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Research Opportunities for Undergrads

The Department of Linguistics is currently seeking research assistants for the projects listed below.

APPLICATION PERIOD FOR SPRING 2025: November 12-24, 2024

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Please note that you will be asked to attach a current copy of your advising transcript and resume. You may apply to more than one project in your application.

The types of positions we advertise are either:

  • Volunteer: Unpaid; hours and length of commitment are variable (often entry stage to a paid RAship);
  • Paid Research Assistant: Paid from a research grant or department funds; hours and length of commitment are variable.

Applications are assessed on the basis of academic excellence and stated qualifications. All applicants will be informed by email regarding the outcome of their submission.

FUTURE APPLICATION PERIODS:

Summer 2025: March, 2025
Fall 2025: July, 2025
Spring 2026: November, 2025
Professor, Project Information Seeking Students?
Yue Wang
Experimental Phonetics, Psycholinguistics, Computational Linguistics

Language and Brain Lab: Seeking 2-3 volunteer RAs to work on the project Adaptations in Conversation: Engaging voices, faces, brains and AI. Paid position may be available after a semester's involvement. Duties may include:
  • • Development of experiments
  • • Data collection
  • • Data analysis
Open to: Current SFU undergraduate students in LING, Cognitive Science, or related fields
--------------- 		YES: 2-3 volunteer RAs for Spring 2025
5 hrs/wk (plus 1-hr lab meeting)
Preferred experience:
  • • Completion of an undergraduate course in phonetics
  • • 3rd year student at SFU
  • • Experience with acoustic analysis of speech sounds
Optional experience:
  • • Computing Science, audio/video editing, and/or statistics
Henny Yeung
Language Acquisition, Phonetics, Psycholinguistics, Word Learning

Language Learning and Development Lab: Seeking 1 paid RA (Mandarin speaking) and 1 volunteer RA to work on the project Babytalk in a Second Language. Duties will include recruitment of Mandarin-speaking families (RA#1), and annotation/analysis of speech directed to infants.
Open to: Current SFU undergraduate students in LING, Cognitive Science, or related fields
--------------- 		YES: 1 RA (paid) and 1 volunteer RA for Spring 2025
5 hrs/wk
Qualifications:
  • • Strong work ethic
  • • Organizational skills
  • • Native speaker of Mandarin desired for 1 position (paid)
  • • Proficiency in Japanese, Sinhala, or Maranthi is advantageous but not required for 1 position (volunteer)
  • • Linguistics coursework preferred

If you have any questions about the application process, please contact the Research Grants and Projects Coordinator.