From tmintz at usc.edu Fri May 3 21:36:03 2002 From: tmintz at usc.edu (Toby Mintz) Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 14:36:03 -0700 Subject: [Fwd: VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN PHONOLOGY] Message-ID: JOB ANNOUNCEMENT (please do not reply directly to sender) The Department of Linguistics at the University of Southern California is searching for a Visiting Assistant Professor in Phonology for the academic year 2002-2003. Teaching responsibilities to be among the following courses according to the needs of the department and expertise of the applicant: courses from the first year graduate sequence in phonology, a graduate seminar in phonology, Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology (undergraduate), Language & Mind undergraduate, based on phonetics, phonology, and cognitive science), Human Language and Technology (undergraduate). The position will involve teaching four courses with negotiable possibility of a fifth course. Compensation will be dependent upon qualifications and teaching load. The candidate must have completed all the requirements for a Ph.D. in Linguistics with a specialization in Phonology. Candidates are requested to submit a curriculum vitae, and arrange for three letters of recommendation to be sent to: culver at usc.edu OR Phonology Search Committee Department of Linguistics GFS 301 University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089 1693 For fullest consideration, applications should be received by May 10, 2002. The University of Southern California is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer From tmintz at usc.edu Sat May 4 01:00:10 2002 From: tmintz at usc.edu (Toby Mintz) Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 18:00:10 -0700 Subject: PSYCHOLINGUISTICS POSITION Message-ID: JOB ANNOUNCEMENT (please do not reply to sender) The Department of Linguistics at the University of Southern California is searching for a Visiting Assistant Professor in Psycholinguistics for the academic year 2002-2003. Teaching responsibilities will involve four courses (including both a graduate and an undergraduate Introduction to Psycholinguistics) with negotiable possibility of a fifth course. Compensation will be dependent upon qualifications and teaching load. The candidate must have completed all the requirements for a Ph.D. In Linguistics, Psychology or Cognitive Science, with a specialization in Psycholinguistics. Candidates are requested to submit a curriculum vitae, and arrange for three letters of recommendation to be sent to: Psycholinguistics Search Committee Attn: Prof. Elaine Andersen Department of Linguistics GFS 301 University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-1693 For fullest consideration, applications should be received by June 12, 2002. The University of Southern California is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. From doneill at watarts.uwaterloo.ca Sun May 5 18:40:34 2002 From: doneill at watarts.uwaterloo.ca (Daniela O'Neill) Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 14:40:34 -0400 Subject: German language assessment measures Message-ID: Hello, I am trying to find a measure of general language development appropriate for typically-developing German speaking children aged 18 - 36 months of age. Can anyone provide any recommendations as to a measure that would cover this age range or part of it? Thank you. Daniela O'Neill Dept. of Psychology University of Waterloo Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1 Canada From macw at cmu.edu Mon May 6 03:13:25 2002 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 23:13:25 -0400 Subject: new corpus on bilingualism Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, I am happy to announce the contribution to CHILDES of a new corpus on French-English bilingualism from Fred Genesee at McGill. The data are in genesee.sit in the /biling directory on childes.psy.cmu.edu. The readme for this corpus follows. --Brian MacWhinney Linguistic community: The children and their families all lived in Montreal or surrounding communities. Metropolitan Montreal includes a population of approximately 2.5 million people. It is a bilingual community in which many individuals are bilingual in French and English and use both languages on a daily basis. Moreover, evidence of French and English are evident in the media (there are French and English TV stations, newspapers, magazines, etc), on the street (in the form of signs and announcements), and in stores (most store personnel in medium to large stores can provide service in English and French). It is common to hear English and French being spoken by people on the street, in buses, stores, etc. Context of Data Collection: The children were being raised in homes where both languages were used on a regular basis, usually each language was spoken predominantly by one parent and the other language by the other parent. The children and their parents were recorded in the children's homes -- often in the living room, playroom, or kitchen. The recordings were done by an assistant or graduate student who was otherwise uninvolved in the interactions. The parents were asked to interact and talk with their children as they normally would using whichever language(s) they would normally use and to ignore the assistant as much as possible. Funding Agency: The research based on these data was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Ottawa, Canada, to Fred Genesee. Data Transcription: Twenty to thirty minutes of each session with each child were transcribed using the CHAT transcription system. Transcription began after the first five minutes of the session, in order to allow the children to become comfortable with the taping equipment. In cases where the children had produced less than 100 intelligible utterances in the initial 20 minutes of data, transcription continued until at least 100 intelligible utterances had been recorded. Each utterance was coded according to addressee (parent, other -- e.g., toy dog) and the language of the utterance (French only, English only, mixed, neutral, unintelligible. Mixed utterances consisted of utterances that contained both English and French -- for example, the utterance, ³ça go pas lಠ(that doesn¹t go there) was considered an instance of intra-utterance mixing. A neutral utterance was one which could belong to either language, such as proper names, ³ah² and ³oh². Animal sounds that are similar in English and French (i.e. ³meow²) and the word ³okay² were also coded as neutral, as it is impossible to determine the language in which these words were being produced. However, when a neutral word appeared in an utterance of only one language, the entire utterance was coded as being in that language. For instance, the utterance ³oh a truck² would be coded as English, whereas the sentence ³oh un camion² would be coded as French. Finally, utterances which were incomprehensible were classified as unintelligible; these were sometimes transcribed phonetically but no orthographic transcription was possible, and they were often dropped from further analyses. All transcripts were reviewed by one of two bilingual assistants who was a native speaker of the primary language of the session. Any discrepancies were resolved by discussion. More detailed coding and analyses were undertaken in accordance with the specific objectives of the research. The following is a list of research that is based in part of in whole on these transcriptions. The following publications were based, in part, on these transcripts: Genesee, F., Nicoladis, E., & Paradis, J. (1995). Language differentiation in early bilingual development. Journal of Child Language 22, 611-631. Genesee, F., Boivin, I., & Nicoladis, E. (1996). Talking with strangers: A study of bilingual children's communicative competence. Applied Psycholinguistics, 17, 427-442. Nicoladis, E., & Genesee, F. (1998). Parental discourse and codemixing in bilingual children. International Journal of Bilingualism 2, 85-99. Paradis, J., Nicoladis, E., & Genesee, F. (2000). Early emergence of structural constraints on code-mixing: evidence from French-English bilingual children. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 3, 245-261. From katmarsh at web.de Mon May 6 11:03:26 2002 From: katmarsh at web.de (Katerina Marshfield) Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 13:03:26 +0200 Subject: late talkers using sign language Message-ID: Dear All, I am looking for references to studies of children, who due to a traumatic birth suffer from belated growth and ability to walk and talk, and develop their own sign language to comunicate. In the concrete case, that I am dealing with, the child has grown a head disproportionate to its body, started to walk at the age of about 34 months, and at the age of 3,5 it can only say a couple of words in English and Swedish (English being the mother tongue of his father and Swedish that of his mother) helping itself with a sign language it has developed. It has had no previous contact with any community using sign language. Can anybody out there help me please? Thanking you all in advance. Katerina Marshfield Research Assistant Department of English Linguistics TU Braunschweig Germany Tel. 0049-531-3913528 ________________________________________________________________ Keine verlorenen Lotto-Quittungen, keine vergessenen Gewinne mehr! Beim WEB.DE Lottoservice: http://tippen2.web.de/?x=13 From ann.dowker at psy.ox.ac.uk Mon May 6 17:55:09 2002 From: ann.dowker at psy.ox.ac.uk (Ann Dowker) Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 18:55:09 +0100 Subject: late talkers using sign language In-Reply-To: <200205061103.g46B3QX07913@mailgate5.cinetic.de> Message-ID: I don't know of references concerning the exact situation that you describe; but Susan Goldin-Meadow and colleagues have published a lot of material on spontaneously invented sign languages in deaf children of hearing parents; e.g. S. Goldin-Meadow and C. Mylander: Gestural communication in deaf children: non-effect of parental input on language development; Science, 1983, 221, 372-374. S. Goldin-Meadow, C. Mylander and C. Butcher: The resilience of combinatorial structure at the word level: morphology in self-styled gesture systems; Cognition, 1995, 56, 195-262. S. Goldin-Meadow and C. Mylander: Spontaneous sign systems created by deaf children in two cultures; Nature, 1998, 391, 279-281. Also, A. Ellis and G. Beattie: The Psychology of Language and Communication, Erlbaum, 1986, pp. 288-290, describes the case of Martin, a typically developing child who was a somewhat late talker and invented a large repertoire of gestural signs for communication. Ann On Mon, 6 May 2002, Katerina Marshfield wrote: > Dear All, > > I am looking for references to studies of children, who due to a > traumatic birth suffer from belated growth and ability to walk and > talk, and develop their own sign language to comunicate. In the > concrete case, that I am dealing with, the child has grown a head > disproportionate to its body, started to walk at the age of about 34 > months, and at the age of 3,5 it can only say a couple of words in > English and Swedish (English being the mother tongue of his father and > Swedish that of his mother) helping itself with a sign language it has > developed. It has had no previous contact with any community using > sign language. > > Can anybody out there help me please? > > Thanking you all in advance. > > Katerina Marshfield > Research Assistant > Department of English Linguistics > TU Braunschweig > > Germany > Tel. 0049-531-3913528 > > ________________________________________________________________ > Keine verlorenen Lotto-Quittungen, keine vergessenen Gewinne mehr! > Beim WEB.DE Lottoservice: http://tippen2.web.de/?x=13 > > > > From jdb5b at j.mail.virginia.edu Mon May 6 20:16:41 2002 From: jdb5b at j.mail.virginia.edu (John D. Bonvillian) Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 16:16:41 -0400 Subject: late talkers using sign language In-Reply-To: <200205061103.g46B3QX07913@mailgate5.cinetic.de> Message-ID: Dear Katerina Marshfield, The two citations I was able to recall are only indirectly related to your specific concern. I hope that they prove helpful. They are: Brookner, S. P., & Murphy, N. O. (1975). The use of a total communication approach with a nondeaf child: A case study. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 6, 131-139. Caparulo, B. K., & Cohen, D. J. (1977). Cognitive structures, language, and emerging social competence in autistic and aphasic children. Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 16, 620-645. Sincerely, John Bonvillian On Mon, 6 May 2002 13:03:26 +0200 Katerina Marshfield wrote: > Dear All, > > I am looking for references to studies of children, who due to a traumatic birth suffer from belated growth and ability to walk and talk, and develop their own sign language to comunicate. In the concrete case, that I am dealing with, the child has grown a head disproportionate to its body, started to walk at the age of about 34 months, and at the age of 3,5 it can only say a couple of words in English and Swedish (English being the mother tongue of his father and Swedish that of his mother) helping itself with a sign language it has developed. It has had no previous contact with any community using sign language. > > Can anybody out there help me please? > > Thanking you all in advance. > > Katerina Marshfield > Research Assistant > Department of English Linguistics > TU Braunschweig > > Germany > Tel. 0049-531-3913528 > > ________________________________________________________________ > Keine verlorenen Lotto-Quittungen, keine vergessenen Gewinne mehr! > Beim WEB.DE Lottoservice: http://tippen2.web.de/?x=13 > > > From gleason at bu.edu Tue May 7 03:48:02 2002 From: gleason at bu.edu (Jean Berko Gleason) Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 23:48:02 -0400 Subject: Harold Goodglass Memorial Service Message-ID: A memorial service for Harold Goodglass has been set for Sunday, 19 May, at 1 pm. It will be held at Temple Ohabei Shalom, which is at 1187 Beacon Street in Brookline, Massachusetts. There will be a reception at the family home after the service. The address is 514 Parker Street in Newton. Directions will be available at the service. From gleason at bu.edu Tue May 7 04:04:07 2002 From: gleason at bu.edu (Jean Berko Gleason) Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 00:04:07 -0400 Subject: Call for Papers: From the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS Linguistic Socialization, Language Acquisition and Language Disorders dedicated to the memory of Zita Reger (1944-2001) October 7-9 2002, at the Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest (Budapest VI. Benczúr u. 33.). The conference, organized jointly by the Research Institute of Linguistics and the Research Institute on National and Ethnic Minorities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences is set up to pay homage to the late Professor Zita Reger, an outstanding linguist and teacher, former department head at the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The conference will feature state-of-the-art presentations on the following three topics, which Zita Réger made significant contributions to during her research career: A) Language acquisition, child language B) Linguistic socialization, and language use in Gypsy communities C) Aphasia research: lexicon, syntax and phonology in impaired language Invited speakers: Jean Berko Gleason (Boston University) Csaba Pleh (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) Herman Kolk (Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen) Michael Stewart (University College London) Susan Gal (University of Chicago) The organizers invite anonymous abstracts for 30-minute talks, which will be delivered in three sessions corresponding to the three topic areas indicated above. Official languages: Sessions A and C - English, Session B - English and Hungarian. Abstract presentation: The maximum length of anonymous abstracts is two pages (single-space, Times 12 point or equivalent). Abstracts should be written in one of the official languages of the session they are intended to. Electronic submission of abstracts (in rtf, i.e. Rich Text File format) is strongly preferred. Abstracts should be sent to the following address: utak at nytud.hu Please make sure that the abstract contains no easily recognizable reference to your own work. The abstracts should be accompanied by a separate page with the author's name and affiliation, title of abstract, e-mail address, mailing address, and phone and fax number. If the author prefers submission of hard copies, they should be sent (in 5 copies without author's name + a separate page with the author's name, and affiliation) to the following address: Zoltan Banreti, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Budapest P.O. Box 701/518. 1399 Hungary Deadline for the submission of abstracts: June 10 2002 Authors will be notified of the acceptance of their abstracts before July 1 2002 Registration fee (including coffee, abstracts, and a banquet): before August 31: 40 USD after August 31: 50 USD Pre-registration rates only apply if payment is transferred to our account prior to August 31: Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Account no.: 10032000-01731732-00000000 Swift code: MANEHUHB Students and scholars from Eastern and Central Europe can apply for special grants covering the price of registration and/or accommodation when submitting their abstracts. Further information about registration and accommodation (including special rates offered to conference participants by hotels near the venue of the conference) is available on our website: www.nytud.hu/LSLALD/lslald.html. On behalf of the organizers, Zoltan Banreti, Deputy Director of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Budapest Laszlo Szarka, Director of the Research Institute on National and Ethnic Minorities From bart.hollebrandse at let.uu.nl Tue May 7 07:27:41 2002 From: bart.hollebrandse at let.uu.nl (Bart Holelbrandse) Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 09:27:41 +0200 Subject: Workshop Language Acquisition (Going Romance) Message-ID: GOING ROMANCE 2002 Sixteenth Symposium on Romance Linguistics University of Groningen WORKSHOP, NOVEMBER 30 ACQUISITION CALL FOR PAPERS Invited Speaker CELIA JAKUBOWICZ Papers on all aspects of first or second language acquisition in Romance are wellcome. The presentations will take thirty minutes, with an additional ten minutes discussion. Abstracts should be anonymous and no longer than two pages, including references and examples, with margins of at least 1-inch, letter size 12. Submissions are limited to a maximum of one individual and one joint abstract per author. The abstracts should be sent by e-mail as a Word or RTF file. Join separetely a file containing: title, author's name and address, affiliation and e-mail address. All authors who present their work at the conference will be invited to submit their paper for the Proceedings Volume, to be published by John Benjamins. Notice that there will be a separate afternoon session dedicated to phonology. Deadline for receipt of abstracts: September 14, 2002 Abstracts should be sent to: going.romance2002 at let.rug.nl Surface address: Going Romance, RTC - Letteren Oude Kijk in't Jatstraat 26 Groningen University P.O. Box 716 NL 9700 AS Groningen Phone: 31-(0)50-3635850 The Netherlands Fax: 31-(0)50-3635821 For further information: going.romance2002 at let.rug.nl http://www.let.rug.nl/~going/ The workshop will be organized by: Reineke Bok-Bennema (University of Groningen), Bart Hollebrandse (University of Groningen), Angeliek van Hout (University of Groningen), Aafke Hulk (Utrecht University) Brigitte Kampers-Manhe (University of Groningen), Marianne Starren (Nijmegen University). From kathryn at multilingual-matters.com Tue May 7 15:08:15 2002 From: kathryn at multilingual-matters.com (Kathryn King) Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 16:08:15 +0100 Subject: New book from Multilingual Matters Message-ID: PHONOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT IN SPECIFIC CONTEXTS Studies of Chinese-speaking Children Zhu Hua (University of Newcastle) The book is a major contribution to the cross-linguistic study of language acquisition in general and a milestone in the study of the acquisition of Chinese. Professor N. V. Smith, Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London Key Features q The first book-length study of phonological development and impairment of Chinese-speaking children q The data in it will be of value to speech and language therapists and other professionals Description This book contains a series of studies of phonological acquisition and development of children in specific contexts: · linguistic context: Putonghua or Modern Standard Chinese · developmental contexts: normally developing children, children with speech disorders, children with hearing impairment, and twins. This is the first book-length study of phonological development and impairment of Chinese-speaking children. It provides the first normative data on this population, which will be of value to speech and language therapists and other professionals. It also advances the notion of 'phonological saliency' which explains the cross-linguistic similarities and differences in children's phonological development. Contents Introduction 1. Developmental universals and cross-linguistic studies of phonological acquisition 2. Putonghua phonology 3. Phonological acquisition of normally developing children I: cross- sectional study 4. Phonological acquisition of normally developing children II: longitudinal study 5. The phonological systems of Putonghua-speaking children with functional speech disorders 6. Development and change in the phonology of Putonghua-speaking children with functional speech disorders 7. The phonological systems of a set of Putonghua-speaking twins 8. Phonological development of a Putonghua-speaking child with prelingual hearing impairment 9. General discussion and conclusion Author information Zhu Hua obtained a PhD from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne where she is currently a Research Fellow in the Department of Speech studied. She is also a qualified translator-interpreter and teacher. Since 1996, she has been involved in a number of research projects on language acquisition and disorders. She has published extensively on child language (Journal of Child Language, Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders) and cross- cultural pragmatics (Journal of Pragmatics, Multilingua). Child Language and Child Development 3 Format: 210 x 148mm xii + 220pp May 2002 Hbk ISBN 1-85359-588-8 £59.95/ US$89.95 / CAN$119.95 Pbk ISBN 1-85359-587-x £24.95 / US$39.95 / CAN$49.95 This book (and all Multilingual Matters books) can be ordered via our secure, fully searchable website www.multilingual-matters.com. This offers free shipping to any address in the world, airmail where appropriate. Alternatively, it can be ordered through any bookshop, or in case of difficulty contact the publisher for further details of how to order. -- Kathryn King Multilingual Matters Ltd Frankfurt Lodge, Clevedon Hall Victoria Road, Clevedon, North Somerset BS21 7HH, UK Tel: +44 (0) 1275-876519; Fax: +44 (0) 1275-871673 Email: kathryn at multilingual-matters.com www.multilingual-matters.com From sharon.unsworth at let.uu.nl Wed May 8 10:41:26 2002 From: sharon.unsworth at let.uu.nl (Sharon Unsworth) Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 12:41:26 +0200 Subject: reponses to my transcription query Message-ID: Dear all, Thanks to the following people for their suggestions regarding my query regarding transcribing interruptions without effecting (MLU) (original message below): Marita Boehning, Emma Marsden, Diane Pesco, Javier Aguado Orea and Judi Fenson. It seems that the only way to count two utterances from one speaker -- with an intervening utterance from another speaker -- as one utterance for MLU purposes is to use the +/. (interruption) symbol at the end of the first utterance and start the second utterance with +, as in: Subject: there's a dog and a boy and the boy is +/. [The subject doesn't know the word in her L2 English so the experimenter tells her.] Experimenter: ++ crying. Subject: +, crying. Note, however, that this works with +/. but not with +//. (self-interruption) or +... (trailing off), which is unfortunate in my case, because the second language learner usually trails off (rather than being interrupted) because s/he doesn't know the word, so using the latter symbol would be truer to what actually happens. Sharon Unsworth ************************************************************* Original query: Dear all, In my transcription of an L2 picture description task I would like to do the following, but I'm not sure whether this is possible with CLAN/CHAT: Subject: there's a dog and a boy and the boy is +... [The subject doesn't know the word in his L2 English so the experimenter tells her.] Experimenter: crying. Subject: crying. What I want to do is transcribe this in such a way as to show that the subject's second utterance follows on from her first so that the two utterances will be counted as one utterance for the purposes of MLU. I started using the overlap signs, [<] and [>], but this isn't an overlap (they're not talking at the same time); I could use the other-completion sign ++ for the experimenter's utterance but that doesn't really solve the problem. Is there a way of doing this that I can't find in the manual!? Thanks in advance, Sharon Unsworth *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Sharon Unsworth Utrecht Institute of Linguistics UiL-OTS Trans 10 3512 JK Utrecht The Netherlands tel. +31 (0) 30 253 8099 From macw at cmu.edu Fri May 10 02:12:59 2002 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 22:12:59 -0400 Subject: Madison schedule Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, The complete schedule of talks and events for the July 2002 IASCL/SRCLD combined meeting in Madison is now up on the web. In fact, it may well have been there now for several days, unbeknownst to me. Thanks to Jon Miller and Erin Schwartz for getting this up in such a complete format. The URL is http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/srcld/pages/program/schedule.htm You will see that, in order to get details on the events at particular times, you need to download several PDF files. It is a very rich program. --Brian MacWhinney From E.J.MARSDEN at soton.ac.uk Fri May 10 17:05:06 2002 From: E.J.MARSDEN at soton.ac.uk (Emma Marsden) Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 18:05:06 +0100 Subject: excluding material from MOR Message-ID: Dear all We are using the French MOR programme and trying to find a way of telling MOR to ignore the English words we have written in angled brackets with the postcode [+eng]. However, I have found that the programme does not work with the -s switch (though it does with +s). So it is currently trying to parse, with the French parser, all the English words our learners produced , which can obviously mess up the analysis (we only want it to parse the French!). For example, *21N: il travaille dans le [+eng]? Do you have any advice about this matter? I will summarise and post any replies. Thank you Regards Emma ---------------------- Emma Marsden Research and Graduate School of Education Building 34 Faculty of Social Sciences University of Southampton Highfield Southampton SO17 1BJ tel: 02380 593768 ejm2 at soton.ac.uk From jymiller at bu.edu Sun May 12 23:18:45 2002 From: jymiller at bu.edu (Joy Miller) Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 19:18:45 -0400 Subject: your mail In-Reply-To: <004401a8ea6a$b71ecc40$36ef8bcf@idirect.com> Message-ID: Please remove me from your list serve. Thank you Joy Miller On Fri, 4 Jan 1980, Sara Vujovich wrote: > Please remove me from your list serve. > Thank you, > Sara Vujovich > From lsc at th.com.br Mon May 13 12:20:17 2002 From: lsc at th.com.br (Leonor S Cabral) Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 09:20:17 -0300 Subject: address Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Does anybody know J.Arabsky (from Polland) e-mail's address? Thank you, Prof. Leonor Scliar-Cabral -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lieven at eva.mpg.de Mon May 13 13:45:25 2002 From: lieven at eva.mpg.de (Elena Lieven) Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 15:45:25 +0200 Subject: please post Message-ID: Can people point me to any studies of topicalisation, left and right dislocation and clefting in English children's