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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Gert Storms and Simon
De Deyne are running a worldwide word association test in English. Thus far
they have over 1.25 million responses, but they require many more in order to
have enough spontaneously produced associates to all known English words. The
data will be made available to all researchers, just like the Florida norms, so
that we can use them for our studies and include them in our computational models.
Would it be possible to forward the call to your colleagues and students? The
task itself only takes 5 minutes and involves giving associates to a few target
words.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Many thanks in
advance, marc brysbaert<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Gerrit Storms
[mailto:Gert.Storms@ppw.kuleuven.be] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> 15 February 2012 10:55<br>
<b>To:</b> Marc Brysbaert<br>
<b>Subject:</b> word associations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Dear </span><span
lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Marc</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Can I ask you a little
favor?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Over the past few
months, we have been trying to set up a scientific study that is important for
many researchers interested in words, word meaning, semantics, and cognitive
science in general. It is a huge word association project, in which
people are asked to participate in a small task that doesn't last longer than 5
minutes. Our goal is to build a global word association network that contains
connections between about 40.000 words, the size of the lexicon of an average
adult. Setting up such a network might </span><span lang=EN-US
style='color:black'>teach</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'> us a lot
about semantic memory, how it develops, and maybe also about how it can
deteriorate (like in Alzheimer's disease). Most people enjoy doing the task,
but we need thousands of participants to succeed. Up till today, we found about
40,000 participants willing to do the little task, but we need more </span><span
lang=EN-US style='color:black'>response</span><span lang=EN-US
style='color:black'>s. That is why we address you. Would it be possible
to forward this call for participation to graduate and undergraduate students
who are fluent in English?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>The task can be found </span><b><span
lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>at</span></b><span lang=EN-US
style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><a
href="http://www.smallworldofwords.com" target="_blank">http://www.smallworldofwords.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Of course the network
will be freely available to all interested language researchers when it becomes
substantial enough.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>We thank you in
advance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>If you want more
information, don't hesitate to contact me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>With kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Prof. G. Storms and Dr.
S. De Deyne<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Department of
Psychology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>University of Leuven<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Tiensestraat 102<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>3000 Leuven<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Belgium</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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