From gawron at vonneumann.cog.jhu.edu Mon May 1 15:42:04 2000 From: gawron at vonneumann.cog.jhu.edu (Rachel Gawron) Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 11:42:04 -0400 Subject: No subject Message-ID: Senior Faculty Position: Cognitive Science Department, Johns Hopkins University The Department of Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University is accepting applications from scientists with a demonstrated commitment to the field of cognitive science and a record of major scholarly contributions to the cognitive science of language. The candidate must conduct computational research informed by generative linguistics, addressing problems in human language processing and/or acquisition. It is also desirable for the candidate to hold broad interests in formal approaches to cognitive science, and to conduct experimental research in psycholinguistics and/or neurolinguistics. We seek to make a tenured appointment at the rank of Full Professor, but untenured appointments at the Associate or Assistant Professor level will also be considered. The position will commence on or after January 1, 2001. Please send a CV and representative reprints/preprints to: Search Committee, Department of Cognitive Science, Krieger Hall, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218-2685. Review of applications will begin immediately, and continue until the position is filled. The Johns Hopkins University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. Women and members of underrepresented minorities are especially encouraged to apply. From uccellpa at gse.harvard.edu Mon May 1 15:23:09 2000 From: uccellpa at gse.harvard.edu (uccellpa) Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 11:23:09 -0400 Subject: SPANISH ACQUISITION Message-ID: SPANISH ACQUISITION /ADQUISICION DEL ESPANNOL Text in English Dear colleagues, As part of an ongoing project we are reviewing studies on the acquisition of Spanish. An initial goal of this project is to publish a bibliography on the acquisition of Spanish as a first language up to the year 2000 in the CHILDES/BIB. (A previous bibliography was published by Rodriguez & Berruecos, 1993. The main contribution of our list will be to provide references from the last decade.) If you do research on Spanish acquisition, we would appreciate your help in sending us references of your work (published or unpublished) to insure that the final version of the bibliography is as representative as possible of the work being done in this field. We have already compiled a large list of references up to 1996, but are still looking for studies that: 1a. focus on ORAL language (production and comprehension) acquired by monolingual normally developing children. 1b. were (or will be) produced between 1996 and 2000. We have an additional request related to a specific area of study: LEXICAL DEVELOPMENT. We think that there is more work done in this area than the references we have collected so far. So, we would also need your help with: 2. references to research on LEXICAL DEVELOPMENT produced in the last decade. Please, send your references and any other relevant information to: mshiro at reacciun.ve uccellpa at gse.harvard.edu Thank you very much for your help, Rebeca Barriga-Villanueva Claudia Ordonnez Beatrice Schnell Martha Shiro Catherine Snow Paola Uccelli ------------------------------------- Paola Uccelli Harvard Graduate School of Education 308 Larsen Hall Paola_Uccelli at gse.harvard.edu -------------------------------------- From uccellpa at gse.harvard.edu Mon May 1 15:24:37 2000 From: uccellpa at gse.harvard.edu (uccellpa) Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 11:24:37 -0400 Subject: ADQUISICION DEL ESPANNOL Message-ID: SPANISH ACQUISITION /ADQUISICION DEL ESPANNOL Texto en espannol Queridos colegas: Estamos realizando un proyecto que tiene como meta inicial integrar la bibliografia existente sobre la adquisicion del espannol como lengua materna. Como parte de este proyecto en marcha publicaremos la lista bibliografica en CHILDES/BIB. (Existe ya una valiosa bibliografia publicada por Rodriguez & Berruecos en 1993. Nuestra lista contribuira especialmente con referencias de articulos de la ultima decada). En nuestro esfuerzo por hacer la lista lo mas exhaustiva posible, solicitamos su colaboracion. Si su investigacion abarca aspectos de la adquisicion del espannol, le agradeceriamos enormemente que nos envie referencias de trabajos (publicados o no publicados) para ser annadidos a nuestra lista. Hemos compilado ya una amplia bibliografia que incluye referencias hasta el anno 1996, sin embargo estamos todavia buscando estudios con las siguientes caracteristicas: 1a. que investiguen la adquisicion de la lengua HABLADA (produccion o comprension) en ninnos monolingues hispanohablantes. 1b. que hayan sido producidos entre los annos 1996 y 2000. Tambien nos gustaria solicitar su colaboracion en un area especifica de la adquisicion del espannol: el DESARROLLO LEXICO/SEMANTICO. Creemos que la bibliografia recopilada hasta el momento no refleja de manera exhaustiva el trabajo realizado en esta area, dado que hemos podido identificar un numero escaso de articulos. Por tanto, agradeceriamos su colaboracion al enviarnos tambien: 2. referencias de estudios sobre DESARROLLO LEXICO/SEMANTICO realizados durante esta ultima decada. Por favor, envien sus referencias y cualquier otra informacion relevante a las siguientes direcciones: mshiro at reacciun.ve uccellpa at gse.harvard.edu Gracias por su ayuda. Rebeca Barriga-Villanueva, El Colegio de Mexico Claudia Ordonnez, Harvard University Beatrice Schnell, Harvard University Martha Shiro, Universidad Central de Venezuela Catherine Snow, Harvard University Paola Uccelli, Harvard University ------------------------------------- Paola Uccelli Harvard Graduate School of Education 308 Larsen Hall Paola_Uccelli at gse.harvard.edu -------------------------------------- From DaleP at health.missouri.edu Mon May 1 20:33:37 2000 From: DaleP at health.missouri.edu (Dale, Philip S.) Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 15:33:37 -0500 Subject: telephone bandwidth Message-ID: This is something of a "trivia quiz" question, but the answer would be quite useful to us. It's well known that the telephone system utilizes a narrow frequency bandwidth, an early decision made to maximize the number of conversations that could be carried. But what is the actual cutoff? I - and everyone I've checked with - has the vague memory that it's around 3000-3200 Hz, but no one can find an actual written reference to this. Can anyone help? For extra credit, how do the British and U.S. telephone systems compare in this regard? Many thanks, Philip Dale From DaleP at health.missouri.edu Mon May 1 21:08:53 2000 From: DaleP at health.missouri.edu (Dale, Philip S.) Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 16:08:53 -0500 Subject: telephone bandwidth Message-ID: With many thanks to Jessica Barlow, at San Diego State University: (note that extra credit is still available) ========================================================================== Refer to Denes, P. B., & Pinson, E. N. (1993). The Speech Chain: The Physics and Biology of Spoken Language. (2nd ed.). New York: W H Freeman & Co. p. 194: they state that telephone bandwidth is about 3.2 kHz. I don't have the answer to the extra credit! --JAB ========================================================================== At 03:33 PM 5/1/00 -0500, you wrote: > >This is something of a "trivia quiz" question, but the answer would be quite >useful to us. > >It's well known that the telephone system utilizes a narrow frequency >bandwidth, an early decision made to maximize the number of conversations >that could be carried. But what is the actual cutoff? I - and everyone I've >checked with - has the vague memory that it's around 3000-3200 Hz, but no >one can find an actual written reference to this. Can anyone help? > >For extra credit, how do the British and U.S. telephone systems compare in >this regard? > >Many thanks, >Philip Dale > > > *********************************************************************** Jessica A. Barlow, Ph.D. SDSU/UCSD JDP - Language and Communicative Disorders Dept. Communicative Disorders San Diego State University San Diego, CA 92182-1518 (619) 594-0243 fax: (619) 594-7109 From DaleP at health.missouri.edu Mon May 1 21:31:52 2000 From: DaleP at health.missouri.edu (Dale, Philip S.) Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 16:31:52 -0500 Subject: still more about telephone bandwidth Message-ID: -----Original Message----- From: alleng at pilot.msu.edu [mailto:alleng at pilot.msu.edu] Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 5:28 PM To: Dale, Philip S. Subject: Re: telephone bandwidth The specific cutoffs are 350 to 3500 Hz. FYI, the low end cutoff tells us that the 1st and 2nd harmonics of voiced sounds are not important for pitch detection, and the upper cutoff tells us that /s/ sounds are perceived via coarticulatory cues. George D. Allen Michigan State University College of Nursing A230 Life Sciences Bldg., E. Lansing MI 48824-1317 Voice: (517) 353-5976; Fax: (517) 353-9553 "Life is what happens while you're making other plans." Gamble Rogers From Blazenka.Brozovic at public.srce.hr Wed May 3 20:01:13 2000 From: Blazenka.Brozovic at public.srce.hr (blazenka@public.srce.hr) Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 22:01:13 +0200 Subject: still more about telephone bandwidth Message-ID: The analog telephone systems, bandwidth in Europe was 300 - 3400 Hz, but nowadays all the voice communication is digitized. In Europe, the basic sampling rate is once every 125 microseconds, which is 8000 times per second. According to Information theory, the highest frequency in the spectrum of regenerated signal could be half of the sampling frequency, that is 4kHz. If you are still interested I will look up the references for US and Europe. Branko Sinkovic From ting+ at pitt.edu Thu May 4 14:47:31 2000 From: ting+ at pitt.edu (Rachel Chung) Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 10:47:31 -0400 Subject: form category acquisition in computational models Message-ID: Hi all, Could anyone point me to research that attempts to model form category (e.g., verb, noun, adjective...) acquisition computationally/statistically? -Rachel Chung From rsode at mail.binghamton.edu Fri May 5 14:52:44 2000 From: rsode at mail.binghamton.edu (Rumiko Sode) Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 10:52:44 -0400 Subject: Inquiry lexical vs. functional categories Message-ID: Greetings. Could anyone direct me to recent literature regarding the difference in the order of L1 and/or L2 acquisition of grammatical categories, depending on whether they are functional vs. lexical (as discused in Radford 1990 _Syntactic Theory and the Acquisition of English Syntax_)? Sincerely, Rumiko Sode rsode at binghamton.edu From ting+ at pitt.edu Fri May 5 17:55:27 2000 From: ting+ at pitt.edu (Rachel Chung) Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 13:55:27 -0400 Subject: Summary of references for statistical/computational modeling of form category acquistion Message-ID: Dear CHILDES readers, Many thanks to those who responded to my inquiry about references for statistical/computaitonal modeling of form category acquisition. Here's a summary of the responses I have gotten so far. I will post another summary if I get additional reponses in the next couple of days. -Rachel Chung ============================================================ >From Michael Brent, Mihan Ketrez, Jim Morgan Cartwright and Brent (1997) Syntactic categorization in early language acquisition: Formalizing the role of distributional analysis. Cognition 63, 121-170. --> This article is reprinte in: >From Evan Kidd "Computational approaches to language acquisition"edited by Michael R. Brent. IMPRINT Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press, 1997. COLLATION 199p. : ill. SERIES Cognition special issues. ISN/GOV NO 262522292 (pbk. : alk. paper) LCCN/RID 97011047. NOTE "Reprinted from Cognition: international journal of cognitive science, volume 61, numbers 1-2, 1996"--T.P. verso. >From Mihan Ketrez, Jim Morgan Dr. Toby Mintz at USC Psychology Dept. has studies on statistical/computational learning. His e-mail address is . --> CHILDES readers: Dr. Mintz emailed me a paper under review. See next entry. >From Toby Mintz I'm attaching a postscript file of a paper currently under review: Mintz, Newport & Bever, "The Distributional Structure of Grammatical Categories in Speech to Young Children." --> CHILDES readers: I can forward this attachment upon request. >From David Barner Try doing a search for a researcher named 'Kiss', who to my knowledge had some minor successes with this kind of modeling... >From Jim Morgan Distributional information: A powerful cue for acquiring syntactic categories. Redington,-Martin; Chater,-Nick; Finch,-Steven Cognitive-Science. 1998 Oct-Dec; Vol 22(4): 425-469 Phonological and Acoustic Bases for Earliest Grammatical Category Assignment: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective Shi,-Rushen; Morgan,-James-L.; Allopenna,-Paul Journal-of-Child-Language, 9PL, England (JChL). 1998 Feb, 25:1, 169-201 Perceptual bases of rudimentary grammatical categories: Toward a broader conceptualization of bootstrapping. Morgan,-James-L.; Shi,-Rushen; Allopenna,-Paul Morgan, James L. (Ed); Demuth, Katherine (Ed); et-al. (1996). Signal to syntax: Bootstrapping from speech to grammar in early acquisition. (pp. 263-283). Mahwah, NJ, USA: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc The roles of linguistic input and innate mechanisms in children's acquisition of grammatical categories. Mintz,-Toben-Herbert Dissertation-Abstracts-International:-Section-B:-The-Sciences-and-Engineerin g. 1997 Mar; Vol 57(9-B): 5948 From lsc at th.com.br Fri May 5 09:08:42 2000 From: lsc at th.com.br (Leonor Scliar Cabral) Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 06:08:42 -0300 Subject: experimental psycholinguistics Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, I would appreciate very much if you recommend some recent bibliography on the subject Experimental psycholinguistics Thank you. Prof. Dr. Leonor Scliar-Cabral From Hilkee at lrz.uni-muenchen.de Sat May 6 07:01:34 2000 From: Hilkee at lrz.uni-muenchen.de (Hilke Elsen) Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 09:01:34 +0200 Subject: possession in Turkish Message-ID: Could anybody tell me about research on the acquisition of possession in Turkish? Hilke Elsen From danield at post.tau.ac.il Sat May 6 13:11:53 2000 From: danield at post.tau.ac.il (Daniel Dor) Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 13:11:53 +0000 Subject: mass media and acquisition Message-ID: Dear all, I'm looking for whatever material there is on the influence/non-influence of mass media language on language acquisition. I'm NOT interested in stuff on the relation between exposure to TV and general development, or even linguistic development, but in actual structural influences. For example, when children who speak a certain local dialect of a language are exposed to a lot of TV spoken with the standard phonology, syntax and so on - do they get some of it, at the expense of their local variation? Or, when children are exposed to a lot of hours of another language on TV (in most places that would be global English), do they get any of it? And what does all that do in terms of their linguistic identities? thanks, -- Daniel Dr. Daniel Dor Dept. of Communications Tel Aviv University Ramat Aviv Israel From mminami at sfsu.edu Sun May 7 02:18:25 2000 From: mminami at sfsu.edu (mminami at sfsu.edu) Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 19:18:25 -0700 Subject: My Research on Bilingualism Message-ID: If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area or close to SFSU, please take a look at page 2 of The Golden Gater, Thursday, May 4, 2000. My research on bilingualism, "Holding on to a Native Tongue," is described there. If you do not live close to SFSU, you still have access to the article via the Internet (http://gater.sfsu.edu). Because this article is based on an oral interview, what is described in the article does not necessarily reflect my real intention; yet, I hope you will still find the article interesting. If you are not patient enough to find the site, go to: http://gater.sfsu.edu/issue11_s00/pages/news.html and click "Holding on to a Native Tongue" OR go to the following site directly: http://gater.sfsu.edu/issue11_s00/articles/n8.html Thank you for your attention, and I would like to hear your opinions. Sincerely, Masahiko Minami From gfgb at nutecnet.com.br Sun May 7 02:03:52 2000 From: gfgb at nutecnet.com.br (Giovana Bonilha) Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 19:03:52 -0700 Subject: Phonology course Message-ID: Hi, friends... I am working on a dissertation about Diphthongs acquisition on Brazilian Portuguese. I am going to Los Angeles on July, 21 to pass my vacation. Does anybody know about some course on Phonology, Optimality Theory or Language Acquisition that I could realize at this period near LA? Thank you so much, Giovana Bonilha (UCPel - Brazil) From vhouwer at uia.ua.ac.be Sun May 7 08:19:36 2000 From: vhouwer at uia.ua.ac.be (Annick.DeHouwer) Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 10:19:36 +0200 Subject: mass media and acquisition Message-ID: The issues you raise have been a (side) interest of mine for a while now and I have so far been unable to find any literature that pertains to the issues of variation that you refer to (there is of course the work by Mabel Rice and colleagues on the question whether children CAN learn words from TV, and they can). I am convinced that children can and do learn a lot about language variation from TV. I have observed four-year-olds here in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium, do role playing in a Northern Dutch accent although they'd never been to the Netherlands and had had no exposure to the Northern Dutch variety except through television. Another common observation here in Flanders is that primary school-age children appear to know quite a bit of English, even though they have never been exposed to English except through television and popular music (instruction in English at school only starts when children are 13, 14 years old). I've directed a small (unpublished) research project that looked at what languages are used in children's television programming here in Flanders and the result was that over 50% of all children's television programming is in English with Dutch subtitles. Currently a student of mine is setting up a project to look at the link between young children's TV watching and their knowledge of English. I'm not aware of any other projects investigating these issues for young children, but Margie Berns (Purdue University), Uwe Hasebrink (Hamburg University) and Kees de Bot (Katholic University of Nijmegen) are involved in a large research project with teenagers that partially involves the role of the media on these youngsters' attitudes to English and on identity issues. --Annick De Houwer University of Antwerp, Belgium On Sat, 6 May 2000, Daniel Dor wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm looking for whatever material there is on the > influence/non-influence of mass media language on language acquisition. > I'm NOT interested in stuff on the relation between exposure to TV and > general development, or even linguistic development, but in actual > structural influences. For example, when children who speak a certain > local dialect of a language are exposed to a lot of TV spoken with the > standard phonology, syntax and so on - do they get some of it, at the > expense of their local variation? Or, when children are exposed to a lot > of hours of another language on TV (in most places that would be global > English), do they get any of it? And what does all that do in terms of > their linguistic identities? > > thanks, > > -- Daniel > > Dr. Daniel Dor > Dept. of Communications > Tel Aviv University > Ramat Aviv > Israel > > From piathomsen at language.sdu.dk Mon May 8 09:09:56 2000 From: piathomsen at language.sdu.dk (Pia Thomsen Jensen) Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 11:09:56 +0200 Subject: Twins Message-ID: Dear All, I am currently working on my Ph.D., researching twin language. I am interested in any recent literature on the subject and in current related research. Pia Thomsen Ph. D. student, The Odense Language Acquisition Project. From edilaine at npd.ufpe.br Fri May 5 14:42:40 2000 From: edilaine at npd.ufpe.br (Edilaine Lins Gouveia) Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 11:42:40 -0300 Subject: Development of logical connectives Message-ID: I'm a graduate student at UFPE in Recife, Brazil. I've been collecting longitudinal speech samples of a young child learning Brazilian Portuguese. I'm specially interested in the development of logical connectives (conditionals, negation, disjunction, conjunction, and quantification). Any relevant articles that have traced the development and use of logical vocabulary in children's spontaneous speech will be welcome. Thank you in advance, Edilaine From glg14 at columbia.edu Mon May 8 21:28:24 2000 From: glg14 at columbia.edu (George Louis Ganat) Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 17:28:24 -0400 Subject: mass media and acquisition Message-ID: Forwarded Message: ---------- Return-Path: Received: from mailrelay1.cc.columbia.edu (mailrelay1.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.35.143]) by uhaligani.cc.columbia.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA10265; Sun, 7 May 2000 04:40:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from po5.andrew.cmu.edu (PO5.ANDREW.CMU.EDU [128.2.10.105]) by mailrelay1.cc.columbia.