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= 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. [[attachment:Brunelliere_Soto-Faraco2012.pdf]] (Kodi)

[[http://www.turkprime.com/|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.
 1. '''Edited''' paper by Scott Seyfarth and Esteban Buz on hyperarticulation of syllable-final sibilants. '''Submitted''' last week.
 1. '''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.
 1. '''Edited''' second draft of Bicknell et al on uncertainty maintenance in spoken word recognition. 
 1. '''Edited''' through version 51(!) of NSF proposal with Scott Fraundorf. To be '''submitted''' this week.
 1. Provided '''feedback''' Chigusa's NSF proposal.
 1. Accepted four reviews for August (JML, Cognition, AI, Cognitive Science) and had to decline three. One more request pending (PNAS).
 1. 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.
 1. '''Developed''' project ideas for new experiments on social perception and syntactic alignment.
 1. '''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.
 1. '''Reviewed''' manuscript for ''JASA'' on acquiring non-native phonological contrasts and whether listeners can achieve native-like cue-weighting.  
 1. Provided '''feedback''' on Chigusa's NSF PAC grant proposal.
 1. 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''.
 1. '''Prepared figures''' for the carousel on the new HLP website.
 1. Handled administrative miscellany for reprinting published figures.

=== Andrew ===
 1. Met with Florian about design of BCS 152 experiment system
 2. Started setup of [[http://nginx.org/en/|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 [[https://github.com/hlplab/hlpjekyll/wiki/TODO|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 [[http://shiny.rstudio.com/|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.
 1. '''Edited''' and shared some code to do SPR analysis for the BCS 152 Tutorial.
 1. '''Edited''' a paper with Scott Seyfarth and Florian and submitted it.
 1. Continued '''editing''' the JML special issue paper with Florian and Mike.
 1. '''Met''' with Florian about the LCN paper revisions.
 1. Cleared up some server issues for the production experiment.
 1. Send '''feedback''' to Scott Fraundorf & Florian on a NSF grant.
 1. '''Reviewed''' two papers (jointly with Florian and Dave and Florian and Kodi).

=== Dave ===

=== Sarah ===
 1. Provided '''feedback''' on Florian and Scott's grant summary
 1. Provided '''feedback''' on Chigusa's NSF proposal
 1. '''Read''' for BCS 111
 1. Brainstormed for SET Lab Phon submission
 1. Met with Anne Pier to discuss data analysis for Gotta turning point

=== Dan ===

=== Amanda ===
 1. '''Recorded''' a bunch of stimuli for Linda.
 1. '''Attended''' Cog Sci.
 1. '''Presented''' my mammals project at Cog Sci in a session on pragmatics, got some suggestions for things to do moving forward from Mike Frank, Josh Hartshorne, and Noah Goodman.
 1. '''Met''' with Hyowon Gweon (Stanford) about my kid data, she gave me some things to consider looking at in my kid data. Suggested making a blend of her studies and my studies to see if we can get kids to generalize from a linguistically under-informative speaker to an overall underinformative speaker.
 1. '''Chatted''' with Dan Grodner about some data he's been sitting on that follows up on Grodner & Sedivy (2011). We might work on it together to publish it. 
 1. '''Ran''' a follow up study to the under-informativity -> utterance length/informativity based generalization study that confirmed that people are not just generalizing that one speaker is more like to produce scalar modified utterances (in the test phase color modifiers are informative and scalars are not). The results are less clear than the original, which needs thinking through.
 1. '''Chatted''' with Judith about the findings, and she wondered about 1) whether we saw differences in the adjective types for the over-inf case, which we did (we got interrupted so she didn't finish her thought on this), and 2) she wondered about what people might have thought was going on in this experiment (I told her that from looking at some people's explanations indicated that they thought the use of modifiers was redundant in the first task, but that they realize it was helpful in the second task), which then raised the question 3) what happens if you tell people that what the speaker originally saw was different (e.g., that the over-modifier was actually looking at scenes with contrastive pairs), do they then cancel their modified expectations? We've thought about this but have yet to actually run it.

=== Zach ===
 1. '''Coded''' a lot of the Kamide PyGaze stuff to make the analysis much more streamlined.
 1. '''Read''' a lot of papers on how accents and accent comprehension impacts pedagogy
 1. '''Rewrote''' more of my accent project
 1. '''Ggplot2''' ggggggggg.

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

=== Maryam ===