Lab Meeting, Summer 2016, Week 12

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

[Rajkumar et al. (2016). Investigating locality effects and surprisal in written English syntactic choice phenomena. Another locality vs. surprisal corpus study. Haven't read yet but might be of interest. --WRB

What we did over last week

Florian

1. Edited Ch 4 of Esteban's thesis.

2. Edited a couple of more times through NSF proposal with Scott F.

3. Edited final revisions of Ting's paper (provisionally accepted to Cognition) and wrote another 2 pages of discussion of why it is or isn't spatial priming.

4. Edited paper with Dan Gildea on word order optimization across languages. We're prepping a resubmission to PNAS.

5. Edited Hall et al Ch 1-4.3.2. Draft planned to go out to other readers by the end of next week. After three years for me and six for the rest of the team!

6. Feedback on Chigusa's NSF.
7. Chatted with Judith Degen about old project and we decided to abandon it. sniff.

8. Declined two review requests.

Kodi

Xin

Andrew

1. Still chugging away at CrowdExp

   • Synced changes to date to dev server

   • Added group emailing functionality

Esteban

Dave

1. Some minor edits to chapter on talker variation (and follow-up with people from Labphon who asked for it).
2. Met with Kodi and Xin about future plans/modeling.
3. Outlined neurobiology of language talk
4. Started (final, minor) reorganization of animals category learning paper (after meeting to coordinate)

Dan

Amanda

Zach

Linda

Wednesday

1. Lots of hiking in Glacier National Park. Recovered from getting practically no sleep.
2. Trying to remember what I was even doing before I left for vacation...
3. Writing!