From edwards.212 at osu.edu Wed Sep 1 13:41:17 1999 From: edwards.212 at osu.edu (Jan Edwards) Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 08:41:17 -0500 Subject: language acquisition position at Ohio State Message-ID: ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT AND DISORDERS: The Department of Speech and Hearing Science at The Ohio State University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in language acquisition/language disorders. Successful applicant must have a completed doctorate in speech/language pathology or related field (including cognitive psychology and linguistics); CCC-SLP preferred, but not required; potential for excellence in research and teaching; research specialization in the area of language acquisition and/or disorders-especially in the area of syntactic and/or discourse level of processing. This position is part of an interdisciplinary research emphasis on human language processing. Supervision of clinical practicum is not required. Earliest start date AU 2000. In order to be assured of full consideration applications must be received by November 30, 1999. Applicants should submit a letter of application (including a description of research focus and teaching interests), a curriculum vitae, three letters of recommendation, and copies of any published work to: Robert Allen Fox, Ph.D., Chair, Department of Speech and Hearing Science, 110 Pressey Hall, 1070 Carmack Rd., Columbus, OH 43210, Phone: 614 292 8207, E-mail: fox.2 at osu.edu From santell at nh1.nh.pdx.edu Wed Sep 1 21:28:38 1999 From: santell at nh1.nh.pdx.edu (Lynn Santelmann) Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 13:28:38 PST Subject: Readings with Cross-linguistic Overview Message-ID: Dear All, I am looking for several readings (suitable for upper-level undergraduates) that contain an overview of crosslinguistic trends in langauge development, in particular for phonological, syntactic and pragmatic development. I have a number of readings that focus on particular languages, and a few that give some overview, but they are either dated or not terribly accessible for my students. Can anyone recommend good readings with a cross-linguistic _overview_? I will welcome any suggestions, even those outside phonology, syntax and pragmatics, because they may turn out to be better than the readings I'm currently using. Thank you for your help; I will post a summary. Best, Lynn Santelmann ________________________________________________________ Lynn Santelmann, Assistant Professor Department of Applied Linguistics Portland State University P.O. Box 751 Portland, OR 92707-0751 Phone: (503) 725-4140 Fax: (503) 725-4139 E-mail: santelmannl at pdx.edu ________________________________________________________ From santelmannl at pdx.edu Fri Sep 3 19:01:44 1999 From: santelmannl at pdx.edu (Lynn Santelmann) Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 12:01:44 -0700 Subject: Seeking Cross-linguistic Overviews/Readings Message-ID: Dear All, I am seeking readings suitable for upper level undergraduates that give good cross-linguistic (or cross-cultural) _overviews_ in the areas of phonological production, syntax and discourse development. I have many readings that deal with specific languages, but am having trouble finding accessible readings that give a good overview of a range of data. Suggestions for readings outside these areas would also be welcomed (they may be better than the ones I'm already using). I will post a summary of responses. (Please pardon me if this appears twice, I seem to be getting my messages bounced back to me.) Thank you for your help, Lynn Santelmann ****************************************************** Lynn Santelmann, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Applied Linguistics Portland State University 467 Neuberger Hall 724 SW Harrison Ave. Portland, OR 97201 Phone: (503) 725-4140 Fax: (503) 725-4139 e-mail: santelmannl at pdx.edu ****************************************************** From michael at giccs.georgetown.edu Mon Sep 13 23:48:10 1999 From: michael at giccs.georgetown.edu (Michael Ullman) Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 18:48:10 -0500 Subject: postdoc position Message-ID: POSTDOC POSITION: PSYCHOLINGUISTICS AND NEUROLINGUISTICS We are seeking to hire one full-time Postdoctoral Fellow (or very highly qualified non-PhD) to carry out psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic research. The position is in the Brain and Language Lab at the Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences (GICCS) and the Department of Neuroscience at Georgetown University. GICCS is dedicated to understanding the relation between brain and cognition. It is composed of a group of about fifteen researchers pursuing a variety of lines of research in cognition, computation, and neuroscience. At the Brain and Language lab we are interested in the neural, computational, psychological, and developmental bases of language and memory. In particular, our work attempts to elucidate the underpinnings of lexicon and grammar, with a particular interest in issues of modularity, neural localization, and domain-specificity/generality. We focus on the study of morphology, syntax, and semantics, and the relationship of these language components to the declarative and procedural memory systems. The successful candidate will be primarily responsible for carrying out (1) Neurolinguistic studies of subjects with adult-onset brain damage (aphasia; Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Huntington's disease; schizophrenia; and other conditions) and those with developmental language disorders (Specific Language Impairment, Williams syndrome, ADHD, and others); (2) psycholinguistic studies of normal adults and children. The candidate will have the opportunity to be involved in projects using EEG/ERP (Electroencephalography/Event-Related Potentials), MEG (Magnetoencephalography), and fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging). The minimum requirements for the position are graduate training and/or research experience in at least two of the following three areas: psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics (research with cognitively impaired patients or functional neuroimaging), and theoretical linguistics (preferably syntax or morphology). She or he must be very comfortable with computers. Programming abilities and a knowledge of statistics are a plus. The position is for a minimum of two years, and possibly up to four. Consideration of applicants will begin immediately, and will end when the position is filled. Salary will be highly competitive. To apply, please send Michael Ullman a resume (preferably by email) and arrange to have three letters of recommendation sent to him (preferably by email). Georgetown University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer. Michael Ullman Assistant Professor Director, Brain and Language Laboratory Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences (GICCS) and Department of Neuroscience Research Building 3970 Reservoir Rd, NW Georgetown University Washington DC 20007 Email: michael at giccs.georgetown.edu Tel: Office: 202-687-6064 Lab: 202-687-6896 Fax: 202-687-6914 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2990 bytes Desc: not available URL: From garym at linguistics.ucl.ac.uk Tue Sep 14 17:02:10 1999 From: garym at linguistics.ucl.ac.uk (G.Morgan) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 17:02:10 +0000 Subject: Sign language acquisition at TISLR Message-ID: Dear colleagues, I am trying to get together a workshop on 'Cross-linguistic comparisons of sign language acquisition' for the Amsterdam TISLR July 23rd - July 27th 2000. This is a continuation of the symposium organised by Nini Hoiting and Dan Slobin in San Sebastian, Spain, in July this year. Dan Slobin has agreed to be a potential discussant for the TISLR meeting. To allow for good comparative discussion, I would like to limit the focus of the papers to child sign language elicited using the 'frog story' narrative stimulus material. This is still very wide as there is a lot of different topics available for presentation within this focused area. The timetable for preparation would be: Abstracts of no more than 250 words to Gary Morgan by OCTOBER 3rd 1999 Submission of workshop abstract to TISLR organisers on or before NOVEMBER 1st 1999. Notification of acceptance or rejection by TISLR December 1999 Draft papers for discussion by group by MAY 1st 2000 Please be in touch if you are interested in contributing. We are limited I think to 4 presentations within the workshop time so selection of abstracts will depend on cohesiveness across the group. I look forward to hearing from you all soon Gary ------- Gary Morgan Dept of Linguistics, UCL, London tel: 