Lab Meeting, Autumn 2015, Week 7

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

Deserves a mention--I hadn't heard of it before and don't see it cited: "Constraints on the Transfer of Perceptual Learning in Accented Speech". Eisner, Melinger & Weber (2013) (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3612694/)

They see that listeners generalize L1 Dutch stop devoicing to other Dutch speakers, but not to British-accented speakers doing the same thing. Just further confirmation of some ideas the lab has talked about. --ZJB

What we did over last week

Florian

Kodi

Andrew

1. Started complete rewrite of HTML/JS/CSS for Becky's experiment, because the existing version is built on some shaky ancient HTML.
2. Filed amendments on both RSRB protocols to remove people who are gone and no longer associated with the lab and to change Masha to a non-UR affiliated researcher.
3. Migrated MariaDB and PostgreSQL databases from old www to new www and shut old www down for good.

Olga

Esteban

Dave

Sarah

Dan

Amanda

Zach

1. Sent out rec letter requests.
2. Killing myself on Robbie's project
3. Talked to Katya about her work and working with Vera
4. Created a lot of stimuli because my RAs are slow af
5. Worked on committee presentation
6. Read papers for language presentation
7. Graded more exams

Linda

1. Worked on NSF personal statement.
2. Spent a lot of time mulling over (and eventually implementing) Robbie's computational homework.
3. Worked on presentation for Robbie's class for Tuesday (on Elman's 1991 article)
4. Created lists for Bradlow and Bent replication project.

Maryam

Wednesday