I've just finishing listening to the 12 recordings of my experiment and marking the necessary parameters on paper. Now I can actually start doing the counts. At least I can play music while doing it ( Read more... )

I have started to run the Hebrew part of my MA experiment, in which the participants basically have to read sentences from the page. One of the words they see has diacritics, which marks the vowels of Hebrew, since the writing represents (more or less) only consonants. In general, people are supposed to know how to read diacritics from school, but ( Read more... )

So I needed to run a pilot of the Hebrew part of my mA thesis. (It is an experiment for Hebrew and Russian languages.) So I ran it once with my friend on Friday and scheduled with another girl today. After I finished with her, I went off determined to find two more participants. (I think that participants is the politically nice word for subjects, ( Read more... )

That's another line from "Phantom" probably to describe the today's weather. (Ah, who am I kidding, I just love the lines, lol.) Anyway, Phantom or not, today was very cold. And I was awake from 6am. On my way back from work I even went into a mall to buy a hat, since I couldn't stand the cold air against my ears anymore. I am still wearing it at ( Read more... )

Angel of music, do not shun me ( Read more... )

The most important thing that happened today is that my prof has finally approved the idea for my MA thesis. Another one :D. I'm very glad, because this (the experimental study of stress) is something that I really want to do. From what I see, it seems that I'll be moving into the field of language acquisition, which is good: first of all, it seems ( Read more... )