Green Grass Park

In the domain of speech elicitation, speakers tend to use more ‘standard’ pronunciations when reading individual words in isolation, as compared to reading words within the context of a sentence, or talking freely off-the-cuff (Labov, 1966). When speakers have a complex task to achieve (e.g., describing everything they can see in a complex picture), speakers typically monitor their speech less, and default to more informal speech styles. We designed a picture description task called Green Grass Park to elicit a small sample of naturalistic speech. Along with other SESAME Research Tools, the Green Grass Park task was designed with multilingualism in mind.

This repository contains documentation for the full set of pictures developed in the BLIP Lab in 2019-2020, and downloadable tools designed for the languages of Singapore: Mandarin Chinese, Malay and Tamil. This archive contains the following:

Documentation of the Research Tool (Pan, Fong & Styles, 2020)
• Design notes, word lists, age of acquisition estimates in all languages, and lexical frequencies (where available)
• Example instructions

Mandarin Chinese version of the task (Pan, Fong & Styles, 2020)
• Designed to elicit /y/ and a sibilant contrast
Malay version of the task (Pan, Fong, Sundaray, Salleh, Binte Amran & Styles, 2020)
• Designed to elicit a coronal nasal contrast (alveolar/palatal) and a targeted vowel contrasts (a/e/schwa)
Tamil version of the task (Pan, Fong, Sundaray, Yogarrajah & Styles, 2020)
• Designed to elicit contrasts in the coronal nasals (dental, alveolar, retroflex), stops (dental/retroflex), rhotics (tap/trill/retroflex approximant) and laterals (alveolar/retroflex)
Split-Language version (Styles, Fong, Pan Woon, Chua, 2023)
• Designed to elicit code mixing. Three bilingual versions of the task where half of the labels are provided in each language (Mandarin/English; Malay/English; Tamil/English)
English version (Woon & Styles, in prep)
• Designed to elicit informal words and target sounds in the Singapore variety of English
Wordless Pictures (Fong, binte Amran & Styles, in prep)
• Alternative versions of each task with no labels, for adaptation into any language

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GreenGrassPark_Malay_LexicalVariables_Split.tab Jul 10, 2023 - Green Grass Park (Split Language Labels) - A SESAME Research Tool Tabular Data - 2.2 KB - 8 Variables, 28 Observations - UNF:6:rc9sJcwToMMKsozE67IsZg== Lexical variables for the words used as stimuli in the Malay version of the split language edition of the Green Grass Park picture description task - a SESAME Research Tool, from the BLIP Lab. Contains word frequencies from Malay Newspapers in Singapore and Malaysia, and Age of A...
GreenGrassPark_Malay-ME_Split.pdf Jul 10, 2023 - Green Grass Park (Split Language Labels) - A SESAME Research Tool Adobe PDF - 486.9 KB - MD5: f9d68bc496d9d956ebd999eeff85fc79 Malay version of the split language edition of the Green Grass Park picture description task - a SESAME Research Tool, from the BLIP Lab. This version was designed to elicit specific words in local Singaporean variety of spoken Malay (Bahasa Melayu). Around half of the cues are d...
GreenGrassPark_Mandarin-CPE_Split.pdf Jul 10, 2023 - Green Grass Park (Split Language Labels) - A SESAME Research Tool Adobe PDF - 45.1 MB - MD5: 4027164714506da09273447d0419dec6 Mandarin Chinese version of the split language edition of the Green Grass Park picture description task - a SESAME Research Tool, from the BLIP Lab. This version was designed to elicit specific words in Mandarin Chinese. Around half of the cues are displayed in Mandarin Chinese o...
GreenGrassPark_Mandarin_LexicalVariables_Split.tab Jul 10, 2023 - Green Grass Park (Split Language Labels) - A SESAME Research Tool Tabular Data - 3.3 KB - 9 Variables, 32 Observations - UNF:6:N05FCyXgpOXE0fAdeV87rA== Lexical variables for the words used as stimuli in the Mandarin version of the split language edition of the Green Grass Park picture description task - a SESAME Research Tool, from the BLIP Lab. Contains word frequencies from Mainland Chinese, and Age of Acquisition estimates fo...
GreenGrassPark_Tamil_LexicalVariables_Split.tab Jul 10, 2023 - Green Grass Park (Split Language Labels) - A SESAME Research Tool Tabular Data - 3.3 KB - 8 Variables, 29 Observations - UNF:6:AZQNochnn3UlbbadrZCi4Q== Lexical variables for the words used as stimuli in the Tamil version of the split language edition of the Green Grass Park picture description task - a SESAME Research Tool, from the BLIP Lab. Contains Age of Acquisition estimates for Tamil-speaking children in Singapore. For fur...
GreenGrassPark_Tamil-TRE_Split.pdf Jul 10, 2023 - Green Grass Park (Split Language Labels) - A SESAME Research Tool Adobe PDF - 15.3 MB - MD5: 31b674ba84c4c6e491b0f82955d18372 Tamil version of the split language edition of the Green Grass Park picture description task - a SESAME Research Tool, from the BLIP Lab. This edition was designed to elicit specific words in the local Singaporean variety of spoken Tamil. Around half of the cues are displayed in...
StylesFongPanWoonChua_SESAME_GreenGrassPark_Documentation_SplitLanguageLabels.pdf Jul 10, 2023 - Green Grass Park (Split Language Labels) - A SESAME Research Tool Adobe PDF - 1.2 MB - MD5: 08407298aa46a9d20d6fe2c0f2abb8ee Documentation file for the Split Language version of the Green Grass Park picture description task (2023). Contains description of the tool, and development notes for the current version, along with word lists.
GreenGrassPark_Tamil-E.pdf Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park (Tamil) - A SESAME Research Tool Adobe PDF - 15.3 MB - MD5: 75f7117579c245c406d2ee93a80240bd English version of the Tamil edition of the Green Grass Park picture description task - a SESAME Research Tool, from the BLIP Lab. This edition was designed to elicit specific words in the local Singaporean variety of spoken Tamil. The words are displayed in English only, as suit...
GreenGrassPark_Tamil_LexicalVariables.tab Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park (Tamil) - A SESAME Research Tool Tabular Data - 1.5 KB - 5 Variables, 29 Observations - UNF:6:LP+d/ejj1Ry48MAhBvZ7lQ== Lexical variables for the words used as stimuli in the Tamil edition of the Green Grass Park picture description task - a SESAME Research Tool, from the BLIP Lab. Contains Age of Acquisition estimates for Tamil-speaking children in Singapore. For further details, see Green Grass...
GreenGrassPark_Tamil-T.pdf Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park (Tamil) - A SESAME Research Tool Adobe PDF - 15.3 MB - MD5: 1af014899d1f3e47cedb6ae1e0b85b70 Tamil script version of the Tamil edition of the Green Grass Park picture description task - a SESAME Research Tool, from the BLIP Lab. This edition was designed to elicit specific words in the local Singaporean variety of spoken Tamil. The words are displayed in Tamil script onl...

