<div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,<div><br></div><div>Apologies to people receiving this on both the FOS and Sociolinguistics Lab lists. </div><div><br></div><div>We're looking for a number of native-English-speaking volunteers to proof-read a collection of sociolinguistic interviews as soon as possible. The interviews were conducted, in English, by PhD student Mingzhe Zheng. The interviewees are young US adults of either European or Chinese heritage. Although Mingzhe's English is excellent, he'd like to ensure that his transcriptions are accurate before he conducts further analysis. <br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>This would be a nice opportunity for an undergraduate (or several undergraduates) to listen to some real sociolinguistic interviews and be involved in a project. Mingzhe particularly welcomes help from people who might like to work with the interview data for projects of their own. But even if you'd just like to listen to and check over an interview or two, he would love to have your help. </div><div><br></div><div>Please contact Mingzhe at <a href="mailto:zhengmi4@msu.edu">zhengmi4@msu.edu</a> if you've got a spare hour or two and you're interested. He can show you how to use the transcription software, ELAN, to tab through and check all the utterances.</div><div><br></div><div>Suzanne</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Suzanne Evans Wagner<br>Associate Professor of Linguistics<div>B-401 Wells Hall<br>Department of Linguistics and Languages<br>Michigan State University<br>East Lansing, MI 48824<br><br>Tel: +1 (517) 355-9739<br><a href="http://www.msu.edu/%7Ewagnersu" target="_blank">http://www.msu.edu/~wagnersu</a><br><a href="http://sociolinguistics.linglang.msu.edu" target="_blank">sociolinguistics.linglang.msu.edu</a></div><div><br></div><div>Office hours: <a href="http://swagner.youcanbook.me" target="_blank">http://swagner.youcanbook.me</a></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Associate editor, <a href="http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/lingvan" style="font-style:italic" target="_blank">Linguistics Vanguard</a></span><br></div><div>Co-editor, <i><a href="http://www.routledge.com/books/series/RSLC/" target="_blank">Routledge Studies in Language Change</a></i></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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