0171 4193162 (voice/text) fax: 0171 3834108 From mewcscr at fs1.ed.man.ac.uk Thu Sep 16 13:56:48 1999 From: mewcscr at fs1.ed.man.ac.uk (Gina Conti-Ramsden) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 13:56:48 GMT Subject: POST Message-ID: Dear INFO-CHILDES, Announcing the publication of a new book: LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL INTERACTION IN BLIND CHILDREN (1999) Miguel Perez-Pereira and Gina Conti-Ramsden Hove, UK: Psychology Press Ltd ISBN: 0-86377-795-3 £24.95 HBK To order contact Psychology Press, Internatioanl Thomson Services, Cheriton House, North Way, Andover, Hants. SP10 5BE, UK Email: book.orders at tandf.co.uk Hope this is useful information to those who are interested in this area gina and miguel gina.conti-ramsden at man.ac.uk Centre for Educational Needs School of Education University of Manchester Manchester M13 9PL Tel. 0161-275-3514 Fax. 0161-275-3548 From josie.bernicot at campus.univ-poitiers.fr Fri Sep 17 06:57:59 1999 From: josie.bernicot at campus.univ-poitiers.fr (bernicot) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 08:57:59 +0200 Subject: email ira A. Noveck Message-ID: Does anyone have Ira Noveck's email address? Thanks, Josie Bernicot Please, note my new address: Address : Laboratoire Langage et Cognition (LaCo) - University of Poitiers/CNRS MSHS - LaCo - 99, avenue du Recteur Pineau F-86022 POITIERS CEDEX - France Tel: +33 (0)5.49.45.32.44 Fax: +33 (0)5.49.45.46.16 web site : www.mshs.univ-poitiers.fr From maiomata at correo.cop.es Fri Sep 17 07:37:06 1999 From: maiomata at correo.cop.es (Mario Brancal) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 09:37:06 +0200 Subject: Baroff's adress Message-ID: Does anyone have George Baroff's email address? Thanks, Mario Brancal Centro LenAP. Valencia, España. From AmeDunbar at aol.com Fri Sep 17 21:30:09 1999 From: AmeDunbar at aol.com (Amelia Dunbar) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 17:30:09 EDT Subject: can anyone tell me the exact wording of this quotation ? Message-ID: dear All, The quotation I have is a French translation and I need to have it in English for a paper I`m presenting. Does anyone have the original wording of : "the child acquires a competence which indicates to him when to speak, when not to speak, and also of what to speak, with whom, at which time, where, how" (In French it was like this : «l'enfant acquiert une compéténce qui lui indique quand parler, quand ne pas parler, et aussi de quoi parler, avec qui, à quel moment, où, de quelle manière.» ) thanks for your help Harriet Dunbar. From Bjoern.Wiemer at uni-konstanz.de Sun Sep 19 14:16:00 1999 From: Bjoern.Wiemer at uni-konstanz.de (Bjoern Wiemer) Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 16:16:00 +0200 Subject: deviant stress and syllable tone Message-ID: Dear info-childers, has anybody had experience with marking deviant word stress and/or syllabic tones deviating from some (literary or regional) norm? As far as I see, the CHILDES manuals don't give any instructions or hints at how to mark these things in the text tiers. It is, however, important, under some circumstances, for languages with movable word stress. I have tried to mark the stress as it was uttered on the tape by the normal signs (/, // etc.) and then to add [:str __] with the blank __ filled by the correct stress pattern. But, of course, this would require adding something to the depfile. Even if [:str ] will be added, CHECK says that it is not allowed. So what else can one do to save this kind of information? Best, Bjoern Wiemer. #+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+# Dr. Bjoern Wiemer Universitaet Konstanz Philosophische Fakultaet / FG Sprachwissenschaft - Slavistik Postfach 55 60 - D 179 D- 78457 Konstanz e-mail: Bjoern.Wiemer at uni-konstanz.de tel.: 07531 / 88- 2582 fax: 07531 / 88- 4007 - 2741 *^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^* From kschaper at midwest.net Mon Sep 20 23:21:47 1999 From: kschaper at midwest.net (Kirsten Hodge) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 18:21:47 -0500 Subject: syntactic analysis with COMBO Message-ID: All, Has anyone used COMBO to perform any type of syntactic analysis? It doesn't really matter what type. I'm having trouble getting it to output what I need and was wondering if anyone out there had any experience with the program. If so, I'd really like to chat with you about it. Thank you, Kirsten Schaper Developmental Neuropsychology SUIC From jvwoude at calvin.edu Tue Sep 21 02:06:36 1999 From: jvwoude at calvin.edu (Judith VanderWoude) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 22:06:36 -0400 Subject: can anyone tell me the exact wording of this quotation ? Message-ID: Anne, The quote is from Dell Hymes. He is referring to communicative competence. The quote is as follows: We have to account for the fact that a normal child acquires knowledge of sentences, not only as grammatical, but also as appropriate. He or she acquires competence as when to speak, when not, and what to talk about with whom, when, where, in what manner. (p. 277) I belive the source is: Hymes, D. (1972) On communicative competence. In J. J. Gumperz & D. Hymes (Eds.) Sociolinguistics (pp. 269-293). Hammondsworth, England: Penguin. Judy >>> - 9/17/99 5:30 PM >>> dear All, The quotation I have is a French translation and I need to have it in English for a paper I`m presenting. Does anyone have the original wording of : "the child acquires a competence which indicates to him when to speak, when not to speak, and also of what to speak, with whom, at which time, where, how" (In French it was like this : «l'enfant acquiert une compéténce qui lui indique quand parler, quand ne pas parler, et aussi de quoi parler, avec qui, à quel moment, où, de quelle manière.» ) thanks for your help Harriet Dunbar. From Li.Wei at newcastle.ac.uk Tue Sep 21 14:32:38 1999 From: Li.Wei at newcastle.ac.uk (Li Wei) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 14:32:38 GMT0BST Subject: (Fwd) Message-ID: First Steps in Morphological and Syntactic Development: Cross- Linguistic Evidence Edited by Marilyn M. Vihman ISBN 0-9533353-3-X A special double issue (Nos 2/3, Vol.3, 1999) of the International Journal of Bilingualism (ISSN 1367-0069, Kingston Press, London). Preface: Cross-linguistic studies of early grammar Marilyn M. Vihman Model learning in syntactic development: intrasitive verbs in Hebrew Anat Ninio The early acquisition of Spanish berbal morphology: across the board or piecemeal knowledge? Virginia Mueller Gathercole, Eugenia Sebastian and Pilar Soto Eearly lexical, morphological and syntactic development in French: some complex relations Edy Veneziano Verbs in Tzotzil (Mayan) early syntactic development Lourdes de Leon Eearly development of verbs structures and caregiver input in Korean: two case studies Sooja Choi The transition to grammar in a bilingual child: positional patterns, model learning, and relational words Marilyn M. Vihman sales at kingstonpress.com Fax: +44 208 893 3015 From r.n.campbell at stir.ac.uk Tue Sep 21 18:19:49 1999 From: r.n.campbell at stir.ac.uk (r.n.campbell) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 19:19:49 +0100 Subject: That Hymes quote Message-ID: The quotation and the page number are correct, but the book is not! The source is:- (1) Hymes, D.H. 1972. 'On communicative competence'. In J.B. Pride & Janet Holmes (eds.), Sociolinguistics: selected readings, pp. 269-293. Penguin Education. There is a collection of readings:- (2) Gumperz, J.J. & D.H. Hymes. 1972. Directions in sociolinguistics: the ethnography of communication. Holt, Rinehart & Winston. This contains a paper by Hymes - 'Models of the Interaction of Language and Social Life', pp. 35-71, but this is a very different paper. Hymes published a paper very similar to (1) in 1971:- (3) Hymes, D.H. 1971. 'Competence and performance in linguistic theory'. In R. Huxley & E. Ingram (eds.), Language Acquisition: Models and methods, pp. 3-28. Academic Press. ISBN 0-12-363450-4. However, although the first sentence of the quotation below occurs in it, the second does not. According to a note made by Hymes in (1), the paper appeared originally as (4) pp. 1-16 of a report issued by Yeshiva University's Department of Educational Psychology and Guidance of a Research Planning Conference on Language Development among Disadvantaged Children which took place on June 7-8, 1966. The heading of (1) on p. 269 describes the paper as 'Excerpts from (5) D.H. Hymes, On communicative competence, Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 1971. A note to (2) refers to (6) D.H. Hymes, Towards communicative competence, (publisher as (5)), 1972. However, there is no National Union Catalog entry for (5) or (6). On the other hand, there is an entry for (7) D.H. Hymes. 