From macw at cmu.edu Wed Nov 1 18:55:27 2000 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 13:55:27 -0500 Subject: Transcriber support and clip-making in CLAN Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, Current versions of CLAN (both Mac and PC) not have better support for transcription from digitized audio files. These facilities are linked to the F5 key. Transcriber mode is basically a much faster, but less precise, variant on sonic mode. It is intended for two uses. The first is for transcribers who wish to link a digitized file to an already existing CHAT transcript. The second is for transcribers who wish to produce a new transcript from a digitized file. In both cases, you enter the mode by pressing F5. If you are linking to an old transcript, you place your cursor at the first utterance and then press F5. You then press the space bar after each utterance and a time-mark bullet is entered with the time from the last utterance to the end of the current utterance. These marks will be as accurate as your own fast segmenting judgments. Dealing with overlaps can be difficult. It is best not to be too demanding in this mode and clean up problems later in Sonic Mode. The second use is for creating new transcripts from digital audio. In this mode, just open a new file, press F5, locate your sound file, begin playing. Again, press the space bar after each utterance and lines of this shape will be entered: *: ? After you are done adding bullets, double-click to stop the process. Go to the top of the file, and insert @Begin and @Participants lines. Use the @Participants to generate key shortcuts under the View menu. Then replay the first bullet, transcribe it, and use the appropriate command-1 or command-2 key to enter the speaker ID. Then go on to the next utterance and repeat the process. The result will be a full transcription that is roughly linked to the audio. The other new facility in CLAN is the capacity to create a small sound-clip file from a segment marked with a bullet. (Actually, these appear as small blocks on Windows). If you have an utterance attached to a bullet, you just play it with command-click. Then you go under the File menu and select "Save Last Clip As ..." and the clip will be saved as a sound file in AIFF format. This function is great for people who wish to use sound examples as ways of illustrating specific phenomena, as in Ann Peters' "fillers" page (http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/fillers/index.html) or other tutorial materials. It is also now being used by people preparing analyses of classroom instruction and learning, for example. It can also have a role for acoustic analysis. --Brian MacWhinney From bpearson at comdis.umass.edu Thu Nov 2 07:08:26 2000 From: bpearson at comdis.umass.edu (Barbara Zurer Pearson) Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 02:08:26 -0500 Subject: "Childes --> PRAAT" Demo at BU Conference Message-ID: Dear Info-childes/BU attendees: We have organized an informal demonstration session for people at the BU Conference who would be interested in seeing PRAAT* in action. SUNDAY, Nov 5 Lunch Hour (1-2 pm) Terrace Lounge (where Session C takes place) George Sherman Union at Boston University, Commonwealth Ave at the BU Bridge KAREN RATHBUN of Brown University will show how she uses some of the capabilities of PRAAT in her lab. Others are welcome to chime in. (Bring a box lunch.) Disclaimer: I want to thank the BU organizers for making the space available to us. Everyone (and anyone) is welcome, but we make no claims for the session. We are not affiliated with the lab that created the programs, and none of us is expert in them. Karen has given demonstrations for research assistants in her lab; Joe Pater has volunteered to come and kibbitz. Additional kibbitzers are welcome, as are people who just want to eat their lunch in a clean, well-lighted place. See you there. Barbara Pearson, Rank Novice at PRAAT *Following is the original notice from Brian MacWhinney about the link between CHILDES and PRAAT. >>To: info-childes at mail.talkbank.org >>Cc: paul.boersma at hum.uva.nl >>X-OriginalArrivalTime: 28 Sep 2000 23:29:08.0653 (UTC) Dear Info-CHILDES, Thanks to guidance from Paul Boersma, it is now possible to send a sound clip from a CHAT file to the Praat sound analysis program. To do this, you must have a CHAT file with audio segments marked by bullets. You must have Praat installed. You can get Praat from http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/ You must have a brand-new version of CLAN. Praat must be running when you do this. You then place your cursor before the segment you wish to analyse and pull down the Mode menu and select "Send to Praat" Then you analyze the clip in Praat. ****************************************** Barbara Zurer Pearson, Ph.D. Project Manager, NIH Working Group on AAE Department of Communication Disorders University of Massachusetts, Amherst 117 Arnold House Amherst MA 01003 413-545-5023 fax 545-0803 bpearson at comdis.umass.edu http://www.umass.edu/aae/ From als at ip.pt Fri Nov 3 00:11:06 2000 From: als at ip.pt (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Ana_L=FAcia_Santos?=) Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 00:11:06 -0000 Subject: Call for papers - GALA Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS GALA 2001 - Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition Palmela, Portugal - 14-16 September 2001 Organization: Universidade de Lisboa, Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Associação Portuguesa de Linguística Information available at: http://www.fcsh.unl.pt/clunl/gala_index.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From menyuk at bu.edu Mon Nov 6 19:06:05 2000 From: menyuk at bu.edu (Paula Menyuk) Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:06:05 -0400 Subject: No subject Message-ID: My original message (which some of you did not receive) was that all sentences that are of the form "If you be good I or someone will do something to or for you.." are no good because "you" takes the verb "are" and further that these were not "command sentences. I was waiting for a response like phooey! and a discussion about dialect. It was interesting because a non-native teacher of English posed the question. I do thank all of you who responded even though you did not get my original message. Although dialect questions seem to have been backgrounded they remain, in my mind, of great interest, and have great educatonal importance. From macw at cmu.edu Tue Nov 7 15:40:43 2000 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 10:40:43 -0500 Subject: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition Message-ID: As of January 1, 2001 manuscripts submitted to Bilingualism: Language and Cognition should be sent to Judith Kroll who will become coordinating editor on that date: Dr. Judith Kroll Department of Psychology 641 Moore Building The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802 USA E-mail: jfk7 at psu.edu Phone: 814-863-0126 Fax: 814-863-7002 Instructions for contributors can be found in the journal and on the journal's web page: http://uk.cambridge.org/journals/bil/ Judith Kroll Professor of Psychology and Applied Linguistics 641 Moore Building Department of Psychology Penn State University University Park, PA 16802 Phone: 814-863-0126 Fax: 814-863-7002 E-mail: jfk7 at psu.edu From macw at cmu.edu Thu Nov 9 22:40:25 2000 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 17:40:25 -0500 Subject: linked audio files on the web Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, I have now placed about 30 hours of linked audio files on the web. They are at http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/audio/ The files are in AIFF. The two corpora we have linked are Bernstein and MacWhinney. Some of the MacWhinney files are very carefully linked. The rests of the MacWhinney files and all of the Bernstein files are more roughly linked in the sense that the borders of sounds are approximate. Michael Brent tells me that there are simple ways to get exact linking, but I haven't run into them yet. The CHAT files in these folders will download quite quickly. I haven't wrapped them up with ZIP, so be careful to make sure they don't get corrupted during transfer. If you have problems, I can zip them. The audio files should transfer OK without zipping, but they are huge -- in the order of 40-80 MB each. So please transfer these data prudently. I would like to avoid having people loading down the machine with lots of big audio transfers. Eventually, we can distribute these data on DVD in MP3 format, but there is still some controversy regarding the use of MP3 for our purposes. --Brian MacWhinney From CMartinot at aol.com Fri Nov 10 13:12:50 2000 From: CMartinot at aol.com (CMartinot at aol.com) Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 08:12:50 EST Subject: acquisition of Arabic as mother tongue Message-ID: Supervising with a colleague a graduate work on the acquisition of Arabic as a mother tongue from a linguistical point of view I would like to know exactly who is working on the same subject and what are the references in that domain. If anybody feels concerned with arabic language and acquisition I would be very pleased to know all these persons. Many thanks in advance. Claire Martinot, Université René Descartes, Paris V. From marders at net-alliance.net.ar Fri Nov 10 21:27:24 2000 From: marders at net-alliance.net.ar (Sandra Esther Marder) Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 18:27:24 -0300 Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Menchaca=B4s_mail_adress.?= Message-ID: I need de E-mail adress of Marta Valdez Menchaca, she is from Guadalahara, Mexico. I have one but it is not working now: mvaldez at warrior.asfg.mx. Thank you everybody Sandra Marder From mdunn at bsos.umd.edu Sat Nov 11 16:07:37 2000 From: mdunn at bsos.umd.edu (Megan Dunn) Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 11:07:37 -0500 Subject: Social competency in second language learners Message-ID: Hi All- I am doing a research project comparing the social competencies of SLI children versus ESL children. I am having some difficulty finding resources for the ESL component of this topic. Does anyone know of any good references for social skills and interaction in second language learners? Thanks! Megan From eleanorb at human.tsukuba.ac.jp Mon Nov 13 01:14:34 2000 From: eleanorb at human.tsukuba.ac.jp (E. O. Batchelder) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 10:14:34 +0900 Subject: If you be good... Message-ID: Dear Paula: Just for the record, I posed the question. I am a native English speaker, and am doing research in Japan. A graduate student in linguistics here, who is a native Japanese speaker, comes to me for native-speaker judgments, and presented the sentence in question. I remembered this (as a collocation/idiom) from my childhood. I don't think it's a question of dialect, since I don't think anybody believes these are particularly productive. Just a frozen corner of English that some of us have, and it's not clear whether this is a function of area, or age, or neither, or both! I received opinions on this matter from 16 people -- thanks very much, all! -- and forwarded them to the graduate student. I hope he'll have a summary forthcoming at some point. Thanks, Eleanor -- Eleanor Olds Batchelder, Ph. D. Institute of Psychology, University of Tsukuba http://www.human.tsukuba.ac.jp/~eleanorb [an alternate email address is: eleanor at abacus.hunter.cuny.edu] voice: 0298-53-7376 Mail address: Azuma 4-16-4-401 Tsukuba, Ibaraki, JAPAN 305-0031 ==== Please don't send me HTML as email! ====== From doritr at post.tau.ac.il Mon Nov 13 21:24:48 2000 From: doritr at post.tau.ac.il (Dorit Ravid) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 21:24:48 -0000 Subject: Please post Message-ID: Please post and inform your colleagues: ACADEMIC POST IN LANGUAGE DISORDERS The Department of Communication Disorders, Speech, Language and Hearing, Tel Aviv University, Israel, seeks a faculty member for a tenure-track academic position. The position is available from October, 2001. Duties involve teaching and research in one or more of the following areas of expertise: Developmental language disorders Learning disabilities associated with language disorders, and neurogenic language and speech disorders in adults Successful candidates will be expected to develop and pursue a vigorous research program and to obtain external funding. Applicants should send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, list of publications and interests to the address below. Three letters of recommendation from scientists (in the same areas of expertise) should be sent independently. All the the aforementioned should be mailed to: The Search Committee c/o Amit Nitzan Sacklet Faculty of Medicine Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv 69978 Israel Email: amitn at post.tau.ac.il From feldman at stripe.colorado.edu Mon Nov 13 20:52:37 2000 From: feldman at stripe.colorado.edu (FELDMAN ANDREA) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 13:52:37 -0700 Subject: reference Message-ID: Does anyone have a reference for the Verbal Language Development Exam (author Meecham) given by pediatricians to two-year olds? Andrea Feldman From nratner at hesp.umd.edu Mon Nov 13 21:12:54 2000 From: nratner at hesp.umd.edu (Nan Ratner) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 16:12:54 -0500 Subject: reference Message-ID: It is a very old parental interview tool (1971) not highly recommended by its review in Darley (1979). The LDS and MCDI would seem to have supplanted it rather nicely. Nan Nan Bernstein Ratner, Ed.D. Chairman Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 301-405-4217 301-314-2023 (FAX) Steering Committee Coordinator, Special Interest Division 4 : Fluency and Fluency Disorders American Speech-Language and Hearing Association nratner at hesp.umd.edu >>> FELDMAN ANDREA 11/13/00 03:52PM >>> Does anyone have a reference for the Verbal Language Development Exam (author Meecham) given by pediatricians to two-year olds? Andrea Feldman From feldman at stripe.colorado.edu Mon Nov 13 21:54:03 2000 From: feldman at stripe.colorado.edu (FELDMAN ANDREA) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 14:54:03 -0700 Subject: VLDS reference (fwd) Message-ID: Thanks to all those who replied to my query. The reference is: Mecham, M. J. (1959). Verbal language development scale. Minneapolis, MN: American Guidance Services. Best wishes, Ron Channell From jevans2 at facstaff.wisc.edu Mon Nov 13 22:48:33 2000 From: jevans2 at facstaff.wisc.edu (julia evans) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 16:48:33 -0600 Subject: position vacancy in child language-disorders Message-ID: POSITION VACANCY LISTING PVL# 38438 University of Wisconsin-Madison ASSISTANT , ASSOCIATE OR PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION DISORDERS Degree and area of specialization: Ph.D. (or equivalent) In Communicative Sciences & Disorders, Experimental Psychology, Linguistics, Cognitive and/or Behavioral Neuroscience, or a related field. Minimum number of years and type of relevant work experience: Candidate with interest in any areas of speech/language pathology, audiology, and/or speech and hearing science are invited to apply, particularly those with expertise in one of the following areas: Speech and language development, disorders, and differences (including those associated with diverse cultural backgrounds); Language & literacy; Auditory habilitation/rehabilitation; Hearing impairment; or, Applied cognitive neuroscience. Prefer university-level teaching, and research and/or clinical experience, though entry-level individuals are encouraged to apply. Appointment at the tenured level requires record of excellence in scholarly research. Principal duties: Teach graduate and undergraduate courses in the department of Communicative Disorders in areas appropriate to candidate's Interests and background. Establish and conduct a research program in areas of specialization. Advise students in academic and research areas. Serve on departmental and university committees. ************************* Appointment type: Faculty Department(s): L&S / COMMUN DISORDERS Full time salary rate: Minimum $50,000 ACADEMIC (9 months) Depending on Qualifications Appointment percent: 100% Anticipated begin date: January 1, 2001 Number of positions: 1 To insure