LIN-CSD
Research
Participant Pool
Current
Experiments
¨ Generalization from Semantic Training 2
¨ Effects of Native Language on Perception of Pitch Contour
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The Relationship between Verbs and their Thematic Roles
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Speech perception and the production of English lexical stress by Thai
speakers
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Rating Sentences for Plausibility
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Accent and Intelligibility in Cross-Cultural Communication
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Eye-tracking Short Short Stories
♦ Attention and Complex Sentence Comprehension
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Attention Effects on Word Finding
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Perception Training Study of Non-Native Speech Contrasts
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Making up Sentences
Researchers: Cowles
½
Research Hour
UF-IRB: 2005-U-0923
How do we decide what to say when we speak?
This study examines influences on how people form sentences during speech.
Participants will be asked to listen to sentences and then produce sentences
that naturally follow from what they’ve just heard. A short questionnaire will
also be given at the end. The experiment will take approximately 30 minutes.
You must be a native speaker of English age 18-30 to participate in this
experiment.
Estimated
duration of experiment:
30 minutes
Subjects
needed: 28
Location
of experiment:
Turlington B127
Reference
“Experiment” in the subject line of your email to set up an appointment with:
Nick (nickwlms@ufl.edu)
392-2572
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Effects of Native Language on Perception of Pitch Contour
Researchers: Wayland/Kaan
1.5 Research Hours
UF-IRB: 2007-U-0944
The purpose of
this study is to determine how a person’s native language affects their ability
to distinguish between changes in pitch contour. This experiment uses an “oddball” paradigm:
you will hear several stimuli in a row, and will be asked to signal when you
hear a sound that differs from the others. You will also complete
questionnaires, take a hearing test, and participate in pitch discrimination
tasks.
* Two groups
of participants are needed for this experiment: native speakers of American
English and native speakers of Mandarin Chinese. To participate in this
experiment, you must be between 18 and 35 years old, and have normal
hearing. If you are a native speaker of
English, you must have no prior exposure to Thai, Chinese or other tonal
languages.
Estimated duration of
experiment: 2 hours
Subjects needed: 60*
Location
of experiment: Turlington B122 (in
the basement)
Reference “Experiment” in the subject
line of your email to set up an appointment with:
Joanne Bao (joanneb@ufl.edu)
Or
Dr. Wayland (ratree@ufl.edu)
2-0639 X 225
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The Relationship between Verbs and their Thematic Roles
Researchers:
UF-IRB: 2006-U-317
This study is
the first step to developing a language therapy for persons with aphasia. You
will be asked to look at pairs of words on a computer and make decisions about
whether strings of letters are words or non-words. The results of this study
will be compared to similar results from older adults and persons with aphasia.
Participants will complete a few cognitive (e.g., memory, attention) tasks and
two computer tasks which involve making decisions about words presented on the
screen.
Participants must be native speakers of English, age 18-22, right-handed, with
no history of neurological diagnosis/injury or learning disability.
Estimated duration of experiment: 1
hour. Subjects needed: 30
Location of experiment:
Dauer 56
Reference “Experiment” in the subject
line of your email to set up an appointment with:
Sara (salismi@ufl.edu
)
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Generalization from Semantic Training 2
Researchers: Altmann 2 Research Hours
UF-IRB: 2007-U-1164
The adult vocabulary contains 20,000 – 60,000 words. When a person
has a semantic impairment it is impossible to retrain their entire vocabulary;
therefore it is important that the therapy that is used affect more than just
the trained set of words (i.e., it must “generalize”). An optimal training
program would improve access to many other words in the person’s vocabulary.
This study investigates whether the type of stimuli used or the type of
training used leads to better generalization to untrained words in the normal
semantic system.
Participants
in this study must be native speakers of English between 18 and 35, and have no
history of hearing, reading or learning disability.
We will ask
you to come back 5-7 days later for a second visit of about 20 minutes, which
you will get paid $10 for!
SORRY! If you
participated in Generalization from Semantic Training 1 this spring, you cannot
also do this experiment!
Estimated duration of experiment: 2
hours total. Subjects needed: 30
Location of experiment:
Dauer 50
Reference “Experiment” in the subject line
of your email to set up an appointment with:
Lindsay
(lgroves87@ufl.edu)
Or
Sheli (lips021@ufl.edu)
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Speech perception and the production of
English lexical stress by Thai speakers
Researchers: Jangjamras/Wayland 1 Research Hour
UF-IRB: 2006-U-357
This study
investigates how native and non-native speakers of English produce the English
lexical stress and perceive the lexical stress location. Participants will be asked to listen and
repeat English non-words with a specified stress location and read a short
passage aloud. Participants will also
identify an intended stress location of each test word by pressing a response
key.
In order to
participate, you must be a native speaker of American English, not a bilingual
speaker of any tonal languages such as Thai, Chinese or Vietnamese, right-handed,
age between 18 – 30, and have no history of listening or speaking
impairment.
Estimated duration of experiment: 1
hour. Subjects needed: 13
Location of experiment:
Turlington B-122
Reference “Experiment” in the subject line
of your email to set up an appointment with:
Jirapat (jirapat@ufl.edu )
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Rating Sentences for Plausibility
Researchers: Kaan/Chappell ½
Research Hour
UF-IRB: 2007-U-1084
This
experiment is designed to help develop stimuli for a later study. You will be rating English sentences for
plausibility in a paper and pencil, questionnaire task.
