[RNLD List] Melbourne Linguistics in the Pub Tuesday 9th November: doing fieldwork and experiments online

[Ruth Singer]

Announcement: Melbourne Linguistics in the Pub

NOTE: this event will be held face to face at Naughton's hotel, Parkville
(Melbourne, Australia)

*Melbourne Linguistics in the Pub 9th November 2021: online linguistics
research: stories from the 'field'*

During the pandemic much face-to-face research on language has been halted
and many researchers have found ways to do their research online instead.
In this session of Linguistics in the Pub, three linguists will share their
experiences of doing research online in the areas of sociolinguistics,
language planning, forensic linguistics, phonetics and psycholinguistics.



*Dr Chloé Diskin-Holdaway, Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, the
University of Melbourne*

Chloé will talk about her experiences in collecting data online during the
COVID-19 pandemic. She will report on two projects: the first consisted of
two large-scale, nationwide surveys of language maintenance and
bilingualism, and language attitudes and identity. The second, *Bear in a
Window*, was an online experiment for children aged 3-12 to share stories
and experiences about life in lockdown. The first project is outlined in
the following Conversation article:
https://theconversation.com/dont-be-afraid-to-pass-your-first-language-and-accent-to-your-kids-it-could-be-their-superpower-143093.
The second project is still running, with information available at
http://www.bearinawindow.org/

*Dr Debbie Loakes  Research Fellow, Research Hub for Language in Forensic
Evidence Postdoctoral Researcher, ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics
of Language (CoEDL), The University of Melbourne *

Debbie will talk about online data collection for some projects that
involve listener reactions to speech. One set of projects discussed are
within the Research Hub for Language in Forensic Evidence, analysing a) how
people react to indistinct forensic audio, and also how they can be primed
(falsely), and b) how well people transcribe indistinct forensic-like
audio. Data is collected via the Qualtrics platform which offers various
benefits to researchers doing remote data collection. Another project with
COEDL is a collaboration with psychology colleagues at Western Sydney
University, also looking at perceptual priming. Data collection was
originally planned to go ahead with an eye-tracking device, but when CoVID
hit this was changed so that (fairly) comparable data could be collected
via Zoom. This is a different scenario from Qualtrics because the
researcher needs to be present for all data collection sessions, and has
far more interaction with the participant. For this particular kind of
experiment, researcher presence is beneficial but extremely
time-consuming.  You
can read about some of Debbie’s work with the Research Hub here via the
blog here: https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/language-forensics/#tab59 which has
various posts talking about issues relating to the transcription of
indistinct forensic audio.



*Dr Olga Maxwell, Lecturer in ESL and Applied Linguistics, the University
of Melbourne*

Olga will talk about her experiences with the transition to fully online
data collection during the COVID-19 pandemic. She will report on two
concurrently run projects which involve collecting perception and
production data. The first project is a collaboration with the colleagues
at the University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford. The study
examines Indian English spoken in two diverse diaspora locations,
Melbourne, Australia and Oxford, the UK, both with large diaspora
communities. It investigates how recently-arrived speakers of Indian
English adapt to two diverse linguistic contexts, which phonetic features
they retain signalling their ‘Indian identity’, and which features of the
local dialect they adopt. A perception experiment was designed in PsychoPy
and run online using the Pavlovia platform. Speech production data was
collected using participants’ mobile phones, while background
questionnaires were administered in Qualtrics. The second project is work
with the collaborators at the Universities of Oxford and Hamburg, which
adopts the same instruments for data collection, but focuses on the
perception and production of lexical stress.


*Details:*
Date:      Tuesday 9th November 2021
Time:       6:00 - 8:00 pm
Venue:     Function room, Naughton’s Parkville Hotel
Address: 43 Royal Parade, Parkville VIC 3052
Phone:   (03) 9347 2255
http://parkvillehotel.com.au/  (menu available online)

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LIP is a gathering of language activists and linguists in Melbourne
coordinated by a committee: Ruth Singer (Melbourne Uni), Andrew Tanner
(Living Languages/La Trobe Uni), Lauren Gawne (LaTrobe Uni), Jill Vaughan
(Melbourne Uni), Chloé Diskin-Holdaway (Melbourne Uni), Fergus Boyd
(Melbourne Uni), Ruby Mineur (Melbourne Uni) and Jonathon Lum (Melbourne
Uni).
-- 
Dr Ruth Singer
ARC Future Fellow
School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne
Research Unit for Indigenous Language (RUIL):
http://indiglang.arts.unimelb.edu.au/
ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language (CoEDL):
http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/

https://unimelb.academia.edu/RuthSinger
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