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Qs: Participants for Study on Place Identity Questions

2019-11-13T08:54:35Z

You are invited to participate in a research study on what people experience when someone asks them “where are you from?” (IRBNet ID 1522006-1). You must be 18 years of age or older to take the survey. Participation is entirely voluntary and all responses will be kept anonymous. The survey will take up to 10 minutes to complete. Feel free to forward this invitation to others who may be interested. If you would like to participate in this study, please follow this link: https://tinyurl.c

Qs: Plosive Epenthesis in English

2019-11-13T08:54:35Z

Dear Colleagues, It is well known that English exhibits the epenthesis of a fortis plosive in nasal+fortis fricative clusters (eg prince [prins]). Some of the details of this phenomenon are not clear (to me). If you are a native speaker of English and can afford to spend about five minutes on helping me with this, please visit http://seas3.elte.hu/epenthesis/ and give your grammaticality judgements on about 50 words. Thank you very much in advance! Best regards, Peter Szigetvari

Qs: Seeking Translation of Brief Medieval Latin Treatise into Accurate Contemporary English

2019-11-13T08:54:35Z

I am in possession of a digital imprint: M[agister] Andreas Helvigius, Antichristus Romanus ex proprio suo nomine proditus: & in gloriam Domini nostri Jesu Christi summi & unici ecclesiæ pontificis, cujus honorem & cathedram iste Oppositus VICarIVs fILII DeI sibi vendicans toti Orbi imponit, publicatus, & S. ecclesiæ catholicæ judicio subjectus (Stralsundi: Literis Ferberianis [Ferber], 1630). If you have someone who might enjoy the challenge of rendering the medieval Latin into accurate cont

Qs: Quick Online Survey on ''It is (past) time''

2019-11-13T08:54:35Z

I'm doing a survey on sentences like ''It is (past) time for him to update his resume,'' the intended meaning of which is something like ''He has to update his resume now.'' I would very much appreciate it if you as a native English speaker could kindly take a few minutes to look at 12 sentences and answer questions, and optionally provide comments on their usage, meaning, formality, frequency, etc. Please feel free to distribute this survey to any native English speakers that you think would

Qs: Quick Survey about Passive Voice Sentences

2019-11-13T08:54:35Z

In each set of the sentences, which sentence(A or B) is more natural? 1. A. The door was opened by him. B. Was the door opened by him? 2. A. The picture was drawn by her? B. Was the picture drawn by her? 3. A. The book was written by a famous writer. B. Was the book written by a famous writer? 4. A. The TV show has watched by many people. B. Has the TV show watched by many people? 5. A. The house was built by my grandfather. B. Was the house built by my grandf

Qs: Are These Pseudogapping Sentences Acceptable?

2019-11-13T08:54:35Z

Would some of the native speakers of English be willing to help me? I need your judgments of acceptability of the sentences below. The task is to determine whether the sentences would be acceptable in the given sense if the part inside the parentheses was left out: 1. Some had eaten mussels, because others had (eaten) shrimp. 2. Some had played football, because others had (played) baseball. 3. Some had eaten mussels, and she claims that others had (eaten) shrimp. 4. Some had played

Qs: Participants Needed: Word Recognition in Polish

2019-11-13T08:54:35Z

Hello, I am doing research on spoken word recognition in Polish and I need participants for my experiment. You are elligible to participate if you are a native speaker of Polish. You will be asked to listen to a list of Polish words and press a key when you hear a word that meets some requirements. It will take 12 minutes in total. Here is the link to the experiment: (write your initials in the field ''participant'') https://run.pavlovia.org/jmlahoz/polaco3/html Please feel fr

Qs: Recruiting Northern Irish participants for an Online Experiment

2019-11-13T08:54:35Z

Dear readers, My name is Sara Diaz and I am doing a PhD at the University of Extremadura (Spain). As part of my PhD research on Northern Irish English, I have designed an online experiment to be completed by people from Northern Ireland (that is, people born/grown up in NI and living there). The experiment takes 20 to 30 minutes but in most cases, you will only have to tick boxes. Apart from that, it includes short clips taken from Northern Irish films so you will probably find it entertainin

Qs: The Usage of the Passive Voice in Sentences

2019-11-13T08:54:35Z

In each passive voice sentence below, which sentence sounds unnatural? What is the reason you think that the sentences are unnatural? 1. The page was turned by John. 2. The corner was turned by John. 3. The man was watched by the police. 4. Television is watched by me every evening. Thank you for your cooperation.

