Childes workshop in the UK - announcement

[Luca Onnis]

Dear info-childes members,

Please circulate the following:

I am glad to advertise the Warwick CHILDES Workshop, which will take
place at the University of Warwick, UK, Tuesday 17th - Thursday 18th
September 2002. The workshop is sponsored by the British Psychological
Society.
The overall purpose of the seminars is to provide practical hands-on
experience of the database. In particular, we aim:
a) to introduce researchers unfamiliar with CHILDES, but planning to
do
empirical psycholinguistic work, to the basics of transcription and
coding of new material to include in the database;
b) to teach researchers who have already started collecting data but
are unfamiliar with the coding practices of CHILDES;
c) to teach researchers who have a basic knowledge of the database but
want an advanced course and need help in addressing specific research
questions within CHILDES.

The seminars will be taught by the following CHILDES experts:

Prof. Stephen Gillis (University of Antwerp)
Dr. Caroline Rowland (University of Liverpool)
Dr. Gary Jones (University of Derby)
Dr. Fernand Gobet (University of Nottingham)
Dr. Anna Theakston (University of Manchester)
Dr. Kate Joseph (University of Manchester)

The course is limited to 20-25 people. Researchers and graduate
students are welcome to apply. A more detailed program will be
circulated soon. Also a number of grants will be made available for
postgraduate students. Please send any queries and/or a request of
participation to:

Luca Onnis (local organiser)
Dpt. Of Psychology
University of Warwick
CV4 7AL, Coventry, England

Email: l.onnis at warwick.ac.uk

If you would like to come please indicate whether you are new to the
CHILDES database or are already familiar with it. In the latter case,
please indicate what is your area of research (syntactic development,
pragmatics, etc.). We will try to make the workshop as tailored as
possible to participants` needs.

Regards,

Luca Onnis


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Luca Onnis
Graduate Research Assistant
Department of Psychology
University of Warwick
CV4 7AL, Coventry
UK