From tomasello at eva.mpg.de Tue Feb 1 11:30:25 2005 From: tomasello at eva.mpg.de (Michael Tomasello) Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 12:30:25 +0100 Subject: IASCL Nominations Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hitomi-murata at mri.biglobe.ne.jp Thu Feb 3 02:56:47 2005 From: hitomi-murata at mri.biglobe.ne.jp (Hitomi Murata) Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 11:56:47 +0900 Subject: The 6thTokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics (TCP 2005) Message-ID: Dear Colleague, The Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies at Keio University will be sponsoring the sixth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics (TCP2005) on March 18 and 19, 2005. The invited speakers are Prof. Ken Wexler (MIT) and Prof. Masatoshi Koizumi (Tohoku University). Below you fill find the conference program. For details, visit our web site: http://www.otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp/tcp/ -------------------------------------------------------- < Program > Day 1 (March 18, 2005) 10:00-10:10 Opening Yukio Otsu (keio University) 10:10-10:40 (Short Presentation) "Double-Gapped Relative Clauses in Chinese: Grammar and Processing" Xuenin Cao (Macau Polytechnique Institute) Helen Goodluck (University of York) Shan Xing Yuan (Harbin University of Science and Technology) Chair: Koji Sugisaki (Mie University) 10:45-11:15 (Short Presentation) "Bilingual Lexical Processing : Contrastive Polysemies" Somsukla Banerjee, Achla M. Raina and Harish Karnick (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur) Chair: Koji Sugisaki (Mie University) 11:20-11:50(Short Presentation) "Evidence for Parsing Universals from Turkish and Japanese" Sandiway Fong (University of Arizona) Chair: Koji Sugisaki (Mie University) Lunch 13:30-14:15 (Long Presentation) "Remarks on the Scope of Nominative Objects in Japanese" Masashi Nomura (University of Connecticut) Chair: Hisatsugu Kitahara (Keio University) 14:20-15:05 (Long Presentation) "N’-Ellipsis Reconsidered" Makoto Kadowaki (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Chair: Hisatsugu Kitahara (Keio University) Break 15:20-16:05 (Long Presentation) "Interpretation of Pronouns in VP-Ellipsis Constructions in Dutch Broca's and Wernicke's Aphasia" Nada Vasic, Sergey Avrutin and Esther Ruigendijk (Uil OTS, Utrecht University) Chair: Yukio Otsu (Keio University) 16:10-16:55 (Long Presentation) "Cognitive Processes Involved in Parsing Japanese Ditransitives: an Evenｔ-Related Potential Study" Ayumi Koso, Hiroko Hagiwara and Takahiro Soshi (Tokyo Metropolitan University) Chair: Yukio Otsu (Keio University) 17:05-18:05 Invited Lecture "Syntactic Structure of Ditransitive Constructions in Japanese: Behavioral and Imaging Studies" Masatoshi Koizumi (Tohoku University) Chair: Yukio Otsu (Keio University) Reception Day 2 (March 19, 2005) 10:00-10:30 (Short Presentation) "Examining Perceptual Distance in Phonological Vowel Reduction" Dylan Herrick (Mie University) Chair: Takeru Honma (Tokyo Metropolitan University) 10:35:11:05 (Short Presentation) "Speech Segmentation at the Lexical Level" Yukiko Asano　 (SUNY at Stony Brook) Chair: Takeru Honma (Tokyo Metropolitan University) 11:10-11:55 (Long Presentation) "L2 Poverty of the Stimulus at the Syntax-Semantics Interface: Quantifier Scope in Non-Native Japanese" Heather Marsden (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne) Chair: Makiko Hirakawa (Tokyo International University) Lunch 13:30-14:00 (Short Presentation) "Exclamatives as Comparatives: Evidence from English and Japanese" Toshiko Oda (Tokyo Keizai University) Chair: Akira Watanabe (University of Tokyo) 14:05:14:35 (Short Presentation) "Japanese Sluicing as a Specificational Pseudo-Cleft" Chizuru Nakao and Masaya Yoshida (University of Maryland, College Park) Chair: Akira Watanabe (University of Tokyo) 14:40-15:10 (Short Presentation) "'One'" Issue in Acquisition" Koji Sugisaki　(Mie University) Chair: Tetsuya Sano (Meiji Gakuin University) Break 15:25-16:10 (Long Presentation) "Interpretation of Focus in Chinese: Child vs. Adult Language" Chunyuan Jing and Stephan Crain (University of Maryland, College Park) Ching-Fen Hsu (National Yang-Ming University) Chair: Tetsuya Sano (Meiji Gakuin University) 16:15-17:00 (Long Presentation) "Constraints on Reference in Discourse Fragments" Anastasia Conroy and Rosalind Thornton (University of Maryland, College Park) Chair: Tetsuya Sano (Meiji Gakuin University) 17:10-18:10 Invited Lecture "The Universal Phase Requirement: A Replacement for the A-Chain Deficit Hypothesis" Ken Wexler (MIT) Chair: Koji Sugisaki (Mie University) -------------------------------------------------------- From