consideration, application must be received by: December 31, 2000 HOW TO APPLY: Send resume and cover letter referring to Position Vacancy Listing # 38438 to PROF JOHN WESTBURY Phone: 608-265-4811 479 GOODNIGHT HALL TTY Phone: N/A 1975 WILLOW DRIVE Fax: 608-262-6466 MADISON WI 53706-1103 E-mail: westbury at facstaff.wisc.edu NOTE: Unless confidentiality is requested in writing, information regarding the names of applicants must be released upon request. Finalists cannot be guaranteed confidentiality. UW-Madison is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Carol Miller At 05:53 PM 11/13/2000 -0800, you wrote: >I don't know if anyone else had this problem, but an info-childes >message that I received contained the virus WScript.KakWorm in it. >Fortunately my Norton AntiVirus program caught it and deleted it before >it could do any damage to my computer. I was also on my university's >server and I had them delete it too. The message was from Dorit Ravid > >Ray Weitzman > >-- >Raymond S. Weitzman, Ph.D. >Department of Linguistics >5245 N. Backer Avenue, M/S PB92 >California State University, Fresno >Fresno, California 93740-8001 > >Office: 559-278-2437 >Home: 559-434-0838 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Carol Miller Penn State University 115-B Moore Building (814) 865-6213 cam47 at psu.edu ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From munso005 at umn.edu Tue Nov 14 15:34:55 2000 From: munso005 at umn.edu (Benjamin Munson) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 07:34:55 -0800 Subject: Virus part 3 Message-ID: Dear Listserv: Since we're all testifying, let me add my two cents: McAfee Virus Scan did *not* catch the virus, even though I downloaded the most recent update just this morning. Norton AV did catch it on my home machine. Yours, Benjamin Munson, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Communication Disorders University of Minnesota 47 Shevlin Hall (Department office: room 115) 164 Pillsbury Drive, S.E. Minneapolis, MN 55455 Voice: (612) 624-0304 Fax: (612) 624-7586 "I grow old...I grow old... I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare eat a peach? I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think they will sing to me." -T.S. Eliot From lsc at th.com.br Tue Nov 14 17:47:41 2000 From: lsc at th.com.br (Leonor Scliar Cabral) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:47:41 -0200 Subject: Virus Problem Message-ID: I got the same problem from Dorit! Prof. Dr. Leonor Scliar-Cabral "Raymond S. Weitzman" wrote: > I don't know if anyone else had this problem, but an info-childes > message that I received contained the virus WScript.KakWorm in it. > Fortunately my Norton AntiVirus program caught it and deleted it before > it could do any damage to my computer. I was also on my university's > server and I had them delete it too. The message was from Dorit Ravid > > Ray Weitzman > > -- > Raymond S. Weitzman, Ph.D. > Department of Linguistics > 5245 N. Backer Avenue, M/S PB92 > California State University, Fresno > Fresno, California 93740-8001 > > Office: 559-278-2437 > Home: 559-434-0838 From dthal at mail.sdsu.edu Tue Nov 14 20:28:54 2000 From: dthal at mail.sdsu.edu (Donna Thal) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 12:28:54 -0800 Subject: Virus Problem In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20001114075339.00aa2100@email.psu.edu> Message-ID: I also have an infected computer, and my antivirus program has been unable to correct it. I also cannot delete the file. What a pain! Have either of you been able to clean your disk and get rid of the virus/worm? Donna Thal At 07:54 AM 11/14/00 -0500, Carol Miller wrote: >Norton AV also caught this worm on my computer, although I didn't trace it >to that particular message. >Carol Miller > >At 05:53 PM 11/13/2000 -0800, you wrote: >>I don't know if anyone else had this problem, but an info-childes >>message that I received contained the virus WScript.KakWorm in it. >>Fortunately my Norton AntiVirus program caught it and deleted it before >>it could do any damage to my computer. I was also on my university's >>server and I had them delete it too. The message was from Dorit Ravid >>> >>Ray Weitzman >> >>-- >>Raymond S. Weitzman, Ph.D. >>Department of Linguistics >>5245 N. Backer Avenue, M/S PB92 >>California State University, Fresno >>Fresno, California 93740-8001 >> >>Office: 559-278-2437 >>Home: 559-434-0838 > > > > >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >Carol Miller >Penn State University >115-B Moore Building >(814) 865-6213 >cam47 at psu.edu >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Donna J. Thal, Ph.D. Developmental Psycholinguistics Laboratory 6330 Alvarado Court, Suite 231 San Diego, CA 92120 phone: 619-594-7110 fax: 619-594-4570 Department of Communicative Disorders San Diego State University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dandrews at u.washington.edu Tue Nov 14 20:27:20 2000 From: dandrews at u.washington.edu (D. Andrews) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 12:27:20 -0800 Subject: Virus Problem In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.20001114122709.00b58350@mail.sdsu.edu> Message-ID: I opened Dorit's email message and immediately deleted it, on my home computer, which does NOT have a virus scan. What symptoms are you having and how do I know if my computer has it? My computer HAS been tempermental and slow for a few days and I'm wondering how to tell if that's why. Thanks to any and all for any help. Donna *<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>* Donna Bosworth Andrews dandrews at u.washington.edu Dept of Linguistics University of Washington (206) 543-2046 Box 354340 (206) 685-7978 (fax) Seattle, WA 98195 On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Donna Thal wrote: > I also have an infected computer, and my antivirus program has been unable > to correct it. I also cannot delete the file. What a pain! Have either > of you been able to clean your disk and get rid of the virus/worm? > > Donna Thal > > At 07:54 AM 11/14/00 -0500, Carol Miller wrote: > >Norton AV also caught this worm on my computer, although I didn't trace it > >to that particular message. > >Carol Miller > > > >At 05:53 PM 11/13/2000 -0800, you wrote: > >>I don't know if anyone else had this problem, but an info-childes > >>message that I received contained the virus WScript.KakWorm in it. > >>Fortunately my Norton AntiVirus program caught it and deleted it before > >>it could do any damage to my computer. I was also on my university's > >>server and I had them delete it too. The message was from Dorit Ravid > >> >> > >>Ray Weitzman > >> > >>-- > >>Raymond S. Weitzman, Ph.D. > >>Department of Linguistics > >>5245 N. Backer Avenue, M/S PB92 > >>California State University, Fresno > >>Fresno, California 93740-8001 > >> > >>Office: 559-278-2437 > >>Home: 559-434-0838 > > > > > > > > > >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > >Carol Miller > >Penn State University > >115-B Moore Building > >(814) 865-6213 > >cam47 at psu.edu > >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > > Donna J. Thal, Ph.D. > Developmental Psycholinguistics Laboratory > 6330 Alvarado Court, Suite 231 > San Diego, CA 92120 > phone: 619-594-7110 > fax: 619-594-4570 > > Department of Communicative Disorders > San Diego State University > From macgibbon at mediaone.net Tue Nov 14 20:49:08 2000 From: macgibbon at mediaone.net (Ann MacGibbon) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:49:08 -0500 Subject: Virus Problem Message-ID: Will someone please help me with this? I've never had a virus on my computer, and don't quite know what I should do. My internet provider says that if I had a virus I would know by now. Can someone tell me if the virus was in an attachment, or would I get it simply because I received the e-mail and then deleted it? Thanks Ann From cech at louisiana.edu Tue Nov 14 20:59:44 2000 From: cech at louisiana.edu (Claude G. Cech) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 14:59:44 -0600 Subject: Virus Problem Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From macw at cmu.edu Tue Nov 14 21:16:26 2000 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 16:16:26 -0500 Subject: Virus Problem In-Reply-To: <003f01c04e7c$56012240$3fd49318@ne.mediaone.net> Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, Sorry about the virus in the attachment to Dorit Ravid's email posting. I don't intercept mail messages. The only way to block this sort of thing would be to reject all messages with attachments. The message was posted Monday morning and included an attachment. My guess is that most people did not extract the attachment since the essence of the message was contained in the main text-only message. It was an announcement of a position in Communication Disorders at the Tel-Aviv University. From the info and removal instructions at http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/nav.nsf/docid/2000020318071406 it appears that this virus is only spread through the use of Outlook Express as your mailer. It only affects Windows 95/98. Anthony Aristar has removed the virus from the archives of Info-CHILDES. He is also searching for it on other lists in case it gets posted there. It appears that the message will not be included in the digests of info-childes for this week, since messages with attachments are excluded from the digest. If people wish, I could set on option on info-childes to exclude attachments. However, I hate to block this facility just because Outlook Express has these security problems. Please send me your recommendations on this issue (macw at cmu.edu) if you have strong feelings either way. --Brian MacWhinney From macw at cmu.edu Tue Nov 14 23:47:34 2000 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 18:47:34 -0500 Subject: Sound Analysis Message-ID: Dear AnimalTalk People (and others), If you connect now to http://www.talkbank.org/animal/sa.html you will find that you can download the programs and manual for the Sound Analysis program contributed by Ofer Tchernichovski at Rockefeller University and Partha Mitra at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies. This program only run on Windows. Sound Analysis does excellent Wiener entropy analyses and includes strong facilities to measure the similarity of two sounds. It also contains several other analysis routines. The sample files are songs from the zebra finch and Ofer will eventually contribute a large database of zebra finch songs too. However, I am guessing that this program could have uses across many types of communication for various analyses. For example, what about applications to human infant babbling? Thanks to Ofer for this contribution to the AnimalTalk segment of TalkBank. --Brian MacWhinney From cech at louisiana.edu Tue Nov 14 23:51:56 2000 From: cech at louisiana.edu (Claude G. Cech) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 17:51:56 -0600 Subject: hta files (re: kak virus) Message-ID: Sorry, quick clarification on my earlier note: "Claude G. Cech" wrote: > If you do get a message that the virus is not present, do a > search for "kak" or "*.hta" files to verify; I found a *.kak file > hiding in my cache. In > that case, check the procedure on this link: > > http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/nav.nsf/docid/2000020318071406 A(n) *.hta file isn't necessarily evidence of an infection; but at least one version of the worm that has been infecting machines does create a "kak.hta" file... From macgibbon at mediaone.net Wed Nov 15 00:11:11 2000 From: macgibbon at mediaone.net (Ann MacGibbon) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 19:11:11 -0500 Subject: Virus Problem Message-ID: I just want to make this clear. I deleted the message without opening the attachment (I always do) and I still got the virus. Ann From macgibbon at mediaone.net Wed Nov 15 01:13:15 2000 From: macgibbon at mediaone.net (Ann MacGibbon) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 20:13:15 -0500 Subject: Thanks was Virus Problem Message-ID: I'm very grateful to everyone who responded to my request for help in ridding my computer of the virus. I guess I'm very lucky that I've never gotten one before. I appreciate very much that people on this list took the time to provide advice and support both on the list and privately. Thanks very much, Ann MacGibbon From asheldon at tc.umn.edu Wed Nov 15 01:45:43 2000 From: asheldon at tc.umn.edu (Amy L Sheldon) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 19:45:43 -0600 Subject: Virus Problem In-Reply-To: <005a01c04e98$8f924fe0$3fd49318@ne.mediaone.net> Message-ID: if this is the case then prohibiting attachments would be best, but would that then prevent this sort of virus? How does this virus work? Amy On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Ann MacGibbon wrote: > I just want to make this clear. I deleted the message without opening > the attachment (I always do) and I still got the virus. > > Ann > > > > > From msigstad at ciudad.com.ar Wed Nov 15 02:49:24 2000 From: msigstad at ciudad.com.ar (Mariana Sigstad) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 23:49:24 -0300 Subject: Virus Problem Message-ID: I let it in my computer, and then I erased all my inbox files. Anyway, I couldn't find my inbox files in the first attempt to correct that infected file. I can't explain the damage I got loosing so much archives. Mariana Sigstad Donna Thal wrote: > I also have an infected computer, and my antivirus program has been > unable to correct it. I also cannot delete the file. What a pain! > Have either of you been able to clean your disk and get rid of the > virus/worm? > > Donna Thal > > At 07:54 AM 11/14/00 -0500, Carol Miller wrote: > >> Norton AV also caught this worm on my computer, although I didn't >> trace it to that particular message. >> Carol Miller >> >> At 05:53 PM 11/13/2000 -0800, you wrote: >> >> > I don't know if anyone else had this problem, but an info-childes >> > message that I received contained the virus WScript.KakWorm in it. >> > Fortunately my Norton AntiVirus program caught it and deleted it >> > before >> > it could do any damage to my computer. I was also on my >> > university's >> > server and I had them delete it too. The message was from Dorit >> > Ravid >> > > > >> > Ray Weitzman >> > >> > -- >> > Raymond S. Weitzman, Ph.D. >> > Department of Linguistics >> > 5245 N. Backer Avenue, M/S PB92 >> > California State University, Fresno >> > Fresno, California 93740-8001 >> > >> > Office: 559-278-2437 >> > Home: 559-434-0838 >> >> >> >> >> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> Carol Miller >> Penn State University >> 115-B Moore Building >> (814) 865-6213 >> cam47 at psu.edu >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> > > Donna J. Thal, Ph.D.Developmental Psycholinguistics Laboratory6330 > Alvarado Court, Suite 231San Diego, CA 92120phone: 619-594-7110fax: > 619-594-4570Department of Communicative DisordersSan Diego State > University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From macgibbon at mediaone.net Wed Nov 15 03:04:44 2000 From: macgibbon at mediaone.net (Ann MacGibbon) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 22:04:44 -0500 Subject: Virus Problem Message-ID: If you use the link below, you can get a tool that gets rid of the file with the virus. That's what I did. Ann http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/wscript.kakworm.fix.html ----- Original Message ----- From: Mariana Sigstad To: Donna Thal Cc: Carol Miller ; Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 9:49 PM Subject: Re: Virus Problem > I let it in my computer, and then I erased all my inbox files. Anyway, I > couldn't find my inbox files in the first attempt to correct that > infected file. > I can't explain the damage I got loosing so much archives. > Mariana Sigstad > > Donna Thal wrote: > > > I also have an infected computer, and my antivirus program has been > > unable to correct it. I also cannot delete the file. What a pain! > > Have either of you been able to clean your disk and get rid of the > > virus/worm? > > > > Donna Thal From santelmannl at pdx.edu Wed Nov 15 03:12:22 2000 From: santelmannl at pdx.edu (Lynn Santelmann) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 19:12:22 -0800 Subject: Cleaning up a Virus Problem In-Reply-To: <3A11F9B4.BDF9AEFB@ciudad.com.ar> Message-ID: For those who haven't been able to rid themselves of the virus, you probably need to get a "rescue disk" or a boot disk with the anti-virus program on it and boot off of that disk. If the virus has infected your system and you boot as normal, then you may well not be able to delete it. However, if you boot off a seperate disk, and run the virus program from that, it should be able to be cleaned up. Your computer support people should be able to help. Best, Lynn Santelmann At 12:28 PM 11/14/00 -0800, you wrote: > Have either of you been able to clean your disk and get rid of the >virus/worm? > > > > At 07:54 AM 11/14/00 -0500, Carol Miller wrote: > Norton AV also caught this worm on my computer, although I didn't trace it >to that particular message. > Carol Miller > > At 05:53 PM 11/13/2000 -0800, you wrote: > I don't know if anyone else had this problem, but an info-childes > message that I received contained the virus WScript.KakWorm in it. > Fortunately my Norton AntiVirus program caught it and deleted it before > I was also on my university's > The message was from Dorit Ravid ****************************************************** Lynn Santelmann, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Applied Linguistics Portland State University P.O. Box 751 239 East Hall Portland, OR 97201 Phone: (503) 725-4140 Fax: (503) 725-4139 e-mail: santelmannl at pdx.edu (that's last name FIRST initial) www.ling.pdx.edu ****************************************************** From Jeremi.Sauvage at univ-rouen.fr Wed Nov 15 07:39:55 2000 From: Jeremi.Sauvage at univ-rouen.fr (Jeremi Sauvage) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 08:39:55 +0100 Subject: Virus Problem Message-ID: At 12:28 14/11/00 -0800, Donna Thal wrote: > > I also have an infected computer, and my antivirus program has been unable to > correct it. I also cannot delete the file. What a pain! Have either of you > been able to clean your disk and get rid of the virus/worm? "Kak Virus" (and its alias as Worm) are not dangerous. You can download a little program (kakiller) to eradicate it. This virus does not destroy datas, only sends a message the 1st of each month to say : "Memory Error". I think anybody can find on the web the "kakiller program". 