Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Telephone Speech Study:Need Levantine Speakers

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Date: 08 Sep 2003
From: Bushra Zawaydeh <bzawaydeh at hotmail.com>
Subject:AArabic Telephone Speech Study:Need Levantine Speakers

Dear All,

The Linguistic Data Consortium at the University of
Pennsylvania is conducting a study on Arabic telephone
speech to study how native speakers of Arabic
communicate with each other on the phone. Hence, we
are searching for native speakers of Arabic who are
from Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, or Palestine.

If you are interested in participating in the project,
please e-mail me back at bushra_zawaydeh at yahoo.com,
and give me the information
that is listed at the end of this e-mail. Basically
you will be talking on the phone with another person
that you may not know. That other person could be in
the Middle East or anywhere else in the world. You
will speak for 10 minutes about a general topic that
will be assigned to you when the call is made. The
call will be made anytime between 8:00 and 11:00 PM
Middle East time, or 1:00 - 3:00 PM US Eastern Time.
After talking for 10 minutes, you will receive $10 by
mail. You can participate in up to 3 calls. Hence you
can make $30.

In real life, our conversations with strangers have
specific goals: to get or give information, to
accomplish a task or to build a relationship. In this
study, we assign topics to encourage the same kind of
goal-oriented talk. The topics also give variety to
the conversations and keep them going in a meaningful
way. Please speak on the suggested topic, giving your
opinions and the benefit of your personal experience
and please also ask about the other person's
experience and opinions.

If you or anybody you know is interested in
participating in this project please e-mail me the
following information:

Name:
Gender:
Age:
Country where born:
Country where raised:
City where raised:
Native Language:
Other Languages spoken fluently:
Years of education:
Occupation/Specialization:
email address (if available):
postal address:
phone number:
phone type (cellular, cordless, standard, satellite,
internet):

The dialects that we are targeting in this project are
the Jordanian, Lebanese, Syrian, and Palestinian
Arabic dialects. Please feel free to forward this
message to all your friends or relatives who might be
interested in this project, and who are native
speakers of one of these 4 Arabic dialects. If you
have any questions, pleae do not hesitate to contact
me.

Bushra Zawaydeh, Ph.D.
Linguistic Data Consortium
University of Pennsylvania

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