34.2213, Qs: Long-term Finnish migrants living in USA, Canada, Australia, or Estonia Sought for Thesis Research on How Native Languages Can Change While Living Abroad

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Subject: 34.2213, Qs: Long-term Finnish migrants living in USA, Canada, Australia, or Estonia Sought for Thesis Research on How Native Languages Can Change While Living Abroad

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Date: 13-Jul-2023
From: Walther Glodstaf [wag4 at illinois.edu]
Subject: Long-term Finnish migrants living in USA, Canada, Australia, or Estonia Sought for Thesis Research on How Native Languages Can Change While Living Abroad


Hello/ Terve!
Thank you very much for taking your time to read through this. My name
is Walther Glödstaf and I am a PhD student in Linguistics at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I am contacting you to see
if you, or anyone you know might be interested in participating in my
thesis research project regarding whether changes in the native
language of long-term immigrants can be simulated through
language-switching experiments.

The experiment targets Finnish speakers who:
- grew up with Finnish and finished at least high school in Finland.
- moved and have lived in USA, Canada, Australia or Estonia for ca. 10
years or more.
- Who speak and read English or Estonian (if you live in Estonia).

If you grew up in Finland from pre-school age *6yo or younger),
speaking Estonian at home, but went to a Finnish school, you are also
eligible!

Please feel free to share this email with anyone you know who might be
interested in participating. If you or anyone you know wants to
participate, please contact me at this email address
(wag4 at illinois.edu) so I can enroll you in the experiment with a
personal link.

Participation would entail participating in 2 online survey-based
experiments (two weeks apart from each other) that take about 2-3
hours for both experiments in total. You would be reimbursed with a
10USD Amazon voucher (or its equivalent in your local currency). The
voucher reimbursement can be done on any Amazon store of your
choosing.

The reason I am looking particularly at Finnish speakers is because I
myself grew up with speaking Finnish abroad, and also because the
research status of Finnish in contact with other languages is
under-researched and often based on research on languages that are
quite dissimilar to Finnish. It is my hope that with your help, this
research could help families who live abroad but speak Finnish at home
to i) understand how certain changes in their language might come
about (do the changes come from intense exposure to ‘the societal
majority language’ or from not enough exposure to Finnish, or both?)
and ii) how to maintain Finnish as a minority language in these
families and communities (can changes be reversed by more contact with
Finnish for instance).

Thank you very much for your time in trying to help me with this
project. Without your generous help this would not be possible! If you
have any questions regarding the experiment, my research, and/or
participation, you can always reach me under this email address. If
you also are more comfortable asking your questions in Finnish, I can
also answer them of course in Finnish.

Best wishes/Paljon kiitoksia
Walther Glödstaf
Linguistics Predoc Fellow, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science

Subject Language(s): Finnish (fin)




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