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From macw at cmu.edu Wed Nov 15 15:20:32 2000 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 10:20:32 -0500 Subject: Virus Problem In-Reply-To: <200011151434.JAA04006@cmu1.acs.cmu.edu> Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, I have now set the "exclude enclosures" option for info-childes at mail.talkbank.org. Hopefully, this will eliminate this sort of problem. --Brian From guimass at terra.com.br Tue Nov 14 18:34:55 2000 From: guimass at terra.com.br (=?iso-8859-1?B?R3VpbWFy42Vz?=) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 16:34:55 -0200 Subject: attachments Message-ID: I would like to have the "exclude enclosures" option for my mails Thanks Ana Maria Guimarães -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Roberta at UDel.Edu Wed Nov 15 18:49:02 2000 From: Roberta at UDel.Edu (Roberta Golinkoff) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 13:49:02 -0500 Subject: POSITION AVAILABLE Message-ID: Please send this along to anyone who might be interested. We have a wonderful interdisciplinary Cognitive Science group here at the Univ of Delaware and lots of great research going on! Educational/Developmental Psychology The School of Education at the University of Delaware seeks a scholar and teacher in educational or developmental psychology as a tenure-track assistant professor for the fall of 2001. Applicants must have a doctoral degree and be prepared to teach undergraduate courses in human development and graduate courses in their area of specialization. An excellent research program in an area relevant to education and schooling is crucial. The candidate must be qualified to supervise graduate and undergraduate research and collaborate with teachers and schools on common problems. The School of Education includes a wide range of outstanding scholars from many disciplines. Many faculty members have fellowships and grants from private foundations and government agencies. The University of Delaware has an excellent research library, state-of-the-art technology, and outstanding research support. Review of applications will begin on December 15 and will continue until the position is filled. Candidates should send an introductory letter stating their teaching and research interests, a vita, three letters of reference, and samples of their professional writing to Dr. Nancy C. Jordan, Educational/Developmental Search Committee Chair, School of Education, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 19716-2922. The University of Delaware is an Equal Opportunity Employer which encourages applications from minority group members and women. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Ph.D. H. Rodney Sharp Professor School of Education and Departments of Psychology and Linguistics University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716 Phone: (302) 831-1634 Fax: (302) 831-4445 E-mail: Roberta at udel.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From meg at darkwing.uoregon.edu Wed Nov 15 20:28:48 2000 From: meg at darkwing.uoregon.edu (Megan M. Saylor) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 12:28:48 -0800 Subject: exclude enclosures Message-ID: exclude enclosures From bates at crl.ucsd.edu Wed Nov 15 23:29:08 2000 From: bates at crl.ucsd.edu (Liz Bates) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 15:29:08 -0800 Subject: faculty position at UCSD Message-ID: FACULTY POSITION IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO The Department of Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego invites applications for a faculty position at the assistant professor level (tenure-track) starting July 1, 2001, the salary commensurate with the experience of the successful applicant and based on the UC pay scale. The department of cognitive science at UCSD was the first of its kind in the world, and, as part of an exceptional scientific community, it remains a dominant influence in the field it helped to create. The department is truly interdisciplinary, with a faculty whose interests span anthropology, computer science, human development, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, and sociology. The department is looking for a top-caliber junior researcher in cognitive science. Applicants must have a Ph.D. (or ABD). A broad interdisciplinary perspective and experience with multiple methodologies will be highly valued. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. The University of California, San Diego is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. All applications received by January 1, 2001 will receive thorough consideration until position is filled. Candidates should include a vita, reprints, a short letter describing their background and interests, and names and addresses of at least three references to: University of California, San Diego Faculty Search Committee Department of Cognitive Science 0515-EM 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0515 From macw at cmu.edu Thu Nov 16 00:06:13 2000 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 19:06:13 -0500 Subject: enclosures Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, There is no need to post messages to info-childes that say "exclude enclosures" or "exclude attachments". The list is now excluding them by default. --Brian From lauramingoia at tiscalinet.it Fri Nov 17 21:20:17 2000 From: lauramingoia at tiscalinet.it (Laura Mingoia) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 22:20:17 +0100 Subject: research about SLI in children Message-ID: Hello everybody! I'm Laura and I'm preparing my dissertation for my degree at the University. It is about SLI in children, in particular about disphasia. It deals with languge acquisition in Italian and English normal and disordered children aged between 0 and 6 years. Does anybody know if there is any new discovery in that field, please? Thank you very much, laura lauramingoia at tiscalinet.it -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jennifer.harvey2 at ntlworld.com Sat Nov 18 13:26:30 2000 From: jennifer.harvey2 at ntlworld.com (jennifer.harvey2) Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 13:26:30 -0000 Subject: trouble finding article Message-ID: Just wondering if anyone can help me with an article I have been trying to find... Tavakolian, S. Children's use of syntactic structure in interpreting relative clauses. In S. Tavakolian (Eds.) Linguistic theory and language acquisition. Cambridge, Mass. M.I.T. Press, 1981 Have been hunting for the journal and the article. Does anyone know where I can find it, preferably online. 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Thanks, Terry Au ********************************************* Terry Kit-fong Au, Professor Department of Psychology, UCLA Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563, USA Phone: (310)206-9186 Fax: (310)206-5895 From jennifer.harvey2 at ntlworld.com Mon Nov 20 22:25:39 2000 From: jennifer.harvey2 at ntlworld.com (jennifer.harvey2) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 22:25:39 -0000 Subject: Tavakolian book Message-ID: For all those interested the book I was looking for... The reason I couldn't find it was that I had the title slightly wrong and I thought it was a journal article. It is a book and what I though was an article is actually one of the chapters... Tavakolian, S. Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theory Mass. M.I.T. Press 1981 Ctrl no. 0262200392 Here are the suggestions for other books that I received... (Again - thanks for the responses - they were very helpful!) Tavakolian's position (the conjoined-clause analysis) is outlined in some detail in more recent, probably more widely available, publications. You might want to look at: Lebeaux, D. (1990). The grammatical nature of the acquisition sequence: adjoin-a and the formation of the relative clause. In L. Frazier & J. De Villiers (eds.). "Language processing and language acquisition". (pp 13 - 82). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic. Correa, L. (1995). An alternative assessment of children's comprehension of relative clauses. "Journal of Psycholinguistic Research", 24, 183 - 203. Correa, L. (1995). The relative difficulty of children's comprehension of relative clauses: A procedural account. In: K. Nelson & Z. Reger (eds.). "Children's language (Vol. 8)". (pp. 225 - 243). Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum. Crain, S. & Thornton, R. (1998). "Investigation in universal grammar". Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (from Evan Kidd) "If you are interested, my dissertation extract was published in J of Verbal learning and Vbl BehAVIOR, I think), which morphed into another title. Sheldon The acquisition of relative clauses in English JVLVB 1974. You might be able to find Taval=kolian online. I think she got her dissertation at U Mass or maybe MIT before the book publication data. AS" (from Amy Sheldon) Hope this was helpful Jenni Harvey -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From raanders at indiana.edu Tue Nov 21 12:25:04 2000 From: raanders at indiana.edu (Raquel Anderson) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 07:25:04 -0500 Subject: Word frequency estimates for Spanish In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20001120131519.00b79940@protos.lifesci.ucla.edu> Message-ID: There is book, based on written text (2 volumes): Alameda, J. R., & Cuetos, F. (1993). Diccionario de frecuencias de las unidades lingüísticas del castellano. Oviedo, Spain: Universidad de Oviedo. Hope this helps, Raquel Anderson on 11/20/00 4:27 PM, Terry Au at au at psych.ucla.edu wrote: > Is there a good source (book/computerized list) for word frequency > estimates for Spanish? > Thanks, > Terry Au > > ********************************************* > Terry Kit-fong Au, Professor > Department of Psychology, UCLA > Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563, USA > Phone: (310)206-9186 > Fax: (310)206-5895 > > > From mserra at psi.ub.es Wed Nov 22 11:27:52 2000 From: mserra at psi.ub.es (Miquel Serra) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: Word frequency estimates for Spanish II Message-ID: Terry and infochilders, in addition to the Alameda y Cuetos dictionary referred by Raquel Anderson, there is an old but good one of word frequency for (written) spanish: Juillard, A., and Chang, E., 1964, Frequency dictionary of Spanish words. The Hague: Mouton. Just last week has been published in CD-Rom a very useful tool that not only informs about the written frequency, but allows you to study many other possibilities about word composition, adjacencies, coeficient of imaginability, etc. Sebastian, N., Martí, M. A., Carreiras, M. F., and Cuetos, F., 2000, LEXESP, léxico informatizado del español. Barcelona: Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona. ISBN: 84-8338-187-7. You can ask for it at: Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona Balmes 25, 08007, Barcelona, Spain e-mail: eub at org.ub.es If you need an aproximation of (oral) word frequency for children from 1 to 4 years, in the apendix of a book we have published (Serra et al., 2000, La adquisicion del lenguaje. Barcelona Ariel (Grupo Planeta) ISBN: 84-344-0885-6) there is a list from 12 to 23 months; 24 to 35 and 36 to 47 corresponding to 5.246 types (unhappily not lemmas) and 105.557 tokens up to 0,01% of use, allocated by order (and frequency). This data correspond to the Serra-Sole corpus that you can find under Catalan (and Spanish) in attila-www-uia.ac.be/childes It would be interesting for all of us if we could make a list of informtatic or other tools for working in the spanish language Miquel Serra mserra at psi.ub.es From ks7t at andrew.cmu.edu Wed Nov 22 16:21:05 2000 From: ks7t at andrew.cmu.edu (Kelley Sacco) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 11:21:05 -0500 Subject: Assistant Professor of English/Linguistics Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Date: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 5:35 PM -0400 From: Lorelei Stevens To: ks7t at andrew.cmu.edu Subject: Ad Assistant Professor of English/Linguistics The Department of English, Speech, and World Literature of the College of Staten Island of The City University of New York seeks candidates for an anticipated tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of English with a specialization in linguistics beginning September 2001. Required: PhD in Linguistics and a demonstrated commitment to research, publication, and teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Responsibilities include teaching introductory and historical linguistics and composition and literature, performing department and college service, and engagement in an active and productive research agenda. The successful candidate will present credentials appropriate for appointment to the doctoral faculty of the CUNY Graduate Center. Salary range: $42,162-57,049, commensurate with qualifications. Review of applications will begin on November 1, 2000 and continue until the position is filled. Send a letter of application indicating if available for interview at the MLA Annual Meeting, samples of scholarly or creative work (not to exceed 50 pages), a curriculum vitae, the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of at least three references to: Professor Sarah Benesch, Chair, Linguistics Search Committee, Department of English, Room 2S-218, College of Staten Island/CUNY, 2800 Victory Boulevard, Staten Island, NY 10314. EEO/AA/ADA. Lorelei Stevens Advertising Coordinator College of Staten Island/CUNY Email: stevens at postbox.csi.cuny.edu Phone: (718)982-2331 Fax: (718)982-2274 Address:1A-202 2800 Victory Blvd. Staten Island, New York 10314 ---------- End Forwarded Message ---------- From macw at cmu.edu Fri Nov 24 22:03:26 2000 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 17:03:26 -0500 Subject: new Welsh corpus Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, I am happy to announce the addition to CHILDES of a new corpus on the acquisition of Welsh contributed by Bob Jones of Aberystwyth. These data represent a large (500 children) sample of children between the ages of 3 and 7 that was collected in the 1970s, but which was just recently transcribed into CHAT by Dr. Jones and