Lab Meeting, Autumn 2015, Week 3

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

Heald SLM, Nusbaum HC (2015) Variability in Vowel Production within and between Days. PLoS ONE 10(9): e0136791. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0136791. Talkers' productions are consistent day to day, but f0 and F1 change systematically over the course of the day (maybe, hard to tell what to make from the figures...). Good thing to be able to cite for talkers' having a consistent way of speaking, making talker identity informative. (DFK)
The Nationwide Speech Corpus: Clopper and Pisoni. 60 talkers, 5 male and female each from 6 different dialect regions. hVd and CVCs, as well as read speech and targeted interviews. (DFK)

** REMINDER: Talk about Hong Kong

Edited first complete draft of Fraundorf and Jaeger on our needs+participle reading experiments. The paper is intended for a special issue in JML.
Received reviews for Kuperberg and Jaeger "What we mean by prediction", which is accepted to Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience with minor changes =).
Proofed Yildirim et al. for JML, so hopefully it'll come out soon.
Feedback on framing of revised paper on Esteban's cool experiments on feedback in production.
Feedback on Vince Porretta's NSHERC application for a post-doctoral fellowship. Under other news, Jessamyn has unfortunately decided that she won't pursue a post-doc with the lab. For personal reasons, she prefers to stay in Toronto/Canada. But I still hope that we will collaborate (she sent me her vowel data from her 2013 paper, including F3 data, which wasn't analyzed back then).
Letters and skypes in preparation of them. Prepared and sent out the first one. Also have been working on a rather time-consuming nomination of a non-HLPler for a little something.
We'll have a lot of visitors arriving soon! Jasmeen Kanwaal (LIN, UCSD) will be in town 9/28-29. Katja Kravtchenko (SFB, Saarbruecken) will be visiting us from about 9/26 to 10/15. Guillermo Montero Melis (BILING, Stockholm) will be arriving in early October and stay for the month. They all do really cool research. You should shoot them an email and set up a meeting as soon as possible.

Met with Chigusa and Maryam about attack plan for writing the rest of the review paper on sociophonetic inferences in speech perception.
Wrote/revised the first few sections of the review paper on sociophonetic inferences in speech perception.
Updated/redesigned my vitae
Corresponded with Linda about getting a web-based framework in place for expanding on Bradlow & Bent (2008). Identified stimulus materials for a follow up study that investigates whether the likelihood of generalizing accent adaptation from any single talker to any other talker with the same accent is determined by the pair-wise similarity between those two talkers (given various measures of "similarity").
Met with undergrads in BCS 206 about replication of Clarke and Garrett (2004) -- w. Florian and Zach
Met with Esteban to learn about programming MTurk experiments.

Mostly progress on CrowdExp thing for BCS152
1. Learned enough Ractive to make a slick reactive page where they can create their levels for their manipulations
2. Set up Django Pipeline so I can concatenate, minify, and transpile JS (including ES6) and CoffeeScript on the fly.
Helped Anne Pier figure out a problem with the ExBuilder Analysis program. Top tip: don't give your queries names that are also SQL reserved words; it won't stop or warn you, but it will throw up and error with a huge stack trace at you.
Did my best with the influx of questions about RA stuff and experiments that one gets flooded with at the start of a semester.

Met With Florian to discuss what needs to be changed in the tutorial. Did not get around to the changes.
Goal To implement all the changes Florian and I discussed by Wednesday night (Thursday afternoon)
Trained Stephen on RedCap, Trained Madeline on RedCap
Sent out a survey to the RAs, Realized that the mailing list does not work. Sent out the results individually, will give the results to Florian this week.
Goal Update the RA list, check with Chris why the mailing list isn't working.
Set up the lab meeting schedule for the rest of the semester
Prepped for the audit

Continued to revise JML manuscript for resubmission
Did some additional but ultimately fruitless analyses for said JML manuscript
Met with Bethany (ugrad RA) to work on eye-tracking experiment
Met with Anne Pier to bug-test some exbuilder compiling problems
Met with Kodi to go over my mturk experimental code

Finished developing and ran my "automatic naming" study on mechanical turk and analyzed the data - looks interesting
Put up my adaptation study on mechanical turk sandbox for testing
Worked on new eyetracking studies

Worked on sound files for follow up version of the naming task (study where we are looking at what effect having named an item on a screen has on how other objects on the screen might be referred to).
Scheduled ESP, the CLS Welcome Party, weekly meetings with Mike, Chigusa, and Val (independent study student)
Created a new kids study to test that the kids can actually do my task as a sanity check. One of my RAs should be running this, this week.
Planned the follow up version of the kids study that should round out my studies for my talk at BUCLD. The follow up essentially asks if, like adults, highlighting speaker differences as a part of the task will increase informativity based generalizations.
Read a bunch of papers about kids informative referential expression production.

Met with undergrads in BCS 206 about replication of Clarke and Garrett (2004) -- w. Florian and Zach
Figured out how to link domain names, etc. with webpages
Learning enough CSS/HTML5/Javascript to make my academic webpage look nice.
Recoded a lot of my accent modeling project to make it more efficient so that when I show it to Florian on Monday he won't have to use the stern "Papa is disappointed" look.
Unearthing my old Praat code so that I can give working demos for the BCS 206 meeting on Wednesday.

Played catch-up for the stuff I missed in class while in Malta
Started working on HW1 for Robbie's Computational Methods class
Started coding up analysis for eyetracking experiment.
Set up extra bedroom and helped get Thais (Mike's visiting PhD student) settled. She's staying with me for the next 10 months or so.
Prepped and hosted the welcome party for the first years

Read a bunch of papers on constraints on word order across structures & languages
Discovered that the data from the Bresnan et al. (2007) corpus study on ditransitives is freely available and played around with it!
Set up meetings with Mike & Chigusa for this week to talk about research ideas. The more input the merrier!
Did lots of reading and homework for classes
Goals for this week: nail down first year proj w/ Florian & write a first draft of NSF research proposal; talk to Roger about preparing to submit undergrad thesis work

Started writing for paper on length dependency minimization in bilinguals.
Run some analyses and re-did some graphics
Met with Sarah to look at her design (problems/successes) on a naturalistic production taks
Done settling down