LINGUIST List 13.1606

Wed Jun 5 2002

Qs: Eng/Japanese Survey, MacSpeechLab Conversions

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  • Joseph Poulshock, Eng/Japanese Survey
  • Susanne Gahl, MacSpeechLab

    Message 1: Eng/Japanese Survey

     Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 14:17:01 +0900
    From: Joseph Poulshock <naphtalitci.ac.jp>
    Subject: Eng/Japanese Survey


    I would like to invite members of this group to participate in a very brief linguistics experiment. The easy "yes/no" survey is internet based, comes in two separate ten-minute parts, and requires participants who can read English and Japanese, using internet browsers that can render English and Japanese. I cannot reveal too much about the project at this point as it might bias the subjects, but I can say that it deals with translation comparison, and an interesting theory of it at that. I promise to post results on this list, maintaining participant anonymity, of course.

    The project is an important part of my PhD research, and I would be greatly obliged if perhaps a good number of you on this list could participate.

    The first survey will be administered in the middle part of June, around the 10th through 14th. The second survey will administered in the end of June around the 24th through the 28th. Times are a little flexible to adjust to the participants' schedules. Surveys should take about 10 minutes each.

    If you are interested, please reply to me and I'll send you a subject code, which will help insure the anonymity of the participants. Thank you for your consideration. -- Sincerely, Joseph Poulshock Doctoral Student in Language Evolution University of Edinburgh www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~naphtali/ Associate Professor Tokyo Christian University www.tci.ac.jp/~naphtali

    Message 2: MacSpeechLab

     Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 20:40:41 +0000
    From: Susanne Gahl <gahlosgood.cogsci.uiuc.edu>
    Subject: MacSpeechLab


    Can anyone point me to software that can convert sound files created in Mac Speech Lab (yes, a long time ago) to some format readable in more recent programs (such as PRAAT or CoolEdit, or even SoundEdit)?

    Many thanks in advance!

    Susanne Gahl