colleagues. The corpus can be found in the /celtic folder on childes.psy.cmu.edu. There are now two Welsh corpora from Bob Jones. This one is labeled "Welsh2". The readme file for this corpus is as follows: THE ABERYSTWYTH DATABASE OF THE WELSH OF CHILDREN 3-7 YEARS OF AGE ================================================================== This database in Childes format was produced by a project which was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) of the UK with an award of £60,611 (R000237978). The project ran from the 1st of July 1999 until the 30th of June 2000. It was directed by Bob Morris Jones and staffed by two researchers, Merris Griffiths and Mared Roberts, in the Department of Education, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 2AX, Wales, UK. The data is based on the spontaneous recordings of children between the ages of three and seven years of age, speaking Welsh. They were recorded in schools throughout Wales in undirected play situations, mainly playing in pairs with various toys in a box of sand. The children are from different school, socio-economic, regional, and linguistic backgrounds. The original recordings were collected during the period 1974-1977 by a project which was located in the same department, funded by the Welsh Office, directed by Professor C.J. Dodson, run by Bob Morris Jones, and staffed at various times by Brec'hed Piette, Hefin Jones, John Jones, Wyn James, Christine James, and Nesta Dodson. There are two cohorts: children from three to five, and children from five to seven. The first digit in the names of the files which make up the database gives the age of the children. The file names of the five year olds of the older cohort are distinguished by the letter 'a' after the first digit. The remaining digits complete the file name in all cases. The scale of the database can be indicated by the following summary: three year olds: 25 files (c3001 - c3025), 418kb, 42 children four year olds: 31 files (c4001 - c4031), 498kb, 62 children five year olds: 39 files (c5001 - c5039), 859kb, 77 children five 'a' year olds: 44 files (c5a001 - c5a044), 855kb, 87 children six year olds: 48 files (c6001 - c6048), 1.00mb, 96 children seven year olds: 52 files (c7001 - c7052), 1.14mb, 104 children Personal names, local place-names, and local places-of-work have been made anonymous by using random nonsense-strings of letters: all begin with an initial capital, and the place names have a final 0. The names of public figures, fictional characters, and more distant places have been retained. Making names anonymous loses some information about word-forms, especially about mutations - where they occur - and word-play. The children produced many noises while playing, and some attempt has been made to transcribe these, although they are not intended to capture the phonetic details. They have the suffix @sn. Nonsense forms, in word-play for instance, have the suffix @gl. Both are declared in the 00depadd.cut file. English is also spoken by various children to different degrees in the database. Single English words - either by themselves or within a Welsh utterance - are not marked. But phrases or sentences of English words are enclosed in scope symbols < ... >, and are followed by the comment [% Saesneg] - 'Saesneg' being the Welsh word for 'English'. Similarly, phrases and sentences which are from songs, nursery rhymes, and similar material are enclosed within < ... > and are followed by the comment [% ca:n] - 'ca:n' (or 'c?n', to use the circumflex - see below) is the Welsh for 'song'. Unfinished words (that is, fragments and not shortened words) are indicated by an initial &. There are many homonyms, many of which come about through phonological processes of elision and assimilation in spontaneous speech. Digits and the apostrophe are used to distinguish different word-forms which otherwise have the same spelling. The lexicon gives the lexeme to which they belong. The apostrophe is declared in the 00depadd.cut file to cater for word-initial occurrences. In spontaneous speech, patterns of a Welsh copula followed by a personal subject pronoun occur as a pronoun only. Such pronouns are indicated by a final apostrophe. There are instances, mainly of directive-like utterances within the context of a game, were it is not entirely clear what the pattern is. But these instances have likewise been give a final apostrophe. Welsh orthography contains circumflexed letters: '?ÍÓÙ' and also 'w' and 'y', for which there is no ASCII provision. Circumflexed letters are not stable over different applications, as is well-known. Consequently, they are represented as 'a: e: i: o:', which convention can then be conveniently extended to 'w: and y:'. This convention is mainly used where ambiguity would otherwise occur. Welsh also makes limited use of the diaeresis and the acute diacritics, but it has not been necessary to cater for these separately. The data files contain utterances by children and adults. The former are identified as Target_child or Child on the @Participant header line in the data files; the latter are identified as Investigators and Teachers. The utterances of the adults have been transcribed in full, but not as painstakingly as those of the children; in particular, homonyms have not all been disambiguated through transcription. The lexicon contains the word-forms produced by the children. It does not contain word-forms produced by adult participants. The lexicon contains all the Welsh words and single English-words which occur within a Welsh utterance or by themselves. It does not contain English words which are in English phrases or sentences. It does not contain proper names, the spellings of noises or nonsense words - they can be identified in the data by an initial capital, the suffix @sn, and the suffix @gl, respectively. Neither does it contain xxx (for indecipherable material), and unfinished fragments which begin with &. The categories and their codes in the lexicon are as follows: ?? = multi-category form which is ambiguous in context a1 = pro-form place adjuncts like FANNA 'there', FAMA 'here', FANCW 'yonder' ab = conjuncts and disjuncts like HEFYD 'also', FELLY 'therefore' ad = other adjuncts ag = apsect markers YN 'progressive', WEDI 'perfective' an = adjectives ar = prepositions as = adverbs ALLAN 'out', YMLAEN 'onwards'. I-FFWRDD 'away', I-LAWR 'down', etc. at = adverbs beginning with TU - TU-ALLAN 'outside', TU-OL 'behind', etc. b4 = Welsh finite verb with English inflection bd = English verbs in "-ed", "-en" or equivalent e.g. 'crashed', 'drunk' be = verbnoun forms (compare English plain infinitive) including auxiliaries but not BOD 'be' bf = finite-verb forms (including the imparative forms) except BOD 'be' bg = English verbs in "-ing" bp = English plain infinitive forms cd = co-ordinating conjunctions ce = verbnoun (compare English plain infinitive) of BOD 'be' cf = finite forms of BOD 'be' cm = MWY 'more' as a comparative particle before adjectives cn = greetings and farewells cy = subordinating conjunctions like ACHOS 'because' eb = standard exclamations like AA 'ah', OO 'oh' en = nouns er = the post-modifying words ARALL 'other' and ERAILL 'others' es = EISIAU 'wants, needs' - a nominal form g1 = nominal wh- words - BETH 'what', PWY 'who' g2 = adverbial wh- words - PRYD 'when', PAM 'why', SUT 'how' g3 = the wh- word PA 'which' g4 = compounds involving wh- words like BETH+BYNNAG 'whatever', PRYD+BYNNAG 'whenever' g5 = the wh- word FAINT 'how much/many' ga = grammatcically invariant answer words IE 'yes', NAGE 'no', DO 'yes' a NADDO 'no'. gc = the comparative particle NA 'than' gd = demonstrative words DYNA 'there/that is', DYMA 'here/this is', DACW 'yonder is' gg = intensifiers like RHY 'too', GO 'gairly', MOR 'so'. gm = quantifiers like DIGON 'enough', LLAWER 'much/many, MWY 'more' gr = preverbal particles like MI, FE, NI and focussing particles like MAI, AI gt = the predicatival particle YN ll = pro-form adjuncts YNA 'there', YMA 'here' and ACW 'yonder' ly = letters of the alphabet mo = words indicating epistemic modality EFALLAI 'perhaps', HWYRACH 'perhaps' ne = the negator DIM 'no/not' both as quantifier and adverb on = onomatopoeic-type forms pa = politeness expressions pe = determiners pi = forms of PIAU, used to indicate ownership qq = for obscure forms r1 = personal pronouns r2 = demonstrative pronouns r3 = indefinite pronouns like RHYWUN 'someone' r4 = negative pronouns r5 = reflexive pronouns r6 = reciprocal pronouns r7 = conjunctive pronouns like FINNAU 'me too' r8 = prefixed (possessive) pronouns r9 = the 'alternative' pronoun LLALL 'other', LLEILL 'others' rd = RHAID 'must, necessity' ri = numbers rp = universal pronouns like PAWB 'everyone' rq = indefinite phrases like BETH+'NA 'thingie', LLE+'NA, BE+TI'+'N+GALW 'what do you call it' sg = standard verbal pauses like YMM 'uhm' sy = standard paralinguistic forms like HY-HY 'uh-uh', MM-MM 'uhm-uhm' ya = manner-adverbial particle YN e.g. YN GYFLYM 'quickly' Multi-membership, if found in the corpus, is indicated by the Childes convention for this, that is, a backward slash after the first entry, followed on the succeeding line(s) by another entry. These categories serve only to identify data which can be recovered for analysis. They are not intended to represent probing analyses. This latter point applies to all transcriptional conventions in this database - they serve as ways of recovering data for analysis. The files supplied for this database are as follows: data files: c3001 - c3025 c4001 - c4031 c5001 - c5039 c5a001 - ca5044 c6001 - c6048 c7001 - c7052 lexicon files: welsh3_7.lex (the main lexicon) gl.lex (nonsense words) sn.lex (noises) others: 00depadd.cut 00readme.cdc (this file) Bob Morris Jones (19/8/2000) e-mail: bmj at aber.ac.uk personal homepage: http://users.aber.ac.uk/bmj/ project homepage: http://users.aber.ac.uk/bmj/abercld/cyntaf.html From lauramingoia at tiscalinet.it Sat Nov 25 08:11:32 2000 From: lauramingoia at tiscalinet.it (Laura Mingoia) Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 09:11:32 +0100 Subject: thank you! Message-ID: Thank You everybody for having answered me! I hope to find all the articles and books that you have suggested me. Laura Mingoia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ann.dowker at psy.ox.ac.uk Sat Nov 25 19:33:04 2000 From: ann.dowker at psy.ox.ac.uk (Ann Dowker) Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 19:33:04 +0000 Subject: No subject In-Reply-To: <009e01c056b7$bb4159c0$c8370b3e@lauraalbi> Message-ID: I am sure that other people have already mentioned the work of Dorothy Bishop, e.g. her book "Uncommon Understanding", and her numerous papers including: D. Bishop: The underlying nature of specific language impairment; Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 1997, 33, 3-66. Other papers that may interest you include: Some of the writings of Paule Aimard; e.g. Les Troubles du Langage chez l'Enfant; Paris: P.U.F., 1984 G. Conti-Ramsden, C. Donlan and J. Grove: Children with specific language impairments: curricular opportunities and school performance; British Journal of Special Education, 1992, 19, 75-80 (and other papers by Gina Conti-Ramsden and by Chris Donlan Papers by Barbara Fazio M. Gopnik: When language is a problem; in R. Campbell (ed.) Mental Lives; Blackwell, 1992 (and other papers by Gopnik) V.L. Joffe: Rhyming and related skills in children with specific language impairment; Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive/ Current Psychology of Cognition, 1998, 17. 479-512. P. Tallal, L. Allard, S. Miller and S. Curtiss: Academic outcomes of language impaired children; in: C. Hulme and M. Snowling (eds.) Dyslexia: Biology, Cognition and Intervention; Whurr, 1997 (and other papers by Paula Tallal) Anne Van Kleeck: Metalinguistic development. In: G.P. Wallach and K.G. Butler (eds.): Language Learning Disabilities in School Age Children and Adolescents; Williams and Wilkins, 1993. (Also other chapters in this book, and other papers by Van Kleeck) From macw at cmu.edu Sat Nov 25 21:41:26 2000 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 16:41:26 -0500 Subject: new Spanish SLI data Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, Miquel Serra of the University of Barcelona has contributed a set of 20 files documenting cases of Specific Language Impairment in Spanish. There are five SLI children and five normally developing control children. Each child has one transcript from about age 4 and another from about age 5. One of the five SLI children is bilingual in Castillian and Catalan. The files are in serra.zip and serra.sit in the /clinical folder on the server. Many thanks to Miquel for these data. --Brian MacWhinney From macw at cmu.edu Sat Nov 25 23:26:28 2000 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 18:26:28 -0500 Subject: new data set on welfare Mothers Message-ID: I am happy to announce the addition to CHILDES of a new data set of conversations between welfare mothers and their children. The data were contributed by Kathryn Barnard and Colleen Morisset. They are to be found in morisset.sit and morisset.zip on the server. These data come from a three-site study of language in children of welfare mothers conducted the late 1980s. The sites were Seattle, Topeka, and UCLA. The 68 transcripts from the Seattle site used the prohibition task. The 79 transcripts from the Topeka site used snack sessions. In both of these sites, the children were all about 2;6 of age. For the Topeka data, the language sample is said to begin when the Examiner leaves the room (usually at the sound of the door closing) after she has finished setting up the snack. It ends when the Examiner reenters after about six minutes. In the UCLA sample, there are 116 children ranging in age from about 2;11 to 3;6. Articles that have made use of these data include: Kelly, J. F., Morisset, C. E., Barnard, K. E., Hammond, M. A., & al., e. (1996). The influence of early mother-child interaction on preschool cognitive/linguistic outcomes in a high-social-risk group. Infant Mental Health Journal, Health-Journal. Morisset, C. (1991). Environmental influences on language development of high social-risk toddlers. University of Washington Ph.D thesis. Morisset, C. E., Barnard, K. E., & Booth, C. L. (1995). Toddlers' language development: Sex differences within social risk. Developmental Psychology, 31(5), 851-865. Morisset, C. E., Barnard, K. E., Greenberg, M. T., Booth, C. L., & Spieker, S. J. (1990). Environmental influence on early language development: The context of social risk. Development and Psychopathology, 2, 127-149. From shanti at unitel.spb.ru Sun Nov 26 12:13:33 2000 From: shanti at unitel.spb.ru (Victoria Ryskina) Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 15:13:33 +0300 Subject: interaction and language acquisition Message-ID: Dear All, if anybody know the study about mother - child early interaction and further language acquisition (normal and SLI children) ? What about using CHILDES sistem for study of maternal style? Thanks in advance. Victoria Ryskina , Russia, S-Petersburg, Early Intervention Instutute Chair of language acquisition From centenoj at stjohns.edu Sun Nov 26 22:00:08 2000 From: centenoj at stjohns.edu (Jose G. Centeno) Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:00:08 -0500 Subject: >> Spanish Word Frequency Estimates < Message-ID: Here are some other references: 1) Gonzalez-Grullón, A., Cabanes, V.S., and García, F.C.(1981). Informe de la Investigación del Léxico Básico de la Lengua Escrita en República Dominicana y Diccionario de Uso, Frecuencia, y Dispersión. Santo Domingo: Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña. 2)Juilland, A., and Chang-Rodriguez, E.(1964). Frequency Dictionary of Spanish Words. London: Mouton. 3)Marquéz-Villegas, L.(1975). Vocabulario del Español Hablado. Madrid: Sociedad General Española de Librería. 4)Morales, A.