From kuroeri at mb.infoweb.ne.jp Wed Aug 2 13:02:04 2000 From: kuroeri at mb.infoweb.ne.jp (Eriko Kurosaki) Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 22:02:04 +0900 Subject: E-mail address Message-ID: Dear all: Hello. Does anyone know Dr. Jens Allwood's email? If you have any information, please write me. Thank you. Eriko Kurosaki From snehab at utdallas.edu Thu Aug 3 19:51:14 2000 From: snehab at utdallas.edu (Sneha V Bharadwaj) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 14:51:14 -0500 Subject: French vowels Message-ID: Hi all, I am interested in French vowels that quite distinct from American English vowels. I would appreiciate your input concerning these vowels and any publication regarding vowel space in French. Thanks, -Sneha From gleason at bu.edu Thu Aug 3 22:44:50 2000 From: gleason at bu.edu (Jean Berko Gleason) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 18:44:50 -0400 Subject: The Development of Language Message-ID: Hi all, The fifth edition of our textbook, The Development of Language, has now been published and is available. Here is the publisher's catalog web site for further information, examination copies, and all that... -- Jean http://vig.abacon.com/catalog/abbooks/0,2371,0205316360,00.html From aaturner at umich.edu Fri Aug 4 15:11:38 2000 From: aaturner at umich.edu (Ann Turner Phillips) Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 11:11:38 -0400 Subject: No subject Message-ID: Hello, We need a Research Assistant to coordinate our Infant Cognition Project at the University of Michigan. We are interested in finding someone with a BA and an interest in Developmental Psycholgy. Our project focuses on expanding our understanding of how infants conceptulaize the social world, primarily using looking time methods. Please forward this message to anyone who might be interested. Thank you. Ann Turner Phillips Henry Wellman University of Michigan Developmental Psychology 525 East University Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48109 (734) 763-0135 From marders at net-alliance.net.ar Mon Aug 7 01:46:22 2000 From: marders at net-alliance.net.ar (Sandra Esther Marder) Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 22:46:22 -0300 Subject: RV: lexical segmentation Message-ID: > Hi all, > I am interested in lexical segmentation in spanish written language > > Thanks, > -Sandra > > > From marders at net-alliance.net.ar Fri Aug 11 01:40:06 2000 From: marders at net-alliance.net.ar (Sandra Esther Marder) Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 22:40:06 -0300 Subject: RV: lexical segmentation Message-ID: ----- Original Message ----- From: Sandra Esther Marder To: Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2000 10:46 PM Subject: RV: lexical segmentation > > > > Hi all, > > I am interested in lexical segmentation ( word segmentation) in spanish written language > > > Thanks, > > -Sandra > > > > > > > From schelkens_monika at hotmail.com Fri Aug 11 08:56:58 2000 From: schelkens_monika at hotmail.com (Monika Schelkens) Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 08:56:58 CEST Subject: CDI: Gender, social class and birth order Message-ID: Dear all, I would like to thank everyone who reacted on my request some time ago on the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories. I asked for references on the relationship between language development and gender, social class and birth order. I needed this for my thesis on the normative study of the Dutch CDI's. This is a thesis at the University of Leuven with Prof. Dr. Inge Zink and Lic. Maryline Lejaegere. Here are the references I collected. They have been very usefull for my work. Fenson et al. 1994, Variablility in early communicative development, Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, ser. no. 242, vol. 59. Hart, B., & Risley, T. (1995). Meaningful differences in the everyday experiences of young American children. Baltimore: Paul H. Brooks Publishing. Klee et al. (1998), J. Speech Language Hearing Research, 41, 627-41. Feldman, H.M., Dollaghan, C.A, Campbell, T.F., Kurs-Laasky, M., Jonosky, J.E. & Paradise, J.L. (2000). Measurement properties of the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories at ages one and two years. Child Development, 71(2), 310-322. Hamilton, A., Plunkett, K & Schafer, G. (in press). Infant vocabulary development assessed with a British Communicative Development Inventory Fenson: the 1993 manual, the 1994 SRCD monograph, and the April 2000 Child Development commentary Berglund, E. and M. Eriksson (2000). "Communicative development in Swedish children 16-28 months old. The Swedish early communicative development inventory - words and sentences." Scandinavian Journal of Psychology 41(2): 133-144. Eriksson, M. and E. Berglund (1999). "Swedish early communicative development inventories: words and gestures." First Language 19(55): 55-90. and about significant gender differences in children with Down syndrom Berglund, E., M. Eriksson, et al. (1998). Spoken language in children with Down syndrome 1 to 5 years old: developmental trends, individual variation,and sex differences, Department of Psychology, Stockholm University. To appear in Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research. Rodrigue S.R. Assessment of Language Comprehension and Production in Low-Income Children: Child Performance versus Parent Judgement. Thesis appearing at the end of August at the San Diego University. Hoff-Ginsberg, E. (1998). The relation of birth order and socioeconomic status to children's language experience and language development. Applied Psycholinguistics, 19, 603-630. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com From ks7t at andrew.cmu.edu Fri Aug 11 14:05:26 2000 From: ks7t at andrew.cmu.edu (Kelley Sacco) Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 10:05:26 -0400 Subject: Call for papers Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS, POSTERS, SYMPOSIA Jean Piaget Society: Society for the Study of Knowledge and Development Annual Meeting May 31-June 2, 2001, Berkeley, California Website www.piaget.org Les Smith, Lancaster University SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15 December 2000 The 31st Annual Meeting of The Jean Piaget Society will take place in Berkeley, California, May 31-June 2, 2001. The theme of the meeting will be "Biology and Knowledge Revisited: From Embryogenesis to Psychogenesis." The deadline for submissions is December 15, 2000. Scholars interested in the development of knowledge are invited to participate, whatever their discipline. The plenary sessions will be organized around a general theme, but individual proposals do not have to be related to that theme. GENERAL THEME: The theme the of Jean Piaget Society 2001 is inspired by Piaget's book Biology and Knowledge which explores the mutual implications of evolution and development. Whereas the 1995 symposium considered the evolution of human behavioral development as revealed through comparisons of human and nonhuman primate species, JPS 2001 extends and elaborates the theme by also considering the evolution of brain development in human and nonhuman primates. The theme focuses on the evolution of experience-contingent brain development underlying cognitive construction, language acquisition, and personal identity. The important implications of recent studies that emphasize the constructive nature of brain development and evolution will be discussed by distinguished plenary speakers that include Terrance Deacon, V. S. Ramachadran and Annette Karmiloff-Smith. The evolution and acquisition of languages is given special emphasis with the inclusion of Dan Slobin and Elizabeth Bates as plenary speakers. In addition, a special feature seminar on Piaget's Biology and Knowledge will be led by several Piagetian scholars. As in 1995, the conference site is located on the San Francisco Bay with spectacular views of the Golden Gate Bridge and easy access by ferry, bus or subway to San Francisco. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS Proposals will be accepted in English only. Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged. Instructions and forms for on-line and mail-in program submissions are available below. DEADLINE: To be considered, proposals must be received (not just post marked) by December 15, 2000. NOTIFICATION The Program Committee will notify those submitting proposals of its decision in February, 2001. Although every effort will be made to respect the presenter(s)'s choice, the form of the presentation may be changed by the Program Committee. Should this be necessary, the change will be indicated in your letter of notification. RESTRICTIONS All presenters must register for the meeting. Individuals may not be listed as authors on more than two presentations. Presentations must not have been presented at any other meeting having the same general audience as the Jean Piaget Society. Papers Paper presentations (15 minutes) may be focused on either empirical findings or theoretical Posters Poster presentations may be focused on either empirical findings or theoretical analysis. Symposia Symposium proposals (90 minutes) should suggest 3-4 presentations organized around a single topic. HELP Questions concerning on-line submissions can be sent to Chris Lalonde webmaster at piaget.org Questions concerning mail-in submissions can be sent to Eric Amsel eamsel at weber.edu From santell at nh1.nh.pdx.edu Mon Aug 14 23:05:09 2000 From: santell at nh1.nh.pdx.edu (Lynn Santelmann) Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 15:05:09 PST Subject: looking for paper on grammatical gender.. Message-ID: I am looking for a copy of a poster that I saw at SRCD in 1999 -- I believe the paper was by Chryle Ann Elieff and Maria D. Sera and called "What aspect of grammatical gender influences categorization?" -- The gist of the study, if I remember correctly, was that the students learning two gender languages (like Spanish or French) tended to categorize things into male/female dimensions, whereas students learning 3 gender languages (like German) did not. If anyone can point me either to a copy of the study or to the authors themselves, I would be grateful. thanks 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 marders at net-alliance.net.ar Tue Aug 15 01:15:52 2000 From: marders at net-alliance.net.ar (Sandra Esther Marder) Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 22:15:52 -0300 Subject: request Message-ID: Dear all: I need the e-mail adress of Marta Valdez -Menchaca , she worked until 1992 at the Department of Education, University of California. Thank you. Sandra marders at net-alliance.net.ar From pbrooks at postbox.csi.cuny.edu Fri Aug 18 22:49:17 2000 