Lab Meeting, Autumn 2015, Week 5

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

Cool paper by a huge group out of MPI on what they term "Universal Principles" that govern how conversational partners signal miscommunications and repairs. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0136100 -EXB

What we did over last week

Florian

1. Accepted to LCN: Esteban's paper on PND. Congrats!

2. Accepted to LCN: Paper with Gina Kuperberg on prediction. It took a substantial amount of work over the last week, most of my time on most of the week. Sigh. Done!

3. Edited paper with Scott Fraundorf on adaptation to the dialectal need structure. About to be submitted to JML.

4. Conducted an analysis of SPR experiment on syntactic adaptation run at FSU through Mike Kaschak's lab. Seems that the results support both Alex's theory and Mike Kaschak's episodic trace proposal.

5. Wrote six letters of recommendation.

Kodi

1. Wrote/revised review paper on sociophonetic inferences in speech perception and beyond (w/ Maryam, Chigusa and Florian)

2. Feedback on colloquium proposal: Inter-group communication and linguistic accommodation, proposed by some (newfound) colleagues in Europe as part of the 21st Sociolinguistics Symposium

3. Stimulus development: combed through a corpus of foreign-accented speech recordings; identified a set of talkers/sentences that will allow us to build on Bradlow and Bent (2008) by investigating the role of talker similarity in cross-talker generalization of accent adaptation.

4. Worked on job application materials
5. Met with Zach about stimulus materials for subtitle project
6. Met with Elika about speaker adaptation and early word learning

Andrew

Olga

Esteban

1. Submitted a manuscript with minor revisions to LCN, which was accepted.
2. Continued revisions to another manuscript.
3. Met with RAs for various projects.
4. Finished up data annotation for a study with Scott Seyfarth.
5. Lectured in BCS language pro-seminar on articulation and feedback.

Dave

1. Made an R package to hold/reproduce data/analysis of animals study.

2. Wrote animals results section draft and met with co-authors to decide on set of analyses/results to present and framing.

3. Wrote/revised job application materials

4. Productive procrastination: implemented Julia contrast coding and checks for non-redundant factor columns (e.g., y ~ 0+x vs. y ~ 1+x, and y ~ x + x:z vs. y ~ x + z + x:z) in model matrices.

Sarah

Dan

1. Analyzing & plotting data, trying to make sense of results from Automatic Naming Project

2. Ran several RAs in my calibration and exposure blocks to make sure things were in order.
3. Got added to the adaptation protocol

4. Last minute fiddling with stimuli and list checking for full adaptation & attention study.

Amanda

Zach

Linda

1. Finished eye-tracking data wrangling to get into the right format from the raw files.
2. Met with RAs with Zach
3. Helped Maryam run norming on Matt's voice
4. Met with Tom Howard about Avatar (robotics/gesture) project
5. Reading/work for classes
6. Worked on extending Likert Scale block to video stimuli for pen in mouth stuff. Still some kinks though.
7. Began coding up grid similarity task.

Maryam

Wednesday

1. Mostly classwork this week

2. Thought about possible experimental designs for various studies I want to run

3. Rewrote research proposal from last year's NSF

Idoia

1. Got abstract on attraction effects in Basque accepted for a talk at EXAL+ (Abu Dhabi, NYU)
2. Done writing the annual report for my grant
3. Counting words, counting dependencies in transcribed Basque data and Spanish from Japanese learners' data... (dull, dull work!)
4. Reading
5. Working for classes
6. Fighting with R