Lab Meeting, Summer 2016, Week 12

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

[Rajkumar et al. (2016). Investigating locality effects and surprisal in written English syntactic choice phenomena. Another locality vs. surprisal corpus study. Haven't read yet but might be of interest. --WRB

What we did over last week

Florian

1. Edited Ch 4 of Esteban's thesis.

2. Edited a couple of more times through NSF proposal with Scott F.

3. Edited final revisions of Ting's paper (provisionally accepted to Cognition) and wrote another 2 pages of discussion of why it is or isn't spatial priming.

4. Edited paper with Dan Gildea on word order optimization across languages. We're prepping a resubmission to PNAS.

5. Edited Hall et al Ch 1-4.3.2. Draft planned to go out to other readers by the end of next week. After three years for me and six for the rest of the team!

6. Feedback on Chigusa's NSF.
7. Chatted with Judith Degen about old project and we decided to abandon it. sniff.

8. Declined two review requests.

Kodi

Xin

1. Continued to think about project ideas (narrowed down directions)
2. Met with Dave/Kodi about future plans and insight on modeling
3. Re-read a few old papers; thought about phonetic adaptation effects across different levels of processing

Andrew

1. Still chugging away at CrowdExp

   • Synced changes to date to dev server

   • Added group emailing functionality
   • Converted some repeated template code into template tags
   • Figured out how to use signals to automatically generate notification actions
   • Cleaned out some dead code
   • Started fleshing out some new views I'm adding to make life easier for students and instructors
2. Installed a raft of security updates on slate.

3. Added a bunch of pubs (mostly posters) from Florian's CV to lab pubs page. Please send me your pubs as soon as they happen so I don't have to dig through a year+ of them.

Esteban

Dave

1. Some minor edits to chapter on talker variation (and follow-up with people from Labphon who asked for it).
2. Met with Kodi and Xin about future plans/modeling.
3. Outlined neurobiology of language talk
4. Started (final, minor) reorganization of animals category learning paper (after meeting to coordinate)

Dan

Amanda

1. Recruited kids at the museum with the undergrads.
2. Ran kid participants at the museum for Wes' project.

3. Thought a lot about my kid study, met with Mike & Chigusa about it, decided to try writing it up as a small paper.

4. Proposed a new line of studies to Mike & Chigusa looking at the extent to which a listener might reason about the nature of an under-informative utterance - some kinds of utterances might be more likely to signal a pragamtically bad speaker than others (which might instead just signal a common ground miscalculation, or teaching situation).

Zach

Linda

1. Reading for quals.
2. Emailed Odette Scharenborg and her student Polina Drozdova who have a 2014 paper on R/L recalibration in English (by L1 Dutch speakers). This is the only R/L paper in English I've found to far, and we're hoping that we'll be able to use their stimuli to as a first pass to detect R/L adaptation on the web.
3. Reading for RA meeting: Syrett et al 2009 on gradable adjectives, as selected by Wesley.
4. Coding for eyetracking analysis
5. Looked into frequencies of the words we used for the tongue twister experiment.

Wednesday

1. Lots of hiking in Glacier National Park. Recovered from getting practically no sleep.
2. Trying to remember what I was even doing before I left for vacation...
3. Writing!