narrative - or any experiments looking at the same? I know about the papers in the Berman & Slobin 'frog' book. Thanks - I'll summarise - if there is anything! elena lieven -- Elena Lieven Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Inselstrasse 22 D-04103, Leipzig, Germany Tel: 00 49 341 99 52 404 (secretary: Henriette Zeidler: 400) Email: lieven at eva.mpg.de From ellinac at email.eden.rutgers.edu Mon May 13 18:48:52 2002 From: ellinac at email.eden.rutgers.edu (Ellina Chernobilsky) Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 14:48:52 -0400 Subject: 'frog' story research Message-ID: -- Dear colleagues: I am a doctorate student at Rutgers University in New Jersey. I am preparing to do a research on children and story telling. I know that there is a lot of research with a so called 'frog' story. I was wondering a. if it was possible to find some of the transcripts of the previously done studies of five year old children telling the story b. if there are any studies done with Russian language speaking children using the story c. how were the children asked to tell the story. I ran a pilot study and found out that five-year-olds were not very willing to tell stories using books. Any help and advice on how to get them to tell the stories will be appreciated. Ellina Chernobilsky, Rutgers University Graduate School of Education From mewcscr at fs1.ed.man.ac.uk Wed May 15 14:17:56 2002 From: mewcscr at fs1.ed.man.ac.uk (Gina Conti-Ramsden) Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 14:17:56 GMT Subject: Research Assistant at Manchester, UK Message-ID: THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER Human Communication and Deafness Research Assistant, Wellcome Trust Project Ref 427/02 A research assistant is required for a large family study of children with specific language impairment (SLI) directed by Professor Gina Conti-Ramsden. The project involves working with probands, siblings and their relatives, collecting psycholinguistic, family and other data. The post will involve substantia and intensive fieldwork and travel throughout England. Applicants should have a good first degree in Psychology, Speech-Language Therapy or other related discipline. A Masters degree is desirable. The successful applicant should have good organisational and communication skills and be comfortable talking to and interviewing people. The post is for a fixed term for 18 months with a salary in the range of £17626 to £19681 according to age and experience. The applicant will be expected to meet the necessary requirements of the Criminal Records Bureau before an appointment is made. Initial inquiries, application forms and further particulars are available from Hilda Procter, Human Communication and Deafness, School of Education, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, Tel. 0161-275-3932; Fax:0161-275-3965; email: h.procter at man.ac.uk website: http://www.man. .uk Closing date for applications is June 10th, 2002. Please quote ref. No. 427/02. Interviews will be held on June 21, 2002. AS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER, THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER WELCOMES APPLICATIONS FROM SUITABLY QUALIFIED PEOPLE FROM ALL SECTIONS OF THE COMMUNITY REGARDLESS OF RACE, RELIGION, GENDER OR DISABILITY. gina.conti-ramsden at man.ac.uk Human Communication and Deafness School of Education University of Manchester Manchester M13 9PL Tel. 0161-275-3514 Fax. 0161-275-3965 Secretary, Hilda Procter, Tel.0161-275-3932 From wulfeck at crl.ucsd.edu Wed May 15 18:51:59 2002 From: wulfeck at crl.ucsd.edu (Beverly B. Wulfeck) Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 11:51:59 -0700 Subject: Child Language Disorders Research Faculty Position Message-ID: JOB ANNOUNCEMENT Research Faculty-Ph.D. Child Language Disorders Medical College of Wisconsin Division of Child Development Department of Pediatrics The Section of Child Development, Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) is looking for a researcher interested in child language issues, particularly with disordered populations. Primary responsibilities include 95%-dedicated to direct research activities of child language issues as well as development of research grants and expansion of the research team. This is a faculty position (rank open) with opportunities for teaching graduate and medical students. The department will commit to research space, start-up funds including salary, and assistance in grant preparation and application. The Medical college is interested in developing multidisciplinary collaborative research in childhood communication involving pediatrics, neurology, genetics, neuroimaging, speech and language pathology and psychology. Requirements include a Doctorate in a relevant field associated with child language disorders, and ongoing research and academic activity in this area. Applications should send a CV to: Mark D. Simms, MD, MPH Professor and Chief, Division of Child Development Medical College of Wisconsin Department of Pediatrics 8701 Watertown Plank Road Milwaukee, WI 53226 Phone: (414) 266-2924 Email: msimms at mcw.edu FAX: (414) 266-1616 From tmintz at usc.edu Thu May 16 22:48:52 2002 From: tmintz at usc.edu (Toby Mintz) Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 15:48:52 -0700 Subject: POSITION AVAILABLE: RESEARCH ASSISTANT/LAB MANAGER Message-ID: JOB ANNOUNCEMENT RESEARCH ASSISTANT / LAB MANAGER The Language Development Lab at the University of Southern California seeks an individual to assist in carrying out the research and administrative activities of the lab. The Language Development Lab carries out basic research in normal language development with children ranging from seven months to four years old. The ideal candidate will have experience working with children in these age groups and will be expected to interact with children and their parents on a daily basis. Primary duties will also include maintaining database of potential research participants, recruiting and scheduling research participants by mail and telephone, audio and video recording for experiment materials, and other activities involved in the day-to-day operation of the lab. The incumbent will be assisted in these activities at times by student research assistants. Minimum qualifications: Specialized/technical training and AssociateÂ’s degree with two years of experience. B.A. in a cognitive science related field preferred; however, relevant experience could substitute for educational background. A working knowledge of MS Word, Excel, Access, is also highly desirable; familiarity with Windows and Macintosh operating systems, Unix, A/V editing software is preferred. Apply online at www.usc.edu/jobs, reference Req.# 14084 under Search/Apply or simply click on the following link: http://www.usc.edu/bus-affairs/ers/jobs/14084.html -- ==================================== Toben H. Mintz Assistant Professor Tel: (213) 740-2253 Dept. of Psychology Fax: (213) 746-9082 SGM 501, MC-1061 tmintz at usc.edu University of Southern California http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~tmintz Los Angeles, CA 90089-1061 From macw at cmu.edu Tue May 21 17:12:48 2002 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 13:12:48 -0400 Subject: inexpensive lodging at Madison Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, Several people have inquired about the options for inexpensive housing at the IASCL meeting at Madison. The person who is organizing this is Erin Schwarz and her email is schwarz at waisman.wisc.edu. We did in fact reserve small blocks of rooms at two university residences and many people have already reserved those. If you are willing to share rooms, this is one of the best ways to cut down on costs. The web page at http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/srcld/pages/accommodations/lodging.htm lists some options, but not the university residences. Also, for some reason it failed to list the Hawthorne Hotel which has significantly lower prices and where we reserved a block of rooms. It appears that the person who has been updating the conference web site has been sick and that the posting of the information on the Hawthorne has been delayed because of this. However, if you contact Erin about this, she can help you. Good luck. --Brian MacWhinney From gleason at bu.edu Tue May 21 17:40:01 2002 From: gleason at bu.edu (Jean Berko Gleason) Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 13:40:01 -0400 Subject: Final Call for papers Message-ID: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Linguistic Socialization, Language Acquisition and Language Disorders dedicated to the memory of Zita Reger (1944-2001) October 7-9 2002, at the Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest (Budapest VI. Benczúr u. 33.). The conference, organized jointly by the Research Institute of Linguistics and the Research Institute on National and Ethnic Minorities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences is set up to pay homage to the late Professor Zita Reger, an outstanding linguist and teacher, former department head at the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The conference will feature state-of-the-art presentations on the following three topics, which Zita Réger made significant contributions to during her research career: A) Language acquisition, child language B) Linguistic socialization, and language use in Gypsy communities C) Aphasia research: lexicon, syntax and phonology in impaired language Invited speakers: Jean Berko Gleason (Boston University) Csaba Pleh (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) Herman Kolk (Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen) Michael Stewart (University College London) Susan Gal (University of Chicago) The organizers invite anonymous abstracts for 30-minute talks, which will be delivered in three sessions corresponding to the three topic areas indicated above. Official languages: Sessions A and C - English, Session B - English and Hungarian. Abstract presentation: The maximum length of anonymous abstracts is two pages (single-space, Times 12 point or equivalent). Abstracts should be written in one of the official languages of the session they are intended to. Electronic submission of abstracts (in rtf, i.e. Rich Text File format) is strongly preferred. Abstracts should be sent to the following address: utak at nytud.hu Please make sure that the abstract contains no easily recognizable reference to your own work. The abstracts should be accompanied by a separate page with the author's name and affiliation, title of abstract, e-mail address, mailing address, and phone and fax number. If the author prefers submission of hard copies, they should be sent (in 5 copies without author's name + a separate page with the author's name, and affiliation) to the following address: Zoltan Banreti, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Budapest P.O. Box 701/518. 1399 Hungary Deadline for the submission of abstracts: June 10 2002 Authors will be notified of the acceptance of their abstracts before July 1 2002 Registration fee (including coffee, abstracts, and a banquet): before August 31: 40 USD after August 31: 50 USD Pre-registration rates only apply if payment is transferred to our account prior to August 31: Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Account no.: 10032000-01731732-00000000 Swift code: MANEHUHB Students and scholars from Eastern and Central Europe can apply for special grants covering the price of registration and/or accommodation when submitting their abstracts. Further information about registration and accommodation (including special rates offered to conference participants by hotels near the venue of the conference) is available on our website: www.nytud.hu/LSLALD/lslald.html. On behalf of the organizers, Zoltan Banreti, Deputy Director of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Budapest Laszlo Szarka, Director of the Research Institute on National and Ethnic Minorities From Padraic.Monaghan at warwick.ac.uk Thu May 23 16:33:21 2002 From: Padraic.Monaghan at warwick.ac.uk (Padraic Monaghan) Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 11:33:21 -0500 Subject: MOR on unix Message-ID: Hi, I'm trying to use MOR from the unix version of CLAN, running on linux. The problem is that the program runs for a very long time (possibly for ever, but I've killed the process before finding out), but doesn't produce any output (apart from creating a file which remains empty). Has anyone used MOR on linux? Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? The message from running the command is as follows: mor +xl eve01.cha Thu May 23 11:23:27 2002 mor (18-Mar-2002) is conducting analyses on: ALL speaker tiers and those speakers' ALL dependent tiers and ALL header tiers **************************************** >From file to file The program reads in ar.cut, but doesn't read in any of the other *.cut files (i.e., it doesn't get to the stage of producing the above message if ar.cut is not there, but does produce the message if any of the other *.cut files are missing). Thanks in anticipation for your help, Padraic Monaghan From lsc at th.com.br Thu May 23 13:04:02 2002 From: lsc at th.com.br (Leonor S Cabral) Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 10:04:02 -0300 Subject: Fw: MOR on unix Message-ID: Dear Brian, We are having similar problems with the new CLAN version, and cannot run it. Best regards, Leonor Scliar-Cabral > Hi, I'm trying to use MOR from the unix version of CLAN, running on > linux. > > The problem is that the program runs for a very long time (possibly for > ever, but I've killed the process before finding out), but doesn't > produce any output (apart from creating a file which remains empty). Has > anyone used MOR on linux? Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? > > The message from running the command is as follows: > > mor +xl eve01.cha > Thu May 23 11:23:27 2002 > mor (18-Mar-2002) is conducting analyses on: > ALL speaker tiers > and those speakers' ALL dependent tiers > and ALL header tiers > **************************************** > >From file to file > > The program reads in ar.cut, but doesn't read in any of the other *.cut > files (i.e., it doesn't get to the stage of producing the above message > if ar.cut is not there, but does produce the message if any of the other > *.cut files are missing). > > Thanks in anticipation for your help, > > Padraic Monaghan > From olivier.crouzet at free.fr Thu May 23 15:21:15 2002 From: olivier.crouzet at free.fr (Olivier Crouzet) Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 17:21:15 +0200 Subject: MOR on unix Message-ID: Hi, I am facing the same type of problems. It seems that this only occurs with the 'optimized' CFLAGS lines (why?) (that is 1st and 3rd lines after 'Other machines' in the makefile. # Other machines: CFLAGS = -O -DUNX -fwritable-strings -Wall # if previous doesn't work try: # CFLAGS = -DUNX -fwritable-strings # OR # CFLAGS = -O -DUNX -DERRNO -fwritable-strings # CFLAGS = -DUNX -DERRNO -fwritable-strings though compilation runs quite smoothly with either other line which does not contain this -O option. However, when compiled this way, though it stops running forever without doing nothing, mor exits at once when I launch it, with the following error message: (I am using the min grammar with the sample.cha file which seems to be perfect for testing mor and launched it with strace in order to 'try to' understand what's happening). > olivier at otawa - ~/bin/clan/MOR/min$ strace -o mor.core mor +xl > sample.cha mor +xl sample.cha > Thu May 23 16:44:40 2002 > mor (18-Mar-2002) is conducting analyses on: > ALL speaker tiers > and those speakers' ALL dependent tiers > and ALL header tiers > **************************************** > From file to file > can't open lexicon file lex. > > CURRENT OUTPUT FILE "sample.ul2.cex" IS INCOMPLETE. I do not know if this is related to the way my files are installed on the computer. I have the following directory tree : /home/olivier/bin/clan/ has got the binary tools (it is in my path) /home/olivier/bin/clan/MOR/ has got the mor grammars /home/olivier/bin/clan/MOR/min/ is the place where the min grammar is. /home/olivier/bin/clan/MOR/min/lex/ contains the clo.cut and lex.cut files. I tried to export MORLIB=/home/olivier/bin/clan/MOR/min into my environement without more success. The core file which strace produces is attached to this mail (actually it's at the end of the mail because the mail server did not allow me to put it as an attachment) in case someone understands what's occurring. According to it I would say that mor tries to open a file named 'lex' in the min directory whereas lex IS a directory but I am not sure. I hope we can get to a solution quickly. Olivier. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% CORE DUMP execve("/home/olivier/bin/clan/mor", ["mor", "+xl", "sample.cha"], [/* 31 vars */]) = 0 uname({sys="Linux", node="otawa", ...}) = 0 brk(0) = 0x8097ec4 open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, 0xbfffeb24) = -1 ENOSYS (Function not implemented) fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=30394, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 30394, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40014000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\30\222"..., 1024) = 1024 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1153784, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 1166560, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x4001c000 mprotect(0x4012f000, 40160, PROT_NONE) = 0 old_mmap(0x4012f000, 24576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x113000) = 0x4012f000 old_mmap(0x40135000, 15584, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40135000 close(3) = 0 munmap(0x40014000, 30394) = 0 getcwd("/home/olivier/bin/clan/MOR/min", 4096) = 31 brk(0) = 0x8097ec4 brk(0x8097ee4) = 0x8097ee4 brk(0x8098000) = 0x8098000 brk(0x809d000) = 0x809d000 ioctl(0, SNDCTL_TMR_TEMPO, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0 access("sample.cha", F_OK) = 0 open("sample.cha", O_RDONLY) = 3 access("sample.ulx.cex", F_OK) = 0 access("sample.ul0.cex", F_OK) = 0 access("sample.ul1.cex", F_OK) = 0 access("sample.ul2.cex", F_OK) = 0 access("sample.ul3.cex", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("sample.ul3.cex", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = 4 open("punct.cut", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/Volumes/pooch/clanW/(lib)/punct.cut", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) write(2, "mor", 3) = 3 write(2, " +xl", 4) = 4 write(2, " sample.cha", 11) = 11 write(2, "\n", 1) = 1 fstat64(3, 0xbffff4fc) = -1 ENOSYS (Function not implemented) fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=110, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40014000 read(3, "@Font:\tWin95:Courier:-13:1\r\n at Beg"..., 4096) = 110 _llseek(3, 0, [0], SEEK_SET) = 0 time([1022165623]) = 1022165623 open("/etc/localtime", O_RDONLY) = 5 fstat(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1082, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40015000 read(5, "TZif\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\f\0\0\0\f\0"..., 4096) = 1082 brk(0x809e000) = 0x809e000 close(5) = 0 munmap(0x40015000, 4096) = 0 write(2, "Thu May 23 16:53:43 2002\n", 25) = 25 write(2, "mor", 3) = 3 write(2, " (18-Mar-2002)", 14) = 14 write(2, " is conducting analyses on:\n", 28) = 28 write(2, " ", 2) = 2 write(2, "ALL speaker tiers", 17) = 17 write(2, "\n and those speakers\' ", 25) = 25 write(2, "ALL dependent tiers", 19) = 19 write(2, "\n and ", 7) = 7 write(2, "ALL header tiers", 16) = 16 write(2, "\n*******************************"..., 42) = 42 write(2, "From file to file <"..., 48) = 48 chdir("/home/olivier/bin/clan/MOR/min") = 0 open("sf.cut", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/Volumes/pooch/clanW/(lib)/sf.cut", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("ar.cut", O_RDONLY) = 5 brk(0x80a0000) = 0x80a0000 brk(0x80a5000) = 0x80a5000 brk(0x80a7000) = 0x80a7000 old_mmap(NULL, 135168, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40139000 brk(0x80c4000) = 0x80c4000 fstat(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=236, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40015000 read(5, "% allo rules are ordered!\r\nRULEN"..., 4096) = 236 read(5, "", 4096) = 0 chdir("/home/olivier/bin/clan/MOR/min") = 0 chdir("lex") = 0 chdir("/Volumes/pooch/clanW/(lib)/") = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) chdir("lex") = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) chdir("/home/olivier/bin/clan/MOR/min") = 0 write(2, "can\'t open lexicon file lex.\n", 29) = 29 close(5) = 0 munmap(0x40015000, 4096) = 0 close(3) = 0 munmap(0x40014000, 4096) = 0 close(4) = 0 write(2, "\nCURRENT OUTPUT FILE \"sample.ul3"..., 53) = 53 _exit(0) = ? %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% END OF CORE DUMP -- Olivier Crouzet, Ph.D. Institut des Sciences Cognitives UMR 5015 CNRS-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 67, boulevard Pinel 69675 Bron Cedex France phone: (+33) 04 37 91 12 60 fax: (+33) 04 37 91 12 10 e-mail: olivier.crouzet at isc.cnrs.fr http://www.isc.cnrs.fr http://olivier.crouzet.free.fr From kmainess at sahp.llu.edu Tue May 28 21:58:44 2002 From: kmainess at sahp.llu.edu (Karen Mainess) Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 14:58:44 -0700 Subject: autism in Native American children Message-ID: Does anyone know of any literature or research regarding autism among Native American tribes? Thanks. Karen Mainess Loma Linda University Loma Linda, CA From lsc at th.com.br Wed May 29 13:19:28 2002 From: lsc at th.com.br (Leonor S Cabral) Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 10:19:28 -0300 Subject: word formation Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Please, return recent bibliographic references on word formation by children, if you have them. Thank you, Leonor Scliar-Cabral -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk Wed May 29 17:47:21 2002 From: a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk (Annette Karmiloff-Smith) Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 18:47:21 +0100 Subject: Specific Language Impairment Message-ID: As many of you know, Heather van der Lely has reported some fascinating participants in her research suggesting the existence of a form of Grammatical Specific Language Impairment (G-SLI) in which children/adults show very specific grammatical impairments with no deficits in semantics/pragmatics nor in any other cognitive or motor domain of any kind. I am preparing a presentation on this topic and, to broaden the data base, I would be glad to hear from other laboratories studying SLI and looking in particular at cases of G-SLI. References to existing papers on G-SLI, or possibly pre-prints of new work would be most helpful. Many thanks Annette K-S -- ________________________________________________________________ Professor A.Karmiloff-Smith, Head, Neurocognitive Development Unit, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, U.K. tel: 0207 905 2754 fax: 0207 242 7717 http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/units/ncdu/NDU_homepage.htm ________________________________________________________________ From ks7t at andrew.cmu.edu Wed May 29 19:40:21 2002 From: ks7t at andrew.cmu.edu (Kelley Sacco) Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 15:40:21 -0400 Subject: The 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism Message-ID: The 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism Arizona State University April 30-May 3, 2003 CALL FOR PROPOSALS SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT Please distribute widely. Apologies in advance for cross-postings. Deadline for submission of abstracts is September 1, 2002 Arizona State University will host the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB4) from April 30 through May 3, 2003. ISB welcomes proposals concerning any aspect of research on bilingualism. In previous years, ISB1 and ISB2 were held at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1997 and 1999. The third meeting was held at the University of the West of England - Bristol in 2001. In 2003, the event will take place in the United States for the first time. Keynote Speakers Fred Genesee, McGill University Loraine Obler, City University of New York Graduate School Center Bernard Spolsky, Bar-Ilan University Ana Celia Zentella, University of California, San Diego Call for Proposals The 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism invites proposals for presentations in any aspect of research on bilingualism. In the past, topics have included grammatical development in bilingual children, sociolinguistic and grammatical studies of codeswitching, bilingual speech processing, language impairments in bilinguals, sociolinguistic studies of bilingual communities and migration, child/adult second language acquisition, language policy and ideology, language shift, language attrition/forgetting, and bilingualism in school settings. Proposals regarding original, previously unpublished research on bilingualism are invited in three formats: Colloquia, individual papers, and posters. Proposals for colloquia. Colloquia are collections of paper presentations which relate to a narrowly defined topic of interest, and are offered in either 2-hour or 3-hour time blocks. Proposals for colloquia are limited to 700 words, and should include brief summaries of each of the papers to be included, along with paper titles and individual authors' names. Sufficient detail should be provided to allow peer reviewers to judge the scientific merit of the proposal. A chair for the session must also be identified. It is the responsibility of the person submitting a proposal for a colloquium to secure the permission and cooperation of all participants before the proposal is submitted. Proposals for colloquia must indicate whether a 2-hour or 3-hour time block is requested. Typically, each paper presentation within a colloquium should be scheduled for 30 minutes, including time for discussion. Proposals for individual papers or posters. Please submit an abstract of no more than 700 words. The abstract should include enough detail to allow reviewers to judge the scientific merits of the proposal. Abstracts for paper/poster presentations will be double-blind peer-reviewed. Authors will be asked to specify a format (colloquium, paper, or poster) for the proposal at the time the work is submitted. 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Message-ID: I'm trying to track down references for two rumours about French that I haven't been able to back up with data. If anyone has any clues as to studies that would back up the following points, I would appreciate it: 1) French is less verb-framed than other verb-framed languages like Spanish or Italian. 2) Romance languages in historical contact with satellite-framed languages tend to lose their properties of verb-framedness (as in the Italian spoken in northern Italy near Austria). ___________________________________________________________________ Elena Nicoladis, PhD University of Alberta Department of Psychology P-217 Biological Sciences Building Edmonton AB T6G 2E9 CANADA Phone: (780) 492-0124 Fax: (780) 492-1768 http://www.ualberta.ca/~elenan/ "Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one." -Voltaire ___________________________________________________________________ From gerald at netmedia.net.il Fri May 31 20:54:54 2002 From: gerald at netmedia.net.il (Gerald & Limor) Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 22:54:54 +0200 Subject: Phonology of Hearing Impaired children Message-ID: Dear fellow researches, I am a PhD student and I am interested in phonology of hearing impaired children. It is a longitudinal research and we intend to compare the prosodic development of children during their first stages of language acquisition. The emphasis is on deaf children with a cochlear implant. I am interested in the prosodic theory and also in the optimality theory. I have two requests: 1. Do you know bibliography on this topic which might help me? 2. Do you know a program for analyzing the data (number of syllables, complexity of syllables, Stress, onset, coda acquisition etc.)