1973. Toward communicative competence. Austin: U. Texas (Texas Working Papers in Sociolinguistics, 16). I take an interest in this because Roger Wales and I developed very similar ideas, labelled in the same fashion as 'communicative competence' in:- (8) Campbell, R.N. & R.J. Wales. 1970. 'The study of language acquisition'. In J. Lyons (ed.), New Horizons in Linguistics, pp. 242-260. Penguin Pelican. .. and because I have noticed that Hymes' paper is very commonly mislocated to (2) or (3) rather than to the correct (1)! Anne, The quote is from Dell Hymes. He is referring to communicative competence. The quote is as follows: We have to account for the fact that a normal child acquires knowledge of sentences, not only as grammatical, but also as appropriate. He or she acquires competence as when to speak, when not, and what to talk about with whom, when, where, in what manner. (p. 277) I belive the source is: Hymes, D. (1972) On communicative competence. In J. J. Gumperz & D. Hymes (Eds.) Sociolinguistics (pp. 269-293). Hammondsworth, England: Penguin. Judy >>> - 9/17/99 5:30 PM >>> dear All, The quotation I have is a French translation and I need to have it in English for a paper I`m presenting. Does anyone have the original wording of : "the child acquires a competence which indicates to him when to speak, when not to speak, and also of what to speak, with whom, at which time, where, how" (In French it was like this : «l'enfant acquiert une compéténce qui lui indique quand parler, quand ne pas parler, et aussi de quoi parler, avec qui, à quel moment, où, de quelle manière.» ) Dr Robin N Campbell Dept of Psychology, University of Stirling STIRLING FK9 4LA, Scotland tele: 01786-467649 facs: 01786-467641 email: r.n.campbell at stir.ac.uk http://www.stir.ac.uk/departments/humansciences/psychology/Staff/rnc1/ From AmeDunbar at aol.com Tue Sep 21 21:25:52 1999 From: AmeDunbar at aol.com (Amelia Dunbar) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 17:25:52 EDT Subject: Thanks for your help with the quotation Message-ID: Dear All, Thank you for the help in translating Hymes` quotation back into English for me. the fact that a normal child acquires knowledge of sentences, not only as grammatical, but also as appropriate. He or she acquires competence as to when to speak, when not, and as to what to talk about with whom, where, and in what manner. In short, a child becomes able to accomplish a repertoire of speech acts, to take part in speech events, and to evaluate their accomplishments by others (Hymes, 1972, p. 277) Hymes, D. (1972). On communicative competence. In J.B. Pride & J. Holmes (Eds.), Sociolinguistics: Selected readings (pp. 269-293). Markham, ON: Hamondsworth. Harriet Dunbar. From c1399012 at cc.aoyama.ac.jp Thu Sep 23 15:03:57 1999 From: c1399012 at cc.aoyama.ac.jp (Yuki Yoshimura) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 00:03:57 +0900 Subject: MLAT Message-ID: I would like to get a copy of Modern Language Aptitude Test (MLAT). If anybody could let me know how to get a copy of MLAT, I would greatly appreciate that. Thanks in advance. Yuki ---------------------------------------------- Yuki Yoshimura MA graduate student, Department of English literature and linguistics Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan c1399012 at cc.aoyama.ac.jp ---------------------------------------------- From Hutmacher at WSUHUB.UC.TWSU.EDU Thu Sep 23 20:46:06 1999 From: Hutmacher at WSUHUB.UC.TWSU.EDU (Johanna Hutmacher) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:46:06 -0500 Subject: POSTS Message-ID: URL for open position description http://education.twsu.edu/cds/position.html From macw at cmu.edu Tue Sep 28 01:42:58 1999 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 21:42:58 -0400 Subject: Membership List now searchable Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, The CHILDES membership list is now on line and searchable. It includes names and addresses for over 2200 child language researchers. It has a number of useful functions: 1. If you would like people to know how to reach you, you can help us update your record. 2. If you want to search for child language researchers in a given country, this is now easy. 3. If you need to reach someone, this address will hopefully be up to date. You click on the third link on the childes.psy.cmu.edu home page. Then you click on "chilist". Finally, you give your name as "member" and password as "babbling." To find your own record, search for your last name. Right now, the list can only be accessed by using the password and it is not editable. I think it would be more useful if we could allow people to edit their own records. However, before implementing that, I want to ask people to send me a note if they do not want their information made available at all. It is easy to remove records from the list and keep them in a separate "private and unpublished" list. It is also technically possible to allow people to edit their records. However, I think it would be best not to enable that feature just yet. If you find errors in your records or if you want your address made unavailable to other researchers, please send a note to kelley.sacco at cmu.edu Many thanks. --Brian MacWhinney From bart.hollebrandse at let.uu.nl Tue Sep 28 09:47:37 1999 From: bart.hollebrandse at let.uu.nl (Bart Hollebrandse) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 11:47:37 +0200 Subject: Books: Language Acquisition: New Perspectives on Language Acquisition Message-ID: Language Acquisition G.L.S.A. (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) announces a new volume: New Perspectives on Language Acquisition (UMOP 22) edited by Bart Hollebrandse This volume focuses on First Language Acquisition and its relation with Linguistic Theory. The volume is a collection of papers presented at the workshop "New Perspectives on Language Acquisition" held at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Main issues were topics concerning the early acquisition of syntactic structure, the acquisition of aspectual and pragmatic components of the grammar, the relation between language acquisition and theory of mind. Furthermore, some papers discussing issues concerning binding theory as well as island behavior and their relation with a Formal Feature system were included. CONTENTS Preface Early Stages of Language Acquisition Binarity and Singularity in Child Grammar 1 Susan Powers Verb-Complement Patterns in Early Catalan 15 Mireia Llinàs i Grau Agreement Mismatches and the Economy of Derivation 27 Sharon Armon-Lottem The Acquisition of Verb Movement in Hebrew 37 Shalom Zuckerman Developing Representations I: Specificity, Aspect, and Theory of Mind The Interaction of Syntax and Pragmatics in the Acquisition of Scrambling 49 Jeanette Schaeffer Specificty, Acquisition of DPs, and the Development of a Theory of Mind 65 Ana T. Pérez-Leroux What Children Know When They know about Viewpoint Aspect: Aspect and Theory of Mind 77 Laura Wagner On learning the Role of Direct Objects for Telicity in Dutch and English 87 Angeliek van Hout Developing Representations II: Tense and Theory of Mind Tense and Discourse in African-American English 107 Michael Walsh Dickey, Valerie Johnson, Thomas Roeper and Harry Seymour On Acquiring the Structural Representations for False Complements 125 Jill de Villiers On Theory of Mind and Sequence of Tense in Dutch 137 Bart Hollebrandse Later Stages in Child Language: Binding and Island behavior Optimality Theory, Child Language and Logical Form 155 Arild Hestvik Reciprocity and Binding in Early Child Grammar 167 Ayumi Matsuo On the Nature of Children's Left-Branch Violations 177 William Snyder, Deborah Chen, Maki Yamane, Laura Conway, and Kazuko Hiramatsu Negative Islands in Language Acquisition 187 Lamya Abdulkarim, Thomas Roeper, and Jill de Villiers Finding Fundamental Operations in Language Acquisition: Formal features as triggers 197 Thomas Roeper further information: Graduate Linguistics Student Association Linguistics Department UMass South College Amherst, MA 01003 U.S.A. glsa at linguist.umass.edu http://www.umass.edu/linguist/GLSA/glsa.html Bart Hollebrandse Utrecht institute of Linguistics OTS Trans 10, 3512 JK Utrecht, The Netherlands tel: 31-30-2535127; fax: 31-30-2536000 From V.A.Murphy at herts.ac.uk Tue Sep 28 15:24:07 1999 From: V.A.Murphy at herts.ac.uk (Victoria Murphy) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:24:07 +0100 Subject: frequency counts for children Message-ID: Dear info-childes, I would like to be able to calculate frequencies for nouns and verbs for children. Specifically, both children's production of different nouns and verbs, but also the input they receive. I suppose what I'd like is a Kucera & Francis type corpus but based on input to children, and