Lab Meeting, Autumn 2015, Week 5

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

Cool paper by a huge group out of MPI on what they term "Universal Principles" that govern how conversational partners signal miscommunications and repairs. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0136100 -EXB

Accepted to LCN: Esteban's paper on PND. Congrats!
Accepted to LCN: Paper with Gina Kuperberg on prediction. It took a substantial amount of work over the last week, most of my time on most of the week. Sigh. Done!
Edited paper with Scott Fraundorf on adaptation to the dialectal need structure. About to be submitted to JML.
Conducted an analysis of SPR experiment on syntactic adaptation run at FSU through Mike Kaschak's lab. Seems that the results support both Alex's theory and Mike Kaschak's episodic trace proposal.
Wrote six letters of recommendation.

Wrote/revised review paper on sociophonetic inferences in speech perception and beyond (w/ Maryam, Chigusa and Florian)
Feedback on colloquium proposal: Inter-group communication and linguistic accommodation, proposed by some (newfound) colleagues in Europe as part of the 21st Sociolinguistics Symposium
Stimulus development: combed through a corpus of foreign-accented speech recordings; identified a set of talkers/sentences that will allow us to build on Bradlow and Bent (2008) by investigating the role of talker similarity in cross-talker generalization of accent adaptation.
Worked on job application materials
Met with Zach about stimulus materials for subtitle project
Met with Elika about speaker adaptation and early word learning

Set up the environment for Florian to be able to edit the Tutorial
Created it so the definitions link to the glossary. Updated the figure. Made a table to match the figure.
Tried to harass people for content... If you have content, please send it or do your own pull/push requests!
Met with Florian, Andrew, and Chigusa about my HLP work
Did the counts for the most recent continuing review and sent them to Andrew

Made an R package to hold/reproduce data/analysis of animals study.
Wrote animals results section draft and met with co-authors to decide on set of analyses/results to present and framing.
Wrote/revised job application materials
Productive procrastination: implemented Julia contrast coding and checks for non-redundant factor columns (e.g., y ~ 0+x vs. y ~ 1+x, and y ~ x + x:z vs. y ~ x + z + x:z) in model matrices.

Analyzing & plotting data, trying to make sense of results from Automatic Naming Project
Ran several RAs in my calibration and exposure blocks to make sure things were in order.
Got added to the adaptation protocol
Last minute fiddling with stimuli and list checking for full adaptation & attention study.

Emailed the editors at Frontiers about my ethics statement - it's fine, so the reviewers either must have read the version without it, or have more strict criteria than the journal
Met with Rocco to show him the new study, he's going to try to run 3 kids this week
Met with Val to see how she did with the figuring out the code I wrote to analyze her data last week; we went over the things she found confusing in the code; she updated me on her meeting schedule this week with MCF and Ali
Made a mock website for the Kinder Lab
Read Krahmer & van Deemter (2012) - took me a while to get through, and I think it is interesting work, but they're making a lot of assumptions about reference generation that i don't think they can so easily make, and i think the state of the field is still a ways behind humans, in that the models currently can't really take into account negotiations over time (it seems like they consider things at the current state, and aren't really made such that it can build a model of possible referring expressions given a particular speaker).
Recorded Chelsea for new study
Wrote new instructions for kid study

Finished eye-tracking data wrangling to get into the right format from the raw files.
Met with RAs with Zach
Helped Maryam run norming on Matt's voice
Met with Tom Howard about Avatar (robotics/gesture) project
Reading/work for classes
Worked on extending Likert Scale block to video stimuli for pen in mouth stuff. Still some kinks though.
Began coding up grid similarity task.

Got abstract on attraction effects in Basque accepted for a talk at EXAL+ (Abu Dhabi, NYU)
Done writing the annual report for my grant
Counting words, counting dependencies in transcribed Basque data and Spanish from Japanese learners' data... (dull, dull work!)
Reading
Working for classes
Fighting with R