Recording stimuli

My friend is helping me with recording this weekend.
If you remember my projects, I have a list of about 100 nonwords to be recorded.
Fortunately, my friend thinks that it is going to be fun.
This is my first time preparing this type of audio stimuli.
I assume that the procedure should't be more complicating than a normal recording.
But I want to hear from others who have done this before.
Is there anything that I need to be careful about?
After finishing recording, I will have to edit the file to break it down to 100 files, each of which contains a single word.
Can you recommend a free, user-friendly program that I can use for this purpose?
This will be my next step.

Rebecca woes....

So, following the news about our psycholinguistic guru Rebecca, I'm wondering what each of you guys are planning to do (Nobi, Grace, Soo) since we are each planning to do projects with a psycholinguistic focus of some sort.

I'm wondering if it will be possible to keep her on as a reader for my paper? I think it might be difficult to re-pitch the project to a new professor, should one come along for the fall.

Dr. Hardison, any thoughts?

Emma's Project Update

After finishing recording speakers of five geographically distributed Arabic dialects and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), I have been working on coming up with my dialect test. I selected five passages from each dialect, based on the following criteria:

1. It had to be easy to come up with a comprehension question
2. There had to be dialectal elements in the passage (preferably phonological, morphological, and lexical)
3. It had to be less than 40 words
4. Between the dialects, the frequencies of dialect elements (number of dialectal elements/number of words) should be similar. This was problematic because some passages were more "dialecty" than others, and the Lebanese and Egyptian samples seemed to have more dialectal elements than the others, mainly due to pronunciation differences. However, I tried.
   

Today, I clipped all of the audio from the recordings. My next steps will be to get this test online (audio, questions and all), get an expert opinion on it, and apply for the IRB.

Welcome to 862

This blog is designed to allow members of LLT 862, Spring 2009, to update each other on their research projects (and thus be held accountable for them) as well as highlight issues they are having with these projects to be discussed in class.

Happy Researching!