tomoko at midway.uchicago.edu Thu Feb 3 22:07:27 2005 From: tomoko at midway.uchicago.edu (Tomoko Asano) Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 16:07:27 -0600 Subject: How to post message (fwd) Message-ID: Hello all, I am trying to get in touch with Dr. Linda Cote-Reilly, who was/is a developmental psycholgy researcher at NICHD. If any of you knows her email address or any other information, could you let me know? I worked as a transcriber for one of her projects at NICHD, looking at Japanese/English bilingual mother-infant interactions, in the spring of 2000. I'd like to ask her about the progress of the project, but Dr. Cote and I haven't been in touch for about 2 years and her old email addresses (cotel at cfr.nichd.nih.gov; lrcote-reilly at home.com; lrcote-reilly at adelphia.net; LRCote-Reilly at cox.net) do not work anymore. I would appreciate any contact information you could give me of Dr. Cote. Thank you. Tomoko Asano Goldin-Meadow Lab University of Chicago tomoko at uchicago.edu From Tania.Zamuner at mpi.nl Fri Feb 4 13:51:58 2005 From: Tania.Zamuner at mpi.nl (Tania Zamuner) Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 14:51:58 +0100 Subject: role of repetition in word familiarity In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, I posted a query a while back asking about research looking at whether word repetition plays a role in word familarity (specifically in first language acquisition). Below is a summary of the literature suggestions we received. I've limited the summary to available research. Many people rightfully pointed out the ambiguity of the terms 'repetition' and 'familiarity'. To clarify the question, we are specifically interested in the role of children's own repetition of a word form and how this might contribute to word familarity. If this clarification triggers any further suggestions, please let me know. Thank you for your help. Tania Zamuner ******************** Research showing a correlation between parental input frequency and age of acquisition for words on the MacArthur CDI. Philip Dale & Judith Goodman, Commonality and individual differences in vocabulary growth. In M. Tomasello & D.I. Slobin (Eds,), Beyond nature-nurture: Essays in honor of Elizabeth Bates. Mahwah NJ: Erlbaum, 41-78. ERP paper that examines both familiarity and repetition in a word learning task with 20-month old infants. Mills, Plunkett, Prat & Schafer (in press). Watching the infant brain learn words: effects of vocabulary size and experience. Cognitive Development. Work looking at the function of repetition in young children's word acquisition. Eve V. Clark. (2003). First Language Acquisition. Michelle M. Chouinard & Eve V. Clark. (2003). Adult reformulations of child errors as negative evidence. 30: 637-669. Repetition and word acquisition. Childers, J. B. & Tomasello, M. (2002). Two-year-olds learn novel nouns, verbs, and conventional actions from massed or spaced exposures. Developmental Psychology, 38, 967-978. ****************** Philip Dale Debbie Mills Ray Weitzman Eve Clark Lisa Goffman Dan Swingley Annette Fox From mariateresa.guasti at unimib.it Sun Feb 6 17:29:26 2005 From: mariateresa.guasti at unimib.it (Maria Teresa Guasti) Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 18:29:26 +0100 Subject: No subject Message-ID: Hi, does anyone have the email of Natasha Mueller? thank and best Teresa From dcavar at indiana.edu Sun Feb 6 19:11:02 2005 From: dcavar at indiana.edu (=?UTF-8?Q?Damir_=C4=86avar?=) Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 14:11:02 -0500 Subject: Call for papers: Computational Modeling of Lexical Acquisition - Split, Croatia Message-ID: Call for Papers Workshop on Computational Modeling of Lexical Acquisition - The Split Meeting - http://www.ohz.unist.hr/cpala/ Time: 25.-28. July 2005 Location: University of Split, Croatia The Croatian Language Technologies Society (CLTS) and the University of Split are pleased to sponsor the inaugural meeting of the Workshop on Computational Linguistics held in Split, Croatia, focusing on the topic of "Computational Modeling of Lexical Acquisition". We will build on the topics in formal-theoretical and computational linguistics, in particular on issues in learnability, complexity and modeling of lexical knowledge. This workshop is especially intended to provide a forum for the presentation of unique and original research on computational linguistic topics in the domain of learning of lexical properties, i.e. lexical acquisition, including but not limited to the following topics: a. machine learning methods for lexical acquisition - speech and language segmentation into lexical