Will I Ever Finish?

In my last few posts, I mentioned that I need recordings from a Spanish and English speaker. The Spanish speaker has sent me his recordings and I have already worked through them in order to work to find the best tokens of each specific word. I am still waiting for...

The Chosen One(s)

This week, I finally pared down my stimuli!  It was tough to choose which stimuli to use and which ones to scrap, but we did it!  We also decided to run 180 trials instead of 270 for the sake of time and to avoid participants getting bored of the task (this happened...

Spanish Recordings!

So I have been waiting for a while for my recordings of the stimuli to be emailed to me. The stimuli are three parts, words with an sC onset, filler words, and nonwords. All in English. I had asked my advisor to record (a natural English speaker) and my new friend...

Praat Adventures

While waiting for my stimuli to be recorded, I have been learning about using Praat. I had learned about this tool in Span 215 (Spanish Linguistics) but we barely used it. I’ve seen what the audio clips look like as well, so that wasn’t new to me. The...

More Progress!

The stimuli are finished! Big, big hooray. It feels like it’s been months since I’ve even begun working on it. I guess, technically, it has been! I sent them to a Spanish speaker and a native English speaker who will do the recordings for me. Just waiting...