Lab Meeting, Spring 2016, Week 14

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

For Kodi, Linda, Flo, and I: "Phonetic recalibration of speech by text" http://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13414-015-1034-y --ZJB

Newish paper by Zamuner, Morin-Lessard, Strahm, & Page on whether and how producing new words leads to changes in comprehension: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749596X15001205 --EXB

Definitely not inspiring, but I thought some people might want to look at the code I made for automatically comparing nuisance factors in glmer models quick_chi_squareds.R --ZJB

Florian

  1. Met with Ehsan Hoque to talk about potential collaboration.
  2. Was sick.

Kodi

  1. Continued analyzing data for follow up to Bradlow and Bent (2008)
  2. Continued analyzing data for project on socially-mediated syntactic alignment
  3. Prepped data viz tutorial for Scott Grimm's data science for linguistics class
  4. Learned about various R packages and functions for creating complex multi-panel graphs: gridExtra, ggExtra, cowplot, ggMarginal
  5. Copious administrative miscellany: e.g., coordinated remote presentation for invited colloquia in Spain; coordinated co-teaching arrangement for BCS 156 this fall

Andrew

  1. Played Ahab to a white whale of a bug in the Alien Language Learning app. I'm 99% git bisect has helped me figure out what the bug is, but now I have to figure out how to fix it. Update: 2016-04-19, bug appears to be squashed.

Olga

  1. Continuing on the skype meeting scheduling
  2. Updating post doc things
  3. Thinking about the tutorial but won't be able to get back to it until finals week/ senior week
  4. MIA this week due to final assignments and exams. E-mail me if you do need something from me.

Esteban

  1. Read the papers in the JML special issue on https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HrhJxIm70KaNkqxpbUXpXUH-VKisojYOQ4v_rQYrKiE/edit#gid=0

  2. Lead KurTan meeting w/ Amanda and Alyssa

  3. Started churning through some data Andy Wedel sent me for the meta-analysis.
  4. Continued editing the meta-analysis to include some speaker normalization for VOTs.
  5. Created dissertation skeleton 💀

Dave

Sarah

Dan

Amanda

  1. Graded some homework for BCS259.
  2. Graded BCS259 presentations.
  3. Set up peer reviews for BCS259.
  4. Gave short talk to HLP Lab RAs about finding jobs, summer positions, money, and getting into grad school (incl. asking for reference letters, eliciting advice about statements of intent, the design of CVs, etc).
  5. Finished setting up and started running the follow up study for the mammals task, where I attempted to manipulate the amount of speaker specific generalizations by giving participants a bit of a top-down cue that there might be errors in the design (thus giving an explanation for the variability). The first task suggests that participants didn't really think that there was a problem with the design, and instead thought there was a problem with the speaker. I might try a *much* *much* more heavy handed design.
  6. Worked on producing a natural utterance for the new Naming Task. When I get a moment to work on it, I want to send Sarah some to see what she thinks.

  7. Worked with Val on her poster for the Undergrad Research Expo. She has some cool data from a little task that replicates the findings of Frank & Goodman (2012), and extends it to look at cases where you have objects that differ along different feature dimensions, and objects that are more difficult to name. Her poster is on Friday, if you have time you should check out some of the work being done by students in the lab. Bethany et al also have a poster from their work in BCS 206/207.

  8. Learned how to interpolate images in inkscape for a project I'm thinking about with Mike, looking at how people make inferences about the world by manipulating speaker certainty and listener certainty.

Zach

  1. Helped Maryam with some code
  2. Continuing writing subtitle paper
  3. Did this analysis thing with nuisance variables and controlling them. Still don't know the concise term for it.
  4. Corrected some typos in Hadley Wickham's purrr
  5. Read more about the auditory store and phon. loop
  6. Learned about nonstandard evaluation in R.

Linda

  1. Worked on pen in mouth writing and analysis.
  2. Ran and analyzed more tongue twister experiment.
  3. Got 4 disc version of tower of hanoi task. Still working on adding in pegs.
  4. Edited stimuli for dual gesture task with Mike.
  5. Thais's birthday!

Maryam

Wednesday

  1. Finished running Brown et al replication
  2. Analyzed givenness experiment data, thinking about how to move forward now. Lots of general brainstorming about where to go with projects
  3. Put together quick purrr tutorial for lab meeting

  4. Presented Zamuner et al. (2016) in KurTan mtg

  5. Read many eyetracking papers
  6. Stats homework

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