(1986). Léxico Básico del Español de Puerto Rico. Madrid: Grafur Jose C. >===== Original Message From Raquel Anderson ===== >There is book, based on written text (2 volumes): > >Alameda, J. R., & Cuetos, F. (1993). Diccionario de frecuencias de las >unidades lingüísticas del castellano. Oviedo, Spain: Universidad de Oviedo. > >Hope this helps, > >Raquel Anderson > > > >on 11/20/00 4:27 PM, Terry Au at au at psych.ucla.edu wrote: > >> Is there a good source (book/computerized list) for word frequency >> estimates for Spanish? >> Thanks, >> Terry Au >> >> ********************************************* >> Terry Kit-fong Au, Professor >> Department of Psychology, UCLA >> Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563, USA >> Phone: (310)206-9186 >> Fax: (310)206-5895 >> >> >> ___________________________________________________ Jose G. Centeno, Ph.D., CCC-SLP Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology Program Dept. of Speech, Communication Sciences, & Theatre St. John's University 8000 Utopia Parkway Jamaica, NY 11439 Tel: 718-990-2629, 6452 Fax: 718-990-5878 ___________________________________________________ From macw at cmu.edu Wed Nov 1 18:55:27 2000 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 13:55:27 -0500 Subject: Transcriber support and clip-making in CLAN Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, Current versions of CLAN (both Mac and PC) not have better support for transcription from digitized audio files. These facilities are linked to the F5 key. Transcriber mode is basically a much faster, but less precise, variant on sonic mode. It is intended for two uses. The first is for transcribers who wish to link a digitized file to an already existing CHAT transcript. The second is for transcribers who wish to produce a new transcript from a digitized file. In both cases, you enter the mode by pressing F5. If you are linking to an old transcript, you place your cursor at the first utterance and then press F5. You then press the space bar after each utterance and a time-mark bullet is entered with the time from the last utterance to the end of the current utterance. These marks will be as accurate as your own fast segmenting judgments. Dealing with overlaps can be difficult. It is best not to be too demanding in this mode and clean up problems later in Sonic Mode. The second use is for creating new transcripts from digital audio. In this mode, just open a new file, press F5, locate your sound file, begin playing. Again, press the space bar after each utterance and lines of this shape will be entered: *: ? After you are done adding bullets, double-click to stop the process. Go to the top of the file, and insert @Begin and @Participants lines. Use the @Participants to generate key shortcuts under the View menu. Then replay the first bullet, transcribe it, and use the appropriate command-1 or command-2 key to enter the speaker ID. Then go on to the next utterance and repeat the process. The result will be a full transcription that is roughly linked to the audio. The other new facility in CLAN is the capacity to create a small sound-clip file from a segment marked with a bullet. (Actually, these appear as small blocks on Windows). If you have an utterance attached to a bullet, you just play it with command-click. Then you go under the File menu and select "Save Last Clip As ..." and the clip will be saved as a sound file in AIFF format. This function is great for people who wish to use sound examples as ways of illustrating specific phenomena, as in Ann Peters' "fillers" page (http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/fillers/index.html) or other tutorial materials. It is also now being used by people preparing analyses of classroom instruction and learning, for example. It can also have a role for acoustic analysis. --Brian MacWhinney From bpearson at comdis.umass.edu Thu Nov 2 07:08:26 2000 From: bpearson at comdis.umass.edu (Barbara Zurer Pearson) Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 02:08:26 -0500 Subject: "Childes --> PRAAT" Demo at BU Conference Message-ID: Dear Info-childes/BU attendees: We have organized an informal demonstration session for people at the BU Conference who would be interested in seeing PRAAT* in action. SUNDAY, Nov 5 Lunch Hour (1-2 pm) Terrace Lounge (where Session C takes place) George Sherman Union at Boston University, Commonwealth Ave at the BU Bridge KAREN RATHBUN of Brown University will show how she uses some of the capabilities of PRAAT in her lab. Others are welcome to chime in. (Bring a box lunch.) Disclaimer: I want to thank the BU organizers for making the space available to us. Everyone (and anyone) is welcome, but we make no claims for the session. We are not affiliated with the lab that created the programs, and none of us is expert in them. Karen has given demonstrations for research assistants in her lab; Joe Pater has volunteered to come and kibbitz. Additional kibbitzers are welcome, as are people who just want to eat their lunch in a clean, well-lighted place. See you there. Barbara Pearson, Rank Novice at PRAAT *Following is the original notice from Brian MacWhinney about the link between CHILDES and PRAAT. >>To: info-childes at mail.talkbank.org >>Cc: paul.boersma at hum.uva.nl >>X-OriginalArrivalTime: 28 Sep 2000 23:29:08.0653 (UTC) Dear Info-CHILDES, Thanks to guidance from Paul Boersma, it is now possible to send a sound clip from a CHAT file to the Praat sound analysis program. To do this, you must have a CHAT file with audio segments marked by bullets. You must have Praat installed. You can get Praat from http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/ You must have a brand-new version of CLAN. Praat must be running when you do this. You then place your cursor before the segment you wish to analyse and pull down the Mode menu and select "Send to Praat" Then you analyze the clip in Praat. ****************************************** Barbara Zurer Pearson, Ph.D. Project Manager, NIH Working Group on AAE Department of Communication Disorders University of Massachusetts, Amherst 117 Arnold House Amherst MA 01003 413-545-5023 fax 545-0803 bpearson at comdis.umass.edu http://www.umass.edu/aae/ From als at ip.pt Fri Nov 3 00:11:06 2000 From: als at ip.pt (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Ana_L=FAcia_Santos?=) Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 00:11:06 -0000 Subject: Call for papers - GALA Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS GALA 2001 - Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition Palmela, Portugal - 14-16 September 2001 Organization: Universidade de Lisboa, Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Associa??o Portuguesa de Lingu?stica Information available at: http://www.fcsh.unl.pt/clunl/gala_index.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From menyuk at bu.edu Mon Nov 6 19:06:05 2000 From: menyuk at bu.edu (Paula Menyuk) Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:06:05 -0400 Subject: No subject Message-ID: My original message (which some of you did not receive) was that all sentences that are of the form "If you be good I or someone will do something to or for you.." are no good because "you" takes the verb "are" and further that these were not "command sentences. I was waiting for a response like phooey! and a discussion about dialect. It was interesting because a non-native teacher of English posed the question. I do thank all of you who responded even though you did not get my original message. Although dialect questions seem to have been backgrounded they remain, in my mind, of great interest, and have great educatonal importance. From macw at cmu.edu Tue Nov 7 15:40:43 2000 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 10:40:43 -0500 Subject: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition Message-ID: As of January 1, 2001 manuscripts submitted to Bilingualism: Language and Cognition should be sent to Judith Kroll who will become coordinating editor on that date: Dr. Judith Kroll Department of Psychology 641 Moore Building The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802 USA E-mail: jfk7 at psu.edu Phone: 814-863-0126 Fax: 814-863-7002 Instructions for contributors can be found in the journal and on the journal's web page: http://uk.cambridge.org/journals/bil/ Judith Kroll Professor of Psychology and Applied Linguistics 641 Moore Building Department of Psychology Penn State University University Park, PA 16802 Phone: 814-863-0126 Fax: 814-863-7002 E-mail: jfk7 at psu.edu From macw at cmu.edu Thu Nov 9 22:40:25 2000 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 17:40:25 -0500 Subject: linked audio files on the web Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, I have now placed about 30 hours of linked audio files on the web. They are at http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/audio/ The files are in AIFF. The two corpora we have linked are Bernstein and MacWhinney. Some of the MacWhinney files are very carefully linked. The rests of the MacWhinney files and all of the Bernstein files are more roughly linked in the sense that the borders of sounds are approximate. Michael Brent tells me that there are simple ways to get exact linking, but I haven't run into them yet. The CHAT files in these folders will download quite quickly. I haven't wrapped them up with ZIP, so be careful to make sure they don't get corrupted during transfer. If you have problems, I can zip them. The audio files should transfer OK without zipping, but they are huge -- in the order of 40-80 MB each. So please transfer these data prudently. I would like to avoid having people loading down the machine with lots of big audio transfers. Eventually, we can distribute these data on DVD in MP3 format, but there is still some controversy regarding the use of MP3 for our purposes. --Brian MacWhinney From CMartinot at aol.com Fri Nov 10 13:12:50 2000 From: CMartinot at aol.com (CMartinot at aol.com) Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 08:12:50 EST Subject: acquisition of Arabic as mother tongue Message-ID: Supervising with a colleague a graduate work on the acquisition of Arabic as a mother tongue from a linguistical point of view I would like to know exactly who is working on the same subject and what are the references in that domain. If anybody feels concerned with arabic language and acquisition I would be very pleased to know all these persons. Many thanks in advance. Claire Martinot, Universit? Ren? Descartes, Paris V. From marders at net-alliance.net.ar Fri Nov 10 21:27:24 2000 From: marders at net-alliance.net.ar (Sandra Esther Marder) Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 18:27:24 -0300 Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Menchaca=B4s_mail_adress.?= Message-ID: I need de E-mail adress of Marta Valdez Menchaca, she is from Guadalahara, Mexico. I have one but it is not working now: mvaldez at warrior.asfg.mx. Thank you everybody Sandra Marder From mdunn at bsos.umd.edu Sat Nov 11 16:07:37 2000 From: mdunn at bsos.umd.edu (Megan Dunn) Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 11:07:37 -0500 Subject: Social competency in second language learners Message-ID: Hi All- I am doing a research project comparing the social competencies of SLI children versus ESL children. I am having some difficulty finding resources for the ESL component of this topic. Does anyone know of any good references for social skills and interaction in second language learners? Thanks! Megan From eleanorb at human.tsukuba.ac.jp Mon Nov 13 01:14:34 2000 From: eleanorb at human.tsukuba.ac.jp (E. O. Batchelder) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 10:14:34 +0900 Subject: If you be good... Message-ID: Dear Paula: Just for the record, I posed the question. I am a native English speaker, and am doing research in Japan. A graduate student in linguistics here, who is a native Japanese speaker, comes to me for native-speaker judgments, and presented the sentence in question. I remembered this (as a collocation/idiom) from my childhood. I don't think it's a question of dialect, since I don't think anybody believes these are particularly productive. Just a frozen corner of English that some of us have, and it's not clear whether this is a function of area, or age, or neither, or both! I received opinions on this matter from 16 people -- thanks very much, all! -- and forwarded them to the graduate student. I hope he'll have a summary forthcoming at some point. Thanks, Eleanor -- Eleanor Olds Batchelder, Ph. D. Institute of Psychology, University of Tsukuba http://www.human.tsukuba.ac.jp/~eleanorb [an alternate email address is: eleanor at abacus.hunter.cuny.edu] voice: 0298-53-7376 Mail address: Azuma 4-16-4-401 Tsukuba, Ibaraki, JAPAN 305-0031 ==== Please don't send me HTML as email! ====== From doritr at post.tau.ac.il Mon Nov 13 21:24:48 2000 From: doritr at post.tau.ac.il (Dorit Ravid) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 21:24:48 -0000 Subject: Please post Message-ID: Please post and inform your colleagues: ACADEMIC POST IN LANGUAGE DISORDERS The Department of Communication Disorders, Speech, Language and Hearing, Tel Aviv University, Israel, seeks a faculty member for a tenure-track academic position. The position is available from October, 2001. Duties involve teaching and research in one or more of the following areas of expertise: Developmental language disorders Learning disabilities associated with language disorders, and neurogenic language and speech disorders in adults Successful candidates will be expected to develop and pursue a vigorous research program and to obtain external funding. Applicants should send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, list of publications and interests to the address below. Three letters of recommendation from scientists (in the same areas of expertise) should be sent independently. All the the aforementioned should be mailed to: The Search Committee c/o Amit Nitzan Sacklet Faculty of Medicine Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv 69978 Israel Email: amitn at post.tau.ac.il From feldman at stripe.colorado.edu Mon Nov 13 20:52:37 2000 From: feldman at stripe.colorado.edu (FELDMAN ANDREA) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 13:52:37 -0700 Subject: reference Message-ID: Does anyone have a reference for the Verbal Language Development Exam (author Meecham) given by pediatricians to two-year olds? Andrea Feldman From nratner at hesp.umd.edu Mon Nov 13 21:12:54 2000 From: nratner at hesp.umd.edu (Nan Ratner) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 16:12:54 -0500 Subject: reference Message-ID: It is a very old parental interview tool (1971) not highly recommended by its review in Darley (1979). The LDS and MCDI would seem to have supplanted it rather nicely. Nan Nan Bernstein Ratner, Ed.D. Chairman Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 301-405-4217 301-314-2023 (FAX) Steering Committee Coordinator, Special Interest Division 4 : Fluency and Fluency Disorders American Speech-Language and Hearing Association nratner at hesp.umd.edu >>> FELDMAN ANDREA 11/13/00 03:52PM >>> Does anyone have a reference for the Verbal Language Development Exam (author Meecham) given by pediatricians to two-year olds? Andrea Feldman From feldman at stripe.colorado.edu Mon Nov 13 21:54:03 2000 From: feldman at stripe.colorado.edu (FELDMAN ANDREA) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 14:54:03 -0700 Subject: VLDS reference (fwd) Message-ID: Thanks to all those who replied to my query. The reference is: Mecham, M. J. (1959). Verbal language development scale. Minneapolis, MN: American Guidance Services. Best wishes, Ron Channell From jevans2 at facstaff.wisc.edu Mon Nov 13 22:48:33 2000 From: jevans2 at facstaff.wisc.edu (julia evans) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 16:48:33 -0600 Subject: position vacancy in child language-disorders Message-ID: POSITION VACANCY LISTING PVL# 38438 University of Wisconsin-Madison ASSISTANT , ASSOCIATE OR PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION DISORDERS Degree and area of specialization: Ph.D. (or equivalent) In Communicative Sciences & Disorders, Experimental Psychology, Linguistics, Cognitive and/or Behavioral Neuroscience, or a related field. Minimum number of years and type of relevant work experience: Candidate with interest in any areas of speech/language pathology, audiology, and/or speech and hearing science are invited to apply, particularly those with expertise in one of the following areas: Speech and language development, disorders, and differences (including those associated with diverse cultural backgrounds); Language & literacy; Auditory habilitation/rehabilitation; Hearing impairment; or, Applied cognitive neuroscience. Prefer university-level teaching, and research and/or clinical experience, though entry-level individuals are encouraged to apply. Appointment at the tenured level requires record of excellence in scholarly research. Principal duties: Teach graduate and undergraduate courses in