GreenGrassPark_Malay_LexicalVariables_Split.tab

Jul 10, 2023 - Green Grass Park (Split Language Labels) - A SESAME Research Tool

Tabular Data - 2.2 KB - 8 Variables, 28 Observations -

Lexical variables for the words used as stimuli in the Malay version of the split language edition of the Green Grass Park picture description task - a SESAME Research Tool, from the BLIP Lab. Contains word frequencies from Malay Newspapers in Singapore and Malaysia, and Age of A...

GreenGrassPark_Malay-ME_Split.pdf

Jul 10, 2023 - Green Grass Park (Split Language Labels) - A SESAME Research Tool

Adobe PDF - 486.9 KB -

Malay version of the split language edition of the Green Grass Park picture description task - a SESAME Research Tool, from the BLIP Lab. This version was designed to elicit specific words in local Singaporean variety of spoken Malay (Bahasa Melayu). Around half of the cues are d...

GreenGrassPark_Mandarin-CPE_Split.pdf

Jul 10, 2023 - Green Grass Park (Split Language Labels) - A SESAME Research Tool

Adobe PDF - 45.1 MB -

Mandarin Chinese version of the split language edition of the Green Grass Park picture description task - a SESAME Research Tool, from the BLIP Lab. This version was designed to elicit specific words in Mandarin Chinese. Around half of the cues are displayed in Mandarin Chinese o...

GreenGrassPark_Mandarin_LexicalVariables_Split.tab

Jul 10, 2023 - Green Grass Park (Split Language Labels) - A SESAME Research Tool

Tabular Data - 3.3 KB - 9 Variables, 32 Observations -

Lexical variables for the words used as stimuli in the Mandarin version of the split language edition of the Green Grass Park picture description task - a SESAME Research Tool, from the BLIP Lab. Contains word frequencies from Mainland Chinese, and Age of Acquisition estimates fo...

GreenGrassPark_Tamil_LexicalVariables_Split.tab

Jul 10, 2023 - Green Grass Park (Split Language Labels) - A SESAME Research Tool

Tabular Data - 3.3 KB - 8 Variables, 29 Observations -

Lexical variables for the words used as stimuli in the Tamil version of the split language edition of the Green Grass Park picture description task - a SESAME Research Tool, from the BLIP Lab. Contains Age of Acquisition estimates for Tamil-speaking children in Singapore. For fur...

GreenGrassPark_Tamil-TRE_Split.pdf

Jul 10, 2023 - Green Grass Park (Split Language Labels) - A SESAME Research Tool

Adobe PDF - 15.3 MB -

Tamil version of the split language edition of the Green Grass Park picture description task - a SESAME Research Tool, from the BLIP Lab. This edition was designed to elicit specific words in the local Singaporean variety of spoken Tamil. Around half of the cues are displayed in...

StylesFongPanWoonChua_SESAME_GreenGrassPark_Documentation_SplitLanguageLabels.pdf

Jul 10, 2023 - Green Grass Park (Split Language Labels) - A SESAME Research Tool

Adobe PDF - 1.2 MB -

Documentation file for the Split Language version of the Green Grass Park picture description task (2023). Contains description of the tool, and development notes for the current version, along with word lists.

GreenGrassPark_Tamil-E.pdf

Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park (Tamil) - A SESAME Research Tool

Adobe PDF - 15.3 MB -

English version of the Tamil edition of the Green Grass Park picture description task - a SESAME Research Tool, from the BLIP Lab. This edition was designed to elicit specific words in the local Singaporean variety of spoken Tamil. The words are displayed in English only, as suit...

GreenGrassPark_Tamil_LexicalVariables.tab

Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park (Tamil) - A SESAME Research Tool

Tabular Data - 1.5 KB - 5 Variables, 29 Observations -

Lexical variables for the words used as stimuli in the Tamil edition of the Green Grass Park picture description task - a SESAME Research Tool, from the BLIP Lab. Contains Age of Acquisition estimates for Tamil-speaking children in Singapore. For further details, see Green Grass...

GreenGrassPark_Tamil-T.pdf

Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park (Tamil) - A SESAME Research Tool

Adobe PDF - 15.3 MB -

Tamil script version of the Tamil edition of the Green Grass Park picture description task - a SESAME Research Tool, from the BLIP Lab. This edition was designed to elicit specific words in the local Singaporean variety of spoken Tamil. The words are displayed in Tamil script onl...

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