? Thank you by advanced Adi-Bensaid Limor -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The candidate must have completed all the requirements for a Ph.D. in Linguistics with a specialization in Phonology. Candidates are requested to submit a curriculum vitae, and arrange for three letters of recommendation to be sent to: culver at usc.edu OR Phonology Search Committee Department of Linguistics GFS 301 University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089 1693 For fullest consideration, applications should be received by May 10, 2002. The University of Southern California is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer From tmintz at usc.edu Sat May 4 01:00:10 2002 From: tmintz at usc.edu (Toby Mintz) Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 18:00:10 -0700 Subject: PSYCHOLINGUISTICS POSITION Message-ID: JOB ANNOUNCEMENT (please do not reply to sender) The Department of Linguistics at the University of Southern California is searching for a Visiting Assistant Professor in Psycholinguistics for the academic year 2002-2003. Teaching responsibilities will involve four courses (including both a graduate and an undergraduate Introduction to Psycholinguistics) with negotiable possibility of a fifth course. Compensation will be dependent upon qualifications and teaching load. The candidate must have completed all the requirements for a Ph.D. In Linguistics, Psychology or Cognitive Science, with a specialization in Psycholinguistics. Candidates are requested to submit a curriculum vitae, and arrange for three letters of recommendation to be sent to: Psycholinguistics Search Committee Attn: Prof. Elaine Andersen Department of Linguistics GFS 301 University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-1693 For fullest consideration, applications should be received by June 12, 2002. The University of Southern California is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. From doneill at watarts.uwaterloo.ca Sun May 5 18:40:34 2002 From: doneill at watarts.uwaterloo.ca (Daniela O'Neill) Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 14:40:34 -0400 Subject: German language assessment measures Message-ID: Hello, I am trying to find a measure of general language development appropriate for typically-developing German speaking children aged 18 - 36 months of age. Can anyone provide any recommendations as to a measure that would cover this age range or part of it? Thank you. Daniela O'Neill Dept. of Psychology University of Waterloo Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1 Canada From macw at cmu.edu Mon May 6 03:13:25 2002 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 23:13:25 -0400 Subject: new corpus on bilingualism Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, I am happy to announce the contribution to CHILDES of a new corpus on French-English bilingualism from Fred Genesee at McGill. The data are in genesee.sit in the /biling directory on childes.psy.cmu.edu. The readme for this corpus follows. --Brian MacWhinney Linguistic community: The children and their families all lived in Montreal or surrounding communities. Metropolitan Montreal includes a population of approximately 2.5 million people. It is a bilingual community in which many individuals are bilingual in French and English and use both languages on a daily basis. Moreover, evidence of French and English are evident in the media (there are French and English TV stations, newspapers, magazines, etc), on the street (in the form of signs and announcements), and in stores (most store personnel in medium to large stores can provide service in English and French). It is common to hear English and French being spoken by people on the street, in buses, stores, etc. Context of Data Collection: The children were being raised in homes where both languages were used on a regular basis, usually each language was spoken predominantly by one parent and the other language by the other parent. The children and their parents were recorded in the children's homes -- often in the living room, playroom, or kitchen. The recordings were done by an assistant or graduate student who was otherwise uninvolved in the interactions. The parents were asked to interact and talk with their children as they normally would using whichever language(s) they would normally use and to ignore the assistant as much as possible. Funding Agency: The research based on these data was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Ottawa, Canada, to Fred Genesee. Data Transcription: Twenty to thirty minutes of each session with each child were transcribed using the CHAT transcription system. Transcription began after the first five minutes of the session, in order to allow the children to become comfortable with the taping equipment. In cases where the children had produced less than 100 intelligible utterances in the initial 20 minutes of data, transcription continued until at least 100 intelligible utterances had been recorded. Each utterance was coded according to addressee (parent, other -- e.g., toy dog) and the language of the utterance (French only, English only, mixed, neutral, unintelligible. Mixed utterances consisted of utterances that contained both English and French -- for example, the utterance, ??a go pas l?? (that doesn?t go there) was considered an instance of intra-utterance mixing. A neutral utterance was one which could belong to either language, such as proper names, ?ah? and ?oh?. Animal sounds that are similar in English and French (i.e. ?meow?) and the word ?okay? were also coded as neutral, as it is impossible to determine the language in which these words were being produced. However, when a neutral word appeared in an utterance of only one language, the entire utterance was coded as being in that language. For instance, the utterance ?oh a truck? would be coded as English, whereas the sentence ?oh un camion? would be coded as French. Finally, utterances which were incomprehensible were classified as unintelligible; these were sometimes transcribed phonetically but no orthographic transcription was possible, and they were often dropped from further analyses. All transcripts were reviewed by one of two bilingual assistants who was a native speaker of the primary language of the session. Any discrepancies were resolved by discussion. More detailed coding and analyses were undertaken in accordance with the specific objectives of the research. The following is a list of research that is based in part of in whole on these transcriptions. The following publications were based, in part, on these transcripts: Genesee, F., Nicoladis, E., & Paradis, J. (1995). Language differentiation in early bilingual development. Journal of Child Language 22, 611-631. Genesee, F., Boivin, I., & Nicoladis, E. (1996). Talking with strangers: A study of bilingual children's communicative competence. Applied Psycholinguistics, 17, 427-442. Nicoladis, E., & Genesee, F. (1998). Parental discourse and codemixing in bilingual children. International Journal of Bilingualism 2, 85-99. Paradis, J., Nicoladis, E., & Genesee, F. (2000). Early emergence of structural constraints on code-mixing: evidence from French-English bilingual children. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 3, 245-261. From katmarsh at web.de Mon May 6 11:03:26 2002 From: katmarsh at web.de (Katerina Marshfield) Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 13:03:26 +0200 Subject: late talkers using sign language Message-ID: Dear All, I am looking for references to studies of children, who due to a traumatic birth suffer from belated growth and ability to walk and talk, and develop their own sign language to comunicate. In the concrete case, that I am dealing with, the child has grown a head disproportionate to its body, started to walk at the age of about 34 months, and at the age of 3,5 it can only say a couple of words in English and Swedish (English being the mother tongue of his father and Swedish that of his mother) helping itself with a sign language it has developed. It has had no previous contact with any community using sign language. Can anybody out there help me please? Thanking you all in advance. Katerina Marshfield Research Assistant Department of English Linguistics TU Braunschweig Germany Tel. 0049-531-3913528 ________________________________________________________________ Keine verlorenen Lotto-Quittungen, keine vergessenen Gewinne mehr! Beim WEB.DE Lottoservice: http://tippen2.web.de/?x=13 From ann.dowker at psy.ox.ac.uk Mon May 6 17:55:09 2002 From: ann.dowker at psy.ox.ac.uk (Ann Dowker) Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 18:55:09 +0100 Subject: late talkers using sign language In-Reply-To: <200205061103.g46B3QX07913@mailgate5.cinetic.de> Message-ID: I don't know of references concerning the exact situation that you describe; but Susan Goldin-Meadow and colleagues have published a lot of material on spontaneously invented sign languages in deaf children of hearing parents; e.g. S. Goldin-Meadow and C. Mylander: Gestural communication in deaf children: non-effect of parental input on language development; Science, 1983, 221, 372-374. S. Goldin-Meadow, C. Mylander and C. Butcher: The resilience of combinatorial structure at the word level: morphology in self-styled gesture systems; Cognition, 1995, 56, 195-262. S. Goldin-Meadow and C. Mylander: Spontaneous sign systems created by deaf children in two cultures; Nature, 1998, 391, 279-281. Also, A. Ellis and G. Beattie: The Psychology of Language and Communication, Erlbaum, 1986, pp. 288-290, describes the case of Martin, a typically developing child who was a somewhat late talker and invented a large repertoire of gestural signs for communication. Ann On Mon, 6 May 2002, Katerina Marshfield wrote: > Dear All, > > I am looking for references to studies of children, who due to a > traumatic birth suffer from belated growth and ability to walk and > talk, and develop their own sign language to comunicate. In the > concrete case, that I am dealing with, the child has grown a head > disproportionate to its body, started to walk at the age of about 34 > months, and at the age of 3,5 it can only say a couple of words in > English and Swedish (English being the mother tongue of his father and > Swedish that of his mother) helping itself with a sign language it has > developed. It has had no previous contact with any community using > sign language. > > Can anybody out there help me please? > > Thanking you all in advance. > > Katerina Marshfield > Research Assistant > Department of English Linguistics > TU Braunschweig > > Germany > Tel. 0049-531-3913528 > > ________________________________________________________________ > Keine verlorenen Lotto-Quittungen, keine vergessenen Gewinne mehr! > Beim WEB.DE Lottoservice: http://tippen2.web.de/?x=13 > > > > From jdb5b at j.mail.virginia.edu Mon May 6 20:16:41 2002 From: jdb5b at j.mail.virginia.edu (John D. Bonvillian) Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 16:16:41 -0400 Subject: late talkers using sign language In-Reply-To: <200205061103.g46B3QX07913@mailgate5.cinetic.de> Message-ID: Dear Katerina Marshfield, The two citations I was able to recall are only indirectly related to your specific concern. I hope that they prove helpful. They are: Brookner, S. P., & Murphy, N. O. (1975). The use of a total communication approach with a nondeaf child: A case study. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 6, 131-139. Caparulo, B. K., & Cohen, D. J. (1977). Cognitive structures, language, and emerging social competence in autistic and aphasic children. Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 16, 620-645. Sincerely, John Bonvillian On Mon, 6 May 2002 13:03:26 +0200 Katerina Marshfield wrote: > Dear All, > > I am looking for references to studies of children, who due to a traumatic birth suffer from belated growth and ability to walk and talk, and develop their own sign language to comunicate. In the concrete case, that I am dealing with, the child has grown a head disproportionate to its body, started to walk at the age of about 34 months, and at the age of 3,5 it can only say a couple of words in English and Swedish (English being the mother tongue of his father and Swedish that of his mother) helping itself with a sign language it has developed. It has had no previous contact with any community using sign language. > > Can anybody out there help me please? > > Thanking you all in advance. > > Katerina Marshfield > Research Assistant > Department of English Linguistics > TU Braunschweig > > Germany > Tel. 0049-531-3913528 > > ________________________________________________________________ > Keine verlorenen Lotto-Quittungen, keine vergessenen Gewinne mehr! > Beim WEB.DE Lottoservice: http://tippen2.web.de/?x=13 > > > From gleason at bu.edu Tue May 7 03:48:02 2002 From: gleason at bu.edu (Jean Berko Gleason) Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 23:48:02 -0400 Subject: Harold Goodglass Memorial Service Message-ID: A memorial service for Harold Goodglass has been set for Sunday, 19 May, at 1 pm. It will be held at Temple Ohabei Shalom, which is at 1187 Beacon Street in Brookline, Massachusetts. There will be a reception at the family home after the service. The address is 514 Parker Street in Newton. Directions will be available at the service. From gleason at bu.edu Tue May 7 04:04:07 2002 From: gleason at bu.edu (Jean Berko Gleason) Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 00:04:07 -0400 Subject: Call for Papers: From the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS Linguistic Socialization, Language Acquisition and Language Disorders dedicated to the memory of Zita Reger (1944-2001) October 7-9 2002, at the Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest (Budapest VI. Bencz?r u. 33.). The conference, organized jointly by the Research Institute of Linguistics and the Research Institute on National and Ethnic Minorities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences is set up to pay homage to the late Professor Zita Reger, an outstanding linguist and teacher, former department head at the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The conference will feature state-of-the-art presentations on the following three topics, which Zita R?ger made significant contributions to during her research career: A) Language acquisition, child language B) Linguistic socialization, and language use in Gypsy communities C) Aphasia research: lexicon, syntax and phonology in impaired language Invited speakers: Jean Berko Gleason (Boston University) Csaba Pleh (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) Herman Kolk (Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen) Michael Stewart (University College London) Susan Gal (University of Chicago) The organizers invite anonymous abstracts for 30-minute talks, which will be delivered in three sessions corresponding to the three topic areas indicated above. Official languages: Sessions A and C - English, Session B - English and Hungarian. Abstract presentation: The maximum length of anonymous abstracts is two pages (single-space, Times 12 point or equivalent). Abstracts should be written in one of the official languages of the session they are intended to. Electronic submission of abstracts (in rtf, i.e. Rich Text File format) is strongly preferred. Abstracts should be sent to the following address: utak at nytud.hu Please make sure that the abstract contains no easily recognizable reference to your own work. The abstracts should be accompanied by a separate page with the author's name and affiliation, title of abstract, e-mail address, mailing address, and phone and fax number. If the author prefers submission of hard copies, they should be sent (in 5 copies without author's name + a separate page with the author's name, and affiliation) to the following address: Zoltan Banreti, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Budapest P.O. Box 701/518. 