From ellmcf at nus.edu.sg Fri Aug 1 08:49:31 2003 From: ellmcf at nus.edu.sg (Madalena Cruz-Ferreira) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 16:49:31 +0800 Subject: Query on babbling database Message-ID: Dear all, Could anyone help with this query? Many thanks! Madalena **************** >I have been doing research in information theory over the past >several years and have been reading the volume "Phonological >Development" by Dr. Vihman. I am presently searching for a data base >of baby babbling with enough signaling units (few hundred phonemes, etc.). >Is there >any compilation of the number of different sounds that occur in baby >babbling in general, with their frequency of occurrence tabulated? I'm >also interested in the di-gram structure, the frequency of >occurrence of pairs, if this has been complied >anywhere. >I plan to calculate a 1st-order (Shannon) entropy, the probability of each event/signal >estimated from its frequency of occurrence divided by the total >number of signals. >Although this is not the point of my paper, one could quantify the >increase of conditional dependence (2nd-order entropy, the probability that phoneme j >will >occur given that phoneme i has just occurred) with >increased language learning with this approach, if this would be a >useful number to determine. ******************* ====================================== Madalena Cruz-Ferreira Dept. English Language and Literature National University of Singapore ellmcf at nus.edu.sg ====================================== From CMartinot at aol.com Sat Aug 2 10:04:33 2003 From: CMartinot at aol.com (CMartinot at aol.com) Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 06:04:33 EDT Subject: new e-mail Message-ID: Dear Info-Childes members, my new e-mail address is : cmartinot at free.fr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From munso005 at umn.edu Sun Aug 3 16:22:08 2003 From: munso005 at umn.edu (Benjamin Munson) Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 11:22:08 -0500 Subject: Question about reading Message-ID: Dear Info-Childes: Apologies in advance for posing a somewhat off-topic question. This question is really for people who do early literacy research more than for people who do oral/aural manual/visual language development. This question relates to sound-spelling correspondence regularity. I am doing a word-reading experiment looking at relationships between word frequency, neighbo(u)rhood density, and vowel articulation. I'm planning on doing an analysis by items in which I will examine whether regularity of sound-spelling correspondence predicts some of my dependent measures. What I need is to calculate regularity of sound-spelling correspondence for individual items as a continuous variable. That is, I need to be able to say that the relationship between "through" and /Tru/ is 0.8; between "known" and /non/ is 2.3; and between rope and /rop/ is 5.6. (I'm making these up, although the numbers are monotonically related to my intuitions.) Does anyone know of such a measure of sound-spelling correspondence regularity? I have done searches on PsychInfo, but they have come up with nothing. Perhaps I'm using the wrong search terms. I will post a summary. Thanks in advance. Yours, Ben Munson Benjamin Munson, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Communication Disorders University of Minnesota 115 Shevlin Hall 164 Pillsbury Drive, SE Minnapolis, MN 55455 (612) 624-0304 Fax: (612) 624-7586 http://www.cdis.umn.edu/redbook/faculty/munson.htm From a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk Sun Aug 3 04:44:38 2003 From: a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk (Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith) Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 05:44:38 +0100 Subject: Question about reading In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.0.20030803105633.00b24010@munso005.email.umn.edu> Message-ID: try Usha Goswami at Cambridge University. At 11:22 -0500 3/8/03, Benjamin Munson wrote: >Dear Info-Childes: > >Apologies in advance for posing a somewhat off-topic question. This >question is really for people who do early literacy research more >than for people who do oral/aural manual/visual language development. > >This question relates to sound-spelling correspondence regularity. >I am doing a word-reading experiment looking at relationships >between word frequency, neighbo(u)rhood density, and vowel >articulation. I'm planning on doing an analysis by items in which I >will examine whether regularity of sound-spelling correspondence >predicts some of my dependent measures. What I need is to calculate >regularity of sound-spelling correspondence for individual items as >a continuous variable. That is, I need to be able to say that the >relationship between "through" and /Tru/ is 0.8; between "known" and >/non/ is 2.3; and between rope and /rop/ is 5.6. (I'm making these >up, although the numbers are monotonically related to my >intuitions.) Does anyone know of such a measure of sound-spelling >correspondence regularity? I have done searches on PsychInfo, but >they have come up with nothing. Perhaps I'm using the wrong search >terms. > >I will post a summary. > >Thanks in advance. > >Yours, >Ben Munson > > >Benjamin Munson, Ph.D. >Assistant Professor >Department of Communication Disorders >University of Minnesota >115 Shevlin Hall >164 Pillsbury Drive, SE >Minnapolis, MN 55455 >(612) 624-0304 >Fax: (612) 624-7586 > >http://www.cdis.umn.edu/redbook/faculty/munson.htm From ann.dowker at psy.ox.ac.uk Sun Aug 3 18:20:14 2003 From: ann.dowker at psy.ox.ac.uk (Ann Dowker) Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 19:20:14 +0100 Subject: Question about reading Message-ID: Other possible useful sources of information include Philip Seymour of the University of Dundee; Gordon Brown of the University of Warwick; and Heinz Wimmer of the University of Salzburg, Austria. Ann In message Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith writes: > try Usha Goswami at Cambridge University. > > At 11:22 -0500 3/8/03, Benjamin Munson wrote: > >Dear Info-Childes: > > > >Apologies in advance for posing a somewhat off-topic question. This > >question is really for people who do early literacy research more > >than for people who do oral/aural manual/visual language development. > > > >This question relates to sound-spelling correspondence regularity. > >I am doing a word-reading experiment looking at relationships > >between word frequency, neighbo(u)rhood density, and vowel > >articulation. I'm planning on doing an analysis by items in which I > >will examine whether regularity of sound-spelling correspondence > >predicts some of my dependent measures. What I need is to calculate > >regularity of sound-spelling correspondence for individual items as > >a continuous variable. That is, I need to be able to say that the > >relationship between "through" and /Tru/ is 0.8; between "known" and > >/non/ is 2.3; and between rope and /rop/ is 5.6. (I'm making these > >up, although the numbers are monotonically related to my > >intuitions.) Does anyone know of such a measure of sound-spelling > >correspondence regularity? I have done searches on PsychInfo, but > >they have come up with nothing. Perhaps I'm using the wrong search > >terms. > > > >I will post a summary. > > > >Thanks in advance. > > > >Yours, > >Ben Munson > > > > From adurguno at d.umn.edu Mon Aug 4 02:22:22 2003 From: adurguno at d.umn.edu (Aydin Y. Durgunoglu) Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 21:22:22 -0500 Subject: info-childes Digest - 08/03/03 Message-ID: M.L. Stanback has a 1991 Columbia dissertation listing the rime frequencies of many neighborhoods. I think it can be used to compute the kind of information that you are looking for. I can loan you my copy of the dissertation (and send it via our common acquantaince Molly Babel. ) Aydin Durgunoglu info-childes at mail.talkbank.org wrote: > > > Subject: Question about reading > Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2003 11:22:08 -0500 > From: Benjamin Munson > > Dear Info-Childes: > > Apologies in advance for posing a somewhat off-topic question. This > question is really for people who do early literacy research more than > for > people who do oral/aural manual/visual language development. > > This question relates to sound-spelling correspondence regularity. I > am > doing a word-reading experiment looking at relationships between word > frequency, neighbo(u)rhood density, and vowel articulation. I'm > planning > on doing an analysis by items in which I will examine whether > regularity of > sound-spelling correspondence predicts some of my dependent measures. > What > I need is to calculate regularity of sound-spelling correspondence > for > individual items as a continuous variable. That is, I need to be able > to > say that the relationship between "through" and /Tru/ is 0.8; between > "known" and /non/ is 2.3; and between rope and /rop/ is 5.6. (I'm > making > these up, although the numbers are monotonically related to my > intuitions.) Does anyone know of such a measure of sound-spelling > correspondence regularity? I have done searches on PsychInfo, but > they > have come up with nothing. Perhaps I'm using the wrong search terms. > > I will post a summary. > > Thanks in advance. > > Yours, > Ben Munson > > > Benjamin Munson, Ph.D. > Assistant Professor > Department of Communication Disorders > University of Minnesota > 115 Shevlin Hall > 164 Pillsbury Drive, SE > Minnapolis, MN 55455 > (612) 624-0304 > Fax: (612) 624-7586 > > http://www.cdis.umn.edu/redbook/faculty/munson.htm > > -- Aydin Y. Durgunoglu Department of Psychology University of Minnesota Duluth phone: (218) 726-6885 1207 Ordean Court fax: (218) 726-7186 Duluth, MN 55812-3010 e-mail: adurguno at d.umn.