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

Wrote/revised review paper on sociophonetic inferences in speech perception and beyond (w/ Maryam, Chigusa and Florian)
Feedback on colloquium proposal: Inter-group communication and linguistic accommodation, proposed by some (newfound) colleagues in Europe as part of the 21st Sociolinguistics Symposium
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.
Worked on job application materials
Met with Zach about stimulus materials for subtitle project
Met with Elika about speaker adaptation and early word learning

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

=== Idoia ====

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