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

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

Dave

Sarah

Dan

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

=== 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