the department of Communicative Disorders in areas appropriate to candidate's Interests and background. Establish and conduct a research program in areas of specialization. Advise students in academic and research areas. Serve on departmental and university committees. ************************* Appointment type: Faculty Department(s): L&S / COMMUN DISORDERS Full time salary rate: Minimum $50,000 ACADEMIC (9 months) Depending on Qualifications Appointment percent: 100% Anticipated begin date: January 1, 2001 Number of positions: 1 To insure consideration, application must be received by: December 31, 2000 HOW TO APPLY: Send resume and cover letter referring to Position Vacancy Listing # 38438 to PROF JOHN WESTBURY Phone: 608-265-4811 479 GOODNIGHT HALL TTY Phone: N/A 1975 WILLOW DRIVE Fax: 608-262-6466 MADISON WI 53706-1103 E-mail: westbury at facstaff.wisc.edu NOTE: Unless confidentiality is requested in writing, information regarding the names of applicants must be released upon request. Finalists cannot be guaranteed confidentiality. UW-Madison is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Carol Miller At 05:53 PM 11/13/2000 -0800, you wrote: >I don't know if anyone else had this problem, but an info-childes >message that I received contained the virus WScript.KakWorm in it. >Fortunately my Norton AntiVirus program caught it and deleted it before >it could do any damage to my computer. I was also on my university's >server and I had them delete it too. The message was from Dorit Ravid > >Ray Weitzman > >-- >Raymond S. Weitzman, Ph.D. >Department of Linguistics >5245 N. Backer Avenue, M/S PB92 >California State University, Fresno >Fresno, California 93740-8001 > >Office: 559-278-2437 >Home: 559-434-0838 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Carol Miller Penn State University 115-B Moore Building (814) 865-6213 cam47 at psu.edu ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From munso005 at umn.edu Tue Nov 14 15:34:55 2000 From: munso005 at umn.edu (Benjamin Munson) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 07:34:55 -0800 Subject: Virus part 3 Message-ID: Dear Listserv: Since we're all testifying, let me add my two cents: McAfee Virus Scan did *not* catch the virus, even though I downloaded the most recent update just this morning. Norton AV did catch it on my home machine. Yours, Benjamin Munson, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Communication Disorders University of Minnesota 47 Shevlin Hall (Department office: room 115) 164 Pillsbury Drive, S.E. Minneapolis, MN 55455 Voice: (612) 624-0304 Fax: (612) 624-7586 "I grow old...I grow old... I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare eat a peach? I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think they will sing to me." -T.S. Eliot From lsc at th.com.br Tue Nov 14 17:47:41 2000 From: lsc at th.com.br (Leonor Scliar Cabral) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:47:41 -0200 Subject: Virus Problem Message-ID: I got the same problem from Dorit! Prof. Dr. Leonor Scliar-Cabral "Raymond S. Weitzman" wrote: > I don't know if anyone else had this problem, but an info-childes > message that I received contained the virus WScript.KakWorm in it. > Fortunately my Norton AntiVirus program caught it and deleted it before > it could do any damage to my computer. I was also on my university's > server and I had them delete it too. The message was from Dorit Ravid > > Ray Weitzman > > -- > Raymond S. Weitzman, Ph.D. > Department of Linguistics > 5245 N. Backer Avenue, M/S PB92 > California State University, Fresno > Fresno, California 93740-8001 > > Office: 559-278-2437 > Home: 559-434-0838 From dthal at mail.sdsu.edu Tue Nov 14 20:28:54 2000 From: dthal at mail.sdsu.edu (Donna Thal) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 12:28:54 -0800 Subject: Virus Problem In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20001114075339.00aa2100@email.psu.edu> Message-ID: I also have an infected computer, and my antivirus program has been unable to correct it. I also cannot delete the file. What a pain! Have either of you been able to clean your disk and get rid of the virus/worm? Donna Thal At 07:54 AM 11/14/00 -0500, Carol Miller wrote: >Norton AV also caught this worm on my computer, although I didn't trace it >to that particular message. >Carol Miller > >At 05:53 PM 11/13/2000 -0800, you wrote: >>I don't know if anyone else had this problem, but an info-childes >>message that I received contained the virus WScript.KakWorm in it. >>Fortunately my Norton AntiVirus program caught it and deleted it before >>it could do any damage to my computer. I was also on my university's >>server and I had them delete it too. The message was from Dorit Ravid >>> >>Ray Weitzman >> >>-- >>Raymond S. Weitzman, Ph.D. >>Department of Linguistics >>5245 N. Backer Avenue, M/S PB92 >>California State University, Fresno >>Fresno, California 93740-8001 >> >>Office: 559-278-2437 >>Home: 559-434-0838 > > > > >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >Carol Miller >Penn State University >115-B Moore Building >(814) 865-6213 >cam47 at psu.edu >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Donna J. Thal, Ph.D. Developmental Psycholinguistics Laboratory 6330 Alvarado Court, Suite 231 San Diego, CA 92120 phone: 619-594-7110 fax: 619-594-4570 Department of Communicative Disorders San Diego State University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dandrews at u.washington.edu Tue Nov 14 20:27:20 2000 From: dandrews at u.washington.edu (D. Andrews) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 12:27:20 -0800 Subject: Virus Problem In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.20001114122709.00b58350@mail.sdsu.edu> Message-ID: I opened Dorit's email message and immediately deleted it, on my home computer, which does NOT have a virus scan. What symptoms are you having and how do I know if my computer has it? My computer HAS been tempermental and slow for a few days and I'm wondering how to tell if that's why. Thanks to any and all for any help. Donna *<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>* Donna Bosworth Andrews dandrews at u.washington.edu Dept of Linguistics University of Washington (206) 543-2046 Box 354340 (206) 685-7978 (fax) Seattle, WA 98195 On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Donna Thal wrote: > I also have an infected computer, and my antivirus program has been unable > to correct it. I also cannot delete the file. What a pain! Have either > of you been able to clean your disk and get rid of the virus/worm? > > Donna Thal > > At 07:54 AM 11/14/00 -0500, Carol Miller wrote: > >Norton AV also caught this worm on my computer, although I didn't trace it > >to that particular message. > >Carol Miller > > > >At 05:53 PM 11/13/2000 -0800, you wrote: > >>I don't know if anyone else had this problem, but an info-childes > >>message that I received contained the virus WScript.KakWorm in it. > >>Fortunately my Norton AntiVirus program caught it and deleted it before > >>it could do any damage to my computer. I was also on my university's > >>server and I had them delete it too. The message was from Dorit Ravid > >> >> > >>Ray Weitzman > >> > >>-- > >>Raymond S. Weitzman, Ph.D. > >>Department of Linguistics > >>5245 N. Backer Avenue, M/S PB92 > >>California State University, Fresno > >>Fresno, California 93740-8001 > >> > >>Office: 559-278-2437 > >>Home: 559-434-0838 > > > > > > > > > >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > >Carol Miller > >Penn State University > >115-B Moore Building > >(814) 865-6213 > >cam47 at psu.edu > >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > > Donna J. Thal, Ph.D. > Developmental Psycholinguistics Laboratory > 6330 Alvarado Court, Suite 231 > San Diego, CA 92120 > phone: 619-594-7110 > fax: 619-594-4570 > > Department of Communicative Disorders > San Diego State University > From macgibbon at mediaone.net Tue Nov 14 20:49:08 2000 From: macgibbon at mediaone.net (Ann MacGibbon) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:49:08 -0500 Subject: Virus Problem Message-ID: Will someone please help me with this? I've never had a virus on my computer, and don't quite know what I should do. My internet provider says that if I had a virus I would know by now. Can someone tell me if the virus was in an attachment, or would I get it simply because I received the e-mail and then deleted it? Thanks Ann From cech at louisiana.edu Tue Nov 14 20:59:44 2000 From: cech at louisiana.edu (Claude G. Cech) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 14:59:44 -0600 Subject: Virus Problem Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From macw at cmu.edu Tue Nov 14 21:16:26 2000 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 16:16:26 -0500 Subject: Virus Problem In-Reply-To: <003f01c04e7c$56012240$3fd49318@ne.mediaone.net> Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, Sorry about the virus in the attachment to Dorit Ravid's email posting. I don't intercept mail messages. The only way to block this sort of thing would be to reject all messages with attachments. The message was posted Monday morning and included an attachment. My guess is that most people did not extract the attachment since the essence of the message was contained in the main text-only message. It was an announcement of a position in Communication Disorders at the Tel-Aviv University. From the info and removal instructions at http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/nav.nsf/docid/2000020318071406 it appears that this virus is only spread through the use of Outlook Express as your mailer. It only affects Windows 95/98. Anthony Aristar has removed the virus from the archives of Info-CHILDES. He is also searching for it on other lists in case it gets posted there. It appears that the message will not be included in the digests of info-childes for this week, since messages with attachments are excluded from the digest. If people wish, I could set on option on info-childes to exclude attachments. However, I hate to block this facility just because Outlook Express has these security problems. Please send me your recommendations on this issue (macw at cmu.edu) if you have strong feelings either way. --Brian MacWhinney From macw at cmu.edu Tue Nov 14 23:47:34 2000 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 18:47:34 -0500 Subject: Sound Analysis Message-ID: Dear AnimalTalk People (and others), If you connect now to http://www.talkbank.org/animal/sa.html you will find that you can download the programs and manual for the Sound Analysis program contributed by Ofer Tchernichovski at Rockefeller University and Partha Mitra at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies. This program only run on Windows. Sound Analysis does excellent Wiener entropy analyses and includes strong facilities to measure the similarity of two sounds. It also contains several other analysis routines. The sample files are songs from the zebra finch and Ofer will eventually contribute a large database of zebra finch songs too. However, I am guessing that this program could have uses across many types of communication for various analyses. For example, what about applications to human infant babbling? Thanks to Ofer for this contribution to the AnimalTalk segment of TalkBank. --Brian MacWhinney From cech at louisiana.edu Tue Nov 14 23:51:56 2000 From: cech at louisiana.edu (Claude G. Cech) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 17:51:56 -0600 Subject: hta files (re: kak virus) Message-ID: Sorry, quick clarification on my earlier note: "Claude G. Cech" wrote: > If you do get a message that the virus is not present, do a > search for "kak" or "*.hta" files to verify; I found a *.kak file > hiding in my cache. In > that case, check the procedure on this link: > > http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/nav.nsf/docid/2000020318071406 A(n) *.hta file isn't necessarily evidence of an infection; but at least one version of the worm that has been infecting machines does create a "kak.hta" file... From macgibbon at mediaone.net Wed Nov 15 00:11:11 2000 From: macgibbon at mediaone.net (Ann MacGibbon) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 19:11:11 -0500 Subject: Virus Problem Message-ID: I just want to make this clear. I deleted the message without opening the attachment (I always do) and I still got the virus. Ann From macgibbon at mediaone.net Wed Nov 15 01:13:15 2000 From: macgibbon at mediaone.net (Ann MacGibbon) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 20:13:15 -0500 Subject: Thanks was Virus Problem Message-ID: I'm very grateful to everyone who responded to my request for help in ridding my computer of the virus. I guess I'm very lucky that I've never gotten one before. I appreciate very much that people on this list took the time to provide advice and support both on the list and privately. Thanks very much, Ann MacGibbon From asheldon at tc.umn.edu Wed Nov 15 01:45:43 2000 From: asheldon at tc.umn.edu (Amy L Sheldon) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 19:45:43 -0600 Subject: Virus Problem In-Reply-To: <005a01c04e98$8f924fe0$3fd49318@ne.mediaone.net> Message-ID: if this is the case then prohibiting attachments would be best, but would that then prevent this sort of virus? How does this virus work? Amy On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Ann MacGibbon wrote: > I just want to make this clear. I deleted the message without opening > the attachment (I always do) and I still got the virus. > > Ann > > > > > From msigstad at ciudad.com.ar Wed Nov 15 02:49:24 2000 From: msigstad at ciudad.com.ar (Mariana Sigstad) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 23:49:24 -0300 Subject: Virus Problem Message-ID: I let it in my computer, and then I erased all my inbox files. Anyway, I couldn't find my inbox files in the first attempt to correct that infected file. I can't explain the damage I got loosing so much archives. Mariana Sigstad Donna Thal wrote: > I also have an infected computer, and my antivirus program has been > unable to correct it. I also cannot delete the file. What a pain! > Have either of you been able to clean your disk and get rid of the > virus/worm? > > Donna Thal > > At 07:54 AM 11/14/00 -0500, Carol Miller wrote: > >> Norton AV also caught this worm on my computer, although I didn't >> trace it to that particular message. >> Carol Miller >> >> At 05:53 PM 11/13/2000 -0800, you wrote: >> >> > I don't know if anyone else had this problem, but an info-childes >> > message that I received contained the virus WScript.KakWorm in it. >> > Fortunately my Norton AntiVirus program caught it and deleted it >> > before >> > it could do any damage to my computer. I was also on my >> > university's >> > server and I had them delete it too. The message was from Dorit >> > Ravid >> > > > >> > Ray Weitzman >> > >> > -- >> > Raymond S. Weitzman, Ph.D. >> > Department of Linguistics >> > 5245 N. Backer Avenue, M/S PB92 >> > California State University, Fresno >> > Fresno, California 93740-8001 >> > >> > Office: 559-278-2437 >> > Home: 559-434-0838 >> >> >> >> >> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> Carol Miller >> Penn State University >> 115-B Moore Building >> (814) 865-6213 >> cam47 at psu.edu >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> > > Donna J. Thal, Ph.D.Developmental Psycholinguistics Laboratory6330 > Alvarado Court, Suite 231San Diego, CA 92120phone: 619-594-7110fax: > 619-594-4570Department of Communicative DisordersSan Diego State > University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From macgibbon at mediaone.net Wed Nov 15 03:04:44 2000 From: macgibbon at mediaone.net (Ann MacGibbon) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 22:04:44 -0500 Subject: Virus Problem Message-ID: If you use the link below, you can get a tool that gets rid of the file with the virus. That's what I did. Ann http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/wscript.kakworm.fix.html ----- Original Message ----- From: Mariana Sigstad To: Donna Thal Cc: Carol Miller ; Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 9:49 PM Subject: Re: Virus Problem > I let it in my computer, and then I erased all my inbox files. Anyway, I > couldn't find my inbox files in the first attempt to correct that > infected file. > I can't explain the damage I got loosing so much archives. > Mariana Sigstad > > Donna Thal wrote: > > > I also have an infected computer, and