From reilly1 at mail.sdsu.edu Mon Dec 2 23:40:35 2002 From: reilly1 at mail.sdsu.edu (Judy Reilly) Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 15:40:35 -0800 Subject: Fwd: 5th attempt Message-ID: >Dear Colleagues, >We are looking at the use of language and emotion in a social context, in >different cultures and languages, and are interested in finding references >for work in the area of cultural conventions for expressivity in social >situations. This might include the use of emotion, emotional language, >gestures, prosody, when meeting and interacting with strangers. We are >particularly interested in French, American and Italian conventions for >the display of sociability or affective expressivity, (for want of a >better term). If you can think of any references or leads, we would be >extremely grateful. >Please respond to me individually and I will post the responses. > >Thanks in advance, > >Judy Reilly >reilly1 at mail.sdsu.edu From reilly1 at mail.sdsu.edu Mon Dec 2 23:41:24 2002 From: reilly1 at mail.sdsu.edu (Judy Reilly) Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 15:41:24 -0800 Subject: culture and expressivity Message-ID: >Dear Colleagues, >We are looking at the use of language and emotion in a social context, in >different cultures and languages, and are interested in finding references >for work in the area of cultural conventions for expressivity in social >situations. This might include the use of emotion, emotional language, >gestures, prosody, when meeting and interacting with strangers. The folk >wisdom might say, for example, that Italians are very 'expressive' in >contrast to Japanese individuals who are thought to be more reserved in >public, especially with strangers. We are particularly interested in >French, American and Italian conventions for the display of sociability or >affective expressivity, (for want of a better term). If you can think of >any references or leads, we would be extremely grateful. >Please respond to me individually and I will post the responses. > >Thanks in advance, > >Judy Reilly >reilly1 at mail.sdsu.edu From sues at xtra.co.nz Tue Dec 3 20:33:41 2002 From: sues at xtra.co.nz (sues) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 09:33:41 +1300 Subject: VIRUS ALERT Message-ID: This was forwarded to me today by a colleague and I have sent it to you all as I did find the virus on all our computers. Please give it a high priority. S Sullivan To everyone, A Virus has been passed on to me by one of my contacts. My address book has in turn been infected. Since you are in my address book, there is a good chance you will find it in your computer too. I followed the directions below and eradicated the virus easily. Sorry for the inconvenience. The Virus (called jdbgmgr.exe) is NOT detected by Norton or McAfee anti-virus systems. The virus sits quietly for 14 days before damaging the system. It is sent automatically by messenger and by the address book, whether or not you sent emails to your contacts. Here's how to check for the virus and how to get rid of it. YOU MUST DO THIS I did find the teddy bear virus in my c drive. 1 Go to Start, Find or Search option 2 In the file/ folders option, type the name: jdbgmgr.exe 3 Be sure your search your C: drive and all sub-folders and any other drives you may have 4 Click "find now" 5 The Virus has a teddy bear icon with the name jdbgmgr.exe DO NOT OPEN IT 6 Go to Edit (on the menu bar), choose "select all" to highlight the file without opening it 7 Now go to File (on the menu bar) and select delete. It will then go to the Recycle Bin 8 Go to the Recycle Bin and delete it there as well IF YOU FIND THE VIRUS, YOU MUST CONTACT ALL THE PEOPLE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK, SO THEY CAN ERADICATE IT IN THEIR OWN ADDRESS BOOKS. SORRY ABOUT THIS. To do this: a) Open a new e-mail message b) Click the icon of the address book next to the "TO" c) Highlight every name and add to "BCC" d) Copy this message ... enter subject ... paste to e-mail ...send I'm sorry about the inconvenience. But glad we found it Declan Joyce, Solicitor, Kelly Colfer Son & Poyntz, New Ross 051-421212 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sues at xtra.co.nz Tue Dec 3 23:57:23 2002 From: sues at xtra.co.nz (sues) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 12:57:23 +1300 Subject: HOAX VIRUS ALERT -sorry Message-ID: DO NOT DELETE jdbgmgr.exe Extremely sorry everyone - it was sent to me from England and I didn't have time to check. Apologies - hope it hasn't caused harm. And in the season of Christmas - please forgive and best wishes Sue ----- Original Message ----- From: "Malcolm Swanson" To: "sues" ; "sues M.E Sullivan" Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 11:29 AM Subject: Re: VIRUS ALERT > Hi Sue... > > This is a hoax, and you've actually deleted an important file on your > computer. Please see: > > http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_99436.htm > > It'll tell you how to restore things... > > Regards, > Malcolm Swanson > > At 9:33 AM +1300 12/4/02, sues wrote: > >This was forwarded to me today by a colleague and I have sent it to > >you all as I did find the virus on all our computers. Please give it > >a high priority. > > > >S Sullivan > > > >To everyone, > > > > A Virus has been passed on to me by one of my contacts. My address > >book has in > > > >turn been infected. Since you are in my address book, there is a good > >chance you will find it in your computer too. I followed the directions below > >and eradicated the virus easily. Sorry for the inconvenience. > > > > > >The Virus (called jdbgmgr.exe) is NOT detected by Norton or McAfee > >anti-virus systems. The virus sits quietly for 14 days before damaging > >the system. It is sent automatically by messenger and by the address > >book, whether or not you sent emails to your contacts. > > > > > >Here's how to check for the virus and how to get rid of it. > >YOU MUST DO THIS I did find the teddy bear virus in my c drive. > >1 Go to Start, Find or Search option > >2 In the file/ folders option, type the name: jdbgmgr.exe > >3 Be sure your search your C: drive and all sub-folders and any > >other drives you may have > >4 Click "find now" > >5 The Virus has a teddy bear icon with the name jdbgmgr.exe DO NOT OPEN IT > >6 Go to Edit (on the menu bar), choose "select all" to highlight the > >file without opening it > >7 Now go to File (on the menu bar) and select delete. It will then > >go to the Recycle Bin > >8 Go to the Recycle Bin and delete it there as well IF YOU FIND THE VIRUS, > >YOU MUST CONTACT ALL THE PEOPLE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK, > >SO THEY CAN ERADICATE IT IN THEIR OWN ADDRESS BOOKS. > >SORRY ABOUT THIS. > >To do this: > >a) Open a new e-mail message > >b) Click the icon of the address book next to the "TO" > >c) Highlight every name and add to "BCC" > >d) Copy this message ... enter subject ... paste to e-mail ...send > > > >I'm sorry about the inconvenience. But glad we found it > > > > > > > >Declan Joyce, > >Solicitor, > >Kelly Colfer Son & Poyntz, > >New Ross > >051-421212 > > From macw at cmu.edu Wed Dec 4 19:00:33 2002 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 14:00:33 -0500 Subject: Child Language at AILA Message-ID: AILA Scientific Committee on Child Language Annick DE HOUWER and YAMAMOTO, Masayo, Co-Convenors Symposium announcement: 'The Early Acquisition of More than One Language from Infancy with Special Reference to Chinese', at AILA2002 (13th World Congress of the International Association of Applied Linguistics, Singapore, Dec. 16-21, 2002) Monday, December 16, 3:30-5:30 pm 3:30-4 pm Welcome - YAMAMOTO Masayo (Chair), Japan Bilingual First Language Acquisition and research on children's acquisition of Chinese in addition to another language - Annick DE HOUWER, Belgium 4-4:30 pm Self and other pronominal reference in a Mandarin-English bilingual child - Ruying QI, Bruno DI BIASE, Stuart CAMPBELL, Australia 4:30-5 pm Cross-linguistic influence in Hong Kong children's bilingual development: Integrating input ambiguity and dominance - Virginia YIP, Stephen MATTHEWS, China (Hong Kong) 5-5:20 pm Discussion and Conclusion Business Meeting Monday, December 16, 5:30-6:30 pm Open floor: Future directions for the AILA Scientific Committee on Child Language Anyone interested in the AILA Scientific Committee on Child Language is cordially invited to the Open Floor session even if they weren't at the symposium. From macw at cmu.edu Thu Dec 5 23:55:37 2002 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 18:55:37 -0500 Subject: LDC phone call project Message-ID: Greetings, The Linguistic Data Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania (www.ldc.upenn.edu) needs participants for FISHER, a new telephone speech study to be conducted in the Early Winter 2002-2003. In contrast to prior regional studies (Switchboard), FISHER will be national (North America). The FISHER project will be undertaken to support linguistic research, technology development and education. All calls will be recorded for these purposes. Particpant Identities will be kept strictly confidential and not released with the data. FISHER participants will take part in 1 to 3 telephone calls talking to other participants on suggested topics for ten minutes. FISHER topics can be found at the URL below: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Projects/EARS/Fisher/topics.html A robot operator will initiate all calls. Particpants need only answer their phones at the time they specify during the registration process. Participants will be compensated $10 per call. In addition, for each call made, participants will be eligble for 1 chance at (3) $1000.00 lottery prizes. To register for this study please see the following page: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Projects/EARS/Fisher/intro.html or call 1 800 380 PENN, to register and for more information Sincerely, Dr. David Miller FISHER Project Manager From Theresa.Gannon at vuw.ac.nz Sun Dec 8 02:18:29 2002 From: Theresa.Gannon at vuw.ac.nz (Theresa Gannon) Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 15:18:29 +1300 Subject: beliefs Message-ID: Does anyone out there know of literature that looks at how excuses and justifications may develop into specific beliefs? Thank you very much Theresa Theresa A. Gannon Post Doctoral Fellow in Psychology School of Psychology Te Kura Maatai Hinengaro Victoria University of Wellington Te Whare Wananga o te Upoko o te Ika a Maui P O Box 600, Wellington New Zealand Aotearoa ph : +64-4-463-6032 fax: +64-4-463-5402 email: Theresa.Gannon at vuw.ac.nz http://www.vuw.ac.nz/psyc/postdocs/gannon.html From taelman at uia.ua.ac.be Tue Dec 10 08:58:07 2002 From: taelman at uia.ua.ac.be (Helena Taelman) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 09:58:07 +0100 Subject: research overview Dutch language acquisition Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES subscribers, Currently, the Dutch child language organization 'NET-werk' is updating its database of ongoing research projects. We are preparing a 'self-contained' research overview on our website. If you are working on Dutch language acquisition, could you please post a project description at the following web address? http://cnts.uia.ac.be/NET Many thanks! P.S. 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URL: From m.thomas at psychology.bbk.ac.uk Tue Dec 10 11:28:03 2002 From: m.thomas at psychology.bbk.ac.uk (DR M THOMAS) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:28:03 +0000 Subject: Announcement Message-ID: Congratulations, Annette! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The European Latsis Prize 2002 has been awarded to Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith, Head of the Neurocognitive Development Unit at the Institute of Child Health, University College London, for her outstanding contribution to the understanding of cognitive and language development in children with genetic disorders. The Prize ceremony took place at the Assembly of the European Science Foundation on 28th November 2002 in Strasbourg. The European Latsis Prize, of a value of 100,000 Swiss Francs, is financed by the Latsis Foundation and awarded by the European Science Foundation to an individual or group who, in the opinion of their peers, has made the greatest contribution to a particular field of European research. The chosen field of the 2002 prize was "Cognitive Sciences". Already recognised in her early career for her outstanding contribution to the understanding of the human mind through her studies of normal child development in several areas of cognition and psycholinguistics, Professor Karmiloff-Smith switched her main research focus some fifteen years ago to understanding the nature of language and intelligence in children with genetic disorders. A particularly original facet of her work is that in her studies of both normal and atypical development, she has always embraced several different areas of cognition, using multiple cross-disciplinary theoretical questions and techniques. Professor Paolo Legrenzi from the European Latsis prize committee stated: "The theoretical and empirical contributions of Annette Karmiloff-Smith are amongst the most important results of the cognitive sciences over the last thirty years. Her research on multiple areas of cognition and language, which builds on a wide range of trans-disciplinary techniques, has made an enormous impact on other researchers within Europe, North America and the rest of the world." On receiving the prize, Professor Karmiloff-Smith said, "Although I am of course delighted personally, this is really a prize for all developmentalists. The fact that our field was chosen over adult cognitive science, adult psycholinguistics, and adult neuroscience is a real tribute to the developmental approach." From mcconvell at ozemail.com.au Tue Dec 10 20:20:26 2002 From: mcconvell at ozemail.com.au (PatrickMcConvell) Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 07:20:26 +1100 Subject: Central Australian Study/SHOEBOX Message-ID: Dear colleagues, I wish to announce a new study which has been funded by the Australian Research Council for the period 2003-6. Its title is How mixed language input affects child language development: case studies from Central Australia We are keen to hear from other people carrying out studies involving Indigenous and endangered languages, with code mixing a significant factor, and 'bush' settings and cultures significantly different from those in most language acquisition studies involved. We are just tooling up and want to learn more about CHILDES so if there are any CHILDES experts in Australia or the region who could perhaps help us with a workshop, let us know. We are having a meeting in March in Melbourne where we hope to discuss these issues. Most field linguists here tend to use SHOEBOX for transcription so if anyone has any experience or knowledge of the interaction of CHILDES and SHOEBOX that would be a big help. Here is a little more about the aims of the project: This project will involve case studies of three Aboriginal communities designed to address the following questions: RQ1: what kind of language input do indigenous Australian Aboriginal children receive from traditional indigenous languages, Kriol and varieties of English, and from code-switching involving these languages as used by adults and older children? RQ2: what effect does this have on the childrens language acquisition and how the input is reflected in their productive output? RQ3: what are the processes of language shift, maintenance and change which may be hypothesised to result from this multilingual environment,as evidenced by the childrens input and output and the degree to which this reflects transmission of the target languages, the loss of traditional languages, or the emergence of new mixed languages? To address the complexity of these questions, this project brings together people with expertise in three different, but related, fields: Central Australian languages (Simpson, Charola and Moses), first language acquisition (Wigglesworth), and historical change and language maintenance (Simpson). They will collect the data for the study by identifying the kinds of interactions young children are involved in, the language they use at different ages, and the breadth and variety of language the children are hearing. 