children's output. Does anyone have any suggestions? -- ***************************************** Victoria A. Murphy Lecturer in Psychology/Cognitive Science Department of Psychology University of Hertfordshire Hatfield, HERTS AL10 9AB UK Tel: +11 44 (0)1707 284613 Fax: +11 44 (0)1707 285073 From jvwoude at calvin.edu Tue Sep 28 18:05:52 1999 From: jvwoude at calvin.edu (Judith VanderWoude) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 14:05:52 -0400 Subject: Childes Database Message-ID: Would somebody please tell us how to get CLAN? Thanks, Judy Judith Vander Woude, Ph.D. Calvin College 3201 Burton SE Grand Rapids, MI 49546 From cohen.henri at uqam.ca Wed Sep 29 09:31:27 1999 From: cohen.henri at uqam.ca (cohen.henri at uqam.ca) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 11:31:27 +0200 Subject: Call for papers / TENNET XI Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY (TENNET) June 15-17, 2000 Montreal, Canada ************************* The 11th annual conference on Theoretical & Experimental Neuropsychology, TENNET XI, will be on June 2000, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, at the Universite du Quebec, Montreal, Judith-Jasmin Bldg., Marie-Gerin-Lajoie Hall. The basic conference structure is (a) two thematic symposia of 3 hours duration, followed by (b) refereed poster papers. The poster papers are discussed after the second symposium, each afternoon. This is the first North American neuropsychology conference that is specifically focussed on theoretical and experimental issues. Participants may submit papers (up to 2000 words including references + 2 figures/tables) for consideration. Since these are refereed submissions, accepted poster papers will be published as refereed articles in Brain and Cognition. Deadline for refereed submissions: December 19, 1999 via E-mail or regular post. ************************** Information for refereed submissions Poster presentations should deal with a well-defined topic or problem in any domain of adult/child experimental or theoretical neuropsychology, including history. Submissions are in two parts: (a) A 100-150 word abstract; (b) A detailed description of the paper which will be refereed by the Program Committee and external reviewers. If applicable, description should include an introduction, methods, results, discussion and full reference sections. Authors who choose to have their descriptions refereed blindly should prepare the manuscripts accordingly, using a code you have identified to the chair of the program committee. Four (4) copies are are required if you submit by regular mail; if you submit by E-mail, do so only once. Please make sure that your complete mailing address, with your institutional affiliation if any, and telephone number are included with your submission, particularly if you submit by E-mail. This is needed to properly prepare the program, if your paper is accepted. Your submission should be sent by post or E-mail to arrive by the December 19 deadline, to the chair of the Program Committee: Please remember: 4 copies are needed EXCEPT if you send it by E-mail! *************************** IMPORTANT: Please check your submission with a general purpose antivirus application before sending it by e-mail. Further information about accommodation, registration, past conferences, etc. can be found at the following web sites: http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/tennet http://www.geocities.com/~neuroscience ---------------------------- TENNET XI Submissions should be sent to: Henri Cohen Centre de neuroscience de la cognition UQAM P.B. 8888, Stn. Centre Ville Montreal, Qc. Canada H3C 3P8 Telephone: (514) 987-4445 FAX: (514) 987-8952 E-mail: tennet at uqam.ca Henri.Cohen at uqam.ca From tincoff at jhu.edu Wed Sep 29 17:52:28 1999 From: tincoff at jhu.edu (Ruth Tincoff) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 13:52:28 -0400 Subject: Friedlander & Wisdom reference Message-ID: I would like to locate the published version of a study by Friedlander, B. Z. and Wisdom, S. S. I have searched LLBA, Psychlit, and the Web of Science without success. Glenn, Cunningham, & Joyce (1981) cite this study as: Friedlander, B. Z., & Wisdom, S. S. Preverbal infants' selective operant responses for different levels of auditory complexity and language redundancy. Paper presented at the Annual General Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, New York, 1971. Thanks for your help. ********************************* Ruth Tincoff Graduate Student Infant Language Research Lab Department of Psychology Ames Hall Johns Hopkins University 3400 North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21218 office: 410-516-6023 lab: 410-516-4496 fax: 410-516-4478 ********************************* From sgray at U.Arizona.EDU Thu Sep 30 16:50:58 1999 From: sgray at U.Arizona.EDU (Shelley Gray) Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 09:50:58 -0700 Subject: Position Announcements Message-ID: POSITION ANNOUNCEMENTS DEPARTMENT OF SPEECH AND HEARING SCIENCES THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA TUCSON, ARIZONA Position #1 (speech disorders) Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor, Speech-Language Pathology. The University of Arizona Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences is conducting a search for a tenure-track faculty member in the area of speech-language pathology. Rank will be established according to the credentials of the successful applicant. Ph.D. required. Productive research record, CCC-SLP (or eligibility), and experience in student supervision and teaching are desirable. Duties include teaching undergraduate and graduate courses and developing a research program in areas consistent with expertise. Applicants must submit a letter describing their background and research interests, a curriculum vitae, reprints of two or three publications, and the names of three people who will send letters of reference. Address inquiries and application materials to: Jeannette D. Hoit, Chair, Search Committee, Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, The University of Arizona, P.O. Box 210071, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0071. Email: hoit at u.arizona.edu. Application review will begin September 30, 1999 and continue until the position is filled. The University of Arizona is an EEO/AA employer. M/W/D/V Position #2 (technology) Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor. The University of Arizona Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences is conducting a search for a tenure-track faculty member with interest in the application of technology to communication sciences and disorders. Rank will be established according to the credentials of the successful applicant. Area of expertise is open. Ph.D. required. Productive research record, CCC-SLP or CCC-A (or eligibility), and experience in student supervision and teaching are desirable. Duties include teaching undergraduate and graduate courses and developing a research program in areas consistent with expertise. Applicants must submit a letter describing their background and research interests, a curriculum vitae, reprints of two or three publications, and the names of three people who will send letters of reference. Address inquiries and application materials to: Jeannette D. Hoit, Chair, Search Committee, Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, The University of Arizona, P.O. Box 210071, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0071. Email: hoit at u.arizona.edu. Application review will begin September 30, 1999 and continue until the position is filled. The University of Arizona is an EEO/AA employer. M/W/D/V ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Shelley Gray, Ph.D., CCC-SLP National Center for Neurogenic Communication Disorders (520)621-1870 Scottish Rite-The University of Arizona Child Language Center (520)620-0420 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ From KNelson at gc.cuny.edu Thu Sep 30 16:04:48 1999 From: KNelson at gc.cuny.edu (Nelson, Katherine) Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:04:48 -0400 Subject: new address Message-ID: Please ignore if this is a duplicate. Katherine Nelson Note new address: GSUC CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016 New phone: 212-817-8718 New email: knelson at gc.cuny.edu From KNelson at gc.cuny.edu Thu Sep 30 15:47:45 1999 From: KNelson at gc.cuny.edu (Nelson, Katherine) Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 11:47:45 -0400 Subject: address change Message-ID: Please note the following changes in my addresses and phone numbers: Katherine Nelson Note new address: GSUC CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016 New phone: 212-817-8718 New email: knelson at gc.cuny.edu