Native Russian Speakers needed for Linguistic Research (=free phone call fo you)

[Kevin M. F. Platt]

Dear Colleagues:

Calling all native speakers of Russian: please respond to the appeal below to aid research by
calling your mom for free... Also--you have a 1/200 chance to win $500 for participating.

All best,

Kevin Platt

Forwarded letter:

The Linguistic Data Consortium (www.ldc.upenn.edu) at the University of Pennsylvania has
launched a new telephone speech collection project, formally known as LVDID. The purpose of this
project is collecting speech data to help build automatic systems for the identification of
languages and certain dialects within languages. Russian is one of 13 languages selected for the
first phase of the project.

I am writing to ask for help in the recruitment of native Russian speakers, residing in the
Continental United States, who would be willing to register with us and make one 10 minute
phone call. Our target number of conversations for Russian is 275, which translates into 550
participants. The project itself involves minimal effort from participants, and more information can
be found at our project site http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/CallFriend2/.

All participants will be put into a lottery drawing with particpants in other language collections,
with the winner receiving a $500 prize.

Also: please forward and post this recruitment letter widely. Our recruitment budget is fairly small,
and so we will be grateful for all help in spreading the word. I look forward to hearing from
anyone who may be interested in assisting linguistic research, or who may just want a free phone
call to a friend or family member. Please feel free to reply to my email, or call our recruitment
center at 1-800-380-PENN (7366).

Thank you for your time and attention.

Sincerely,
Christopher Glenn

LVDID Project Recruitment
Linguistic Data Consortium
3600 Market Street, Suite 810
University of Pennsylvania

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