my antivirus program has been > > unable to correct it. I also cannot delete the file. What a pain! > > Have either of you been able to clean your disk and get rid of the > > virus/worm? > > > > Donna Thal From santelmannl at pdx.edu Wed Nov 15 03:12:22 2000 From: santelmannl at pdx.edu (Lynn Santelmann) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 19:12:22 -0800 Subject: Cleaning up a Virus Problem In-Reply-To: <3A11F9B4.BDF9AEFB@ciudad.com.ar> Message-ID: For those who haven't been able to rid themselves of the virus, you probably need to get a "rescue disk" or a boot disk with the anti-virus program on it and boot off of that disk. If the virus has infected your system and you boot as normal, then you may well not be able to delete it. However, if you boot off a seperate disk, and run the virus program from that, it should be able to be cleaned up. Your computer support people should be able to help. Best, Lynn Santelmann At 12:28 PM 11/14/00 -0800, you wrote: > Have either of you been able to clean your disk and get rid of the >virus/worm? > > > > At 07:54 AM 11/14/00 -0500, Carol Miller wrote: > Norton AV also caught this worm on my computer, although I didn't trace it >to that particular message. > Carol Miller > > At 05:53 PM 11/13/2000 -0800, you wrote: > I don't know if anyone else had this problem, but an info-childes > message that I received contained the virus WScript.KakWorm in it. > Fortunately my Norton AntiVirus program caught it and deleted it before > I was also on my university's > The message was from Dorit Ravid ****************************************************** Lynn Santelmann, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Applied Linguistics Portland State University P.O. Box 751 239 East Hall Portland, OR 97201 Phone: (503) 725-4140 Fax: (503) 725-4139 e-mail: santelmannl at pdx.edu (that's last name FIRST initial) www.ling.pdx.edu ****************************************************** From Jeremi.Sauvage at univ-rouen.fr Wed Nov 15 07:39:55 2000 From: Jeremi.Sauvage at univ-rouen.fr (Jeremi Sauvage) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 08:39:55 +0100 Subject: Virus Problem Message-ID: At 12:28 14/11/00 -0800, Donna Thal wrote: > > I also have an infected computer, and my antivirus program has been unable to > correct it. I also cannot delete the file. What a pain! Have either of you > been able to clean your disk and get rid of the virus/worm? "Kak Virus" (and its alias as Worm) are not dangerous. You can download a little program (kakiller) to eradicate it. This virus does not destroy datas, only sends a message the 1st of each month to say : "Memory Error". I think anybody can find on the web the "kakiller program". 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From macw at cmu.edu Wed Nov 15 15:20:32 2000 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 10:20:32 -0500 Subject: Virus Problem In-Reply-To: <200011151434.JAA04006@cmu1.acs.cmu.edu> Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, I have now set the "exclude enclosures" option for info-childes at mail.talkbank.org. Hopefully, this will eliminate this sort of problem. --Brian From guimass at terra.com.br Tue Nov 14 18:34:55 2000 From: guimass at terra.com.br (=?iso-8859-1?B?R3VpbWFy42Vz?=) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 16:34:55 -0200 Subject: attachments Message-ID: I would like to have the "exclude enclosures" option for my mails Thanks Ana Maria Guimar?es -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Roberta at UDel.Edu Wed Nov 15 18:49:02 2000 From: Roberta at UDel.Edu (Roberta Golinkoff) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 13:49:02 -0500 Subject: POSITION AVAILABLE Message-ID: Please send this along to anyone who might be interested. We have a wonderful interdisciplinary Cognitive Science group here at the Univ of Delaware and lots of great research going on! Educational/Developmental Psychology The School of Education at the University of Delaware seeks a scholar and teacher in educational or developmental psychology as a tenure-track assistant professor for the fall of 2001. Applicants must have a doctoral degree and be prepared to teach undergraduate courses in human development and graduate courses in their area of specialization. An excellent research program in an area relevant to education and schooling is crucial. The candidate must be qualified to supervise graduate and undergraduate research and collaborate with teachers and schools on common problems. The School of Education includes a wide range of outstanding scholars from many disciplines. Many faculty members have fellowships and grants from private foundations and government agencies. The University of Delaware has an excellent research library, state-of-the-art technology, and outstanding research support. Review of applications will begin on December 15 and will continue until the position is filled. Candidates should send an introductory letter stating their teaching and research interests, a vita, three letters of reference, and samples of their professional writing to Dr. Nancy C. Jordan, Educational/Developmental Search Committee Chair, School of Education, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 19716-2922. The University of Delaware is an Equal Opportunity Employer which encourages applications from minority group members and women. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Ph.D. H. Rodney Sharp Professor School of Education and Departments of Psychology and Linguistics University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716 Phone: (302) 831-1634 Fax: (302) 831-4445 E-mail: Roberta at udel.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From meg at darkwing.uoregon.edu Wed Nov 15 20:28:48 2000 From: meg at darkwing.uoregon.edu (Megan M. Saylor) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 12:28:48 -0800 Subject: exclude enclosures Message-ID: exclude enclosures From bates at crl.ucsd.edu Wed Nov 15 23:29:08 2000 From: bates at crl.ucsd.edu (Liz Bates) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 15:29:08 -0800 Subject: faculty position at UCSD Message-ID: FACULTY POSITION IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO The Department of Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego invites applications for a faculty position at the assistant professor level (tenure-track) starting July 1, 2001, the salary commensurate with the experience of the successful applicant and based on the UC pay scale. The department of cognitive science at UCSD was the first of its kind in the world, and, as part of an exceptional scientific community, it remains a dominant influence in the field it helped to create. The department is truly interdisciplinary, with a faculty whose interests span anthropology, computer science, human development, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, and sociology. The department is looking for a top-caliber junior researcher in cognitive science. Applicants must have a Ph.D. (or ABD). A broad interdisciplinary perspective and experience with multiple methodologies will be highly valued. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. The University of California, San Diego is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. All applications received by January 1, 2001 will receive thorough consideration until position is filled. Candidates should include a vita, reprints, a short letter describing their background and interests, and names and addresses of at least three references to: University of California, San Diego Faculty Search Committee Department of Cognitive Science 0515-EM 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0515 From macw at cmu.edu Thu Nov 16 00:06:13 2000 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 19:06:13 -0500 Subject: enclosures Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, There is no need to post messages to info-childes that say "exclude enclosures" or "exclude attachments". The list is now excluding them by default. --Brian From lauramingoia at tiscalinet.it Fri Nov 17 21:20:17 2000 From: lauramingoia at tiscalinet.it (Laura Mingoia) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 22:20:17 +0100 Subject: research about SLI in children Message-ID: Hello everybody! I'm Laura and I'm preparing my dissertation for my degree at the University. It is about SLI in children, in particular about disphasia. It deals with languge acquisition in Italian and English normal and disordered children aged between 0 and 6 years. Does anybody know if there is any new discovery in that field, please? Thank you very much, laura lauramingoia at tiscalinet.it -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jennifer.harvey2 at ntlworld.com Sat Nov 18 13:26:30 2000 From: jennifer.harvey2 at ntlworld.com (jennifer.harvey2) Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 13:26:30 -0000 Subject: trouble finding article Message-ID: Just wondering if anyone can help me with an article I have been trying to find... Tavakolian, S. Children's use of syntactic structure in interpreting relative clauses. In S. Tavakolian (Eds.) Linguistic theory and language acquisition. Cambridge, Mass. M.I.T. Press, 1981 Have been hunting for the journal and the article. Does anyone know where I can find it, preferably online. Thanks Jenni Harvey -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jennifer.harvey2 at ntlworld.com Mon Nov 20 12:22:44 2000 From: jennifer.harvey2 at ntlworld.com (jennifer.harvey2) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 12:22:44 -0000 Subject: Tavakolian book Message-ID: I am just letting you all know that I have managed to get hold of the book now. Thanks very much to all who wrote to me and a big thank you to those of you who suggested other books as well - they will be very useful! Thanks again Jenni Harvey -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From au at psych.ucla.edu Mon Nov 20 21:27:09 2000 From: au at psych.ucla.edu (Terry Au) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 13:27:09 -0800 Subject: Word frequency estimates for Spanish In-Reply-To: <001301c052ec$96817580$0224ff3e@005281320079> Message-ID: Is there a good source (book/computerized list) for word frequency estimates for Spanish? Thanks, Terry Au ********************************************* Terry Kit-fong Au, Professor Department of Psychology, UCLA Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563, USA Phone: (310)206-9186 Fax: (310)206-5895 From jennifer.harvey2 at ntlworld.com Mon Nov 20 22:25:39 2000 From: jennifer.harvey2 at ntlworld.com (jennifer.harvey2) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 22:25:39 -0000 Subject: Tavakolian book Message-ID: For all those interested the book I was looking for... The reason I couldn't find it was that I had the title slightly wrong and I thought it was a journal article. It is a book and what I though was an article is actually one of the chapters... Tavakolian, S. Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theory Mass. M.I.T. Press 1981 Ctrl no. 0262200392 Here are the suggestions for other books that I received... (Again - thanks for the responses - they were very helpful!) Tavakolian's position (the conjoined-clause analysis) is outlined in some detail in more recent, probably more widely available, publications. You might want to look at: Lebeaux, D. (1990). The grammatical nature of the acquisition sequence: adjoin-a and the formation of the relative clause. In L. Frazier & J. De Villiers (eds.). "Language processing and language acquisition". (pp 13 - 82). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic. Correa, L. (1995). An alternative assessment of children's comprehension of relative clauses. "Journal of Psycholinguistic Research", 24, 183 - 203. Correa, L. (1995). The relative difficulty of children's comprehension of relative clauses: A procedural account. In: K. Nelson & Z. Reger (eds.). "Children's language (Vol. 8)". (pp. 225 - 243). Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum. Crain, S. & Thornton, R. (1998). "Investigation in universal grammar". Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (from Evan Kidd) "If you are interested, my dissertation extract was published in J of Verbal learning and Vbl BehAVIOR, I think), which morphed into another title. Sheldon The acquisition of relative clauses in English JVLVB 1974. You might be able to find Taval=kolian online. I think she got her dissertation at U Mass or maybe MIT before the book publication data. AS" (from Amy Sheldon) Hope this was helpful Jenni Harvey -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From raanders at indiana.edu Tue Nov 21 12:25:04 2000 From: raanders at indiana.edu (Raquel Anderson) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 07:25:04 -0500 Subject: Word frequency estimates for Spanish In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20001120131519.00b79940@protos.lifesci.ucla.edu> Message-ID: There is book, based on written text (2 volumes): Alameda, J. R., & Cuetos, F. (1993). Diccionario de frecuencias de las unidades ling??sticas del castellano. Oviedo, Spain: Universidad de Oviedo. Hope this helps, Raquel Anderson on 11/20/00 4:27 PM, Terry Au at au at psych.ucla.edu wrote: > Is there a good source (book/computerized list) for word frequency > estimates for Spanish? > Thanks, > Terry Au > > ********************************************* > Terry Kit-fong Au, Professor > Department of Psychology, UCLA > Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563, USA > Phone: (310)206-9186 > Fax: (310)206-5895 > > > From mserra at psi.ub.es Wed Nov 22 11:27:52 2000 From: mserra at psi.ub.es (Miquel Serra) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: Word frequency estimates for Spanish II Message-ID: Terry and infochilders, in addition to the Alameda y Cuetos dictionary referred by Raquel Anderson, there is an old but good one of word frequency for (written) spanish: Juillard, A., and Chang, E., 1964, Frequency dictionary of Spanish words. The Hague: Mouton. Just last week has been published in CD-Rom a very useful tool that not only informs about the written frequency, but allows you to study many other possibilities about word composition, adjacencies, coeficient of imaginability, etc. Sebastian, N., Mart?, M. A., Carreiras, M. F., and Cuetos, F., 2000, LEXESP, l?xico informatizado del espa?ol. Barcelona: Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona. ISBN: 84-8338-187-7. You can ask for it at: Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona Balmes 25, 08007, Barcelona, Spain e-mail: eub at org.ub.es If you need an aproximation of (oral) word frequency for children from 1 to 4 years, in the apendix of a book we have published (Serra et al., 2000, La adquisicion del lenguaje. Barcelona Ariel (Grupo Planeta) ISBN: 84-344-0885-6) there is a list from 12 to 23 months; 24 to 35 and 36 to 47 corresponding to 5.246 types (unhappily not lemmas) and 105.557 tokens up to 0,01% of use, allocated by order (and frequency). This data correspond to the Serra-Sole corpus that you can find under Catalan (and Spanish) in attila-www-uia.ac.be/childes It would be interesting for all of us if we could make a list of informtatic or other tools for working in the spanish language Miquel Serra mserra at psi.ub.es From ks7t at andrew.cmu.edu Wed Nov 22 16:21:05 2000 From: ks7t at andrew.cmu.edu (Kelley Sacco) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 11:21:05 -0500 Subject: Assistant Professor of English/Linguistics Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Date: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 5:35 PM -0400 From: Lorelei Stevens To: ks7t at andrew.cmu.edu Subject: Ad Assistant Professor of English/Linguistics The Department of English, Speech, and World Literature of the College of Staten Island of The City University of New York seeks candidates for an anticipated tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of English with a specialization in linguistics beginning September 2001. 