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

Mon Oct 25 23:33:06 UTC 2021

Hi Julia,

Sorry it doesn't really work to record the Linguistics in the Pub when it
is really in the pub. But if you would like to organise an online version
on this topic, the three presenters may be interested in doing that too and
I would be happy to help with the logistics.

Cheers,

Ruth

On Mon, 25 Oct 2021 at 19:49, Julia Sallabank <js72 at soas.ac.uk> wrote:

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> 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:
>> https://www.facebook.com/Melbourne-Linguistics-in-the-Pub-108857668018691
>>
>> 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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> SOAS, University of London,
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>
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>
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-- 
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/

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