35.154, FYI: Collaborative multi-language project - looking for Bengali, Nepali, Indonesian, Malay Malaysian, Thai collaborators

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Subject: 35.154, FYI: Collaborative multi-language project - looking for Bengali, Nepali, Indonesian, Malay Malaysian, Thai collaborators

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Date: 10-Jan-2024
From: Jen Lewendon [jal9590 at nyu.edu]
Subject: Collaborative multi-language project - looking for Bengali, Nepali, Indonesian, Malay Malaysian, Thai collaborators


A group of researchers and I, based at New York University Abu Dhabi,
are looking for native-language collaborators on a multi-national
project seeing to create a database of certain grammatical language
features in understudied (predominantly East-Asian) languages. We are
very open to a range of early-career researchers getting involved in
this who come from varied academic backgrounds, so we don’t require
you to bring any particularly relevant prior experience to the project
besides native-level proficiency in one of the following languages:

- Bengali
- Nepalese
- Indonesian
- Malay Malaysian
- Thai
- Persian

We are using the recently published multilingual picture database
(https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01552-7)  as our starting
point to generate a further database of different language features.
However, we need native language speakers to join our team (which
currently consists of Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Korean, and
Japanese language experts) to expand our findings to a broader subset
of languages.

Your role would include:
- Questionnaire translations
- Data cleaning and coding (in collaboration with the project lead -
no scripting experience required)
- Data interpretation support

Why might you be interested?

Perhaps you're a masters or PhD student looking for some additional
research experience. Or maybe you're just interested in expanding
linguistic research beyond WEIRD populations. Our intended journal for
the finalised database is Nature Scientific Data, and all native
language collaborators will be included as authors on the final
resulting paper. We would envisage (although of course can’t
guarantee) that the database would be highly citable, as it is the
first of its type (to the best of our knowledge). There are many
potential future projects that could spring from it on our side, so it
is likely that if you were interested in continued collaborations
beyond this project there would be scope for this going forward. The
project has a flexible timeline, and we are happy to work around
existing commitments to progress the project at a rate that suits you.

For more information about the project, its aims and your potential
role, please contact:
Jen Lewendon
Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University Abu Dhabi
Email: jal9590 at nyu.edu
Website: j-lewen.github.io

Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics
                     General Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Bengali (ben)
                     Indonesian (ind)
                     Malay (mly)
                     Nepali (nep)
                     Persian, Iranian (pes)
                     Thai (tha)




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