Lab Meeting, Summer 2016, Week 9
Awe- and Aw-inspiring readings (or just stuff you think deserves a mention)
Luke & Christianson (2016) Limits on lexical prediction during reading, Cognitive Psychology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2016.06.002 Argues against "strong prediction" idea (specific, all or nothing lexical prediction). Rather, semantic/morphological stuff is more predictable (and highly predtctable lexical competitors can be facilitative). -DFK (via @tallinzen)
What we did over last week
Florian
- Back from the Alps. Too beautiful (the Alps, not me). Still sick.
- Prepared and held discussion group at Uni Zurich (Balthasar Bickell, Damian Blasi, etc.) on processing effects on language change. This completes the Sweden-Holland-Germany-Switzerland academic summer trip 2016. One thesis defense, four talks, one discussion group, and lots of meetings.
Kodi
Andrew
- Went to Wisconsin
Olga
- Updated the tutorial to have the correct answers pop up on the filler quiz
- Played around with quizzes that would show up in between text. got the quizzes to show up but not if the person got it correct.
Esteban
- Thesis/paper writing, working on the VOT adaptation follow-up about specificity.
- Completed NIH grant participant reporting things.
Dave
- Finished draft of paper/chapter on informativity of socio-indexical grouping factors for cue distributions. (Dealt with a particularly and unexpectedly nasty problem with randomization in the modeling).
- (Partially) drafted paper/chapter on inferring listeners' prior beliefs (incorporating a second experiment and modeling)
Dan
Amanda
- Looked at kid videos to see whether there is any evidence that the new task is working with kids / whether they are just super bored.
- Helped with recruitment at the museum.
- Worked on my grant application (thought about the design of studies).
- Made a small pilot task with Wes to try to look at the distributions of acceptability for relative vs. absolute adjectives.
Zach
Running a lot of new simulations for the LabPhon poster
Making the LabPhon poster.
- Thinking a lot about word recognition. I've found a disagreeable theoretical implication of the model. Currently, if a contrast is lost, it could lower the recognition of a word without any minimal pairs. Trying to think about how the probability would really shift in the event of a contrast lost in the confusion matrix.
- Coordinating undergrads' work, having them start to use the eye-tracker more.
Linda