LINGUIST List 26.891
Thu Feb 12 2015
Qs: Italian L2 students needed for perceptual survey
Editor for this issue: Anna White <awhitelinguistlist.org>
Date: 11-Feb-2015
From: Eric Russell <erussell
ucdavis.edu>
Subject: Italian L2 students needed for perceptual survey
E-mail this message to a friend We are soliciting L2 (learner) Italian students for participation in a short, web-based survey about impressions of different speakers and voices in Italian. This survey should take about 10 minutes. Students of all first-languages, levels, L2 Italian proficiencies, and backgrounds are welcome to participate. It may be accessed at the following link:
https://it.surveymonkey.com/s/italianvoicesvST When completing the survey, participants will be asked to listen to and rate a series of twelve voice samples (each is about 20 seconds long): the script is identical across all of the samples, but the voices and speakers differ. All responses should be based entirely on participants' subjective impressions and feelings: there are no correct or incorrect, good or bad, right or wrong answers.
All answers will be automatically and anonymously saved by the survey program: there is no need to log on or provide anything other than basic demographic details (ge, gender, and language background). The researchers will not see or have access to any personal data or revelatory information.
This is part of a larger project investigating perceptions of different speakers in a number of languages, conducted by Prof. Eric Russell, at the University of California - Davis. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact him.
Instructional faculty are especially welcome to forward the link to their students.
Thank you in advance for your time and assistance with this valuable research!
Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
Phonetics
Phonology
Psycholinguistics
Sociolinguistics
Subject Language(s):
Italian (ita)
Page Updated: 12-Feb-2015