From edwards.212 at osu.edu Wed Sep 1 13:41:17 1999 From: edwards.212 at osu.edu (Jan Edwards) Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 08:41:17 -0500 Subject: language acquisition position at Ohio State Message-ID: ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT AND DISORDERS: The Department of Speech and Hearing Science at The Ohio State University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in language acquisition/language disorders. Successful applicant must have a completed doctorate in speech/language pathology or related field (including cognitive psychology and linguistics); CCC-SLP preferred, but not required; potential for excellence in research and teaching; research specialization in the area of language acquisition and/or disorders-especially in the area of syntactic and/or discourse level of processing. This position is part of an interdisciplinary research emphasis on human language processing. Supervision of clinical practicum is not required. Earliest start date AU 2000. In order to be assured of full consideration applications must be received by November 30, 1999. Applicants should submit a letter of application (including a description of research focus and teaching interests), a curriculum vitae, three letters of recommendation, and copies of any published work to: Robert Allen Fox, Ph.D., Chair, Department of Speech and Hearing Science, 110 Pressey Hall, 1070 Carmack Rd., Columbus, OH 43210, Phone: 614 292 8207, E-mail: fox.2 at osu.edu From santell at nh1.nh.pdx.edu Wed Sep 1 21:28:38 1999 From: santell at nh1.nh.pdx.edu (Lynn Santelmann) Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 13:28:38 PST Subject: Readings with Cross-linguistic Overview Message-ID: Dear All, I am looking for several readings (suitable for upper-level undergraduates) that contain an overview of crosslinguistic trends in langauge development, in particular for phonological, syntactic and pragmatic development. I have a number of readings that focus on particular languages, and a few that give some overview, but they are either dated or not terribly accessible for my students. Can anyone recommend good readings with a cross-linguistic _overview_? I will welcome any suggestions, even those outside phonology, syntax and pragmatics, because they may turn out to be better than the readings I'm currently using. Thank you for your help; I will post a summary. Best, Lynn Santelmann ________________________________________________________ Lynn Santelmann, Assistant Professor Department of Applied Linguistics Portland State University P.O. Box 751 Portland, OR 92707-0751 Phone: (503) 725-4140 Fax: (503) 725-4139 E-mail: santelmannl at pdx.edu ________________________________________________________ From santelmannl at pdx.edu Fri Sep 3 19:01:44 1999 From: santelmannl at pdx.edu (Lynn Santelmann) Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 12:01:44 -0700 Subject: Seeking Cross-linguistic Overviews/Readings Message-ID: Dear All, I am seeking readings suitable for upper level undergraduates that give good cross-linguistic (or cross-cultural) _overviews_ in the areas of phonological production, syntax and discourse development. I have many readings that deal with specific languages, but am having trouble finding accessible readings that give a good overview of a range of data. Suggestions for readings outside these areas would also be welcomed (they may be better than the ones I'm already using). I will post a summary of responses. (Please pardon me if this appears twice, I seem to be getting my messages bounced back to me.) Thank you for your help, Lynn Santelmann ****************************************************** Lynn Santelmann, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Applied Linguistics Portland State University 467 Neuberger Hall 724 SW Harrison Ave. Portland, OR 97201 Phone: (503) 725-4140 Fax: (503) 725-4139 e-mail: santelmannl at pdx.edu ****************************************************** From michael at giccs.georgetown.edu Mon Sep 13 23:48:10 1999 From: michael at giccs.georgetown.edu (Michael Ullman) Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 18:48:10 -0500 Subject: postdoc position Message-ID: POSTDOC POSITION: PSYCHOLINGUISTICS AND NEUROLINGUISTICS We are seeking to hire one full-time Postdoctoral Fellow (or very highly qualified non-PhD) to carry out psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic research. The position is in the Brain and Language Lab at the Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences (GICCS) and the Department of Neuroscience at Georgetown University. GICCS is dedicated to understanding the relation between brain and cognition. It is composed of a group of about fifteen researchers pursuing a variety of lines of research in cognition, computation, and neuroscience. At the Brain and Language lab we are interested in the neural, computational, psychological, and developmental bases of language and memory. In particular, our work attempts to elucidate the underpinnings of lexicon and grammar, with a particular interest in issues of modularity, neural localization, and domain-specificity/generality. We focus on the study of morphology, syntax, and semantics, and the relationship of these language components to the declarative and procedural memory systems. The successful candidate will be primarily responsible for carrying out (1) Neurolinguistic studies of subjects with adult-onset brain damage (aphasia; Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Huntington's disease; schizophrenia; and other conditions) and those with developmental language disorders (Specific Language Impairment, Williams syndrome, ADHD, and others); (2) psycholinguistic studies of normal adults and children. The candidate will have the opportunity to be involved in projects using EEG/ERP (Electroencephalography/Event-Related Potentials), MEG (Magnetoencephalography), and fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging). The minimum requirements for the position are graduate training and/or research experience in at least two of the following three areas: psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics (research with cognitively impaired patients or functional neuroimaging), and theoretical linguistics (preferably syntax or morphology). She or he must be very comfortable with computers. Programming abilities and a knowledge of statistics are a plus. The position is for a minimum of two years, and possibly up to four. Consideration of applicants will begin immediately, and will end when the position is filled. Salary will be highly competitive. To apply, please send Michael Ullman a resume (preferably by email) and arrange to have three letters of recommendation sent to him (preferably by email). Georgetown University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer. Michael Ullman Assistant Professor Director, Brain and Language Laboratory Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences (GICCS) and Department of Neuroscience Research Building 3970 Reservoir Rd, NW Georgetown University Washington DC 20007 Email: michael at giccs.georgetown.edu Tel: Office: 202-687-6064 Lab: 202-687-6896 Fax: 202-687-6914 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2990 bytes Desc: not available URL: From garym at linguistics.ucl.ac.uk Tue Sep 14 17:02:10 1999 From: garym at linguistics.ucl.ac.uk (G.Morgan) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 17:02:10 +0000 Subject: Sign language acquisition at TISLR Message-ID: Dear colleagues, I am trying to get together a workshop on 'Cross-linguistic comparisons of sign language acquisition' for the Amsterdam TISLR July 23rd - July 27th 2000. This is a continuation of the symposium organised by Nini Hoiting and Dan Slobin in San Sebastian, Spain, in July this year. Dan Slobin has agreed to be a potential discussant for the TISLR meeting. To allow for good comparative discussion, I would like to limit the focus of the papers to child sign language elicited using the 'frog story' narrative stimulus material. This is still very wide as there is a lot of different topics available for presentation within this focused area. The timetable for preparation would be: Abstracts of no more than 250 words to Gary Morgan by OCTOBER 3rd 1999 Submission of workshop abstract to TISLR organisers on or before NOVEMBER 1st 1999. Notification of acceptance or rejection by TISLR December 1999 Draft papers for discussion by group by MAY 1st 2000 Please be in touch if you are interested in contributing. We are limited I think to 4 presentations within the workshop time so selection of abstracts will depend on cohesiveness across the group. I look forward to hearing from you all soon Gary ------- Gary Morgan Dept of Linguistics, UCL, London tel: 