<div dir="ltr">Announcement: Melbourne Linguistics in the Pub <br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px">NOTE: this event will be held face to face at Naughton's hotel, Parkville (Melbourne, Australia)</span><br></div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Melbourne Linguistics in the Pub 9th November 2021: online linguistics research: stories from the 'field'</span></b></p>

<p style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">During the pandemic much face-to-face research on language has been halted and many researchers have found ways to do their research online instead. In this session of Linguistics in the
Pub, three linguists will share their experiences of doing research online in the areas of sociolinguistics,
language planning, forensic linguistics, phonetics and psycholinguistics.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Dr Chloé
Diskin-Holdaway, Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, the University of
Melbourne</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Chloé will talk about
her experiences in collecting data online during the COVID-19 pandemic. She
will report on two projects: the first consisted of two large-scale, nationwide
surveys of language maintenance and bilingualism, and language attitudes and identity.
The second, <i>Bear in a Window</i>, was an online experiment for
children aged 3-12 to share stories and experiences about life in lockdown. The
first project is outlined in the following Conversation article: <a href="https://theconversation.com/dont-be-afraid-to-pass-your-first-language-and-accent-to-your-kids-it-could-be-their-superpower-143093" style="color:blue" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://theconversation.com/dont-be-afraid-to-pass-your-first-language-and-accent-to-your-kids-it-could-be-their-superpower-143093</span></a>.
The second project is still running, with information available at <a href="http://www.bearinawindow.org/" style="color:blue" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://www.bearinawindow.org/</span></a></span></p>

<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Dr Debbie Loakes  Research Fellow, Research Hub
for Language in Forensic Evidence Postdoctoral Researcher, ARC Centre of
Excellence for the Dynamics of Language (CoEDL), The University of
Melbourne </span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>

<p style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Debbie will talk about online data collection for some projects
that involve listener reactions to speech. One set of projects discussed are
within the Research Hub for Language in Forensic Evidence, analysing a) how
people react to indistinct forensic audio, and also how they can be primed
(falsely), and b) how well people transcribe indistinct forensic-like audio.
Data is collected via the Qualtrics platform which offers various benefits to
researchers doing remote data collection. Another project with COEDL is a
collaboration with psychology colleagues at Western Sydney University, also
looking at perceptual priming. Data collection was originally planned to go
ahead with an eye-tracking device, but when CoVID hit this was changed so that
(fairly) comparable data could be collected via Zoom. This is a different
scenario from Qualtrics because the researcher needs to be present for all data
collection sessions, and has far more interaction with the participant. For
this particular kind of experiment, researcher presence is beneficial but
extremely time-consuming. </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">You can read about some of Debbie’s work with the Research Hub
here via the blog here: <a href="https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/language-forensics/#tab59" style="color:blue" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/language-forensics/#tab59</span></a> which
has various posts talking about issues relating to the transcription of
indistinct forensic audio. </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Dr Olga Maxwell,
Lecturer in ESL and Applied Linguistics, the University of Melbourne</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Olga will talk about
her experiences with the transition to fully online data collection during the
COVID-19 pandemic. She will report on two concurrently run projects which
involve collecting perception and production data. The first project is a
collaboration with the colleagues at the University of Melbourne and the
University of Oxford. </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The study examines
Indian English spoken in two diverse diaspora locations, Melbourne, Australia
and Oxford, the UK, both with large diaspora communities. It investigates how
recently-arrived speakers of Indian English adapt to two diverse linguistic
contexts, which phonetic features they retain signalling their ‘Indian
identity’, and which features of the local dialect they adopt. A perception
experiment was designed in PsychoPy and run online using the Pavlovia platform.
Speech production data was collected using participants’ mobile phones, while
background questionnaires were administered in Qualtrics. The second project is
work with the collaborators at the Universities of Oxford and Hamburg, which
adopts the same instruments for data collection, but focuses on the perception
and production of lexical stress.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Details:</b></span></p><div dir="ltr">Date:      Tuesday 9th November 2021<br>Time:       6:00 - 8:00 pm<br>Venue:     Function room, Naughton’s Parkville Hotel<br>Address: 43 Royal Parade, Parkville VIC 3052<br>Phone:   (03) 9347 2255<br><a href="http://parkvillehotel.com.au/" target="_blank">http://parkvillehotel.com.au/</a> <font color="#500050"> </font>(menu available online)<br><br>To hear about the next Linguistics in the Pub - follow our new Facebook page:<br><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Melbourne-Linguistics-in-the-Pub-108857668018691" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/Melbourne-Linguistics-in-the-Pub-108857668018691</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br>LIP is a gathering of language activists and linguists in Melbourne coordinated by a committee: Ruth Singer (Melbourne Uni), Andrew Tanner (Living Languages/La Trobe Uni), Lauren Gawne (LaTrobe Uni), Jill Vaughan (Melbourne Uni), Chloé Diskin-Holdaway (Melbourne Uni), Fergus Boyd (Melbourne Uni), Ruby Mineur (Melbourne Uni) and Jonathon Lum (Melbourne Uni).</div></div></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Dr Ruth Singer</span><br></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">ARC Future Fellow</span></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne</font></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Research Unit for Indigenous Language (RUIL): <a href="http://indiglang.arts.unimelb.edu.au/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://indiglang.arts.unimelb.edu.au/</a></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language (CoEDL)</span><font face="verdana, sans-serif">: <a href="http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/</a> </font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div><a href="https://unimelb.academia.edu/RuthSinger" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">https://unimelb.academia.edu/RuthSinger</font></a></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/display/person2621" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/display/person2621</a></font></div></div></div></div></div>