) laboratory is a departmental resource for investigation of topics in a variety of subfields of linguistics:  first, second and multilingual languageacquisition, language variation, corpus linguistics, bilingual language use, and experimental work related to issues in theoretical linguistics.  The Lab contains computer and other equipment such as audio/video recording, experimental software, copying/printing, as well as meeting and workspace.  The Lab also contains archives of research materials.The Lab objectives are to facilitate and support significant research and to train students in the practice of linguistic research.

Many projects are directed by a faculty member and include teams of graduate and undergraduate students.   Students have opportunities to participate inresearch in the lab from beginning to end, including project creation (finding a problem, thinking about the relevant questions, hypothesis creation, development of testing materials), testing (recording and interviewing children and adults using different methodologies) and analysis (transcribing and analyzing the data, writing results and project papers).  They are also encouraged to create and develop their own research and thesis projects with the help of lab directors and associated faculty.  All faculty and students who use the Lab receive human subjects training and certification.