Choosing a perception task

Welcome to my blog!  I've decided to use this space as a how-to for creating and running perception experiments, both as a way to organize my thoughts and as a way to help you, random person on the internet.  I'm writing this for an audience (assuming you exist) that has some knowledge of L2 phonology, but no practical experience running experiments.  

So let's get started!  First of all, if you're excited to start a perception experiment, as we all should be, you have a research question in mind that you want answered.  This research question will determine what kind of task you should use, as different types of tasks examine different levels of processing.  In this post I'll outline common types of research questions along with their corresponding appropriate task(s).
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