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One of the nicest features of Shoebox is the fact that the resultant morphological analyses are nicely arranged up using interlinear alignment. CHILDES tools have certain limitations when compared to Shoebox, but also many other advantages. Instead of building up a morphological analysis word by word, in CHILDES you use the MOR grammar system to analyse words. To do this best, you need to learn how to build MOR grammars and that is not too easy. Alternatively, you can use the minMOR system which is pretty close to ShoeBox in requiring you to enter each form one-by-one. You can combine the two. For example, you could use analytic MOR for nouns and minMOR for verbs. The major advantages of the CHAT format and the CLAN programs relate to their better ability to represent and process larger transcripts. They are better designed for larger corpora, alignment with audio and video, and analysis using search programs. We have begun work on making CHILDES and ShoeBox more interactive. For example, Mike Maxwell at the University of Pennsylvania is working on ³rescuing² some old Shoebox corpora on Native American languages to convert them to CHAT format. This is becoming easier now, since the CHAT format now can be expressed in XML, which is a convenient translation medium between different formats. Once we have developed an XML translator for ShoeBox, we can translate between formats. However, I don¹t know how far Mike has gotten on this. Once the translator is written, you could use either Shoebox or CHILDES and perhaps move your data back and forth between the two. However, my guess is that you will lose some information when going from CHAT back to Shoebox, since Shoebox format is less structured in some regards. You may also wish to consult Steven Bird at Melbourne sb at cs.mu.oz.au. Steven has built some great tools using his AG format which is compatible in some ways with the CHILDES CHAT format. He has a lot of experience in field linguistics and computational linguistics. To find CHILDES users in Australia, you can go to the membership list on the home page and open it with username member and password babbling to search for Australia as a country. Good luck, Brian MacWhinney From gleason at bu.edu Thu Dec 12 05:29:49 2002 From: gleason at bu.edu (Jean Berko Gleason) Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 00:29:49 -0500 Subject: [Fwd: Post-Doctoral Position] Message-ID: -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Post-Doctoral Position Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 15:03:31 -0800 From: Luci Varian To: luci at ebire.org Post-Doctoral Position Available Harold Goodglass Boston University Aphasia Research Center, VA Boston Healthcare System Research in Functional MRI, and Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) to Improve Speech in Nonfluent Aphasia Requirements: Ph.D. in Speech/Language Pathology, Linguistics or Neuropsychology, with experience in adult aphasia. Background in neuroanatomy is required. Previous experience with neuroimaging in aphasia (including fMRI) is preferred, but not necessary. Description of Research: There are two projects. The first project examines recovery of speech and naming in chronic nonfluent aphasia patients with fMRI, and possible changes on fMRI following specific aphasia treatment programs. The second project examines whether rTMS can be used to improve speech and naming in chronic nonfluent aphasia patients. The rTMS procedure allows painless, non-invasive stimulation of human cortex. The second project is performed with Alvaro Pascual-Leone, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School. Salary: $47,000 per year. NIH-funded project through the Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine. Contact: Margaret Naeser, Ph.D., email: mnaeser at bu.edu From a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk Mon Dec 16 15:05:58 2002 From: a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk (Annette Karmiloff-Smith) Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 15:05:58 +0000 Subject: thank you Message-ID: So many of you have sent lovely congratulatory messages re the Latis prize that I wanted to make sure I thanked you all for your kind words. As I said, I consider this a prize in honour of the developmental approach. But I want to use this opportunity, if I may, to raise some other issues and questions. 1. In your country/university, are professors obliged to retire? 2. If so, at what age? 3. As a retired person, can they still apply for grant funding for research? 4. Are there conditions on such applications? I am asking the above because of my situation in the UK. Next year I am obliged to retire because of my chronological age (ignored is my biological age: I did a half-marathon for the WSFoundation and work out three times a week, as well as my intellectual age: I feel at the peak of my career, not at its end!) If I apply for a grant, I need a "minder" as PI. This cannot be a simple figurehead such as a head of university, but nor can it be the person with whom I have collaborated closely both theoretically and empirically for the past four years because he is "too young" in his career (in his mid thirties) - a catch-22. Moreover, even if I found an appropriate "minder" and the grant were to get the very highest rating, I am told that retired workers' grants are very low on the priority list. So, despite all that I can offer to science and to the training of graduate students, I am obliged to retire. My retirement salary will drop to 26% of its current UK rate (and alas top-up funds I've paid in for 20 years have plummeted due to stock market) so I need to find some work. Is anyone looking for, say, a 3-month-stay-professor to give a graduate seminar on foetal and early postnatal normal development, developmental cognitive neuroscience, genotype/phenotype relations, and the like, and/or start up collaborative research on topics of mutual interest? Please all answer the four questions above. I intend to contact an MP about the whole issue of obligatory retirement and would like to have the facts about other countries at hand. many thanks Annette -- ________________________________________________________________ Professor A.Karmiloff-Smith, FBA, FMedSci, MAE, C.Psychol. Head, Neurocognitive Development Unit, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, U.K. tel: 0207 905 2754 fax: 0207 242 7717 http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/ich/html/academicunits/neurocog_dev/n_d_unit.