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
- Started complete rewrite of HTML/JS/CSS for Becky's experiment, because the existing version is built on some shaky ancient HTML.
- 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.
- 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
- Sent out rec letter requests.
- Killing myself on Robbie's project
- Talked to Katya about her work and working with Vera
- Created a lot of stimuli because my RAs are slow af
- Worked on committee presentation
- Read papers for language presentation
- Graded more exams
Linda
- Worked on NSF personal statement.
- Spent a lot of time mulling over (and eventually implementing) Robbie's computational homework.
- Worked on presentation for Robbie's class for Tuesday (on Elman's 1991 article)
- Created lists for Bradlow and Bent replication project.
Maryam