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA24190; Sun, 7 May 2000 04:40:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from childes.psy.cmu.edu (CHILDES.PSY.CMU.EDU [128.2.57.205]) by po5.andrew.cmu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id EAA02511; Sun, 7 May 2000 04:20:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 10:19:36 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: From: "Annick.DeHouwer" Subject: Re: mass media and acquisition To: Daniel Dor Cc: Info-CHILDES Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: Bulk X-Listserver: ListSTAR v1.1 by StarNine Technologies, a Quarterdeck Company Errors-To: info-childes at childes.psy.cmu.edu Sender: "info-childes" The issues you raise have been a (side) interest of mine for a while now and I have so far been unable to find any literature that pertains to the issues of variation that you refer to (there is of course the work by Mabel Rice and colleagues on the question whether children CAN learn words from TV, and they can). I am convinced that children can and do learn a lot about language variation from TV. I have observed four-year-olds here in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium, do role playing in a Northern Dutch accent although they'd never been to the Netherlands and had had no exposure to the Northern Dutch variety except through television. Another common observation here in Flanders is that primary school-age children appear to know quite a bit of English, even though they have never been exposed to English except through television and popular music (instruction in English at school only starts when children are 13, 14 years old). I've directed a small (unpublished) research project that looked at what languages are used in children's television programming here in Flanders and the result was that over 50% of all children's television programming is in English with Dutch subtitles. Currently a student of mine is setting up a project to look at the link between young children's TV watching and their knowledge of English. I'm not aware of any other projects investigating these issues for young children, but Margie Berns (Purdue University), Uwe Hasebrink (Hamburg University) and Kees de Bot (Katholic University of Nijmegen) are involved in a large research project with teenagers that partially involves the role of the media on these youngsters' attitudes to English and on identity issues. --Annick De Houwer University of Antwerp, Belgium On Sat, 6 May 2000, Daniel Dor wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm looking for whatever material there is on the > influence/non-influence of mass media language on language acquisition. > I'm NOT interested in stuff on the relation between exposure to TV and > general development, or even linguistic development, but in actual > structural influences. For example, when children who speak a certain > local dialect of a language are exposed to a lot of TV spoken with the > standard phonology, syntax and so on - do they get some of it, at the > expense of their local variation? Or, when children are exposed to a lot > of hours of another language on TV (in most places that would be global > English), do they get any of it? And what does all that do in terms of > their linguistic identities? > > thanks, > > -- Daniel > > Dr. Daniel Dor > Dept. of Communications > Tel Aviv University > Ramat Aviv > Israel > > From jjipson at cats.UCSC.EDU Mon May 8 22:48:36 2000 From: jjipson at cats.UCSC.EDU (Jennifer Jipson) Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 15:48:36 -0700 Subject: dyslexia and crawling Message-ID: Does anyone know of a connection between motor development (particularly crawling) and dyslexia? I have a friend who is concerned about this and despite many articles on the internet, I can't locate this work in any journals. Thanks! Jennifer Jipson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jennifer Jipson e-mail: jjipson at cats.ucsc.edu Dept. of Psychology phone: (831) 459-4175 University of California fax: (831) 459-3519 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From m.boldingh at let.vu.nl Wed May 10 09:04:39 2000 From: m.boldingh at let.vu.nl (M Boldingh) Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 11:04:39 +0200 Subject: acquisition of Dutch pronouns Message-ID: Does anyone know any literature on the acquisition of personal pronouns by Dutch SLI-children and normal children? Thank you Maartje Boldingh m.boldingh at let.vu.nl From ann at hawaii.edu Wed May 10 02:17:32 2000 From: ann at hawaii.edu (Ann Peters) Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 16:17:32 -1000 Subject: cue competition in Japanese Message-ID: One of my students is interested in cue competition in sentence processing in Japanese. Cues of interest are: argument order, and presence (vs. omission) of case-marking particles. Does anyone know if any work has been done on this topic in Japanese (similar to that in MacWhinney & Bates 1989)? She would be most grateful for any leads. You can reply to me or directly email Masako Izutani, mizutani at hawaii.edu. **************************** Dr. Ann M. Peters, Professor Department of Linguistics University of Hawai`i email: ann at hawaii.edu 1890 East West Road, Rm 569 phone: 808 956-3241 Honolulu, HI 96822 fax: 808 956-9166 http://www2.hawaii.edu/~ann/ From vhouwer at uia.ua.ac.be Wed May 10 12:28:52 2000 From: vhouwer at uia.ua.ac.be (Annick.DeHouwer) Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 14:28:52 +0200 Subject: info-childes (fwd) Message-ID: In the volume 'The Acquisition of Dutch' (editors: Steven Gillis & Annick De Houwer, 1998, John Benjamins) you will find a review of work on Dutch pronoun acquisition in primarily 'normal' children. Bol and Kuiken 1988 (Grammaticale Analyse van Taalontwikkelingsstorrnissen) contains some information on personal pronouns as used by Dutch-speaking SLI children. --A. De Houwer At 11:04 AM 10/5/00 +0200, M Boldingh wrote: >Does anyone know any literature on the acquisition of >personal pronouns by Dutch SLI-children and normal children? > >Thank you > >Maartje Boldingh >m.boldingh at let.vu.nl ............................................................................. Annick De Houwer, PhD Associate Professor and Research Fellow, Science Foundation Flanders PSW-UIA University of Antwerp Universiteitsplein 1 B2610-Antwerpen Belgium tel ++32-3-8202863 fax ++32-3-8202882 vhouwer at uia.ac.be ............................................................................ From yun at asianlan.umass.edu Wed May 10 15:25:15 2000 From: yun at asianlan.umass.edu (Yun Xiao) Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 11:25:15 -0400 Subject: Request for information Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Does anybody have any information about Jill Bell, who documented her Chinese literacy and language development? I would like to know the sources of her work. Thank you very much. Yun Xiao -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From edwards.212 at osu.edu Wed May 10 15:40:01 2000 From: edwards.212 at osu.edu (Jan Edwards) Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 11:40:01 -0400 Subject: language acquisition web sites Message-ID: Hi everyone, Here's a teaching-related question. I'm putting my graduate language acquisition course on Web CT and I'm looking for web site addresses for good web sites related to child language acquisition (very broadly defined, including early cognitive development, chimp talk, infant speech perception, etc.) to include as links. I've found some web sites for reading, but that's about it. If anyone knows of good web sites related to child language acquisition, could you please email me the web site addresses? I'll post a summary on the list-server if people are interested. Thanks in advance. Yours, Jan Edwards From m.perkins at sheffield.ac.uk Wed May 10 20:55:52 2000 From: m.perkins at sheffield.ac.uk (Mick Perkins) Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 21:55:52 +0100 Subject: RA Advertisement Message-ID: RESEARCH ASSOCIATE IN CLINICAL LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD Applications are invited for the above ESRC-funded post which is tenable for 1 year in the first instance, starting from July 2000 (or as soon as possible thereafter), to investigate abnormal vocabulary use in the conversation of young adults with autism. The post involves the development of a lexical coding system for a corpus of autistic conversation, the analysis (and some transcription) of the corpus, and the preparation of the corpus for inclusion in the CHILDES data archive. Applicants should have a good first degree (and preferably a higher degree) in Linguistics, Psycholinguistics or Speech and Language Therapy, and be skilled in the transcription and analysis of spoken language data. Experience in computational corpus linguistics and/or knowledge of autism would be an advantage. * Salary up to GBP16,683 pa * Closing date for applications 30 May 2000 * Reference Number: PRW151 For further details and information on how to apply, go to the following website: http://www.shef.ac.uk/jobs/acadjobs/prw151.html Informal enquiries to: Dr Mick Perkins Department of Human Communication Sciences University of Sheffield Sheffield S10 2TN, UK Tel: +44 (0) 114 222 2408 e-mail: m.perkins at sheffield.ac.uk From m.perkins at sheffield.ac.uk Wed May 10 15:28:50 2000 From: m.perkins at sheffield.ac.uk (Mick Perkins) Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 16:28:50 +0100 Subject: RA Advertisement - please circulate Message-ID: RESEARCH ASSOCIATE IN CLINICAL LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD Applications are invited for the above ESRC-funded post which is tenable for 1 year in the first instance, starting from July 2000 (or as soon as possible thereafter), to investigate abnormal vocabulary use in the conversation of young adults with autism. The post involves the development of a lexical coding system for a corpus of autistic conversation, the analysis (and some transcription) of the corpus, and the preparation of the corpus for inclusion in the CHILDES data archive. Applicants should have a good first degree (and preferably a higher degree) in Linguistics, Psycholinguistics or Speech and Language Therapy, and be skilled in the transcription and analysis of spoken language data. Experience in computational corpus linguistics and/or knowledge of autism would be an advantage. · Salary up to £16,683 pa · Closing date for applications 30 May 2000 · Reference Number: PRW151 For further details and information on how to apply, go to the following website: http://www.shef.ac.uk/jobs/acadjobs/prw151.html Informal enquiries to: Dr Mick Perkins Department of Human Communication Sciences University of Sheffield Sheffield S10 2TN, UK Tel: +44 (0) 114 222 2408 e-mail: m.perkins at sheffield.ac.uk From tenbrink at informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu May 11 10:26:27 2000 From: tenbrink at informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Thora Tenbrink) Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 12:26:27 +0200 Subject: Summary: Maternal input and cognition Message-ID: Apologies for multiple postings. Some time ago, I posted a query concerning the investigation of maternal speech in connection with cognitive development. I wish to thank everybody who supplied me with relevant and helpful information and who indicated their interest. Here's a list of publications relevant to the topic: Flynn, Valerie (1998). Pragmatic Aspects of Mothers' Speech: Consideration of Context, Child Age, Frequency of Utterance, and Attentional Focus. Ph.D Diss., Northern Illinois University, available at www.umi.com Kavanaugh, R.D. (1979). Observations on the role of logically constrained sentences in the comprehension of before and after. Journal of Child Language 6, 353-359 Kearins, J. M (1981) Visual spatial memory in Australian Aboriginal children of desert regions. Cognitive Psychology 13, 434-460 Nelson, K. (1996) Language in Cognitive Development: The Emergence of the Mediated Mind, Cambridge University Press. Regier, Terry (1997) Constraints on the learning of spatial terms: A computational investigation. In Medin, D., Schyns, P., and Goldstone, R., editors, Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Volume 36: Mechanisms of Perceptual Learning. pp. 171-217, San Diego: Academic Press. Rogers, Don. 1978. Information about word-meanings in the speech of parents to young children. In Robin N. Campbell and Philip T. Smith (eds), Recent advances in the psychology of language. Language Development and Mother-Child Interaction. New York: Plenum Press. (pp 187-198) Smiley, P., & Huttenlocher, J. (1995). Conceptual development and the child's early words for events, objects, and persons. In M. Tomasello & E. Merriman (Eds.), Beyond names for things: Young children's acquisition of verbs (pp. 21-62). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Stoel-Gamon, C. & Scliar-Cabral, L. "Emergence of the reportative function in child speech", in G. Nickel (ed.) Proceedings of the 4th AILA World Congress, HochschulVerlag, Stuttgart, 1976: 389-398. Tanz, Christine (1980). Studies in the acquisition of deictic terms. Cambridge University Press. From beice24t at d5.ub.es Thu May 11 10:39:10 2000 From: beice24t at d5.ub.es (Noemi Argerich) Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 11:39:10 +0100 Subject: VOCD Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, Does anyone know how to calculate separate VOCDs of different texts taking together a group of texts in a corpus and not text by text? Thank you, Noemi Argerich Noemi Argerich Universitat de Barcelona Institut de Ciències de l'Educació Passeig de la Vall d'Hebron, 171 08035 Barcelona beice24t at d5.ub.es T: 34 93 403 51 95 From b.j.richards at reading.ac.uk Thu May 11 16:00:32 2000 From: b.j.richards at reading.ac.uk (Brian Richards) Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 17:00:32 +0100 Subject: VOCD Message-ID: Noemi, the +u switch will pool data from different input files. Brian ******************************************* Brian Richards School of Education The University of Reading Bulmershe Court Earley Reading, RG6 1HY, UK ******************************************* On Thu, 11 May 2000, Noemi Argerich wrote: > Dear Info-CHILDES, > > Does anyone know how to calculate separate VOCDs of different texts taking > together a group of texts in a corpus and not text by text? > > Thank you, > Noemi Argerich > > Noemi Argerich > Universitat de Barcelona > Institut de Ci�ncies de l'Educaci� > Passeig de la Vall d'Hebron, 171 > 08035 Barcelona > beice24t at d5.ub.es > T: 34 93 403 51 95 > > > > > > From abiscotti at earthlink.net Thu May 11 15:45:33 2000 From: abiscotti at earthlink.net (Jeffrey Anderson) Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 08:45:33 -0700 Subject: Ah yes, English Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From v.c.gathercole at bangor.ac.uk Thu May 11 14:36:21 2000 From: v.c.gathercole at bangor.ac.uk (Ginny Mueller Gathercole) Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 15:36:21 +0100 Subject: Looking for Jenny Dalalakis Message-ID: Does anyone have an e-mail address or snail mail address for Jenny Dalalakis? I understand that she has left the field, but does anyone know how to get ahold of her? Thanks. Ginny Gathercole Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole, Ph.D. Reader Ysgol Seicoleg School of Pyschology Prifysgol Cymru, Bangor University of Wales, Bangor Adeilad Brigantia The Brigantia Building Ffordd Penrallt Penrallt Road Bangor LL57 2AS Bangor LL57 2AS Cymru Wales | /\ | / \/\ Tel: 44 (0)1248 382624 | /\/ \ \ Fax: 44 (0)1248 382599 | / ======\=\ | B A N G O R From macw at cmu.edu Thu May 11 22:21:45 2000 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 18:21:45 -0400 Subject: VOCD Message-ID: Dear Noemi, Earlier versions of VOCD did not allow for operation on *.cha, but we added that feature about five months ago, so it should work if you get a new copy of CLAN. --Brian MacWhinney From macw at cmu.edu Thu May 11 22:30:31 2000 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 18:30:31 -0400 Subject: Japanese cue competition Message-ID: Dear Ann, Apart from the 1989 paper by Kilborn and Ito in MacWhinney and Bates (1989), there are five papers on Japanese cue competition by Yoshinori Sasaki: Sasaki, J. (1998). ?Processing and learning of Japanese double-object active and causative sentences: An error-feedback paradigm.? Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 27: 453-478. Sasaki, Y. (1991). ?English and Japanese interlanguage comprehension strategies: An analysis based on the Competition Model.? Applied Psycholinguistics 12: 47-73. Sasaki, Y. (1994). ?Paths of processing strategy transfers in learning Japanese and English as foreign languages.? Studies in Second Language Acquisition 16: 43-72. Sasaki, Y. (1997). ?Individual variation in a Japanese sentence comprehension task: Form, functions, and strategies.? Applied Linguistics 18: 508-537. Sasaki, Y. (1997). ?Material and presentation condition effects on sentence interpretation task performance: Methodological examinations of the competition experiment.? Second Language Research 13: 66-91. --Brian MacWhinney From b.j.richards at reading.ac.uk Fri May 12 08:30:44 2000 From: b.j.richards at reading.ac.uk (Brian Richards) Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 09:30:44 +0100 Subject: VOCD Message-ID: Dear Noemi, Brian (MacWhinney) and I interpreted your query differently. I suspect Brian's interpretation was correct. To sum up, if you want separate Ds for multiple files use *.cha. If you need to pool data from more than one file to get a singe D use the +u switch. At present you can process up to 64 files at a time using *.cha. Brian Noemi Argerich wrote: > > Dear Info-CHILDES, > > Does anyone know how to calculate separate VOCDs of different texts taking > together a group of texts in a corpus and not text by text? > > Thank you, > Noemi Argerich > > Noemi Argerich > Universitat de Barcelona > Institut de Ciències de l'Educació > Passeig de la Vall d'Hebron, 171 > 08035 Barcelona > beice24t at d5.ub.es > T: 34 93 403 51 95 -- ****************************** Brian J. Richards School of Education The University of Reading Bulmershe Court Earley Reading, RG6 1HY, UK ****************************** From ddlsi at cunyvm.cuny.edu Mon May 15 15:33:51 2000 From: ddlsi at cunyvm.cuny.edu (David J. Lewkowicz) Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 11:33:51 -0400 Subject: Postdoctoral position Message-ID: Postdoctoral Position at the Institute for Basic Research, Staten Island, NY The development of intersensory perception in human infants Recent Ph.D. is being sought for an NIH-funded project investigating intersensory perceptual development in human infants. The main objective of the project is to investigate temporally based auditory-visual integration at the sensory, perceptual, and cognitive levels. We are seeking a candidate with a background in any area of experimental developmental science, although expertise in infancy is highly desirable. Competitive salary and benefits are offered with the position. The Institute for Basic Research is a State of New York research facility and is located on Staten Island (one of the 5 boroughs of New York City) and is just a ferry ride away from Manhattan. For inquiries please contact Dr. David J. Lewkowicz either by e-mail at ddlsi at cunyvm.cuny.edu or by phone at (718) 494-5302. ______________________________ David J. Lewkowicz, Ph.D. Senior Research Scientist NYS Institute for Basic Research in DD 1050 Forest Hill Rd. Staten Island, N.Y. 10314 http://scholar.library.csi.cuny.edu/users/Lewkowicz/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karin at ruccs.rutgers.edu Mon May 15 15:57:12 2000 From: karin at ruccs.rutgers.edu (Karin Stromswold) Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 11:57:12 -0400 Subject: research assistant position, Rutgers Message-ID: I am looking for a full-time research assistant to assist in NSF-funded studies of normal and abnormal language acquisition and language processing. The RA will be involved in all aspects of studies, including recruiting and testing subjects, designing experimental stimuli, and analyzing data. The position is ideal for someone with a BA or MA in linguistics, cognitive science, or psychology who wants research experimence before pursuing graduate traning. Because of the nature of the work, the research assistant must be a native speaker of English. The salary is very competitive, with excellent benefits. For more information about research If you or someone you know is interested in this position, please contact me by email (karin at ruccs.rutgers.edu), phone (732 445-2448), or regular mail Prof. Karin Stromswold Dept of Psychology & Center for Cognitive Science Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ 08903 fax: 732 445 6715 You can learn more about the research we are doing in the lab at http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/~karin/stromswold.html and linked pages. Best, Karin Stromswold (karin at ruccs.rutgers.edu) From ting+ at pitt.edu Mon May 15 18:30:10 2000 From: ting+ at pitt.edu (Rachel Chung) Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 14:30:10 -0400 Subject: Lexical acquisition in Salish Message-ID: Hi all, The Salishan languages are known to lack distinction between nouns and verbs. I'm interested in whether there's systematic research on the acquisition of lexical items in these languages, particularly, whether their children also display a certain amount of "noun advantage". I don't seem to be able to locate any developmental papers on these languages, so if you know of any I'd really appreciate it if you could point me to them. -Rachel Chung From macw at cmu.edu Mon May 15 22:19:56 2000 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 18:19:56 -0400 Subject: streaming audio and video from CHAT files Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, It is now possible for you to access streaming audio and video over the web by clicking on bullets in CHAT files. This works for both Mac and Windows and the instructions for doing this are at the second and third URL links at http://talkbank.org/ You will need to download new versions of CLAN, QuickTime, and MediaPlayer (for Windows only), as well as the sample files. The process of downloading all of this stuff takes 10 minutes with a fast connection, but can take more time for slower connections. Once you have your system configured, things work remarkably well. However, if you have only modem access, I would only recommend trying audio files. The sample files have been provided by Tim Koschmann, Johannes Wagner, Takeo Ishii, Brian MacWhinney, and the National Archives. If you have files that you wish to place into access in this way, please contact me. I would love to receive your comments about this new way of accessing language sample data. --Brian MacWhinney From ting+ at pitt.edu Tue May 16 10:49:21 2000 From: ting+ at pitt.edu (Rachel Chung) Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 06:49:21 -0400 Subject: Summary of research regarding Salish acquisition Message-ID: Dear Childes readers, I have been fortunate to have heard from several Salish experts in response to my question about Salish acquisition. Salish is interesting because some researchers think it lacks a distinction between verb and noun. I was interested in finding implications about the development of syntactic categories. Unfortunately it seems to be a fact that children no longer learn Salishan languages as L1. Neverthelss, the responses I received have pointers to other potential languages to look at. Dr. Sally Thomason also has a good summary of the current state of affairs of the question about verb/noun distinction in these languages. Below is a summary of the responses I have received. I must thank Drs. David Beck, Clifton Pye, David Ingram, and Sally Thomason for answering my question. - Rachel Chung ======================================================================= >From Clifton Pye: The reason you didn't find any developmental papers on these languages is because there are no longer any children learning these languages. I was unable to find any children learning Salish languages in British Columbia between 1983 and 1985. Perhaps there are a few families teaching the languages to their children since then, but I haven't heard of any. Clifton Pye Linguistics The University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 66045 >From David Ingram: You may wish to contact Cliff Pye at U Kansas (Linguistics) or Henry Davis at the University of British Columbia (Linguistics) who both know about Salish languages and language acquisition. Cliff Pye came to Canada several years ago to study Salish language acquisition, but was unable to find children still acquiring any of the languages. He ended up studying the acquisition of Chilcotin. He did manage to make some tapes of two children learning Thompson but nothing came of it. The unfortunate truth of the matter is that there are no longer children acquiring them as a first language as far as I know. --- David Ingram, Chair Department of Speech and Hearing Science P.O. Box 870102 Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-0102 Voice: 602/965-2905 Fax: 602/965-8516 Email: David.Ingram at asu.edu >From David Beck: Hello. Someone passed on your message to me. Unfortunately, there is very little work done on acquisition in Salishan languages -- you might try writing to Henry Davis at UBC, I think someone there might have done a little. I should warn you though that most people work work on Salishan langauges these days do think there is a distinction between noun and verb. the position that there isn't has never been fuly accepted and is becoming increasingly disfavoured as our notions of what nouns and verbs are becomes more sophisticated. It might also interest you to know that there are other languages where the claim has been made that there are no nouns or verbs, and many of these have living speech communities and so would be more fruitful for research into language acquisition than is Salish (which really has no children learning it as a native language). These languages include Tongan, Tagalog, Munda (aka Mundari) and Tarascan (aka Purepechua). The first two have tens of thousands of speakers. ====================================================================== David Beck Assistant Professor Department of Linguistics University of Alberta 4-45 Assiniboia Hall Edmonton, AB T6G 2E7 office: (780) 492-0807 FAX: (780) 492-0806 e-mail: dbeck at ualberta.ca homepage: http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbeck >From Sally Thomason: References on the debate of whether these languages distinguish noun and verb: AGAINST a noun/verb distinction in Salishan lgs.: M. Dale Kinkade. 