Howdy, y’all! April certainly was a busy month here at the San Diego Project (the research team behind the San Diego Speaks! website) — so busy that we seemed to have missed an update or two! Well, as always, we recorded some new participants, coded some linguistic stuff, analyzed some data. But the real excitement has […]
Hola, I’m solo in the lab today which means I get to laugh and talk out loud to myself while watching everyone’s Danny the Dolphin videos. While watching the videos, we have created categories of the characters that people present when speaking like Danny, a true Southern Californian. These categories consist of, but are not […]
Hola! Today’s work in the lab consists of more organizing. All of the participants have their own note card with their background information on it, almost like a linguistic-style baseball card with stats about how many languages someone speaks rather than their batting average. I had the privileged of taking all of these note cards and […]
Greetings! After mourning over the death of our favorite half-human/half-Vulcan, we were back to work in the lab. As of right now, there is a lot of spring cleaning going on in San Diego Speaks! We are listening to all the data that has been collected thus far and are splicing up those sound files […]
Happy New Year! Well, it’s already February, but it’s only the third week of the semester! We’re up and running here in the lab. We spent some time organizing the physical space as well as our files to get Spring 2015 off to a clean start. Today, we met our newest team member, Mechelle Negrete. […]
This week we organized our new sound files and entered them into our database. We also worked on an abstract to submit to a linguistics conference. We scheduled some recording sessions for next week. To make sure we’re ready for our interviews next week, we spent some time on Thursday testing the mic levels. We […]
This week, we play-tested a fun and challenging linguistics card game. We also explored the the merger of two vowels before/l/ and created a (hopefully exhaustive) list of minimal pairs to incorporate into a new reading to see if speakers can produce or perceive a difference. The four members of our lab come from various […]