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From L.Onnis at warwick.ac.uk Mon Dec 16 19:54:15 2002 From: L.Onnis at warwick.ac.uk (Luca Onnis) Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 19:54:15 +0000 Subject: English family moving to Rome Message-ID: Dear all, I am in contact with a nice English family of four, two little girls aged 2 and 4. Their mother tongue is English. They live in England and in January they will move to Rome for an indefinite period of time, as the father has a new job there. None of the members of the family has the slightest knowledge of Italian, which means that they will be immersed in the (lively!) social and linguistic environment of Rome without any prior exposure to it. In particular, the older kid will go to state primary school as soon as they move there. I thought I would send this email around to see whether anyone is interested in monitoring the development of Italian as a second language in this family. They are willing to cooperate, and in fact they might even benefit from contacting a linguist. From a researcher?s point of view I reckon this family is an ideal source of information, as one could test SLA at different stages (ages 2 and 5 would be particularly interesting). Unfortunately, I am not in contact with researchers in Rome, although I know that for instance Elizabeth Bates has collaborated with academics who work there. If anyone is interested, please do not hesitate to contact me at: l.onnis at warwick.ac.uk Luca Onnis ---------------------------------------------------------------- Luca Onnis Graduate Research Assistant Department of Psychology University of Warwick CV4 7AL, Coventry UK From gagarina at zas.gwz-berlin.de Tue Dec 17 13:06:30 2002 From: gagarina at zas.gwz-berlin.de (Natalia Gagarina) Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 14:06:30 +0100 Subject: Call for papers Message-ID: Call for papers Workshop on the Acquisition of Aspect Location: Zentrum fuer Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Universalienforschung und Typologie - Research Centre for General Linguistics, Berlin (Jaegerstr. 10/11, D-10117, Germany) Date: 9-11 May 2003 Call Deadline: 20 February 2003 No Workshop Fee Organisers: Natalia Gagarina Dagmar Bittner Jürgen Weissenborn Web Site: http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/ Workshop Description Contemporary research on the acquisition of aspect is characterised by the high variability of theoretical and empirical approaches. The Workshop aims at clarifying some of the issues which have received different treatments in the literature so far, like, for example, the order of the emergence of aspect and tense and their distinction in the early stages of language acquisition; the role of aspect in the acquisition of verb grammar in general, and verb categories in particular. Within these two general issues, the Workshop will provide a forum for the discussion of more specific questions, like the emergence of grammatical and lexical structures expressing aspectual oppositions and the emergence of aspect as a grammatical category. Issues concerning the relationship between inherent verb semantics and tense-aspect marking are important for further stages of aspectual development. The interaction of semantic and grammatical features in the expression of aspect is of utmost interest, since the category of aspect stands at the cross-road of the lexicon and grammar. Related to this issue is the role of +/- Boundedness, +/- Telicity and of similar semantic- conceptual features in the development of aspectual oppositions. We are especially interested in papers which address these issues from a cross-linguistic, typologically varied perspective and investigate different types of data: spontaneous and elicited, as well as experimental. Papers focussing on methodological questions related to the topic of the workshop are also welcomed. Submission Details Abstracts should be up to 500 words in length (max. 1 page) and should outline the research question as well as the language(s) and the age range of children studied. Electronic submission is strongly encouraged. Please, include the abstract in the body of the message (do not send attachments!) and send two copies of abstracts (one anonymous) to Natalia Gagarina: gagarina at zas.gwz-berlin.de and Dagmar Bittner: dabitt at zas.gwz-berlin.de with ‘Aspect-2003’ in the Subject line of the email. Important Dates Deadline for Submissions: 20 February, 2003 Notification of Acceptance: 15 March, 2003 From icheca at ual.es Tue Dec 17 14:26:58 2002 From: icheca at ual.es (Irene Checa Garc=?ISO-8859-1?B?7Q==?=a) Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 15:26:58 +0100 Subject: Kellogg W. Hunt studies request Message-ID: Dear info-childes subscribers, I am a Ph. D. Student working on the implementations and improvement of Kellogg W. Hunt's indexes of syntactic maturity and its versions for Spanish. I came across with a reference in one of his articles (1977) to some experiments of rewriting done on some Asian and Pacific languages, such as: Japanese, Marshallese, Laotian, Fijian, Indonesian and Korean. These studies were carried over in 1974 in the East-West Center in Honolulu and I contacted them with no positive results unfortunately. So I would be very thankful if someone could give me any references concerning these studies or any contact information of his author Kellogg W. Hunt. Thanks in advance, Irene Checa-García University of Almería Spain From abiscotti at earthlink.net Fri Dec 27 02:20:08 2002 From: abiscotti at earthlink.net (Jeffrey Anderson) Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 18:20:08 -0800 Subject: A English speaking grandpa needs lists of books in French for 6 year-old grandson Message-ID: Perhaps someone reading this list can point me toward "classic" books in French for a young fellow in the 1st grade. He is now in his 2nd year( a first grader) of a French language immersion program; they speak only French with a native-born French speaking teacher. His teacher says he is an excellent student. I would love to send him, and his class, books which are recognized in France as being excellent for children of his age. I really don't know where to begin looking. Anyone who could give me lists of good French books and authors who write good children's books, or point me toward a location that sells them will be an angel in our lives. I live in Redondo Beach, CA, and Jack lives in Seaville, NJ. Peace and light Jeff Anderson From a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk Sun Dec 29 12:43:34 2002 From: a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk (Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith) Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 12:43:34 +0000 Subject: motor development in siblings? Message-ID: Does anyone have information about research on whether second infants are faster or slower in their motor development? One could imagine either scenario - trying actively to keep up with the older sibling or being a more passive observer of the older sibling's comings and goings. And language? I've heard talks about faster development of language in younger siblings? Are there research reports on this? Many thanks for any info, and Happy New Year to all, Annette -- ________________________________________________________________ Professor A.Karmiloff-Smith, FBA, FMedSci, FRSA, MAE, C.Psychol. Head, Neurocognitive Development Unit, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, U.K. tel: 0207 905 2754 fax: 0207 242 7717 http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/ich/html/academicunits/neurocog_dev/n_d_unit.html ________________________________________________________________ From reilly1 at mail.sdsu.edu Mon Dec 2 23:40:35 2002 From: reilly1 at mail.sdsu.edu (Judy Reilly) Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 15:40:35 -0800 Subject: Fwd: 5th attempt Message-ID: >Dear Colleagues, >We are looking at the use of language and emotion in a social context, in >different cultures and languages, and are interested in finding references >for work in the area of cultural conventions for expressivity in social >situations. This might include the use of emotion, emotional language, >gestures, prosody, when meeting and interacting with strangers. We are >particularly interested in French, American and Italian conventions for >the display of sociability or affective expressivity, (for want of a >better term). If you can think of any references or leads, we would be >extremely grateful. >Please respond to me individually and I will post the responses. > >Thanks in advance, > >Judy Reilly >reilly1 at mail.sdsu.edu From reilly1 at mail.sdsu.edu Mon Dec 2 23:41:24 2002 From: reilly1 at mail.sdsu.edu (Judy Reilly) Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 15:41:24 -0800 Subject: culture and expressivity Message-ID: >Dear Colleagues, >We are looking at the use of language and emotion in a social context, in >different cultures and languages, and are interested in finding references >for work in the area of cultural conventions for expressivity in social >situations. This might include the use of emotion, emotional language, >gestures, prosody, when meeting and interacting with strangers. The folk >wisdom might say, for example, that Italians are very 'expressive' in >contrast to Japanese individuals who are thought to be more reserved in >public, especially with strangers. We are particularly interested in >French, American and Italian conventions for the display of sociability or >affective expressivity, (for want of a better term). If you can think of >any references or leads, we would be extremely grateful. >Please respond to me individually and I will post the responses. > >Thanks in advance, > >Judy Reilly >reilly1 at mail.sdsu.edu From sues at xtra.co.nz Tue Dec 3 20:33:41 2002 From: sues at xtra.co.nz (sues) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 09:33:41 +1300 Subject: VIRUS ALERT Message-ID: This was forwarded to me today by a colleague and I have sent it to you all as I did find the virus on all our computers. Please give it a high priority. S Sullivan To everyone, A Virus has been passed on to me by one of my contacts. My address book has in turn been infected. Since you are in my address book, there is a good chance you will find it in your computer too. I followed the directions below and eradicated the virus easily. Sorry for the inconvenience. The Virus (called jdbgmgr.exe) is NOT detected by Norton or McAfee anti-virus systems. The virus sits quietly for 14 days before damaging the system. It is sent automatically by messenger and by the address book, whether or not you sent emails to your contacts. Here's how to check for the virus and how to get rid of it. YOU MUST DO THIS I did find the teddy bear virus in my c drive. 1 Go to Start, Find or Search option 2 In the file/ folders option, type the name: jdbgmgr.exe 3 Be sure your search your C: drive and all sub-folders and any other drives you may have 4 Click "find now" 5 The Virus has a teddy bear icon with the name jdbgmgr.exe DO NOT OPEN IT 6 Go to Edit (on the menu bar), choose "select all" to highlight the file without opening it 7 Now go to File (on the menu bar) and select delete. It will then go to the Recycle Bin 8 Go to the Recycle Bin and delete it there as well IF YOU FIND THE VIRUS, YOU MUST CONTACT ALL THE PEOPLE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK, SO THEY CAN ERADICATE IT IN THEIR OWN ADDRESS BOOKS. SORRY ABOUT THIS. To do this: a) Open a new e-mail message b) Click the icon of the address book next to the "TO" c) Highlight every name and add to "BCC" d) Copy this message ... enter subject ... paste to e-mail ...send I'm sorry about the inconvenience. But glad we found it Declan Joyce, Solicitor, Kelly Colfer Son & Poyntz, New Ross 051-421212 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sues at xtra.co.nz Tue Dec 3 23:57:23 2002 From: sues at xtra.co.nz (sues) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 12:57:23 +1300 Subject: HOAX VIRUS ALERT -sorry Message-ID: DO NOT DELETE jdbgmgr.exe Extremely sorry everyone - it was sent to me from England and I didn't have time to check. Apologies - hope it hasn't caused harm. And in the season of Christmas - please forgive and best wishes Sue ----- Original Message ----- From: "Malcolm Swanson" To: "sues" ; "sues M.E Sullivan" Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 11:29 AM Subject: Re: VIRUS ALERT > Hi Sue... > > This is a hoax, and you've actually deleted an important file on your > computer. Please see: > > http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_99436.htm > > It'll tell you how to restore things... > > Regards, > Malcolm Swanson > > At 9:33 AM +1300 12/4/02, sues wrote: > >This was forwarded to me today by a colleague and I have sent it to > >you all as I did find the virus on all our computers. Please give it > >a high priority. > > > >S Sullivan > > > >To everyone, > > > > A Virus has been passed on to me by one of my contacts. My address > >book has in > > > >turn been infected. Since you are in my address book, there is a good > >chance you will find it in your computer too. I followed the directions below > >and eradicated the virus easily. Sorry for the inconvenience. > > > > > >The Virus (called jdbgmgr.exe) is NOT detected by Norton or McAfee > >anti-virus systems. The virus sits quietly for 14 days before damaging > >the system. It is sent automatically by messenger and by the address > >book, whether or not you sent emails to your contacts. > > > > > >Here's how to check for the virus and how to get rid of it. > >YOU MUST DO THIS I did find the teddy bear virus in my c drive. > >1 Go to Start, Find or Search option > >2 In the file/ folders option, type the name: jdbgmgr.exe > >3 Be sure your search your C: drive and all sub-folders and any > >other drives you may have > >4 Click "find now" > >5 The Virus has a teddy bear icon with the name jdbgmgr.exe DO NOT OPEN IT > >6 Go to Edit (on the menu bar), choose "select all" to highlight the > >file without opening it > >7 Now go to File (on the menu bar) and select delete. It will then > >go to the Recycle Bin > >8 Go to the Recycle Bin and delete it there as well IF YOU FIND THE VIRUS, > >YOU MUST CONTACT ALL THE PEOPLE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK, > >SO THEY CAN ERADICATE IT IN THEIR OWN ADDRESS BOOKS. > >SORRY ABOUT THIS. > >To do this: > >a) Open a new e-mail message > >b) Click the icon of the address book next to the "TO" > >c) Highlight every name and add to "BCC" > >d) Copy this message ... enter subject ... paste to e-mail ...send > > > >I'm sorry about the inconvenience. But glad we found it > > > > > > > >Declan Joyce, > >Solicitor, > >Kelly Colfer Son & Poyntz, > >New Ross > >051-421212 > > From macw at cmu.edu Wed Dec 4 19:00:33 2002 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 14:00:33 -0500 Subject: Child Language at AILA Message-ID: AILA Scientific Committee on Child Language Annick DE HOUWER and YAMAMOTO, Masayo, Co-Convenors Symposium announcement: 'The Early Acquisition of More than One Language from Infancy with Special Reference to Chinese', at AILA2002 (13th World Congress of the International Association of Applied Linguistics, Singapore, Dec. 16-21, 2002) Monday, December 16, 3:30-5:30 pm 3:30-4 pm Welcome - YAMAMOTO Masayo (Chair), Japan Bilingual First Language Acquisition and research on children's acquisition of Chinese in addition to another language - Annick DE HOUWER, Belgium 4-4:30 pm Self and other pronominal reference in a Mandarin-English bilingual child - Ruying QI, Bruno DI BIASE, Stuart CAMPBELL, Australia 4:30-5 pm Cross-linguistic influence in Hong Kong children's bilingual development: Integrating input ambiguity and dominance - Virginia YIP, Stephen MATTHEWS, China (Hong Kong) 5-5:20 pm Discussion and Conclusion Business Meeting Monday, December 16, 5:30-6:30 pm Open floor: Future directions for the AILA Scientific Committee on Child Language Anyone interested in the AILA Scientific Committee on Child Language is cordially invited to the Open Floor session even if they weren't at the symposium. From macw at cmu.edu Thu Dec 5 23:55:37 2002 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 18:55:37 -0500 Subject: LDC phone call project Message-ID: Greetings, The Linguistic Data Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania (www.ldc.upenn.edu) needs participants for FISHER, a new telephone speech study to be conducted in the Early Winter 2002-2003. In contrast to prior regional studies (Switchboard), FISHER will be national (North America). The FISHER project will be undertaken to support linguistic research, technology development and education. All calls will be recorded for these purposes. Particpant Identities will be kept strictly confidential and not released with the data. FISHER participants will take part in 1 to 3 telephone calls talking to other participants on suggested topics for ten minutes. FISHER topics can be found at the URL below: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Projects/EARS/Fisher/topics.html A robot operator will initiate all calls. Particpants need only answer their phones at the time they specify during the registration process. Participants will be compensated $10 per call. In addition, for each call made, participants will be eligble for 1 chance at (3) $1000.00 lottery prizes. To register for this study please see the following page: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Projects/EARS/Fisher/intro.html or call 1 800 380 PENN, to register and for more information Sincerely, Dr. David Miller FISHER Project Manager From Theresa.Gannon at vuw.ac.nz Sun Dec 8 02:18:29 2002 From: Theresa.Gannon at vuw.ac.nz (Theresa Gannon) Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 15:18:29 +1300 Subject: beliefs Message-ID: Does anyone out there know of literature that looks at how excuses and justifications may develop into specific beliefs? Thank you very much Theresa Theresa A. Gannon Post Doctoral Fellow in Psychology School of Psychology Te Kura Maatai Hinengaro Victoria University of Wellington Te Whare Wananga o te Upoko o te Ika a Maui P O Box 600, Wellington New Zealand Aotearoa ph : +64-4-463-6032 fax: +64-4-463-5402 email: Theresa.Gannon at vuw.ac.nz http://www.vuw.ac.nz/psyc/postdocs/gannon.html From taelman at uia.ua.ac.be Tue Dec 10 08:58:07 2002 From: taelman at uia.ua.ac.be (Helena Taelman) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 09:58:07 +0100 Subject: research overview Dutch language acquisition Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES subscribers, Currently, the Dutch child language organization 'NET-werk' is updating its database of ongoing research projects. We are preparing a 'self-contained' research overview on our website. If you are working on Dutch language acquisition, could you please post a project description at the following web address? http://cnts.uia.ac.be/NET Many thanks! P.S. 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URL: From m.thomas at psychology.bbk.ac.uk Tue Dec 10 11:28:03 2002 From: m.thomas at psychology.bbk.ac.uk (DR M THOMAS) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:28:03 +0000 Subject: Announcement Message-ID: Congratulations, Annette! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The European Latsis Prize 2002 has been awarded to Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith, Head of the Neurocognitive Development Unit at the Institute of Child Health, University College London, for her outstanding contribution to the understanding of cognitive and language development in children with genetic disorders. The Prize ceremony took place at the Assembly of the European Science Foundation on 28th November 2002 in Strasbourg. The European Latsis Prize, of a value of 100,000 Swiss Francs, is financed by the Latsis Foundation and awarded by the European Science Foundation to an individual or group who, in the opinion of their peers, has made the greatest contribution to a particular field of European research. The chosen field of the 2002 prize was "Cognitive Sciences". Already recognised in her early career for her outstanding contribution to the understanding of the human mind through her studies of normal child development in several areas of cognition and psycholinguistics, Professor Karmiloff-Smith switched her main research focus some fifteen years ago to understanding the nature of language and intelligence in children with genetic disorders. A particularly original facet of her work is that in her studies of both normal and atypical development, she has always embraced several different areas of cognition, using multiple cross-disciplinary theoretical questions and techniques. Professor Paolo Legrenzi from the European Latsis prize committee stated: "The theoretical and empirical contributions of Annette Karmiloff-Smith are amongst the most important results of the cognitive sciences over the last thirty years. Her research on multiple areas of cognition and language, which builds on a wide range of trans-disciplinary techniques, has made an enormous impact on other researchers within Europe, North America and the rest of the world." On receiving the prize, Professor Karmiloff-Smith said, "Although I am of course delighted personally, this is really a prize for all developmentalists. The fact that our field was chosen over adult cognitive science, adult psycholinguistics, and adult neuroscience is a real tribute to the developmental approach." From mcconvell at ozemail.com.au Tue Dec 10 20:20:26 2002 From: mcconvell at ozemail.com.au (PatrickMcConvell) Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 07:20:26 +1100 Subject: Central Australian Study/SHOEBOX Message-ID: Dear colleagues, I wish to announce a new study which has been funded by the Australian Research Council for the period 2003-6. Its title is How mixed language input affects child language development: case studies from Central Australia We are keen to hear from other people carrying out studies involving Indigenous and endangered languages, with code mixing a significant factor, and 'bush' settings and cultures significantly different from those in most language acquisition studies involved. We are just tooling up and want to learn more about CHILDES so if there are any CHILDES experts in Australia or the region who could perhaps help us with a workshop, let us know. We are having a meeting in March in Melbourne where we hope to discuss these issues. Most field linguists here tend to use SHOEBOX for transcription so if anyone has any experience or knowledge of the interaction of CHILDES and SHOEBOX that would be a big help. Here is a little more about the aims of the project: This project will involve case studies of three Aboriginal communities designed to address the following questions: RQ1: what kind of language input do indigenous Australian Aboriginal children receive from traditional indigenous languages, Kriol and varieties of English, and from code-switching involving these languages as used by adults and older children? RQ2: what effect does this have on the childrens language acquisition and how the input is reflected in their productive output? RQ3: what are the processes of language shift, maintenance and change which may be hypothesised to result from this multilingual environment,as evidenced by the childrens input and output and the degree to which this reflects transmission of the target languages, the loss of traditional languages, or the emergence of new mixed languages? To address the complexity of these questions, this project brings together people with expertise in three different, but related, fields: Central Australian languages (Simpson, Charola and Moses), first language acquisition (Wigglesworth), and historical change and language maintenance (Simpson). They will collect the data for the study by identifying the kinds of interactions young children are involved in, the language they use at different ages, and the breadth and variety of language the children are hearing. 