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ks7t at andrew.cmu.edu Mon Aug 4 14:51:14 2003 From: ks7t at andrew.cmu.edu (Kelley Sacco) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 10:51:14 -0400 Subject: CALD Seminar Message-ID: CALD Seminar Scheduled When: Tuesday, August 5, 2003 Time: 2:00 - 3:30 Where: Wean Hall 4623 Rainer Spiegel Title: A computational approach to predict human sequence learning in reaction time experiments Abstract: I study human sequence learning in a task where participants typically sit in front of a computer screen on which visual signals appear at different locations. Participants are asked to react to these signals as quickly as possible by pressing particularly designated keys on their keyboard. What they initially do not know is that the signals flash in a particular sequential order, where previous signals predict following ones. Speeded reaction times and improved accuracy can tell which signals are anticipated. After the first experiments, I analyzed the strategies that participants typically apply in this task. I then created a computational model that was based on this analysis. This model was cross-validated with future experimental data by testing whether it would correctly predict human learning in six further experiments. For appointments, please contact Sharon Woodside by Friday, August 1, 2003 Sharon Woodside CALD Phone: 412-268-5196 Email: sharonw at cs.cmu.edu From munso005 at umn.edu Mon Aug 4 18:27:23 2003 From: munso005 at umn.edu (Benjamin Munson) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 13:27:23 -0500 Subject: Spelling-sound regularity Message-ID: Dear Info-Childes Members: Thanks for your very, very useful (and prompt) responses to my query about the regularity of sound-spelling correspondence. Below, please find the summary of the responses that were sent to me privately. I have not replicated the responses that were sent to the entire list. It looks like Jay McClelland will be helping me to calculate a course-grained measure of spelling-sound correspondence. With his permission, I will share whatever we come up with. Again, thanks for your responses. They were most useful. Brian MacWhinney wrote: I don't think one could even begin to compute such an index without making some simplifying assumptions. What one can do is compute the number of near neighbors for a given word. Usually this is done for the words in a particular experiment. I agree that computing this for all words would be of some value. I think the CELEX folks might have done something like this. Ngoni Chipere wrote: A researcher in England did create a measure of sound-spelling correspondences along the lines you describe, but I can't seem to remember his name. His articles were published in education journals (he used the measure to predict which words had a greater probability of being misspelt by school children), so maybe the ERIC database would be a better place to look. I'll look up my mailbox when I get to the office next week, as I corresponded once with him, and I may be able find his name & email address. Jay McClelland wrote: The frequency-consistency equation discussed on pp. 72ff of Plaut, McClelland, Seidenberg, and Patterson (1996) http://www.cnbc.cmu.edu/~jlm/papers/PlautMcCSeidenbergPatterson96.pdf May be of some use to you. You would first need to encode items and their pronunciations according to the input and output representations used in Plaut et al (Table 2, p 66). You could then calculate, for each phoneme j in the correct pronunciation of test word t, the value of s_j^t, based on equation 12. These s_j^t values could then be averaged to give an average value for each word, I suppose, our combined in some other way. Also, it might be useful to take into account the strength of activation of phonemes not in the pronunciation of the word. I'd be happy to work with you to compare the adequacy of variants of this measure and/or to help with some of the calculations. Alan Cruttenden wrote: Try E.Carney, A Survey of English Spelling London~: Routledge 1994. Some of the information there is included in my own book: A.Cruttenden, Gimson's Pronunciation of English. Sixth edition London: Hodder Yours, Benjamin Munson Benjamin Munson, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Communication Disorders University of Minnesota 115 Shevlin Hall 164 Pillsbury Drive, S.E. Minneapolis, MN 55455 Department: 612-624-3322 Office: 612-624-0304 Fax: 612-624-7586 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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From hitomi-murata at mri.biglobe.ne.jp Wed Aug 6 13:58:37 2003 From: hitomi-murata at mri.biglobe.ne.jp (Hitomi Murata) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 22:58:37 +0900 Subject: TCP 2004: Call for Papers Message-ID: Dear Colleague, The Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies at Keio University will be holding the fifth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics(TCP2004) on March 12 and 13, 2004. The invited speakers are Prof. Kenneth J. Safir (Rutgers University) and Prof. Lydia White (McGill University). We encourage you to submit papers for presentation. For details, visit our web site: http://www.otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp/tcp/ The Fifth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics http://www.otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp/tcp/ Keio University, Mita, Tokyo March 12th and 13th, 2004 The Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics welcomes submissions for paper presentations at its fifth conference. It will accept papers that represent any scientific endeavor that addresses itself to "Plato's problem"concerning language acquisition: “How can we gain a rich linguistic system given our fragmentary and impoverished experience?” Its scope thus includes linguistic theory (phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics), L1 and L2 acquisition, language processing, and the neuroscience of language, among other topics. Each presentation will be 30 minutes, and 15 minutes will be devoted to discussion. Please send an abstract following the guidelines below: 1. Only e-mail submissions addressed to tcpabst at otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp will be accepted. The subject of the e-mail should be “abstract”. 2. The author information should be included in the body of the e-mail. The information should include: (a) name, (b) affiliation, (c) title of paper, (d) mailing address, (e) e-mail address, and (f) telephone number. If you are in Japan, add kanji where relevant (i.e., all items except (e) and (f)). If your paper has multiple authors, please provide information regarding all of the co-authors. 3. A PDF file of your abstract in English should be attached to the e-mail. 4. Format the files of your abstracts (including bibliography) to A4 paper size, single-spaced, limiting the length to a maximum of 25 pages. 5. The font size should be 12 point. For any fonts used, a font file should be attached. 6. Do not put your name on your abstract. 7. Put the title on the top of the first page. 8. The abstract, if accepted, will be photocopied to be included in the conference handbook. Therefore, make sure your margins have ample room. 9. You may not submit more than one single (single author) paper and one joint (co-authored) paper. 10. Clearly state the nature of the problem that you are addressing. 11. Cite sufficient data, and explain why and how they support your argument. 12. Avoid vague promissory notes such as "A solution will be presented". 13. The accepted abstracts will be shown on the TCP website. 14. If you have any problems in applying by e-mail with a PDF file attachment, please do not hesitate to contact the TCP Committee at tcp at otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp The abstract must be received by November 30, 2003 by 11:59 pm JST (Japan Standard Time) by e-mail to tcpabst at otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp Late submissions will not be accepted. Notification of receipt will be e-mailed to the first author shortly after receipt. We will notify you of the results of our review process by January 12, 2004. 　 In addition, we are planning to publish a volume of the conference proceedings. If your abstract is accepted, we will inform you of the details regarding this matter later. Most likely, you will be asked to e-mail us your paper as a MS Word and a PDF file attachment by mid-May 2004. Unfortunately, TCP has no funds for financial assistance. Participants are also expected to make their own travel arrangements. For further information, contact: Yukio Otsu (Director) Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies Keio University 2-15-45 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8345 Japan or, send an e-mail message to the TCP Committee: tcp at otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp From ks7t at andrew.cmu.edu Wed Aug 6 18:58:23 2003 From: ks7t at andrew.cmu.edu (Kelley Sacco) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 14:58:23 -0400 Subject: Power of Graditude In-Reply-To: <000a01c35c34$358ccaa0$01fea8c0@mycomputer> Message-ID: Please respond to Randy Johnson at actrand at frontiernet.net. ------ Forwarded Message > From: "Randy and Jane Johnson" > Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 11:02:59 -0500 > To: > Subject: request to post > > Dear Ms. Sacco: > > I've been referred to you list to investigate an > area of interest I have. I guess I don't have authority to make a posting. > Can you please review the topic and let me know what you think? Thank you. > Randy Johnson > > (Topic) > I've been fascinated with the nature of human communication for over thirty > years, having a degree in Communication Disorders, and running a few Speech > and Language Clinics in years past. I've recently been very taken