LINGUIST List 23.1740: Qs: Native English Speakers Needed: Wales and England

LINGUIST List 23.1740
Wed Apr 04 2012 Qs: Native English Speakers Needed: Wales and England Editor for this issue: Zac Smith <zaclinguistlist.org>
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Date: 26-Mar-2012 From: Alex Morris <amvmorrishotmail.com> Subject: Native English Speakers Needed: Wales and England E-mail this message to a friend Hello, My name is Alex Morris and I am a third year student at Swansea University. I am currently engaged in a research project concerning Dialectology, specifically the internal dialect geography of England and Wales. I am looking for volunteers to take part in my study by completing a quick survey of no more than 15 minutes. It consists of a short questionnaire and then completing a grading and placement task whilst listening to several clips of various English and Welsh dialects. If you wish to take part, I have uploaded the questionnaire and map, for the placement task, on my personal midiafire available for download: http://www.mediafire.com/?63rvc2737fi22 The video containing the clips is on my personal YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhb7vKE31fY&feature=youtu.be The instructions should be clear on the questionnaire. Once complete if you could possibly save the documents as your name and hometown and send them to me at my personal email address: amvmorrishotmail.com If anybody is interested I would be happy to send the final project after it has been marked, so please talk to me in the email. I would be very grateful for any responses as part of my research calls for a reperesentative sample from across the UK; it would also be interesting to include a non-native perspective so nobody from outside of the UK is excluded. The one criterion is that participants must be L1 English speakers. Thank you in advance, I look forward to receiving any replies. Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics Typology This Year the LINGUIST List hopes to raise $67,000. This money will go to help keep the List running by supporting all of our Student Editors for the coming year. See below for donation instructions, and don't forget to check out Fund Drive 2012 site! http://linguistlist.org/fund-drive/2012/ There are many ways to donate to LINGUIST! You can donate right now using our secure credit card form at https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm Alternatively you can also pledge right now and pay later. To do so, go to: https://linguistlist.org/donation/pledge/pledge1.cfm For all information on donating and pledging, including information on how to donate by check, money order, or wire transfer, please visit: http://linguistlist.org/donation/ The LINGUIST List is under the umbrella of Eastern Michigan University and as such can receive donations through the EMU Foundation, which is a registered 501(c) Non Profit organization. Our Federal Tax number is 38-6005986. These donations can be offset against your federal and sometimes your state tax return (U.S. tax payers only). For more information visit the IRS Web-Site, or contact your financial advisor. Many companies also offer a gift matching program, such that they will match any gift you make to a non-profit organization. Normally this entails your contacting your human resources department and sending us a form that the EMU Foundation fills in and returns to your employer. This is generally a simple administrative procedure that doubles the value of your gift to LINGUIST, without costing you an extra penny. Please take a moment to check if your company operates such a program. Thank you very much for your support of LINGUIST! Read more issues\|LINGUIST home page\|Top of issue

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