Lab Meeting, Autumn 2015, Week 14

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

Another round of long emails about a potential collaboration and seed funds for a CUHK-UR project. But I think we're on to something exciting. Remind me to loop you guys in.
Edited paper with Job Schepens on the effect of phonological similarity between languages on L2 speaking proficiency.
Edited paper with Kathleen Hall, Beth Hume, and Andy Wedel on an information theoretically-inspired approach to phonology (sound patterns). Finally, there's light at the end of the tunnel. I think we're approaching submission to Language.
Edited LabPhon abstract by Dave.
Letters: 5 (1 new).
Congrats to:
- Masha Fedzechkina for one talk and one poster (on waiting list for talk) for the upcoming EvoLang.
- Emily and Larissa (BCS 206 students working with Zach and Kodi) for making the first round of the selection process for NCUR.

Finished up the Results and Discussion sections for a revision to JML.
Prepped a lecture for BCS 152.
Started and finished two sets of analyses for an abstract to LabPhon, one to an old data set and one to a new data set.

Looked at the new reviewers from Reviewer 2 on my mammals paper at Frontiers. S/he really hates that we talk about phonetic adaptation in our paper, and either wants us to report fewer studies with more conditions or more studies with fewer conditions. #ugh.
Semi-finalized my quals reading list. Set my quals deadline. I will turn in my responses on January 18th by the end of the day. Florian, I will send you the list (hopefully) by the end of the weekend.
Tweaked some things for Val's study. Emailed her to see if she is ready to have it posted to Turk.
Emailed Wednesday about some tool she uses to prevent participants from taking a study multiple times. Unique Turker
Does anyone know Bozena's duolingo / current email address? My friend Josh Hartshorne wants to get in touch with her about some second language learning work he's working on.
Looked at the GSA travel award requirements. Started working on my application. The deadline is December 10 (for conferences attended in Summer/Fall 2015, or to be attended in Winter 2016 - they can't already be reimbursed, nor can you have a school award for travel).