0171 4193162 (voice/text) fax: 0171 3834108 From mewcscr at fs1.ed.man.ac.uk Thu Sep 16 13:56:48 1999 From: mewcscr at fs1.ed.man.ac.uk (Gina Conti-Ramsden) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 13:56:48 GMT Subject: POST Message-ID: Dear INFO-CHILDES, Announcing the publication of a new book: LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL INTERACTION IN BLIND CHILDREN (1999) Miguel Perez-Pereira and Gina Conti-Ramsden Hove, UK: Psychology Press Ltd ISBN: 0-86377-795-3 ?24.95 HBK To order contact Psychology Press, Internatioanl Thomson Services, Cheriton House, North Way, Andover, Hants. SP10 5BE, UK Email: book.orders at tandf.co.uk Hope this is useful information to those who are interested in this area gina and miguel gina.conti-ramsden at man.ac.uk Centre for Educational Needs School of Education University of Manchester Manchester M13 9PL Tel. 0161-275-3514 Fax. 0161-275-3548 From josie.bernicot at campus.univ-poitiers.fr Fri Sep 17 06:57:59 1999 From: josie.bernicot at campus.univ-poitiers.fr (bernicot) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 08:57:59 +0200 Subject: email ira A. Noveck Message-ID: Does anyone have Ira Noveck's email address? Thanks, Josie Bernicot Please, note my new address: Address : Laboratoire Langage et Cognition (LaCo) - University of Poitiers/CNRS MSHS - LaCo - 99, avenue du Recteur Pineau F-86022 POITIERS CEDEX - France Tel: +33 (0)5.49.45.32.44 Fax: +33 (0)5.49.45.46.16 web site : www.mshs.univ-poitiers.fr From maiomata at correo.cop.es Fri Sep 17 07:37:06 1999 From: maiomata at correo.cop.es (Mario Brancal) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 09:37:06 +0200 Subject: Baroff's adress Message-ID: Does anyone have George Baroff's email address? Thanks, Mario Brancal Centro LenAP. Valencia, Espa?a. From AmeDunbar at aol.com Fri Sep 17 21:30:09 1999 From: AmeDunbar at aol.com (Amelia Dunbar) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 17:30:09 EDT Subject: can anyone tell me the exact wording of this quotation ? Message-ID: dear All, The quotation I have is a French translation and I need to have it in English for a paper I`m presenting. Does anyone have the original wording of : "the child acquires a competence which indicates to him when to speak, when not to speak, and also of what to speak, with whom, at which time, where, how" (In French it was like this : ?l'enfant acquiert une comp?t?nce qui lui indique quand parler, quand ne pas parler, et aussi de quoi parler, avec qui, ? quel moment, o?, de quelle mani?re.? ) thanks for your help Harriet Dunbar. From Bjoern.Wiemer at uni-konstanz.de Sun Sep 19 14:16:00 1999 From: Bjoern.Wiemer at uni-konstanz.de (Bjoern Wiemer) Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 16:16:00 +0200 Subject: deviant stress and syllable tone Message-ID: Dear info-childers, has anybody had experience with marking deviant word stress and/or syllabic tones deviating from some (literary or regional) norm? As far as I see, the CHILDES manuals don't give any instructions or hints at how to mark these things in the text tiers. It is, however, important, under some circumstances, for languages with movable word stress. I have tried to mark the stress as it was uttered on the tape by the normal signs (/, // etc.) and then to add [:str __] with the blank __ filled by the correct stress pattern. But, of course, this would require adding something to the depfile. Even if [:str ] will be added, CHECK says that it is not allowed. So what else can one do to save this kind of information? Best, Bjoern Wiemer. #+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+# Dr. Bjoern Wiemer Universitaet Konstanz Philosophische Fakultaet / FG Sprachwissenschaft - Slavistik Postfach 55 60 - D 179 D- 78457 Konstanz e-mail: Bjoern.Wiemer at uni-konstanz.de tel.: 07531 / 88- 2582 fax: 07531 / 88- 4007 - 2741 *^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^* From kschaper at midwest.net Mon Sep 20 23:21:47 1999 From: kschaper at midwest.net (Kirsten Hodge) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 18:21:47 -0500 Subject: syntactic analysis with COMBO Message-ID: All, Has anyone used COMBO to perform any type of syntactic analysis? It doesn't really matter what type. I'm having trouble getting it to output what I need and was wondering if anyone out there had any experience with the program. If so, I'd really like to chat with you about it. Thank you, Kirsten Schaper Developmental Neuropsychology SUIC From jvwoude at calvin.edu Tue Sep 21 02:06:36 1999 From: jvwoude at calvin.edu (Judith VanderWoude) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 22:06:36 -0400 Subject: can anyone tell me the exact wording of this quotation ? Message-ID: Anne, The quote is from Dell Hymes. He is referring to communicative competence. The quote is as follows: We have to account for the fact that a normal child acquires knowledge of sentences, not only as grammatical, but also as appropriate. He or she acquires competence as when to speak, when not, and what to talk about with whom, when, where, in what manner. (p. 277) I belive the source is: Hymes, D. (1972) On communicative competence. In J. J. Gumperz & D. Hymes (Eds.) Sociolinguistics (pp. 269-293). Hammondsworth, England: Penguin. Judy >>> - 9/17/99 5:30 PM >>> dear All, The quotation I have is a French translation and I need to have it in English for a paper I`m presenting. Does anyone have the original wording of : "the child acquires a competence which indicates to him when to speak, when not to speak, and also of what to speak, with whom, at which time, where, how" (In French it was like this : ?l'enfant acquiert une comp?t?nce qui lui indique quand parler, quand ne pas parler, et aussi de quoi parler, avec qui, ? quel moment, o?, de quelle mani?re.? ) thanks for your help Harriet Dunbar. From Li.Wei at newcastle.ac.uk Tue Sep 21 14:32:38 1999 From: Li.Wei at newcastle.ac.uk (Li Wei) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 14:32:38 GMT0BST Subject: (Fwd) Message-ID: First Steps in Morphological and Syntactic Development: Cross- Linguistic Evidence Edited by Marilyn M. Vihman ISBN 0-9533353-3-X A special double issue (Nos 2/3, Vol.3, 1999) of the International Journal of Bilingualism (ISSN 1367-0069, Kingston Press, London). Preface: Cross-linguistic studies of early grammar Marilyn M. Vihman Model learning in syntactic development: intrasitive verbs in Hebrew Anat Ninio The early acquisition of Spanish berbal morphology: across the board or piecemeal knowledge? Virginia Mueller Gathercole, Eugenia Sebastian and Pilar Soto Eearly lexical, morphological and syntactic development in French: some complex relations Edy Veneziano Verbs in Tzotzil (Mayan) early syntactic development Lourdes de Leon Eearly development of verbs structures and caregiver input in Korean: two case studies Sooja Choi The transition to grammar in a bilingual child: positional patterns, model learning, and relational words Marilyn M. Vihman sales at kingstonpress.com Fax: +44 208 893 3015 From r.n.campbell at stir.ac.uk Tue Sep 21 18:19:49 1999 From: r.n.campbell at stir.ac.uk (r.n.campbell) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 19:19:49 +0100 Subject: That Hymes quote Message-ID: The quotation and the page number are correct, but the book is not! The source is:- (1) Hymes, D.H. 1972. 'On communicative competence'. In J.B. Pride & Janet Holmes (eds.), Sociolinguistics: selected readings, pp. 269-293. Penguin Education. There is a collection of readings:- (2) Gumperz, J.J. & D.H. Hymes. 1972. Directions in sociolinguistics: the ethnography of communication. Holt, Rinehart & Winston. This contains a paper by Hymes - 'Models of the Interaction of Language and Social Life', pp. 35-71, but this is a very different paper. Hymes published a paper very similar to (1) in 1971:- (3) Hymes, D.H. 1971. 'Competence and performance in linguistic theory'. In R. Huxley & E. Ingram (eds.), Language Acquisition: Models and methods, pp. 3-28. Academic Press. ISBN 0-12-363450-4. However, although the first sentence of the quotation below occurs in it, the second does not. According to a note made by Hymes in (1), the paper appeared originally as (4) pp. 1-16 of a report issued by Yeshiva University's Department of Educational Psychology and Guidance of a Research Planning Conference on Language Development among Disadvantaged Children which took place on June 7-8, 1966. The heading of (1) on p. 269 describes the paper as 'Excerpts from (5) D.H. Hymes, On communicative competence, Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 1971. A note to (2) refers to (6) D.H. Hymes, Towards communicative competence, (publisher as (5)), 1972. However, there is no National Union Catalog entry for (5) or (6). On the other hand, there is an entry for (7) D.H. Hymes. 