with > insights from Brother David Stendl Rast on the power of gratitude > (www.gratefulness.org). He draws an interesting insight that sees the > experience of 'gratitude' as a source of happiness. The expression of this > gratitude through 'thank you' further enhances our sense of belonging and > consequent happiness. It seems that all research on acquisition of the > pragmatic function of 'thank you' has been aimed at development of social > mannerism. Is anyone aware of a longitudinal study that's looked at a child's > sense of well being, balance and achievement in relation to focused > instruction in this skill of using 'thank you' as a source of happiness for > the one expressing gratitude in addition to awareness of approval from the > person who sent the gift? > > > > In effect, this training would teach the child to shift perspective from > what's not working to expression of gratitude for what is working, with > expression of gratitude and awareness of consequent happiness. > > > > I've checked with some leaders in the field of communication disorders and > suspect some lack of interest since this area of study seems to deal more with > going beyond 'normal' function, similar to the differentiation between > psychology and transpersonal psychology. Others have tried to reserve this to > the realm of religion. Yet, I can see grounds for sound scientific study in > this area with great implications for the health and welfare of the individual > and society. > > > > If you have an interest in this area or know of others that do, please help > me. Thank you. > ------ End of Forwarded Message From annabelledavid at hotmail.com Thu Aug 7 11:55:56 2003 From: annabelledavid at hotmail.com (Annabelle David) Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 12:55:56 +0100 Subject: Lexical categories Message-ID: Hello I am trying to find a study that would have data on the different proportions of each lexical category (nouns, predicates, etc) at different stage of the lexical development process and at the adult stage. I know CDI-based studies have such results for very young children but I am looking for data on older children and/or adults in English and French. Thank you . Annabelle David School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences (Speech) King George VI Bldg University of Newcastle From barriere at vonneumann.cog.jhu.edu Thu Aug 7 15:25:19 2003 From: barriere at vonneumann.cog.jhu.edu (Isabelle Barriere) Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 11:25:19 -0400 Subject: Lexical categories In-Reply-To: <6CE8F2EE5703534AA83C99854DB98E13C2B62D@bond.ncl.ac.uk> Message-ID: Dear Anabelle, For French, on children up to 2;6 if my memory does not fail me (and not using MCDI), there are a number of articles by D. Bassano, including: Bassano, D. (1998a) L'élaboration du lexique précoce chez l'enfant français: structure et variabilité. Enfance, No. 4, 123-153. Bassano, D. (1998b) Sémantique et syntaxe dans l'acquisition des classes de mots: l'exemple des noms et des verbes en Français. Langue Française. No. 118, 26-48. + a moree recent one in the Journal of Child Language. Isabelle Barriere Department of Cognitive Science Johns Hopkins University At 12:55 PM 8/7/2003 +0100, Annabelle David wrote: >Hello > >I am trying to find a study that would have data on the different >proportions of each lexical category (nouns, predicates, etc) at different >stage of the lexical development process and at the adult stage. I know >CDI-based studies have such results for very young children but I am looking >for data on older children and/or adults in English and French. > >Thank you . > >Annabelle David >School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences (Speech) >King George VI Bldg >University of Newcastle -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hitomi-murata at mri.biglobe.ne.jp Sat Aug 9 14:25:54 2003 From: hitomi-murata at mri.biglobe.ne.jp (Hitomi Murata) Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 23:25:54 +0900 Subject: Correction of Call for Papers for TCP 2004 Message-ID: Dear Colleague, There was an error inthe previous posting of the TCP(Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics) Call for Papers. As for No. 4, the correct one is: 4. Format the files of your abstracts (including bibliography) to A4 paper size, single-spaced, limiting the length to a maximum of 2 pages. (NOT 25 pages) We apologize for the confusion. Hitomi Murata Associate Director TCP Committee From dandjelk at f.bg.ac.yu Sun Aug 10 16:57:27 2003 From: dandjelk at f.bg.ac.yu (Darinka Andjelkovic) Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 18:57:27 +0200 Subject: digitazing VHS tapes Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, I plan to digitize my VHS video tapes on child speech and I do not know what hardware and software equipment I need, and what format should we use for this. PC Pentium 3 and 4 computers are available to us, but we are not sure about other hardware and software details: RAM, MHz, operative system, video and sound perfomances. Also what format and compression should be chosen in digitizing and so on. We made few trials in DivX MPEG 4 - 3000kb/s (for video) and DivX MP3 - 128kb/s, 48khz, mono (for sound) but had problem with synchronicity of video and sound. It happened with some tapes that asynchronicity appeared at some points, and then accumulated towards the end of the tape, so that it became so big that we cannot work with such material. Another trial was with MPEG format (I understood it was MPEG1) and asynchronicity did not apear, but while playing it happened at some points that picture would freeze for a moment or even about 10-15 seconds. Sound would go on, but the the picture would stay for a while. Also the quality of the picture was not as good as on the original tape (it may become important at some points where a child is holding or playing with small objects, or pointing to some small picture in a book and we need to know exactly what was that). I understand DVD is a kind of standard for this job, but the price of DVD disks is much higher then ordinary CD. This is an important issue in my country (especialy with a large quantitity of material), and we are trying to make it less expensive but not japardizing the quality. Is there anybody who could help? (keep in mind that I work with PC, not Mac). I would like to hear about DVD and other formats as well. Thanks in advance and warm regards, Darinka Andjelkovic dandjelk at f.bg.ac.yu Laboratory for Experimental Psychology Faculty of Philosophy University of Belgrade Cika Ljubina 18-20 11000 Belgrade Serbia and Montenegro -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From macw at cmu.edu Sun Aug 10 21:39:53 2003 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 17:39:53 -0400 Subject: digitazing VHS tapes In-Reply-To: <010101c35f65$ca9b0b00$444b5b93@z> Message-ID: Dear Darinka, I'm glad you are thinking of working with digital video for your project. I think you will find it quite interesting. Did you have a chance to take a look at the recommendations on working with digital video from the CHILDES home page. Actually, the link on the CHILDES page takes you to http://talkbank.org/dv/ where there is a full discussion of these issues. DivX MPEG4 is probably not a good option for now, because the size of MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 files is still far too big. This may change in the near future. Right now, I recommend Sorenson 3 QuickTime compression. I further recommend Macintosh OSX using iMovie3 for capture and Cleaner 6 for compression. The new Mac G5 machines would help a lot in the compression process. If you prefer Windows, I recommend Visual Studio 6. I discuss the use of both platforms on these pages. Regarding the role of DVD, you definitely do not want to produce DVD format. Instead, you want to use the new DVD disks just as big CD-ROMS. You can now purchase DVD disks for $3 each, but admittedly CD-ROM is still a bit cheaper. In any case, you only need this as a storage medium for the QuickTime files. Please also read my recommendations about archiving first to mini-DV. You can now purchase mini-DV cassettes also for $3 each. I was able to get these prices from MacWarehouse/PCWarehouse. I don't know about prices in Croatia. If you create a video database, try also to clarify with your subjects the principles regarding sharing of data. In particular, can you share transcripts, audio, and video and is any anonymization required? --Brian MacWhinney From a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk Mon Aug 11 14:45:55 2003 From: a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk (Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:45:55 +0100 Subject: anyone remember gender perception? Message-ID: >>The experiment showed two groups of parents a video of a baby moving in >>the cot. For one group the video showed the baby dressed in >>pink pyjamas. The other group saw the identical video but the colour >>of the pyjamas was blue. Each group was asked to describe the >>baby's actions. >>The pink group talked of a future ballerina, how delicate etc. and >>the blue group >>for identical actions talked of a footballer, tough etc. Does anyone recall the study? Ref please. Many thanks Annette -- ________________________________________________________________ Professor A.Karmiloff-Smith, FBA, FMedSci, MAE, C.Psychol. Head, Neurocognitive Development Unit, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, U.K. tel: 0207 905 2754 fax: 0207 242 7717 http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/ich/html/academicunits/neurocog_dev/n_d_unit.html ________________________________________________________________ From ellmcf at nus.edu.sg Tue Aug 12 05:10:35 2003 From: ellmcf at nus.edu.sg (Madalena Cruz-Ferreira) Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 