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
Florian
- Have been working on grant proposal.
Edited through rewrite of introduction to Hall et al paper on information theoretic approaches to phonology.
Edited through Weatherholtz, Seifeldin et al introduction to ideal adapter and related models for Language and Linguistics Compass.
Edited on short commentary on salience for special issue in Frontiers.
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.
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.
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.
Feedback to Dan on his next pilot on the role of attention in adaptation. It's coming together!
Letters: one (new)
Declined four invitations to review. Accepted one.
Kodi
Andrew
Olga
Esteban
Dave
Sarah
Dan
Amanda
- Worked on quals revisions.
- Prepped, and gave a guest lecture (Tuesday) in Language Development on Pragmatics.
- Graded assignments for Lang Dev.
- Helped an RA prep for a summer internship interview.
Tried to problem solve the issues with the naming project (my eye-tracking study from 1st/2nd year), resolved to look at the first instruction data. We might have some interesting evidence for what people's expectations are for cohort items when one of the cohorts is also a contrast item - hard to say really. Problematically it seems like participants are learning the structure of the task within the first 12 trials. It's been an interesting learning experience. Planning on also reading Heller & Chambers (2014).
- Thought about a possible follow up to my Frontiers paper studies to facilitate the collaboration with Sarah Brown-Schmidt and Rachel Ryslin. Still working on it.
Zach
Linda
- 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.
Prepared materials for TandemStraight tutorial for RAs.
- Additional analysis on lexical decision data of pen in the mouth experiment.
- Coded up a new paradigm to look at whether participants actually think the pen in the mouth affects S or SH differently.
- Made new lists for shortened pen in mouth task.
- Adjusted Mimo Experiment according to Chigusa's comments.
- Ran additional speaker (in 5 conditions) in Bradlow and Bent experiments.
Maryam
Wednesday
- More analysis of definiteness adaptation experiment
- Wrote context sentences for definiteness materials
- Programmed more direct replication of Brown et al
- More eyetracking modeling work with Frank. We're rethinking our approach...
- Stats homework