1983. Salish evidence against the universality of "noun" and "verb". LINGUA 60:25-39. Eloise Jelinek & Richard Demers. 1994. Predicates and pronominal arguments in Straits Salish. LANGUAGE 70:697-736. FOR a noun/verb distinction in Salishan lgs.: Thom Hess & Jan van Eijk. 1985. Noun and verb in Salishan. Paper presented at the 20th International Conference on Salish and Neighboring Languages, Vancouver, BC, 15-17 August. (This paper presumably appeared in the conference working-papers volume.) Hamida Demirdache & Lisa Matthewson. 1995. On the universality of syntactic categories. In PROCEEDINGS OF THE 25TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NORTH EASTERN LINGUISTIC SOCIETY, pp. 79-93. Amherst: Graduate Linguistics Association of the University of Massachusetts. ...See also Paul D. Kroeber's 1997 article "Relativization in Thompson River Salish (ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS 39:376-422. On p. 379 Kroeber comments that the "for" people `argue -- convincingly to my [= Kroeber's] mind -- that morphological and syntactic differences, though subtler than in European languages, justify distinguishing "noun", "verb", and other lexical classes.' I'm not sure Kroeber is accurately representing the Jelinek & Demers argument, though: as I recall (I'm back in Montana for the summer and don't have the journal at hadn to check), they argue that there is a SYNTACTIC noun/verb distinction, or at least a NP/VP distinction, but maybe no LEXICAL noun/verb distinction. My own view, for what it's worth, is that the syntactic distinction probably exists, but there's still a real question, for some or all Salishan lgs., about a lexical distinction. And even if there is a lexical distinction, it's a LOT weaker than the noun/verb distinction in any other language I've encountered. But I note that your query suggests that you might expect a "noun advantage" in acquisition: that's puzzling, because the whole point about Salishan stems/words is that they can all occur as predicates and can all take elaborate *verbal* morphological apparatus. That is, if any category is actually missing, it's nouns, not verbs. In any case, my colleague asked if I knew of any research on L1 acquisition of any Salishan lg. I don't, unfortunately. It's too late to do any such research now on any of the languages, with the possible exception of one or more of the ones in BC -- Shuswap, Lillooet, Thompson, possibly Bella Coola...I don't actually know the status of the other coastal lgs. (all the ones I just mentioned are interior, except Bella Coola), but I'd be surprised if any children were learning any of them as an L1, and i'm not even sure that any of the four languages I mentioned has that status. So that's what I can tell, you, only about a year later than you needed the information. I'm really sorry. OH: the people most likely to know about possibilities for L1 acquisition research (in existence or in the future) are mostly at UBC -- Henry Davis, Hamida Demirdache (I *think* she's still there), Dale Kinkae (now retired, but still active), and Pat Shaw. Lisa Matthewson isn't at UBC at present -- or, at least, she's been teaching this past year at U Mass, but she's going back to UBC next year, I believe. The only relevant email address I have is Kinkade's: mdkd at interchange.ubc.ca (Davis, Demirdache, Matthewson -- none of them is a member of either the LSA or SSILA, the Native American ling. association). But Dale will probably know, and if not he can put you in touch with people who will surely know. (You can also probably get Davis's email address, at least, from the UBC website.) From pater at linguist.umass.edu Tue May 16 14:18:51 2000 From: pater at linguist.umass.edu (Joe Pater) Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 10:18:51 -0400 Subject: OT acquisition bibliography Message-ID: Dear all, There has been a fair bit of research on acquisition in Optimality Theory, but unfortunately, it seems to be scattered across a variety of journals and conference proceedings (and of course, some of it remains unpublished). To aid in increasing people's awareness of it (including my own), I'd like to compile a bibliography of relevant references. Please send references directly to me, and I will compile them and post the bibliography to the mailing list. Best, Joe Pater. -- Joe Pater, Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics University of Massachusetts, Amherst Amherst, MA 01003-7130, USA tel: (413) 577-1308, fax: (413) 545-2792 From joshua_thompson at juno.com Tue May 16 15:18:25 2000 From: joshua_thompson at juno.com (Joshua Thompson) Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 11:18:25 -0400 Subject: OT acquisition bibliography Message-ID: Joe, Please review your operative definition of Optimality Theory, or remind us of the baseline texts that provide such a definition. ------Original Message------ From: Joe Pater To: info-childes at childes.psy.cmu.edu Sent: May 16, 2000 2:18:51 PM GMT Subject: OT acquisition bibliography Dear all, There has been a fair bit of research on acquisition in Optimality Theory, but unfortunately, it seems to be scattered across a variety of journals and conference proceedings (and of course, some of it remains unpublished). To aid in increasing people's awareness of it (including my own), I'd like to compile a bibliography of relevant references. Please send references directly to me, and I will compile them and post the bibliography to the mailing list. Best, Joe Pater. -- Joe Pater, Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics University of Massachusetts, Amherst Amherst, MA 01003-7130, USA tel: (413) 577-1308, fax: (413) 545-2792 Joshua Thompson Cedar Hill, Texas "where seldom is heard a discouraging word" From pater at linguist.umass.edu Tue May 16 15:35:32 2000 From: pater at linguist.umass.edu (Joe Pater) Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 11:35:32 -0400 Subject: OT acquisition bibliography Message-ID: > Joshua- Optimality theory is a constraint-based approach to generative grammar developed in a still unpublished manuscript by Prince and Smolensky (1993). It is probably the "dominant" approach to phonological theory in North America, and has also been applied to syntax and semantics. Kager (1999) is an excellent introductory textbook that contains some discussion of learnability issues. Best, Joe. Kager, Rene. 1999. Optimality Theory. Cambridge University Press. Prince, Alan, and Paul Smolensky. 1993. Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar. Ms, Rutgers University and University of Colorado. -- Joe Pater, Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics University of Massachusetts, Amherst Amherst, MA 01003-7130, USA tel: (413) 577-1308, fax: (413) 545-2792 From piathomsen at language.sdu.dk Wed May 17 08:22:47 2000 From: piathomsen at language.sdu.dk (Pia Thomsen Jensen) Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 10:22:47 +0200 Subject: Summary of research regarding Twins Message-ID: Dear Childs-readers, I have been fortunate to have heard from several Twins experts in response to my question about Twin Language and language acquisition. Here are some good references for those of you who are in to this subject. Stay in touch, twin people! On the Internet, you can find: Behavioral Genetics at Boulder Colorado has done a number of important twin studies on aspects of literacy and phonological awareness development in dyslexics that have been influential. It's a very stong department and I'll bet they have other studies of language development. Visit their site on http://ibgwww.colorado.edu/ They seem to be at the forefront of methods for twin studies: http://ibgwww.colorado.edu/twins2000/ See also http://www.pitt.edu/~jganger/cv.3.htm and http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena/user/j/g/jganger/Public/ourhome.html Articles: *Bishop, D. V. M., Bishop, S. J., Bright, P., James, C., Delaney, T., & Tallal, P. (1999). Different origin of auditory and phonological processing problems in children with language impairment: evidence from a twin study. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 42, 155-168. Bishop, D.V.M. (1997). Pre- and Perinatal hazards and Family Background in Children with Specific Language Impairments: A study of twins, Brain and Language, 56, 1-26. Bishop, D.V.M., Bishop, S.J. (1998). "Twin Language": A Risk Factor for Language Impairment? Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 41, 150-160. Dodd, B., McEvoy, S. (1994). Twin Language or phonological disorder? Journal of Child Language, 21, 273-289. *Dale, P. S., Simonoff, E., Bishop, D. V., Eley, T. C., Oliver, B., Price, T. S., Purcell, S., Stevenson, J., & Plomin, R. (1998). Genetic influence on language delay in two-year-old children. Nature Neuroscience, 1, 324-8. (RSL OpenShelf Physiol. Per. 5b) Deutsch, W., Wagner, A., Burchardt, R., Schulz, N. & Nakath, J. (1997). Person in the language of singletons, siblings and twins. in S. Levinson & M. bowerman (Eds.), Language acquisition and conceptual development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Malmstrom, P.M., Silva, M.N. (1986). Twin talk: manifestations of twin status in the speech of toddlers, Journal of Child language, 13, 293-304. McMahon, S., Dodd, B. (1997). A comparison of the expressive communication skills of triplet, twin and singleton children, European Journal of disorders of Communication, 32, 328-345. Savic, S. (1980). How Twins Learn to Talk. Academic Press Inc. Zazzo, R. (1960). Les Jumeaux, le couple et la personne. PUF, Paris. Hope that you can use some of this and thank you . Best Pia Thomsen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fipceirj at vc.ehu.es Wed May 17 10:34:36 2000 From: fipceirj at vc.ehu.es (Cenoz Iragui Jasone) Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 12:34:36 +0200 Subject: conference on L3/trilingualism Message-ID: 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THIRD LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND TRILINGUALISM 13-15 September 2001 Venue: Fryske Akademy, Leeuwarden/Ljouwert, The Netherlands CALL FOR PAPERS Organizers welcome papers on psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic and educational aspects of third language acquisition and trilingualism. Please send three hard copies of the abstract (up to 300 words) and one page stating: 1. the title 2. audiovisual/computer requirements 3. for each author: full name and affiliation, address, e-mail address and fax number THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS IS JANUARY 31ST, 2001 PLEASE SEND YOUR ABSTRACT TO: Drs. Danny Beetsma Fryske Akademy PO Box 54 8900 Ab Leeuwarden The Netherlands dbeetsma at fa.knaw.nl Fax: 31-58-2131409 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Danny Beetsma (Fryske Akademy, The Netherlands) Jasone Cenoz (University of the Basque Country, Spain) Britta Hufeisen (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany) Ulrike Jessner (University of Innsbruck, Austria) Jehannes Ytsma (Fryske Akademy, The Netherlands) For further information please visit the conference homepage at: http://www.spz.tu-darmstadt.de/projekt_L3 From spowers at rz.uni-potsdam.de Thu May 18 13:04:26 2000 From: spowers at rz.uni-potsdam.de (Susan M. Powers) Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 15:04:26 +0200 Subject: PHONASCII Copora? Message-ID: Dear All, One of my students wants to use PHONASCII to transcribe some child German. Does anyone know of any existing corpora that have used this system? Thanks, Susan Powers Linguistics Department University of Potsdam From kjalcock at crl.ucsd.edu Fri May 19 14:46:44 2000 From: kjalcock at crl.ucsd.edu (Katie Alcock) Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 15:46:44 +0100 Subject: ISSBD workshop in Kampala Message-ID: THE FIFTH AFRICAN REGIONAL INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF BEHAVIOURAL DEVELOPMENT (ISSBD) WORKSHOP MAKERERE UNIVERSITY, KAMPALA, UGANDA, 25-30th SEPTEMBER, 2000 GENERAL INFORMATION AND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS I would like to invite you warmly to the above named international workshop being organised by the ISSBD in conjunction with Johann Jacobs Foundation (JJF) and IACCP and Makerere University. Background The ISSBD has facilitated the holding of four successful Regional Workshops in Africa. The last one was held in Windhoek, Namibia, May 8-11, 1998. All the previous Regional Workshops have been found valuable to participants. At the evaluation of the Windhoek Workshop, it was resolved that the next Regional Workshop would focus on life course development and application of the cross-cultural methodology. It was proposed to hold this Workshop at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. This focus was suggested because during the Windhoek Regional Workshop, various aspects of social, personality, and cross-cultural research methodologies were not adequately addressed; yet these are essential components of developmental/psychological research investigations. Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda was proposed as the venue for the year 2000 Regional Workshop; it was thought that the East African region be given an opportunity to host the ISSBD African Regional Workshops on a rotational basis. Uganda is a model country in Africa in terms of economic growth. It has modern communication network and the city of Kampala is very peaceful. Uganda has undergone socio-economic and political transformation, the impact of which on human development is significant to the hosting of the Regional Workshop. Recently, there have been political and socio-economic problems in the great lakes region which have had a serious impact on the human development process. However, these problems have not yet been fully discussed. This Workshop would provide an opportunity to do so. It is hoped that the Regional Workshops will lead to an increased understanding of human development and will provide knowledge, skills and materials that will be used in process aimed at improvement of human development. Theme of the workshop The theme of the workshop is "Life course in context: The application of the cross-cultural methodology". Various aspects of social, personality, and cross-cultural research methodologies are not adequately addressed; yet these are essential components of developmental/psychological research investigations. The sub-themes and topics will centre around contexts of development, e.g., family settings and roles, peers, media, school, health, and war-time crises. The main emphasis is on youth, although development throughout the life-span is considered. Social and personality development will be of especial interest. The contexts, demands and challenges differ among cultures and nations and these have different impacts on human life span development. However, other topics on the human life span development are welcome. Where possible, authors will write or deliberate on the topics using a cross-cultural paradigm. There will be a specific workshop on cross-cultural methodology. However, we look forward to competent scientists who can facilitate the methodology workshop. These persons should get in touch with the chair organising committee at once. Further, the International Association for Cross-cultural Psychology (IACCP) through Prof. Segall will hold a symposium on the history of the concept of race in social sciences. Participants Participants will include psychologists, other social scientists and other academicians from all over Africa and beyond. The organising committee has no funds to provide for the transportation of participants from outside Africa. From each African country one participant will be invited. The participants must be paid up members of ISSBD or will be willing to pay $10 US $ at the conference venue to join ISSBD. Student participants will join the ISSBD at a cost of $5 USA. Participants will include junior and senior researchers and academicians, NGO personnel, and others who work with children and youth. Financial support Travel (economy class) by air to and from Kampala for one person from African countries only will be provided plus reasonable accommodation and food for 5 days. Interested persons are encouraged to apply for this support. Selection depends on the quality of the activity the participant wants to do in Kampala, e.g. the quality of the abstract submitted or facilitation of methodology workshop, as judged by the organising committee. For those that will not be supported, there is a variety of accommodation, ranging from hostel type to 5 star hotels. This ranges from 10 US $ to 150 US $ per night, bed and breakfast plus live music in some cases. Those wanting to book should consult the chairperson, organising committee. International conference committee (ISSBD sub-committee) The Executive Committee of the ISSBD has appointed a sub-committee, the role of which is to solicit support and publicise the conference: Prof. Pierre Dasen, Dr. Bame Nsamenang, Prof. Lea Pulkkinen, Prof. Kenneth H. Rubin, and Prof. Robert Serpell. This committee together with the local one are in charge of organising the conference and should be consulted for more information. Local organising committee: The local organising committee for the conference includes the following: Mr. A. Amati (Psychology); Ms. F. Asiimwe (Sociology); Mr. N. Asingwire (Social Work and Social Administration); Dr. P. Baguma (Psychology); Dr. E. Enon (Psychology); Mr. J. Kikoma (Psychology); Mr. L. Matagi (Psychology): Dr J Nambi (Psychology) Prof. J C Munene (Psychology), Mrs M. Muhairwe (Institute of Teacher Education, Kyambogo); Mr. P. Nyende (Psychology); Mr. E Ntare (Institute of Teacher Education, Kyambogo); G. Tukahebwa (Political Science), Prof. J. Opolot (Psychology); and Prof. M H Segall (USA). Conference registration Each participant is expected to pay 10 US $ for the workshop registration. Those interested in participating in this workshop are advised to get in touch with the chair: Organising committee for more information. Conference activities There will be plenary sessions, posters, small groups and an attractive social programme. Abstracts and papers Abstract must be 250-300 words long including name, title, and address of author(s), institution of affiliation of the presenting author. A full paper for each abstract must be deposited with the workshop organisers. Facilities for oral presentations, posters and overhead projection will be available. Please send your abstracts without delay. Participants whose abstracts are selected should be informed by 31st May 2000. Conference papers should be not more than 25 pages, A4 and double spaced and should follow the APA format. All papers should reach the conference organisers not later than 31st July 2000. Conference proceedings will be published and selected papers will be published in the International Journal of Behavioural Development. GENERAL INFORMATION Language The official language of the conference is English Travel to Uganda A number of international airlines fly directly to Entebbe International Airport which is about 40 Km and 45 minutes drive to Kampala city. Entebbe to Kampala costs a maximum of 20 US $. There are airport taxis and major hotel shuttle services. Connections to Entebbe can also be made in London, Brussels, Addis Ababa, Nairobi and Johannesburg. There are no foreign exchange restrictions in Uganda, however, banks require valid documents to cash foreign currency. Insurance It is recommended that all delegates obtain standard comprehensive travel insurance. Passports and Visas Valid passports, entry visas, and vaccination certificates for yellow fever are requires. Inquiries be may be at a Uganda Mission in your country or national ministry of foreign affairs. Organisers can issue a letter of invitation to facilitate visa application, three months before the conference. Weather and clothing Uganda is warm with temperatures ranging between 21 to 24 centigrade. A light jacket is sufficient. More information about hotels Accommodation will be available at 3 types of hotels and Makerere University Guest House. 