Lab Meeting, Spring 2016, Week 9

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

Papers sent by Patrick Shafto:

• Infant-directed speech is consistent with teaching: IDS_Psych_Review__Revision_.pdf

• Tractable Bayesian teaching

Florian

1. Have been working on grant proposal.

2. Edited through rewrite of introduction to Hall et al paper on information theoretic approaches to phonology.

3. Edited through Weatherholtz, Seifeldin et al introduction to ideal adapter and related models for Language and Linguistics Compass.

4. Edited on short commentary on salience for special issue in Frontiers.

5. Outlined with Zach a paper on his CUNY talk. We decided to go for Psychonomic Bulletin and Review (PBR). The idea is to stick very close to the CUNY talk.

6. Outlined with Esteban a paper, following up on the distributional analyses he presented in his recent JML paper. We decided to first focus on three data sets (his plosive data from the JML paper; the sibilant data from his paper with Scott Seyfarth; the tense vs. lax vowel data from Schertz 2013). We'll present the type of analysis we conducted in the JML paper and then also present ideal observer analyses, estimating the change in expected proportion of correct recognitions under hyper-articulated and non-hyper-articulated pronunciations. I think we should ask Dick whether he thinks this would be a good fit for Open Mind. Alternatively, we might try a brief report in Cognition.

7. Feedback to Linda about her causal inference paper. There were some minor questions left about the data, but it seems we're ready to write this up. But we also decided to run one more (hopefully quick) follow-up with an improved design. If that one comes out, I'd say we should try Cognition or PBR.

8. Feedback to Dan on his next pilot on the role of attention in adaptation. It's coming together!

9. Letters: one (new)

10. Declined four invitations to review. Accepted one.

Kodi

Andrew

Olga

Esteban

Dave

Sarah

Dan

Amanda

Zach

Linda

1. Created a bunch of tongue twister stimuli in preparation for recording on Monday. And then realized they were screwy so re-created a bunch more.

2. Prepared materials for TandemStraight tutorial for RAs.

3. Additional analysis on lexical decision data of pen in the mouth experiment.
4. Coded up a new paradigm to look at whether participants actually think the pen in the mouth affects S or SH differently.
5. Made new lists for shortened pen in mouth task.
6. Adjusted Mimo Experiment according to Chigusa's comments.
7. Ran additional speaker (in 5 conditions) in Bradlow and Bent experiments.

Maryam

Wednesday