Lab Meeting, Spring 2017, Week 4

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

Read Smith, R., Holmes-Elliott, S., Pettinato, M., and Knight, R.-A. (2014) Cross-accent intelligibility of speech in noise: Long-term familiarity and short-term familiarization. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67(3), pp. 590-608.

Related papers (not necessary, papers on speaker adaptation):

1. Smith, R. (2015) Perception of speaker-specific phonetic detail. In: Fuchs, S., Pape, D., Petrone, C. and Perrier, P. (eds.) Individual Differences in Speech Production and Perception. Series: Speech production and perception. Peter Lang, pp. 11-38. ISBN 9783631665060

2. Smith, R., and Hawkins, S. (2012) Production and perception of speaker-specific phonetic detail at word boundaries. Journal of Phonetics, 40(2), pp. 213-233

Related papers (papers on cross-dialect perception):

1. Smith, R., and Rathcke, T. (2016) Glasgow gloom or Leeds glue? Dialect-specific vowel duration constrains lexical segmentation and access. Phonetica, 74(1), pp. 1-24

What we did over last week

Florian

Xin

Andrew

Jenn

Dan

Amanda

Zach

Linda

1. Readings for class.
2. Finished up + submitted cogsci.
3. Put together additional condition/lists we need to run to fill up BB08 study.
4. Recorded Zach (with fake rash) for gesture study.
5. Wrote some materials for gesture study.

Wednesday

1. Learned how to add white noise to speech in R! (for NRT project) it works, but doesn't seem like the best solution lol
2. Prepped CSP 519 R Lab
3. Lots o' class homework things

4. Served on student interview panel for new Dean of AS&E Faculty (Peter Lennie is retiring!) It was cool to see a possible candidate for our new dean & give some input.

5. Todo for Mon, Tues:

   - learn how to make video from series of frames & unify w/ separate audio files

   - create timeline for current projects (feeling disorganized after CogSci!)

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