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One of the nicest features of Shoebox is the fact that the resultant morphological analyses are nicely arranged up using interlinear alignment. CHILDES tools have certain limitations when compared to Shoebox, but also many other advantages. Instead of building up a morphological analysis word by word, in CHILDES you use the MOR grammar system to analyse words. To do this best, you need to learn how to build MOR grammars and that is not too easy. Alternatively, you can use the minMOR system which is pretty close to ShoeBox in requiring you to enter each form one-by-one. You can combine the two. For example, you could use analytic MOR for nouns and minMOR for verbs. The major advantages of the CHAT format and the CLAN programs relate to their better ability to represent and process larger transcripts. They are better designed for larger corpora, alignment with audio and video, and analysis using search programs. We have begun work on making CHILDES and ShoeBox more interactive. For example, Mike Maxwell at the University of Pennsylvania is working on ?rescuing? some old Shoebox corpora on Native American languages to convert them to CHAT format. This is becoming easier now, since the CHAT format now can be expressed in XML, which is a convenient translation medium between different formats. Once we have developed an XML translator for ShoeBox, we can translate between formats. However, I don?t know how far Mike has gotten on this. Once the translator is written, you could use either Shoebox or CHILDES and perhaps move your data back and forth between the two. However, my guess is that you will lose some information when going from CHAT back to Shoebox, since Shoebox format is less structured in some regards. You may also wish to consult Steven Bird at Melbourne sb at cs.mu.oz.au. Steven has built some great tools using his AG format which is compatible in some ways with the CHILDES CHAT format. He has a lot of experience in field linguistics and computational linguistics. To find CHILDES users in Australia, you can go to the membership list on the home page and open it with username member and password babbling to search for Australia as a country. Good luck, Brian MacWhinney From gleason at bu.edu Thu Dec 12 05:29:49 2002 From: gleason at bu.edu (Jean Berko Gleason) Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 00:29:49 -0500 Subject: [Fwd: Post-Doctoral Position] Message-ID: -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Post-Doctoral Position Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 15:03:31 -0800 From: Luci Varian To: luci at ebire.org Post-Doctoral Position Available Harold Goodglass Boston University Aphasia Research Center, VA Boston Healthcare System Research in Functional MRI, and Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) to Improve Speech in Nonfluent Aphasia Requirements: Ph.D. in Speech/Language Pathology, Linguistics or Neuropsychology, with experience in adult aphasia. Background in neuroanatomy is required. Previous experience with neuroimaging in aphasia (including fMRI) is preferred, but not necessary. Description of Research: There are two projects. The first project examines recovery of speech and naming in chronic nonfluent aphasia patients with fMRI, and possible changes on fMRI following specific aphasia treatment programs. The second project examines whether rTMS can be used to improve speech and naming in chronic nonfluent aphasia patients. The rTMS procedure allows painless, non-invasive stimulation of human cortex. The second project is performed with Alvaro Pascual-Leone, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School. Salary: $47,000 per year. NIH-funded project through the Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine. Contact: Margaret Naeser, Ph.D., email: mnaeser at bu.edu From a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk Mon Dec 16 15:05:58 2002 From: a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk (Annette Karmiloff-Smith) Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 15:05:58 +0000 Subject: thank you Message-ID: So many of you have sent lovely congratulatory messages re the Latis prize that I wanted to make sure I thanked you all for your kind words. As I said, I consider this a prize in honour of the developmental approach. But I want to use this opportunity, if I may, to raise some other issues and questions. 1. In your country/university, are professors obliged to retire? 2. If so, at what age? 3. As a retired person, can they still apply for grant funding for research? 4. Are there conditions on such applications? I am asking the above because of my situation in the UK. Next year I am obliged to retire because of my chronological age (ignored is my biological age: I did a half-marathon for the WSFoundation and work out three times a week, as well as my intellectual age: I feel at the peak of my career, not at its end!) If I apply for a grant, I need a "minder" as PI. This cannot be a simple figurehead such as a head of university, but nor can it be the person with whom I have collaborated closely both theoretically and empirically for the past four years because he is "too young" in his career (in his mid thirties) - a catch-22. Moreover, even if I found an appropriate "minder" and the grant were to get the very highest rating, I am told that retired workers' grants are very low on the priority list. So, despite all that I can offer to science and to the training of graduate students, I am obliged to retire. My retirement salary will drop to 26% of its current UK rate (and alas top-up funds I've paid in for 20 years have plummeted due to stock market) so I need to find some work. Is anyone looking for, say, a 3-month-stay-professor to give a graduate seminar on foetal and early postnatal normal development, developmental cognitive neuroscience, genotype/phenotype relations, and the like, and/or start up collaborative research on topics of mutual interest? Please all answer the four questions above. I intend to contact an MP about the whole issue of obligatory retirement and would like to have the facts about other countries at hand. many thanks Annette -- ________________________________________________________________ Professor A.Karmiloff-Smith, FBA, FMedSci, MAE, C.Psychol. Head, Neurocognitive Development Unit, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, U.K. tel: 0207 905 2754 fax: 0207 242 7717 http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/ich/html/academicunits/neurocog_dev/n_d_unit.