13:10:35 +0800 Subject: Mandarin question forms Message-ID: Dear all, A graduate student of mine is looking for literature on stages in the acquisition of question forms in Mandarin. She has checked the chibib and the Childes Mandarin database. Could anyone help with other pointers? Please reply to me for the time being, she has just subscribed to this network but there were some problems accessing it. Thank you! Madalena ====================================== Madalena Cruz-Ferreira Dept. English Language and Literature National University of Singapore ellmcf at nus.edu.sg ====================================== From ellmcf at nus.edu.sg Thu Aug 14 11:03:29 2003 From: ellmcf at nus.edu.sg (Madalena Cruz-Ferreira) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 19:03:29 +0800 Subject: Sum: Mandarin question forms Message-ID: Dear all, Below is a summary of the responses I got from my query to info-childes. The original query is at the end. Many thanks to all who volunteered information on this! Madalena ****************** Summary: Mandarin question forms >From Twila Tardif twila at umich.edu There is an old paper on this that she might be interested in by Miao, but it is in Chinese and not easy to find: Miao, X. (1986). Youer dui yuwenci de lijie - youer huida teshu yiwenju de fazhan tedian (Preschooler's understanding of question words - Developmental characteristics of preschoolers' answers to questions). In M.S. Zhu (Ed.), Ertong yuyan fazhan yanjiu (Research in children's language development), pp. 126-134. Shanghai, China: East China Normal University Publishing House. [Twila also mentioned Erbaugh's 1992 chapter, below.] >From Tom Roeper roeper at linguist.umass.edu We have done a lot of work in a broad series of papers on the acquisition of questions and barriers. The most recent dissertations are from Bart Hollebrandse--Groningen-- Lamya Abdulkarim-- lamya at comdis.umass.edu and D'jaris Coles at Wayne University. Bart's paper is in the most recent BU proceedings from which one can get other refs. >From Mary Erbaugh erbaugh at transit212.com Questions generally are not problematic for pre-school Mandarin speakers. (There are a few problems with Verb-Not-Verb forms, and with the final particle questions (because the particles have so many competing meanings). I discuss acquisition of questions in: Mary S. Erbaugh. 1992. 'The acquisition of Mandarin'. In Dan Isaac Slobin, ed. The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquistion, Volume 3. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers. Pp. 373-455. See section 5.3.2, and also sections 8 and 14. Acquisition of questions is discussed at greater length in my dissertation, available from University Microfilms in hard copy or microfilm www.umi.com. (It is available in digital form also, to libraries.) It is dissertation #8300490. Mary S. Erbaugh. Coming to Order: Natural Selection and the Origins of Syntax in the Mandarin-speaking Child. PhD dissertation in linguistics, University of California, Berkeley. 1982. A very comprehensive Chinese language description of early acquistion is: Li Yuming. 1995. Ertong yuyan de fazhan (Child language acquistion). Wuchang: Huazhong shifan daxue chuban she. He discusses acquisition of questions on pp. 223-234. [Mary also mentioned Miao (1986), above.] There is some English language information in Joseph H. Hsu. 1996. A Study of the Stages of Develpment and Acquisition fo Mandarin Chinese by Children in Taiwan. Taipei: The Crane Publishing Company. Prof. Hsu is at Fu Jen (pinyin: Furen) University in Taipei. Also, of course, Anna Kwan-Terry's article on children's acquisition of particles includes some information on question particle acquisition. Anna Kwan-Terry. 1991. Through the Looking Glass: A child's use of particles in Chinese and English and its implications for language transfer. In Anna Kwan-Terry, ed. Child language development in Singapore and Malaysia. Singapore: Singapore University Press. Beijing Normal University is conducting very broad testing of stages of normal language acquisition, developing screening tests in collaboration with Dr. Ping LI at University of Hong Kong. >From Liang Chen brighterchen at yahoo.com chen at louisiana.edu I would recommend the following paper by Thomas Lee. Thomas H.-T. Lee. 1996. "Theoretical issues in language development and Chinese child language" in James C-T Huang and Audrey Li (eds.) New Horizons in Chinese Linguistics. Dordrecht: Kluwer, pp. 293-356. It is an extensive review of acquisitional studies of various aspects of Chinese. As far as I know, he himself did some research on acquisition of Cantonese wh-questions, and he maintains a database of Child Cantonese. Dr. Lee's homepage is http://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/~linglab/linguists/lee.html ****************************** ====================================== Madalena Cruz-Ferreira Dept. English Language and Literature National University of Singapore ellmcf at nus.edu.sg ====================================== > -----Original Message----- > From: Madalena Cruz-Ferreira > Sent: Tuesday, 12 August, 2003 1:11 PM > To: info-childes at mail.talkbank.org > Subject: Mandarin question forms > > > Dear all, > > A graduate student of mine is looking for literature on > stages in the acquisition of question forms in Mandarin. > She has checked the chibib and the Childes Mandarin database. > Could anyone help with other pointers? > Please reply to me for the time being, she has just > subscribed to this network but there were some problems accessing it. > Thank you! > > Madalena > > ====================================== > Madalena Cruz-Ferreira > Dept. English Language and Literature > National University of Singapore > ellmcf at nus.edu.sg > ====================================== From m.vihman at bangor.ac.uk Tue Aug 19 13:35:29 2003 From: m.vihman at bangor.ac.uk (Marilyn Vihman) Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 14:35:29 +0100 Subject: Research Officer position Message-ID: dear colleagues: Please find below the details of a position in our laboratory. We are looking for a psycholinguist (with PhD, or very close to it) to run a project involving word form recognition at age 9-12 mos, involving both head turn and ERP experiments in parallel, with both English and Welsh infants (knowledge of Welsh is not required, however). Preferred starting date: January 2004. Although the opening is a two-year position, it would be possible to extend it for a longer period, subject to funding. Please write to me directly for further information, or to Personnel for application forms (address below). The closing date for applications is Sept. 5, 2003. marilyn vihman Applications are invited for a full time Postdoctoral Research Officer to work on an ESRC funded project currently underway at the School of Psychology, University of Wales Bangor (Professor Marilyn Vihman and Dr. Guillaume Thierry). The objective of this project is to combine behavioural and Event Related Potential (ERP) techniques to study the onset of word form recognition. The successful applicant should have a PhD in Linguistics or Psychology, preferably in the field of Child Language Development. Though not essential, some previous experience with packages for the design and analysis of experiments (e.g., E-prime, Excel, SPSS) would be an advantage. The post will involve programming auditory experiments using E-prime, recruiting infant participants, including liaison and collaboration with the local health authority, supervising the conduct of behavioural and ERP experiments, analysing collected data and writing up research findings. The position is available for 2 years, from the 1st of January 2004 until the 31st of December 2005. Application forms and further particulars should be obtained by contacting Human Resources, University of Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2DG; tel: (01248) 382926/388132; e-mail: personnel at bangor.ac.uk Salary: £18,265 - £20,311 (on R&A Grade 1A) p.a. Please quote reference number 03-3/2 when applying. -- ------------------------------------------------------- Marilyn M. Vihman | Professor, Developmental Psychology | /\ School of Psychology | / \/\ University of Wales, Bangor | /\/ \ \ The Brigantia Building | / \ \ Penrallt Road |/ =======\=\ Gwynedd LL57 2AS | tel. 44 (0)1248 383 775 | B A N G O R FAX 382 599 | -------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From macw at cmu.edu Fri Aug 22 23:27:11 2003 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 19:27:11 -0400 Subject: New audio-linked data set Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, I am happy to announce the addition to CHILDES of a fourth child in the Yip-Matthews Hong Kong corpus of Cantonese-English bilingual children. The three children previously included were Timmy, Sophie, and Kathryn. The new child is Llywelyn. Half of the files involve primarily English conversations and half primarily Cantonese conversations. One very important feature of this new corpus is the fact that all of the utterances are fully linked to good quality MP3 files that can also be downloaded from the web. The MP3 files and transcripts can be found in http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/data/media/audlinked/ This new corpus is now the third large audio-linked corpora in the database (MacWhinney and MiyataTai are the other two). The full set of transcripts for the YipMatthews Hong Kong corpus without audio can be found at http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/data/biling/ Thanks to Virginia Yip, Stephen Matthews, Huang Yue-Yuan, Uta Lam, and their colleagues in Hong Kong for this important addition to CHILDES. --Brian MacWhinney From clhudson at socrates.Berkeley.EDU Wed Aug 27 01:00:55 2003 From: clhudson at socrates.Berkeley.EDU (Carla