Lab Meeting, Spring 2016, Week 9

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

Bernolet, S., Collina, S., & Hartsuiker, R. J. (2016). The persistence of syntactic priming revisited. Journal of Memory and Language. --WB

Papers sent by Patrick Shafto:

Florian

  1. Have been working on grant proposal.

  2. Edited through rewrite of introduction to Hall et al paper on information theoretic approaches to phonology.

  3. Edited through Weatherholtz, Seifeldin et al introduction to ideal adapter and related models for Language and Linguistics Compass.

  4. Edited on short commentary on salience for special issue in Frontiers.

  5. Outlined with Zach a paper on his CUNY talk. We decided to go for Psychonomic Bulletin and Review (PBR). The idea is to stick very close to the CUNY talk.

  6. Outlined with Esteban a paper, following up on the distributional analyses he presented in his recent JML paper. We decided to first focus on three data sets (his plosive data from the JML paper; the sibilant data from his paper with Scott Seyfarth; the tense vs. lax vowel data from Schertz 2013). We'll present the type of analysis we conducted in the JML paper and then also present ideal observer analyses, estimating the change in expected proportion of correct recognitions under hyper-articulated and non-hyper-articulated pronunciations. I think we should ask Dick whether he thinks this would be a good fit for Open Mind. Alternatively, we might try a brief report in Cognition.

  7. Feedback to Linda about her causal inference paper. There were some minor questions left about the data, but it seems we're ready to write this up. But we also decided to run one more (hopefully quick) follow-up with an improved design. If that one comes out, I'd say we should try Cognition or PBR.

  8. Feedback to Dan on his next pilot on the role of attention in adaptation. It's coming together!

  9. Letters: one (new)

  10. Declined five invitations to review. Accepted one.

Kodi

  1. Revised introduction to ideal adapter and related models for Language and Linguistics Compass.

  2. Revised and submitted short commentary on salience for special issue in Frontiers.

  3. Reviewed paper for JASA on cue-reweighting in non-native speech perception

  4. Worked with Andrew on prepping socalign paradigm for further experiments.

Andrew

  1. Continued work on Kodi's socalign experiment
  2. Updated lab website with everyone's new @ur email addresses and current list of RAs
  3. Started this year's continuing review and the amendment we need to submit beforehand

Olga

  1. Going through the todo list for the tutorial. See updates there for what has been done.
  2. Send me your website!! So I can add it to the tutorial
  3. Have updated massive amounts of information for people who applied for the post doc position.
  4. Scheduled skype meetings for some of these candidates
  5. Went to San Francisco, wish to be back there, even if it was rainy...

Esteban

Dave

  1. Did last interview
  2. Played around a tiny bit with re-writing my phonetics experiment code using a front end framework like React.

  3. Reviewed two cog sci papers and accepted a review request

  4. Outlined SVALP talk.

  5. Plan for studies/modeling to do for the rest of this year.

Sarah

Dan

Amanda

  1. Worked on quals revisions.
  2. Submitted review for cogsci.
  3. Prepped, and gave a guest lecture (Tuesday) in Language Development on Pragmatics.
  4. Graded assignments for Lang Dev.
  5. Helped an RA prep for a summer internship interview.

  6. Tried to problem solve the issues with the naming project (my eye-tracking study from 1st/2nd year), resolved to look at the first instruction data. We might have some interesting evidence for what people's expectations are for cohort items when one of the cohorts is also a contrast item - hard to say really. Problematically it seems like participants are learning the structure of the task within the first 12 trials. It's been an interesting learning experience. Planning on also reading Heller & Chambers (2014).

  7. Thought about a possible follow up to my Frontiers paper studies to facilitate the collaboration with Sarah Brown-Schmidt and Rachel Ryslin. Still working on it.

Zach

1. Created a bunch of tongue twister stimuli in preparation for recording on Monday. 1. Wrote out all the details of the Tongue Twister experiment for the RAs to follow in stimuli preparation. 1. Coded a couple different programs in Praat for stimuli creation and editing (the struggle is real) 1. Went through a long MATLAB debacle on my Mac. Stumped Chris yet again with weird Mac problems. 1. Went through Holger's code and found problems.

Linda

  1. Created a bunch of tongue twister stimuli in preparation for recording on Monday. And then realized they were screwy so re-created a bunch more.

  2. Prepared materials for TandemStraight tutorial for RAs.

  3. Additional analysis on lexical decision data of pen in the mouth experiment.
  4. Coded up a new paradigm to look at whether participants actually think the pen in the mouth affects S or SH differently.
  5. Made new lists for shortened pen in mouth task.
  6. Adjusted Mimo Experiment according to Chigusa's comments.
  7. Ran additional speaker (in 5 conditions) in Bradlow and Bent experiments.

Maryam

Wednesday

  1. More analysis of definiteness adaptation experiment
  2. Wrote context sentences for definiteness materials
  3. Programmed more direct replication of Brown et al
  4. More eyetracking modeling work with Frank. We're rethinking our approach...
  5. Stats homework

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