drum vocable experiment

>Date:  Fri, 09 May 2003 18:42:48 +0000
>From:  Aniruddh  Patel <[email protected]>
>Subject:  drum vocable experiment
>
>Dear Linguist List,
>
>We are doing research on the acoustic and perceptual relationship of 
>speech sounds and drum sounds in North Indian tabla music.  In this 
>tradition, spoken nonsense syllables are used to label drum sounds. This 
>way, players can communicate drum sequences either by playing them or by 
>speaking the associated syllables. We want to know if it's possible for 
>people who don't know Indian music to guess which syllable goes with which 
>drum sound.
>
>We would like to invite anyone who is interested to try a web experiment 
>in which you match spoken syllables to drum sounds. This web experiment is 
>not being used to collect data for publication (we are doing a lab study 
>for that purpose).  Rather, we are interested in the acoustic and 
>perceptual cues people use to make their decisions, and invite your 
>feedback on this issue (via a questionnaire at the end of the experiment).
>
>Here is a link to the experiment: 
><http://www.nsi.edu/tablaexp>http://www.nsi.edu/tablaexp
>
>Please feel free to pass on this invitation to anyone who might be 
>interested.
>
>Thank you,
>
>Ani Patel, John Iversen, & Phil Mercurio
>The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, CA, USA


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