Creaky voice: Invitation to be part of my research project (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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1.  Mary Louise Parker, particularly during her stint on "The West
Wing", can have a bad case of creaky voice.

2.  $50k?  On the taxpayer's dime?  Really?

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> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On
Behalf Of
> Ikuko Patricia Yuasa
> Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 10:36 PM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Creaky voice: Invitation to be part of my research project
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> Poster:       Ikuko Patricia Yuasa <ipyuasa at BERKELEY.EDU>
> Subject:      Creaky voice: Invitation to be part of my research
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> Dear colleagues:
>
>
> My name is Ikuko Patricia Yuasa.I am currently a visiting scholar at
UC
> Berkeley, preparing grant proposals for research grants such as the
> National Endowment for Humanities Grants.
>
> I am looking for 2 or 3 people who would be interested in being paid
to be
> part of my current research project proposal. My preliminary research
on
> socio-cultural usage of American women's creaky voice was recently
> published in American Speech by the American Dialect Society.
>
> http://americanspeech.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/85/3/315
>
>  I was encouraged by the reviewers of this publication to pursue
further
> investigation into this phenomenon by American women.  Also, this
> preliminary research result may appear in Time Magazine in 2011 as it
has
> recently caught the attention of of the magazine's reporter.  I am
> looking for those who teach college students in three American dialect
> regions of Mountains (states located near Rocky Mountains), South
> Atlantic, and North Atlantic.Their responsibilities are:
>
> #1. Assigning approximately 100 (native American English speaker)
students
> to participate in a speech perception survey as part of their
coursework
> of the courses that the collaborators teach during the spring
(preferable)
> or/and fall semester of 2012.
>
> #2. Assistance in recruiting 40 paid (native bilingual American
English
> speaker) informants (20 males and 20 females) by making announcements
in
> the collaborators' courses during the spring (preferable) or/and fall
> semester of 2012.
>
> #3. Assistance in locating a room where I can record 10 to 15 min.
> conversations by these informants.
>
> I am budgeting a research assistant in linguistics department at UC
> Berkeley. If the collaborating researchers allow the research
assistant
> and I  to directly communicate with the students participating in the
> research, their burden should be minimized. The monetary compensation
that
> I allocated for collaborating researchers is $5000 each. Please see
the
> itemized based on the number used for this year's grant for the
National
> Endowment for Humanities below:
>
> $50,400/12 months
> ***
> $6,000 ($1000 x 6 months): 1 research assistantship
> $15,000 ($5,000 x 3): 3 collaborating researchers
> $6000 ($2000 x 3): traveling to 3 collaborating research sites
> $2400 ($20 x 40 informants x 3 research sites): payments
> $200 ($100 x 2 digital recorders): digital recorders
> $20,800: primary investigator's research leave
> ***Total: $50,400
>
> Please let me know if you are interested in becoming a research
> collaborator of this project.
>
>
> Regards,
> Ikuko Patricia Yuasa, Ph.D.
> Visiting Scholar
> Center for Japanese Studies
> University of California, Berkeley
> 2223 Fulton Street Room 500 #2318
> Berkeley, CA 94720-2318
> ipyuasa at berkeley.edu/ipyuasa at cal.berkeley.edu
> 510.642.3156
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