From: pbrooks at postbox.csi.cuny.edu (Patty Brooks) Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 18:49:17 -0400 Subject: Russian CDI Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, We would like to know if there is a Russian CDI available, and, if not, whether anyone is currently working on creating one. Thank you. Patricia Brooks and Vera Kempe From macw at cmu.edu Sun Aug 20 21:00:58 2000 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 17:00:58 -0400 Subject: Ann Peters' Filler Page Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, Ann Peters and Katsura Aoyama have created a fascinating set of illustrations of "fillers" in both pre- and protomorphology. The URL is http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/html/concepts.html Ann's illustrations are provided in CHAT form as taken from the Peters-Wilson Seth transcripts. By clicking on the example, you can directly play and hear the filler examples. They include examples between content words and at the beginnings of short phrases. I found that the provision of these examples did a lot to directly enrich my understanding of these phenomena. At the same time, it allowed me to sharpen certain questions that were previously inarticulate. In some cases, I tended to hear the fillers as weak attempts to pronounce standard closed class items. In other cases, it was difficult to view them as anything more than pure fillers. I am hoping that other researchers can contribute to the discussion of fillers by adding their own audio-based examples (you can mail them to me or Ann) which further support the analysis and perhaps clarify the range of structures to which it tends to apply. Ann's examples come from a single child. I am thinking that I could find similar materials in my children's audio files, now that I understand more clearly what I might be looking for. Ann provides a nice bibliography on this topic. I wonder if the original data for these various articles is still available. For example, maybe Lise Menn can locate some of her examples from Jacob that illustrate similar patterns. It would also be interesting to develop a method for suggesting alternative and/or supporting analyses of these examples. Eventually, it would be good to have a way to link alternative accounts and even competing theories to these specific illustrations directly through the web. Although the precise technology for doing this is not yet fully clear, we could work out something, if there is interest. These files played fine for me on both Mac with Netscape 4.7 and on Windows with IE5. However, on both machines I have recent versions of QuickTime loaded. If your browser complains that you need new versions of QuickTime, you can download it from http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/ I think that these illustrations can be useful not only for researchers, but also for students. If you can think of additional concepts and topics in child language that could be treated through web-based materials of this type, please tell me or, even better, post your ideas to the info-childes list. I suggested a few such topics on the "Concepts" web page, just by way of illustration. --Brian MacWhinney From SFoster-Cohen at excite.com Tue Aug 22 04:41:46 2000 From: SFoster-Cohen at excite.com (Susan Foster-Cohen) Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 21:41:46 -0700 Subject: meetings Message-ID: Dear All: Greetings from my new home in New Zealand! I am not yet really properly installed here, but I have been able to follow the debate of the last few days. My feeling is that a more frequent meetings cycle will dilute the quality of the papers, as already suggested, and will also be a not insignificant organisational headache. I'm for leaving things as they are. Susan _______________________________________________________ Say Bye to Slow Internet! http://www.home.com/xinbox/signup.html From toivaine at mail.utu.fi Tue Aug 22 08:51:09 2000 From: toivaine at mail.utu.fi (Jorma Toivainen) Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 11:51:09 +0300 Subject: Final Programme: Turku Symposium on First Language Acquisition Message-ID: Department of Finnish and General Linguistics University of Turku TURKU SYMPOSIUM ON FIRST LANGUAGE ACQUISITION 1 - 2 September 2000 Keynote Speaker: Ann Peters, Hawaii Final programme Friday 1st September 2000 Fennicum, Henrikinkatu 3, Turku Opening 10.00 University Rector, Professor Keijo Virtanen Toivainen, Jorma (Turku): Scenes of the child and morphemes of the language Session 1 11.00 - Leiwo, Matti & Koivisto, Jouko & Korhonen, Päivi & Richardson, Ulla & Turunen, Pirjo (Jyväskylä): On Finnish vowel harmony and language acquisition Han Yumi (Paris): Convergence of vowel duration between children and their mother: study of four type utterances such as CV, CVC, CVCV, VCV produced by two native Korean children aged 19 month to 24 Savinainen-Makkonen, Tuula (Helsinki): Word-initial consonant omissions - a developmental process in children learning Finnish Turunen, Pirjo & Korhonen, Päivi & Nieminen, Lea (Jyväskylä): Interaction between phonology, morphology and sentence production in children with strong prosodic constraints Session 2 14.00 - Kunnari, Sari & Nakai, Satsuki & Vihman, Marilyn May (Bangor): Cross-linguistic evidence for acquisition of geminates Aaltonen, Olli (Turku): What is it that a child learns when it learns to perceive sounds of the native language Ström, Ulla & Sala, Eeva & Airo, Erkko (Turku): Päiväkotilasten ja aikuisten puheenerotuskyky taustamelussa Session 3 16.00- Maneva, Blagovesta & Konopczynski, Gabrielle (Besançon): Is there regional variation in early first language acquisition? Toivainen, Kirsti (Turku): Dialectal variation in derivation of Finnish baby talk words Laalo, Klaus (Tampere): Diminutives in Finnish child-directed and child speech: morphopragmatic and morphophonemic aspects Pajusalu, Karl (Tartu): Phonological structure of South-Estonian baby talk Dinner (Teini) 20.00 Quartet of the Student Union Choir of the University of Turku Saturday 2nd September 2000 Session 4 9.00 Höhle, Barbara & Weissenborn, Jürgen (Potsdam): Processing of functional elements in early language acquisition: Evidence from German Ceytlin, Stella N. (St. Petersburg): Some observations on the acquisition of the category of number by a Russian child Parikka, Ari (Åbo): Morphological expression of possession in early Child English and Finnish Veres, Ulla (Göteborg): A contrastive study of three different Swedish language corpora as input candidates for children's acquisition of past tense Session 5 11.00 Behrens, Heike (Leipzig): Acquisition of the argument structure in a usage-based framework Kazakovskaja, Victoria (St. Petersburg): Syntactic structures acquisition by Russian-speaking children: spatial adverbials Niemi, Sinikka (Joensuu): Swedish word-order in normal and specific language impairment children Mosina, Natalja (Saransk): Functions of the grammatical cases in the language of Erzya and Finnish -speaking children Session 6 14.00 Bokus, Barbara (Varsova): Inter-mind phenomena in child narrative discourse Gonnand, Sophie (Lyon): Development of content recall in different narrative texts Nordqvist, Åsa (Göteborg): "I'd like a hot dog too!" Investigating three-year-olds using direct and indirect speech in two types of activities Belais, Florence (Paris): A study about organization and temporal structures in two compared child story-tellings Session 7 16.30 Niemi, Jussi (Joensuu): Late stages of language development: a neglected area of research KEYNOTE 17.00 Peters, Ann (Hawaii): The relative roles of analogy and "rules" in producing complex morphology From maja_henriette at yahoo.com Fri Aug 25 09:17:49 2000 From: maja_henriette at yahoo.com (Maja Jensvoll) Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 02:17:49 -0700 Subject: E-mail addresses Message-ID: I was wondering if anyone knew the E-mail address to either Joan L. Bybee (possibly at SUNY, Buffalo) or Dan I. Slobin (possibly at the University of California, Berkley. because I would very much like to get in touch with them. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ From DaleP at health.missouri.edu Fri Aug 25 19:40:17 2000 From: DaleP at health.missouri.edu (Dale, Philip S.) Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 14:40:17 -0500 Subject: equipment recommendations Message-ID: > Thanks to everyone who sent information on my request for suggestions and > recommendations for equipment for an observational facility. They fall > into three groups: > > 1. The first issue is choosing between analog and digital equipment. I > received pithy comments from Amy Sheldon ("do all recording digitally") > and Brian Macwhinney ("Time to go all digital"). As I understand it, > digital is higher quality, and even more important, permits video editing > on your PC, tight integration of video with transcription and coding, and > easy incorporation into presentations (e.g., PowerPoint). The equipment > seems to run 2-3 times the cost of analog for now. > > 2. Letty Naigles and Johanna Nicholas reported continuing satisfaction > with the Panasonic Proline (AG-series) analog equipment. It's difficult to > find much information about specification and pricing on the web for this > series, but specifying "Proline" helps. Letty also recommended a nonlinear > video editing computer: "the digital vcrs, etc. were very tempting, and > are indeed the new wave of the future--smaller, better images, and easily > edit-able. and the cost may have gone down considerably in the ensuing > time. but i would also encourage you to look into a nonlinear video > editing computer, because it will enable you to do fabulously > time-detailed coding of your tapes. i use it for coding my > preferential-looking tapes (i have an adaptor that can load analog images > and digitize > them), and the precision can't be beat. they are, of course, also great > for making new video footage, should you ever decide you want to do that. > my system cost me 17K 2 years ago; i'm not sure whether that is > medium-range for you?" > > 3. With respect to wireless microphones specifically, I received positive > recommendations from John Grinstead and Adele Niccio: > [Grinstead] "I use a wireless microphone made by Audio-technica (the model > is Pro 88W). It was medium priced (a couple hundred dollars) and attaches > to a video camera. These things can get "really" pricey. A friend of mine > used to use one for discourse analysis that he borrowed from a radio > station, which cost $1500." I, at least, am incapable of discerning a big > difference between the quality of the one I have and that one." > [Niccio] "With regard to wireless microphones, we have had very good luck > with Countryman Associates (http://www.countryman.com). They make very > tiny lavalier microphones (EMW model) with flat frequency resonses that > work very well for children when you must consider clothing rubbing > against the mike, things spilling on them, etc. We use TELEX ENG-1 > transmitters and receiver, with the receiver attached to a video camera > (http://www.telex.com). The transmitter is in a pouch on a smock worn by > the child. We use this equipment for language samples from children age 3 > and younger, including infants. The moste problems we've had have not been > with the equipment per se, but with making students understand the > importance of the child's wearing the mike a uniform distance from the > mouth." > > 4. Johanna Nicholas raised a related question: "I'm also interested to > know how people feel about filming through the glass of a one-way mirror > vs. mounting a camera in the room vs. some other arrangement." I've been > most satisfied by filming through a one-way mirror provided that you can > keep the observation room dark, and the mirror is a large one so that it's > possible to move the camera around and follow the child. In-room cameras > are distracting for some children, though not all. They also require a > video game-like skill at moving the joystick while watching the monitor. > Of course with either approach there is the inevitable problem of the > child facing away from the camera so that his/her actions are not visible. > The only solution for this is to have a second camera mounted on the far > side of the room, and be able to switch to it as needed. > > Thanks again to all, > > Philip Dale > From DaleP at health.missouri.edu Mon Aug 28 13:33:39 2000 From: DaleP at health.missouri.edu (Dale, Philip S.) Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 08:33:39 -0500 Subject: equipment recommendations, II Message-ID: My comments about the greater expense of digital video in the previous message were too brief to be helpful, and I want to add some additional information for those who haven't had a chance to look into this new and appealing technology. Although it is true that digital recorders are more expensive than analog ($800-1400), there can be considerable savings due to the fact that there is no need for the equivalent of the VCR deck itself. Video viewing, editing, and transcribing are done on a PC/Mac, as long as it is a fairly recent computer, with *plenty* of hard drive space, perhaps a gigabyte of free hard drive space for a typical video. For longer term storage of videos, a simple and relatively inexpensive solution is to get a CD-RW drive and save the video on a CD (blank CD-RWs are quite inexpensive, in the range of a dollar or two). Philip S. Dale, Professor & Chair Communication Sciences & Disorders 303 Lewis Hall University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, MO 65211 voice: (573) 882-1934 fax: (573) 884-8686 From a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk Mon Aug 28 17:37:20 2000 From: a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk (Annette Karmiloff-Smith) Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 18:37:20 +0100 Subject: CHILDES WEBSITES Message-ID: I was given the following websites to list in a book for readers to access, but two of them do not work according to the copyeditor. Can you correct please. USA - http://childes.psy/cmu/edu Europe: http://atila-www.uta.ac.be/childes Japan: http://jchat/sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp (this one apparently works, the above two don;t) many thanks Annette ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith Head, Neurocognitive Development Unit, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London, WC1N 1EH, U.K. tel: (+44) 207 905 2754 fax: (+44) 207 242 7717 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From onos at asu.aasa.ac.jp Tue Aug 29 02:19:03 2000 From: onos at asu.aasa.ac.jp (Seiko Ono) Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:19:03 +0900 Subject: DVDCAM Message-ID: 2000-08-29 SUBJECT: DVDCAM The following is FYI: HITACHI started to sell DVD video camera and DVD video recorder from August 15, 2000, at least in Japan. Visit http://dvd.hitachi.co.jp/ to find the following: DVD video camera「DVDCAM」(DZ-MV100) DVD video recorder (DV-RX2000) The fixed price of DVD video camera「DVDCAM」(DZ-MV100) is about US$2300 in Nagoya. However, the shops in Nagoya offer it for about US$1900. ---------- SEIKO ONO AICHI SHUKUTOKU UNIVERSITY NAGOYA, JAPAN  onos at asu.aasa.ac.jp ---------- >From: "Dale, Philip S." >To: "Info-Childes (E-mail)" >Subject: equipment recommendations, II >Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 08:33:39 -0500 > > My comments about the greater expense of digital video in the previous > message were too brief to be helpful, and I want to add some additional > information for those who haven't had a chance to look into this new and > appealing technology. Although it is true that digital recorders are more > expensive than analog ($800-1400), there can be considerable savings due to > the fact that there is no need for the equivalent of the VCR deck itself. > Video viewing, editing, and transcribing are done on a PC/Mac, as long as it > is a fairly recent computer, with *plenty* of hard drive space, perhaps a > gigabyte of free hard drive space for a typical video. For longer term > storage of videos, a simple and relatively inexpensive solution is to get a > CD-RW drive and save the video on a CD (blank CD-RWs are quite inexpensive, > in the range of a dollar or two). > > Philip S. Dale, Professor & Chair > Communication Sciences & Disorders > 303 Lewis Hall > University of Missouri-Columbia > Columbia, MO 65211 > voice: (573) 882-1934 > fax: (573) 884-8686 From henri.cohen at uqam.ca Tue Aug 29 20:59:14 2000 From: henri.cohen at uqam.ca (henri.cohen at uqam.ca) Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 16:59:14 -0400 Subject: Call for papers/Tennet Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY (TENNET XII) Montreal, Canada, June 21-23, 2001 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 12th Annual conference on Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology, TENNET XII, will be held in June 2001 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada at Université du Québec, Montréal, Judith-Jasmin Building, Marie-Gérin-Lajoie Hall. The basic conference structure is (a) two invited thematic symposia of 3 hours, followed by (b) refereed poster papers. The poster papers are discussed after the second symposium, each afternoon. Participants may submit papers for consideration. Because these are refereed submissions, accepted poster papers will be published as refereed articles in Brain and Cognition. The deadline for refereed submissions, via e-mail only, is December 22, 2000. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Information for refereed submissions -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Poster presentations should deal with a well-defined topic or problem in any domain of experimental or theoretical neuropsychology, including neurolinguistics, development and history. Submissions are in two parts (a) a 100- to 150-word abstract, and (b) a detailed description of the paper. If applicable, the description should include an Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, and Full references sections. Up to two (2) tables or graphs can also be added. Please make sure that your complete mailing address, with your institutional affiliation, if any, and telephone number are included with your submission. This information is needed to properly prepare the program if your paper is accepted. Your submission should be sent by e-mail to arrive by the December 22 deadline to the chair of the program committee. IMPORTANT: Please check your submission with a general-purpose antivirus application before sending it by e-mail. Attached files should be in RTF. Submissions should be sent to: tennet at uqam.ca -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Henri Cohen, Ph.D. Cognitive Neuroscience Center UQAM PB. 8888, Stn. 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I began video and audio-taping Steven once a month from 0;5 to 1;2, after which I taped him approximately three hours per week. Phonetic transcriptions of Steven's speech are included only on words which differ noticeably from the adult standard; all other words are written on the main tier in standard English. Steven was tested cognitively at two and three years old by his pediatrician. On the Verbal Language Development Exam he scored 3.88 (approximate developmental age) at two years old and 5.74 at three years old. On the Denver Articulation Screening Exam, he scored in the 98th percentile at age three; for purposes of comparison with other children, one would classify him as a rapid language learner. Method To collect the data, I used a Sony FE camcorder along with a Marantz tape recorder and a Tecnica remote microphone. A heavy duty Bogen 3211 tripod was also used at times. Steven was always taped in our own home, with one or both parents present. Usually, one parent operated the video camera while the other interacted with the child. 'Laura', Steven's younger sister, was born when he was 1;11.13; she is present and sometimes making sounds (but not yet speaking) on some of these tapes. I selectively transcribed Steven's data in CHAT format. Specifically, I transcribed ten one-hour tapes between the ages of 1;2.1 and 1;4.16, and fourteen between the ages of 1;11 and 2;3.26. Participants: Steven (STV), Laura (LAR), Father (FAT), Mother (MOT). Steven's Lexicon (note: parents were relaxed about using some of STV's child forms to him, and sometimes with each other) [bababa] 'food' 4/8/93 age 0;8.21 - 1;0.10 'kissing sound' voiceless [b] 'food' 4/8/93 [ma] 'mama' 4/23/93 [mama] 'milk' 4/26/93 [mUm] 'mama' 5/22/93 [dada] 'dad' 5/22/93 [ha] 'hi' 5/17/93 [baba] 'bye' 5/18/93 [gobaba] 'goin' bye bye' 6/8/93 [boida] [goida] 'good night' 6/9/93 [nana] 'no' 6/13/93 [nana] 'banana' 7/1/93 [mae] 'good' 7/3/93 [*b] 'splashy' 7/26/93 [kaka] 'quack quack' (name for duck) 7/28/93 [Uk] 'yucky' 7/28/93 @c a other adiadi slide adior from Spanish, adios aish, ai, aiX orange ba red badada body lotion bae or baek black bagi bagel, bread bibi slipper Bikiki King Soopers bu blue budleyley doll byebye byebye or telephone byebye bathie bath byegoodbye telephone dada daddy didi train, deer Ebi Fine Park Eben Fine Park gi green giya crayons higher higher building blocks kaboomps fall down, from kaboom kaka car mama milk, mother magigaga milk and cookies mangimangi fire engine Mimi Sabrina, or Brina, the family cat ming swing Minimart Toys R Us Nada Lamb Chop nadi lambie nola granola nula vanilla opa open Tadi STV (name for himself) Tadu Thomas the Tank Engine tuba table Yaya Lara (name for baby sister) SES: At the time of taping, MOT was a linguistics doctoral student at the University of Colorado; FAT held the Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and was a senior instructor in Writing at the University of Colorado. References: Feldman 1998, Menn & Feldman (to appear 2001 in the Journal of Child Language), Feldman (in press), and other work in progress. Contact information: Andrea Feldman, Instructor University Writing Program Campus Box 359 University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309-0359; e-mail: feldman at stripe.colorado.edu; telephone: (303) 492-4396; fax: (303) 492-7877 From macw at cmu.edu Tue Aug 29 19:21:18 2000 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 15:21:18 -0400 Subject: CHILDES WEBSITES In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Annette, The sites should be http://childes.psy.cmu.edu http://atila-www.uia.ac.be/childes/ http://jchat.sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp/CHILDES/ The third site -- the one in Japan -- seems to be off line right now. I will try to see what is happening there. --Brian MacW From sirai at rosetta.sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp Wed Aug 30 00:16:23 2000 From: sirai at rosetta.sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp (Hidetosi SIRAI) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 09:16:23 +0900 Subject: CHILDES WEBSITES In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 29 Aug 2000 15:21:18 -0400. <893152.3176551278@agate.psy.cmu.edu> Message-ID: > http://childes.psy.cmu.edu > http://atila-www.uia.ac.be/childes/ > http://jchat.sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp/CHILDES/ > > The third site -- the one in Japan -- seems to be off line right now. I > will try to see what is happening there. Unfortunately it has a problem --- but it will soon come back, I promise. Hidetosi Sirai at JCHAT From edwards.212 at osu.edu Wed Aug 30 17:10:09 2000 From: edwards.212 at osu.edu (Jan Edwards) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 13:10:09 -0400 Subject: verb acquisition Message-ID: Hi everyone, Can anyone recommend a good article or book chapter that is a summary of current research on verb acquisition in typically developing children? I'd like a new reading for my graduate language acquisition class in this area. Thanks in advance. I'll post the results on this list-server. Yours, Jan Edwards From onos at asu.aasa.ac.jp Wed Aug 30 03:24:39 2000 From: onos at asu.aasa.ac.jp (Seiko Ono) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:24:39 +0900 Subject: DVDCAM Message-ID: 2000-08-30 SUBJECT: DVDCAM ---------- > Dear Seiko and Info-CHILDES, > > The pictures at the Hitachi website for the DVD video camera looked > nice, but I couldn't read the Japanese. Seiko, could you perhaps help us > out by explaining something about the way the Hitachi DVD video camera > works? I am assuming that it writes directly to a 4.7 GB DVD-RAM disk. > Does it write raw or compressed data? I have to assume that it writes in > compressed DVD-type format. Does this mean that it uses MPEG 2 > compression? If I take a DVD produced by this camera can I put it in the > DVD drive of my Macintosh and treat it like data or do I have to treat it > like a DVD movie. If I am forced to treat it like a DVD movie, then I > think this type of camera is a very bad choice for research purposes. The > reason is that it is illegal to decode proprietary DVD formats. This means > that we will probably not be able to link transcripts to DVD video and use > tools like CLAN. This is a problem not just for the DVD video camera, but > more generally. As long as we stick with formats such as QuickTime or > MPEG, we don't have this problem, since those formats are public. It would > be great if you could say that this will not be a problem with the Hitachi > DVD camcorder. > > --Brian MacWhinney Brian, I am not the right person to answer your question. Could someone out there answer Brian's question? Or is the following FYI from Yas sufficient to you, Brian? Bye for now. ---------- SEIKO ONO AICHI SHUKUTOKU UNIVERSITY NAGOYA, JAPAN  onos at asu.aasa.ac.jp > At 11:19 AM +0900 8/29/00, Seiko Ono wrote: > >> >>HITACHI started to sell DVD video camera and DVD video recorder >>>from August 15, 2000, at least in Japan. >> >>Visit >> http://dvd.hitachi.co.jp/ > > > This English page is probably better for most people. > > http://www.hitachi.co.jp/dvd-ram/eng/top/index.html > > Yas > > > > Yasuhiro Shirai > Associate Professor of Linguistics > Department of Asian Studies > Cornell University > 351 Rockefeller Hall > Ithaca, NY 14853 USA > tel: 607-255-0289, fax: (607) 255-1345 > http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/ys54/ ---------- 差出人 : "Seiko Ono" 宛先 : "Info-Childes (E-mail)" CC : onos at asu.aasa.ac.jp 件名 : DVDCAM 送信日時 : 2000年 8月 29日 (火) 11:19 AM 2000-08-29 SUBJECT: DVDCAM The following is FYI: HITACHI started to sell DVD video camera and DVD video recorder from August 15, 2000, at least in Japan. Visit http://dvd.hitachi.co.jp/ to find the following: DVD video camera「DVDCAM」(DZ-MV100) DVD video recorder (DV-RX2000) The fixed price of DVD video camera「DVDCAM」(DZ-MV100) is about US$2300 in Nagoya. However, the shops in Nagoya offer it for about US$1900. ---------- SEIKO ONO AICHI SHUKUTOKU UNIVERSITY NAGOYA, JAPAN  onos at asu.aasa.ac.jp ---------- >From: "Dale, Philip S." >To: "Info-Childes (E-mail)" >Subject: equipment recommendations, II >Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 08:33:39 -0500 > > My comments about the greater expense of digital video in the previous > message were too brief to be helpful, and I want to add some additional > information for those who haven't had a chance to look into this new and > appealing technology. Although it is true that digital recorders are more > expensive than analog ($800-1400), there can be considerable savings due to > the fact that there is no need for the equivalent of the VCR deck itself. > Video viewing, editing, and transcribing are done on a PC/Mac, as long as it > is a fairly recent computer, with *plenty* of hard drive space, perhaps a > gigabyte of free hard drive space for a typical video. For longer term > storage of videos, a simple and relatively inexpensive solution is to get a > CD-RW drive and save the video on a CD (blank CD-RWs are quite inexpensive, > in the range of a dollar or two). > > Philip S. Dale, Professor & Chair > Communication Sciences & Disorders > 303 Lewis Hall > University of Missouri-Columbia > Columbia, MO 65211 > voice: (573) 882-1934 > fax: (573) 884-8686 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From onos at asu.aasa.ac.jp Thu Aug 31 02:05:16 2000 From: onos at asu.aasa.ac.jp (Seiko Ono) Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:05:16 +0900 Subject: DVDCAM Message-ID: 2000-08-31 SUBJECT: Re: DVDCAM Dear Brian and Info-CHILDES, > Dear Seiko and Info-CHILDES, > > The pictures at the Hitachi website for the DVD video camera looked > nice, but I couldn't read the Japanese. Seiko, could you perhaps help us > out by explaining something about the way the Hitachi DVD video camera > works? I am assuming that it writes directly to a 4.7 GB DVD-RAM disk. > Does it write raw or compressed data? I have to assume that it writes in > compressed DVD-type format. Does this mean that it uses MPEG 2 > compression? If I take a DVD produced by this camera can I put it in the > DVD drive of my Macintosh and treat it like data or do I have to treat it > like a DVD movie. If I am forced to treat it like a DVD movie, then I > think this type of camera is a very bad choice for research purposes. The > reason is that it is illegal to decode proprietary DVD formats. This means > that we will probably not be able to link transcripts to DVD video and use > tools like CLAN. This is a problem not just for the DVD video camera, but > more generally. As long as we stick with formats such as QuickTime or > MPEG, we don't have this problem, since those formats are public. It would > be great if you could say that this will not be a problem with the Hitachi > DVD camcorder. > > --Brian MacWhinney I am not the right person to answer your question, Brian. Could someone out there answer Brian's question? Or is the following FYI from Yas sufficient for you, Brian? ---------- SEIKO ONO AICHI SHUKUTOKU UNIVERSITY NAGOYA, JAPAN  onos at asu.aasa.ac.jp > FROM: Yasuhiro Shirai > > At 11:19 AM +0900 8/29/00, Seiko Ono wrote: > >> >>HITACHI started to sell DVD video camera and DVD video recorder >>>from August 15, 2000, at least in Japan. >> >>Visit >> http://dvd.hitachi.co.jp/ > > > This English page is probably better for most people. > > http://www.hitachi.co.jp/dvd-ram/eng/top/index.html > > Yas YES! That is right. Thanks, Yas. > Yasuhiro Shirai > Associate Professor of Linguistics > Department of Asian Studies > Cornell University > 351 Rockefeller Hall > Ithaca, NY 14853 USA > tel: 607-255-0289, fax: (607) 255-1345 > http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/ys54/ > FROM : "Seiko Ono" > SUBJECT : DVDCAM > TO: "Info-Childes (E-mail)" > CC : onos at asu.aasa.ac.jp > > > 2000-08-29 > SUBJECT: DVDCAM > > The following is FYI: > > HITACHI started to sell DVD video camera and DVD video recorder > from August 15, 2000, at least in Japan. > > Visit > http://dvd.hitachi.co.jp/ > > to find the following: > > DVD video camera「DVDCAM」(DZ-MV100) > DVD video recorder (DV-RX2000) > > The fixed price of DVD video camera「DVDCAM」(DZ-MV100) > is about US$2300 in Nagoya. > However, the shops in Nagoya offer it for about US$1900. > > ---------- > SEIKO ONO > AICHI SHUKUTOKU UNIVERSITY > NAGOYA, JAPAN >  onos at asu.aasa.ac.jp From ys54 at cornell.edu Wed Aug 30 04:05:59 2000 From: ys54 at cornell.edu (Yasuhiro Shirai) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 00:05:59 -0400 Subject: DVDCAM Message-ID: > >HITACHI started to sell DVD video camera and DVD video recorder >>from August 15, 2000, at least in Japan. > >Visit > http://dvd.hitachi.co.jp/ This English page would be probably better for most people. http://www.hitachi.co.jp/dvd-ram/eng/top/index.html Yasuhiro Shirai Associate Professor of Linguistics Department of Asian Studies Cornell University 351 Rockefeller Hall Ithaca, NY 14853 USA tel: 607-255-0289, fax: (607) 255-1345 http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/ys54/ From jonmach at informix.com Thu Aug 31 15:31:20 2000 From: jonmach at informix.com (Jon Machtynger) Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 16:31:20 +0100 Subject: Phonemic symbols Message-ID: All, I am currently building up a table of consonantal and vowel sounds in the British language and am having difficulty finding a font which contains the symbols required. Does anyone have a soft copy of a Word document with a table already contained which I can copy characters from, or a font set with the requisite symbols? Many thanks in advance for any assistance with this. Jon Machtynger - +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Jon Machtynger (jonmach at informix.com) | | Principal Systems Engineer - Web & Media Asset Mgmt | | Informix Software Ltd. | | 6 New Square, Bedfont Lakes, Feltham TW14 8HA, UK | | Ph: +44 (020) 8818 1216 or (07801) 684216 (mobile) | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ From kuroeri at mb.infoweb.ne.jp Wed Aug 2 13:02:04 2000 From: kuroeri at mb.infoweb.ne.jp (Eriko Kurosaki) Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 22:02:04 +0900 Subject: E-mail address Message-ID: Dear all: Hello. Does anyone know Dr. Jens Allwood's email? If you have any information, please write me. Thank you. Eriko Kurosaki From snehab at utdallas.edu Thu Aug 3 19:51:14 2000 From: snehab at utdallas.edu (Sneha V Bharadwaj) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 14:51:14 -0500 Subject: French vowels Message-ID: Hi all, I am interested in French vowels that quite distinct from American English vowels. I would appreiciate your input concerning these vowels and any publication regarding vowel space in French. Thanks, -Sneha From gleason at bu.edu Thu Aug 3 22:44:50 2000 From: gleason at bu.edu (Jean Berko Gleason) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 18:44:50 -0400 Subject: The Development of Language Message-ID: Hi all, The fifth edition of our textbook, The Development of Language, has now been published and is available. Here is the publisher's catalog web site for further information, examination copies, and all that... -- Jean http://vig.abacon.com/catalog/abbooks/0,2371,0205316360,00.html From aaturner at umich.edu Fri Aug 4 15:11:38 2000 From: aaturner at umich.edu (Ann Turner Phillips) Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 11:11:38 -0400 Subject: No subject Message-ID: Hello, We need a Research Assistant to coordinate our Infant Cognition Project at the University of Michigan. We are interested in finding someone with a BA and an interest in Developmental Psycholgy. Our project focuses on expanding our understanding of how infants conceptulaize the social world, primarily using looking time methods. Please forward this message to anyone who might be interested. Thank you. Ann Turner Phillips Henry Wellman University of Michigan Developmental Psychology 525 East University Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48109 (734) 763-0135 From marders at net-alliance.net.ar Mon Aug 7 01:46:22 2000 From: marders at net-alliance.net.ar (Sandra Esther Marder) Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 22:46:22 -0300 Subject: RV: lexical segmentation Message-ID: > Hi all, > I am interested in lexical segmentation in spanish written language > > Thanks, > -Sandra > > > From marders at net-alliance.net.ar Fri Aug 11 01:40:06 2000 From: marders at net-alliance.net.ar (Sandra Esther Marder) Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 22:40:06 -0300 Subject: RV: lexical segmentation Message-ID: ----- Original Message ----- From: Sandra Esther Marder To: Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2000 10:46 PM Subject: RV: lexical segmentation > > > > Hi all, > > I am interested in lexical segmentation ( word segmentation) in spanish written language > > > Thanks, > > -Sandra > > > > > > > From schelkens_monika at hotmail.com Fri Aug 11 08:56:58 2000 From: schelkens_monika at hotmail.com (Monika Schelkens) Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 08:56:58 CEST Subject: CDI: Gender, social class and birth order Message-ID: Dear all, I would like to thank everyone who reacted on my request some time ago on the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories. I asked for references on the relationship between language development and gender, social class and birth order. I needed this for my thesis on the normative study of the Dutch CDI's. This is a thesis at the University of Leuven with Prof. Dr. Inge Zink and Lic. Maryline Lejaegere. Here are the references I collected. They have been very usefull for my work. Fenson et al. 1994, Variablility in early communicative development, Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, ser. no. 242, vol. 59. Hart, B., & Risley, T. (1995). Meaningful differences in the everyday experiences of young American children. Baltimore: Paul H. Brooks Publishing. Klee et al. (1998), J. Speech Language Hearing Research, 41, 627-41. Feldman, H.M., Dollaghan, C.A, Campbell, T.F., Kurs-Laasky, M., Jonosky, J.E. & Paradise, J.L. (2000). Measurement properties of the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories at ages one and two years. Child Development, 71(2), 310-322. Hamilton, A., Plunkett, K & Schafer, G. (in press). Infant vocabulary development assessed with a British Communicative Development Inventory Fenson: the 1993 manual, the 1994 SRCD monograph, and the April 2000 Child Development commentary Berglund, E. and M. Eriksson (2000). "Communicative development in Swedish children 16-28 months old. The Swedish early communicative development inventory - words and sentences." Scandinavian Journal of Psychology 41(2): 133-144. Eriksson, M. and E. Berglund (1999). "Swedish early communicative development inventories: words and gestures." First Language 19(55): 55-90. and about significant gender differences in children with Down syndrom Berglund, E., M. Eriksson, et al. (1998). Spoken language in children with Down syndrome 1 to 5 years old: developmental trends, individual variation,and sex differences, Department of Psychology, Stockholm University. To appear in Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research. Rodrigue S.R. Assessment of Language Comprehension and Production in Low-Income Children: Child Performance versus Parent Judgement. Thesis appearing at the end of August at the San Diego University. Hoff-Ginsberg, E. (1998). The relation of birth order and socioeconomic status to children's language experience and language development. Applied Psycholinguistics, 19, 603-630. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com From ks7t at andrew.cmu.edu Fri Aug 11 14:05:26 2000 From: ks7t at andrew.cmu.edu (Kelley Sacco) Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 10:05:26 -0400 Subject: Call for papers Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS, POSTERS, SYMPOSIA Jean Piaget Society: Society for the Study of Knowledge and Development Annual Meeting May 31-June 2, 2001, Berkeley, California Website www.piaget.org Les Smith, Lancaster University SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15 December 2000 The 31st Annual Meeting of The Jean Piaget Society will take place in Berkeley, California, May 31-June 2, 2001. The theme of the meeting will be "Biology and Knowledge Revisited: From Embryogenesis to Psychogenesis." The deadline for submissions is December 15, 2000. Scholars interested in the development of knowledge are invited to participate, whatever their discipline. The plenary sessions will be organized around a general theme, but individual proposals do not have to be related to that theme. GENERAL THEME: The theme the of Jean Piaget Society 2001 is inspired by Piaget's book Biology and Knowledge which explores the mutual implications of evolution and development. Whereas the 1995 symposium considered the evolution of human behavioral development as revealed through comparisons of human and nonhuman primate species, JPS 2001 extends and elaborates the theme by also considering the evolution of brain development in human and nonhuman primates. The theme focuses on the evolution of experience-contingent brain development underlying cognitive construction, language acquisition, and personal identity. The important implications of recent studies that emphasize the constructive nature of brain development and evolution will be discussed by distinguished plenary speakers that include Terrance Deacon, V. S. Ramachadran and Annette Karmiloff-Smith. The evolution and acquisition of languages is given special emphasis with the inclusion of Dan Slobin and Elizabeth Bates as plenary speakers. In addition, a special feature seminar on Piaget's Biology and Knowledge will be led by several Piagetian scholars. As in 1995, the conference site is located on the San Francisco Bay with spectacular views of the Golden Gate Bridge and easy access by ferry, bus or subway to San Francisco. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS Proposals will be accepted in English only. Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged. Instructions and forms for on-line and mail-in program submissions are available below. DEADLINE: To be considered, proposals must be received (not just post marked) by December 15, 2000. NOTIFICATION The Program Committee will notify those submitting proposals of its decision in February, 2001. Although every effort will be made to respect the presenter(s)'s choice, the form of the presentation may be changed by the Program Committee. Should this be necessary, the change will be indicated in your letter of notification. RESTRICTIONS All presenters must register for the meeting. Individuals may not be listed as authors on more than two presentations. Presentations must not have been presented at any other meeting having the same general audience as the Jean Piaget Society. Papers Paper presentations (15 minutes) may be focused on either empirical findings or theoretical Posters Poster presentations may be focused on either empirical findings or theoretical analysis. Symposia Symposium proposals (90 minutes) should suggest 3-4 presentations organized around a single topic. HELP Questions concerning on-line submissions can be sent to Chris Lalonde webmaster at piaget.org Questions concerning mail-in submissions can be sent to Eric Amsel eamsel at weber.edu From santell at nh1.nh.pdx.edu Mon Aug 14 23:05:09 2000 From: santell at nh1.nh.pdx.edu (Lynn Santelmann) Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 15:05:09 PST Subject: looking for paper on grammatical gender.. Message-ID: I am looking for a copy of a poster that I saw at SRCD in 1999 -- I believe the paper was by Chryle Ann Elieff and Maria D. Sera and called "What aspect of grammatical gender influences categorization?" -- The gist of the study, if I remember correctly, was that the students learning two gender languages (like Spanish or French) tended to categorize things into male/female dimensions, whereas students learning 3 gender languages (like German) did not. If anyone can point me either to a copy of the study or to the authors themselves, I would be grateful. thanks 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 marders at net-alliance.net.ar Tue Aug 15 01:15:52 2000 From: marders at net-alliance.net.ar (Sandra Esther Marder) Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 22:15:52 -0300 Subject: request Message-ID: Dear all: I need the e-mail adress of Marta Valdez -Menchaca , she worked until 1992 at the Department of Education, University of California. Thank you. Sandra marders at net-alliance.net.ar From pbrooks at postbox.csi.cuny.edu Fri Aug 18 22:49:17 2000 From: pbrooks at postbox.csi.cuny.edu (Patty Brooks) Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 18:49:17 -0400 Subject: Russian CDI Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, We would like to know if there is a Russian CDI available, and, if not, whether anyone is currently working on creating one. Thank you. Patricia Brooks and Vera Kempe From macw at cmu.edu Sun Aug 20 21:00:58 2000 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 17:00:58 -0400 Subject: Ann Peters' Filler Page Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, Ann Peters and Katsura Aoyama have created a fascinating set of illustrations of "fillers" in both pre- and protomorphology. The URL is http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/html/concepts.html Ann's illustrations are provided in CHAT form as taken from the Peters-Wilson Seth transcripts. By clicking on the example, you can directly play and hear the filler examples. They include examples between content words and at the beginnings of short phrases. I found that the provision of these examples did a lot to directly enrich my understanding of these phenomena. At the same time, it allowed me to sharpen certain questions that were previously inarticulate. In some cases, I tended to hear the fillers as weak attempts to pronounce standard closed class items. In other cases, it was difficult to view them as anything more than pure fillers. I am hoping that other researchers can contribute to the discussion of fillers by adding their own audio-based examples (you can mail them to me or Ann) which further support the analysis and perhaps clarify the range of structures to which it tends to apply. Ann's examples come from a single child. I am thinking that I could find similar materials in my children's audio files, now that I understand more clearly what I might be looking for. Ann provides a nice bibliography on this topic. I wonder if the original data for these various articles is still available. For example, maybe Lise Menn can locate some of her examples from Jacob that illustrate similar patterns. It would also be interesting to develop a method for suggesting alternative and/or supporting analyses of these examples. Eventually, it would be good to have a way to link alternative accounts and even competing theories to these specific illustrations directly through the web. Although the precise technology for doing this is not yet fully clear, we could work out something, if there is interest. These files played fine for me on both Mac with Netscape 4.7 and on Windows with IE5. However, on both machines I have recent versions of QuickTime loaded. If your browser complains that you need new versions of QuickTime, you can download it from http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/ I think that these illustrations can be useful not only for researchers, but also for students. If you can think of additional concepts and topics in child language that could be treated through web-based materials of this type, please tell me or, even better, post your ideas to the info-childes list. I suggested a few such topics on the "Concepts" web page, just by way of illustration. --Brian MacWhinney From SFoster-Cohen at excite.com Tue Aug 22 04:41:46 2000 From: SFoster-Cohen at excite.com (Susan Foster-Cohen) Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 21:41:46 -0700 Subject: meetings Message-ID: Dear All: Greetings from my new home in New Zealand! I am not yet really properly installed here, but I have been able to follow the debate of the last few days. My feeling is that a more frequent meetings cycle will dilute the quality of the papers, as already suggested, and will also be a not insignificant organisational headache. I'm for leaving things as they are. Susan _______________________________________________________ Say Bye to Slow Internet! http://www.home.com/xinbox/signup.html From toivaine at mail.utu.fi Tue Aug 22 08:51:09 2000 From: toivaine at mail.utu.fi (Jorma Toivainen) Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 11:51:09 +0300 Subject: Final Programme: Turku Symposium on First Language Acquisition Message-ID: Department of Finnish and General Linguistics University of Turku TURKU SYMPOSIUM ON FIRST LANGUAGE ACQUISITION 1 - 2 September 2000 Keynote Speaker: Ann Peters, Hawaii Final programme Friday 1st September 2000 Fennicum, Henrikinkatu 3, Turku Opening 10.00 University Rector, Professor Keijo Virtanen Toivainen, Jorma (Turku): Scenes of the child and morphemes of the language Session 1 11.00 - Leiwo, Matti & Koivisto, Jouko & Korhonen, P?ivi & Richardson, Ulla & Turunen, Pirjo (Jyv?skyl?): On Finnish vowel harmony and language acquisition Han Yumi (Paris): Convergence of vowel duration between children and their mother: study of four type utterances such as CV, CVC, CVCV, VCV produced by two native Korean children aged 19 month to 24 Savinainen-Makkonen, Tuula (Helsinki): Word-initial consonant omissions - a developmental process in children learning Finnish Turunen, Pirjo & Korhonen, P?ivi & Nieminen, Lea (Jyv?skyl?): Interaction between phonology, morphology and sentence production in children with strong prosodic constraints Session 2 14.00 - Kunnari, Sari & Nakai, Satsuki & Vihman, Marilyn May (Bangor): Cross-linguistic evidence for acquisition of geminates Aaltonen, Olli (Turku): What is it that a child learns when it learns to perceive sounds of the native language Str?m, Ulla & Sala, Eeva & Airo, Erkko (Turku): P?iv?kotilasten ja aikuisten puheenerotuskyky taustamelussa Session 3 16.00- Maneva, Blagovesta & Konopczynski, Gabrielle (Besan?on): Is there regional variation in early first language acquisition? Toivainen, Kirsti (Turku): Dialectal variation in derivation of Finnish baby talk words Laalo, Klaus (Tampere): Diminutives in Finnish child-directed and child speech: morphopragmatic and morphophonemic aspects Pajusalu, Karl (Tartu): Phonological structure of South-Estonian baby talk Dinner (Teini) 20.00 Quartet of the Student Union Choir of the University of Turku Saturday 2nd September 2000 Session 4 9.00 H?hle, Barbara & Weissenborn, J?rgen (Potsdam): Processing of functional elements in early language acquisition: Evidence from German Ceytlin, Stella N. (St. Petersburg): Some observations on the acquisition of the category of number by a Russian child Parikka, Ari (?bo): Morphological expression of possession in early Child English and Finnish Veres, Ulla (G?teborg): A contrastive study of three different Swedish language corpora as input candidates for children's acquisition of past tense Session 5 11.00 Behrens, Heike (Leipzig): Acquisition of the argument structure in a usage-based framework Kazakovskaja, Victoria (St. Petersburg): Syntactic structures acquisition by Russian-speaking children: spatial adverbials Niemi, Sinikka (Joensuu): Swedish word-order in normal and specific language impairment children Mosina, Natalja (Saransk): Functions of the grammatical cases in the language of Erzya and Finnish -speaking children Session 6 14.00 Bokus, Barbara (Varsova): Inter-mind phenomena in child narrative discourse Gonnand, Sophie (Lyon): Development of content recall in different narrative texts Nordqvist, ?sa (G?teborg): "I'd like a hot dog too!" Investigating three-year-olds using direct and indirect speech in two types of activities Belais, Florence (Paris): A study about organization and temporal structures in two compared child story-tellings Session 7 16.30 Niemi, Jussi (Joensuu): Late stages of language development: a neglected area of research KEYNOTE 17.00 Peters, Ann (Hawaii): The relative roles of analogy and "rules" in producing complex morphology From maja_henriette at yahoo.com Fri Aug 25 09:17:49 2000 From: maja_henriette at yahoo.com (Maja Jensvoll) Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 02:17:49 -0700 Subject: E-mail addresses Message-ID: I was wondering if anyone knew the E-mail address to either Joan L. Bybee (possibly at SUNY, Buffalo) or Dan I. Slobin (possibly at the University of California, Berkley. because I would very much like to get in touch with them. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ From DaleP at health.missouri.edu Fri Aug 25 19:40:17 2000 From: DaleP at health.missouri.edu (Dale, Philip S.) Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 14:40:17 -0500 Subject: equipment recommendations Message-ID: > Thanks to everyone who sent information on my request for suggestions and > recommendations for equipment for an observational facility. They fall > into three groups: > > 1. The first issue is choosing between analog and digital equipment. I > received pithy comments from Amy Sheldon ("do all recording digitally") > and Brian Macwhinney ("Time to go all digital"). As I understand it, > digital is higher quality, and even more important, permits video editing > on your PC, tight integration of video with transcription and coding, and > easy incorporation into presentations (e.g., PowerPoint). The equipment > seems to run 2-3 times the cost of analog for now. > > 2. Letty Naigles and Johanna Nicholas reported continuing satisfaction > with the Panasonic Proline (AG-series) analog equipment. It's difficult to > find much information about specification and pricing on the web for this > series, but specifying "Proline" helps. Letty also recommended a nonlinear > video editing computer: "the digital vcrs, etc. were very tempting, and > are indeed the new wave of the future--smaller, better images, and easily > edit-able. and the cost may have gone down considerably in the ensuing > time. but i would also encourage you to look into a nonlinear video > editing computer, because it will enable you to do fabulously > time-detailed coding of your tapes. i use it for coding my > preferential-looking tapes (i have an adaptor that can load analog images > and digitize > them), and the precision can't be beat. they are, of course, also great > for making new video footage, should you ever decide you want to do that. > my system cost me 17K 2 years ago; i'm not sure whether that is > medium-range for you?" > > 3. With respect to wireless microphones specifically, I received positive > recommendations from John Grinstead and Adele Niccio: > [Grinstead] "I use a wireless microphone made by Audio-technica (the model > is Pro 88W). It was medium priced (a couple hundred dollars) and attaches > to a video camera. These things can get "really" pricey. A friend of mine > used to use one for discourse analysis that he borrowed from a radio > station, which cost $1500." I, at least, am incapable of discerning a big > difference between the quality of the one I have and that one." > [Niccio] "With regard to wireless microphones, we have had very good luck > with Countryman Associates (http://www.countryman.com). They make very > tiny lavalier microphones (EMW model) with flat frequency resonses that > work very well for children when you must consider clothing rubbing > against the mike, things spilling on them, etc. We use TELEX ENG-1 > transmitters and receiver, with the receiver attached to a video camera > (http://www.telex.com). The transmitter is in a pouch on a smock worn by > the child. We use this equipment for language samples from children age 3 > and younger, including infants. The moste problems we've had have not been > with the equipment per se, but with making students understand the > importance of the child's wearing the mike a uniform distance from the > mouth." > > 4. Johanna Nicholas raised a related question: "I'm also interested to > know how people feel about filming through the glass of a one-way mirror > vs. mounting a camera in the room vs. some other arrangement." I've been > most satisfied by filming through a one-way mirror provided that you can > keep the observation room dark, and the mirror is a large one so that it's > possible to move the camera around and follow the child. In-room cameras > are distracting for some children, though not all. They also require a > video game-like skill at moving the joystick while watching the monitor. > Of course with either approach there is the inevitable problem of the > child facing away from the camera so that his/her actions are not visible. > The only solution for this is to have a second camera mounted on the far > side of the room, and be able to switch to it as needed. > > Thanks again to all, > > Philip Dale > From DaleP at health.missouri.edu Mon Aug 28 13:33:39 2000 From: DaleP at health.missouri.edu (Dale, Philip S.) Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 08:33:39 -0500 Subject: equipment recommendations, II Message-ID: My comments about the greater expense of digital video in the previous message were too brief to be helpful, and I want to add some additional information for those who haven't had a chance to look into this new and appealing technology. Although it is true that digital recorders are more expensive than analog ($800-1400), there can be considerable savings due to the fact that there is no need for the equivalent of the VCR deck itself. Video viewing, editing, and transcribing are done on a PC/Mac, as long as it is a fairly recent computer, with *plenty* of hard drive space, perhaps a gigabyte of free hard drive space for a typical video. For longer term storage of videos, a simple and relatively inexpensive solution is to get a CD-RW drive and save the video on a CD (blank CD-RWs are quite inexpensive, in the range of a dollar or two). Philip S. Dale, Professor & Chair Communication Sciences & Disorders 303 Lewis Hall University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, MO 65211 voice: (573) 882-1934 fax: (573) 884-8686 From a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk Mon Aug 28 17:37:20 2000 From: a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk (Annette Karmiloff-Smith) Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 18:37:20 +0100 Subject: CHILDES WEBSITES Message-ID: I was given the following websites to list in a book for readers to access, but two of them do not work according to the copyeditor. Can you correct please. USA - http://childes.psy/cmu/edu Europe: http://atila-www.uta.ac.be/childes Japan: http://jchat/sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp (this one apparently works, the above two don;t) many thanks Annette ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith Head, Neurocognitive Development Unit, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London, WC1N 1EH, U.K. tel: (+44) 207 905 2754 fax: (+44) 207 242 7717 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From onos at asu.aasa.ac.jp Tue Aug 29 02:19:03 2000 From: onos at asu.aasa.ac.jp (Seiko Ono) Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:19:03 +0900 Subject: DVDCAM Message-ID: 2000-08-29 SUBJECT: DVDCAM The following is FYI: HITACHI started to sell DVD video camera and DVD video recorder from August 15, 2000, at least in Japan. Visit http://dvd.hitachi.co.jp/ to find the following: DVD video camera?DVDCAM?(DZ-MV100) DVD video recorder (DV-RX2000) The fixed price of DVD video camera?DVDCAM?(DZ-MV100) is about US$2300 in Nagoya. However, the shops in Nagoya offer it for about US$1900. ---------- SEIKO ONO AICHI SHUKUTOKU UNIVERSITY NAGOYA, JAPAN ?onos at asu.aasa.ac.jp ---------- >From: "Dale, Philip S." >To: "Info-Childes (E-mail)" >Subject: equipment recommendations, II >Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 08:33:39 -0500 > > My comments about the greater expense of digital video in the previous > message were too brief to be helpful, and I want to add some additional > information for those who haven't had a chance to look into this new and > appealing technology. Although it is true that digital recorders are more > expensive than analog ($800-1400), there can be considerable savings due to > the fact that there is no need for the equivalent of the VCR deck itself. > Video viewing, editing, and transcribing are done on a PC/Mac, as long as it > is a fairly recent computer, with *plenty* of hard drive space, perhaps a > gigabyte of free hard drive space for a typical video. For longer term > storage of videos, a simple and relatively inexpensive solution is to get a > CD-RW drive and save the video on a CD (blank CD-RWs are quite inexpensive, > in the range of a dollar or two). > > Philip S. Dale, Professor & Chair > Communication Sciences & Disorders > 303 Lewis Hall > University of Missouri-Columbia > Columbia, MO 65211 > voice: (573) 882-1934 > fax: (573) 884-8686 From henri.cohen at uqam.ca Tue Aug 29 20:59:14 2000 From: henri.cohen at uqam.ca (henri.cohen at uqam.ca) Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 16:59:14 -0400 Subject: Call for papers/Tennet Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY (TENNET XII) Montreal, Canada, June 21-23, 2001 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 12th Annual conference on Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology, TENNET XII, will be held in June 2001 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada at Universit? du Qu?bec, Montr?al, Judith-Jasmin Building, Marie-G?rin-Lajoie Hall. The basic conference structure is (a) two invited thematic symposia of 3 hours, followed by (b) refereed poster papers. The poster papers are discussed after the second symposium, each afternoon. 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I began video and audio-taping Steven once a month from 0;5 to 1;2, after which I taped him approximately three hours per week. Phonetic transcriptions of Steven's speech are included only on words which differ noticeably from the adult standard; all other words are written on the main tier in standard English. Steven was tested cognitively at two and three years old by his pediatrician. On the Verbal Language Development Exam he scored 3.88 (approximate developmental age) at two years old and 5.74 at three years old. On the Denver Articulation Screening Exam, he scored in the 98th percentile at age three; for purposes of comparison with other children, one would classify him as a rapid language learner. Method To collect the data, I used a Sony FE camcorder along with a Marantz tape recorder and a Tecnica remote microphone. A heavy duty Bogen 3211 tripod was also used at times. Steven was always taped in our own home, with one or both parents present. Usually, one parent operated the video camera while the other interacted with the child. 'Laura', Steven's younger sister, was born when he was 1;11.13; she is present and sometimes making sounds (but not yet speaking) on some of these tapes. I selectively transcribed Steven's data in CHAT format. Specifically, I transcribed ten one-hour tapes between the ages of 1;2.1 and 1;4.16, and fourteen between the ages of 1;11 and 2;3.26. Participants: Steven (STV), Laura (LAR), Father (FAT), Mother (MOT). Steven's Lexicon (note: parents were relaxed about using some of STV's child forms to him, and sometimes with each other) [bababa] 'food' 4/8/93 age 0;8.21 - 1;0.10 'kissing sound' voiceless [b] 'food' 4/8/93 [ma] 'mama' 4/23/93 [mama] 'milk' 4/26/93 [mUm] 'mama' 5/22/93 [dada] 'dad' 5/22/93 [ha] 'hi' 5/17/93 [baba] 'bye' 5/18/93 [gobaba] 'goin' bye bye' 6/8/93 [boida] [goida] 'good night' 6/9/93 [nana] 'no' 6/13/93 [nana] 'banana' 7/1/93 [mae] 'good' 7/3/93 [*b] 'splashy' 7/26/93 [kaka] 'quack quack' (name for duck) 7/28/93 [Uk] 'yucky' 7/28/93 @c a other adiadi slide adior from Spanish, adios aish, ai, aiX orange ba red badada body lotion bae or baek black bagi bagel, bread bibi slipper Bikiki King Soopers bu blue budleyley doll byebye byebye or telephone byebye bathie bath byegoodbye telephone dada daddy didi train, deer Ebi Fine Park Eben Fine Park gi green giya crayons higher higher building blocks kaboomps fall down, from kaboom kaka car mama milk, mother magigaga milk and cookies mangimangi fire engine Mimi Sabrina, or Brina, the family cat ming swing Minimart Toys R Us Nada Lamb Chop nadi lambie nola granola nula vanilla opa open Tadi STV (name for himself) Tadu Thomas the Tank Engine tuba table Yaya Lara (name for baby sister) SES: At the time of taping, MOT was a linguistics doctoral student at the University of Colorado; FAT held the Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and was a senior instructor in Writing at the University of Colorado. References: Feldman 1998, Menn & Feldman (to appear 2001 in the Journal of Child Language), Feldman (in press), and other work in progress. Contact information: Andrea Feldman, Instructor University Writing Program Campus Box 359 University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309-0359; e-mail: feldman at stripe.colorado.edu; telephone: (303) 492-4396; fax: (303) 492-7877 From macw at cmu.edu Tue Aug 29 19:21:18 2000 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 15:21:18 -0400 Subject: CHILDES WEBSITES In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Annette, The sites should be http://childes.psy.cmu.edu http://atila-www.uia.ac.be/childes/ http://jchat.sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp/CHILDES/ The third site -- the one in Japan -- seems to be off line right now. I will try to see what is happening there. --Brian MacW From sirai at rosetta.sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp Wed Aug 30 00:16:23 2000 From: sirai at rosetta.sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp (Hidetosi SIRAI) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 09:16:23 +0900 Subject: CHILDES WEBSITES In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 29 Aug 2000 15:21:18 -0400. <893152.3176551278@agate.psy.cmu.edu> Message-ID: > http://childes.psy.cmu.edu > http://atila-www.uia.ac.be/childes/ > http://jchat.sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp/CHILDES/ > > The third site -- the one in Japan -- seems to be off line right now. I > will try to see what is happening there. Unfortunately it has a problem --- but it will soon come back, I promise. Hidetosi Sirai at JCHAT From edwards.212 at osu.edu Wed Aug 30 17:10:09 2000 From: edwards.212 at osu.edu (Jan Edwards) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 13:10:09 -0400 Subject: verb acquisition Message-ID: Hi everyone, Can anyone recommend a good article or book chapter that is a summary of current research on verb acquisition in typically developing children? I'd like a new reading for my graduate language acquisition class in this area. Thanks in advance. I'll post the results on this list-server. Yours, Jan Edwards From onos at asu.aasa.ac.jp Wed Aug 30 03:24:39 2000 From: onos at asu.aasa.ac.jp (Seiko Ono) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:24:39 +0900 Subject: DVDCAM Message-ID: 2000-08-30 SUBJECT: DVDCAM ---------- > Dear Seiko and Info-CHILDES, > > The pictures at the Hitachi website for the DVD video camera looked > nice, but I couldn't read the Japanese. Seiko, could you perhaps help us > out by explaining something about the way the Hitachi DVD video camera > works? I am assuming that it writes directly to a 4.7 GB DVD-RAM disk. > Does it write raw or compressed data? I have to assume that it writes in > compressed DVD-type format. Does this mean that it uses MPEG 2 > compression? If I take a DVD produced by this camera can I put it in the > DVD drive of my Macintosh and treat it like data or do I have to treat it > like a DVD movie. If I am forced to treat it like a DVD movie, then I > think this type of camera is a very bad choice for research purposes. The > reason is that it is illegal to decode proprietary DVD formats. This means > that we will probably not be able to link transcripts to DVD video and use > tools like CLAN. This is a problem not just for the DVD video camera, but > more generally. As long as we stick with formats such as QuickTime or > MPEG, we don't have this problem, since those formats are public. It would > be great if you could say that this will not be a problem with the Hitachi > DVD camcorder. > > --Brian MacWhinney Brian, I am not the right person to answer your question. Could someone out there answer Brian's question? Or is the following FYI from Yas sufficient to you, Brian? Bye for now. ---------- SEIKO ONO AICHI SHUKUTOKU UNIVERSITY NAGOYA, JAPAN ?onos at asu.aasa.ac.jp > At 11:19 AM +0900 8/29/00, Seiko Ono wrote: > >> >>HITACHI started to sell DVD video camera and DVD video recorder >>>from August 15, 2000, at least in Japan. >> >>Visit >> http://dvd.hitachi.co.jp/ > > > This English page is probably better for most people. > > http://www.hitachi.co.jp/dvd-ram/eng/top/index.html > > Yas > > > > Yasuhiro Shirai > Associate Professor of Linguistics > Department of Asian Studies > Cornell University > 351 Rockefeller Hall > Ithaca, NY 14853 USA > tel: 607-255-0289, fax: (607) 255-1345 > http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/ys54/ ---------- ??? : "Seiko Ono" ?? : "Info-Childes (E-mail)" CC : onos at asu.aasa.ac.jp ?? : DVDCAM ???? : 2000? 8? 29? (?) 11:19 AM 2000-08-29 SUBJECT: DVDCAM The following is FYI: HITACHI started to sell DVD video camera and DVD video recorder from August 15, 2000, at least in Japan. Visit http://dvd.hitachi.co.jp/ to find the following: DVD video camera?DVDCAM?(DZ-MV100) DVD video recorder (DV-RX2000) The fixed price of DVD video camera?DVDCAM?(DZ-MV100) is about US$2300 in Nagoya. However, the shops in Nagoya offer it for about US$1900. ---------- SEIKO ONO AICHI SHUKUTOKU UNIVERSITY NAGOYA, JAPAN ?onos at asu.aasa.ac.jp ---------- >From: "Dale, Philip S." >To: "Info-Childes (E-mail)" >Subject: equipment recommendations, II >Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 08:33:39 -0500 > > My comments about the greater expense of digital video in the previous > message were too brief to be helpful, and I want to add some additional > information for those who haven't had a chance to look into this new and > appealing technology. Although it is true that digital recorders are more > expensive than analog ($800-1400), there can be considerable savings due to > the fact that there is no need for the equivalent of the VCR deck itself. > Video viewing, editing, and transcribing are done on a PC/Mac, as long as it > is a fairly recent computer, with *plenty* of hard drive space, perhaps a > gigabyte of free hard drive space for a typical video. For longer term > storage of videos, a simple and relatively inexpensive solution is to get a > CD-RW drive and save the video on a CD (blank CD-RWs are quite inexpensive, > in the range of a dollar or two). > > Philip S. Dale, Professor & Chair > Communication Sciences & Disorders > 303 Lewis Hall > University of Missouri-Columbia > Columbia, MO 65211 > voice: (573) 882-1934 > fax: (573) 884-8686 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From onos at asu.aasa.ac.jp Thu Aug 31 02:05:16 2000 From: onos at asu.aasa.ac.jp (Seiko Ono) Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:05:16 +0900 Subject: DVDCAM Message-ID: 2000-08-31 SUBJECT: Re: DVDCAM Dear Brian and Info-CHILDES, > Dear Seiko and Info-CHILDES, > > The pictures at the Hitachi website for the DVD video camera looked > nice, but I couldn't read the Japanese. Seiko, could you perhaps help us > out by explaining something about the way the Hitachi DVD video camera > works? I am assuming that it writes directly to a 4.7 GB DVD-RAM disk. > Does it write raw or compressed data? I have to assume that it writes in > compressed DVD-type format. Does this mean that it uses MPEG 2 > compression? If I take a DVD produced by this camera can I put it in the > DVD drive of my Macintosh and treat it like data or do I have to treat it > like a DVD movie. If I am forced to treat it like a DVD movie, then I > think this type of camera is a very bad choice for research purposes. The > reason is that it is illegal to decode proprietary DVD formats. This means > that we will probably not be able to link transcripts to DVD video and use > tools like CLAN. This is a problem not just for the DVD video camera, but > more generally. As long as we stick with formats such as QuickTime or > MPEG, we don't have this problem, since those formats are public. It would > be great if you could say that this will not be a problem with the Hitachi > DVD camcorder. > > --Brian MacWhinney I am not the right person to answer your question, Brian. Could someone out there answer Brian's question? Or is the following FYI from Yas sufficient for you, Brian? ---------- SEIKO ONO AICHI SHUKUTOKU UNIVERSITY NAGOYA, JAPAN ?onos at asu.aasa.ac.jp > FROM: Yasuhiro Shirai > > At 11:19 AM +0900 8/29/00, Seiko Ono wrote: > >> >>HITACHI started to sell DVD video camera and DVD video recorder >>>from August 15, 2000, at least in Japan. >> >>Visit >> http://dvd.hitachi.co.jp/ > > > This English page is probably better for most people. > > http://www.hitachi.co.jp/dvd-ram/eng/top/index.html > > Yas YES! That is right. Thanks, Yas. > Yasuhiro Shirai > Associate Professor of Linguistics > Department of Asian Studies > Cornell University > 351 Rockefeller Hall > Ithaca, NY 14853 USA > tel: 607-255-0289, fax: (607) 255-1345 > http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/ys54/ > FROM : "Seiko Ono" > SUBJECT : DVDCAM > TO: "Info-Childes (E-mail)" > CC : onos at asu.aasa.ac.jp > > > 2000-08-29 > SUBJECT: DVDCAM > > The following is FYI: > > HITACHI started to sell DVD video camera and DVD video recorder > from August 15, 2000, at least in Japan. > > Visit > http://dvd.hitachi.co.jp/ > > to find the following: > > DVD video camera?DVDCAM?(DZ-MV100) > DVD video recorder (DV-RX2000) > > The fixed price of DVD video camera?DVDCAM?(DZ-MV100) > is about US$2300 in Nagoya. > However, the shops in Nagoya offer it for about US$1900. > > ---------- > SEIKO ONO > AICHI SHUKUTOKU UNIVERSITY > NAGOYA, JAPAN > ?onos at asu.aasa.ac.jp From ys54 at cornell.edu Wed Aug 30 04:05:59 2000 From: ys54 at cornell.edu (Yasuhiro Shirai) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 00:05:59 -0400 Subject: DVDCAM Message-ID: > >HITACHI started to sell DVD video camera and DVD video recorder >>from August 15, 2000, at least in Japan. > >Visit > http://dvd.hitachi.co.jp/ This English page would be probably better for most people. http://www.hitachi.co.jp/dvd-ram/eng/top/index.html Yasuhiro Shirai Associate Professor of Linguistics Department of Asian Studies Cornell University 351 Rockefeller Hall Ithaca, NY 14853 USA tel: 607-255-0289, fax: (607) 255-1345 http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/ys54/ From jonmach at informix.com Thu Aug 31 15:31:20 2000 From: jonmach at informix.com (Jon Machtynger) Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 16:31:20 +0100 Subject: Phonemic symbols Message-ID: All, I am currently building up a table of consonantal and vowel sounds in the British language and am having difficulty finding a font which contains the symbols required. Does anyone have a soft copy of a Word document with a table already contained which I can copy characters from, or a font set with the requisite symbols? Many thanks in advance for any assistance with this. Jon Machtynger - +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Jon Machtynger (jonmach at informix.com) | | Principal Systems Engineer - Web & Media Asset Mgmt | | Informix Software Ltd. | | 6 New Square, Bedfont Lakes, Feltham TW14 8HA, UK | | Ph: +44 (020) 8818 1216 or (07801) 684216 (mobile) | +-----------------------------------------------------------+