LINGUIST List 22.785 Wed Feb 16 2011 Qs: Surveys: Similarity Rating and Translation Elicitation Tasks Editor for this issue: Danielle St. Jean <daniellelinguistlist.org> We'd like to remind readers that the responses to queries are usually best posted to the individual asking the question. That individual is then strongly encouraged to post a summary to the list. This policy was instituted to help control the huge volume of mail on LINGUIST; so we would appreciate your cooperating with it whenever it seems appropriate. In addition to posting a summary, we'd like to remind people that it is usually a good idea to personally thank those individuals who have taken the trouble to respond to the query. To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Carmela Tome , Surveys: Similarity Rating and Translation Elicitation Tasks Message 1: Surveys: Similarity Rating and Translation Elicitation Tasks Date: 16-Feb-2011 From: Carmela Tome <carmela_tomeusal.es> Subject: Surveys: Similarity Rating and Translation Elicitation Tasks E-mail this message to a friend I am a Phd student at the University of Salamanca (Spain) and I am investigating the influence that some properties of the words (such as their frequency or the order at which they are learned) might have in the ease at which they are produced as members of certain categories. In order to carry out this investigation I have designed a few online questionnaires that ask volunteers to estimate lists of words according to their familiarity, typicality... Nevertheless, it is been quite difficult to find participants for two of these tests and because of that I would like to ask for your help. I would need 25 native English speakers from the USA, between 18 and 30 years old, who do not speak Spanish for a similarity-rating task and a translation-elicitation task. If it's not too much trouble, you could forward the links you will find below to the students who fulfill the requirements, and then they can complete them in their own time. Please note that if they decide to take part in this survey all their data will be kept anonymously. Your help is greatly appreciated. Similarity-rating task task for native English speakers who do not speak Spanish: http://www.kwiksurveys.com/online-survey.php?surveyID=HKMMML_566be27a Translation-elicitation task for native English speakers who do not speak Spanish: http://www.kwiksurveys.com/online-survey.php?surveyID=HKLDGK_858dc3b9 Carmela Tome carmela_tomeusal.es Linguistic Field(s): Psycholinguistics Semantics Subject Language(s): English (eng) Spanish (spa) Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 16-Feb-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.