Lab Meeting, Summer 2015, Week 12

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

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)

What we did over last week

Florian

Kodi

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.
Developed project ideas for new experiments on social perception and syntactic alignment.
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.
Reviewed manuscript for JASA on acquiring non-native phonological contrasts and whether listeners can achieve native-like cue-weighting.
Provided feedback on Chigusa's NSF PAC grant proposal.
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.
Handled administrative miscellany for reprinting published figures.

Andrew

Met with Florian about design of BCS 152 experiment system
Started setup of Nginx as our web server on new WWW instead of Apache
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
Worked through more of the TODO list for thew new web site. Including a (to me) surprisingly simple solution for a floating side nav.
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

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.
Noted some other bugs that need to be worked out in the design
Returned the camera and tripod that have been sitting upstairs for about a year now.

Esteban

Dave

Sarah

Dan

Amanda

Zach

Linda

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