Useful links and resources

• Other labs at USC
  • USC Phonetics lab
  • USC Language Development Lab
  • USC Second Language Acquisition group

• Human Subjects
  • IRB

• Searchable databases on the web
  • Frequency and other information
    • MRC Psycholinguistic Database, a very nice database with lots of search options and corpora to search from.
    • N-Watch
    • Subtlexus, a corpus based on TV and film subtitles, direct link to search: Click here

  • Semantic association norms
    • University of South Florida free association norms

  • Picture sets
    • International Picture Naming Project
    • Snodgrass & Vanderwort picture information
    • UIUC picture norms
    • Tarr lab stimuli, picture sets developed by Michael Tarr at Brown

  • Nonwords
    • Nonword database

  • Resources for other languages - Chinese
    • Frequency and stroke counts of Chinese characters
    • Mandarin syllable frequency counts for Chinese characters
    • Review of Chinese word lists accessible on the internet

• Stimulus presentation software
  • Paradigm
  • Linger, especially recommended for self-paced reading
  • E-Prime
  • Flxlab , experiment running software by Todd Haskell
  • Psyscope (for macs)

• Sound editing software
  • Audacity (sound editor)
  • Praat (phonetics program, sound editor)

• Software for web-based experiments
  • Ed Holsinger's phpExp script (please email Ed to get a copy of the script with detailed instructions, holsinge at usc dot edu)
  • WebExp (software for web experiments)
  • Sample page for web surveys that only use html, no php. (All stimuli displayed on one page. Please use the "view source" command when viewing the sample form to see what kind of code is needed for the form_handler script on the USC server.)

• Image editing software
  • Gimp, the GNU Image Manipulation Program, link to manual for most recent version of Gimp
  • Pixen, for macs

• Corpus links
  • Linguistic Data Consortium

• Other links
  • Random.org
  • List of psycholinguistics resources from Martin Corley at Edinburgh

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