units - induction and learning of phonological and morphological structure - inducing formal grammars from discovered structural properties - learning lexical semantic properties and lexical disambiguation - computational models of psycholinguistic aspects of lexical acquisition b. corpora, evaluation and applications - induction of part-of-speech information for tagging and automatic annotation (via e.g. clustering and classification, using Vector Space Modeling or other strategies) - corpora for learning phonological and morphological regularities and a common gold standard - applications using machine learning and automatic lexical acquisition (e.g. tagger, ontologies, textmining) - evaluation strategies and methods for learning approaches This workshop will expand into a fixed annual event organized by the Croatian Language Technologies Society (CLTS) to be hosted, in turn, and shared among all interested and committed Croatian Universities. Time: 25.-28. July 2005 Location: University of Split, Croatia Abstract Deadline: 15th of March, 2005 Acceptance Information: 1st of April, 2005 Draft paper submission deadline: 1st of June 2005 Final paper submission deadline: 1st of August 2005 Registration and accommodation: We will provide limited space for participants in the University guest house, the hotel Spinut in Split. Early registration is required to reserve the space. The price for a room per night can be in the range of 150-250 Croatian Kuna (approx. 25-35 EURO, $ 30-40 US). For accommodation reservation please contact the organizing committee asap, at: cpala at ohz.unist.hr Detailed instructions on abstract submission and registration can be found on the following web page: http://www.ohz.unist.hr/cpala/ Organizing Committee: Bozo Bekavac, Uni. of Zagreb Dunja Brozovic-Roncevic, IHJJ Zagreb Damir Cavar, Indiana Uni. Malgorzata Cavar, Indiana Uni. Morten Christiansen, Cornell Uni. Zdravko Dovedan, Uni. of Zagreb Hans-Martin Gaertner, ZAS, Berlin John Goldsmith, Chicago Uni. Thomas Hanneforth, Uni. of Potsdam Joshua Herring, Indiana Uni. Toshikazu Ikuta, Indiana Uni. Gerhard Jaeger, Uni. of Bielefeld Ivo-Pavao Jazbec, Uni. of Zagreb Bryan Jurish, Potsdam Uni. Marcus Kracht, UCLA Hagen Langer, Uni. of Bremen Roland Meyer, Uni. of Regensburg Jens Michaelis, Uni. of Potsdam Adam Przepiorkowski, Polish Academy of Science Paul Rodrigues, Indiana Uni. William G. Sakas, CUNY Giancarlo Schrementi, Indiana Uni. Tomislav Stojanov, Uni. of Zagreb Marko Tadic, Uni. of Zagreb Kristina Vuckovic, Uni. of Zagreb Menno van Zaanen, Macquarie Uni. Alexander Geyken, BBAW Sponsoring Institutions: University of Split Hrvatsko Drustvo za Jezicne Tehnologije (Croatian Language Technologies Society (CLTS)) Institut za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, Zagreb From elizabeth.lanza at ilf.uio.no Sun Feb 6 23:00:10 2005 From: elizabeth.lanza at ilf.uio.no (Elizabeth Lanza) Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 00:00:10 +0100 Subject: Auto: I'm away from my mail (was: info-childes Digest - 02/06/05 ) Message-ID: Dear This is an automatic reply. Feel free to send additional mail, as only this one notice will be generated. The following is a prerecorded message, sent for elizabeth.lanza at ilf.uio.no: ==================================================== Jeg er bortreist og er tilbake på Blindern 18. februar. I am away from my office until February 18th. From DaleP at health.missouri.edu Mon Feb 7 15:58:44 2005 From: DaleP at health.missouri.edu (Dale, Philip S.) Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:58:44 -0600 Subject: CDIs for children with language impairment Message-ID: Dear colleagues, I'm looking for projects that might have MacArthur CDIs (either CDI:WG or CDI:WS, but must be the longform) on children who either at the time or later are classified as having some kind of language-related disability, such as SLI, NSLI, learning disability, or reading disability (not other defined syndromes such as Down Syndrome, Fragile X, Williams Syndrome, etc.). This is for a research project I'm proposing on distinctive profiles of language development associated with these disabilities. If you have such a dataset, and would be interested in participating in this project, please let me know. Thank you. Philip Dale From DaleP at health.missouri.edu Mon Feb 7 16:27:20 2005 From: DaleP at health.missouri.edu (Dale, Philip S.) Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 10:27:20 -0600 Subject: PS RE CDIs for children with language impairment Message-ID: I forgot to mention that Spanish-language CDIs (the IDHC) would also be welcome ... Philip Dale From mbecker at email.unc.edu Wed Feb 9 15:24:14 2005 From: mbecker at email.unc.edu (Misha Becker) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 10:24:14 -0500 Subject: Final call for papers Message-ID: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS The journal Language Acquisition invites submissions for a special issue on theoretical approaches to Aspect and (Non)Finiteness in L1 or L2 grammar. If you are interested, please submit an abstract of 2-3 pages summarizing the research and analysis. We anticipate that between 5 and 10 authors will be invited to submit a paper for inclusion in the special issue. All papers will undergo a full review. Abstract specifications: 2-3 pages, single-spaced, including examples submit in *pdf* format only by e-mail to mbecker at email.unc.edu or in hard copy by mail to Misha Becker Linguistics Department 318 Dey Hall, CB#3155 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3155 USA Deadline for abstracts: February 15, 2005 Authors will be notified by March 15, 2005 Selected papers will be due on July 30, 2005 For questions please contact: mbecker at email.unc.edu From rchumak at ryerson.ca Wed Feb 9 16:46:34 2005 From: rchumak at ryerson.ca (Roma Chumak-Horbatsch) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 11:46:34 -0500 Subject: picture study research Message-ID: I am looking for studies which used pictures (with familiar, humorous, action-filled content) to elicit oral language from children. Thank you in advance for suggestions. Roma Roma Chumak-Horbatsch PhD School of Early Childhood Education Ryerson University 350 Victoria Street Toronto, Ontario M5B 2K3 CANADA From mazzocco at kennedykrieger.org Fri Feb 11 15:40:55 2005 From: mazzocco at kennedykrieger.org (Michele Mazzocco) Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 10:40:55 -0500 Subject: Maryland - Postdoc / Research Assistant Positions in Learning Disabilities Message-ID: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Learning disabilities/math skills Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Child Development needed to participate in ongoing, NICHD-funded longitudinal research on cognitive and genetic correlates of math ability / math disability. The fellow would join the P.I., a current Postdoctoral Fellow, and a small research team to contribute to one or more of the following: 1) an ongoing study of cognitive phenotypes in school age children with fragile X or Turner syndrome; 2) a normative study of math ability and cognitive correlates; and/or 3) a prospective longitudinal study of math learning disability. The fellow would have opportunities to work directly with children, and will have many opportunities for manuscript preparation and involvement with grant application processes. Minimal travel may occur for data collection or conference presentation. The position begins in 2005, for one to two years. Start date is flexible, but would be no later than August 2005 (earlier is preferred). The candidate must have a Ph.D. in Psychology or a related area, training in child development, interest in school age children, working knowledge of statistical analyses, documented writing ability, and strong research interests. To apply, please send cover letter, curriculum vitae, the names of three references from whom letters may be requested if needed, and sample reprints/preprints if applicable to: Dr. Mazzocco, MSDP, 3825 Greenspring Ave., Painter Building Top Floor; Baltimore, MD. 21211. Email Address mazzocco at kennedykrieger.org Email inquiries welcome. Hard copies of reprints and letters are preferred, but all other materials may be submitted electronically. To arrange an informal interview during the SRCD meeting, please contact Dr. Mazzocco prior to April 4. Research Assistant position will also be available beginning in or soon after May 2005. The Research Coordinator will be involved in coordinating ongoing research efforts, data collection, data scoring, and date entry, with possible involvement in manuscript preparation. Data collection will involve assessments with middle school children in school settings, and both in state and out of state assessments of children, ages five to thirteen years, with fragile X or Turner syndrome. We seek a dedicated, detail oriented individual who enjoys working with children and families, and who is interested in contributing to research on mathematics learning disability. Bachelor's Degree in psychology or related field is required. Experience with data sets (excel, access) and statistics (SPSS) is desirable, but not required. For more information about this position, please contact Dr. Mazzocco at mazzocco at kennedykrieger.org Email inquiries welcome. EOE Michele