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The readme file for this corpus is as follows: THE ABERYSTWYTH DATABASE OF THE WELSH OF CHILDREN 3-7 YEARS OF AGE ================================================================== This database in Childes format was produced by a project which was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) of the UK with an award of ?60,611 (R000237978). The project ran from the 1st of July 1999 until the 30th of June 2000. It was directed by Bob Morris Jones and staffed by two researchers, Merris Griffiths and Mared Roberts, in the Department of Education, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 2AX, Wales, UK. The data is based on the spontaneous recordings of children between the ages of three and seven years of age, speaking Welsh. They were recorded in schools throughout Wales in undirected play situations, mainly playing in pairs with various toys in a box of sand. The children are from different school, socio-economic, regional, and linguistic backgrounds. The original recordings were collected during the period 1974-1977 by a project which was located in the same department, funded by the Welsh Office, directed by Professor C.J. Dodson, run by Bob Morris Jones, and staffed at various times by Brec'hed Piette, Hefin Jones, John Jones, Wyn James, Christine James, and Nesta Dodson. There are two cohorts: children from three to five, and children from five to seven. The first digit in the names of the files which make up the database gives the age of the children. The file names of the five year olds of the older cohort are distinguished by the letter 'a' after the first digit. The remaining digits complete the file name in all cases. The scale of the database can be indicated by the following summary: three year olds: 25 files (c3001 - c3025), 418kb, 42 children four year olds: 31 files (c4001 - c4031), 498kb, 62 children five year olds: 39 files (c5001 - c5039), 859kb, 77 children five 'a' year olds: 44 files (c5a001 - c5a044), 855kb, 87 children six year olds: 48 files (c6001 - c6048), 1.00mb, 96 children seven year olds: 52 files (c7001 - c7052), 1.14mb, 104 children Personal names, local place-names, and local places-of-work have been made anonymous by using random nonsense-strings of letters: all begin with an initial capital, and the place names have a final 0. The names of public figures, fictional characters, and more distant places have been retained. Making names anonymous loses some information about word-forms, especially about mutations - where they occur - and word-play. The children produced many noises while playing, and some attempt has been made to transcribe these, although they are not intended to capture the phonetic details. They have the suffix @sn. Nonsense forms, in word-play for instance, have the suffix @gl. Both are declared in the 00depadd.cut file. English is also spoken by various children to different degrees in the database. Single English words - either by themselves or within a Welsh utterance - are not marked. But phrases or sentences of English words are enclosed in scope symbols < ... >, and are followed by the comment [% Saesneg] - 'Saesneg' being the Welsh word for 'English'. Similarly, phrases and sentences which are from songs, nursery rhymes, and similar material are enclosed within < ... > and are followed by the comment [% ca:n] - 'ca:n' (or 'c?n', to use the circumflex - see below) is the Welsh for 'song'. Unfinished words (that is, fragments and not shortened words) are indicated by an initial &. There are many homonyms, many of which come about through phonological processes of elision and assimilation in spontaneous speech. Digits and the apostrophe are used to distinguish different word-forms which otherwise have the same spelling. The lexicon gives the lexeme to which they belong. The apostrophe is declared in the 00depadd.cut file to cater for word-initial occurrences. In spontaneous speech, patterns of a Welsh copula followed by a personal subject pronoun occur as a pronoun only. Such pronouns are indicated by a final apostrophe. There are instances, mainly of directive-like utterances within the context of a game, were it is not entirely clear what the pattern is. But these instances have likewise been give a final apostrophe. Welsh orthography contains circumflexed letters: '????' and also 'w' and 'y', for which there is no ASCII provision. Circumflexed letters are not stable over different applications, as is well-known. Consequently, they are represented as 'a: e: i: o:', which convention can then be conveniently extended to 'w: and y:'. This convention is mainly used where ambiguity would otherwise occur. Welsh also makes limited use of the diaeresis and the acute diacritics, but it has not been necessary to cater for these separately. The data files contain utterances by children and adults. The former are identified as Target_child or Child on the @Participant header line in the data files; the latter are identified as Investigators and Teachers. The utterances of the adults have been transcribed in full, but not as painstakingly as those of the children; in particular, homonyms have not all been disambiguated through transcription. The lexicon contains the word-forms produced by the children. It does not contain word-forms produced by adult participants. The lexicon contains all the Welsh words and single English-words which occur within a Welsh utterance or by themselves. It does not contain English words which are in English phrases or sentences. It does not contain proper names, the spellings of noises or nonsense words - they can be identified in the data by an initial capital, the suffix @sn, and the suffix @gl, respectively. Neither does it contain xxx (for indecipherable material), and unfinished fragments which begin with &. The categories and their codes in the lexicon are as follows: ?? = multi-category form which is ambiguous in context a1 = pro-form place adjuncts like FANNA 'there', FAMA 'here', FANCW 'yonder' ab = conjuncts and disjuncts like HEFYD 'also', FELLY 'therefore' ad = other adjuncts ag = apsect markers YN 'progressive', WEDI 'perfective' an = adjectives ar = prepositions as = adverbs ALLAN 'out', YMLAEN 'onwards'. I-FFWRDD 'away', I-LAWR 'down', etc. at = adverbs beginning with TU - TU-ALLAN 'outside', TU-OL 'behind', etc. b4 = Welsh finite verb with English inflection bd = English verbs in "-ed", "-en" or equivalent e.g. 'crashed', 'drunk' be = verbnoun forms (compare English plain infinitive) including auxiliaries but not BOD 'be' bf = finite-verb forms (including the imparative forms) except BOD 'be' bg = English verbs in "-ing" bp = English plain infinitive forms cd = co-ordinating conjunctions ce = verbnoun (compare English plain infinitive) of BOD 'be' cf = finite forms of BOD 'be' cm = MWY 'more' as a comparative particle before adjectives cn = greetings and farewells cy = subordinating conjunctions like ACHOS 'because' eb = standard exclamations like AA 'ah', OO 'oh' en = nouns er = the post-modifying words ARALL 'other' and ERAILL 'others' es = EISIAU 'wants, needs' - a nominal form g1 = nominal wh- words - BETH 'what', PWY 'who' g2 = adverbial wh- words - PRYD 'when', PAM 'why', SUT 'how' g3 = the wh- word PA 'which' g4 = compounds involving wh- words like BETH+BYNNAG 'whatever', PRYD+BYNNAG 'whenever' g5 = the wh- word FAINT 'how much/many' ga = grammatcically invariant answer words IE 'yes', NAGE 'no', DO 'yes' a NADDO 'no'. gc = the comparative particle NA 'than' gd = demonstrative words DYNA 'there/that is', DYMA 'here/this is', DACW 'yonder is' gg = intensifiers like RHY 'too', GO 'gairly', MOR 'so'. gm = quantifiers like DIGON 'enough', LLAWER 'much/many, MWY 'more' gr = preverbal particles like MI, FE, NI and focussing particles like MAI, AI gt = the predicatival particle YN ll = pro-form adjuncts YNA 'there', YMA 'here' and ACW 'yonder' ly = letters of the alphabet mo = words indicating epistemic modality EFALLAI 'perhaps', HWYRACH 'perhaps' ne = the negator DIM 'no/not' both as quantifier and adverb on = onomatopoeic-type forms pa = politeness expressions pe = determiners pi = forms of PIAU, used to indicate ownership qq = for obscure forms r1 = personal pronouns r2 = demonstrative pronouns r3 = indefinite pronouns like RHYWUN 'someone' r4 = negative pronouns r5 = reflexive pronouns r6 = reciprocal pronouns r7 = conjunctive pronouns like FINNAU 'me too' r8 = prefixed (possessive) pronouns r9 = the 'alternative' pronoun LLALL 'other', LLEILL 'others' rd = RHAID 'must, necessity' ri = numbers rp = universal pronouns like PAWB 'everyone' rq = indefinite phrases like BETH+'NA 'thingie', LLE+'NA, BE+TI'+'N+GALW 'what do you call it' sg = standard verbal pauses like YMM 'uhm' sy = standard paralinguistic forms like HY-HY 'uh-uh', MM-MM 'uhm-uhm' ya = manner-adverbial particle YN e.g. YN GYFLYM 'quickly' Multi-membership, if found in the corpus, is indicated by the Childes convention for this, that is, a backward slash after the first entry, followed on the succeeding line(s) by another entry. These categories serve only to identify data which can be recovered for analysis. They are not intended to represent probing analyses. This latter point applies to all transcriptional conventions in this database - they serve as ways of recovering data for analysis. The files supplied for this database are as follows: data files: c3001 - c3025 c4001 - c4031 c5001 - c5039 c5a001 - ca5044 c6001 - c6048 c7001 - c7052 lexicon files: welsh3_7.lex (the main lexicon) gl.lex (nonsense words) sn.lex (noises) others: 00depadd.cut 00readme.cdc (this file) Bob Morris Jones (19/8/2000) e-mail: bmj at aber.ac.uk personal homepage: http://users.aber.ac.uk/bmj/ project homepage: http://users.aber.ac.uk/bmj/abercld/cyntaf.html From lauramingoia at tiscalinet.it Sat Nov 25 08:11:32 2000 From: lauramingoia at tiscalinet.it (Laura Mingoia) Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 09:11:32 +0100 Subject: thank you! Message-ID: Thank You everybody for having answered me! I hope to find all the articles and books that you have suggested me. Laura Mingoia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ann.dowker at psy.ox.ac.uk Sat Nov 25 19:33:04 2000 From: ann.dowker at psy.ox.ac.uk (Ann Dowker) Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 19:33:04 +0000 Subject: No subject In-Reply-To: <009e01c056b7$bb4159c0$c8370b3e@lauraalbi> Message-ID: I am sure that other people have already mentioned the work of Dorothy Bishop, e.g. her book "Uncommon Understanding", and her numerous papers including: D. Bishop: The underlying nature of specific language impairment; Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 1997, 33, 3-66. Other papers that may interest you include: Some of the writings of Paule Aimard; e.g. Les Troubles du Langage chez l'Enfant; Paris: P.U.F., 1984 G. Conti-Ramsden, C. Donlan and J. Grove: Children with specific language impairments: curricular opportunities and school performance; British Journal of Special Education, 1992, 19, 75-80 (and other papers by Gina Conti-Ramsden and by Chris Donlan Papers by Barbara Fazio M. Gopnik: When language is a problem; in R. Campbell (ed.) Mental Lives; Blackwell, 1992 (and other papers by Gopnik) V.L. Joffe: Rhyming and related skills in children with specific language impairment; Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive/ Current Psychology of Cognition, 1998, 17. 479-512. P. Tallal, L. Allard, S. Miller and S. Curtiss: Academic outcomes of language impaired children; in: C. Hulme and M. Snowling (eds.) Dyslexia: Biology, Cognition and Intervention; Whurr, 1997 (and other papers by Paula Tallal) Anne Van Kleeck: Metalinguistic development. In: G.P. Wallach and K.G. Butler (eds.): Language Learning Disabilities in School Age Children and Adolescents; Williams and Wilkins, 1993. (Also other chapters in this book, and other papers by Van Kleeck) From macw at cmu.edu Sat Nov 25 21:41:26 2000 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 16:41:26 -0500 Subject: new Spanish SLI data Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, Miquel Serra of the University of Barcelona has contributed a set of 20 files documenting cases of Specific Language Impairment in Spanish. There are five SLI children and five normally developing control children. Each child has one transcript from about age 4 and another from about age 5. One of the five SLI children is bilingual in Castillian and Catalan. The files are in serra.zip and serra.sit in the /clinical folder on the server. Many thanks to Miquel for these data. --Brian MacWhinney From macw at cmu.edu Sat Nov 25 23:26:28 2000 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 18:26:28 -0500 Subject: new data set on welfare Mothers Message-ID: I am happy to announce the addition to CHILDES of a new data set of conversations between welfare mothers and their children. The data were contributed by Kathryn Barnard and Colleen Morisset. They are to be found in morisset.sit and morisset.zip on the server. These data come from a three-site study of language in children of welfare mothers conducted the late 1980s. The sites were Seattle, Topeka, and UCLA. The 68 transcripts from the Seattle site used the prohibition task. The 79 transcripts from the Topeka site used snack sessions. In both of these sites, the children were all about 2;6 of age. For the Topeka data, the language sample is said to begin when the Examiner leaves the room (usually at the sound of the door closing) after she has finished setting up the snack. It ends when the Examiner reenters after about six minutes. In the UCLA sample, there are 116 children ranging in age from about 2;11 to 3;6. Articles that have made use of these data include: Kelly, J. F., Morisset, C. E., Barnard, K. E., Hammond, M. A., & al., e. (1996). The influence of early mother-child interaction on preschool cognitive/linguistic outcomes in a high-social-risk group. Infant Mental Health Journal, Health-Journal. Morisset, C. (1991). Environmental influences on language development of high social-risk toddlers. University of Washington Ph.D thesis. Morisset, C. E., Barnard, K. E., & Booth, C. L. (1995). Toddlers' language development: Sex differences within social risk. Developmental Psychology, 31(5), 851-865. Morisset, C. E., Barnard, K. E., Greenberg, M. T., Booth, C. L., & Spieker, S. J. (1990). Environmental influence on early language development: The context of social risk. Development and Psychopathology, 2, 127-149. From shanti at unitel.spb.ru Sun Nov 26 12:13:33 2000 From: shanti at unitel.spb.ru (Victoria Ryskina) Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 15:13:33 +0300 Subject: interaction and language acquisition Message-ID: Dear All, if anybody know the study about mother - child early interaction and further language acquisition (normal and SLI children) ? What about using CHILDES sistem for study of maternal style? Thanks in advance. Victoria Ryskina , Russia, S-Petersburg, Early Intervention Instutute Chair of language acquisition From centenoj at stjohns.edu Sun Nov 26 22:00:08 2000 From: centenoj at stjohns.edu (Jose G. Centeno) Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:00:08 -0500 Subject: >> Spanish Word Frequency Estimates < Message-ID: Here are some other references: 1) Gonzalez-Grull?n, A., Cabanes, V.S., and Garc?a, F.C.(1981). Informe de la Investigaci?n del L?xico B?sico de la Lengua Escrita en Rep?blica Dominicana y Diccionario de Uso, Frecuencia, y Dispersi?n. Santo Domingo: Universidad Nacional Pedro Henr?quez Ure?a. 2)Juilland, A., and Chang-Rodriguez, E.(1964). Frequency Dictionary of Spanish Words. London: Mouton. 3)Marqu?z-Villegas, L.(1975). Vocabulario del Espa?ol Hablado. Madrid: Sociedad General Espa?ola de Librer?a. 4)Morales, A.(1986). L?xico B?sico del Espa?ol de Puerto Rico. Madrid: Grafur Jose C. >===== Original Message From Raquel Anderson ===== >There is book, based on written text (2 volumes): > >Alameda, J. R., & Cuetos, F. (1993). Diccionario de frecuencias de las >unidades ling??sticas del castellano. Oviedo, Spain: Universidad de Oviedo. > >Hope this helps, > >Raquel Anderson > > > >on 11/20/00 4:27 PM, Terry Au at au at psych.ucla.edu wrote: > >> Is there a good source (book/computerized list) for word frequency >> estimates for Spanish? >> Thanks, >> Terry Au >> >> ********************************************* >> Terry Kit-fong Au, Professor >> Department of Psychology, UCLA >> Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563, USA >> Phone: (310)206-9186 >> Fax: (310)206-5895 >> >> >> ___________________________________________________ Jose G. Centeno, Ph.D., CCC-SLP Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology Program Dept. of Speech, Communication Sciences, & Theatre St. John's University 8000 Utopia Parkway Jamaica, NY 11439 Tel: 718-990-2629, 6452 Fax: 718-990-5878 ___________________________________________________