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OptimusYale
Korea (South)1005 Posts
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lilsusie
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On July 25 2012 16:13 OptimusYale wrote: There are alot of papers on attitudes towards accents, none native or otherwise that would be suitable for the purposes. Especially English English accents. Good luck though, wish I could help however I really can't as I'm not american. Would love to have a read of it though...sounds super interesting Oh I know. That's why my study is more about foreign English accents in a native American English environment and what people expect of them. Thank you so much guys, once again! I have until the end of July to have consolidate results! | ||
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Sephy90
United States1785 Posts
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OptimusYale
Korea (South)1005 Posts
Best English accent....God bless you noddy....long live the black countray accent or this one If possible, could I get a copy? I did linguistics as a my graduate degree...and loved socio-linguistics more than anything (due to me having the accent above). Foreign accents are amazing, and personally I had 3 or 4 foreign lecturers who were incredible. 2 Germans and a Japanese guy.....their accents just make it more interesting | ||
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lilsusie
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farvacola
United States18821 Posts
On July 25 2012 15:26 lilsusie wrote: Yeah that's how we've always classified it, it was my way of making it "american" lol. Also, for the gender question, I put it that way because I wanted to see if men/women gave different answers. I know it sucks, I should have put a 3rd option, but it was for the sake of making easy graphs, etc. Just choose one that you most relate to. In central Ohio, we always referred to the 5th year of undergraduate as the "victory lap". I was totally unfamiliar with the term "super senior" lol. | ||
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oGoZenob
France1503 Posts
God I'm glad I'm not doing this anymore ^^ | ||
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Smancer
United States379 Posts
On July 26 2012 00:58 oGoZenob wrote: I was wondering, what do you call a dissertation in USA ? Because in france, a dissertation is a 2 or 4hours exam, which you answer a single question (most of the time philosophy or litterature) in ten f*cking pages. God I'm glad I'm not doing this anymore ^^ In most schools, for a PhD, it is paper that you publish. The guidelines are generally that it must contribute to your field of study. For a Master program as in the case with the OP this is obviously way less strict. In my school you go through a defence. Where you present to a group of professors. These professors will question and ultimately judge whether what you have done warrants a PhD. For Mathematics, in my school, to put it simply, making a contribution to the field is generally proving something that has never been shown before. People will spend years working on a proof or a paper. In some cases the final paper or proof may be the length of a regular book, 100- 200 pages. Depending on complexity. I wish I could have just done a little survey, and wrote about the results for my degree. :-( | ||
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Divinek
Canada4045 Posts
On July 25 2012 21:36 lilsusie wrote: Once I'm done with the dissertation, if you guys want a copy, let me know. LOL. Dunno if you wanna read 15000 words of my rambling about accents though! i love linguistics research so i would enjoy seeing the paper for sure | ||
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Froadac
United States6733 Posts
On July 26 2012 05:01 Divinek wrote: i love linguistics research so i would enjoy seeing the paper for sure It is interesting material. I just finished reading a ton of chomsky, although I'm not sure I'd be able to understand that dissertation. Plus from what I can tell chomsky is quite controversial, even in that field. | ||
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Ilikestarcraft
Korea (South)17726 Posts
On July 26 2012 05:01 Divinek wrote: i love linguistics research so i would enjoy seeing the paper for sure I second this. | ||
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Aerisky
United States12129 Posts
On July 25 2012 21:36 lilsusie wrote: Once I'm done with the dissertation, if you guys want a copy, let me know. LOL. Dunno if you wanna read 15000 words of my rambling about accents though! Won't mind at all, do share when you're done please :D | ||
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Mylin
Sweden177 Posts
On July 26 2012 03:04 Smancer wrote: In most schools, for a PhD, it is paper that you publish. The guidelines are generally that it must contribute to your field of study. For a Master program as in the case with the OP this is obviously way less strict. In my school you go through a defence. Where you present to a group of professors. These professors will question and ultimately judge whether what you have done warrants a PhD. For Mathematics, in my school, to put it simply, making a contribution to the field is generally proving something that has never been shown before. People will spend years working on a proof or a paper. In some cases the final paper or proof may be the length of a regular book, 100- 200 pages. Depending on complexity. I wish I could have just done a little survey, and wrote about the results for my degree. :-( I proved something that had never been shown before in my bachelor's thesis. Just make a bunch of assumptions, apply some game theory and voilà! Economics is awesome. Math sounds rough though  EDIT: On topic I've actually had lecturers that literally was not comprehensible, that kinda sucks ^^ | ||
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(The Doctor)
Canada40 Posts
On July 25 2012 21:41 lilsusie wrote: Also, many of you commented that they are reading the same thing - I had to do that to control what was being said. If the topic is more / less interesting each time with a different accent, your opinion might change and it's just another variable that I would need to account for. Hmm maybe I should have each audio come up randomly.... Ah, okay. Thanks for explaining why you used the same text, That makes sense. I was going to ask about this. I don't know much about running experiments, but my thought was that, by having them read the exact same thing, it might make it easier for people to understand what subsequent speakers are saying because the listener knows the content of the text and can adjust what the speaker is saying to fit it? It's almost like giving subtitles, I suppose...but I may be off the mark here. EDIT: fixed grammatical error. | ||
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Promethelax
Canada7089 Posts
On July 25 2012 01:22 quirinus wrote: Hmm I don't know if including Canada is a good idea, they have two languages after all, so they are probably more tolerant towards different accents. Good luck with your dissertation! :D Not in any of the non-quebec provinces. Here in NS we have a nice solid hate for our french-accented profs. At least at my school a lot of the kids in my year hated the profs with french accents. | ||
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Chimpalimp
United States1135 Posts
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OptimusYale
Korea (South)1005 Posts
On July 26 2012 14:43 Froadac wrote: It is interesting material. I just finished reading a ton of chomsky, although I'm not sure I'd be able to understand that dissertation. Plus from what I can tell chomsky is quite controversial, even in that field. Chomsky is a chump...Halliday is where it is at! Choskian research has died a death as of late, with more and more evidence pointing to the fact that there are no universal grammar structures which destroys his theory altogether. The Piraha tribe in South America have a language where the is no number, and stories go back at most 2 generations, and even then they only speak in the present tense (or something) so stories are lsot. They have no written history, they have no spoken history...they live in the present as thats all they can speak about...pretty sweet read up if you can find it :D | ||
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BreAKerTV
Taiwan1658 Posts
Last semester I was studying abroad in Taiwan and me and three other foreign classmates gave a presentation in Chinese for a Taiwanese Culture and Folklore class. However, I was the only non-Chinese student. My three classmates that assisted with the lecture were American-born Chinese. When I delivered my section of the report to the class, in Chinese, I was so embarassed. All of the girls in the class were giggling because of my accent and or pronunciation. That was the most painful five minutes of my life, it felt like. Frankly, I feel insulted whenever a monolingual American talks about a lecturer or professor's accent without first being proficient in another language themselves. It is unfair to me, and unfair to the professors who are qualified and obtained the credentials that it takes to be a professor or lecturer. | ||
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BreAKerTV
Taiwan1658 Posts
I third it. Lilsusie, do you study psycholinguistics? Sociolinguistics? Sinolinguistics? EDIT: This strikes me as interesting because I am a little torn between studying for Chinese Linguistics for my master's degree and studying Translation for my master's. Either way, I'm going for my master's in Hong Kong, or I'm gonna try at least. | ||
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