1973. Toward communicative competence. Austin: U. Texas (Texas Working Papers in Sociolinguistics, 16). I take an interest in this because Roger Wales and I developed very similar ideas, labelled in the same fashion as 'communicative competence' in:- (8) Campbell, R.N. & R.J. Wales. 1970. 'The study of language acquisition'. In J. Lyons (ed.), New Horizons in Linguistics, pp. 242-260. Penguin Pelican. .. and because I have noticed that Hymes' paper is very commonly mislocated to (2) or (3) rather than to the correct (1)! Anne, The quote is from Dell Hymes. He is referring to communicative competence. The quote is as follows: We have to account for the fact that a normal child acquires knowledge of sentences, not only as grammatical, but also as appropriate. He or she acquires competence as when to speak, when not, and what to talk about with whom, when, where, in what manner. (p. 277) I belive the source is: Hymes, D. (1972) On communicative competence. In J. J. Gumperz & D. Hymes (Eds.) Sociolinguistics (pp. 269-293). Hammondsworth, England: Penguin. Judy >>> - 9/17/99 5:30 PM >>> dear All, The quotation I have is a French translation and I need to have it in English for a paper I`m presenting. Does anyone have the original wording of : "the child acquires a competence which indicates to him when to speak, when not to speak, and also of what to speak, with whom, at which time, where, how" (In French it was like this : ?l'enfant acquiert une comp?t?nce qui lui indique quand parler, quand ne pas parler, et aussi de quoi parler, avec qui, ? quel moment, o?, de quelle mani?re.? ) Dr Robin N Campbell Dept of Psychology, University of Stirling STIRLING FK9 4LA, Scotland tele: 01786-467649 facs: 01786-467641 email: r.n.campbell at stir.ac.uk http://www.stir.ac.uk/departments/humansciences/psychology/Staff/rnc1/ From AmeDunbar at aol.com Tue Sep 21 21:25:52 1999 From: AmeDunbar at aol.com (Amelia Dunbar) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 17:25:52 EDT Subject: Thanks for your help with the quotation Message-ID: Dear All, Thank you for the help in translating Hymes` quotation back into English for me. the fact that a normal child acquires knowledge of sentences, not only as grammatical, but also as appropriate. He or she acquires competence as to when to speak, when not, and as to what to talk about with whom, where, and in what manner. In short, a child becomes able to accomplish a repertoire of speech acts, to take part in speech events, and to evaluate their accomplishments by others (Hymes, 1972, p. 277) Hymes, D. (1972). On communicative competence. In J.B. Pride & J. Holmes (Eds.), Sociolinguistics: Selected readings (pp. 269-293). Markham, ON: Hamondsworth. Harriet Dunbar. From c1399012 at cc.aoyama.ac.jp Thu Sep 23 15:03:57 1999 From: c1399012 at cc.aoyama.ac.jp (Yuki Yoshimura) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 00:03:57 +0900 Subject: MLAT Message-ID: I would like to get a copy of Modern Language Aptitude Test (MLAT). If anybody could let me know how to get a copy of MLAT, I would greatly appreciate that. Thanks in advance. Yuki ---------------------------------------------- Yuki Yoshimura MA graduate student, Department of English literature and linguistics Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan c1399012 at cc.aoyama.ac.jp ---------------------------------------------- From Hutmacher at WSUHUB.UC.TWSU.EDU Thu Sep 23 20:46:06 1999 From: Hutmacher at WSUHUB.UC.TWSU.EDU (Johanna Hutmacher) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:46:06 -0500 Subject: POSTS Message-ID: URL for open position description http://education.twsu.edu/cds/position.html From macw at cmu.edu Tue Sep 28 01:42:58 1999 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 21:42:58 -0400 Subject: Membership List now searchable Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, The CHILDES membership list is now on line and searchable. It includes names and addresses for over 2200 child language researchers. It has a number of useful functions: 1. If you would like people to know how to reach you, you can help us update your record. 2. If you want to search for child language researchers in a given country, this is now easy. 3. If you need to reach someone, this address will hopefully be up to date. You click on the third link on the childes.psy.cmu.edu home page. Then you click on "chilist". Finally, you give your name as "member" and password as "babbling." To find your own record, search for your last name. Right now, the list can only be accessed by using the password and it is not editable. I think it would be more useful if we could allow people to edit their own records. However, before implementing that, I want to ask people to send me a note if they do not want their information made available at all. It is easy to remove records from the list and keep them in a separate "private and unpublished" list. It is also technically possible to allow people to edit their records. However, I think it would be best not to enable that feature just yet. If you find errors in your records or if you want your address made unavailable to other researchers, please send a note to kelley.sacco at cmu.edu Many thanks. --Brian MacWhinney From bart.hollebrandse at let.uu.nl Tue Sep 28 09:47:37 1999 From: bart.hollebrandse at let.uu.nl (Bart Hollebrandse) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 11:47:37 +0200 Subject: Books: Language Acquisition: New Perspectives on Language Acquisition Message-ID: Language Acquisition G.L.S.A. (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) announces a new volume: New Perspectives on Language Acquisition (UMOP 22) edited by Bart Hollebrandse This volume focuses on First Language Acquisition and its relation with Linguistic Theory. The volume is a collection of papers presented at the workshop "New Perspectives on Language Acquisition" held at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Main issues were topics concerning the early acquisition of syntactic structure, the acquisition of aspectual and pragmatic components of the grammar, the relation between language acquisition and theory of mind. Furthermore, some papers discussing issues concerning binding theory as well as island behavior and their relation with a Formal Feature system were included. CONTENTS Preface Early Stages of Language Acquisition Binarity and Singularity in Child Grammar 1 Susan Powers Verb-Complement Patterns in Early Catalan 15 Mireia Llin?s i Grau Agreement Mismatches and the Economy of Derivation 27 Sharon Armon-Lottem The Acquisition of Verb Movement in Hebrew 37 Shalom Zuckerman Developing Representations I: Specificity, Aspect, and Theory of Mind The Interaction of Syntax and Pragmatics in the Acquisition of Scrambling 49 Jeanette Schaeffer Specificty, Acquisition of DPs, and the Development of a Theory of Mind 65 Ana T. P?rez-Leroux What Children Know When They know about Viewpoint Aspect: Aspect and Theory of Mind 77 Laura Wagner On learning the Role of Direct Objects for Telicity in Dutch and English 87 Angeliek van Hout Developing Representations II: Tense and Theory of Mind Tense and Discourse in African-American English 107 Michael Walsh Dickey, Valerie Johnson, Thomas Roeper and Harry Seymour On Acquiring the Structural Representations for False Complements 125 Jill de Villiers On Theory of Mind and Sequence of Tense in Dutch 137 Bart Hollebrandse Later Stages in Child Language: Binding and Island behavior Optimality Theory, Child Language and Logical Form 155 Arild Hestvik Reciprocity and Binding in Early Child Grammar 167 Ayumi Matsuo On the Nature of Children's Left-Branch Violations 177 William Snyder, Deborah Chen, Maki Yamane, Laura Conway, and Kazuko Hiramatsu Negative Islands in Language Acquisition 187 Lamya Abdulkarim, Thomas Roeper, and Jill de Villiers Finding Fundamental Operations in Language Acquisition: Formal features as triggers 197 Thomas Roeper further information: Graduate Linguistics Student Association Linguistics Department UMass South College Amherst, MA 01003 U.S.A. glsa at linguist.umass.edu http://www.umass.edu/linguist/GLSA/glsa.html Bart Hollebrandse Utrecht institute of Linguistics OTS Trans 10, 3512 JK Utrecht, The Netherlands tel: 31-30-2535127; fax: 31-30-2536000 From V.A.Murphy at herts.ac.uk Tue Sep 28 15:24:07 1999 From: V.A.Murphy at herts.ac.uk (Victoria Murphy) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:24:07 +0100 Subject: frequency counts for children Message-ID: Dear info-childes, I would like to be able to calculate frequencies for nouns and verbs for children. Specifically, both children's production of different nouns and verbs, but also the input they receive. I suppose what I'd like is a Kucera & Francis type corpus but based on input to children, and