L. Hudson) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 18:00:55 -0700 Subject: babbling sound files Message-ID: I am currently trying to put together some demos for my undergraduate language acquisition class. One of the 'experiments' I wanted to run with the students was to play them examples of babbling from children from different language environments (like de Boysson-Bardies, Sagart & Durand, 1984) and have them guess the language environment of the child. To this end, I am looking for sound files containing such examples and was wondering if anyone knows of any that might be available (on-line?). Thank you, Carla Hudson Carla L. Hudson Assistant Professor of Psychology University of California, Berkeley clhudson at socrates.berkeley.edu From ellmcf at nus.edu.sg Fri Aug 1 08:49:31 2003 From: ellmcf at nus.edu.sg (Madalena Cruz-Ferreira) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 16:49:31 +0800 Subject: Query on babbling database Message-ID: Dear all, Could anyone help with this query? Many thanks! Madalena **************** >I have been doing research in information theory over the past >several years and have been reading the volume "Phonological >Development" by Dr. Vihman. I am presently searching for a data base >of baby babbling with enough signaling units (few hundred phonemes, etc.). >Is there >any compilation of the number of different sounds that occur in baby >babbling in general, with their frequency of occurrence tabulated? I'm >also interested in the di-gram structure, the frequency of >occurrence of pairs, if this has been complied >anywhere. >I plan to calculate a 1st-order (Shannon) entropy, the probability of each event/signal >estimated from its frequency of occurrence divided by the total >number of signals. >Although this is not the point of my paper, one could quantify the >increase of conditional dependence (2nd-order entropy, the probability that phoneme j >will >occur given that phoneme i has just occurred) with >increased language learning with this approach, if this would be a >useful number to determine. ******************* ====================================== Madalena Cruz-Ferreira Dept. English Language and Literature National University of Singapore ellmcf at nus.edu.sg ====================================== From CMartinot at aol.com Sat Aug 2 10:04:33 2003 From: CMartinot at aol.com (CMartinot at aol.com) Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 06:04:33 EDT Subject: new e-mail Message-ID: Dear Info-Childes members, my new e-mail address is : cmartinot at free.fr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From munso005 at umn.edu Sun Aug 3 16:22:08 2003 From: munso005 at umn.edu (Benjamin Munson) Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 11:22:08 -0500 Subject: Question about reading Message-ID: Dear Info-Childes: Apologies in advance for posing a somewhat off-topic question. This question is really for people who do early literacy research more than for people who do oral/aural manual/visual language development. This question relates to sound-spelling correspondence regularity. I am doing a word-reading experiment looking at relationships between word frequency, neighbo(u)rhood density, and vowel articulation. I'm planning on doing an analysis by items in which I will examine whether regularity of sound-spelling correspondence predicts some of my dependent measures. What I need is to calculate regularity of sound-spelling correspondence for individual items as a continuous variable. That is, I need to be able to say that the relationship between "through" and /Tru/ is 0.8; between "known" and /non/ is 2.3; and between rope and /rop/ is 5.6. (I'm making these up, although the numbers are monotonically related to my intuitions.) Does anyone know of such a measure of sound-spelling correspondence regularity? I have done searches on PsychInfo, but they have come up with nothing. Perhaps I'm using the wrong search terms. I will post a summary. Thanks in advance. Yours, Ben Munson Benjamin Munson, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Communication Disorders University of Minnesota 115 Shevlin Hall 164 Pillsbury Drive, SE Minnapolis, MN 55455 (612) 624-0304 Fax: (612) 624-7586 http://www.cdis.umn.edu/redbook/faculty/munson.htm From a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk Sun Aug 3 04:44:38 2003 From: a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk (Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith) Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 05:44:38 +0100 Subject: Question about reading In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.0.20030803105633.00b24010@munso005.email.umn.edu> Message-ID: try Usha Goswami at Cambridge University. At 11:22 -0500 3/8/03, Benjamin Munson wrote: >Dear Info-Childes: > >Apologies in advance for posing a somewhat off-topic question. This >question is really for people who do early literacy research more >than for people who do oral/aural manual/visual language development. > >This question relates to sound-spelling correspondence regularity. >I am doing a word-reading experiment looking at relationships >between word frequency, neighbo(u)rhood density, and vowel >articulation. I'm planning on doing an analysis by items in which I >will examine whether regularity of sound-spelling correspondence >predicts some of my dependent measures. What I need is to calculate >regularity of sound-spelling correspondence for individual items as >a continuous variable. That is, I need to be able to say that the >relationship between "through" and /Tru/ is 0.8; between "known" and >/non/ is 2.3; and between rope and /rop/ is 5.6. (I'm making these >up, although the numbers are monotonically related to my >intuitions.) Does anyone know of such a measure of sound-spelling >correspondence regularity? I have done searches on PsychInfo, but >they have come up with nothing. Perhaps I'm using the wrong search >terms. > >I will post a summary. > >Thanks in advance. > >Yours, >Ben Munson > > >Benjamin Munson, Ph.D. >Assistant Professor >Department of Communication Disorders >University of Minnesota >115 Shevlin Hall >164 Pillsbury Drive, SE >Minnapolis, MN 55455 >(612) 624-0304 >Fax: (612) 624-7586 > >http://www.cdis.umn.edu/redbook/faculty/munson.htm From ann.dowker at psy.ox.ac.uk Sun Aug 3 18:20:14 2003 From: ann.dowker at psy.ox.ac.uk (Ann Dowker) Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 19:20:14 +0100 Subject: Question about reading Message-ID: Other possible useful sources of information include Philip Seymour of the University of Dundee; Gordon Brown of the University of Warwick; and Heinz Wimmer of the University of Salzburg, Austria. Ann In message Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith writes: > try Usha Goswami at Cambridge University. > > At 11:22 -0500 3/8/03, Benjamin Munson wrote: > >Dear Info-Childes: > > > >Apologies in advance for posing a somewhat off-topic question. This > >question is really for people who do early literacy research more > >than for people who do oral/aural manual/visual language development. > > > >This question relates to sound-spelling correspondence regularity. > >I am doing a word-reading experiment looking at relationships > >between word frequency, neighbo(u)rhood density, and vowel > >articulation. I'm planning on doing an analysis by items in which I > >will examine whether regularity of sound-spelling correspondence > >predicts some of my dependent measures. What I need is to calculate > >regularity of sound-spelling correspondence for individual items as > >a continuous variable. That is, I need to be able to say that the > >relationship between "through" and /Tru/ is 0.8; between "known" and > >/non/ is 2.3; and between rope and /rop/ is 5.6. (I'm making these > >up, although the numbers are monotonically related to my > >intuitions.) Does anyone know of such a measure of sound-spelling > >correspondence regularity? I have done searches on PsychInfo, but > >they have come up with nothing. Perhaps I'm using the wrong search > >terms. > > > >I will post a summary. > > > >Thanks in advance. > > > >Yours, > >Ben Munson > > > > From adurguno at d.umn.edu Mon Aug 4 02:22:22 2003 From: adurguno at d.umn.edu (Aydin Y. Durgunoglu) Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 21:22:22 -0500 Subject: info-childes Digest - 08/03/03 Message-ID: M.L. Stanback has a 1991 Columbia dissertation listing the rime frequencies of many neighborhoods. I think it can be used to compute the kind of information that you are looking for. I can loan you my copy of the dissertation (and send it via our common acquantaince Molly Babel. ) Aydin Durgunoglu info-childes at mail.talkbank.org wrote: > > > Subject: Question about reading > Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2003 11:22:08 -0500 > From: Benjamin Munson > > Dear Info-Childes: > > Apologies in advance for posing a somewhat off-topic question. This > question is really for people who do early literacy research more than > for > people who do oral/aural manual/visual language development. > > This question relates to sound-spelling correspondence regularity. I > am > doing a word-reading experiment looking at relationships between word > frequency, neighbo(u)rhood density, and vowel articulation. I'm > planning > on doing an analysis by items in which I will examine whether > regularity of > sound-spelling correspondence predicts some of my dependent measures. > What > I need is to calculate regularity of sound-spelling correspondence > for > individual items as a continuous variable. That is, I need to be able > to > say that the relationship between "through" and /Tru/ is 0.8; between > "known" and /non/ is 2.3; and between rope and /rop/ is 5.6. (I'm > making > these up, although the numbers are monotonically related to my > intuitions.) Does anyone know of such a measure of sound-spelling > correspondence regularity? I have done searches on PsychInfo, but > they > have come up with nothing. 