My thoughts on online linguistic surveys
Inspired by some recent work (Hayes et al 2008; Reip 2002), I started using online surveys for linguistic elicitations. Using online experimentation has been very popular in psychology, but not so much in linguistics. Once I started making one myself, I realized that we have been missing a lot. One of the most important virtue is its efficiency: I ran 4 (related) experiments and got 100 participants in total in 2 weeks.
Here is a handout that I prepared for my class in the future. I hope to be able to contribute to the development of this web-based approach in linguistics or in psychology, and to that end,
here is an excellent summary site that puts up your study so that interested people can go
If you're interested in helping me out
If you're interested and qualify as a potential participant, please follow the links below (qualifications vary for each survey). The study and its consent form were originally approved by the Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Subjects on 12/01/08, with subsequent revisions of minor details. The approval will expire on 11/30/09.
Similarity judgment task
In this experiment for each question you will be give one item followed by three options. Your task is to read all of the given forms in your head and decide which of the three options sound most similar to the original forms. As long as you are not familiar with the P-map hypothesis, you're qualified to test the test (and I appreciate it if you do).
Here is the link.