1399 Hungary Deadline for the submission of abstracts: June 10 2002 Authors will be notified of the acceptance of their abstracts before July 1 2002 Registration fee (including coffee, abstracts, and a banquet): before August 31: 40 USD after August 31: 50 USD Pre-registration rates only apply if payment is transferred to our account prior to August 31: Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Account no.: 10032000-01731732-00000000 Swift code: MANEHUHB Students and scholars from Eastern and Central Europe can apply for special grants covering the price of registration and/or accommodation when submitting their abstracts. Further information about registration and accommodation (including special rates offered to conference participants by hotels near the venue of the conference) is available on our website: www.nytud.hu/LSLALD/lslald.html. On behalf of the organizers, Zoltan Banreti, Deputy Director of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Budapest Laszlo Szarka, Director of the Research Institute on National and Ethnic Minorities From bart.hollebrandse at let.uu.nl Tue May 7 07:27:41 2002 From: bart.hollebrandse at let.uu.nl (Bart Holelbrandse) Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 09:27:41 +0200 Subject: Workshop Language Acquisition (Going Romance) Message-ID: GOING ROMANCE 2002 Sixteenth Symposium on Romance Linguistics University of Groningen WORKSHOP, NOVEMBER 30 ACQUISITION CALL FOR PAPERS Invited Speaker CELIA JAKUBOWICZ Papers on all aspects of first or second language acquisition in Romance are wellcome. The presentations will take thirty minutes, with an additional ten minutes discussion. Abstracts should be anonymous and no longer than two pages, including references and examples, with margins of at least 1-inch, letter size 12. Submissions are limited to a maximum of one individual and one joint abstract per author. The abstracts should be sent by e-mail as a Word or RTF file. Join separetely a file containing: title, author's name and address, affiliation and e-mail address. All authors who present their work at the conference will be invited to submit their paper for the Proceedings Volume, to be published by John Benjamins. Notice that there will be a separate afternoon session dedicated to phonology. Deadline for receipt of abstracts: September 14, 2002 Abstracts should be sent to: going.romance2002 at let.rug.nl Surface address: Going Romance, RTC - Letteren Oude Kijk in't Jatstraat 26 Groningen University P.O. Box 716 NL 9700 AS Groningen Phone: 31-(0)50-3635850 The Netherlands Fax: 31-(0)50-3635821 For further information: going.romance2002 at let.rug.nl http://www.let.rug.nl/~going/ The workshop will be organized by: Reineke Bok-Bennema (University of Groningen), Bart Hollebrandse (University of Groningen), Angeliek van Hout (University of Groningen), Aafke Hulk (Utrecht University) Brigitte Kampers-Manhe (University of Groningen), Marianne Starren (Nijmegen University). From kathryn at multilingual-matters.com Tue May 7 15:08:15 2002 From: kathryn at multilingual-matters.com (Kathryn King) Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 16:08:15 +0100 Subject: New book from Multilingual Matters Message-ID: PHONOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT IN SPECIFIC CONTEXTS Studies of Chinese-speaking Children Zhu Hua (University of Newcastle) The book is a major contribution to the cross-linguistic study of language acquisition in general and a milestone in the study of the acquisition of Chinese. Professor N. V. Smith, Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London Key Features q The first book-length study of phonological development and impairment of Chinese-speaking children q The data in it will be of value to speech and language therapists and other professionals Description This book contains a series of studies of phonological acquisition and development of children in specific contexts: ? linguistic context: Putonghua or Modern Standard Chinese ? developmental contexts: normally developing children, children with speech disorders, children with hearing impairment, and twins. This is the first book-length study of phonological development and impairment of Chinese-speaking children. It provides the first normative data on this population, which will be of value to speech and language therapists and other professionals. It also advances the notion of 'phonological saliency' which explains the cross-linguistic similarities and differences in children's phonological development. Contents Introduction 1. Developmental universals and cross-linguistic studies of phonological acquisition 2. Putonghua phonology 3. Phonological acquisition of normally developing children I: cross- sectional study 4. Phonological acquisition of normally developing children II: longitudinal study 5. The phonological systems of Putonghua-speaking children with functional speech disorders 6. Development and change in the phonology of Putonghua-speaking children with functional speech disorders 7. The phonological systems of a set of Putonghua-speaking twins 8. Phonological development of a Putonghua-speaking child with prelingual hearing impairment 9. General discussion and conclusion Author information Zhu Hua obtained a PhD from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne where she is currently a Research Fellow in the Department of Speech studied. She is also a qualified translator-interpreter and teacher. Since 1996, she has been involved in a number of research projects on language acquisition and disorders. She has published extensively on child language (Journal of Child Language, Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders) and cross- cultural pragmatics (Journal of Pragmatics, Multilingua). Child Language and Child Development 3 Format: 210 x 148mm xii + 220pp May 2002 Hbk ISBN 1-85359-588-8 ?59.95/ US$89.95 / CAN$119.95 Pbk ISBN 1-85359-587-x ?24.95 / US$39.95 / CAN$49.95 This book (and all Multilingual Matters books) can be ordered via our secure, fully searchable website www.multilingual-matters.com. This offers free shipping to any address in the world, airmail where appropriate. Alternatively, it can be ordered through any bookshop, or in case of difficulty contact the publisher for further details of how to order. -- Kathryn King Multilingual Matters Ltd Frankfurt Lodge, Clevedon Hall Victoria Road, Clevedon, North Somerset BS21 7HH, UK Tel: +44 (0) 1275-876519; Fax: +44 (0) 1275-871673 Email: kathryn at multilingual-matters.com www.multilingual-matters.com From sharon.unsworth at let.uu.nl Wed May 8 10:41:26 2002 From: sharon.unsworth at let.uu.nl (Sharon Unsworth) Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 12:41:26 +0200 Subject: reponses to my transcription query Message-ID: Dear all, Thanks to the following people for their suggestions regarding my query regarding transcribing interruptions without effecting (MLU) (original message below): Marita Boehning, Emma Marsden, Diane Pesco, Javier Aguado Orea and Judi Fenson. It seems that the only way to count two utterances from one speaker -- with an intervening utterance from another speaker -- as one utterance for MLU purposes is to use the +/. (interruption) symbol at the end of the first utterance and start the second utterance with +, as in: Subject: there's a dog and a boy and the boy is +/. [The subject doesn't know the word in her L2 English so the experimenter tells her.] Experimenter: ++ crying. Subject: +, crying. Note, however, that this works with +/. but not with +//. (self-interruption) or +... (trailing off), which is unfortunate in my case, because the second language learner usually trails off (rather than being interrupted) because s/he doesn't know the word, so using the latter symbol would be truer to what actually happens. Sharon Unsworth ************************************************************* Original query: Dear all, In my transcription of an L2 picture description task I would like to do the following, but I'm not sure whether this is possible with CLAN/CHAT: Subject: there's a dog and a boy and the boy is +... [The subject doesn't know the word in his L2 English so the experimenter tells her.] Experimenter: crying. Subject: crying. What I want to do is transcribe this in such a way as to show that the subject's second utterance follows on from her first so that the two utterances will be counted as one utterance for the purposes of MLU. I started using the overlap signs, [<] and [>], but this isn't an overlap (they're not talking at the same time); I could use the other-completion sign ++ for the experimenter's utterance but that doesn't really solve the problem. Is there a way of doing this that I can't find in the manual!? Thanks in advance, Sharon Unsworth *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Sharon Unsworth Utrecht Institute of Linguistics UiL-OTS Trans 10 3512 JK Utrecht The Netherlands tel. +31 (0) 30 253 8099 From macw at cmu.edu Fri May 10 02:12:59 2002 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 22:12:59 -0400 Subject: Madison schedule Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, The complete schedule of talks and events for the July 2002 IASCL/SRCLD combined meeting in Madison is now up on the web. In fact, it may well have been there now for several days, unbeknownst to me. Thanks to Jon Miller and Erin Schwartz for getting this up in such a complete format. The URL is http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/srcld/pages/program/schedule.htm You will see that, in order to get details on the events at particular times, you need to download several PDF files. It is a very rich program. --Brian MacWhinney From E.J.MARSDEN at soton.ac.uk Fri May 10 17:05:06 2002 From: E.J.MARSDEN at soton.ac.uk (Emma Marsden) Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 18:05:06 +0100 Subject: excluding material from MOR Message-ID: Dear all We are using the French MOR programme and trying to find a way of telling MOR to ignore the English words we have written in angled brackets with the postcode [+eng]. However, I have found that the programme does not work with the -s switch (though it does with +s). So it is currently trying to parse, with the French parser, all the English words our learners produced , which can obviously mess up the analysis (we only want it to parse the French!). For example, *21N: il travaille dans le [+eng]? Do you have any advice about this matter? I will summarise and post any replies. Thank you Regards Emma ---------------------- Emma Marsden Research and Graduate School of Education Building 34 Faculty of Social Sciences University of Southampton Highfield Southampton SO17 1BJ tel: 02380 593768 ejm2 at soton.ac.uk From jymiller at bu.edu Sun May 12 23:18:45 2002 From: jymiller at bu.edu (Joy Miller) Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 19:18:45 -0400 Subject: your mail In-Reply-To: <004401a8ea6a$b71ecc40$36ef8bcf@idirect.com> Message-ID: Please remove me from your list serve. Thank you Joy Miller On Fri, 4 Jan 1980, Sara Vujovich wrote: > Please remove me from your list serve. > Thank you, > Sara Vujovich > From lsc at th.com.br Mon May 13 12:20:17 2002 From: lsc at th.com.br (Leonor S Cabral) Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 09:20:17 -0300 Subject: address Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Does anybody know J.Arabsky (from Polland) e-mail's address? Thank you, Prof. Leonor Scliar-Cabral -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lieven at eva.mpg.de Mon May 13 13:45:25 2002 From: lieven at eva.mpg.de (Elena Lieven) Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 15:45:25 +0200 Subject: please post Message-ID: Can people point me to any studies of topicalisation, left and right dislocation and clefting in English children's narrative - or any experiments looking at the same? I know about the papers in the Berman & Slobin 'frog' book. Thanks - I'll summarise - if there is anything! elena lieven -- Elena Lieven Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Inselstrasse 22 D-04103, Leipzig, Germany Tel: 00 49 341 99 52 404 (secretary: Henriette Zeidler: 400) Email: lieven at eva.mpg.de From ellinac at email.eden.rutgers.edu Mon May 13 18:48:52 2002 From: ellinac at email.eden.rutgers.edu (Ellina Chernobilsky) Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 14:48:52 -0400 Subject: 'frog' story research Message-ID: -- Dear colleagues: I am a doctorate student at Rutgers University in New Jersey. I am preparing to do a research on children and story telling. I know that there is a lot of research with a so called 'frog' story. I was wondering a. if it was possible to find some of the transcripts of the previously done studies of five year old children telling the story b. if there are any studies done with Russian language speaking children using the story c. how were the children asked to tell the story. I ran a pilot study and found out that five-year-olds were not very willing to tell stories using books. Any help and advice on how to get them to tell the stories will be appreciated. Ellina Chernobilsky, Rutgers University