M. M. Mazzocco, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Psychiatry Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Principal Investigator, Math Skills Development Project Kennedy Krieger West Campus 3825 Greenspring Avenue, Painter Bldg Top Floor Baltimore, Maryland 21211 443-923-4125 tel 443-923-4130 fax mazzocco at kennedykrieger.org From chammelrath at wanadoo.fr Mon Feb 14 08:45:50 2005 From: chammelrath at wanadoo.fr (chammelrath) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:45:50 +0100 Subject: hammelrath Message-ID: after recording in the clan and analysis is it possible to transfer result in excel ? I have 256 file in the clan. is it possible to have an analysis of the more frequently words of all files ? what is the command ? is there a place where I could find all the commands for my analysis Thanks Claudine Hammelrath -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk Thu Feb 17 14:32:07 2005 From: a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk (Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith) Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:32:07 +0000 Subject: Relationship between eating and sleep? Message-ID: Does anyone know of any studies that looked at the relationship between sleep and eating habits? In other words, is it known whether a child who sleeps poorly also eats poorly? Many thanks in anticipation of any leads. Annette -- ________________________________________________________________ Professor A.Karmiloff-Smith, CBE, FBA, FMedSci, Head, Neurocognitive Development Unit, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, U.K. tel: 0207 905 2754 fax: 0207 242 7717 sec: 0207 905 2334 http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/ich/html/academicunits/neurocog_dev/n_d_unit.html From hwafroda at slu.edu Thu Feb 17 16:16:37 2005 From: hwafroda at slu.edu (Deborah Hwa-Froelich, Ph.D.) Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 10:16:37 -0600 Subject: Relationship between eating and sleep? Message-ID: Annette, Although I know of no studies, I do know that when working with a set of twins with growth retardation, their pediatrician recommended meds to help them sleep because sleep is associated with growth. I would be interested in what you find. Please share! Thanks and good luck! Deb Hwa-Froelich Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith wrote: > Does anyone know of any studies that looked at the relationship > between sleep and eating habits? In other words, is it known whether > a child who sleeps poorly also eats poorly? > Many thanks in anticipation of any leads. > Annette > > -- > > ________________________________________________________________ > Professor A.Karmiloff-Smith, CBE, FBA, FMedSci, > Head, Neurocognitive Development Unit, > Institute of Child Health, > 30 Guilford Street, > London WC1N 1EH, U.K. > tel: 0207 905 2754 > fax: 0207 242 7717 > sec: 0207 905 2334 > http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/ich/html/academicunits/neurocog_dev/n_d_unit.html From jr111 at hermes.cam.ac.uk Tue Feb 22 15:46:40 2005 From: jr111 at hermes.cam.ac.uk (James Russell) Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:46:40 +0000 Subject: responses to mislabelling Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, I vaguely recall there being research into young children's reactions when adults deliberately mislabel objects -- such as calling a cat a canary. Can anyone enlighten me? Jim Russell Cambridge, UK From dkelemen at bu.edu Tue Feb 22 16:11:32 2005 From: dkelemen at bu.edu (Deborah Kelemen) Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:11:32 -0500 Subject: responses to mislabelling In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Jim, There is a really lovely paper by Melissa Koenig, Fabrice Clément, and Paul Harris on this in a recent Psych Science (Vol 15(10), Oct 2004. pp. 694-698). Abstract follows. I hope this helps. Best, Deb Abstract: The extent to which young children monitor and use the truth of assertions to gauge the reliability of subsequent testimony was examined. Three- and 4-year-old children were presented with two informants, an accurate labeler and an inaccurate labeler. They were then invited to learn names for novel objects from these informants. The children correctly monitored and identified the informants on the basis of the truth of their prior labeling. Furthermore, children who explicitly identified the unreliable or reliable informant across two tasks went on to demonstrate selective trust in the novel information provided by the previously reliable informant. Children who did not consistently identify the unreliable or reliable informant proved indiscriminate. At 3:46 PM +0000 2/22/05, James Russell wrote: >Dear Colleagues, > >I vaguely recall there being research into young >children's reactions when adults deliberately >mislabel objects -- such as calling a cat a >canary. Can anyone enlighten me? > >Jim Russell >Cambridge, UK -- Deborah Kelemen, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Boston University Department of Psychology 64 Cummington Street Boston MA 02215 Email: dkelemen at bu.edu Office Phone: (617) 353-2758 Child Cognition Lab Phone: (617) 358-1738 Fax: (617) 353-6933 URL: http://www.bu.edu/childcognition -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From genesee at ego.psych.mcgill.ca Wed Feb 23 15:10:13 2005 From: genesee at ego.psych.mcgill.ca (Fred Genesee) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:10:13 -0500 Subject: responses to mislabelling In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Jim: there is a long history of "mislabelling" objects to examine differences in bilingual and monolingual children's awareness of the arbitrariness of names for objects -- sometimes referred to as the "sun-moon" task. A review of this material is included in Colin Baker's book Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. 3rd edition. (Multilingual Matters). Fred Genesee At 03:46 PM 22/02/2005 +0000, James Russell wrote: >Dear Colleagues, > >I vaguely recall there being research into young children's reactions >when adults deliberately mislabel objects -- such as calling a cat a >canary. Can anyone enlighten me? > >Jim Russell >Cambridge, UK > Department of Psychology Phone: 514-398-6022 McGill University Fax: 514-398-4896 1205 Docteur Penfield Ave. Montreal QC Canada H3A 1B1 From amykhasky at hotmail.com Fri Feb 25 09:27:03 2005 From: amykhasky at hotmail.com (amy khasky) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:27:03 +0000 Subject: RDLS III -interpretation of scores Message-ID: Hello, I can't find my scoring manual for the RDLS and was hoping that someone could tell me what the normal range of scores is for the comprehension scale for children aged 28-36 months. Thank you in advance for any help amy khasky University of London, Royal Holloway From Aris.Xanthos at unil.ch Fri Feb 25 22:33:39 2005 From: Aris.Xanthos at unil.ch (Aris Xanthos) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 23:33:39 +0100 Subject: Call for papers: Psychocomputational Models of Human Language Acquisition Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple postings] *** Call for Papers *** Psychocomputational Models of Human Language Acquisition Workshop at ACL 2005 29-30 June 2005 at University of Michigan Ann Arbor **** Submission Deadline: 4 April 2005 **** http://www.colag.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/psychocomp Workshop Topic -------------- The workshop, which is a follow-up to the successful workshop held at COLING in 2004, will be devoted to psychologically motivated computational models of language acquisition -- models that are compatible with, or motivated by research in psycholinguistics, developmental psychology with particular emphasis on the acquisition of syntax, though work on the acquisition of morphology, phonology and other levels of linguistic description is also welcome. The workshop will be taking place at the same time as CoNLL-2005 (http://cnts.uia.ac.be/conll/cfp.html) and if there is sufficient interest there will be a plenary session for papers that are relevant to both audiences. Invited Talks ------------- Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh Brian MacWhinney, Carnegie Mellon University Workshop Description and Motivation ----------------------------------- In recent decades there has been a great deal of successful research that applies computational learning techniques to emerging natural language technologies, along with many meetings, conferences and workshops in which to present such research. These have generally been motivated primarily by engineering concerns. There have been only a few venues in which computational models of human (first) language acquisition are the focus. In the light of recent results in developmental psychology, indicating that very young infants are capable of detecting statistical patterns in an audible input stream, statistically motivated approaches have gained in plausibility. However, this raises the question of whether or not a psychologically credible statistical learning strategy can be successfully exploited in a full-blown psychocomputational acquisition model, and the extent to which such algorithms must use domain-specific knowledge. The principal goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers who work within