4 star hotels Single room 75, double 95, lunch 8 and dinner 8 US $ 5 star hotels single room 80, double 100, lunch 12 dinner 12 US $ Makerere University Guest House: Single 37, double 51 lunch or dinner 5 US $ There are a number of other hotels at lower prices Contact address: For more information regarding this workshop, please, contact: Dr. K. P. Baguma (Ph.D.) Chair Organising committee Institute of Psychology, Makerere University PO Box 7062 Kampala, Uganda Tel + 256 41 531908 Office, 543740 Home Fax + 256 41 531061 E-mail: uparipari at Mulib.ac.ug -- Katie Alcock City University From josie.bernicot at mshs.univ-poitiers.fr Mon May 22 16:03:35 2000 From: josie.bernicot at mshs.univ-poitiers.fr (bernicot) Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 18:03:35 +0200 Subject: position for French-speaking people Message-ID: URGENT Poste d’enseignant-chercheur associé à pourvoir au département de psychologie de l’université de Poitiers (France) Nous disposons pour l’année 2000-2001 d’un poste d’enseignant-chercheur associé susceptible d’être vacant (niveau Maître de Conférences ou Professeur). Ce poste doit être pourvu par une personne étrangère francophone, spécialisée en psychologie du développement. Les cours à assurer concernent les premier et second cycles et représentent un total annuel de 192 heures de Travaux Dirigés ou 128 h de Cours Magistraux. Ils seront déterminés en fonction du profil du candidat retenu et des besoins en enseignement. Pour pouvoir postuler, le candidat à ce poste doit au minimum avoir soutenu sa thèse de doctorat en psychologie. Les personnes intéressées doivent envoyer une lettre de motivation avec un C.V. et la liste de leurs travaux, au président de la Commission de Spécialistes du département de psychologie avant le 19 juin 2000. Contacts possibles : Catherine TOURRETTE, Professeur Laboratoire LACO: langage et cognition EP CNRS 1594 MSHS. 99 avenue du recteur Pineau, 86 022 POITIERS cedex tel (33) 05.49.45.46.29 fax (33) 05.49.45.46.16 e-mail : catherine.tourrette at mshs.univ-poitiers.fr Josie BERNICOT, Professeur, Présidente de la Commission de spécialistes Université de Poitiers-CNRS - Département de Psychologie Laboratoire LACO: langage et cognition MSHS. 99 avenue du recteur Pineau, 86 022 POITIERS cedex tel (33) 05.49.45.32.44 fax (33) 05.49.45.46.16 e-mail : josie.bernicot at mshs.univ-poitiers.fr www.mshs.univ-poitiers.fr www.atega.com/pergame From ksatoh at yokohama-cu.ac.jp Tue May 23 03:32:55 2000 From: ksatoh at yokohama-cu.ac.jp (kyoko satoh) Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 12:32:55 +0900 Subject: Frog story research Message-ID: Does anyone know of any "Frog story" research dealing with Japanese subjects? I know Kei Nakamura (1993) 'Referential structure in Japanese children's narrative: the acquisition of wa and ga' Could you give me any information except this one? Thanks in advance. Kyoko Satoh Yokohama City University ksatoh at yokohama-cu.ac.jp From santosma at gse.harvard.edu Tue May 23 03:07:19 2000 From: santosma at gse.harvard.edu (santosma at gse.harvard.edu) Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 23:07:19 -0400 Subject: Notification Message-ID: I will be out of town from 5/23 - 6/1 and will not be responding to email messages during this period. I will, however, answer your email message soon after I return the first week of June. Thank you. Maricel Santos From dorit.ravid at univie.ac.at Tue May 23 21:28:03 2000 From: dorit.ravid at univie.ac.at (Vienna) Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 21:28:03 -0000 Subject: Please post Message-ID: > Dear all, > I'm looking for new work on the acquisition of passive forms. I will summarize > references. > Thanks > Dorit Ravid > (Tel Avivi University, currently at U of Vienna) > dorit.ravid at univie.ac.at > doritr at ccsg.tau.ac.il > > > > > From a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk Wed May 24 16:42:02 2000 From: a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk (Annette Karmiloff-Smith) Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 16:42:02 +0000 Subject: unavailable in London Message-ID: We have drawn a blank on the following chapter, not available in libraries consulted. Can anyone help please with page numbers? Senghas, A., M. Coppola, E.L. Newport, and T. Supalla, "Argument structure in Nicaraguan Sign Language: the emergence of grammatical devices," in E. Hughes, M. Hughes, and A Greenhill, eds., Proceedings of the 21st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, vol. 2, [Š]. Cascadillla Press, 1997. many many thanks, Annette ________________________________________________________________ Professor A.Karmiloff-Smith, FBA, FMedSci, FRSA, MAE, C.Psychol. Head, Neurocognitive Development Unit, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, U.K. tel: 0207 905 2754 fax: 0207 242 7717 http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/units/ncdu/NDU_homepage.htm ________________________________________________________________ From a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk Wed May 24 16:45:50 2000 From: a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk (Annette Karmiloff-Smith) Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 16:45:50 +0000 Subject: missing page nos Message-ID: one more missing ref page nos, not available in consulted libraries in London. Can anyone help please with the page numbers? Bjorklund, D. F., and R. G. Schwartz. "The adaptive nature of developmental immaturity: implications for language acquisition and language disabilities," in M. D. Smith, and J. S. Damico, Childhood Language Disorders, [Š]. Thieme Medical Publishers Inc., 1996. many many thanks, Annette ________________________________________________________________ Professor A.Karmiloff-Smith, FBA, FMedSci, FRSA, MAE, C.Psychol. Head, Neurocognitive Development Unit, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, U.K. tel: 0207 905 2754 fax: 0207 242 7717 http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/units/ncdu/NDU_homepage.htm ________________________________________________________________ From a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk Wed May 24 17:18:40 2000 From: a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk (Annette Karmiloff-Smith) Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 17:18:40 +0000 Subject: missing page nos Message-ID: you are so kind, dunno why I didn't think to look at the author's web page. I was on the medline and psychlit but they don't give page numbers for chapters, and at all our local London libraries in vain. Many many thanks, Annette >Hi, > > > one more missing ref page nos, not available in consulted libraries in > > London. Can anyone help please with the page numbers? > >It's pp 17-40 according to Bjorklund's CV on the web >(http://www.psy.fau.edu/chez/dfb/vita.html) > > > > Bjorklund, D. F., and R. G. Schwartz. "The adaptive nature of developmental > > immaturity: implications for language acquisition and language > > disabilities," in M. D. Smith, and J. S. Damico, Childhood Language > > Disorders, [ä]. Thieme Medical Publishers Inc., 1996. > >Cheers, > > -- Gert > >=================================================================== >Gert Westermann Sony Computer Science Laboratory >gert at csl.sony.fr 6, rue Amyot, 75005 Paris >Phone: +33-(0)1-44-08-05-04 Fax: +33-(0)1-45-87-87-50 >http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~gert >=================================================================== ________________________________________________________________ Professor A.Karmiloff-Smith, FBA, FMedSci, FRSA, MAE, C.Psychol. Head, Neurocognitive Development Unit, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, U.K. tel: 0207 905 2754 fax: 0207 242 7717 http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/units/ncdu/NDU_homepage.htm ________________________________________________________________ From a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk Wed May 24 17:11:40 2000 From: a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk (Annette Karmiloff-Smith) Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 17:11:40 +0000 Subject: unavailable in London Message-ID: thank you so much. Annette >Hello, > >page numbers for the article in 21 BUCLD are 550-561. > >Best wishes, > > >Dr Ludovica Serratrice >Research Associate > >Centre for Educational Needs >School of Education >The University of Manchester >Oxford Road >Manchester M13 9PL >Tel: 0161-275 3405 >Fax: 0161-2753548 ________________________________________________________________ Professor A.Karmiloff-Smith, FBA, FMedSci, FRSA, MAE, C.Psychol. Head, Neurocognitive Development Unit, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, U.K. tel: 0207 905 2754 fax: 0207 242 7717 http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/units/ncdu/NDU_homepage.htm ________________________________________________________________ From a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk Wed May 24 17:42:12 2000 From: a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk (Annette Karmiloff-Smith) Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 17:42:12 +0000 Subject: missing page nos Message-ID: >Dear Annette, > >the pages are 17-40. > >with best regards > >Hermann. many thanks for sending them to me. I now have my list complete. CHILDES is wonderful. Annette >At 16:45 24.05.2000 +0000, you wrote: >>one more missing ref page nos, not available in consulted libraries in >>London. Can anyone help please with the page numbers? >> >>Bjorklund, D. F., and R. G. Schwartz. "The adaptive nature of developmental >>immaturity: implications for language acquisition and language >>disabilities," in M. D. Smith, and J. S. Damico, Childhood Language >>Disorders, [Š]. Thieme Medical Publishers Inc., 1996. >>________________________________________________________________ >>Professor A.Karmiloff-Smith, FBA, FMedSci, FRSA, MAE, C.Psychol. >>Head, Neurocognitive Development Unit, >>Institute of Child Health, >>30 Guilford Street, >>London WC1N 1EH, U.K. >>tel: 0207 905 2754 >>fax: 0207 242 7717 >>http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/units/ncdu/NDU_homepage.htm >>________________________________________________________________ >> >> From M.Saxton at rhbnc.ac.uk Fri May 26 13:43:09 2000 From: M.Saxton at rhbnc.ac.uk (Saxton M) Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 14:43:09 +0100 Subject: Page numbers for Senghas et al. (1997) Message-ID: The page numbers you want are: 550 - 561. Regards, Matthew Saxton. Psychology Department, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 OEX. U.K. Tel: (01784) 443716 Fax: (01784) 434347 E-mail: M.Saxton at rhbnc.ac.uk > -----Original Message----- > From: Info-CHILDES [SMTP:info-childes at childes.psy.cmu.edu] > Sent: 25 May 2000 04:01 > To: Info-CHILDES > Subject: Digest for 5/24/2000 > > -> unavailable in London > by Annette Karmiloff-Smith > -> missing page nos > by Annette Karmiloff-Smith > -> Re: unavailable in London > by Annette Karmiloff-Smith > -> Re:missing page nos > by Annette Karmiloff-Smith > -> Re: missing page nos > by Annette Karmiloff-Smith > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: 24 May 2000 11:47:38 -0400 > From: Annette Karmiloff-Smith > Subject: unavailable in London > > We have drawn a blank on the following chapter, not available in libraries > consulted. Can anyone help please with page numbers? > > Senghas, A., M. Coppola, E.L. Newport, and T. Supalla, "Argument structure > in Nicaraguan Sign Language: the emergence of grammatical devices," in E. > Hughes, M. Hughes, and A Greenhill, eds., Proceedings of the 21st Annual > Boston University Conference on Language Development, vol. 2, [a]. > Cascadillla Press, 1997. > > many many thanks, > Annette > > ________________________________________________________________ > Professor A.Karmiloff-Smith, FBA, FMedSci, FRSA, MAE, C.Psychol. > Head, Neurocognitive Development Unit, > Institute of Child Health, > 30 Guilford Street, > London WC1N 1EH, U.K. > tel: 0207 905 2754 > fax: 0207 242 7717 > http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/units/ncdu/NDU_homepage.htm > ________________________________________________________________ > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: 24 May 2000 11:52:11 -0400 > From: Annette Karmiloff-Smith > Subject: missing page nos > > one more missing ref page nos, not available in consulted libraries in > London. Can anyone help please with the page numbers? > > Bjorklund, D. F., and R. G. Schwartz. "The adaptive nature of > developmental > immaturity: implications for language acquisition and language > disabilities," in M. D. Smith, and J. S. Damico, Childhood Language > Disorders, [a]. Thieme Medical Publishers Inc., 1996. > > many many thanks, > Annette > > ________________________________________________________________ > Professor A.Karmiloff-Smith, FBA, FMedSci, FRSA, MAE, C.Psychol. > Head, Neurocognitive Development Unit, > Institute of Child Health, > 30 Guilford Street, > London WC1N 1EH, U.K. > tel: 0207 905 2754 > fax: 0207 242 7717 > http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/units/ncdu/NDU_homepage.htm > ________________________________________________________________ > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: 24 May 2000 12:17:08 -0400 > From: Annette Karmiloff-Smith > Subject: Re: unavailable in London > > thank you so much. > Annette > > >Hello, > > > >page numbers for the article in 21 BUCLD are 550-561. > > > >Best wishes, > > > > > >Dr Ludovica Serratrice > >Research Associate > > > >Centre for Educational Needs > >School of Education > >The University of Manchester > >Oxford Road > >Manchester M13 9PL > >Tel: 0161-275 3405 > >Fax: 0161-2753548 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Professor A.Karmiloff-Smith, FBA, FMedSci, FRSA, MAE, C.Psychol. > Head, Neurocognitive Development Unit, > Institute of Child Health, > 30 Guilford Street, > London WC1N 1EH, U.K. > tel: 0207 905 2754 > fax: 0207 242 7717 > http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/units/ncdu/NDU_homepage.htm > ________________________________________________________________ > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: 24 May 2000 12:24:03 -0400 > From: Annette Karmiloff-Smith > Subject: Re:missing page nos > > you are so kind, dunno why I didn't think to look at the author's web > page. > I was on the medline and psychlit but they don't give page numbers for > chapters, and at all our local London libraries in vain. > Many many thanks, > Annette > > >Hi, > > > > > one more missing ref page nos, not available in consulted libraries in > > > London. Can anyone help please with the page numbers? > > > >It's pp 17-40 according to Bjorklund's CV on the web > >(http://www.psy.fau.edu/chez/dfb/vita.html) > > > > > > > Bjorklund, D. F., and R. G. Schwartz. "The adaptive nature of > developmental > > > immaturity: implications for language acquisition and language > > > disabilities," in M. D. Smith, and J. S. Damico, Childhood Language > > > Disorders, [a]. Thieme Medical Publishers Inc., 1996. > > > >Cheers, > > > > -- Gert > > > >=================================================================== > >Gert Westermann Sony Computer Science Laboratory > >gert at csl.sony.fr 6, rue Amyot, 75005 Paris > >Phone: +33-(0)1-44-08-05-04 Fax: +33-(0)1-45-87-87-50 > >http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~gert > >=================================================================== > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Professor A.Karmiloff-Smith, FBA, FMedSci, FRSA, MAE, C.Psychol. > Head, Neurocognitive Development Unit, > Institute of Child Health, > 30 Guilford Street, > London WC1N 1EH, U.K. > tel: 0207 905 2754 > fax: 0207 242 7717 > http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/units/ncdu/NDU_homepage.htm > ________________________________________________________________ > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: 24 May 2000 13:08:37 -0400 > From: Annette Karmiloff-Smith > Subject: Re: missing page nos > > >Dear Annette, > > > >the pages are 17-40. > > > >with best regards > > > >Hermann. > > many thanks for sending them to me. > I now have my list complete. CHILDES is wonderful. > Annette > > >At 16:45 24.05.2000 +0000, you wrote: > >>one more missing ref page nos, not available in consulted libraries in > >>London. Can anyone help please with the page numbers? > >> > >>Bjorklund, D. F., and R. G. Schwartz. "The adaptive nature of > developmental > >>immaturity: implications for language acquisition and language > >>disabilities," in M. D. Smith, and J. S. Damico, Childhood Language > >>Disorders, [a]. Thieme Medical Publishers Inc., 1996. > >>________________________________________________________________ > >>Professor A.Karmiloff-Smith, FBA, FMedSci, FRSA, MAE, C.Psychol. > >>Head, Neurocognitive Development Unit, > >>Institute of Child Health, > >>30 Guilford Street, > >>London WC1N 1EH, U.K. > >>tel: 0207 905 2754 > >>fax: 0207 242 7717 > >>http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/units/ncdu/NDU_homepage.htm > >>________________________________________________________________ > >> > >> > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > End of Digest > > To request a copy of the help file, reply to this message and put "help" > in > the subject. From hmarcos at magic.fr Sun May 28 15:50:43 2000 From: hmarcos at magic.fr (Hayd=?ISO-8859-1?B?6Q==?=e Marcos) Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 17:50:43 +0200 Subject: First Language 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: Special Issue of FIRST LANGUAGE : 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS: Guest Editor: Haydee Marcos, Universite de Poitiers Theme: Early pragmatic development: Uses of gestures and language in young children Early pragmatic skills are fundamental to the development of communication. There is a growing interest among child language researchers in the relationships between function and form, between social and linguistic skills, and in children's and caregivers' uses of extralinguistic cues. Papers that present theory and data concerning pragmatic development in children aged approximately one to three years will be of interest for this Special Issue. Possible topics include (but are not restricted to): * The development of different types of communicative functions. * Variations in the form of messages according to their function and to the communicative context * Production and comprehension of pragmatic cues * Conversational skills : turn-taking, discourse cohesion, conversation repairs, explanations and justifications. * The relationships between structural and pragmatic development. * The role of communicative experiences in early pragmatic development * Transmission of pragmatic rules by caretakers in different cultures * Interactive and conversational contexts (adults and peers, dyadic and polyadic situations, home and day care or nursery school) * Individual differences * Children with language delays and disorders Deadline for submissions: 31 August 2000 Submissions and enquiries should be addressed to: Haydee Marcos. Laboratoire Langage et Cognition. Universite de Poitiers.CNRS. 99, Avenue de Recteur Pineau. 86022 Poitiers. France email: hmarcos at magic.fr From marten.eriksson at psyk.uu.se Mon May 29 08:23:37 2000 From: marten.eriksson at psyk.uu.se (=?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5rten?= Eriksson) Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 10:23:37 +0200 Subject: videoconferences Message-ID: >Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 09:04:49 +0200 >From: eva.berglund at adm.uas.lul.se >Subject: videoconferences >To: marten.eriksson at psyk.uu.se >X-Mailer: TFS Secure Messaging /320000000/450000076/450270026/450370026/ >X-Mailer: Version 4.52 Build 135 > >Dear Info-childes members, > >Do you have experience in using videoconferences for lectures and >international projects? In medicine there are such conferences at a regular >basis, i.e. Euro-Trans-med. would it be possible to try this technique, to further >improve the communication within our network? > >Eva Berglund > >Uppsala, Sweden > >Attachment Converted: "C:\PROGRAM\EUDORA\Attach\ALTERNATIVE51.htm" > From anne.kolatsis at mailbox.uq.edu.au Tue May 30 01:44:11 2000 From: anne.kolatsis at mailbox.uq.edu.au (Anne Kolatsis) Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 11:44:11 +1000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: I am working with the New England database and am interested to know how others have dealt with time and activity deliminators. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to work with individual activities inside transcripts. How to work with calculating time elapsed for individual activities and/or whole transcripts? Any suggestions will be much appreciated **************************************** Anne Kolatsis The Graduate School of Education The University of Queensland St Lucia, 4072 Queensland AUSTRALIA ph: +6 (7)3365 6395 fax:+6 (7)3365 7199 e-mail: anne.kolatsis at mailbox.uq.edu.au **************************************** From m.perkins at sheffield.ac.uk Tue May 30 09:08:46 2000 From: m.perkins at sheffield.ac.uk (Mick Perkins) Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 10:08:46 +0100 Subject: Reference query Message-ID: The following reference appears in the CHILDES bibliography, but with no information on the journal/book in which it was published: Chaban, P. (1996). "Understanding language dysfunction from a developmental perspective: An overview of pragmatic theories." . Does anyone have any further information? Thanks in advance. Mick Perkins Department of Human Communication Sciences University of Sheffield Sheffield S10 2TN UK Tel: (+44) (0)114 2222408 Fax: (+44) (0)114 2730547 http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/R-Z/spsu/staff/mick.html From lsc at th.com.br Tue May 30 00:44:24 2000 From: lsc at th.com.br (Leonor Scliar Cabral) Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 21:44:24 -0300 Subject: Hyperonyms Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Can anybody help me with some bibliographic references about processing HYPERONYMS? Thank you, Leonnor Scliar-Cabral From lsc at th.com.br Tue May 30 00:55:56 2000 From: lsc at th.com.br (Leonor Scliar Cabral) Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 21:55:56 -0300 Subject: ExpPsycholinguistics Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, I want to acknowledge those who sent me bibliographic references on the subject Experimental Psycholinguistics. Berko Gleason, Jean and Bernstein Ratner, Nan (1999) Psycholinguistics, 2nd ed.Harcoourt College Publ. Other contributions are attached. Thank you, Leonor Scliar-Cabral -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- Dear Leonor Scliar-Cabral: you might look at some of the entries in the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics (cf. The Mental Lexicon [William Marslen-Wilson], Comprehension [Michael Tannenhaus], Production [Herbert H. Clark], General Overview of Psycholinguistics [Willem Levelt]). I don't know of any good recent textbook, but there is probably a chapter on experimental methods in psycholinguistics in M. A. Gernsbacher (Ed.), Handbook of Psycholinguistics. Hope this helps, Eve Clark -------------- next part -------------- From: "Rosangela Gabriel" Organization: Experimental Psychology, Oxford, UK *** Books ALTMANN, G. T. M. The Ascent of Babel: an exploration of language, mind, and understanding. Oxford: University Press, 1999. GLEITMAN, L. R. & LIBERMAN, M. Language: an invitation to Cognitive Science, v. 1. London: The MIT Press, 1995. FLETCHER, P. & MACWHINNEY, B. The handbook of child language. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995. ELMAN, J., BATES, E. A. JOHNSON, M. H., KARMILOFF-SMITH, A., PARISI, D. & PLUNKETT, K. Rethinking innateness: a connectionist perspective on development. London: The MIT Press, 1998. JUSCKYK, P.W. The discovery of spoken language. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1998. KUHN, D. & SIEGLER, R. S. Handbook of child psychology, vol. 2: Cognition, perception & language. New York: Wiley, c1998. PINKER, S. The language instinct. London: Penguin Books, 1994. PINKER, S. Words and rules: the ingredients of language. New York: Basicbooks, 1999. *** Journals Journal of child language Language and Cognitive Processes Mind and language Cognition Language ****************************** From lsc at th.com.br Tue May 30 00:51:13 2000 From: lsc at th.com.br (Leonor Scliar Cabral) Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 21:51:13 -0300 Subject: Exp.Psycholinguistics Message-ID: Leonor Scliar Cabral wrote: > Part 1.1.1 Type: Plain Text (text/plain) > Encoding: 7bit > > Name: AnpollPsiExpEveClark.txt > AnpollPsiExpEveClark.txt Type: Plain Text (text/plain) > Encoding: 7bit > > Name: AnpollPsiExpRosângela.txt > AnpollPsiExpRosângela.txt Type: Plain Text (text/plain) > Encoding: 7bit From snowcat at gse.harvard.edu Tue May 30 18:01:05 2000 From: snowcat at gse.harvard.edu (Catherine Snow) Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 14:01:05 -0400 Subject: -- No Subject -- Message-ID: Anne, it may not be necessary to pay any attention to the time and activity indicators. They are in the transcripts because, in the original analyses we did, we wanted to establish a ten-minute time basis for purposes of comparing children on number of communicative acts and on numbers of various speech acts produced, as well as using the 10-mins as a basis for counting words, different words, and so on. But many analysts prefer to take measures of child ability as a ratio to total utterances, which is also fine. Similarly, the activity deliminators are there so that individual analyses can focus on or exclude specific activities. Some analyses may function better, for example, if book-reading is excluded, or if all the children are compared on peek-a-boo. But those would be rather specialized analyses designed around specific questions, and for many purposes you could just ignore the indicators totally. I hope this helps, Catherine On Tue, 30 May 2000 11:44:11 +1000 Anne Kolatsis wrote: > I am working with the New England database and am interested to know how > others have dealt with time and activity deliminators. > > Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to work with individual > activities inside transcripts. > > How to work with calculating time elapsed for individual activities and/or > whole transcripts? > > Any suggestions will be much appreciated > **************************************** > Anne Kolatsis > The Graduate School of Education > The University of Queensland > St Lucia, 4072 Queensland > AUSTRALIA > ph: +6 (7)3365 6395 > fax:+6 (7)3365 7199 > e-mail: anne.kolatsis at mailbox.uq.edu.au > **************************************** > > > ---------------------------------------- Catherine Snow Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Education Harvard Graduate School of Education Larsen 3 Cambridge, MA 02138 tel: 617 - 495 3563 fax: 617 - 495 5771 New email address: Snowcat at gse.harvard.edu or: Catherine_Snow at harvard.edu From gawron at vonneumann.cog.jhu.edu Mon May 1 15:42:04 2000 From: gawron at vonneumann.cog.jhu.edu (Rachel Gawron) Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 11:42:04 -0400 Subject: No subject Message-ID: Senior Faculty Position: Cognitive Science Department, Johns Hopkins University The Department of Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University is accepting applications from scientists with a demonstrated commitment to the field of cognitive science and a record of major scholarly contributions to the cognitive science of language. The candidate must conduct computational research informed by generative linguistics, addressing problems in human language processing and/or acquisition. It is also desirable for the candidate to hold broad interests in formal approaches to cognitive science, and to conduct experimental research in psycholinguistics and/or neurolinguistics. We seek to make a tenured appointment at the rank of Full Professor, but untenured appointments at the Associate or Assistant Professor level will also be considered. The position will commence on or after January 1, 2001. Please send a CV and representative reprints/preprints to: Search Committee, Department of Cognitive Science, Krieger Hall, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218-2685. Review of applications will begin immediately, and continue until the position is filled. The Johns Hopkins University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. Women and members of underrepresented minorities are especially encouraged to apply. From uccellpa at gse.harvard.edu Mon May 1 15:23:09 2000 From: uccellpa at gse.harvard.edu (uccellpa) Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 11:23:09 -0400 Subject: SPANISH ACQUISITION Message-ID: SPANISH ACQUISITION /ADQUISICION DEL ESPANNOL Text in English Dear colleagues, As part of an ongoing project we are reviewing studies on the acquisition of Spanish. An initial goal of this project is to publish a bibliography on the acquisition of Spanish as a first language up to the year 2000 in the CHILDES/BIB. (A previous bibliography was published by Rodriguez & Berruecos, 1993. The main contribution of our list will be to provide references from the last decade.) If you do research on Spanish acquisition, we would appreciate your help in sending us references of your work (published or unpublished) to insure that the final version of the bibliography is as representative as possible of the work being done in this field. We have already compiled a large list of references up to 1996, but are still looking for studies that: 1a. focus on ORAL language (production and comprehension) acquired by monolingual normally developing children. 1b. were (or will be) produced between 1996 and 2000. We have an additional request related to a specific area of study: LEXICAL DEVELOPMENT. We think that there is more work done in this area than the references we have collected so far. So, we would also need your help with: 2. references to research on LEXICAL DEVELOPMENT produced in the last decade. Please, send your references and any other relevant information to: mshiro at reacciun.ve uccellpa at gse.harvard.edu Thank you very much for your help, Rebeca Barriga-Villanueva Claudia Ordonnez Beatrice Schnell Martha Shiro Catherine Snow Paola Uccelli ------------------------------------- Paola Uccelli Harvard Graduate School of Education 308 Larsen Hall Paola_Uccelli at gse.harvard.edu -------------------------------------- From uccellpa at gse.harvard.edu Mon May 1 15:24:37 2000 From: uccellpa at gse.harvard.edu (uccellpa) Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 11:24:37 -0400 Subject: ADQUISICION DEL ESPANNOL Message-ID: SPANISH ACQUISITION /ADQUISICION DEL ESPANNOL Texto en espannol Queridos colegas: Estamos realizando un proyecto que tiene como meta inicial integrar la bibliografia existente sobre la adquisicion del espannol como lengua materna. Como parte de este proyecto en marcha publicaremos la lista bibliografica en CHILDES/BIB. (Existe ya una valiosa bibliografia publicada por Rodriguez & Berruecos en 1993. Nuestra lista contribuira especialmente con referencias de articulos de la ultima decada). En nuestro esfuerzo por hacer la lista lo mas exhaustiva posible, solicitamos su colaboracion. Si su investigacion abarca aspectos de la adquisicion del espannol, le agradeceriamos enormemente que nos envie referencias de trabajos (publicados o no publicados) para ser annadidos a nuestra lista. Hemos compilado ya una amplia bibliografia que incluye referencias hasta el anno 1996, sin embargo estamos todavia buscando estudios con las siguientes caracteristicas: 1a. que investiguen la adquisicion de la lengua HABLADA (produccion o comprension) en ninnos monolingues hispanohablantes. 1b. que hayan sido producidos entre los annos 1996 y 2000. Tambien nos gustaria solicitar su colaboracion en un area especifica de la adquisicion del espannol: el DESARROLLO LEXICO/SEMANTICO. Creemos que la bibliografia recopilada hasta el momento no refleja de manera exhaustiva el trabajo realizado en esta area, dado que hemos podido identificar un numero escaso de articulos. Por tanto, agradeceriamos su colaboracion al enviarnos tambien: 2. referencias de estudios sobre DESARROLLO LEXICO/SEMANTICO realizados durante esta ultima decada. Por favor, envien sus referencias y cualquier otra informacion relevante a las siguientes direcciones: mshiro at reacciun.ve uccellpa at gse.harvard.edu Gracias por su ayuda. Rebeca Barriga-Villanueva, El Colegio de Mexico Claudia Ordonnez, Harvard University Beatrice Schnell, Harvard University Martha Shiro, Universidad Central de Venezuela Catherine Snow, Harvard University Paola Uccelli, Harvard University ------------------------------------- Paola Uccelli Harvard Graduate School of Education 308 Larsen Hall Paola_Uccelli at gse.harvard.edu -------------------------------------- From DaleP at health.missouri.edu Mon May 1 20:33:37 2000 From: DaleP at health.missouri.edu (Dale, Philip S.) Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 15:33:37 -0500 Subject: telephone bandwidth Message-ID: This is something of a "trivia quiz" question, but the answer would be quite useful to us. It's well known that the telephone system utilizes a narrow frequency bandwidth, an early decision made to maximize the number of conversations that could be carried. But what is the actual cutoff? I - and everyone I've checked with - has the vague memory that it's around 3000-3200 Hz, but no one can find an actual written reference to this. Can anyone help? For extra credit, how do the British and U.S. telephone systems compare in this regard? Many thanks, Philip Dale From DaleP at health.missouri.edu Mon May 1 21:08:53 2000 From: DaleP at health.missouri.edu (Dale, Philip S.) Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 16:08:53 -0500 Subject: telephone bandwidth Message-ID: With many thanks to Jessica Barlow, at San Diego State University: (note that extra credit is still available) ========================================================================== Refer to Denes, P. B., & Pinson, E. N. (1993). The Speech Chain: The Physics and Biology of Spoken Language. (2nd ed.). New York: W H Freeman & Co. p. 194: they state that telephone bandwidth is about 3.2 kHz. I don't have the answer to the extra credit! --JAB ========================================================================== At 03:33 PM 5/1/00 -0500, you wrote: > >This is something of a "trivia quiz" question, but the answer would be quite >useful to us. > >It's well known that the telephone system utilizes a narrow frequency >bandwidth, an early decision made to maximize the number of conversations >that could be carried. But what is the actual cutoff? I - and everyone I've >checked with - has the vague memory that it's around 3000-3200 Hz, but no >one can find an actual written reference to this. Can anyone help? > >For extra credit, how do the British and U.S. telephone systems compare in >this regard? > >Many thanks, >Philip Dale > > > *********************************************************************** Jessica A. Barlow, Ph.D. SDSU/UCSD JDP - Language and Communicative Disorders Dept. Communicative Disorders San Diego State University San Diego, CA 92182-1518 (619) 594-0243 fax: (619) 594-7109 From DaleP at health.missouri.edu Mon May 1 21:31:52 2000 From: DaleP at health.missouri.edu (Dale, Philip S.) Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 16:31:52 -0500 Subject: still more about telephone bandwidth Message-ID: -----Original Message----- From: alleng at pilot.msu.edu [mailto:alleng at pilot.msu.edu] Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 5:28 PM To: Dale, Philip S. Subject: Re: telephone bandwidth The specific cutoffs are 350 to 3500 Hz. FYI, the low end cutoff tells us that the 1st and 2nd harmonics of voiced sounds are not important for pitch detection, and the upper cutoff tells us that /s/ sounds are perceived via coarticulatory cues. George D. Allen Michigan State University College of Nursing A230 Life Sciences Bldg., E. Lansing MI 48824-1317 Voice: (517) 353-5976; Fax: (517) 353-9553 "Life is what happens while you're making other plans." Gamble Rogers From Blazenka.Brozovic at public.srce.hr Wed May 3 20:01:13 2000 From: Blazenka.Brozovic at public.srce.hr (blazenka@public.srce.hr) Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 22:01:13 +0200 Subject: still more about telephone bandwidth Message-ID: The analog telephone systems, bandwidth in Europe was 300 - 3400 Hz, but nowadays all the voice communication is digitized. In Europe, the basic sampling rate is once every 125 microseconds, which is 8000 times per second. According to Information theory, the highest frequency in the spectrum of regenerated signal could be half of the sampling frequency, that is 4kHz. If you are still interested I will look up the references for US and Europe. Branko Sinkovic From ting+ at pitt.edu Thu May 4 14:47:31 2000 From: ting+ at pitt.edu (Rachel Chung) Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 10:47:31 -0400 Subject: form category acquisition in computational models Message-ID: Hi all, Could anyone point me to research that attempts to model form category (e.g., verb, noun, adjective...) acquisition computationally/statistically? -Rachel Chung From rsode at mail.binghamton.edu Fri May 5 14:52:44 2000 From: rsode at mail.binghamton.edu (Rumiko Sode) Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 10:52:44 -0400 Subject: Inquiry lexical vs. functional categories Message-ID: Greetings. Could anyone direct me to recent literature regarding the difference in the order of L1 and/or L2 acquisition of grammatical categories, depending on whether they are functional vs. lexical (as discused in Radford 1990 _Syntactic Theory and the Acquisition of English Syntax_)? Sincerely, Rumiko Sode rsode at binghamton.edu From ting+ at pitt.edu Fri May 5 17:55:27 2000 From: ting+ at pitt.edu (Rachel Chung) Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 13:55:27 -0400 Subject: Summary of references for statistical/computational modeling of form category acquistion Message-ID: Dear CHILDES readers, Many thanks to those who responded to my inquiry about references for statistical/computaitonal modeling of form category acquisition. Here's a summary of the responses I have gotten so far. I will post another summary if I get additional reponses in the next couple of days. -Rachel Chung ============================================================ >From Michael Brent, Mihan Ketrez, Jim Morgan Cartwright and Brent (1997) Syntactic categorization in early language acquisition: Formalizing the role of distributional analysis. Cognition 63, 121-170. --> This article is reprinte in: >From Evan Kidd "Computational approaches to language acquisition"edited by Michael R. Brent. IMPRINT Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press, 1997. COLLATION 199p. : ill. SERIES Cognition special issues. ISN/GOV NO 262522292 (pbk. : alk. paper) LCCN/RID 97011047. NOTE "Reprinted from Cognition: international journal of cognitive science, volume 61, numbers 1-2, 1996"--T.P. verso. >From Mihan Ketrez, Jim Morgan Dr. Toby Mintz at USC Psychology Dept. has studies on statistical/computational learning. His e-mail address is . --> CHILDES readers: Dr. Mintz emailed me a paper under review. See next entry. >From Toby Mintz I'm attaching a postscript file of a paper currently under review: Mintz, Newport & Bever, "The Distributional Structure of Grammatical Categories in Speech to Young Children." --> CHILDES readers: I can forward this attachment upon request. >From David Barner Try doing a search for a researcher named 'Kiss', who to my knowledge had some minor successes with this kind of modeling... >From Jim Morgan Distributional information: A powerful cue for acquiring syntactic categories. Redington,-Martin; Chater,-Nick; Finch,-Steven Cognitive-Science. 1998 Oct-Dec; Vol 22(4): 425-469 Phonological and Acoustic Bases for Earliest Grammatical Category Assignment: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective Shi,-Rushen; Morgan,-James-L.; Allopenna,-Paul Journal-of-Child-Language, 9PL, England (JChL). 1998 Feb, 25:1, 169-201 Perceptual bases of rudimentary grammatical categories: Toward a broader conceptualization of bootstrapping. Morgan,-James-L.; Shi,-Rushen; Allopenna,-Paul Morgan, James L. (Ed); Demuth, Katherine (Ed); et-al. (1996). Signal to syntax: Bootstrapping from speech to grammar in early acquisition. (pp. 263-283). Mahwah, NJ, USA: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc The roles of linguistic input and innate mechanisms in children's acquisition of grammatical categories. Mintz,-Toben-Herbert Dissertation-Abstracts-International:-Section-B:-The-Sciences-and-Engineerin g. 1997 Mar; Vol 57(9-B): 5948 From lsc at th.com.br Fri May 5 09:08:42 2000 From: lsc at th.com.br (Leonor Scliar Cabral) Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 06:08:42 -0300 Subject: experimental psycholinguistics Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, I would appreciate very much if you recommend some recent bibliography on the subject Experimental psycholinguistics Thank you. Prof. Dr. Leonor Scliar-Cabral From Hilkee at lrz.uni-muenchen.de Sat May 6 07:01:34 2000 From: Hilkee at lrz.uni-muenchen.de (Hilke Elsen) Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 09:01:34 +0200 Subject: possession in Turkish Message-ID: Could anybody tell me about research on the acquisition of possession in Turkish? Hilke Elsen From danield at post.tau.ac.il Sat May 6 13:11:53 2000 From: danield at post.tau.ac.il (Daniel Dor) Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 13:11:53 +0000 Subject: mass media and acquisition Message-ID: Dear all, I'm looking for whatever material there is on the influence/non-influence of mass media language on language acquisition. I'm NOT interested in stuff on the relation between exposure to TV and general development, or even linguistic development, but in actual structural influences. For example, when children who speak a certain local dialect of a language are exposed to a lot of TV spoken with the standard phonology, syntax and so on - do they get some of it, at the expense of their local variation? Or, when children are exposed to a lot of hours of another language on TV (in most places that would be global English), do they get any of it? And what does all that do in terms of their linguistic identities? thanks, -- Daniel Dr. Daniel Dor Dept. of Communications Tel Aviv University Ramat Aviv Israel From mminami at sfsu.edu Sun May 7 02:18:25 2000 From: mminami at sfsu.edu (mminami at sfsu.edu) Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 19:18:25 -0700 Subject: My Research on Bilingualism Message-ID: If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area or close to SFSU, please take a look at page 2 of The Golden Gater, Thursday, May 4, 2000. My research on bilingualism, "Holding on to a Native Tongue," is described there. If you do not live close to SFSU, you still have access to the article via the Internet (http://gater.sfsu.edu). Because this article is based on an oral interview, what is described in the article does not necessarily reflect my real intention; yet, I hope you will still find the article interesting. If you are not patient enough to find the site, go to: http://gater.sfsu.edu/issue11_s00/pages/news.html and click "Holding on to a Native Tongue" OR go to the following site directly: http://gater.sfsu.edu/issue11_s00/articles/n8.html Thank you for your attention, and I would like to hear your opinions. Sincerely, Masahiko Minami From gfgb at nutecnet.com.br Sun May 7 02:03:52 2000 From: gfgb at nutecnet.com.br (Giovana Bonilha) Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 19:03:52 -0700 Subject: Phonology course Message-ID: Hi, friends... I am working on a dissertation about Diphthongs acquisition on Brazilian Portuguese. I am going to Los Angeles on July, 21 to pass my vacation. Does anybody know about some course on Phonology, Optimality Theory or Language Acquisition that I could realize at this period near LA? Thank you so much, Giovana Bonilha (UCPel - Brazil) From vhouwer at uia.ua.ac.be Sun May 7 08:19:36 2000 From: vhouwer at uia.ua.ac.be (Annick.DeHouwer) Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 10:19:36 +0200 Subject: mass media and acquisition Message-ID: The issues you raise have been a (side) interest of mine for a while now and I have so far been unable to find any literature that pertains to the issues of variation that you refer to (there is of course the work by Mabel Rice and colleagues on the question whether children CAN learn words from TV, and they can). I am convinced that children can and do learn a lot about language variation from TV. I have observed four-year-olds here in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium, do role playing in a Northern Dutch accent although they'd never been to the Netherlands and had had no exposure to the Northern Dutch variety except through television. Another common observation here in Flanders is that primary school-age children appear to know quite a bit of English, even though they have never been exposed to English except through television and popular music (instruction in English at school only starts when children are 13, 14 years old). I've directed a small (unpublished) research project that looked at what languages are used in children's television programming here in Flanders and the result was that over 50% of all children's television programming is in English with Dutch subtitles. Currently a student of mine is setting up a project to look at the link between young children's TV watching and their knowledge of English. I'm not aware of any other projects investigating these issues for young children, but Margie Berns (Purdue University), Uwe Hasebrink (Hamburg University) and Kees de Bot (Katholic University of Nijmegen) are involved in a large research project with teenagers that partially involves the role of the media on these youngsters' attitudes to English and on identity issues. --Annick De Houwer University of Antwerp, Belgium On Sat, 6 May 2000, Daniel Dor wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm looking for whatever material there is on the > influence/non-influence of mass media language on language acquisition. > I'm NOT interested in stuff on the relation between exposure to TV and > general development, or even linguistic development, but in actual > structural influences. For example, when children who speak a certain > local dialect of a language are exposed to a lot of TV spoken with the > standard phonology, syntax and so on - do they get some of it, at the > expense of their local variation? Or, when children are exposed to a lot > of hours of another language on TV (in most places that would be global > English), do they get any of it? And what does all that do in terms of > their linguistic identities? > > thanks, > > -- Daniel > > Dr. Daniel Dor > Dept. of Communications > Tel Aviv University > Ramat Aviv > Israel > > From piathomsen at language.sdu.dk Mon May 8 09:09:56 2000 From: piathomsen at language.sdu.dk (Pia Thomsen Jensen) Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 11:09:56 +0200 Subject: Twins Message-ID: Dear All, I am currently working on my Ph.D., researching twin language. I am interested in any recent literature on the subject and in current related research. Pia Thomsen Ph. D. student, The Odense Language Acquisition Project. From edilaine at npd.ufpe.br Fri May 5 14:42:40 2000 From: edilaine at npd.ufpe.br (Edilaine Lins Gouveia) Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 11:42:40 -0300 Subject: Development of logical connectives Message-ID: I'm a graduate student at UFPE in Recife, Brazil. I've been collecting longitudinal speech samples of a young child learning Brazilian Portuguese. I'm specially interested in the development of logical connectives (conditionals, negation, disjunction, conjunction, and quantification). Any relevant articles that have traced the development and use of logical vocabulary in children's spontaneous speech will be welcome. Thank you in advance, Edilaine From glg14 at columbia.edu Mon May 8 21:28:24 2000 From: glg14 at columbia.edu (George Louis Ganat) Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 17:28:24 -0400 Subject: mass media and acquisition Message-ID: Forwarded Message: ---------- Return-Path: Received: from mailrelay1.cc.columbia.edu (mailrelay1.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.35.143]) by uhaligani.cc.columbia.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA10265; Sun, 7 May 2000 04:40:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from po5.andrew.cmu.edu (PO5.ANDREW.CMU.EDU [128.2.10.105]) by mailrelay1.cc.columbia.