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After the first experiments, I analyzed the strategies that participants typically apply in this task. I then created a computational model that was based on this analysis. This model was cross-validated with future experimental data by testing whether it would correctly predict human learning in six further experiments. For appointments, please contact Sharon Woodside by Friday, August 1, 2003 Sharon Woodside CALD Phone: 412-268-5196 Email: sharonw at cs.cmu.edu From munso005 at umn.edu Mon Aug 4 18:27:23 2003 From: munso005 at umn.edu (Benjamin Munson) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 13:27:23 -0500 Subject: Spelling-sound regularity Message-ID: Dear Info-Childes Members: Thanks for your very, very useful (and prompt) responses to my query about the regularity of sound-spelling correspondence. Below, please find the summary of the responses that were sent to me privately. I have not replicated the responses that were sent to the entire list. It looks like Jay McClelland will be helping me to calculate a course-grained measure of spelling-sound correspondence. With his permission, I will share whatever we come up with. Again, thanks for your responses. They were most useful. Brian MacWhinney wrote: I don't think one could even begin to compute such an index without making some simplifying assumptions. What one can do is compute the number of near neighbors for a given word. Usually this is done for the words in a particular experiment. I agree that computing this for all words would be of some value. I think the CELEX folks might have done something like this. Ngoni Chipere wrote: A researcher in England did create a measure of sound-spelling correspondences along the lines you describe, but I can't seem to remember his name. His articles were published in education journals (he used the measure to predict which words had a greater probability of being misspelt by school children), so maybe the ERIC database would be a better place to look. I'll look up my mailbox when I get to the office next week, as I corresponded once with him, and I may be able find his name & email address. Jay McClelland wrote: The frequency-consistency equation discussed on pp. 72ff of Plaut, McClelland, Seidenberg, and Patterson (1996) http://www.cnbc.cmu.edu/~jlm/papers/PlautMcCSeidenbergPatterson96.pdf May be of some use to you. You would first need to encode items and their pronunciations according to the input and output representations used in Plaut et al (Table 2, p 66). You could then calculate, for each phoneme j in the correct pronunciation of test word t, the value of s_j^t, based on equation 12. These s_j^t values could then be averaged to give an average value for each word, I suppose, our combined in some other way. Also, it might be useful to take into account the strength of activation of phonemes not in the pronunciation of the word. I'd be happy to work with you to compare the adequacy of variants of this measure and/or to help with some of the calculations. Alan Cruttenden wrote: Try E.Carney, A Survey of English Spelling London~: Routledge 1994. Some of the information there is included in my own book: A.Cruttenden, Gimson's Pronunciation of English. Sixth edition London: Hodder Yours, Benjamin Munson Benjamin Munson, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Communication Disorders University of Minnesota 115 Shevlin Hall 164 Pillsbury Drive, S.E. Minneapolis, MN 55455 Department: 612-624-3322 Office: 612-624-0304 Fax: 612-624-7586 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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From hitomi-murata at mri.biglobe.ne.jp Wed Aug 6 13:58:37 2003 From: hitomi-murata at mri.biglobe.ne.jp (Hitomi Murata) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 22:58:37 +0900 Subject: TCP 2004: Call for Papers Message-ID: Dear Colleague, The Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies at Keio University will be holding the fifth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics(TCP2004) on March 12 and 13, 2004. The invited speakers are Prof. Kenneth J. Safir (Rutgers University) and Prof. Lydia White (McGill University). We encourage you to submit papers for presentation. For details, visit our web site: http://www.otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp/tcp/ The Fifth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics http://www.otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp/tcp/ Keio University, Mita, Tokyo March 12th and 13th, 2004 The Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics welcomes submissions for paper presentations at its fifth conference. It will accept papers that represent any scientific endeavor that addresses itself to "Plato's problem"concerning language acquisition: ?How can we gain a rich linguistic system given our fragmentary and impoverished experience?? Its scope thus includes linguistic theory (phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics), L1 and L2 acquisition, language processing, and the neuroscience of language, among other topics. Each presentation will be 30 minutes, and 15 minutes will be devoted to discussion. Please send an abstract following the guidelines below: 1. Only e-mail submissions addressed to tcpabst at otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp will be accepted. The subject of the e-mail should be ?abstract?. 2. The author information should be included in the body of the e-mail. The information should include: (a) name, (b) affiliation, (c) title of paper, (d) mailing address, (e) e-mail address, and (f) telephone number. If you are in Japan, add kanji where relevant (i.e., all items except (e) and (f)). If your paper has multiple authors, please provide information regarding all of the co-authors. 3. A PDF file of your abstract in English should be attached to the e-mail. 4. Format the files of your abstracts (including bibliography) to A4 paper size, single-spaced, limiting the length to a maximum of 25 pages. 5. The font size should be 12 point. For any fonts used, a font file should be attached. 6. Do not put your name on your abstract. 7. Put the title on the top of the first page. 8. The abstract, if accepted, will be photocopied to be included in the conference handbook. Therefore, make sure your margins have ample room. 9. You may not submit more than one single (single author) paper and one joint (co-authored) paper. 10. Clearly state the nature of the problem that you are addressing. 11. Cite sufficient data, and explain why and how they support your argument. 12. Avoid vague promissory notes such as "A solution will be presented". 13. The accepted abstracts will be shown on the TCP website. 14. If you have any problems in applying by e-mail with a PDF file attachment, please do not hesitate to contact the TCP Committee at tcp at otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp The abstract must be received by November 30, 2003 by 11:59 pm JST (Japan Standard Time) by e-mail to tcpabst at otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp Late submissions will not be accepted. Notification of receipt will be e-mailed to the first author shortly after receipt. We will notify you of the results of our review process by January 12, 2004. ? In addition, we are planning to publish a volume of the conference proceedings. If your abstract is accepted, we will inform you of the details regarding this matter later. Most likely, you will be asked to e-mail us your paper as a MS Word and a PDF file attachment by mid-May 2004. Unfortunately, TCP has no funds for financial assistance. Participants are also expected to make their own travel arrangements. For further information, contact: Yukio Otsu (Director) Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies Keio University 2-15-45 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8345 Japan or, send an e-mail message to the TCP Committee: tcp at otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp From ks7t at andrew.cmu.edu Wed Aug 6 18:58:23 2003 From: ks7t at andrew.cmu.edu (Kelley Sacco) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 14:58:23 -0400 Subject: Power of Graditude In-Reply-To: <000a01c35c34$358ccaa0$01fea8c0@mycomputer> Message-ID: Please respond to Randy Johnson at actrand at frontiernet.net. ------ Forwarded Message > From: "Randy and Jane Johnson" > Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 11:02:59 -0500 > To: > Subject: request to post > > Dear Ms. Sacco: > > I've been referred to you list to investigate an > area of interest I have. I guess I don't have authority to make a posting. > Can you please review the topic and let me know what you think? Thank you. > Randy Johnson > > (Topic) > I've been fascinated with the nature of human communication for over thirty > years, having a degree in Communication Disorders, and running a few Speech > and Language Clinics in years past. I've recently been very taken with > insights from Brother David Stendl Rast on the power of gratitude > (www.gratefulness.org). He draws an interesting insight that sees the > experience of 'gratitude' as a source of happiness. The expression of this > gratitude through 'thank you' further enhances our sense of belonging and > consequent happiness. It seems that all research on acquisition of the > pragmatic function of 'thank you' has been aimed at development of social > mannerism. Is anyone aware of a longitudinal study that's looked at a child's > sense of well being, balance and achievement in relation to focused > instruction in this skill of using 'thank you' as a source of happiness for > the one expressing gratitude in addition to awareness of approval from the > person who sent the gift? > > > > In effect, this training would teach the child to shift perspective from > what's not working to expression of gratitude for what is working, with > expression of gratitude and awareness of consequent happiness. > > > > I've checked with some leaders in the field of communication disorders and > suspect some lack of interest since this area of study seems to deal more with > going beyond 'normal' function, similar to the differentiation between > psychology and transpersonal psychology. Others have tried to reserve this to > the realm of religion. Yet, I can see grounds for sound scientific study in > this area with great implications for the health and welfare of the individual > and society. > > > > If you have an interest in this area or know of others that do, please help > me. Thank you. > ------ End of Forwarded Message From annabelledavid at hotmail.com Thu Aug 7 11:55:56 2003 From: annabelledavid at hotmail.com (Annabelle David) Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 12:55:56 +0100 Subject: Lexical categories Message-ID: Hello I am trying to find a study that would have data on the different proportions of each lexical category (nouns, predicates, etc) at different stage of the lexical development process and at the adult stage. I know CDI-based studies have such results for very young children but I am looking for data on older children and/or adults in English and French. Thank you . Annabelle David School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences (Speech) King George VI Bldg University of Newcastle From barriere at vonneumann.cog.jhu.edu Thu Aug 7 15:25:19 2003 From: barriere at vonneumann.cog.jhu.edu (Isabelle Barriere) Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 11:25:19 -0400 Subject: Lexical categories In-Reply-To: <6CE8F2EE5703534AA83C99854DB98E13C2B62D@bond.ncl.ac.uk> Message-ID: Dear Anabelle, For French, on children up to 2;6 if my memory does not fail me (and not using MCDI), there are a number of articles by D. Bassano, including: Bassano, D. (1998a) L'?laboration du lexique pr?coce chez l'enfant fran?ais: structure et variabilit?. Enfance, No. 4, 123-153. Bassano, D. (1998b) S?mantique et syntaxe dans l'acquisition des classes de mots: l'exemple des noms et des verbes en Fran?ais. Langue Fran?aise. No. 118, 26-48. + a moree recent one in the Journal of Child Language. Isabelle Barriere Department of Cognitive Science Johns Hopkins University At 12:55 PM 8/7/2003 +0100, Annabelle David wrote: >Hello > >I am trying to find a study that would have data on the different >proportions of each lexical category (nouns, predicates, etc) at different >stage of the lexical development process and at the adult stage. I know >CDI-based studies have such results for very young children but I am looking >for data on older children and/or adults in English and French. > >Thank you . > >Annabelle David >School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences (Speech) >King George VI Bldg >University of Newcastle -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hitomi-murata at mri.biglobe.ne.jp Sat Aug 9 14:25:54 2003 From: hitomi-murata at mri.biglobe.ne.jp (Hitomi Murata) Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 23:25:54 +0900 Subject: Correction of Call for Papers for TCP 2004 Message-ID: Dear Colleague, There was an error inthe previous posting of the TCP(Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics) Call for Papers. As for No. 4, the correct one is: 4. Format the files of your abstracts (including bibliography) to A4 paper size, single-spaced, limiting the length to a maximum of 2 pages. (NOT 25 pages) We apologize for the confusion. Hitomi Murata Associate Director TCP Committee From dandjelk at f.bg.ac.yu Sun Aug 10 16:57:27 2003 From: dandjelk at f.bg.ac.yu (Darinka Andjelkovic) Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 18:57:27 +0200 Subject: digitazing VHS tapes Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, I plan to digitize my VHS video tapes on child speech and I do not know what hardware and software equipment I need, and what format should we use for this. PC Pentium 3 and 4 computers are available to us, but we are not sure about other hardware and software details: RAM, MHz, operative system, video and sound perfomances. Also what format and compression should be chosen in digitizing and so on. We made few trials in DivX MPEG 4 - 3000kb/s (for video) and DivX MP3 - 128kb/s, 48khz, mono (for sound) but had problem with synchronicity of video and sound. It happened with some tapes that asynchronicity appeared at some points, and then accumulated towards the end of the tape, so that it became so big that we cannot work with such material. Another trial was with MPEG format (I understood it was MPEG1) and asynchronicity did not apear, but while playing it happened at some points that picture would freeze for a moment or even about 10-15 seconds. Sound would go on, but the the picture would stay for a while. Also the quality of the picture was not as good as on the original tape (it may become important at some points where a child is holding or playing with small objects, or pointing to some small picture in a book and we need to know exactly what was that). I understand DVD is a kind of standard for this job, but the price of DVD disks is much higher then ordinary CD. This is an important issue in my country (especialy with a large quantitity of material), and we are trying to make it less expensive but not japardizing the quality. Is there anybody who could help? (keep in mind that I work with PC, not Mac). I would like to hear about DVD and other formats as well. Thanks in advance and warm regards, Darinka Andjelkovic dandjelk at f.bg.ac.yu Laboratory for Experimental Psychology Faculty of Philosophy University of Belgrade Cika Ljubina 18-20 11000 Belgrade Serbia and Montenegro -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From macw at cmu.edu Sun Aug 10 21:39:53 2003 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 17:39:53 -0400 Subject: digitazing VHS tapes In-Reply-To: <010101c35f65$ca9b0b00$444b5b93@z> Message-ID: Dear Darinka, I'm glad you are thinking of working with digital video for your project. I think you will find it quite interesting. Did you have a chance to take a look at the recommendations on working with digital video from the CHILDES home page. Actually, the link on the CHILDES page takes you to http://talkbank.org/dv/ where there is a full discussion of these issues. DivX MPEG4 is probably not a good option for now, because the size of MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 files is still far too big. This may change in the near future. Right now, I recommend Sorenson 3 QuickTime compression. I further recommend Macintosh OSX using iMovie3 for capture and Cleaner 6 for compression. The new Mac G5 machines would help a lot in the compression process. If you prefer Windows, I recommend Visual Studio 6. I discuss the use of both platforms on these pages. Regarding the role of DVD, you definitely do not want to produce DVD format. Instead, you want to use the new DVD disks just as big CD-ROMS. You can now purchase DVD disks for $3 each, but admittedly CD-ROM is still a bit cheaper. In any case, you only need this as a storage medium for the QuickTime files. Please also read my recommendations about archiving first to mini-DV. You can now purchase mini-DV cassettes also for $3 each. I was able to get these prices from MacWarehouse/PCWarehouse. I don't know about prices in Croatia. If you create a video database, try also to clarify with your subjects the principles regarding sharing of data. In particular, can you share transcripts, audio, and video and is any anonymization required? --Brian MacWhinney From a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk Mon Aug 11 14:45:55 2003 From: a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk (Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:45:55 +0100 Subject: anyone remember gender perception? Message-ID: >>The experiment showed two groups of parents a video of a baby moving in >>the cot. For one group the video showed the baby dressed in >>pink pyjamas. The other group saw the identical video but the colour >>of the pyjamas was blue. Each group was asked to describe the >>baby's actions. >>The pink group talked of a future ballerina, how delicate etc. and >>the blue group >>for identical actions talked of a footballer, tough etc. Does anyone recall the study? Ref please. Many thanks Annette -- ________________________________________________________________ Professor A.Karmiloff-Smith, FBA, FMedSci, MAE, C.Psychol. Head, Neurocognitive Development Unit, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, U.K. tel: 0207 905 2754 fax: 0207 242 7717 http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/ich/html/academicunits/neurocog_dev/n_d_unit.html ________________________________________________________________ From ellmcf at nus.edu.sg Tue Aug 12 05:10:35 2003 From: ellmcf at nus.edu.sg (Madalena Cruz-Ferreira) Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 13:10:35 +0800 Subject: Mandarin question forms Message-ID: Dear all, A graduate student of mine is looking for literature on stages in the acquisition of question forms in Mandarin. She has checked the chibib and the Childes Mandarin database. Could anyone help with other pointers? Please reply to me for the time being, she has just subscribed to this network but there were some problems accessing it. Thank you! Madalena ====================================== Madalena Cruz-Ferreira Dept. English Language and Literature National University of Singapore ellmcf at nus.edu.sg ====================================== From ellmcf at nus.edu.sg Thu Aug 14 11:03:29 2003 From: ellmcf at nus.edu.sg (Madalena