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Excellent sleuthing! Thank you so much for taking the trouble. And thanks to the others who responded as well. Mystery solved.
Best wishes
Robert
Robert Zatorre
Montreal Neurological Institute McGill University 514-398-8903 fax: 514-398-1338 www.zlab.mcgill.ca From: Yolanda Vazquez-Alvarez [Yolanda.Vazquez-Alvarez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: April 12, 2016 6:36 AM To: R. Zatorre, Dr.; AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: sentence data base Hi Robert,
Initially, I thought these sentences were part of the phonetically balanced Harvard sentences set. However, after a bit of searching I found that they were actually part of a paper from the Journal of Memory and Language (Dahee Kim, Joseph D.W. Stephens,
Mark A. Pitt . How does context play a part in splitting words apart? Production and perception of word boundaries in casual speech. Journal of Memory and Language 66 (2012) 509–529). See the file attached. In the Appendix A you will find the Stimuli used
in this study and the sentences you are looking for are the 2-word Biasing ambiguous sequences you will see that match the ones you are looking for. Although some of them are slightly modified but still follow the patterns.
I hope this helps.
Best wishes, Yolanda.
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Yolanda Vazquez-Alvarez MSc PhD
SICSA Research Fellow in Multimodal Interaction School of Computing Science University of Glasgow Glasgow, G12 8RZ Email: Yolanda.Vazquez-Alvarez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Personal webpage: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~yolanda
From: AUDITORY - Research in Auditory Perception [AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of Robert Zatorre [robert.zatorre@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2016 8:44 PM To: AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: sentence data base Dear colleagues
A few years ago a student in my lab used some sentences that he got from a paper somewhere (psych or psycholinguistics journal I think). The student is long gone and I'd like to figure out where he got them from. Google did not help but I wondered if any of you by chance might recognize them. They are a bit odd, but well-structured gramatically etc. Does anyone know where they might have come from? Here are a few of the more distinctive ones (there were several dozen in the original study). Any clues would be welcome! o On the church tower there was a cross that looked golden o The little girl had a cute collection of dolls o The hallway leads to a door at the end o The lawyer should know what a fair deal would be o That’s more teeth than I thought a mouth could have o These black squares belong to a line that runs vertically o The tired gladiators were entitled to a rest that day o The minister told us that the tax low had changed
Robert -- Robert Zatorre, PhD Montreal Neurological Institute McGill University 3801 University St Montreal, QC Canada H3A2B4 www.zlab.mcgill.ca |