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_Tamil-TRE.pdf Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park (Tamil) - A SESAME Research Tool Adobe PDF - 15.4 MB - MD5: cac392aa0a6575283ca96133685588a8 Multilingual 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, wi...
GreenGrassPark_Tamil-TR.pdf Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park (Tamil) - A SESAME Research Tool Adobe PDF - 15.4 MB - MD5: 6f1212468a49a8e541c4a557f00c511f Tamil transliterated 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 sc...
GreenGrassPark_Tamil-W.pdf Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park (Tamil) - A SESAME Research Tool Adobe PDF - 15.3 MB - MD5: fd8615501959518fee0e687de6e49d6e Wordless 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 not shown, as suitable for free e...
GreenGrassPark_Malay-E.pdf Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park (Malay) - A SESAME Research Tool Adobe PDF - 15.2 MB - MD5: 51d5406c9471f67548a0c70efc19c0a4 English version of the Malay 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 Malay (Bahasa Melayu). The words are displayed in Engli...
GreenGrassPark_Malay_LexicalVariables.tab Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park (Malay) - A SESAME Research Tool Tabular Data - 945 B - 5 Variables, 28 Observations - UNF:6:kGpQHr6Lp99N55sTptuOzw== Lexical variables for the words used as stimuli in the Malay 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 Acquisition estimates for Malay...
GreenGrassPark_Malay-ME.pdf Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park (Malay) - A SESAME Research Tool Adobe PDF - 15.2 MB - MD5: 4d98aedf0fe07771ae63c8f55d7dce4b Multilingual version of the Malay 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 Malay (Bahasa Melayu). The words are displayed in...
GreenGrassPark_Malay-M.pdf Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park (Malay) - A SESAME Research Tool Adobe PDF - 15.2 MB - MD5: 96e56865d82c3150caf67a407425322f Malay version of the Malay 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 Malay (Bahasa Melayu). The words are displayed in Malay o...
GreenGrassPark_Malay-W.pdf Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park (Malay) - A SESAME Research Tool Adobe PDF - 15.1 MB - MD5: 8bb8740b3ef342074084344bb9cab5c8 Wordless version of the Malay 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 Malay (Bahasa Melayu). The words are not shown, as sui...
GreenGrassPark_Mandarin-C.pdf Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park (Mandarin Chinese) - A SESAME Research Tool Adobe PDF - 28.4 MB - MD5: 97f3b96b76c64e4d750c00499ea37b5a Chinese version of the Mandarin Chinese 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. The words are displayed in Hanzi Chinese Characters (simplified) o...
GreenGrassPark_Mandarin-CPE.pdf Jul 28, 2020 - Green Grass Park (Mandarin Chinese) - A SESAME Research Tool Adobe PDF - 28.7 MB - MD5: 09b3cae69da1e758d4a1e03795f4e502 Multilingual version of the Mandarin Chinese 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. The words are displayed in Hanzi Chinese Characters (simplifi...

GreenGrassPark_Tamil-TRE.pdf

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

Adobe PDF - 15.4 MB -

Multilingual 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, wi...

GreenGrassPark_Tamil-TR.pdf

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

Adobe PDF - 15.4 MB -

Tamil transliterated 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 sc...

GreenGrassPark_Tamil-W.pdf

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

Adobe PDF - 15.3 MB -

Wordless 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 not shown, as suitable for free e...

GreenGrassPark_Malay-E.pdf

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

Adobe PDF - 15.2 MB -

English version of the Malay 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 Malay (Bahasa Melayu). The words are displayed in Engli...

GreenGrassPark_Malay_LexicalVariables.tab

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

Tabular Data - 945 B - 5 Variables, 28 Observations -

Lexical variables for the words used as stimuli in the Malay 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 Acquisition estimates for Malay...

GreenGrassPark_Malay-ME.pdf

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

Adobe PDF - 15.2 MB -

Multilingual version of the Malay 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 Malay (Bahasa Melayu). The words are displayed in...

GreenGrassPark_Malay-M.pdf

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

Adobe PDF - 15.2 MB -

Malay version of the Malay 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 Malay (Bahasa Melayu). The words are displayed in Malay o...

GreenGrassPark_Malay-W.pdf

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

Adobe PDF - 15.1 MB -

Wordless version of the Malay 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 Malay (Bahasa Melayu). The words are not shown, as sui...

GreenGrassPark_Mandarin-C.pdf

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

Adobe PDF - 28.4 MB -

Chinese version of the Mandarin Chinese 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. The words are displayed in Hanzi Chinese Characters (simplified) o...

GreenGrassPark_Mandarin-CPE.pdf

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

Adobe PDF - 28.7 MB -

Multilingual version of the Mandarin Chinese 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. The words are displayed in Hanzi Chinese Characters (simplifi...

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