LINGUIST List 25.1009
Fri
Feb 28 2014
FYI: DataBase of Infant
Phoneme Discrimination Studies
Editor for this issue:
Uliana Kazagasheva <ulianalinguistlist.org>
Date: 28-Feb-2014
From: Alejandrina Cristia
<alecristia
gmail.com>
Subject: DataBase of Infant
Phoneme Discrimination Studies
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Dear fellow researchers,
We are happy to introduce InPhonDB - Infant
Phonemic Discrimination DataBase, a database
containing all published studies on vowel
discrimination, and some unpublished ones:
https://sites.google.com/site/inphondb/
We think this is an exciting opportunity for
linguistics and related fields, and we hope
many of you make use of it in one way or
another. For example:
1. You can use this body of previous work to
make more informed decisions before running an
experiment related to infant discrimination, or
when modeling phonological acquisition. More
details and examples of use can be found here:
https://sites.google.com/site/inphondb/what-can-you-do-with-inphondb
2. You can help reduce the file drawer problem
in our domain: are specific studies replicable,
and what are accurate effect size estimates?
Now we can all do something to answer these
questions, with very little effort: It should
take you about 10 minutes to fill out our forms
with information on your file drawer study (and
this would be a great exercise for students).
More information about this and other ways to
contribute to the database can be found here:
https://sites.google.com/site/inphondb/contribute
We would be more than happy to hear your
reactions (positive or negative), suggestions
for improvements, and questions, at
infant.sound.discrimination
gmail.com.
We look forward to hearing from you,
Sho Tsuji and Alex Cristia
Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science;
Language Acquisition; Phonetics; Phonology
Page Updated: 28-Feb-2014