kent lee's blog & ramble

I need a lot of people from Taiwan for a language / psychology experiment. It's a 70 min. computer experiment at my lab in Beckman, which pays $7. It involves pushing buttons to answer questions about Chinese characters. Soon I'll have a similar experiment that involves naming characters. I may also have shorter versions of these experiments later on. You can also do a 20-min. language survey for another $4. Requirements: Native speaker of Chinese, from Taiwan; born and raised and lived in Taiwan until at least age 15; Chinese is your first and dominant / primary language; no reading impairments (like, no dyslexia / 識字困難/誦讀困難) Please email Kent Lee at: kentlee7[at]gmail[.]com for more info or to make an appointment. Please tell your friends, too. Please help a poor grad student to graduate. :)

The following is a shameless advertisement for my experiments. I'm looking for Chinese native speakers to participate in my experiments who meet the following requirements: * Native Mandarin speakers from Taiwan. * Living in the Banana-Shampoo (Urbana-Champaign) IL area * Lived in Taiwan until at least middle school before leaving Taiwan. * No reading impairments or other handicaps / impairments. * Adult residents or students in their 20's or 30's with valid student ID or other ID. I'm currently running some Chinese language surveys, which involve providing your iimpressions about Chinese characters. There are multiple versions of the survey forms with different contents, so you can take up to five of them. Each pays $4 and takes about 20 minutes. You can come pick them, fill them out on your own, and return them later at my lab. I'm looking for a few more participants. Soon I'll be starting some laboratory experiments, and I need about 60-80 participants who me...