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Need 台灣人 for language experiment (Urbana-Champaign IL)

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. :)
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