Potential Future Experiments

I came up with this idea for a new experiment examining the perception of regional dialects while reading the Clopper/Pisoni study assigned for reading this week. The study was conducted at Indiana University, and used all college students. However, it did not state how long the students had been at college, which I think would hugely affect the students' dialect perception. I remember when we were going around class talking about our ideas for our projects, Meghan mentioned a few times that it was important in a few cases that we do them sooner rather than later to make sure the participants are least changed from their natural dialects. So my idea is to compare the dialect perceptions of students arriving at college with those of students after certain amounts of time - after freshman year, or after all four years of undergraduate school, or somewhere in between.