Lab Meeting, Autumn 2015, Week 3

Awe- and Aw-inspiring readings (or just stuff you think deserves a mention)

What we did over last week

** REMINDER: Talk about Hong Kong

Florian

  1. Edited first complete draft of Fraundorf and Jaeger on our needs+participle reading experiments. The paper is intended for a special issue in JML.

  2. Received reviews for Kuperberg and Jaeger "What we mean by prediction", which is accepted to Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience with minor changes =).

  3. Proofed Yildirim et al. for JML, so hopefully it'll come out soon.

  4. Feedback on framing of revised paper on Esteban's cool experiments on feedback in production.

  5. Feedback on Vince Porretta's NSHERC application for a post-doctoral fellowship. Under other news, Jessamyn has unfortunately decided that she won't pursue a post-doc with the lab. For personal reasons, she prefers to stay in Toronto/Canada. But I still hope that we will collaborate (she sent me her vowel data from her 2013 paper, including F3 data, which wasn't analyzed back then).

  6. Letters and skypes in preparation of them. Prepared and sent out the first one. Also have been working on a rather time-consuming nomination of a non-HLPler for a little something.

  7. We'll have a lot of visitors arriving soon! Jasmeen Kanwaal (LIN, UCSD) will be in town 9/28-29. Katja Kravtchenko (SFB, Saarbruecken) will be visiting us from about 9/26 to 10/15. Guillermo Montero Melis (BILING, Stockholm) will be arriving in early October and stay for the month. They all do really cool research. You should shoot them an email and set up a meeting as soon as possible.

Kodi

  1. Met with Chigusa and Maryam about attack plan for writing the rest of the review paper on sociophonetic inferences in speech perception.

  2. Wrote/revised the first few sections of the review paper on sociophonetic inferences in speech perception.

  3. Updated/redesigned my vitae

  4. Corresponded with Linda about getting a web-based framework in place for expanding on Bradlow & Bent (2008). Identified stimulus materials for a follow up study that investigates whether the likelihood of generalizing accent adaptation from any single talker to any other talker with the same accent is determined by the pair-wise similarity between those two talkers (given various measures of "similarity").

  5. Met with undergrads in BCS 206 about replication of Clarke and Garrett (2004) -- w. Florian and Zach

  6. Met with Esteban to learn about programming MTurk experiments.

Andrew

Olga

  1. Met With Florian to discuss what needs to be changed in the tutorial. Did not get around to the changes.

  2. Goal To implement all the changes Florian and I discussed by Wednesday night (Thursday afternoon)

  3. Trained Stephen on RedCap, Trained Madeline on RedCap

  4. Sent out a survey to the RAs, Realized that the mailing list does not work. Sent out the results individually, will give the results to Florian this week.

  5. Goal Update the RA list, check with Chris why the mailing list isn't working.

  6. Set up the lab meeting schedule for the rest of the semester

  7. Prepped for the audit

Esteban

Dave

  1. Wrote, edited, and solicited feedback research and teaching statements.

  2. Contacted letter-of-recommendation writers.

  3. Compiled list of jobs to apply to.

  4. Drove to and from Maine

  5. Wrote guest lecture for BCS 501 (Language).

Sarah

Dan

  1. Finished developing and ran my "automatic naming" study on mechanical turk and analyzed the data - looks interesting
  2. Put up my adaptation study on mechanical turk sandbox for testing
  3. Worked on new eyetracking studies

Amanda

  1. Worked on sound files for follow up version of the naming task (study where we are looking at what effect having named an item on a screen has on how other objects on the screen might be referred to).

  2. Scheduled ESP, the CLS Welcome Party, weekly meetings with Mike, Chigusa, and Val (independent study student)

  3. Created a new kids study to test that the kids can actually do my task as a sanity check. One of my RAs should be running this, this week.

  4. Planned the follow up version of the kids study that should round out my studies for my talk at BUCLD. The follow up essentially asks if, like adults, highlighting speaker differences as a part of the task will increase informativity based generalizations.

  5. Read a bunch of papers about kids informative referential expression production.

Zach

1. Met with undergrads in BCS 206 about replication of Clarke and Garrett (2004) -- w. Florian and Zach

1. Figured out how to link domain names, etc. with webpages

1. Learning enough CSS/HTML5/Javascript to make my academic webpage look nice.

1. Recoded a lot of my accent modeling project to make it more efficient so that when I show it to Florian on Monday he won't have to use the stern "Papa is disappointed" look.

1. Unearthing my old Praat code so that I can give working demos for the BCS 206 meeting on Wednesday.

Linda

  1. Played catch-up for the stuff I missed in class while in Malta
  2. Started working on HW1 for Robbie's Computational Methods class
  3. Started coding up analysis for eyetracking experiment.
  4. Set up extra bedroom and helped get Thais (Mike's visiting PhD student) settled. She's staying with me for the next 10 months or so.
  5. Prepped and hosted the welcome party for the first years

Maryam

  1. Met with Kodi and Chigusa about review paper edits
  2. Worked on review paper
  3. Mostly did reading

  4. Attended KinderBreakfast, looking into Google Ads for subject recruitment

  5. Set up meetings with RAs

Wednesday

Idoia

  1. Started writing for paper on length dependency minimization in bilinguals.

  2. Run some analyses and re-did some graphics

  3. Met with Sarah to look at her design (problems/successes) on a naturalistic production taks

  4. Done settling down
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