Speakers of AmE needed for 5-min web-recording survey

[Damien Hall]

Dear all

Apologies for cross-postings and to those on these lists who don't speak
American English. If that's you, you can delete this! (For these purposes,
I'm not sure whether 'American' means 'North American' and includes
'Canadian' or not.)

If you grew up speaking some variety of American English, as I think most
people on these lists did, Claire Bowern (Yale) would appreciate your help
with a survey: she is making a trial of Flash web-recording. You'd have to
record something while sitting at your computer. Further details at her
website below. Any questions should also go to Claire (her e-mail is
below): I'm just passing this on from an e-mail I got.

Many thanks, on Claire's behalf!

Best wishes

Damien Hall

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Date:    Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:51:26 -0400
From:    Claire Bowern <clairebowern at GMAIL.COM>
Subject: survey

Hi everyone,
Some colleagues at the University of Auckland and I are conducting a
survey on North American English and trialling the use of flash web
recording for phonetic analysis. We are doing a short survey
collecting examples of as many different types of American English as
possible. We are aiming for a few thousand responses from all over the
US. We're also aiming to be as representative as possible for age,
gender, geography, ethnicity and class (as representative as we can be
given we're using an internet-based survey system). If you would like
to participate by recording a short wordlist, please visit
http://pantheon.yale.edu/~clb3/NorthAmericanDialects for further
information and instructions. The survey is open to anyone who grew up
speaking English and will take approximately five minutes to complete.
If you could help us spread the word by forwarding this to friends,
family, networks, students, etc, that would be great!

For any questions regarding this project, please contact Dr. Claire Bowern,
Department of Linguistics, Yale University. Phone: - 203.432.2045,
E-mail: claire.bowern at yale.edu.

Have a good weekend!
Claire

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Damien Hall

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