Survey validation

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For my dissertation research, I'm examining whether the probability of a particular morpheme's occurrence affects its pronunciation. I'm hoping to use Russian as my study language, because Russian has many situations in which it is possible for a verb to show either singular or plural agreement (много стульев стоялИ/О за столом). In order to investigate this, however, I need to know exactly how to measure the likelihood of getting singular or plural agreement, and for that reason I've constructed a norming study. Unfortunately, I do not speak Russian natively, or even particularly well, and so I'd like some native Russian speakers to run through the surveys that I've created and point out any problem spots. (The stimuli have all been spot-checked by a Russian-speaker already, so they shouldn't be too horrible.) That is where you come in! Would the native Russian speakers among you be willing to help me prepare these surveys? You can do it in one of two ways:


( Help with Russian survey sentences )

( Help with Russian instructions )

Thank you very much for any help you can provide.