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From L.Onnis at warwick.ac.uk Mon Dec 16 19:54:15 2002 From: L.Onnis at warwick.ac.uk (Luca Onnis) Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 19:54:15 +0000 Subject: English family moving to Rome Message-ID: Dear all, I am in contact with a nice English family of four, two little girls aged 2 and 4. Their mother tongue is English. They live in England and in January they will move to Rome for an indefinite period of time, as the father has a new job there. None of the members of the family has the slightest knowledge of Italian, which means that they will be immersed in the (lively!) social and linguistic environment of Rome without any prior exposure to it. In particular, the older kid will go to state primary school as soon as they move there. I thought I would send this email around to see whether anyone is interested in monitoring the development of Italian as a second language in this family. They are willing to cooperate, and in fact they might even benefit from contacting a linguist. From a researcher?s point of view I reckon this family is an ideal source of information, as one could test SLA at different stages (ages 2 and 5 would be particularly interesting). Unfortunately, I am not in contact with researchers in Rome, although I know that for instance Elizabeth Bates has collaborated with academics who work there. If anyone is interested, please do not hesitate to contact me at: l.onnis at warwick.ac.uk Luca Onnis ---------------------------------------------------------------- Luca Onnis Graduate Research Assistant Department of Psychology University of Warwick CV4 7AL, Coventry UK From gagarina at zas.gwz-berlin.de Tue Dec 17 13:06:30 2002 From: gagarina at zas.gwz-berlin.de (Natalia Gagarina) Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 14:06:30 +0100 Subject: Call for papers Message-ID: Call for papers Workshop on the Acquisition of Aspect Location: Zentrum fuer Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Universalienforschung und Typologie - Research Centre for General Linguistics, Berlin (Jaegerstr. 10/11, D-10117, Germany) Date: 9-11 May 2003 Call Deadline: 20 February 2003 No Workshop Fee Organisers: Natalia Gagarina Dagmar Bittner J?rgen Weissenborn Web Site: http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/ Workshop Description Contemporary research on the acquisition of aspect is characterised by the high variability of theoretical and empirical approaches. The Workshop aims at clarifying some of the issues which have received different treatments in the literature so far, like, for example, the order of the emergence of aspect and tense and their distinction in the early stages of language acquisition; the role of aspect in the acquisition of verb grammar in general, and verb categories in particular. Within these two general issues, the Workshop will provide a forum for the discussion of more specific questions, like the emergence of grammatical and lexical structures expressing aspectual oppositions and the emergence of aspect as a grammatical category. Issues concerning the relationship between inherent verb semantics and tense-aspect marking are important for further stages of aspectual development. The interaction of semantic and grammatical features in the expression of aspect is of utmost interest, since the category of aspect stands at the cross-road of the lexicon and grammar. Related to this issue is the role of +/- Boundedness, +/- Telicity and of similar semantic- conceptual features in the development of aspectual oppositions. We are especially interested in papers which address these issues from a cross-linguistic, typologically varied perspective and investigate different types of data: spontaneous and elicited, as well as experimental. Papers focussing on methodological questions related to the topic of the workshop are also welcomed. Submission Details Abstracts should be up to 500 words in length (max. 1 page) and should outline the research question as well as the language(s) and the age range of children studied. Electronic submission is strongly encouraged. Please, include the abstract in the body of the message (do not send attachments!) and send two copies of abstracts (one anonymous) to Natalia Gagarina: gagarina at zas.gwz-berlin.de and Dagmar Bittner: dabitt at zas.gwz-berlin.de with ?Aspect-2003? in the Subject line of the email. Important Dates Deadline for Submissions: 20 February, 2003 Notification of Acceptance: 15 March, 2003 From icheca at ual.es Tue Dec 17 14:26:58 2002 From: icheca at ual.es (Irene Checa Garc=?ISO-8859-1?B?7Q==?=a) Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 15:26:58 +0100 Subject: Kellogg W. Hunt studies request Message-ID: Dear info-childes subscribers, I am a Ph. D. Student working on the implementations and improvement of Kellogg W. Hunt's indexes of syntactic maturity and its versions for Spanish. I came across with a reference in one of his articles (1977) to some experiments of rewriting done on some Asian and Pacific languages, such as: Japanese, Marshallese, Laotian, Fijian, Indonesian and Korean. These studies were carried over in 1974 in the East-West Center in Honolulu and I contacted them with no positive results unfortunately. So I would be very thankful if someone could give me any references concerning these studies or any contact information of his author Kellogg W. Hunt. Thanks in advance, Irene Checa-Garc?a University of Almer?a Spain From abiscotti at earthlink.net Fri Dec 27 02:20:08 2002 From: abiscotti at earthlink.net (Jeffrey Anderson) Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 18:20:08 -0800 Subject: A English speaking grandpa needs lists of books in French for 6 year-old grandson Message-ID: Perhaps someone reading this list can point me toward "classic" books in French for a young fellow in the 1st grade. He is now in his 2nd year( a first grader) of a French language immersion program; they speak only French with a native-born French speaking teacher. His teacher says he is an excellent student. I would love to send him, and his class, books which are recognized in France as being excellent for children of his age. I really don't know where to begin looking. Anyone who could give me lists of good French books and authors who write good children's books, or point me toward a location that sells them will be an angel in our lives. I live in Redondo Beach, CA, and Jack lives in Seaville, NJ. Peace and light Jeff Anderson From a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk Sun Dec 29 12:43:34 2002 From: a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk (Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith) Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 12:43:34 +0000 Subject: motor development in siblings? Message-ID: Does anyone have information about research on whether second infants are faster or slower in their motor development? One could imagine either scenario - trying actively to keep up with the older sibling or being a more passive observer of the older sibling's comings and goings. And language? I've heard talks about faster development of language in younger siblings? Are there research reports on this? Many thanks for any info, and Happy New Year to all, Annette -- ________________________________________________________________ Professor A.Karmiloff-Smith, FBA, FMedSci, FRSA, MAE, C.Psychol. Head, Neurocognitive Development Unit, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, U.K. tel: 0207 905 2754 fax: 0207 242 7717 http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/ich/html/academicunits/neurocog_dev/n_d_unit.html ________________________________________________________________