Qs: The Nuance of the Passive Sentence

2019-11-13T08:54:35Z

I'm a university student in Japan, and am now studying passive sentences. Please answer my questions below. In each set of sentences, how do the nuances of the sentences change when we express them in the passive form? 1. A. Those people planted the trees. B. The trees were planted by those people. 2. A. The boys played a soccer game. B. A soccer game was played by the boys. 3. A. John broke that window this morning. B. That window was broken by John this morning.

Qs: Survey on Differences in Infinitives and Verbal Nouns

2019-11-13T08:54:35Z

A short survey on the differences between infinitives and verbal nouns. Send answers to: hiroya.shimo.5d@stu.hosei.ac.jp Q1.Which sentence do you use? a.To collect stamps is my hobby. b.Collecting stamps is my hobby. Q2.Which sentence do you use? a.My hobby is to collect stamps. b.My hobby is collecting stamps. Q3.Which sentence do you use? a.I like to collect stamps. b.I like collecting stamps. Thank you,

Qs: Proper Noun whose Alternate Form has a Capital Letter

2019-11-13T08:54:35Z

Hello, How are the two words "Coke and coke" different? Which expression do you use in writing?

Qs: The Intelligibility of English as an International Language Survey

2019-11-13T08:54:35Z

Dear Fellow Linguists: I've come here to ask for your help. I'm at the final stage of my PhD research on he Pronunciation of English as an International Language/Lingua Franca in Spain. I would be more than grateful if you could help me out by completing my survey. The survey collects data on the comprehensibility, intelligibility and foreign-accentedness of English as a Lingua Franca as spoken by Spanish speakers. I'm collecting data from native English listeners, Spanish listeners and Polis

Qs: Questions about Verbal Nouns and Infinitives

2019-11-13T08:54:35Z

Hello. I am an university student majoring in English linguistics. I want to know about the different uses of verbal nouns and infinitives. If you have time, I'd really appreciate it if you could give me your opinion on my survey. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdJK8YSWcsJQteny3iv2jb7O-cNGfOTdit1TpY6o6miXcT5Ig/viewform?usp=pp_url Thank you for your cooperation.

Qs: I Want to Understand Negative Expressions

2019-11-13T08:54:35Z

Hello, I am a university student in Japan and I am majoring in English linguistics. I am currently studying negation and am especially interested in the degree of negation. We learned that the degree of negation in ''not a 〇〇'' is almost as much as that in ''no 〇〇'' (some noun is filled in the 〇〇). However, there is a case that ''not a 〇〇'' has a higher degree of negation than ''no 〇〇'' so I have some questions about it. If you have a free time, please answer this survey: https://do

Qs: Polar Bear, Coral, Cuckoo and Butterfly

2019-11-13T08:54:35Z

I was wondering if you could help me find these words: - polar bear (in a Canadian, Skandinavian or Siberian endangered language) - coral (in maybe an Oceanic endangered language) - cuckoo (in a European endangered language) - butterfly (ideally a British endangered language) this is for an exhibition at UCL's Octagon gallery, where we would like to create a link between the language loss and global decline in biodiversity. Thank you!!

Qs: Some Questions about English Grammar

2019-11-13T08:54:35Z

I am a HOSEI university student. Today I have some questions about English grammar. 1.I want to know how to use different between verbal nouns and infinitives. Please read example sentences, and please teach me which sentence you use more frequently or you use both with the same frequency. If any, please teach me how you use those separately. Q1. which sentence do you use? (a)To collect stamps is my hobby. (b)Collecting stamps is my hobby. Q2. which sentence do you use? (a) M

Qs: Relationship Between Article and Proper Noun

2019-11-13T08:54:35Z

I am a female university student majoring English Linguistics. I am wondering how many proper nouns are used with articles such as "a","an" or "the" and possessive such as "my" in the sentence like normal nouns are. Please tell me what kind of proper nouns are used like normal nouns and why the proper nouns "kleenex" and "TOYOTA" become like normal nouns. In addition, Do you use characters' names with articles or possessive?

Qs: Survey on Polite Expressions

2019-11-13T08:54:35Z

Hello, everyone! We’re university students majoring in English Linguistics. We are studying about polite expressions in English now, so we’d like you to cooperate with our survey. If you have free time, please answer this survey. https://forms.gle/SdwMvNjN1rQXekAy7

Qs: Searching for Reference on Priscian in Middle Ages

2019-11-13T08:54:35Z

Dear Linguistlisters: I am searching for the source of an online chapter on p. 195 of an online document headed ''III Carolingian Developments and Later Anglo-Saxon England'' found at the following URL http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/576316/10171756/1294752384103/Diss6-LaterPeriod+copy.pdf?token=URRESTpbbndHK9b3A01bpxPdFxA%3D but with no indication of the title of the full work (except that it refers to itself on p. 192 as ''this concluding chapter”), nor of the author’s name.