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Welcome to the experiment!
This is a study on language conducted by Laura Taylor and Christine Cuskley at Newcastle University. You will recieve $2.50 for your participation, and it should take no more than 15 minutes total. You'll need to listen to audio as part of the task, so please make sure you can do this before starting.
First we will ask you for some general information about yourself. Then, we will ask you to guess the meanings of some words in other languages. Your answers will be recorded for the research, but will not be identifiable to you personally. You will recieve a completion code at the end of the task that you will have to enter in Mechanical Turk to recieve payment.
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This is a study on language conducted by Laura Taylor and Christine Cuskley at Newcastle University. You'll need to listen to audio as part of the task, so please make sure you can do this before starting.
First we will ask you for some general information about yourself. Then, we will ask you to guess the meanings of some words in other languages. Your answers will be recorded for the research, but will not be identifiable to you personally. You can make as many, or as few, guesses as you like. We'll use cookies to recognise you, so you can also come and go once you've agreed to participate.
Please click here to read more detailed information about the study, which you can download as a PDF and keep for your records.
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You agree that your anonymised data may be kept permanently in the archives at Newcastle University and may be used by qualified researchers for teaching and research purposes.
You agree that your anonymised data may be made publicly available for general use, e.g., released as part of scholarly publication.
You voluntarily agree to participate and can stop or withdraw at any time without penalty.
Click agree below to start; no data is being collected at this time, so the terms above do not apply.
If you do not agree to these terms and don't wish to participate, simply close this window and have a nice day!
Before we get started with the task, we have a few basic questions about you. Once these are done you'll recieve more specific instructions about the task.
First, we need to make sure you're a genuine human.
We'll start by making sure you aren't a bot or a script. Follow the instructions below carefully so we can make sure you aren't a robot.
Type the third and fifth words of this sentence into the white box below.
Add a question mark and exclamation point after the words (in that order) for style.
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We'll start by asking you a few questions about you and your experience with language(s), and then we'll give you more specific instructions about the task.
Clicking each button will play an audio file of a word in a language other than English. Your job is to listen to each word, and guess which word has the meaning of the concept above it. In this case, play each word and guess which word means "SOUR".
Try it by playing the words using the buttons above. You will have to play each word before you can answer - we want you to guess based on how they sound, not just randomly! You can play them as many times as you want. Once you play them at least once, the answer buttons will activate below.
You got that one right!Oops, it was word A that meant SOUR. For each guess, you'll get a point based on whether you guessed right, or wrong - but you won't see feedback on each guess. We'll only show you your score every few guesses. You can guess as many items as you want - there are 80 in total. You can also leave and come back later to continue playing. There are 80 items in total. Once you've finished all of them, you'll get the completion code to hand in to Mechanical Turk.
What's it all about? You heard words for sweet, bitter, white and black from ten unrelated languages (Azerbaijani, Bengali, Fijian, Finnish, Kaingag, Nahuatl, Seri, Surin Khmer, Swahili, and Tongan). Sometimes you were asked to guess between words that meant sweet and bitter, sometimes between black and white, and sometimes beetween colour and taste (like white and sweet). There is already evidence people can guess the meaning of antonyms like black and white in langauges they don't know. This project was aiming to test whether this holds for related but different terms (like sweet and bitter) and whether it works across modalities like colour and taste (black and sweet, for example). Data is still being analyzed, so stay tuned!