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA24190; Sun, 7 May 2000 04:40:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from childes.psy.cmu.edu (CHILDES.PSY.CMU.EDU [128.2.57.205]) by po5.andrew.cmu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id EAA02511; Sun, 7 May 2000 04:20:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 10:19:36 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: From: "Annick.DeHouwer" Subject: Re: mass media and acquisition To: Daniel Dor Cc: Info-CHILDES Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: Bulk X-Listserver: ListSTAR v1.1 by StarNine Technologies, a Quarterdeck Company Errors-To: info-childes at childes.psy.cmu.edu Sender: "info-childes" The issues you raise have been a (side) interest of mine for a while now and I have so far been unable to find any literature that pertains to the issues of variation that you refer to (there is of course the work by Mabel Rice and colleagues on the question whether children CAN learn words from TV, and they can). I am convinced that children can and do learn a lot about language variation from TV. I have observed four-year-olds here in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium, do role playing in a Northern Dutch accent although they'd never been to the Netherlands and had had no exposure to the Northern Dutch variety except through television. Another common observation here in Flanders is that primary school-age children appear to know quite a bit of English, even though they have never been exposed to English except through television and popular music (instruction in English at school only starts when children are 13, 14 years old). I've directed a small (unpublished) research project that looked at what languages are used in children's television programming here in Flanders and the result was that over 50% of all children's television programming is in English with Dutch subtitles. Currently a student of mine is setting up a project to look at the link between young children's TV watching and their knowledge of English. I'm not aware of any other projects investigating these issues for young children, but Margie Berns (Purdue University), Uwe Hasebrink (Hamburg University) and Kees de Bot (Katholic University of Nijmegen) are involved in a large research project with teenagers that partially involves the role of the media on these youngsters' attitudes to English and on identity issues. --Annick De Houwer University of Antwerp, Belgium On Sat, 6 May 2000, Daniel Dor wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm looking for whatever material there is on the > influence/non-influence of mass media language on language acquisition. > I'm NOT interested in stuff on the relation between exposure to TV and > general development, or even linguistic development, but in actual > structural influences. For example, when children who speak a certain > local dialect of a language are exposed to a lot of TV spoken with the > standard phonology, syntax and so on - do they get some of it, at the > expense of their local variation? Or, when children are exposed to a lot > of hours of another language on TV (in most places that would be global > English), do they get any of it? And what does all that do in terms of > their linguistic identities? > > thanks, > > -- Daniel > > Dr. Daniel Dor > Dept. of Communications > Tel Aviv University > Ramat Aviv > Israel > > From jjipson at cats.UCSC.EDU Mon May 8 22:48:36 2000 From: jjipson at cats.UCSC.EDU (Jennifer Jipson) Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 15:48:36 -0700 Subject: dyslexia and crawling Message-ID: Does anyone know of a connection between motor development (particularly crawling) and dyslexia? I have a friend who is concerned about this and despite many articles on the internet, I can't locate this work in any journals. Thanks! Jennifer Jipson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jennifer Jipson e-mail: jjipson at cats.ucsc.edu Dept. of Psychology phone: (831) 459-4175 University of California fax: (831) 459-3519 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From m.boldingh at let.vu.nl Wed May 10 09:04:39 2000 From: m.boldingh at let.vu.nl (M Boldingh) Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 11:04:39 +0200 Subject: acquisition of Dutch pronouns Message-ID: Does anyone know any literature on the acquisition of personal pronouns by Dutch SLI-children and normal children? Thank you Maartje Boldingh m.boldingh at let.vu.nl From ann at hawaii.edu Wed May 10 02:17:32 2000 From: ann at hawaii.edu (Ann Peters) Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 16:17:32 -1000 Subject: cue competition in Japanese Message-ID: One of my students is interested in cue competition in sentence processing in Japanese. Cues of interest are: argument order, and presence (vs. omission) of case-marking particles. Does anyone know if any work has been done on this topic in Japanese (similar to that in MacWhinney & Bates 1989)? She would be most grateful for any leads. You can reply to me or directly email Masako Izutani, mizutani at hawaii.edu. **************************** Dr. Ann M. Peters, Professor Department of Linguistics University of Hawai`i email: ann at hawaii.edu 1890 East West Road, Rm 569 phone: 808 956-3241 Honolulu, HI 96822 fax: 808 956-9166 http://www2.hawaii.edu/~ann/ From vhouwer at uia.ua.ac.be Wed May 10 12:28:52 2000 From: vhouwer at uia.ua.ac.be (Annick.DeHouwer) Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 14:28:52 +0200 Subject: info-childes (fwd) Message-ID: In the volume 'The Acquisition of Dutch' (editors: Steven Gillis & Annick De Houwer, 1998, John Benjamins) you will find a review of work on Dutch pronoun acquisition in primarily 'normal' children. Bol and Kuiken 1988 (Grammaticale Analyse van Taalontwikkelingsstorrnissen) contains some information on personal pronouns as used by Dutch-speaking SLI children. --A. De Houwer At 11:04 AM 10/5/00 +0200, M Boldingh wrote: >Does anyone know any literature on the acquisition of >personal pronouns by Dutch SLI-children and normal children? > >Thank you > >Maartje Boldingh >m.boldingh at let.vu.nl ............................................................................. Annick De Houwer, PhD Associate Professor and Research Fellow, Science Foundation Flanders PSW-UIA University of Antwerp Universiteitsplein 1 B2610-Antwerpen Belgium tel ++32-3-8202863 fax ++32-3-8202882 vhouwer at uia.ac.be ............................................................................ From yun at asianlan.umass.edu Wed May 10 15:25:15 2000 From: yun at asianlan.umass.edu (Yun Xiao) Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 11:25:15 -0400 Subject: Request for information Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Does anybody have any information about Jill Bell, who documented her Chinese literacy and language development? I would like to know the sources of her work. Thank you very much. Yun Xiao -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From edwards.212 at osu.edu Wed May 10 15:40:01 2000 From: edwards.212 at osu.edu (Jan Edwards) Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 11:40:01 -0400 Subject: language acquisition web sites Message-ID: Hi everyone, Here's a teaching-related question. I'm putting my graduate language acquisition course on Web CT and I'm looking for web site addresses for good web sites related to child language acquisition (very broadly defined, including early cognitive development, chimp talk, infant speech perception, etc.) to include as links. I've found some web sites for reading, but that's about it. If anyone knows of good web sites related to child language acquisition, could you please email me the web site addresses? I'll post a summary on the list-server if people are interested. Thanks in advance. Yours, Jan Edwards From m.perkins at sheffield.ac.uk Wed May 10 20:55:52 2000 From: m.perkins at sheffield.ac.uk (Mick Perkins) Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 21:55:52 +0100 Subject: RA Advertisement Message-ID: RESEARCH ASSOCIATE IN CLINICAL LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD Applications are invited for the above ESRC-funded post which is tenable for 1 year in the first instance, starting from July 2000 (or as soon as possible thereafter), to investigate abnormal vocabulary use in the conversation of young adults with autism. The post involves the development of a lexical coding system for a corpus of autistic conversation, the analysis (and some transcription) of the corpus, and the preparation of the corpus for inclusion in the CHILDES data archive. Applicants should have a good first degree (and preferably a higher degree) in Linguistics, Psycholinguistics or Speech and Language Therapy, and be skilled in the transcription and analysis of spoken language data. Experience in computational corpus linguistics and/or knowledge of autism would be an advantage. * Salary up to GBP16,683 pa * Closing date for applications 30 May 2000 * Reference Number: PRW151 For further details and information on how to apply, go to the following website: http://www.shef.ac.uk/jobs/acadjobs/prw151.html Informal enquiries to: Dr Mick Perkins Department of Human Communication Sciences University of Sheffield Sheffield S10 2TN, UK Tel: +44 (0) 114 222 2408 e-mail: m.perkins at sheffield.ac.uk From m.perkins at sheffield.ac.uk Wed May 10 15:28:50 2000 From: m.perkins at sheffield.ac.uk (Mick Perkins) Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 16:28:50 +0100 Subject: RA Advertisement - please circulate Message-ID: RESEARCH ASSOCIATE IN CLINICAL LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD Applications are invited for the above ESRC-funded post which is tenable for 1 year in the first instance, starting from July 2000 (or as soon as possible thereafter), to investigate abnormal vocabulary use in the conversation of young adults with autism. The post involves the development of a lexical coding system for a corpus of autistic conversation, the analysis (and some transcription) of the corpus, and the preparation of the corpus for inclusion in the CHILDES data archive. Applicants should have a good first degree (and preferably a higher degree) in Linguistics, Psycholinguistics or Speech and Language Therapy, and be skilled in the transcription and analysis of spoken language data. Experience in computational corpus linguistics and/or knowledge of autism would be an advantage. ? Salary up to ?16,683 pa ? Closing date for applications 30 May 2000 ? Reference Number: PRW151 For further details and information on how to apply, go to the following website: http://www.shef.ac.uk/jobs/acadjobs/prw151.html Informal enquiries to: Dr Mick Perkins Department of Human Communication Sciences University of Sheffield Sheffield S10 2TN, UK Tel: +44 (0) 114 222 2408 e-mail: m.perkins at sheffield.ac.uk From tenbrink at informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu May 11 10:26:27 2000 From: tenbrink at informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Thora Tenbrink) Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 12:26:27 +0200 Subject: Summary: Maternal input and cognition Message-ID: Apologies for multiple postings. Some time ago, I posted a query concerning the investigation of maternal speech in connection with cognitive development. I wish to thank everybody who supplied me with relevant and helpful information and who indicated their interest. Here's a list of publications relevant to the topic: Flynn, Valerie (1998). Pragmatic Aspects of Mothers' Speech: Consideration of Context, Child Age, Frequency of Utterance, and Attentional Focus. Ph.D Diss., Northern Illinois University, available at www.umi.com Kavanaugh, R.D. (1979). Observations on the role of logically constrained sentences in the comprehension of before and after. Journal of Child Language 6, 353-359 Kearins, J. M (1981) Visual spatial memory in Australian Aboriginal children of desert regions. Cognitive Psychology 13, 434-460 Nelson, K. (1996) Language in Cognitive Development: The Emergence of the Mediated Mind, Cambridge University Press. Regier, Terry (1997) Constraints on the learning of spatial terms: A computational investigation. In Medin, D., Schyns, P., and Goldstone, R., editors, Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Volume 36: Mechanisms of Perceptual Learning. pp. 171-217, San Diego: Academic Press. Rogers, Don. 1978. Information about word-meanings in the speech of parents to young children. In Robin N. Campbell and Philip T. Smith (eds), Recent advances in the psychology of language. Language Development and Mother-Child Interaction. New York: Plenum Press. (pp 187-198) Smiley, P., & Huttenlocher, J. (1995). Conceptual development and the child's early words for events, objects, and persons. In M. Tomasello & E. Merriman (Eds.), Beyond names for things: Young children's acquisition of verbs (pp. 21-62). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Stoel-Gamon, C. & Scliar-Cabral, L. "Emergence of the reportative function in child speech", in G. Nickel (ed.) Proceedings of the 4th AILA World Congress, HochschulVerlag, Stuttgart, 1976: 389-398. Tanz, Christine (1980). Studies in the acquisition of deictic terms. Cambridge University Press. From beice24t at d5.ub.es Thu May 11 10:39:10 2000 From: beice24t at d5.ub.es (Noemi Argerich) Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 11:39:10 +0100 Subject: VOCD Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, Does anyone know how to calculate separate VOCDs of different texts taking together a group of texts in a corpus and not text by text? Thank you, Noemi Argerich Noemi Argerich Universitat de Barcelona Institut de Ci?ncies de l'Educaci? Passeig de la Vall d'Hebron, 171 08035 Barcelona beice24t at d5.ub.es T: 34 93 403 51 95 From b.j.richards at reading.ac.uk Thu May 11 16:00:32 2000 From: b.j.richards at reading.ac.uk (Brian Richards) Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 17:00:32 +0100 Subject: VOCD Message-ID: Noemi, the +u switch will pool data from different input files. Brian ******************************************* Brian Richards School of Education The University of Reading Bulmershe Court Earley Reading, RG6 1HY, UK ******************************************* On Thu, 11 May 2000, Noemi Argerich wrote: > Dear Info-CHILDES, > > Does anyone know how to calculate separate VOCDs of different texts taking > together a group of texts in a corpus and not text by text? > > Thank you, > Noemi Argerich > > Noemi Argerich > Universitat de Barcelona > Institut de Ci?ncies de l'Educaci? > Passeig de la Vall d'Hebron, 171 > 08035 Barcelona > beice24t at d5.ub.es > T: 34 93 403 51 95 > > > > > > From abiscotti at earthlink.net Thu May 11 15:45:33 2000 From: abiscotti at earthlink.net (Jeffrey Anderson) Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 08:45:33 -0700 Subject: Ah yes, English Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From v.c.gathercole at bangor.ac.uk Thu May 11 14:36:21 2000 From: v.c.gathercole at bangor.ac.uk (Ginny Mueller Gathercole) Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 15:36:21 +0100 Subject: Looking for Jenny Dalalakis Message-ID: Does anyone have an e-mail address or snail mail address for Jenny Dalalakis? I understand that she has left the field, but does anyone know how to get ahold of her? Thanks. Ginny Gathercole Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole, Ph.D. Reader Ysgol Seicoleg School of Pyschology Prifysgol Cymru, Bangor University of Wales, Bangor Adeilad Brigantia The Brigantia Building Ffordd Penrallt Penrallt Road Bangor LL57 2AS Bangor LL57 2AS Cymru Wales | /\ | / \/\ Tel: 44 (0)1248 382624 | /\/ \ \ Fax: 44 (0)1248 382599 | / ======\=\ | B A N G O R From macw at cmu.edu Thu May 11 22:21:45 2000 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 18:21:45 -0400 Subject: VOCD Message-ID: Dear Noemi, Earlier versions of VOCD did not allow for operation on *.cha, but we added that feature about five months ago, so it should work if you get a new copy of CLAN. --Brian MacWhinney From macw at cmu.edu Thu May 11 22:30:31 2000 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 18:30:31 -0400 Subject: Japanese cue competition Message-ID: Dear Ann, Apart from the 1989 paper by Kilborn and Ito in MacWhinney and Bates (1989), there are five papers on Japanese cue competition by Yoshinori Sasaki: Sasaki, J. (1998). ?Processing and learning of Japanese double-object active and causative sentences: An error-feedback paradigm.? Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 27: 453-478. Sasaki, Y. (1991). ?English and Japanese interlanguage comprehension strategies: An analysis based on the Competition Model.? Applied Psycholinguistics 12: 47-73. Sasaki, Y. (1994). ?Paths of processing strategy transfers in learning Japanese and English as foreign languages.? Studies in Second Language Acquisition 16: 43-72. Sasaki, Y. (1997). ?Individual variation in a Japanese sentence comprehension task: Form, functions, and strategies.? Applied Linguistics 18: 508-537. Sasaki, Y. (1997). ?Material and presentation condition effects on sentence interpretation task performance: Methodological examinations of the competition experiment.? Second Language Research 13: 66-91. --Brian MacWhinney From b.j.richards at reading.ac.uk Fri May 12 08:30:44 2000 From: b.j.richards at reading.ac.uk (Brian Richards) Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 09:30:44 +0100 Subject: VOCD Message-ID: Dear Noemi, Brian (MacWhinney) and I interpreted your query differently. I suspect Brian's interpretation was correct. To sum up, if you want separate Ds for multiple files use *.cha. If you need to pool data from more than one file to get a singe D use the +u switch. At present you can process up to 64 files at a time using *.cha. Brian Noemi Argerich wrote: > > Dear Info-CHILDES, > > Does anyone know how to calculate separate VOCDs of different texts taking > together a group of texts in a corpus and not text by text? > > Thank you, > Noemi Argerich > > Noemi Argerich > Universitat de Barcelona > Institut de Ci?ncies de l'Educaci? > Passeig de la Vall d'Hebron, 171 > 08035 Barcelona > beice24t at d5.ub.es > T: 34 93 403 51 95 -- ****************************** Brian J. Richards School of Education The University of Reading Bulmershe Court Earley Reading, RG6 1HY, UK ****************************** From ddlsi at cunyvm.cuny.edu Mon May 15 15:33:51 2000 From: ddlsi at cunyvm.cuny.edu (David J. Lewkowicz) Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 11:33:51 -0400 Subject: Postdoctoral position Message-ID: Postdoctoral Position at the Institute for Basic Research, Staten Island, NY The development of intersensory perception in human infants Recent Ph.D. is being sought for an NIH-funded project investigating intersensory perceptual development in human infants. The main objective of the project is to investigate temporally based auditory-visual integration at the sensory, perceptual, and cognitive levels. We are seeking a candidate with a background in any area of experimental developmental science, although expertise in infancy is highly desirable. Competitive salary and benefits are offered with the position. The Institute for Basic Research is a State of New York research facility and is located on Staten Island (one of the 5 boroughs of New York City) and is just a ferry ride away from Manhattan. For inquiries please contact Dr. David J. Lewkowicz either by e-mail at ddlsi at cunyvm.cuny.edu or by phone at (718) 494-5302. ______________________________ David J. Lewkowicz, Ph.D. Senior Research Scientist NYS Institute for Basic Research in DD 1050 Forest Hill Rd. Staten Island, N.Y. 10314 http://scholar.library.csi.cuny.edu/users/Lewkowicz/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karin at ruccs.rutgers.edu Mon May 15 15:57:12 2000 From: karin at ruccs.rutgers.edu (Karin Stromswold) Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 11:57:12 -0400 Subject: research assistant position, Rutgers Message-ID: I am looking for a full-time research assistant to assist in NSF-funded studies of normal and abnormal language acquisition and language processing. The RA will be involved in all aspects of studies, including recruiting and testing subjects, designing experimental stimuli, and analyzing data. The position is ideal for someone with a BA or MA in linguistics, cognitive science, or psychology who wants research experimence before pursuing graduate traning. Because of the nature of the work, the research assistant must be a native speaker of English. The salary is very competitive, with excellent benefits. For more information about research If you or someone you know is interested in this position, please contact me by email (karin at ruccs.rutgers.edu), phone (732 445-2448), or regular mail Prof. Karin Stromswold Dept of Psychology & Center for Cognitive Science Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ 08903 fax: 732 445 6715 You can learn more about the research we are doing in the lab at http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/~karin/stromswold.html and linked pages. Best, Karin Stromswold (karin at ruccs.rutgers.edu) From ting+ at pitt.edu Mon May 15 18:30:10 2000 From: ting+ at pitt.edu (Rachel Chung) Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 14:30:10 -0400 Subject: Lexical acquisition in Salish Message-ID: Hi all, The Salishan languages are known to lack distinction between nouns and verbs. I'm interested in whether there's systematic research on the acquisition of lexical items in these languages, particularly, whether their children also display a certain amount of "noun advantage". I don't seem to be able to locate any developmental papers on these languages, so if you know of any I'd really appreciate it if you could point me to them. -Rachel Chung From macw at cmu.edu Mon May 15 22:19:56 2000 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 18:19:56 -0400 Subject: streaming audio and video from CHAT files Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, It is now possible for you to access streaming audio and video over the web by clicking on bullets in CHAT files. This works for both Mac and Windows and the instructions for doing this are at the second and third URL links at http://talkbank.org/ You will need to download new versions of CLAN, QuickTime, and MediaPlayer (for Windows only), as well as the sample files. The process of downloading all of this stuff takes 10 minutes with a fast connection, but can take more time for slower connections. Once you have your system configured, things work remarkably well. However, if you have only modem access, I would only recommend trying audio files. The sample files have been provided by Tim Koschmann, Johannes Wagner, Takeo Ishii, Brian MacWhinney, and the National Archives. If you have files that you wish to place into access in this way, please contact me. I would love to receive your comments about this new way of accessing language sample data. --Brian MacWhinney From ting+ at pitt.edu Tue May 16 10:49:21 2000 From: ting+ at pitt.edu (Rachel Chung) Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 06:49:21 -0400 Subject: Summary of research regarding Salish acquisition Message-ID: Dear Childes readers, I have been fortunate to have heard from several Salish experts in response to my question about Salish acquisition. Salish is interesting because some researchers think it lacks a distinction between verb and noun. I was interested in finding implications about the development of syntactic categories. Unfortunately it seems to be a fact that children no longer learn Salishan languages as L1. Neverthelss, the responses I received have pointers to other potential languages to look at. Dr. Sally Thomason also has a good summary of the current state of affairs of the question about verb/noun distinction in these languages. Below is a summary of the responses I have received. I must thank Drs. David Beck, Clifton Pye, David Ingram, and Sally Thomason for answering my question. - Rachel Chung ======================================================================= >From Clifton Pye: The reason you didn't find any developmental papers on these languages is because there are no longer any children learning these languages. I was unable to find any children learning Salish languages in British Columbia between 1983 and 1985. Perhaps there are a few families teaching the languages to their children since then, but I haven't heard of any. Clifton Pye Linguistics The University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 66045 >From David Ingram: You may wish to contact Cliff Pye at U Kansas (Linguistics) or Henry Davis at the University of British Columbia (Linguistics) who both know about Salish languages and language acquisition. Cliff Pye came to Canada several years ago to study Salish language acquisition, but was unable to find children still acquiring any of the languages. He ended up studying the acquisition of Chilcotin. He did manage to make some tapes of two children learning Thompson but nothing came of it. The unfortunate truth of the matter is that there are no longer children acquiring them as a first language as far as I know. --- David Ingram, Chair Department of Speech and Hearing Science P.O. Box 870102 Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-0102 Voice: 602/965-2905 Fax: 602/965-8516 Email: David.Ingram at asu.edu >From David Beck: Hello. Someone passed on your message to me. Unfortunately, there is very little work done on acquisition in Salishan languages -- you might try writing to Henry Davis at UBC, I think someone there might have done a little. I should warn you though that most people work work on Salishan langauges these days do think there is a distinction between noun and verb. the position that there isn't has never been fuly accepted and is becoming increasingly disfavoured as our notions of what nouns and verbs are becomes more sophisticated. It might also interest you to know that there are other languages where the claim has been made that there are no nouns or verbs, and many of these have living speech communities and so would be more fruitful for research into language acquisition than is Salish (which really has no children learning it as a native language). These languages include Tongan, Tagalog, Munda (aka Mundari) and Tarascan (aka Purepechua). The first two have tens of thousands of speakers. ====================================================================== David Beck Assistant Professor Department of Linguistics University of Alberta 4-45 Assiniboia Hall Edmonton, AB T6G 2E7 office: (780) 492-0807 FAX: (780) 492-0806 e-mail: dbeck at ualberta.ca homepage: http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbeck >From Sally Thomason: References on the debate of whether these languages distinguish noun and verb: AGAINST a noun/verb distinction in Salishan lgs.: M. Dale Kinkade. 