Experiment-a-thon

Phone - a - thon exceeds goal

An Tostal, Notre D am e’s annual spring festival sponsored by the Hall P res iden t’s Council, ended yesterday , concluding the weeklong celebration. John Rooney, An Tostal chairm an, te rm ed the event “ a g rea t success .” Frivolous F riday’s events in­ cluded the Jello Toss, which was won by Dillon residen ts J .P . Madigan and Lou B ridges. Fifteen people m anaged to erect a hum an pyram i...

Animal Rights Consideration is a Necessity in Conducting an Experiment

-(a)licious and -(a)thon: new morphemes obey pre-existing constraints

This paper argues that the distribution of -(a)licious and -(a)thon is a result of speakers applying ∗ and ∗ , well-motived constraints in English, to novel suffixes. Both experimental and corpus data show that the form of the suffix, e.g. -alicious with schwa or -licious without, tends to avoid stress clash and hiatus. The claim that speakers use their existing English phonological grammar for...

compensatory lengthening in persian: a perception experiment

this article addresses the perceptual correlates of compensatory lengthening in persian. in a perception experiment, duration, spectral tilt measurements h1-h2 and h1-f1 and f0 were varied in several steps based on the results from a production experiment (sadeghi, 2007). subjects were asked to identify the tokens involving vowel length. results revealed that duration is the most reliable perce...

Bring on Board New Enthusiasts! A Case Study of Impact of Wikipedia Art + Feminism Edit-A-Thon Events on Newcomers

Success of online production communities such as Wikipedia highly relies on a continuous stream of newcomers to replace the inevitable high turnover and to bring on board new sources of ideas and labor. However, these communities have been struggling with attracting newcomers, especially from a diverse population of users. In this work, we conducted a case study on how organizing an offline co-...