Speech Science Booth

2023 UC Davis Picnic Day

by Michelle Dana Cohn
April 17, 2023

Learning about Speech Science

The UC Davis Phonetics Lab and Language Learning Lab hosted a joint Speech Science Booth at this year's Picnic Day, a campus-wide open house. Children and adults tried examples of experiments and learned about how we produce, perceive, and learn speech patterns. Thanks to all who came by the booth and our fantastic group of postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduate research assistants who helped out!

Some snapshots!

Children at the booth — Eve Perkins Booker leading a spectrogram circling activity, while another child tries an example experiment

Showing example experiment — Savannah Ealy showing an experiment example

Dr. Nora Beier showing an example experiment to a family

child trying experiment — Dr. Georgia Zellou showing an example experiment

Visitors at the booth! Trying example experiments and the spectrogram activity

Trying an experiment — A student trying out an experiment

Children testing the booth — Children testing out the sample experiments

Speech science booth — Our afternoon booth helpers! Savannah Ealy, Jules Vonessen, Eve Booker, Riley Stray, Dr. Nora Beier, & Dr. Michelle Cohn