1983. Salish evidence against the universality of "noun" and "verb". LINGUA 60:25-39. Eloise Jelinek & Richard Demers. 1994. Predicates and pronominal arguments in Straits Salish. LANGUAGE 70:697-736. FOR a noun/verb distinction in Salishan lgs.: Thom Hess & Jan van Eijk. 1985. Noun and verb in Salishan. Paper presented at the 20th International Conference on Salish and Neighboring Languages, Vancouver, BC, 15-17 August. (This paper presumably appeared in the conference working-papers volume.) Hamida Demirdache & Lisa Matthewson. 1995. On the universality of syntactic categories. In PROCEEDINGS OF THE 25TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NORTH EASTERN LINGUISTIC SOCIETY, pp. 79-93. Amherst: Graduate Linguistics Association of the University of Massachusetts. ...See also Paul D. Kroeber's 1997 article "Relativization in Thompson River Salish (ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS 39:376-422. On p. 379 Kroeber comments that the "for" people `argue -- convincingly to my [= Kroeber's] mind -- that morphological and syntactic differences, though subtler than in European languages, justify distinguishing "noun", "verb", and other lexical classes.' I'm not sure Kroeber is accurately representing the Jelinek & Demers argument, though: as I recall (I'm back in Montana for the summer and don't have the journal at hadn to check), they argue that there is a SYNTACTIC noun/verb distinction, or at least a NP/VP distinction, but maybe no LEXICAL noun/verb distinction. My own view, for what it's worth, is that the syntactic distinction probably exists, but there's still a real question, for some or all Salishan lgs., about a lexical distinction. And even if there is a lexical distinction, it's a LOT weaker than the noun/verb distinction in any other language I've encountered. But I note that your query suggests that you might expect a "noun advantage" in acquisition: that's puzzling, because the whole point about Salishan stems/words is that they can all occur as predicates and can all take elaborate *verbal* morphological apparatus. That is, if any category is actually missing, it's nouns, not verbs. In any case, my colleague asked if I knew of any research on L1 acquisition of any Salishan lg. I don't, unfortunately. It's too late to do any such research now on any of the languages, with the possible exception of one or more of the ones in BC -- Shuswap, Lillooet, Thompson, possibly Bella Coola...I don't actually know the status of the other coastal lgs. (all the ones I just mentioned are interior, except Bella Coola), but I'd be surprised if any children were learning any of them as an L1, and i'm not even sure that any of the four languages I mentioned has that status. So that's what I can tell, you, only about a year later than you needed the information. I'm really sorry. OH: the people most likely to know about possibilities for L1 acquisition research (in existence or in the future) are mostly at UBC -- Henry Davis, Hamida Demirdache (I *think* she's still there), Dale Kinkae (now retired, but still active), and Pat Shaw. Lisa Matthewson isn't at UBC at present -- or, at least, she's been teaching this past year at U Mass, but she's going back to UBC next year, I believe. The only relevant email address I have is Kinkade's: mdkd at interchange.ubc.ca (Davis, Demirdache, Matthewson -- none of them is a member of either the LSA or SSILA, the Native American ling. association). But Dale will probably know, and if not he can put you in touch with people who will surely know. (You can also probably get Davis's email address, at least, from the UBC website.) From pater at linguist.umass.edu Tue May 16 14:18:51 2000 From: pater at linguist.umass.edu (Joe Pater) Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 10:18:51 -0400 Subject: OT acquisition bibliography Message-ID: Dear all, There has been a fair bit of research on acquisition in Optimality Theory, but unfortunately, it seems to be scattered across a variety of journals and conference proceedings (and of course, some of it remains unpublished). To aid in increasing people's awareness of it (including my own), I'd like to compile a bibliography of relevant references. Please send references directly to me, and I will compile them and post the bibliography to the mailing list. Best, Joe Pater. -- Joe Pater, Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics University of Massachusetts, Amherst Amherst, MA 01003-7130, USA tel: (413) 577-1308, fax: (413) 545-2792 From joshua_thompson at juno.com Tue May 16 15:18:25 2000 From: joshua_thompson at juno.com (Joshua Thompson) Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 11:18:25 -0400 Subject: OT acquisition bibliography Message-ID: Joe, Please review your operative definition of Optimality Theory, or remind us of the baseline texts that provide such a definition. ------Original Message------ From: Joe Pater To: info-childes at childes.psy.cmu.edu Sent: May 16, 2000 2:18:51 PM GMT Subject: OT acquisition bibliography Dear all, There has been a fair bit of research on acquisition in Optimality Theory, but unfortunately, it seems to be scattered across a variety of journals and conference proceedings (and of course, some of it remains unpublished). To aid in increasing people's awareness of it (including my own), I'd like to compile a bibliography of relevant references. Please send references directly to me, and I will compile them and post the bibliography to the mailing list. Best, Joe Pater. -- Joe Pater, Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics University of Massachusetts, Amherst Amherst, MA 01003-7130, USA tel: (413) 577-1308, fax: (413) 545-2792 Joshua Thompson Cedar Hill, Texas "where seldom is heard a discouraging word" From pater at linguist.umass.edu Tue May 16 15:35:32 2000 From: pater at linguist.umass.edu (Joe Pater) Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 11:35:32 -0400 Subject: OT acquisition bibliography Message-ID: > Joshua- Optimality theory is a constraint-based approach to generative grammar developed in a still unpublished manuscript by Prince and Smolensky (1993). It is probably the "dominant" approach to phonological theory in North America, and has also been applied to syntax and semantics. Kager (1999) is an excellent introductory textbook that contains some discussion of learnability issues. Best, Joe. Kager, Rene. 1999. Optimality Theory. Cambridge University Press. Prince, Alan, and Paul Smolensky. 1993. Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar. Ms, Rutgers University and University of Colorado. -- Joe Pater, Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics University of Massachusetts, Amherst Amherst, MA 01003-7130, USA tel: (413) 577-1308, fax: (413) 545-2792 From piathomsen at language.sdu.dk Wed May 17 08:22:47 2000 From: piathomsen at language.sdu.dk (Pia Thomsen Jensen) Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 10:22:47 +0200 Subject: Summary of research regarding Twins Message-ID: Dear Childs-readers, I have been fortunate to have heard from several Twins experts in response to my question about Twin Language and language acquisition. Here are some good references for those of you who are in to this subject. Stay in touch, twin people! On the Internet, you can find: Behavioral Genetics at Boulder Colorado has done a number of important twin studies on aspects of literacy and phonological awareness development in dyslexics that have been influential. It's a very stong department and I'll bet they have other studies of language development. Visit their site on http://ibgwww.colorado.edu/ They seem to be at the forefront of methods for twin studies: http://ibgwww.colorado.edu/twins2000/ See also http://www.pitt.edu/~jganger/cv.3.htm and http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena/user/j/g/jganger/Public/ourhome.html Articles: *Bishop, D. V. M., Bishop, S. J., Bright, P., James, C., Delaney, T., & Tallal, P. (1999). Different origin of auditory and phonological processing problems in children with language impairment: evidence from a twin study. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 42, 155-168. Bishop, D.V.M. (1997). Pre- and Perinatal hazards and Family Background in Children with Specific Language Impairments: A study of twins, Brain and Language, 56, 1-26. Bishop, D.V.M., Bishop, S.J. (1998). "Twin Language": A Risk Factor for Language Impairment? Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 41, 150-160. Dodd, B., McEvoy, S. (1994). Twin Language or phonological disorder? Journal of Child Language, 21, 273-289. *Dale, P. S., Simonoff, E., Bishop, D. V., Eley, T. C., Oliver, B., Price, T. S., Purcell, S., Stevenson, J., & Plomin, R. (1998). Genetic influence on language delay in two-year-old children. Nature Neuroscience, 1, 324-8. (RSL OpenShelf Physiol. Per. 5b) Deutsch, W., Wagner, A., Burchardt, R., Schulz, N. & Nakath, J. (1997). Person in the language of singletons, siblings and twins. in S. Levinson & M. bowerman (Eds.), Language acquisition and conceptual development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Malmstrom, P.M., Silva, M.N. (1986). Twin talk: manifestations of twin status in the speech of toddlers, Journal of Child language, 13, 293-304. McMahon, S., Dodd, B. (1997). A comparison of the expressive communication skills of triplet, twin and singleton children, European Journal of disorders of Communication, 32, 328-345. Savic, S. (1980). How Twins Learn to Talk. Academic Press Inc. Zazzo, R. (1960). Les Jumeaux, le couple et la personne. PUF, Paris. Hope that you can use some of this and thank you . Best Pia Thomsen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fipceirj at vc.ehu.es Wed May 17 10:34:36 2000 From: fipceirj at vc.ehu.es (Cenoz Iragui Jasone) Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 12:34:36 +0200 Subject: conference on L3/trilingualism Message-ID: 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THIRD LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND TRILINGUALISM 13-15 September 2001 Venue: Fryske Akademy, Leeuwarden/Ljouwert, The Netherlands CALL FOR PAPERS Organizers welcome papers on psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic and educational aspects of third language acquisition and trilingualism. Please send three hard copies of the abstract (up to 300 words) and one page stating: 1. the title 2. audiovisual/computer requirements 3. for each author: full name and affiliation, address, e-mail address and fax number THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS IS JANUARY 31ST, 2001 PLEASE SEND YOUR ABSTRACT TO: Drs. Danny Beetsma Fryske Akademy PO Box 54 8900 Ab Leeuwarden The Netherlands dbeetsma at fa.knaw.nl Fax: 31-58-2131409 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Danny Beetsma (Fryske Akademy, The Netherlands) Jasone Cenoz (University of the Basque Country, Spain) Britta Hufeisen (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany) Ulrike Jessner (University of Innsbruck, Austria) Jehannes Ytsma (Fryske Akademy, The Netherlands) For further information please visit the conference homepage at: http://www.spz.tu-darmstadt.de/projekt_L3 From spowers at rz.uni-potsdam.de Thu May 18 13:04:26 2000 From: spowers at rz.uni-potsdam.de (Susan M. Powers) Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 15:04:26 +0200 Subject: PHONASCII Copora? Message-ID: Dear All, One of my students wants to use PHONASCII to transcribe some child German. Does anyone know of any existing corpora that have used this system? Thanks, Susan Powers Linguistics Department University of Potsdam From kjalcock at crl.ucsd.edu Fri May 19 14:46:44 2000 From: kjalcock at crl.ucsd.edu (Katie Alcock) Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 15:46:44 +0100 Subject: ISSBD workshop in Kampala Message-ID: THE FIFTH AFRICAN REGIONAL INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF BEHAVIOURAL DEVELOPMENT (ISSBD) WORKSHOP MAKERERE UNIVERSITY, KAMPALA, UGANDA, 25-30th SEPTEMBER, 2000 GENERAL INFORMATION AND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS I would like to invite you warmly to the above named international workshop being organised by the ISSBD in conjunction with Johann Jacobs Foundation (JJF) and IACCP and Makerere University. Background The ISSBD has facilitated the holding of four successful Regional Workshops in Africa. The last one was held in Windhoek, Namibia, May 8-11, 1998. All the previous Regional Workshops have been found valuable to participants. At the evaluation of the Windhoek Workshop, it was resolved that the next Regional Workshop would focus on life course development and application of the cross-cultural methodology. It was proposed to hold this Workshop at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. This focus was suggested because during the Windhoek Regional Workshop, various aspects of social, personality, and cross-cultural research methodologies were not adequately addressed; yet these are essential components of developmental/psychological research investigations. Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda was proposed as the venue for the year 2000 Regional Workshop; it was thought that the East African region be given an opportunity to host the ISSBD African Regional Workshops on a rotational basis. Uganda is a model country in Africa in terms of economic growth. It has modern communication network and the city of Kampala is very peaceful. Uganda has undergone socio-economic and political transformation, the impact of which on human development is significant to the hosting of the Regional Workshop. Recently, there have been political and socio-economic problems in the great lakes region which have had a serious impact on the human development process. However, these problems have not yet been fully discussed. This Workshop would provide an opportunity to do so. It is hoped that the Regional Workshops will lead to an increased understanding of human development and will provide knowledge, skills and materials that will be used in process aimed at improvement of human development. Theme of the workshop The theme of the workshop is "Life course in context: The application of the cross-cultural methodology". Various aspects of social, personality, and cross-cultural research methodologies are not adequately addressed; yet these are essential components of developmental/psychological research investigations. The sub-themes and topics will centre around contexts of development, e.g., family settings and roles, peers, media, school, health, and war-time crises. The main emphasis is on youth, although development throughout the life-span is considered. Social and personality development will be of especial interest. The contexts, demands and challenges differ among cultures and nations and these have different impacts on human life span development. However, other topics on the human life span development are welcome. Where possible, authors will write or deliberate on the topics using a cross-cultural paradigm. There will be a specific workshop on cross-cultural methodology. However, we look forward to competent scientists who can facilitate the methodology workshop. These persons should get in touch with the chair organising committee at once. Further, the International Association for Cross-cultural Psychology (IACCP) through Prof. Segall will hold a symposium on the history of the concept of race in social sciences. Participants Participants will include psychologists, other social scientists and other academicians from all over Africa and beyond. The organising committee has no funds to provide for the transportation of participants from outside Africa. From each African country one participant will be invited. The participants must be paid up members of ISSBD or will be willing to pay $10 US $ at the conference venue to join ISSBD. Student participants will join the ISSBD at a cost of $5 USA. Participants will include junior and senior researchers and academicians, NGO personnel, and others who work with children and youth. Financial support Travel (economy class) by air to and from Kampala for one person from African countries only will be provided plus reasonable accommodation and food for 5 days. Interested persons are encouraged to apply for this support. Selection depends on the quality of the activity the participant wants to do in Kampala, e.g. the quality of the abstract submitted or facilitation of methodology workshop, as judged by the organising committee. For those that will not be supported, there is a variety of accommodation, ranging from hostel type to 5 star hotels. This ranges from 10 US $ to 150 US $ per night, bed and breakfast plus live music in some cases. Those wanting to book should consult the chairperson, organising committee. International conference committee (ISSBD sub-committee) The Executive Committee of the ISSBD has appointed a sub-committee, the role of which is to solicit support and publicise the conference: Prof. Pierre Dasen, Dr. Bame Nsamenang, Prof. Lea Pulkkinen, Prof. Kenneth H. Rubin, and Prof. Robert Serpell. This committee together with the local one are in charge of organising the conference and should be consulted for more information. Local organising committee: The local organising committee for the conference includes the following: Mr. A. Amati (Psychology); Ms. F. Asiimwe (Sociology); Mr. N. Asingwire (Social Work and Social Administration); Dr. P. Baguma (Psychology); Dr. E. Enon (Psychology); Mr. J. Kikoma (Psychology); Mr. L. Matagi (Psychology): Dr J Nambi (Psychology) Prof. J C Munene (Psychology), Mrs M. Muhairwe (Institute of Teacher Education, Kyambogo); Mr. P. Nyende (Psychology); Mr. E Ntare (Institute of Teacher Education, Kyambogo); G. Tukahebwa (Political Science), Prof. J. Opolot (Psychology); and Prof. M H Segall (USA). Conference registration Each participant is expected to pay 10 US $ for the workshop registration. Those interested in participating in this workshop are advised to get in touch with the chair: Organising committee for more information. Conference activities There will be plenary sessions, posters, small groups and an attractive social programme. Abstracts and papers Abstract must be 250-300 words long including name, title, and address of author(s), institution of affiliation of the presenting author. A full paper for each abstract must be deposited with the workshop organisers. Facilities for oral presentations, posters and overhead projection will be available. Please send your abstracts without delay. Participants whose abstracts are selected should be informed by 31st May 2000. Conference papers should be not more than 25 pages, A4 and double spaced and should follow the APA format. All papers should reach the conference organisers not later than 31st July 2000. Conference proceedings will be published and selected papers will be published in the International Journal of Behavioural Development. GENERAL INFORMATION Language The official language of the conference is English Travel to Uganda A number of international airlines fly directly to Entebbe International Airport which is about 40 Km and 45 minutes drive to Kampala city. Entebbe to Kampala costs a maximum of 20 US $. There are airport taxis and major hotel shuttle services. Connections to Entebbe can also be made in London, Brussels, Addis Ababa, Nairobi and Johannesburg. There are no foreign exchange restrictions in Uganda, however, banks require valid documents to cash foreign currency. Insurance It is recommended that all delegates obtain standard comprehensive travel insurance. Passports and Visas Valid passports, entry visas, and vaccination certificates for yellow fever are requires. Inquiries be may be at a Uganda Mission in your country or national ministry of foreign affairs. Organisers can issue a letter of invitation to facilitate visa application, three months before the conference. Weather and clothing Uganda is warm with temperatures ranging between 21 to 24 centigrade. A light jacket is sufficient. More information about hotels Accommodation will be available at 3 types of hotels and Makerere University Guest House. 4 star hotels Single room 75, double 95, lunch 8 and dinner 8 US $ 5 star hotels single room 80, double 100, lunch 12 dinner 12 US $ Makerere University Guest House: Single 37, double 51 lunch or dinner 5 US $ There are a number of other hotels at lower prices Contact address: For more information regarding this workshop, please, contact: Dr. K. P. Baguma (Ph.D.) Chair Organising committee Institute of Psychology, Makerere University PO Box 7062 Kampala, Uganda Tel + 256 41 531908 Office, 543740 Home Fax + 256 41 531061 E-mail: uparipari at Mulib.ac.ug -- Katie Alcock City University From josie.bernicot at mshs.univ-poitiers.fr Mon May 22 16:03:35 2000 From: josie.bernicot at mshs.univ-poitiers.fr (bernicot) Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 18:03:35 +0200 Subject: position for French-speaking people Message-ID: URGENT Poste d?enseignant-chercheur associ? ? pourvoir au d?partement de psychologie de l?universit? de Poitiers (France) Nous disposons pour l?ann?e 2000-2001 d?un poste d?enseignant-chercheur associ? susceptible d??tre vacant (niveau Ma?tre de Conf?rences ou Professeur). Ce poste doit ?tre pourvu par une personne ?trang?re francophone, sp?cialis?e en psychologie du d?veloppement. Les cours ? assurer concernent les premier et second cycles et repr?sentent un total annuel de 192 heures de Travaux Dirig?s ou 128 h de Cours Magistraux. Ils seront d?termin?s en fonction du profil du candidat retenu et des besoins en enseignement. Pour pouvoir postuler, le candidat ? ce poste doit au minimum avoir soutenu sa th?se de doctorat en psychologie. Les personnes int?ress?es doivent envoyer une lettre de motivation avec un C.V. et la liste de leurs travaux, au pr?sident de la Commission de Sp?cialistes du d?partement de psychologie avant le 19 juin 2000. Contacts possibles : Catherine TOURRETTE, Professeur Laboratoire LACO: langage et cognition EP CNRS 1594 MSHS. 99 avenue du recteur Pineau, 86 022 POITIERS cedex tel (33) 05.49.45.46.29 fax (33) 05.49.45.46.16 e-mail : catherine.tourrette at mshs.univ-poitiers.fr Josie BERNICOT, Professeur, Pr?sidente de la Commission de sp?cialistes Universit? de Poitiers-CNRS - D?partement de Psychologie Laboratoire LACO: langage et cognition MSHS. 99 avenue du recteur Pineau, 86 022 POITIERS cedex tel (33) 05.49.45.32.44 fax (33) 05.49.45.46.16 e-mail : josie.bernicot at mshs.univ-poitiers.fr www.mshs.univ-poitiers.fr www.atega.com/pergame From ksatoh at yokohama-cu.ac.jp Tue May 23 03:32:55 2000 From: ksatoh at yokohama-cu.ac.jp (kyoko satoh) Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 12:32:55 +0900 Subject: Frog story research Message-ID: Does anyone know of any "Frog story" research dealing with Japanese subjects? I know Kei Nakamura (1993) 'Referential structure in Japanese children's narrative: the acquisition of wa and ga' Could you give me any information except this one? Thanks in advance. Kyoko Satoh Yokohama City University ksatoh at yokohama-cu.ac.jp From santosma at gse.harvard.edu Tue May 23 03:07:19 2000 From: santosma at gse.harvard.edu (santosma at gse.harvard.edu) Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 23:07:19 -0400 Subject: Notification Message-ID: I will be out of town from 5/23 - 6/1 and will not be responding to email messages during this period. I will, however, answer your email message soon after I return the first week of June. Thank you. Maricel Santos From dorit.ravid at univie.ac.at Tue May 23 21:28:03 2000 From: dorit.ravid at univie.ac.at (Vienna) Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 21:28:03 -0000 Subject: Please post Message-ID: > Dear all, > I'm looking for new work on the acquisition of passive forms. I will summarize > references. > Thanks > Dorit Ravid > (Tel Avivi University, currently at U of Vienna) > dorit.ravid at univie.ac.at > doritr at ccsg.tau.ac.il > > > > > From a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk Wed May 24 16:42:02 2000 From: a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk (Annette Karmiloff-Smith) Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 16:42:02 +0000 Subject: unavailable in London Message-ID: We have drawn a blank on the following chapter, not available in libraries consulted. Can anyone help please with page numbers? Senghas, A., M. Coppola, E.L. Newport, and T. Supalla, "Argument structure in Nicaraguan Sign Language: the emergence of grammatical devices," in E. Hughes, M. Hughes, and A Greenhill, eds., Proceedings of the 21st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, vol. 2, [?]