Lab Meeting, Summer 2016, Week 9

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

• Luke & Christianson (2016) Limits on lexical prediction during reading, Cognitive Psychology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2016.06.002 Argues against "strong prediction" idea (specific, all or nothing lexical prediction). Rather, semantic/morphological stuff is more predictable (and highly predtctable lexical competitors can be facilitative). -DFK (via @tallinzen)

What we did over last week

Florian

1. Back from the Alps. Too beautiful (the Alps, not me). Still sick.
2. Prepared and held discussion group at Uni Zurich (Balthasar Bickell, Damian Blasi, etc.) on processing effects on language change. This completes the Sweden-Holland-Germany-Switzerland academic summer trip 2016. One thesis defense, four talks, one discussion group, and lots of meetings.

Andrew

1. Went to Wisconsin

Olga

1. Updated the tutorial to have the correct answers pop up on the filler quiz
2. Played around with quizzes that would show up in between text. got the quizzes to show up but not if the person got it correct.

Esteban

1. Thesis/paper writing, working on the VOT adaptation follow-up about specificity.
2. Completed NIH grant participant reporting things.

Dave

1. Finished draft of paper/chapter on informativity of socio-indexical grouping factors for cue distributions. (Dealt with a particularly and unexpectedly nasty problem with randomization in the modeling).
2. (Partially) drafted paper/chapter on inferring listeners' prior beliefs (incorporating a second experiment and modeling)

Dan

Amanda

Zach

Linda

Wednesday