children's output. Does anyone have any suggestions? -- ***************************************** Victoria A. Murphy Lecturer in Psychology/Cognitive Science Department of Psychology University of Hertfordshire Hatfield, HERTS AL10 9AB UK Tel: +11 44 (0)1707 284613 Fax: +11 44 (0)1707 285073 From jvwoude at calvin.edu Tue Sep 28 18:05:52 1999 From: jvwoude at calvin.edu (Judith VanderWoude) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 14:05:52 -0400 Subject: Childes Database Message-ID: Would somebody please tell us how to get CLAN? Thanks, Judy Judith Vander Woude, Ph.D. Calvin College 3201 Burton SE Grand Rapids, MI 49546 From cohen.henri at uqam.ca Wed Sep 29 09:31:27 1999 From: cohen.henri at uqam.ca (cohen.henri at uqam.ca) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 11:31:27 +0200 Subject: Call for papers / TENNET XI Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY (TENNET) June 15-17, 2000 Montreal, Canada ************************* The 11th annual conference on Theoretical & Experimental Neuropsychology, TENNET XI, will be on June 2000, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, at the Universite du Quebec, Montreal, Judith-Jasmin Bldg., Marie-Gerin-Lajoie Hall. The basic conference structure is (a) two thematic symposia of 3 hours duration, followed by (b) refereed poster papers. The poster papers are discussed after the second symposium, each afternoon. This is the first North American neuropsychology conference that is specifically focussed on theoretical and experimental issues. Participants may submit papers (up to 2000 words including references + 2 figures/tables) for consideration. Since these are refereed submissions, accepted poster papers will be published as refereed articles in Brain and Cognition. Deadline for refereed submissions: December 19, 1999 via E-mail or regular post. ************************** Information for refereed submissions Poster presentations should deal with a well-defined topic or problem in any domain of adult/child experimental or theoretical neuropsychology, including history. Submissions are in two parts: (a) A 100-150 word abstract; (b) A detailed description of the paper which will be refereed by the Program Committee and external reviewers. If applicable, description should include an introduction, methods, results, discussion and full reference sections. Authors who choose to have their descriptions refereed blindly should prepare the manuscripts accordingly, using a code you have identified to the chair of the program committee. Four (4) copies are are required if you submit by regular mail; if you submit by E-mail, do so only once. Please make sure that your complete mailing address, with your institutional affiliation if any, and telephone number are included with your submission, particularly if you submit by E-mail. This is needed to properly prepare the program, if your paper is accepted. Your submission should be sent by post or E-mail to arrive by the December 19 deadline, to the chair of the Program Committee: Please remember: 4 copies are needed EXCEPT if you send it by E-mail! *************************** IMPORTANT: Please check your submission with a general purpose antivirus application before sending it by e-mail. Further information about accommodation, registration, past conferences, etc. can be found at the following web sites: http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/tennet http://www.geocities.com/~neuroscience ---------------------------- TENNET XI Submissions should be sent to: Henri Cohen Centre de neuroscience de la cognition UQAM P.B. 8888, Stn. Centre Ville Montreal, Qc. Canada H3C 3P8 Telephone: (514) 987-4445 FAX: (514) 987-8952 E-mail: tennet at uqam.ca Henri.Cohen at uqam.ca From tincoff at jhu.edu Wed Sep 29 17:52:28 1999 From: tincoff at jhu.edu (Ruth Tincoff) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 13:52:28 -0400 Subject: Friedlander & Wisdom reference Message-ID: I would like to locate the published version of a study by Friedlander, B. Z. and Wisdom, S. S. I have searched LLBA, Psychlit, and the Web of Science without success. Glenn, Cunningham, & Joyce (1981) cite this study as: Friedlander, B. Z., & Wisdom, S. S. Preverbal infants' selective operant responses for different levels of auditory complexity and language redundancy. Paper presented at the Annual General Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, New York, 1971. Thanks for your help. ********************************* Ruth Tincoff Graduate Student Infant Language Research Lab Department of Psychology Ames Hall Johns Hopkins University 3400 North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21218 office: 410-516-6023 lab: 410-516-4496 fax: 410-516-4478 ********************************* From sgray at U.Arizona.EDU Thu Sep 30 16:50:58 1999 From: sgray at U.Arizona.EDU (Shelley Gray) Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 09:50:58 -0700 Subject: Position Announcements Message-ID: POSITION ANNOUNCEMENTS DEPARTMENT OF SPEECH AND HEARING SCIENCES THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA TUCSON, ARIZONA Position #1 (speech disorders) Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor, Speech-Language Pathology. The University of Arizona Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences is conducting a search for a tenure-track faculty member in the area of speech-language pathology. Rank will be established according to the credentials of the successful applicant. Ph.D. required. Productive research record, CCC-SLP (or eligibility), and experience in student supervision and teaching are desirable. Duties include teaching undergraduate and graduate courses and developing a research program in areas consistent with expertise. Applicants must submit a letter describing their background and research interests, a curriculum vitae, reprints of two or three publications, and the names of three people who will send letters of reference. Address inquiries and application materials to: Jeannette D. Hoit, Chair, Search Committee, Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, The University of Arizona, P.O. Box 210071, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0071. Email: hoit at u.arizona.edu. Application review will begin September 30, 1999 and continue until the position is filled. The University of Arizona is an EEO/AA employer. M/W/D/V Position #2 (technology) Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor. The University of Arizona Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences is conducting a search for a tenure-track faculty member with interest in the application of technology to communication sciences and disorders. Rank will be established according to the credentials of the successful applicant. Area of expertise is open. Ph.D. required. Productive research record, CCC-SLP or CCC-A (or eligibility), and experience in student supervision and teaching are desirable. Duties include teaching undergraduate and graduate courses and developing a research program in areas consistent with expertise. Applicants must submit a letter describing their background and research interests, a curriculum vitae, reprints of two or three publications, and the names of three people who will send letters of reference. Address inquiries and application materials to: Jeannette D. Hoit, Chair, Search Committee, Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, The University of Arizona, P.O. Box 210071, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0071. Email: hoit at u.arizona.edu. Application review will begin September 30, 1999 and continue until the position is filled. The University of Arizona is an EEO/AA employer. M/W/D/V ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Shelley Gray, Ph.D., CCC-SLP National Center for Neurogenic Communication Disorders (520)621-1870 Scottish Rite-The University of Arizona Child Language Center (520)620-0420 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ From KNelson at gc.cuny.edu Thu Sep 30 16:04:48 1999 From: KNelson at gc.cuny.edu (Nelson, Katherine) Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:04:48 -0400 Subject: new address Message-ID: Please ignore if this is a duplicate. Katherine Nelson Note new address: GSUC CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016 New phone: 212-817-8718 New email: knelson at gc.cuny.edu From KNelson at gc.cuny.edu Thu Sep 30 15:47:45 1999 From: KNelson at gc.cuny.edu (Nelson, Katherine) Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 11:47:45 -0400 Subject: address change Message-ID: Please note the following changes in my addresses and phone numbers: Katherine Nelson Note new address: GSUC CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016 New phone: 212-817-8718 New email: knelson at gc.cuny.edu