Lab Meeting, Summer 2015, Week 12

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

Brunellière A. & Soto-Faraco, S. (2013). The speakers’ accent shapes the listeners’ phonological predictions during speech perception. Brain & Language, 125:82-93. (Kodi)

What we did over last week

Florian

Kodi

1. Developed ideas for new project on adaptation to phonological co-variation (i.e., multiple pronunciation variants that co-occur in an accent) and whether listeners capitalize on co-occurrence statistics when generalizing to new talkers with a familiar accent.

2. Developed project ideas for new experiments on social perception and syntactic alignment.

3. Met with Zach (briefly) about new adaptation project that investigates how the timing of the training signal (e.g., disambiguating info via subtitles presented before, after or concurrent with target auditory stimulus) affects adaptation.

4. Provided feedback on Chigusa's NSF PAC grant proposal.

5. Provided feedback on Anne Pier's critique of Lieberman et al.'s (in press) article Real-time processing of ASL signs: Delayed first language acquisition affects organization of the mental lexicon.

Andrew

1. Met with Florian about design of BCS 152 experiment system

2. Started setup of Nginx as our web server on new WWW instead of Apache

3. Used rsync to back up document root of old web server (which includes a lot of stimuli and over-the-web recordings that may not exist elsewhere) into a directory on the NAS

Olga

1. Put everything that is in the wiki into the BCS tutorial. Created a few new pages, Created a document to see what needs to be put into the navigation.
2. Noted some other bugs that need to be worked out in the design
3. Returned the camera and tripod that have been sitting upstairs for about a year now.

Esteban

Dave

Sarah

Dan

Amanda

Zach

Linda

Maryam