Schedule

Autumn 2023

• 8/23
  Organizational meeting
• 8/30
  Björn will share updates on the research of his NSF CAREER grant
• 9/6
  Jory will lead discussion of Firestone & Scholl (2016): Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for “top-down” effects” (LINK)
• 9/13
  Kevin will lead discussion of the Prologue through Chapter 3 of “The Language Game” (Christiansen & Chater, 2023) and up to paragraph 30 of Wittengenstein (1953): “Philosophical Investigations”
• 9/20
  Yu Jin and Emily will solicit feedback for their CCBS posters
• 9/27
  Becca will lead discussion of Maslowski et al. (2019). How the tracking of habitual rate influences speech perception (LINK)
• 10/4
  Tianyi will lead discussion of Yang, et al. (2015): “A sociotonetic study of Lalo tone split in progress” (LINK)
• 10/11
  Cynthia will lead discussion about the topic: “What is imitated in word shadowing?”
• 10/18
  Phuong will solicit feedback for her QP 1 data
• 10/25
  Tianyi will solicit feedback for his QP 1 data
• 11/1
  Emily will do a dry run of QP 2
• 11/8
  Ian will solicit feedback for his QP 2 data
• 11/15
  Kyler will solicit feedback for his QP 2 data
• 11/22
  No meeting: Thanksgiving break
• 11/29
  Marie will present progress on her dissertation
• 12/6
  Victoria will present progress on her dissertation

Previous Schedules

Spring 2023

• 1/10
  Organizational meeting
• 1/18
  Cynthia will lead discussion about the job search process
• 1/25
  Becca will lead discussion of Coleman (2003): “Discovering the acoustic correlates of phonological contrasts” (LINK)
• 2/1
  Kevin will lead discussion of a Lively et al. (1993): “Effects of cognitive workload on speech production: Acoustic analyses and perceptual consequences” (LINK)
• 2/8
  Björn will lead discussion of Morrill (2012): “Acoustic correlates of stress in English adjective–noun compounds” (LINK)
• 2/15
  Micha will lead discussion of Nalborczyk, et al. (2019): “An Introduction to Bayesian Multilevel Models Using brms: A Case Study of Gender Effects on Vowel Variability in Standard Indonesian” (LINK)
• 2/22
  Victoria will lead discussion of Morgan (2012): “Complexity in two-handed signs in Kenyan Sign Language: Evidence for sublexical structure in a young sign language” (LINK)
• 2/27 (Monday)
  Jory TBD
• 3/8
  Yuhong TBD
• 3/22
  Ian will present a QP2 dry-run
• 3/29
  Emily TBD
• 4/5
  Phuong TBD
• 4/12
  Yu Jin TBD
• 4/19
  Kyler & Marie will present their ASA posters

Autumn 2022

• 8/24
  Organizational meeting
• 8/31
  Cynthia will discuss how to pick a journal for publishing work.
• 9/7
  Kevin will lead discussion of Napoli, Sanders, & Wright (2014): “On the Linguistic Effects of Articulatory Ease, With a Focus on Sign Languages” (LINK)
• 9/14
  Becca & Cynthia will discuss how to discover what the “big questions” are in Phonetics and Phonology.
• 9/21
  Emily will lead discussion of Brekelmans et al. (2022) “Does high variability training improve the learning of non-native phoneme contrasts over low variability training? A replication” (LINK)
• 9/28
  Kyler; Marie will present their MidPhon dry-runs
• 10/5
  Phuong will lead discussion of Capmbell (2020): “Probing phonological structure in play language: Speaking backwards in Zenzontepec Chatino” (LINK)
• 10/12
  Yuhong AMP practice/dissertation update
• 10/19
  Becca will lead the discussion of Liberman et al. (1967): “Perception of the speech code” (LINK)
• 10/26
  Ian will discuss his QP2 stimuli and tasks
• 11/2
  Tianyi will discuss QP1: “Between stress and tone: phonetic evidence of word prominence in Siriano”
• 11/9
  Jory TBA
  Jingyi will present a dry-run of her QP2 research analyzing how Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) learn representations of nasality in English and French vowels
• 11/16
  Marie & Yu Jin will solicit feedback for their ASA posters
• 11/30
  Emily & Victoria will solicit feedback for their ASA posters
• 12/7
  Micha will present on simulation in statistical modeling

Spring 2022

• 1/12 Organizational meeting
• 1/19 Group discussion of D’Arcy & Salmons (2021) “Peer review in linguistics journals: Best practices and emerging standards” (LINK)
• 1/26 Ian: QP2 methods
• 2/2 Kevin leads discussion of Kim, Clayards, & Kong (2020) “Individual differences in perceptual adaptation to unfamiliar phonetic
  categories” (LINK)
• 2/9 Becca leads discussion of Feldman, Goldwater, Dupoux, & Schatz (2021) “Do Infants Really Learn Phonetic Categories?” (LINK)
• 2/16 Marie leads discussion of Farris-Trimble & Tessier (2019) “The effect of allophonic processes on word recognition: Eye-tracking evidence from Canadian raising” (LINK)
• 2/23 Cynthia & Björn: Replying to reviews (discussion)
• 3/2 Jingyi: QP2 dry run
• 3/9 Tianyi leads discussion of Burnham et al. (2015) “Universality and language-specific experience in the perception of lexical tone and pitch” (LINK)
• 3/16 SPRING BREAK
• 3/23 Victoria: Speech production poster dry run
• 3/30 John leads discussion of Feng, Meng, Li, & Peng (2021) “Effects of Cognitive Load on the Categorical Perception of Mandarin Tones” (LINK)
• 4/6 Yu Jin: QP2 dry run
• 4/13 Emily: QP1 dry run
• 4/20 Yuhong: Dissertation update