. Cascadillla Press, 1997. many many thanks, Annette ________________________________________________________________ Professor A.Karmiloff-Smith, FBA, FMedSci, FRSA, MAE, C.Psychol. Head, Neurocognitive Development Unit, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, U.K. tel: 0207 905 2754 fax: 0207 242 7717 http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/units/ncdu/NDU_homepage.htm ________________________________________________________________ From a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk Wed May 24 16:45:50 2000 From: a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk (Annette Karmiloff-Smith) Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 16:45:50 +0000 Subject: missing page nos Message-ID: one more missing ref page nos, not available in consulted libraries in London. Can anyone help please with the page numbers? Bjorklund, D. F., and R. G. Schwartz. "The adaptive nature of developmental immaturity: implications for language acquisition and language disabilities," in M. D. Smith, and J. S. Damico, Childhood Language Disorders, [?]. Thieme Medical Publishers Inc., 1996. many many thanks, Annette ________________________________________________________________ Professor A.Karmiloff-Smith, FBA, FMedSci, FRSA, MAE, C.Psychol. Head, Neurocognitive Development Unit, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, U.K. tel: 0207 905 2754 fax: 0207 242 7717 http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/units/ncdu/NDU_homepage.htm ________________________________________________________________ From a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk Wed May 24 17:18:40 2000 From: a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk (Annette Karmiloff-Smith) Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 17:18:40 +0000 Subject: missing page nos Message-ID: you are so kind, dunno why I didn't think to look at the author's web page. I was on the medline and psychlit but they don't give page numbers for chapters, and at all our local London libraries in vain. Many many thanks, Annette >Hi, > > > one more missing ref page nos, not available in consulted libraries in > > London. Can anyone help please with the page numbers? > >It's pp 17-40 according to Bjorklund's CV on the web >(http://www.psy.fau.edu/chez/dfb/vita.html) > > > > Bjorklund, D. F., and R. G. Schwartz. "The adaptive nature of developmental > > immaturity: implications for language acquisition and language > > disabilities," in M. D. Smith, and J. S. Damico, Childhood Language > > Disorders, [?]. Thieme Medical Publishers Inc., 1996. > >Cheers, > > -- Gert > >=================================================================== >Gert Westermann Sony Computer Science Laboratory >gert at csl.sony.fr 6, rue Amyot, 75005 Paris >Phone: +33-(0)1-44-08-05-04 Fax: +33-(0)1-45-87-87-50 >http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~gert >=================================================================== ________________________________________________________________ Professor A.Karmiloff-Smith, FBA, FMedSci, FRSA, MAE, C.Psychol. Head, Neurocognitive Development Unit, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, U.K. tel: 0207 905 2754 fax: 0207 242 7717 http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/units/ncdu/NDU_homepage.htm ________________________________________________________________ From a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk Wed May 24 17:11:40 2000 From: a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk (Annette Karmiloff-Smith) Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 17:11:40 +0000 Subject: unavailable in London Message-ID: thank you so much. Annette >Hello, > >page numbers for the article in 21 BUCLD are 550-561. > >Best wishes, > > >Dr Ludovica Serratrice >Research Associate > >Centre for Educational Needs >School of Education >The University of Manchester >Oxford Road >Manchester M13 9PL >Tel: 0161-275 3405 >Fax: 0161-2753548 ________________________________________________________________ Professor A.Karmiloff-Smith, FBA, FMedSci, FRSA, MAE, C.Psychol. Head, Neurocognitive Development Unit, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, U.K. tel: 0207 905 2754 fax: 0207 242 7717 http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/units/ncdu/NDU_homepage.htm ________________________________________________________________ From a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk Wed May 24 17:42:12 2000 From: a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk (Annette Karmiloff-Smith) Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 17:42:12 +0000 Subject: missing page nos Message-ID: >Dear Annette, > >the pages are 17-40. > >with best regards > >Hermann. many thanks for sending them to me. I now have my list complete. CHILDES is wonderful. Annette >At 16:45 24.05.2000 +0000, you wrote: >>one more missing ref page nos, not available in consulted libraries in >>London. Can anyone help please with the page numbers? >> >>Bjorklund, D. F., and R. G. Schwartz. "The adaptive nature of developmental >>immaturity: implications for language acquisition and language >>disabilities," in M. D. Smith, and J. S. Damico, Childhood Language >>Disorders, [?]. Thieme Medical Publishers Inc., 1996. >>________________________________________________________________ >>Professor A.Karmiloff-Smith, FBA, FMedSci, FRSA, MAE, C.Psychol. >>Head, Neurocognitive Development Unit, >>Institute of Child Health, >>30 Guilford Street, >>London WC1N 1EH, U.K. >>tel: 0207 905 2754 >>fax: 0207 242 7717 >>http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/units/ncdu/NDU_homepage.htm >>________________________________________________________________ >> >> From M.Saxton at rhbnc.ac.uk Fri May 26 13:43:09 2000 From: M.Saxton at rhbnc.ac.uk (Saxton M) Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 14:43:09 +0100 Subject: Page numbers for Senghas et al. (1997) Message-ID: The page numbers you want are: 550 - 561. Regards, Matthew Saxton. Psychology Department, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 OEX. U.K. Tel: (01784) 443716 Fax: (01784) 434347 E-mail: M.Saxton at rhbnc.ac.uk > -----Original Message----- > From: Info-CHILDES [SMTP:info-childes at childes.psy.cmu.edu] > Sent: 25 May 2000 04:01 > To: Info-CHILDES > Subject: Digest for 5/24/2000 > > -> unavailable in London > by Annette Karmiloff-Smith > -> missing page nos > by Annette Karmiloff-Smith > -> Re: unavailable in London > by Annette Karmiloff-Smith > -> Re:missing page nos > by Annette Karmiloff-Smith > -> Re: missing page nos > by Annette Karmiloff-Smith > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: 24 May 2000 11:47:38 -0400 > From: Annette Karmiloff-Smith > Subject: unavailable in London > > We have drawn a blank on the following chapter, not available in libraries > consulted. Can anyone help please with page numbers? > > Senghas, A., M. Coppola, E.L. Newport, and T. Supalla, "Argument structure > in Nicaraguan Sign Language: the emergence of grammatical devices," in E. > Hughes, M. Hughes, and A Greenhill, eds., Proceedings of the 21st Annual > Boston University Conference on Language Development, vol. 2, [a]. > Cascadillla Press, 1997. > > many many thanks, > Annette > > ________________________________________________________________ > Professor A.Karmiloff-Smith, FBA, FMedSci, FRSA, MAE, C.Psychol. > Head, Neurocognitive Development Unit, > Institute of Child Health, > 30 Guilford Street, > London WC1N 1EH, U.K. > tel: 0207 905 2754 > fax: 0207 242 7717 > http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/units/ncdu/NDU_homepage.htm > ________________________________________________________________ > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: 24 May 2000 11:52:11 -0400 > From: Annette Karmiloff-Smith > Subject: missing page nos > > one more missing ref page nos, not available in consulted libraries in > London. Can anyone help please with the page numbers? > > Bjorklund, D. F., and R. G. Schwartz. "The adaptive nature of > developmental > immaturity: implications for language acquisition and language > disabilities," in M. D. Smith, and J. S. Damico, Childhood Language > Disorders, [a]. Thieme Medical Publishers Inc., 1996. > > many many thanks, > Annette > > ________________________________________________________________ > Professor A.Karmiloff-Smith, FBA, FMedSci, FRSA, MAE, C.Psychol. > Head, Neurocognitive Development Unit, > Institute of Child Health, > 30 Guilford Street, > London WC1N 1EH, U.K. > tel: 0207 905 2754 > fax: 0207 242 7717 > http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/units/ncdu/NDU_homepage.htm > ________________________________________________________________ > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: 24 May 2000 12:17:08 -0400 > From: Annette Karmiloff-Smith > Subject: Re: unavailable in London > > thank you so much. > Annette > > >Hello, > > > >page numbers for the article in 21 BUCLD are 550-561. > > > >Best wishes, > > > > > >Dr Ludovica Serratrice > >Research Associate > > > >Centre for Educational Needs > >School of Education > >The University of Manchester > >Oxford Road > >Manchester M13 9PL > >Tel: 0161-275 3405 > >Fax: 0161-2753548 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Professor A.Karmiloff-Smith, FBA, FMedSci, FRSA, MAE, C.Psychol. > Head, Neurocognitive Development Unit, > Institute of Child Health, > 30 Guilford Street, > London WC1N 1EH, U.K. > tel: 0207 905 2754 > fax: 0207 242 7717 > http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/units/ncdu/NDU_homepage.htm > ________________________________________________________________ > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: 24 May 2000 12:24:03 -0400 > From: Annette Karmiloff-Smith > Subject: Re:missing page nos > > you are so kind, dunno why I didn't think to look at the author's web > page. > I was on the medline and psychlit but they don't give page numbers for > chapters, and at all our local London libraries in vain. > Many many thanks, > Annette > > >Hi, > > > > > one more missing ref page nos, not available in consulted libraries in > > > London. Can anyone help please with the page numbers? > > > >It's pp 17-40 according to Bjorklund's CV on the web > >(http://www.psy.fau.edu/chez/dfb/vita.html) > > > > > > > Bjorklund, D. F., and R. G. Schwartz. "The adaptive nature of > developmental > > > immaturity: implications for language acquisition and language > > > disabilities," in M. D. Smith, and J. S. Damico, Childhood Language > > > Disorders, [a]. Thieme Medical Publishers Inc., 1996. > > > >Cheers, > > > > -- Gert > > > >=================================================================== > >Gert Westermann Sony Computer Science Laboratory > >gert at csl.sony.fr 6, rue Amyot, 75005 Paris > >Phone: +33-(0)1-44-08-05-04 Fax: +33-(0)1-45-87-87-50 > >http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~gert > >=================================================================== > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Professor A.Karmiloff-Smith, FBA, FMedSci, FRSA, MAE, C.Psychol. > Head, Neurocognitive Development Unit, > Institute of Child Health, > 30 Guilford Street, > London WC1N 1EH, U.K. > tel: 0207 905 2754 > fax: 0207 242 7717 > http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/units/ncdu/NDU_homepage.htm > ________________________________________________________________ > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: 24 May 2000 13:08:37 -0400 > From: Annette Karmiloff-Smith > Subject: Re: missing page nos > > >Dear Annette, > > > >the pages are 17-40. > > > >with best regards > > > >Hermann. > > many thanks for sending them to me. > I now have my list complete. CHILDES is wonderful. > Annette > > >At 16:45 24.05.2000 +0000, you wrote: > >>one more missing ref page nos, not available in consulted libraries in > >>London. Can anyone help please with the page numbers? > >> > >>Bjorklund, D. F., and R. G. Schwartz. "The adaptive nature of > developmental > >>immaturity: implications for language acquisition and language > >>disabilities," in M. D. Smith, and J. S. Damico, Childhood Language > >>Disorders, [a]. Thieme Medical Publishers Inc., 1996. > >>________________________________________________________________ > >>Professor A.Karmiloff-Smith, FBA, FMedSci, FRSA, MAE, C.Psychol. > >>Head, Neurocognitive Development Unit, > >>Institute of Child Health, > >>30 Guilford Street, > >>London WC1N 1EH, U.K. > >>tel: 0207 905 2754 > >>fax: 0207 242 7717 > >>http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/units/ncdu/NDU_homepage.htm > >>________________________________________________________________ > >> > >> > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > End of Digest > > To request a copy of the help file, reply to this message and put "help" > in > the subject. From hmarcos at magic.fr Sun May 28 15:50:43 2000 From: hmarcos at magic.fr (Hayd=?ISO-8859-1?B?6Q==?=e Marcos) Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 17:50:43 +0200 Subject: First Language 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: Special Issue of FIRST LANGUAGE : 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS: Guest Editor: Haydee Marcos, Universite de Poitiers Theme: Early pragmatic development: Uses of gestures and language in young children Early pragmatic skills are fundamental to the development of communication. There is a growing interest among child language researchers in the relationships between function and form, between social and linguistic skills, and in children's and caregivers' uses of extralinguistic cues. Papers that present theory and data concerning pragmatic development in children aged approximately one to three years will be of interest for this Special Issue. Possible topics include (but are not restricted to): * The development of different types of communicative functions. * Variations in the form of messages according to their function and to the communicative context * Production and comprehension of pragmatic cues * Conversational skills : turn-taking, discourse cohesion, conversation repairs, explanations and justifications. * The relationships between structural and pragmatic development. * The role of communicative experiences in early pragmatic development * Transmission of pragmatic rules by caretakers in different cultures * Interactive and conversational contexts (adults and peers, dyadic and polyadic situations, home and day care or nursery school) * Individual differences * Children with language delays and disorders Deadline for submissions: 31 August 2000 Submissions and enquiries should be addressed to: Haydee Marcos. Laboratoire Langage et Cognition. Universite de Poitiers.CNRS. 99, Avenue de Recteur Pineau. 86022 Poitiers. France email: hmarcos at magic.fr From marten.eriksson at psyk.uu.se Mon May 29 08:23:37 2000 From: marten.eriksson at psyk.uu.se (=?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5rten?= Eriksson) Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 10:23:37 +0200 Subject: videoconferences Message-ID: >Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 09:04:49 +0200 >From: eva.berglund at adm.uas.lul.se >Subject: videoconferences >To: marten.eriksson at psyk.uu.se >X-Mailer: TFS Secure Messaging /320000000/450000076/450270026/450370026/ >X-Mailer: Version 4.52 Build 135 > >Dear Info-childes members, > >Do you have experience in using videoconferences for lectures and >international projects? In medicine there are such conferences at a regular >basis, i.e. Euro-Trans-med. would it be possible to try this technique, to further >improve the communication within our network? > >Eva Berglund > >Uppsala, Sweden > >Attachment Converted: "C:\PROGRAM\EUDORA\Attach\ALTERNATIVE51.htm" > From anne.kolatsis at mailbox.uq.edu.au Tue May 30 01:44:11 2000 From: anne.kolatsis at mailbox.uq.edu.au (Anne Kolatsis) Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 11:44:11 +1000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: I am working with the New England database and am interested to know how others have dealt with time and activity deliminators. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to work with individual activities inside transcripts. How to work with calculating time elapsed for individual activities and/or whole transcripts? Any suggestions will be much appreciated **************************************** Anne Kolatsis The Graduate School of Education The University of Queensland St Lucia, 4072 Queensland AUSTRALIA ph: +6 (7)3365 6395 fax:+6 (7)3365 7199 e-mail: anne.kolatsis at mailbox.uq.edu.au **************************************** From m.perkins at sheffield.ac.uk Tue May 30 09:08:46 2000 From: m.perkins at sheffield.ac.uk (Mick Perkins) Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 10:08:46 +0100 Subject: Reference query Message-ID: The following reference appears in the CHILDES bibliography, but with no information on the journal/book in which it was published: Chaban, P. (1996). "Understanding language dysfunction from a developmental perspective: An overview of pragmatic theories." . Does anyone have any further information? Thanks in advance. Mick Perkins Department of Human Communication Sciences University of Sheffield Sheffield S10 2TN UK Tel: (+44) (0)114 2222408 Fax: (+44) (0)114 2730547 http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/R-Z/spsu/staff/mick.html From lsc at th.com.br Tue May 30 00:44:24 2000 From: lsc at th.com.br (Leonor Scliar Cabral) Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 21:44:24 -0300 Subject: Hyperonyms Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Can anybody help me with some bibliographic references about processing HYPERONYMS? Thank you, Leonnor Scliar-Cabral From lsc at th.com.br Tue May 30 00:55:56 2000 From: lsc at th.com.br (Leonor Scliar Cabral) Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 21:55:56 -0300 Subject: ExpPsycholinguistics Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, I want to acknowledge those who sent me bibliographic references on the subject Experimental Psycholinguistics. Berko Gleason, Jean and Bernstein Ratner, Nan (1999) Psycholinguistics, 2nd ed.Harcoourt College Publ. Other contributions are attached. Thank you, Leonor Scliar-Cabral -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- Dear Leonor Scliar-Cabral: you might look at some of the entries in the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics (cf. The Mental Lexicon [William Marslen-Wilson], Comprehension [Michael Tannenhaus], Production [Herbert H. Clark], General Overview of Psycholinguistics [Willem Levelt]). I don't know of any good recent textbook, but there is probably a chapter on experimental methods in psycholinguistics in M. A. Gernsbacher (Ed.), Handbook of Psycholinguistics. Hope this helps, Eve Clark -------------- next part -------------- From: "Rosangela Gabriel" Organization: Experimental Psychology, Oxford, UK *** Books ALTMANN, G. T. M. The Ascent of Babel: an exploration of language, mind, and understanding. Oxford: University Press, 1999. GLEITMAN, L. R. & LIBERMAN, M. Language: an invitation to Cognitive Science, v. 1. London: The MIT Press, 1995. FLETCHER, P. & MACWHINNEY, B. The handbook of child language. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995. ELMAN, J., BATES, E. A. JOHNSON, M. H., KARMILOFF-SMITH, A., PARISI, D. & PLUNKETT, K. Rethinking innateness: a connectionist perspective on development. London: The MIT Press, 1998. JUSCKYK, P.W. The discovery of spoken language. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1998. KUHN, D. & SIEGLER, R. S. Handbook of child psychology, vol. 2: Cognition, perception & language. New York: Wiley, c1998. PINKER, S. The language instinct. London: Penguin Books, 1994. PINKER, S. Words and rules: the ingredients of language. New York: Basicbooks, 1999. *** Journals Journal of child language Language and Cognitive Processes Mind and language Cognition Language ****************************** From lsc at th.com.br Tue May 30 00:51:13 2000 From: lsc at th.com.br (Leonor Scliar Cabral) Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 21:51:13 -0300 Subject: Exp.Psycholinguistics Message-ID: Leonor Scliar Cabral wrote: > Part 1.1.1 Type: Plain Text (text/plain) > Encoding: 7bit > > Name: AnpollPsiExpEveClark.txt > AnpollPsiExpEveClark.txt Type: Plain Text (text/plain) > Encoding: 7bit > > Name: AnpollPsiExpRos?ngela.txt > AnpollPsiExpRos?ngela.txt Type: Plain Text (text/plain) > Encoding: 7bit From snowcat at gse.harvard.edu Tue May 30 18:01:05 2000 From: snowcat at gse.harvard.edu (Catherine Snow) Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 14:01:05 -0400 Subject: -- No Subject -- Message-ID: Anne, it may not be necessary to pay any attention to the time and activity indicators. They are in the transcripts because, in the original analyses we did, we wanted to establish a ten-minute time basis for purposes of comparing children on number of communicative acts and on numbers of various speech acts produced, as well as using the 10-mins as a basis for counting words, different words, and so on. But many analysts prefer to take measures of child ability as a ratio to total utterances, which is also fine. Similarly, the activity deliminators are there so that individual analyses can focus on or exclude specific activities. Some analyses may function better, for example, if book-reading is excluded, or if all the children are compared on peek-a-boo. But those would be rather specialized analyses designed around specific questions, and for many purposes you could just ignore the indicators totally. I hope this helps, Catherine On Tue, 30 May 2000 11:44:11 +1000 Anne Kolatsis wrote: > I am working with the New England database and am interested to know how > others have dealt with time and activity deliminators. > > Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to work with individual > activities inside transcripts. > > How to work with calculating time elapsed for individual activities and/or > whole transcripts? > > Any suggestions will be much appreciated > **************************************** > Anne Kolatsis > The Graduate School of Education > The University of Queensland > St Lucia, 4072 Queensland > AUSTRALIA > ph: +6 (7)3365 6395 > fax:+6 (7)3365 7199 > e-mail: anne.kolatsis at mailbox.uq.edu.au > **************************************** > > > ---------------------------------------- Catherine Snow Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Education Harvard Graduate School of Education Larsen 3 Cambridge, MA 02138 tel: 617 - 495 3563 fax: 617 - 495 5771 New email address: Snowcat at gse.harvard.edu or: Catherine_Snow at harvard.edu