Lab Meeting, Summer 2015, Week 12

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

Zach's general musings: Imagine an experimental task that is basically a game called "explain something to somebody else as fast as you possibly can". Two people, one who's the explainer and has no idea of how much the other participant (the listener) knows. The explainer is explaining a pretty complicated idea and the listener interrupts and says "I know, I know"--how does the explainer determine the "scope" of what the listener means by "I know"? (I.e. how do they determine what the listener "knows"?) (Inspired by talking to my girlfriend.)

Brunellière A. & Soto-Faraco, S. (2013). The speakers’ accent shapes the listeners’ phonological predictions during speech perception. Brain & Language, 125:82-93. Brunelliere_Soto-Faraco2012.pdf (Kodi)

Turk Prime - some sort of website that claims it'll make micro batches for you, and other turk-related things

What we did over last week

Florian

1. Edited handbook chapter on reduction and linguistic encoding (written with Esteban). We have implemented most changes requested by reviewers (which really weren't many -- they loved it). We've also sent out the revised paper to about 20+ researchers and have been integrating feedback from them.

2. Edited paper by Scott Seyfarth and Esteban Buz on hyperarticulation of syllable-final sibilants. Submitted last week.

3. Edited through 2nd/3rd draft for resubmission of Guillermo's paper with Manne Bylund on event similarity assessment by bilinguals. I think the paper is now a lot better (it's neat study to begin with) and he should be able to submit within the next week or two.

4. Edited second draft of Bicknell et al on uncertainty maintenance in spoken word recognition.

5. Edited through version 51(!) of NSF proposal with Scott Fraundorf. To be submitted this week.

6. Provided feedback Chigusa's NSF proposal.

7. Accepted four reviews for August (JML, Cognition, AI, Cognitive Science) and had to decline three. One more request pending (PNAS).

8. Heard from CogSci attendees that Masha's talk went really well. Congrats!

Kodi

1. Developed ideas for new project on adaptation to phonological co-variation (i.e., multiple pronunciation variants that co-occur in an accent) and whether listeners capitalize on co-occurrence statistics when generalizing to new talkers with a familiar accent.

2. Developed project ideas for new experiments on social perception and syntactic alignment.

3. Met with Zach (briefly) about new adaptation project that investigates how the timing of the training signal (e.g., disambiguating info via subtitles presented before, after or concurrent with target auditory stimulus) affects adaptation.

4. Reviewed manuscript for JASA on acquiring non-native phonological contrasts and whether listeners can achieve native-like cue-weighting.

5. Provided feedback on Chigusa's NSF PAC grant proposal.

6. Provided feedback on Anne Pier's critique of Lieberman et al.'s (in press) article Real-time processing of ASL signs: Delayed first language acquisition affects organization of the mental lexicon.

7. Prepared figures for the carousel on the new HLP website.

8. Handled administrative miscellany for reprinting published figures.

Andrew

1. Met with Florian about design of BCS 152 experiment system

2. Started setup of Nginx as our web server on new WWW instead of Apache

3. Used rsync to back up document root of old web server (which includes a lot of stimuli and over-the-web recordings that may not exist elsewhere) into a directory on the NAS

4. Worked through more of the TODO list for thew new web site. Including a (to me) surprisingly simple solution for a floating side nav.

5. Had Esteban send me analysis code from last year's BCS 152 class thinking it would be cool to try to make a Shiny app to integrate into experiment system. Failed to understand code. (Totally my fault.)

Olga

1. Put everything that is in the wiki into the BCS tutorial. Created a few new pages, Created a document to see what needs to be put into the navigation.
2. Noted some other bugs that need to be worked out in the design
3. Returned the camera and tripod that have been sitting upstairs for about a year now.

Esteban

1. Edited a handbook chapter with Florian.

2. Edited and shared some code to do SPR analysis for the BCS 152 Tutorial.

3. Edited a paper with Scott Seyfarth and Florian and submitted it.

4. Continued editing the JML special issue paper with Florian and Mike.

5. Met with Florian about the LCN paper revisions.

6. Cleared up some server issues for the production experiment.

7. Send feedback to Scott Fraundorf & Florian on a NSF grant.

8. Reviewed two papers (jointly with Florian and Dave and Florian and Kodi).

Dave

Sarah

Dan

Amanda

Zach

1. Coded a lot of the Kamide PyGaze stuff to make the analysis much more streamlined.

2. Read a lot of papers on how accents and accent comprehension impacts pedagogy

3. Rewrote more of my accent project

4. Ggplot2 ggggggggg.

Linda

1. Did work for LSA classes.
2. Borrowed Alan Yu's lab to record Amanda.
3. Started using new Amanda stim in Tandem Straight to make continua.
4. Met with Jon Keane to talk about ASL Adaptation project. Generated a very cool handshape continuum.

Maryam