Cruz-Ferreira) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 19:03:29 +0800 Subject: Sum: Mandarin question forms Message-ID: Dear all, Below is a summary of the responses I got from my query to info-childes. The original query is at the end. Many thanks to all who volunteered information on this! Madalena ****************** Summary: Mandarin question forms >From Twila Tardif twila at umich.edu There is an old paper on this that she might be interested in by Miao, but it is in Chinese and not easy to find: Miao, X. (1986). Youer dui yuwenci de lijie - youer huida teshu yiwenju de fazhan tedian (Preschooler's understanding of question words - Developmental characteristics of preschoolers' answers to questions). In M.S. Zhu (Ed.), Ertong yuyan fazhan yanjiu (Research in children's language development), pp. 126-134. Shanghai, China: East China Normal University Publishing House. [Twila also mentioned Erbaugh's 1992 chapter, below.] >From Tom Roeper roeper at linguist.umass.edu We have done a lot of work in a broad series of papers on the acquisition of questions and barriers. The most recent dissertations are from Bart Hollebrandse--Groningen-- Lamya Abdulkarim-- lamya at comdis.umass.edu and D'jaris Coles at Wayne University. Bart's paper is in the most recent BU proceedings from which one can get other refs. >From Mary Erbaugh erbaugh at transit212.com Questions generally are not problematic for pre-school Mandarin speakers. (There are a few problems with Verb-Not-Verb forms, and with the final particle questions (because the particles have so many competing meanings). I discuss acquisition of questions in: Mary S. Erbaugh. 1992. 'The acquisition of Mandarin'. In Dan Isaac Slobin, ed. The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquistion, Volume 3. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers. Pp. 373-455. See section 5.3.2, and also sections 8 and 14. Acquisition of questions is discussed at greater length in my dissertation, available from University Microfilms in hard copy or microfilm www.umi.com. (It is available in digital form also, to libraries.) It is dissertation #8300490. Mary S. Erbaugh. Coming to Order: Natural Selection and the Origins of Syntax in the Mandarin-speaking Child. PhD dissertation in linguistics, University of California, Berkeley. 1982. A very comprehensive Chinese language description of early acquistion is: Li Yuming. 1995. Ertong yuyan de fazhan (Child language acquistion). Wuchang: Huazhong shifan daxue chuban she. He discusses acquisition of questions on pp. 223-234. [Mary also mentioned Miao (1986), above.] There is some English language information in Joseph H. Hsu. 1996. A Study of the Stages of Develpment and Acquisition fo Mandarin Chinese by Children in Taiwan. Taipei: The Crane Publishing Company. Prof. Hsu is at Fu Jen (pinyin: Furen) University in Taipei. Also, of course, Anna Kwan-Terry's article on children's acquisition of particles includes some information on question particle acquisition. Anna Kwan-Terry. 1991. Through the Looking Glass: A child's use of particles in Chinese and English and its implications for language transfer. In Anna Kwan-Terry, ed. Child language development in Singapore and Malaysia. Singapore: Singapore University Press. Beijing Normal University is conducting very broad testing of stages of normal language acquisition, developing screening tests in collaboration with Dr. Ping LI at University of Hong Kong. >From Liang Chen brighterchen at yahoo.com chen at louisiana.edu I would recommend the following paper by Thomas Lee. Thomas H.-T. Lee. 1996. "Theoretical issues in language development and Chinese child language" in James C-T Huang and Audrey Li (eds.) New Horizons in Chinese Linguistics. Dordrecht: Kluwer, pp. 293-356. It is an extensive review of acquisitional studies of various aspects of Chinese. As far as I know, he himself did some research on acquisition of Cantonese wh-questions, and he maintains a database of Child Cantonese. Dr. Lee's homepage is http://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/~linglab/linguists/lee.html ****************************** ====================================== Madalena Cruz-Ferreira Dept. English Language and Literature National University of Singapore ellmcf at nus.edu.sg ====================================== > -----Original Message----- > From: Madalena Cruz-Ferreira > Sent: Tuesday, 12 August, 2003 1:11 PM > To: info-childes at mail.talkbank.org > Subject: Mandarin question forms > > > Dear all, > > A graduate student of mine is looking for literature on > stages in the acquisition of question forms in Mandarin. > She has checked the chibib and the Childes Mandarin database. > Could anyone help with other pointers? > Please reply to me for the time being, she has just > subscribed to this network but there were some problems accessing it. > Thank you! > > Madalena > > ====================================== > Madalena Cruz-Ferreira > Dept. English Language and Literature > National University of Singapore > ellmcf at nus.edu.sg > ====================================== From m.vihman at bangor.ac.uk Tue Aug 19 13:35:29 2003 From: m.vihman at bangor.ac.uk (Marilyn Vihman) Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 14:35:29 +0100 Subject: Research Officer position Message-ID: dear colleagues: Please find below the details of a position in our laboratory. We are looking for a psycholinguist (with PhD, or very close to it) to run a project involving word form recognition at age 9-12 mos, involving both head turn and ERP experiments in parallel, with both English and Welsh infants (knowledge of Welsh is not required, however). Preferred starting date: January 2004. Although the opening is a two-year position, it would be possible to extend it for a longer period, subject to funding. Please write to me directly for further information, or to Personnel for application forms (address below). The closing date for applications is Sept. 5, 2003. marilyn vihman Applications are invited for a full time Postdoctoral Research Officer to work on an ESRC funded project currently underway at the School of Psychology, University of Wales Bangor (Professor Marilyn Vihman and Dr. Guillaume Thierry). The objective of this project is to combine behavioural and Event Related Potential (ERP) techniques to study the onset of word form recognition. The successful applicant should have a PhD in Linguistics or Psychology, preferably in the field of Child Language Development. Though not essential, some previous experience with packages for the design and analysis of experiments (e.g., E-prime, Excel, SPSS) would be an advantage. The post will involve programming auditory experiments using E-prime, recruiting infant participants, including liaison and collaboration with the local health authority, supervising the conduct of behavioural and ERP experiments, analysing collected data and writing up research findings. The position is available for 2 years, from the 1st of January 2004 until the 31st of December 2005. Application forms and further particulars should be obtained by contacting Human Resources, University of Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2DG; tel: (01248) 382926/388132; e-mail: personnel at bangor.ac.uk Salary: ?18,265 - ?20,311 (on R&A Grade 1A) p.a. Please quote reference number 03-3/2 when applying. -- ------------------------------------------------------- Marilyn M. Vihman | Professor, Developmental Psychology | /\ School of Psychology | / \/\ University of Wales, Bangor | /\/ \ \ The Brigantia Building | / \ \ Penrallt Road |/ =======\=\ Gwynedd LL57 2AS | tel. 44 (0)1248 383 775 | B A N G O R FAX 382 599 | -------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From macw at cmu.edu Fri Aug 22 23:27:11 2003 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 19:27:11 -0400 Subject: New audio-linked data set Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, I am happy to announce the addition to CHILDES of a fourth child in the Yip-Matthews Hong Kong corpus of Cantonese-English bilingual children. The three children previously included were Timmy, Sophie, and Kathryn. The new child is Llywelyn. Half of the files involve primarily English conversations and half primarily Cantonese conversations. One very important feature of this new corpus is the fact that all of the utterances are fully linked to good quality MP3 files that can also be downloaded from the web. The MP3 files and transcripts can be found in http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/data/media/audlinked/ This new corpus is now the third large audio-linked corpora in the database (MacWhinney and MiyataTai are the other two). The full set of transcripts for the YipMatthews Hong Kong corpus without audio can be found at http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/data/biling/ Thanks to Virginia Yip, Stephen Matthews, Huang Yue-Yuan, Uta Lam, and their colleagues in Hong Kong for this important addition to CHILDES. --Brian MacWhinney From clhudson at socrates.Berkeley.EDU Wed Aug 27 01:00:55 2003 From: clhudson at socrates.Berkeley.EDU (Carla L. Hudson) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 18:00:55 -0700 Subject: babbling sound files Message-ID: I am currently trying to put together some demos for my undergraduate language acquisition class. One of the 'experiments' I wanted to run with the students was to play them examples of babbling from children from different language environments (like de Boysson-Bardies, Sagart & Durand, 1984) and have them guess the language environment of the child. To this end, I am looking for sound files containing such examples and was wondering if anyone knows of any that might be available (on-line?). Thank you, Carla Hudson Carla L. Hudson Assistant Professor of Psychology University of California, Berkeley clhudson at socrates.berkeley.edu