LINGUIST List 28.428
Fri Jan 20 2017
Software: Worldlikeness: Typological Psycholinguistics Tool
Editor for this issue: Kenneth Steimel <kenlinguistlist.org>
Date: 19-Jan-2017
From: Tsung-Ying Chen <tsungyin
ualberta.ca>
Subject: Worldlikeness: Typological Psycholinguistics Tool
E-mail this message to a friend Dear fellow linguists,
It’s our pleasure to announce a free Web experiment tool for typological psycholinguistics – Worldlikeness (
https://www.worldlikeness.org). In this web app, you can design simple psycholinguistic experiments (e.g., acceptability judgments or lexical decisions using pictures, sounds, and texts), crowdsource your data collection online, and share your experimental results with other linguists around the world. The goal of Worldlikeness is to make cross-linguistic psycholinguistics more like typological linguistics: just as typologists start with individual language descriptions, with tools like Worldlikeness, individual psycholinguists can collect and share data from languages of their own interest, and typologists can then conduct analyses across the data sets to study universal and language-specific factors that influence language processing.
Please check the introduction and user manual sections in the web app for more information about the theoretical and methodological background and the web system itself, including how it conforms with guidelines on research ethics. Our studies using Worldlikeness are attached at the end of this message for your reference. Please let us know if you have any questions or comments on our project!
James Myers: Lngmyers
ccu.edu.tw
Jane Tsay: Lngtsay
ccu.edu.tw
Tsung-Ying Chen tsungyin
ualberta.ca
Graduate Institute of Linguistics
National Chung Cheng University
Myers, J. (2016). Meta-megastudies. The Mental Lexicon, 11(3), 329-349.
http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/ml.11.3.01mye Myers, J., & Chen, T-Y. (2016, July). The time course of sociolinguistic influences on wordlikeness judgments. In preconference proceedings of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics (ExLing-2016), Saint Petersburg, Russia.
http://www.ccunix.ccu.edu.tw/~lngproc/MyersChen_ExLing2016_Proceedings.pdf Chen, T.-Y., & Myers, J. (2016). Worldlikeness: A Web-based tool for typological psycholinguistic research. Poster presented at the 40th Annual Penn Linguistics Conference, Philadelphia, USA.
http://www.ccunix.ccu.edu.tw/~lngproc/PLC40_poster_final.pdf Linguistic Field(s): Psycholinguistics
Typology
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