In order to
participate, you must be a native speaker of American English between 18 – 30,
and have no history of reading impairment.
Estimated duration of experiment: 30 minutes. Subjects
needed: 80
Location of experiment:
Turlington B-122
Reference “Experiment” in the subject line
of your email to set up an appointment with:
Milla (millac@ufl.edu)
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Accent and Intelligibility in
Cross-Cultural Communication
Researchers: Chappell/Wiltshire ½
Research Hour
UF-IRB: 2007-U-1084
This
experiment is designed to help develop stimuli for a later study. You will be rating English sentences for
plausibility in a paper and pencil, questionnaire task. The purpost of this
study is to examine adult second-language learners’ speech characteristics and
to describe specific phonetic properties that may influence cross-cultural
intelligibility. Participants will take place in various listening activities.
In order to
participate, you must be a native speaker of American English, a native speaker
of Mandarin Chinese, or a native speaker of Spanish. There are no age limitations. You must be
have no history of reading or learning
disabilities.
Estimated duration of experiment: 30 minutes. Subjects
needed: 20
Location of experiment:
Turlington B-122
Reference “Experiment” in the subject
line of your email to set up an appointment with:
Milla (millac@ufl.edu)
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Eye-Tracking Short Short
Stories
Researchers: Isaacs/Cowles 1
Research Hour
UF-IRB: 2008-U-0175
This study
tracks where people’s eyes go when they read very short passages. Participants will
have their eye-movements monitored with two tiny cameras while they read and
answer simple questions about each passage. A couple short questionnaires will
be given at the end of the experiment.
The experiment will take approximately 60 minutes.
You must be a native speaker of English age 18-30 with normal or
corrected-to-normal vision to participate in this experiment. You must also not
have any history of reading impairment
or neurological injury.
Estimated
duration of experiment:
60 minutes
Subjects
needed: 32
Location
of experiment:
Turlington B127
Reference
“Experiment” in the subject line of your email to set up an appointment with:
Caroline
(ckisaacs@ufl.edu)
392-2572
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Attention and Complex Sentence Comprehension
Researchers: Key-DeLyria/Altmann 2 Research Hours
UF-IRB: 2008-U-0527
Come and see your
brain waves! When you read sentences and when you attend to your world, your
brain’s electrical signals change. This experiment is testing how sentence
comprehension and attention work together when you read sentences and make
judgments about symbols.
You will be
asked to complete a series of working memory, attention and executive function
tasks, 3 sentence comprehension tasks and 2 experimental attention tasks. One
of the sentence comprehension tasks and one of the attention tasks will be
completed while your brain waves are being recorded. In order to participate in
this experiment, you must be a native speaker of English, between 18 and 30
years old, and have no history of reading or language impairment, head injury
or attention deficits.
Estimated duration of experiment: 3 hours Subjects
needed: 30
Location of experiment: McKnight Brain Institute L3-135
Reference “Experiment” in the subject
line of your email to set up an appointment with:
Sarah (sarahekd@ufl.edu)
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Attention Effects on Word Finding
Researchers: Key-DeLyria/Altmann 1½ Research Hours
UF-IRB: 2007-U-0528
Sometimes
accessing one word will make it more difficult to understand related words.
Individual differences in attention may increase this difficulty. This
experiment tests this effect by asking you to read words and make judgments
about word relatedness.
In this
experiment, you will be asked to complete 5 attention tasks, a questionnaire
and a semantic judgment task. In order to participate in this experiment, you
must be a native speaker of English (bilingual speakers welcome), between 18
and 30 years old, and have no history of reading or language impairment, head
injury or attention deficits.
Estimated duration of experiment: 1½ hours Subjects needed:
25
Location of experiment: Dauer 50
Reference “Experiment” in the subject
line of your email to set up an appointment with:
Arlene (adawson5@ufl.edu)
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Perception training study of non-native speech contrasts
Researchers: Gogoi/Harnsberger
2 Research Hours+
UF-IRB: 2008-U-0422
The study looks
at the acquisition of non-native speech sounds by bilingual and monolingual
groups to determine the learnability and rate of
acquisition through perception training study.
The training
will involve 6-7 sessions (hourly). Training will involve listening to
non-native speech contrasts and identifying the sounds to one of the sound
types.
Beyond the 2
hour credit limit, the students will be paid $5/half hour or $10/hour. The
timing for the sessions is flexible and can be decided upon considering convenience
to both participant and researcher
Three groups
of 5 participants are needed for this experiment:
1) Monolingual American
English speakers,
2) bilingual Bengali-English
speakers and
3) bilingual Spanish-English speakers.
To participate in this experiment, you must be between 18 and 35
years old, and have normal hearing. High spoken proficiency in each language is
required in case of bilingual groups.
Estimated duration of experiment: 6 hours Subjects
needed: 5 in each group
Location of experiment: Dauer 68/TUR 122
Reference “Experiment” in the subject
line of your email to set up an appointment with:
Divya Gogoi (divyav@ufl.edu)
846-5209
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