| Description |
This experiment was designed to elicit target words that vary along two dimensions, sentence position and information status to better understand word stress in Besemah. Target words were collected using an information gap task. This task involved two talkers: a confederate (Hendi for male participants, Liah for female participants) who asked questions and a participant who answered them. There are a total of 16 participants. The 8 female participants included: Iri (BJM01-126-01), Mardalena (BJM01-126-02), Selpiana (BJM01-126-03), Karnila (BJM01-126-04), Husni (BJM01-126-05), Apriani (BJM01-126-06), Riska (BJM01-126-14), Duwi (BJM01-126-15), and Anggun (BJM01-126-16). The 7 male participants included: Rendi (BJM01-126-07), Piter (BJM01-126-08), Riduan (BJM01-126-09), Hendi Agusman (BJM01-126-10), Dian (BJM01-126-11), Nopri (BJM01-126-12), Wido (BJM01-126-13). They sat facing each other, each able to see only their own laptop screen. Both the confederate and participant could see a question on the top of the screen that the confederate was to ask, but only the participant's screen displayed the answer. The confederate also had a sheet of paper with all possible answers. The task was for the confederate to ask the question and the participant to provide an answer in a complete sentence modeled upon the question. The confederate then circled the answer on the paper. The experiment was audio recorded on a Mararntz PMD-670 with a Shure SM10A headset microphone (participant) and a Shure WH30XLR headset microphone (confederate). |
