<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi, Larry--long time no see!<br><br></div>Good to know you're still around!<br><br>Best,<br><br></div>Hal Schiffman<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Larry Selinker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:larry.selinker@nyu.edu" target="_blank">larry.selinker@nyu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div class="gmail_default"><b>funny stuff. i was at u mich when some of it was going on ("we had a bunch of drunks in our lab for a year, and ...". </b></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><b><br></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><b>one thing i remember was that a group of grad students were supporting themselves out of these grants, so there was some value in the effort. </b></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><b><br></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><b>there were later studies using other drugs, weed for sure was one. one of the grad students at the time who took part in the later studies was BILL ACTON, now in vancouver and maybe the world's best expert at pronunciation changes (and non-changes) in L2 pronunciation. if anyone is serious about this, i suggest you privately contact </b><b>him: </b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap"><a href="mailto:william.acton@twu.ca" target="_blank">william.acton@twu.ca</a>. <b>i'm ccing this to him to give him a heads up.</b></span></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap"><b>anyways, i always thought the reports of what went on were great fun.</b></span></div>
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</b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div><b><br></b></div>Best, <br><br>Cheers, <br><br>Larry<br><br>Larry Selinker is now on facebook.<br>
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</b></span></div><div><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></b></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 8:14 AM, Daryl Gordon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dgordon@adelphi.edu" target="_blank">dgordon@adelphi.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks for sharing the original article! That study is almost folklore in applied linguistics, but I'd never seen the original article. I was chuckling at imagining all those U Michigan college students signing up for this study!<br>
<br></div>Daryl <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Elizabeth Scheyder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scheydec@sas.upenn.edu" target="_blank">scheydec@sas.upenn.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Yes, I remember reading that in Rod Ellis’ “Second Language Acquisition”, and my students always find it amusing (as an anecdote, not a classroom practice!)<br>
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Here’s Guiora’s article:<br>
<a href="http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/34041/0000318.pdf?sequence=1" target="_blank">http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/34041/0000318.pdf?sequence=1</a><br>
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YMMV,<br>
Elizabeth<br>
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On Jun 3, 2014, at 11:31 AM, anne marie devlin <<a href="mailto:anne_mariedevlin@hotmail.com" target="_blank">anne_mariedevlin@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Dear Dick<br>
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> Don't know anything about the pill, but there was a study carried out in the early 1970s by Guiora (I think) that highlighted the benefits of alcohol to SLA.<br>
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> Reminds me of the Ogden Nash poem:<br>
> Candy is dandy<br>
> But liquor is quicker<br>
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> All the best<br>
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> Anne Marie<br>
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> > Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 13:35:35 +0100<br>
> > From: <a href="mailto:r.hudson@ucl.ac.uk" target="_blank">r.hudson@ucl.ac.uk</a><br>
> > To: <a href="mailto:edling@bunner.geol.lu.se" target="_blank">edling@bunner.geol.lu.se</a><br>
> > Subject: [Edling] A pill for learning Chinese?<br>
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> > Dear Colleague,<br>
> > Anyone know about this suggestion that drugs can help language-learning?<br>
> ><br>
> > <a href="http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2014/Are_drugs_the_answer_to_learning_a_language.cfm" target="_blank">http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2014/Are_drugs_the_answer_to_learning_a_language.cfm</a><br>
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> > Dick<br>
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