Graduate School of Education From mewcscr at fs1.ed.man.ac.uk Wed May 15 14:17:56 2002 From: mewcscr at fs1.ed.man.ac.uk (Gina Conti-Ramsden) Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 14:17:56 GMT Subject: Research Assistant at Manchester, UK Message-ID: THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER Human Communication and Deafness Research Assistant, Wellcome Trust Project Ref 427/02 A research assistant is required for a large family study of children with specific language impairment (SLI) directed by Professor Gina Conti-Ramsden. The project involves working with probands, siblings and their relatives, collecting psycholinguistic, family and other data. The post will involve substantia and intensive fieldwork and travel throughout England. Applicants should have a good first degree in Psychology, Speech-Language Therapy or other related discipline. A Masters degree is desirable. The successful applicant should have good organisational and communication skills and be comfortable talking to and interviewing people. The post is for a fixed term for 18 months with a salary in the range of ?17626 to ?19681 according to age and experience. The applicant will be expected to meet the necessary requirements of the Criminal Records Bureau before an appointment is made. Initial inquiries, application forms and further particulars are available from Hilda Procter, Human Communication and Deafness, School of Education, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, Tel. 0161-275-3932; Fax:0161-275-3965; email: h.procter at man.ac.uk website: http://www.man. .uk Closing date for applications is June 10th, 2002. Please quote ref. No. 427/02. Interviews will be held on June 21, 2002. AS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER, THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER WELCOMES APPLICATIONS FROM SUITABLY QUALIFIED PEOPLE FROM ALL SECTIONS OF THE COMMUNITY REGARDLESS OF RACE, RELIGION, GENDER OR DISABILITY. gina.conti-ramsden at man.ac.uk Human Communication and Deafness School of Education University of Manchester Manchester M13 9PL Tel. 0161-275-3514 Fax. 0161-275-3965 Secretary, Hilda Procter, Tel.0161-275-3932 From wulfeck at crl.ucsd.edu Wed May 15 18:51:59 2002 From: wulfeck at crl.ucsd.edu (Beverly B. Wulfeck) Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 11:51:59 -0700 Subject: Child Language Disorders Research Faculty Position Message-ID: JOB ANNOUNCEMENT Research Faculty-Ph.D. Child Language Disorders Medical College of Wisconsin Division of Child Development Department of Pediatrics The Section of Child Development, Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) is looking for a researcher interested in child language issues, particularly with disordered populations. Primary responsibilities include 95%-dedicated to direct research activities of child language issues as well as development of research grants and expansion of the research team. This is a faculty position (rank open) with opportunities for teaching graduate and medical students. The department will commit to research space, start-up funds including salary, and assistance in grant preparation and application. The Medical college is interested in developing multidisciplinary collaborative research in childhood communication involving pediatrics, neurology, genetics, neuroimaging, speech and language pathology and psychology. Requirements include a Doctorate in a relevant field associated with child language disorders, and ongoing research and academic activity in this area. Applications should send a CV to: Mark D. Simms, MD, MPH Professor and Chief, Division of Child Development Medical College of Wisconsin Department of Pediatrics 8701 Watertown Plank Road Milwaukee, WI 53226 Phone: (414) 266-2924 Email: msimms at mcw.edu FAX: (414) 266-1616 From tmintz at usc.edu Thu May 16 22:48:52 2002 From: tmintz at usc.edu (Toby Mintz) Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 15:48:52 -0700 Subject: POSITION AVAILABLE: RESEARCH ASSISTANT/LAB MANAGER Message-ID: JOB ANNOUNCEMENT RESEARCH ASSISTANT / LAB MANAGER The Language Development Lab at the University of Southern California seeks an individual to assist in carrying out the research and administrative activities of the lab. The Language Development Lab carries out basic research in normal language development with children ranging from seven months to four years old. The ideal candidate will have experience working with children in these age groups and will be expected to interact with children and their parents on a daily basis. Primary duties will also include maintaining database of potential research participants, recruiting and scheduling research participants by mail and telephone, audio and video recording for experiment materials, and other activities involved in the day-to-day operation of the lab. The incumbent will be assisted in these activities at times by student research assistants. Minimum qualifications: Specialized/technical training and Associate?s degree with two years of experience. B.A. in a cognitive science related field preferred; however, relevant experience could substitute for educational background. A working knowledge of MS Word, Excel, Access, is also highly desirable; familiarity with Windows and Macintosh operating systems, Unix, A/V editing software is preferred. Apply online at www.usc.edu/jobs, reference Req.# 14084 under Search/Apply or simply click on the following link: http://www.usc.edu/bus-affairs/ers/jobs/14084.html -- ==================================== Toben H. Mintz Assistant Professor Tel: (213) 740-2253 Dept. of Psychology Fax: (213) 746-9082 SGM 501, MC-1061 tmintz at usc.edu University of Southern California http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~tmintz Los Angeles, CA 90089-1061 From macw at cmu.edu Tue May 21 17:12:48 2002 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 13:12:48 -0400 Subject: inexpensive lodging at Madison Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, Several people have inquired about the options for inexpensive housing at the IASCL meeting at Madison. The person who is organizing this is Erin Schwarz and her email is schwarz at waisman.wisc.edu. We did in fact reserve small blocks of rooms at two university residences and many people have already reserved those. If you are willing to share rooms, this is one of the best ways to cut down on costs. The web page at http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/srcld/pages/accommodations/lodging.htm lists some options, but not the university residences. Also, for some reason it failed to list the Hawthorne Hotel which has significantly lower prices and where we reserved a block of rooms. It appears that the person who has been updating the conference web site has been sick and that the posting of the information on the Hawthorne has been delayed because of this. However, if you contact Erin about this, she can help you. Good luck. --Brian MacWhinney From gleason at bu.edu Tue May 21 17:40:01 2002 From: gleason at bu.edu (Jean Berko Gleason) Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 13:40:01 -0400 Subject: Final Call for papers Message-ID: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Linguistic Socialization, Language Acquisition and Language Disorders dedicated to the memory of Zita Reger (1944-2001) October 7-9 2002, at the Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest (Budapest VI. Bencz?r u. 33.). The conference, organized jointly by the Research Institute of Linguistics and the Research Institute on National and Ethnic Minorities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences is set up to pay homage to the late Professor Zita Reger, an outstanding linguist and teacher, former department head at the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The conference will feature state-of-the-art presentations on the following three topics, which Zita R?ger made significant contributions to during her research career: A) Language acquisition, child language B) Linguistic socialization, and language use in Gypsy communities C) Aphasia research: lexicon, syntax and phonology in impaired language Invited speakers: Jean Berko Gleason (Boston University) Csaba Pleh (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) Herman Kolk (Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen) Michael Stewart (University College London) Susan Gal (University of Chicago) The organizers invite anonymous abstracts for 30-minute talks, which will be delivered in three sessions corresponding to the three topic areas indicated above. Official languages: Sessions A and C - English, Session B - English and Hungarian. Abstract presentation: The maximum length of anonymous abstracts is two pages (single-space, Times 12 point or equivalent). Abstracts should be written in one of the official languages of the session they are intended to. Electronic submission of abstracts (in rtf, i.e. Rich Text File format) is strongly preferred. Abstracts should be sent to the following address: utak at nytud.hu Please make sure that the abstract contains no easily recognizable reference to your own work. The abstracts should be accompanied by a separate page with the author's name and affiliation, title of abstract, e-mail address, mailing address, and phone and fax number. If the author prefers submission of hard copies, they should be sent (in 5 copies without author's name + a separate page with the author's name, and affiliation) to the following address: Zoltan Banreti, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Budapest P.O. Box 701/518. 1399 Hungary Deadline for the submission of abstracts: June 10 2002 Authors will be notified of the acceptance of their abstracts before July 1 2002 Registration fee (including coffee, abstracts, and a banquet): before August 31: 40 USD after August 31: 50 USD Pre-registration rates only apply if payment is transferred to our account prior to August 31: Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Account no.: 10032000-01731732-00000000 Swift code: MANEHUHB Students and scholars from Eastern and Central Europe can apply for special grants covering the price of registration and/or accommodation when submitting their abstracts. Further information about registration and accommodation (including special rates offered to conference participants by hotels near the venue of the conference) is available on our website: www.nytud.hu/LSLALD/lslald.html. On behalf of the organizers, Zoltan Banreti, Deputy Director of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Budapest Laszlo Szarka, Director of the Research Institute on National and Ethnic Minorities From Padraic.Monaghan at warwick.ac.uk Thu May 23 16:33:21 2002 From: Padraic.Monaghan at warwick.ac.uk (Padraic Monaghan) Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 11:33:21 -0500 Subject: MOR on unix Message-ID: Hi, I'm trying to use MOR from the unix version of CLAN, running on linux. The problem is that the program runs for a very long time (possibly for ever, but I've killed the process before finding out), but doesn't produce any output (apart from creating a file which remains empty). Has anyone used MOR on linux? Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? The message from running the command is as follows: mor +xl eve01.cha Thu May 23 11:23:27 2002 mor (18-Mar-2002) is conducting analyses on: ALL speaker tiers and those speakers' ALL dependent tiers and ALL header tiers **************************************** >From file to file The program reads in ar.cut, but doesn't read in any of the other *.cut files (i.e., it doesn't get to the stage of producing the above message if ar.cut is not there, but does produce the message if any of the other *.cut files are missing). Thanks in anticipation for your help, Padraic Monaghan From lsc at th.com.br Thu May 23 13:04:02 2002 From: lsc at th.com.br (Leonor S Cabral) Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 10:04:02 -0300 Subject: Fw: MOR on unix Message-ID: Dear Brian, We are having similar problems with the new CLAN version, and cannot run it. Best regards, Leonor Scliar-Cabral > Hi, I'm trying to use MOR from the unix version of CLAN, running on > linux. > > The problem is that the program runs for a very long time (possibly for > ever, but I've killed the process before finding out), but doesn't > produce any output (apart from creating a file which remains empty). Has > anyone used MOR on linux? Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? > > The message from running the command is as follows: > > mor +xl eve01.cha > Thu May 23 11:23:27 2002 > mor (18-Mar-2002) is conducting analyses on: > ALL speaker tiers > and those speakers' ALL dependent tiers > and ALL header tiers > **************************************** > >From file to file > > The program reads in ar.cut, but doesn't read in any of the other *.cut > files (i.e., it doesn't get to the stage of producing the above message > if ar.cut is not there, but does produce the message if any of the other > *.cut files are missing). > > Thanks in anticipation for your help, > > Padraic Monaghan > From olivier.crouzet at free.fr Thu May 23 15:21:15 2002 From: olivier.crouzet at free.fr (Olivier Crouzet) Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 17:21:15 +0200 Subject: MOR on unix Message-ID: Hi, I am facing the same type of problems. It seems that this only occurs with the 'optimized' CFLAGS lines (why?) (that is 1st and 3rd lines after 'Other machines' in the makefile. # Other machines: CFLAGS = -O -DUNX -fwritable-strings -Wall # if previous doesn't work try: # CFLAGS = -DUNX -fwritable-strings # OR # CFLAGS = -O -DUNX -DERRNO -fwritable-strings # CFLAGS = -DUNX -DERRNO -fwritable-strings though compilation runs quite smoothly with either other line which does not contain this -O option. However, when compiled this way, though it stops running forever without doing nothing, mor exits at once when I launch it, with the following error message: (I am using the min grammar with the sample.cha file which seems to be perfect for testing mor and launched it with strace in order to 'try to' understand what's happening). > olivier at otawa - ~/bin/clan/MOR/min$ strace -o mor.core mor +xl > sample.cha mor +xl sample.cha > Thu May 23 16:44:40 2002 > mor (18-Mar-2002) is conducting analyses on: > ALL speaker tiers > and those speakers' ALL dependent tiers > and ALL header tiers > **************************************** > From file to file > can't open lexicon file lex. > > CURRENT OUTPUT FILE "sample.ul2.cex" IS INCOMPLETE. I do not know if this is related to the way my files are installed on the computer. I have the following directory tree : /home/olivier/bin/clan/ has got the binary tools (it is in my path) /home/olivier/bin/clan/MOR/ has got the mor grammars /home/olivier/bin/clan/MOR/min/ is the place where the min grammar is. /home/olivier/bin/clan/MOR/min/lex/ contains the clo.cut and lex.cut files. I tried to export MORLIB=/home/olivier/bin/clan/MOR/min into my environement without more success. The core file which strace produces is attached to this mail (actually it's at the end of the mail because the mail server did not allow me to put it as an attachment) in case someone understands what's occurring. According to it I would say that mor tries to open a file named 'lex' in the min directory whereas lex IS a directory but I am not sure. I hope we can get to a solution quickly. Olivier. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% CORE DUMP execve("/home/olivier/bin/clan/mor", ["mor", "+xl", "sample.cha"], [/* 31 vars */]) = 0 uname({sys="Linux", node="otawa", ...}) = 0 brk(0) = 0x8097ec4 open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, 0xbfffeb24) = -1 ENOSYS (Function not implemented) fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=30394, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 30394, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40014000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\30\222"..., 1024) = 1024 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1153784, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 1166560, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x4001c000 mprotect(0x4012f000, 40160, PROT_NONE) = 0 old_mmap(0x4012f000, 24576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x113000) = 0x4012f000 old_mmap(0x40135000, 15584, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40135000 close(3) = 0 munmap(0x40014000, 30394) = 0 getcwd("/home/olivier/bin/clan/MOR/min", 4096) = 31 brk(0) = 0x8097ec4 brk(0x8097ee4) = 0x8097ee4 brk(0x8098000) = 0x8098000 brk(0x809d000) = 0x809d000 ioctl(0, SNDCTL_TMR_TEMPO, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0 access("sample.cha", F_OK) = 0 open("sample.cha", O_RDONLY) = 3 access("sample.ulx.cex", F_OK) = 0 access("sample.ul0.cex", F_OK) = 0 access("sample.ul1.cex", F_OK) = 0 access("sample.ul2.cex", F_OK) = 0 access("sample.ul3.cex", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("sample.ul3.cex", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = 4 open("punct.cut", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/Volumes/pooch/clanW/(lib)/punct.cut", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) write(2, "mor", 3) = 3 write(2, " +xl", 4) = 4 write(2, " sample.cha", 11) = 11 write(2, "\n", 1) = 1 fstat64(3, 0xbffff4fc) = -1 ENOSYS (Function not implemented) fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=110, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40014000 read(3, "@Font:\tWin95:Courier:-13:1\r\n at Beg"..., 4096) = 110 _llseek(3, 0, [0], SEEK_SET) = 0 time([1022165623]) = 1022165623 open("/etc/localtime", O_RDONLY) = 5 fstat(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1082, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40015000 read(5, "TZif\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\f\0\0\0\f\0"..., 4096) = 1082 brk(0x809e000) = 0x809e000 close(5) = 0 munmap(0x40015000, 4096) = 0 write(2, "Thu May 23 16:53:43 2002\n", 25) = 25 write(2, "mor", 3) = 3 write(2, " (18-Mar-2002)", 14) = 14 write(2, " is conducting analyses on:\n", 28) = 28 write(2, " ", 2) = 2 write(2, "ALL speaker tiers", 17) = 17 write(2, "\n and those speakers\' ", 25) = 25 write(2, "ALL dependent tiers", 19) = 19 write(2, "\n and ", 7) = 7 write(2, "ALL header tiers", 16) = 16 write(2, "\n*******************************"..., 42) = 42 write(2, "From file to file <"..., 48) = 48 chdir("/home/olivier/bin/clan/MOR/min") = 0 open("sf.cut", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/Volumes/pooch/clanW/(lib)/sf.cut", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("ar.cut", O_RDONLY) = 5 brk(0x80a0000) = 0x80a0000 brk(0x80a5000) = 0x80a5000 brk(0x80a7000) = 0x80a7000 old_mmap(NULL, 135168, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40139000 brk(0x80c4000) = 0x80c4000 fstat(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=236, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40015000 read(5, "% allo rules are ordered!\r\nRULEN"..., 4096) = 236 read(5, "", 4096) = 0 chdir("/home/olivier/bin/clan/MOR/min") = 0 chdir("lex") = 0 chdir("/Volumes/pooch/clanW/(lib)/") = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) chdir("lex") = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) chdir("/home/olivier/bin/clan/MOR/min") = 0 write(2, "can\'t open lexicon file lex.\n", 29) = 29 close(5) = 0 munmap(0x40015000, 4096) = 0 close(3) = 0 munmap(0x40014000, 4096) = 0 close(4) = 0 write(2, "\nCURRENT OUTPUT FILE \"sample.ul3"..., 53) = 53 _exit(0) = ? %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% END OF CORE DUMP -- Olivier Crouzet, Ph.D. Institut des Sciences Cognitives UMR 5015 CNRS-Universit? Claude Bernard Lyon 1 67, boulevard Pinel 69675 Bron Cedex France phone: (+33) 04 37 91 12 60 fax: (+33) 04 37 91 12 10 e-mail: olivier.crouzet at isc.cnrs.fr http://www.isc.cnrs.fr http://olivier.crouzet.free.fr From kmainess at sahp.llu.edu Tue May 28 21:58:44 2002 From: kmainess at sahp.llu.edu (Karen Mainess) Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 14:58:44 -0700 Subject: autism in Native American children Message-ID: Does anyone know of any literature or research regarding autism among Native American tribes? Thanks. Karen Mainess Loma Linda University Loma Linda, CA From lsc at th.com.br Wed May 29 13:19:28 2002 From: lsc at th.com.br (Leonor S Cabral) Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 10:19:28 -0300 Subject: word formation Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Please, return recent bibliographic references on word formation by children, if you have them. Thank you, Leonor Scliar-Cabral -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Many thanks Annette K-S -- ________________________________________________________________ Professor A.Karmiloff-Smith, Head, Neurocognitive Development Unit, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, U.K. tel: 0207 905 2754 fax: 0207 242 7717 http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/units/ncdu/NDU_homepage.htm ________________________________________________________________ From ks7t at andrew.cmu.edu Wed May 29 19:40:21 2002 From: ks7t at andrew.cmu.edu (Kelley Sacco) Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 15:40:21 -0400 Subject: The 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism Message-ID: The 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism Arizona State University April 30-May 3, 2003 CALL FOR PROPOSALS SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT Please distribute widely. Apologies in advance for cross-postings. Deadline for submission of abstracts is September 1, 2002 Arizona State University will host the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB4) from April 30 through May 3, 2003. ISB welcomes proposals concerning any aspect of research on bilingualism. In previous years, ISB1 and ISB2 were held at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1997 and 1999. The third meeting was held at the University of the West of England - Bristol in 2001. In 2003, the event will take place in the United States for the first time. Keynote Speakers Fred Genesee, McGill University Loraine Obler, City University of New York Graduate School Center Bernard Spolsky, Bar-Ilan University Ana Celia Zentella, University of California, San Diego Call for Proposals The 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism invites proposals for presentations in any aspect of research on bilingualism. In the past, topics have included grammatical development in bilingual children, sociolinguistic and grammatical studies of codeswitching, bilingual speech processing, language impairments in bilinguals, sociolinguistic studies of bilingual communities and migration, child/adult second language acquisition, language policy and ideology, language shift, language attrition/forgetting, and bilingualism in school settings. Proposals regarding original, previously unpublished research on bilingualism are invited in three formats: Colloquia, individual papers, and posters. Proposals for colloquia. Colloquia are collections of paper presentations which relate to a narrowly defined topic of interest, and are offered in either 2-hour or 3-hour time blocks. Proposals for colloquia are limited to 700 words, and should include brief summaries of each of the papers to be included, along with paper titles and individual authors' names. Sufficient detail should be provided to allow peer reviewers to judge the scientific merit of the proposal. A chair for the session must also be identified. It is the responsibility of the person submitting a proposal for a colloquium to secure the permission and cooperation of all participants before the proposal is submitted. Proposals for colloquia must indicate whether a 2-hour or 3-hour time block is requested. Typically, each paper presentation within a colloquium should be scheduled for 30 minutes, including time for discussion. Proposals for individual papers or posters. Please submit an abstract of no more than 700 words. The abstract should include enough detail to allow reviewers to judge the scientific merits of the proposal. Abstracts for paper/poster presentations will be double-blind peer-reviewed. Authors will be asked to specify a format (colloquium, paper, or poster) for the proposal at the time the work is submitted. How to Submit Proposals Proposals may be submitted electronically at isb4.asu.edu before September 1, 2002. In cases where electronic submission is not possible, accommodations may be made on an individual basis; please inquire at isb4 at asu.edu (email) or write to 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Arizona State University, PO Box 870211, Tempe, AZ 85287-0211, USA. Proceedings Accepted papers will be included in the Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism, to be published by Cascadilla Press and distributed on CD ROM. All registered attendees will receive a copy of the proceedings at no additional cost. Scholarships ISB4 will offer travel scholarships to a limited number of scholars from developing countries. Faculty or students whose proposals have been accepted for presentation will be eligible to apply. Please check our website at isb4.asu.edu in late October for more details. We also plan to organize a home-stay program designed for conference attendees who would like to stay at no charge with an ASU-affiliated host for the duration of the conference. This program will be open to all registered participants. ISB4Com Listserv Stay in the loop! Subscribe to ISB4Com, an announcement-only listserv created for ISB4 organizers and staff to send periodic updates. To join the list, visit lists.asu.edu/archives/isb4com.html and enter your email address and full name. Registration Early registration begins October 15, 2002, and closes February 23, 2003. The cost for early registration for student attendees is $80.00, and $195.00 for non-students. Late and in-person registration is $245.00. Registration includes access to conference meetings and exhibits, a copy of the conference bulletin and other materials, Thursday night dinner, Friday night party, daily lunches Wednesday through Friday, and a copy of the conference proceedings on CD ROM, to be published by Cascadilla Press. The Friday night party is sponsored by Multilingual Matters. Accommodations Hotel accommodations will be within walking distance from the university. It is the individual responsibility of participants to call hotels directly to make reservations. Please visit isb4.asu.edu for a full list of conference hotels. Conference-negotiated discount rates range from $49 to $155 per night. Further Information Further details regarding ISB4 are available at the conference website, at isb4.asu.edu. Please visit the website periodically for continuing updates. 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Message-ID: I'm trying to track down references for two rumours about French that I haven't been able to back up with data. If anyone has any clues as to studies that would back up the following points, I would appreciate it: 1) French is less verb-framed than other verb-framed languages like Spanish or Italian. 2) Romance languages in historical contact with satellite-framed languages tend to lose their properties of verb-framedness (as in the Italian spoken in northern Italy near Austria). ___________________________________________________________________ Elena Nicoladis, PhD University of Alberta Department of Psychology P-217 Biological Sciences Building Edmonton AB T6G 2E9 CANADA Phone: (780) 492-0124 Fax: (780) 492-1768 http://www.ualberta.ca/~elenan/ "Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one." -Voltaire ___________________________________________________________________ From gerald at netmedia.net.il Fri May 31 20:54:54 2002 From: gerald at netmedia.net.il (Gerald & Limor) Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 22:54:54 +0200 Subject: Phonology of Hearing Impaired children Message-ID: Dear fellow researches, I am a PhD student and I am interested in phonology of hearing impaired children. It is a longitudinal research and we intend to compare the prosodic development of children during their first stages of language acquisition. The emphasis is on deaf children with a cochlear implant. I am interested in the prosodic theory and also in the optimality theory. I have two requests: 1. Do you know bibliography on this topic which might help me? 2. Do you know a program for analyzing the data (number of syllables, complexity of syllables, Stress, onset, coda acquisition etc.)? Thank you by advanced Adi-Bensaid Limor -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: