22.3354, Qs: Seek Mandarin, Yoruba Speakers for Online Study

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Subject: 22.3354, Qs: Seek Mandarin, Yoruba Speakers for Online Study

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Date: 23-Aug-2011
From: Darcie Blainey [musiclanguagetest at gmail.com]
Subject: Seek Mandarin, Yoruba Speakers for Online Study

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Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:21:31
From: Darcie Blainey [musiclanguagetest at gmail.com]
Subject: Seek Mandarin, Yoruba Speakers for Online Study

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Hello,

My name is Darcie Blainey, and I am a PhD student at Tulane 
University.  I am conducting an online study to examine potential links 
between the rate of amusia (inability to distinguish different melodies) 
in a speech population and their language's tone status.  I am therefore 
looking for native speakers of English (non-tonal), Yoruba, and 
Mandarin (tonal) to complete the 10-minute online study.  

I am especially in need of native Mandarin and Yoruba speakers.  
Speakers can be of any nationality, as long as they are between the 
ages of 12 and 90 and have access to an internet connection with 
sound.  Speakers are required to fill out an anonymous demographics 
form, and then listen pairs of melodies, in order to decide whether they 
are the same or different.  Speakers will receive no compensation for 
participation in the study.

The study website is available at the following address:

Mandarin: 
http://www.tulane.edu/~klingler/musiclanguagetest/app/webroot/index.p
hp/home/chi

Yoruba:
http://www.tulane.edu/~klingler/musiclanguagetest/app/webroot/index.p
hp/home/yor

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This research is based on the work of Isabelle Peretz and colleagues.  
More information about the study can be provided on request.  
Naturally, I will report to LinguistList on any eventual findings of the 
research.

Please consider posting this information on LinguistList, and forwarding 
the links to any potential participants.  I greatly appreciate your 
assistance, and thank you in advance for your help!  Please do not 
hesitate to contact me should you have any questions.

Sincerely yours,

Darcie Blainey
musiclanguagetest at gmail.com 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Neurolinguistics
                     Phonology
                     Typology

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