To create my experiment I first recorded my grandmother, a native Thai speaker, pronouncing different Thai minimal pairs. With each word I cut the recording to get the phonemes I was using in my experiment. For example, I cut the recording of the word ‘baa khlang’, meaning ‘insane’, to isolate the initial /b/ phoneme. I then redid this […]
Adding to my Experiment
August 20, 2019 by Leave a Comment
As I put the final touches on my experiment I began to worry people may struggle to adjust to the structure of the experiment. I worried that automatically playing recordings of the minimal pairs may catch participants off guard, and make them want to rehear the recordings. Initially I thought about allowing participants to replay the recordings. This would ensure confidence in […]
Update 7: The Importance of a Clean GC Needle
July 29, 2019 by Leave a Comment
This week, I began by repeating the photochem experiment from late last week. I did this in order to gather more data points on turnover numbers since they were relatively inconsistent last week. However, these experiments varied catalyst concentrations by very small amounts. Therefore, I also began a new photochem experiment with the same catalyst, […]
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