Groups and projects
The laboratory personnel belong to different research groups. The laboratory also carries out research projects (funded by public institutions) and knowledge transfer projects (in co-operation with companies).
Groups 🔝
Centre Lingüística i Computació (CLiC)
2021 SGR 00313IP: M Taulé (UB Filologia)
Lab members: D Dediu, W Elvira, M Farrús
Grup d'Estudis de la Variació (GEV-UB)
2021 SGR 01084IP: Ll Payrató (UB Filologia)
Lab members: J Carrera
Grup de Recerca en Adquisició de Segones Llengües (GRAL)
2021 SGR 00303IP: C Muñoz (UB Filologia)
Lab members: N Gavaldà, JC Mora
Grup d'Innovació Docent en Fonètica Catalana (FONCAT)
GINDOC-UB/028IP: J Carrera
Lab members: J Borràs, J Carrera, W Elvira
Research projects 🔝
Current projects led by members of the laboratory
Acoustic assessment of speech in Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration:
Robust phonetic measures and tasks for its automatization (AcousA)
PID2022-139004OA-I00 (Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades)
PI: Wendy Elvira-García
Other lab members: Joan Borràs-Comes
Term: 2023-2026
The AcousA project is a comprehensive study aimed at advancing the understanding of motor speech impairments in patients with Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (FTLD). The project focuses on developing robust phonetic measures and tools for the automatic analysis of speech affected by FTLD in Spanish and Catalan. By building on existing research in English, the study will identify reliable acoustic markers, such as speech rate, pause duration, and rhythmic metrics, which are indicative of the disease. The study involves both FTLD patients, recruited from Hospital Sant Pau, and healthy controls, who will undergo a comprehensive speech protocol. This protocol includes the production of sustained vowels, repetition of syllables and pseudowords, reading phonetically balanced texts, and spontaneous speech tasks. The recorded data will be manually annotated and analyzed using a combination of acoustic and statistical methods, with the goal of identifying phonetic markers of FTLD. The project will culminate in the creation of an annotated corpus of FTLD speech, as well as the development of an automatic speech analysis tool. This tool will enable physicians to predict the underlying pathology of FTLD, aiding in early diagnosis and improving patient outcomes. The ultimate aim is to develop a rapid, reliable speech test that can be used in clinical settings to support ongoing care for patients with FTLD.
Profiling and training global dimensions of L2 English pronunciation
proficiency (L2E-PPT)
PID2022-138129NB-I00 (Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades)
PI: Joan C. Mora
Term: 2023-2026
Qué modela el lenguaje: Enfoques experimentales, interlingüísticos y
computacionales para comprender la diversidad lingüística
PID2022-138501NB-I00 (Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades)
PI: Dan Dediu
Term: 2023-2026
Current projects in which members of the laboratory participate
La fonología nativa y no nativa: Análisis y creación de recursos
digitales (FONONARED)
PID2020-113971GB-C21 (Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades)
PI: Clàudia Pons Moll, Maria Rosa Lloret Romañach
Other lab members: Josefina Carrera-Sabaté
Term: 2021-2024
Corpus digital para la preservación y el estudio del patrimonio
lingüístico del español (CORPAT - PEPLEs)
TED2021-130752A-I00 (Proyectos Estratégicos Orientados a la Transición
Ecológica y a la Transición Digital, Plan de Recuperación Transformación y
Resiliencia, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades)
PI: Carolina Julià Luna (UNED)
Other lab members: Wendy Elvira-García
Term: 2022-2024
Knowledge transfer projects 🔝
Chiara
Dates: 2016-2018Funding company: Team Training
Talking Brains
Date: 2016Funding company: CosmoCaixa