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

Mon Oct 25 08:48:36 UTC 2021

Dear Ruth

It's a real pity that this one in particular can't be held in hybrid mode!
Any chance of recording it?

Best wishes
Julia

On Mon, 25 Oct 2021 at 01:22, Ruth Singer <rsinger at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:

> 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)
>
> To hear about the next Linguistics in the Pub - follow our new Facebook
> page:
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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
> http://www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/display/person2621
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