Experimental Research Proposal

I. EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH PROPOSAL (80% of final mark)
Experimental Research Proposal

You are a member of an interdisciplinary scientific group and you have been asked to write a research proposal for an experiment in Experimental Linguistics/ Psycholinguistics. Your team aims to investigate the properties of language under conditions of brain injury (e.g. aphasia). You will need to provide a relevant and appropriate theoretical background, method, hypotheses and list of references.

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II. QUESTIONS (20% of final mark)
Questions

Answer all of the following questions (a – d). All questions carry equal marks:

a) Briefly define language ambiguity. Give specific examples.

b) What is the reason why people study eye-movements in reading?

c) In a lexical decision experiment, the following targets are given:
i. ΤΗΛΕΦΩΝΟ (=telephone)
ii. ΟΥΡΑΝΟΣ (=sky)
iii. ΔΑΣΚΑΛΑ(=teacher)
iv. ΑΜΜΟΣ (=sand)
v. ΑΦΤΙ (=ear)

The following words are given as auditory primes:
Α. ΚΟΚΚΟΣ (=grain) Η. ΑΚΤΗ (=coast)
Β. ΑΣΤΡΟ (=star) Θ. ΓΑΛΑΖΙΟ (=blue)
Γ. ΚΑΛΩΔΙΟ (=wire) Ι. ΣΗΜΑ (=signal)
Δ. ΚΑΣΤΡΟ (=castle) Κ. ΣΚΟΥΛΑΡΙΚΙ (=earring)
Ε. ΚΩΦΟΣ (=deaf) Λ. ΑΕΡΟΠΛΑΝΟ (=airplane)
ΣΤ. ΔΕΚΤΗΣ (=receiver) Μ. ΠΑΙΔΙ (=child)
Ζ. ΣΥΝΑΔΕΛΦΟΣ (=coworker) Ν. ΦΩΝΗ (=voice)

State which of the primes (Α-Μ) would facilitate the recognition of each of the targets (i-v). Explain why this happens. More than one answers are possible for each target.

d) What are the types of speech errors? Explain by giving appropriate examples.

[WORD LIMIT: 2000 words – not including References]

Guidelines: Content
GRADING
Research Proposal (80% of final mark)
• Content and relevance to the topic: 35%
• Correct structure: 10%
• Research skills – critical thinking: 35%
• References and in-text citations (relevance of sources, appropriate formatting, adequate for the level number of primary and secondary sources of information) for the theoretical background of the proposal (and the questions): 10%
• Readable use of the language (including grammar, spelling, paragraph structure, etc) for the proposal: 10%

Questions (20% of final mark)
• Content and relevance to the topic: 35%
• Correct structure: 10%
• Research skills – critical thinking: 35%
• Readable use of the language (including grammar, spelling, paragraph structure, etc) for the proposal: 20%

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Research proposal
– Covers the most important aspects of the topic.
– There are no major factual errors in the material and its major part is relevant to the topic.
– Satisfactory interpretation of relevant issues.
– Level-appropriate number of references that are relevant to the topic and appropriately cited.
Questions
– Answers to the questions should be relevant to the issues addressed.
– Sufficient insight into the theoretical issues addressed in the questions.
– Satisfactory justification of answers.
Both research proposal and questions
– Evidence of some independent reading based on number of references used in the entire assignment (overall).
– Satisfactory and clear organisation and structure for both the proposal and the questions.
– Satisfactory use of language for the entire assignment.
– Most points expressed clearly and succinctly.