28.428, Software: Worldlikeness: Typological Psycholinguistics Tool

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Subject: 28.428, Software: Worldlikeness: Typological Psycholinguistics Tool

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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 09:31:16
From: Tsung-Ying Chen [tsungyin at ualberta.ca]
Subject: Worldlikeness: Typological Psycholinguistics Tool

 
Dear fellow linguists,
 
It’s our pleasure to announce a free Web experiment tool for typological
psycholinguistics – Worldlikeness (https://www.worldlikeness.org). In this web
app, you can design simple psycholinguistic experiments (e.g., acceptability
judgments or lexical decisions using pictures, sounds, and texts), crowdsource
your data collection online, and share your experimental results with other
linguists around the world. The goal of Worldlikeness is to make
cross-linguistic psycholinguistics more like typological linguistics: just as
typologists start with individual language descriptions, with tools like
Worldlikeness, individual psycholinguists can collect and share data from
languages of their own interest, and typologists can then conduct analyses
across the data sets to study universal and language-specific factors that
influence language processing.
 
Please check the introduction and user manual sections in the web app for more
information about the theoretical and methodological background and the web
system itself, including how it conforms with guidelines on research ethics.
Our studies using Worldlikeness are attached at the end of this message for
your reference. Please let us know if you have any questions or comments on
our project!
 
James Myers: Lngmyers at ccu.edu.tw
Jane Tsay: Lngtsay at ccu.edu.tw
Tsung-Ying Chen tsungyin at ualberta.ca
 
Graduate Institute of Linguistics
National Chung Cheng University
 
 
Myers, J. (2016). Meta-megastudies. The Mental Lexicon, 11(3), 329-349.
http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/ml.11.3.01mye
 
Myers, J., & Chen, T-Y. (2016, July). The time course of sociolinguistic
influences on wordlikeness judgments. In preconference proceedings of the
International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) Tutorial and Research
Workshop on Experimental Linguistics (ExLing-2016), Saint Petersburg, Russia.
http://www.ccunix.ccu.edu.tw/~lngproc/MyersChen_ExLing2016_Proceedings.pdf
 
Chen, T.-Y., & Myers, J. (2016). Worldlikeness: A Web-based tool for
typological psycholinguistic research. Poster presented at the 40th Annual
Penn Linguistics Conference, Philadelphia, USA.
http://www.ccunix.ccu.edu.tw/~lngproc/PLC40_poster_final.pdf


Linguistic Field(s): Psycholinguistics
                     Typology



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