computational linguistics, formal learning theory, grammatical inference, machine learning, artificial intelligence, linguistics, psycholinguistics and other fields, who have created or are investigating computational models of language acquisition. In particular, it will provide a forum for establishing links and common themes between diverse paradigms. Although research which directly addresses the acquisition of syntax is strongly encouraged, related studies that inform research on the acquisition of other areas of language are also welcome. Papers are invited on, but not limited to, the following topics: * Models that employ statistical/probabilistic grammars; * Formal learning theoretic and grammar induction models that incorporate psychologically plausible constraints; * Models that employ language models from corpus linguistics; * Models that address the question of learning bias in terms of innate linguistic knowledge versus domain general strategies * Models that can acquire natural language word-order; * Hybrid models that cross established paradigms; * Models that directly make use of or can be used to evaluate existing linguistic or developmental theories in a computational framework (e.g. the principles & parameters framework, Optimality Theory, or Construction Grammar); * Models that combine parsing and learning; * Models that have a cross-linguistic or bilingual perspective; * Empirical models that make use of child-directed corpora; * Comparative surveys, across multiple paradigms, that critique previously published studies; Paper Length: Submissions should be no longer than 8 pages (A4 or the equivalent). High-quality short papers or extended abstracts of 4 to 5 pages are encouraged. Submission and format details are below. Important Dates --------------- Please note that the turnaround time for accepted papers is quite short. Deadline for main session paper submission: April 4, 2005 Notification of acceptance: May 5, 2005 Deadline for camera-ready papers: May 17, 2005 Conference: June 29-30, 2005 Workshop Organizers ------------------- * William Gregory Sakas (Chair), City University of New York, USA (sakas at hunter.cuny.edu) * Alexander Clark, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK (alexc at cs.rhul.ac.uk) * James Cussens, University of York, UK (jc at cs.york.ac.uk) * Aris Xanthos, University of Lausanne, Switzerland (aris.xanthos at unil.ch) Program Committee ----------------- * Robert Berwick, MIT, USA * Antal van den Bosch, Tilburg University, The Netherlands * Ted Briscoe, University of Cambridge, UK * Damir Cavar, Indiana University, USA * Nick Chater, University of Warwick, UK * Stephen Clark, University of Edinburgh, UK * Walter Daelemanns, University of Antwerp, Belgium and Tilburg University, The Netherlands * Elan Dresher, University of Toronto, Canada * Jeff Elman, University of California, San Diego, USA * Jerry Feldman, University of California, Berkeley, USA * John Goldsmith, University of Chicago, USA * John Hale, University of Michigan, USA * Mark Johnson, Brown University, USA * Vincenzo Lombardo, Universita di Torino, Italy * Paola Merlo, University of Geneva, Switzerland * Sandeep Prasada, City University of New York, USA * Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA * Jenny Saffran, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA * Ivan Sag, Stanford University, USA * Ed Stabler, University of California, Los Angeles, USA * Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh, UK * Suzanne Stevenson, University of Toronto, Canada * Patrick Sturt, University of Glasgow, UK * Charles Yang, Yale University, USA Paper Submission ---------------- Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references. We strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word Style files tailored for this year's conference. They are available at http://www.aclweb.org/acl2005/styles/. High-quality short papers or extended abstracts of 4 to 5 pages are encouraged. Electronic Submission: All submissions will be by email. Reviews will be blind, so be careful not to disclose authorship or affiliation. PDF submissions are preferred and will be required for the final camera-ready copy. Submissions should be sent as an attachment to: psycho.comp at hunter.cuny.edu. The subject line must contain the single word: Submission. Please be sure to include accurate contact information in the body of the email. Workshop contact: ----------------- email: psycho.comp at hunter.cuny.edu web: http://www.colag.cs.cuny.edu/psychocomp or William Gregory Sakas Department of Computer Science, North 1008 Hunter College, City University of New York 695 Park Avenue New York, NY 10021 USA 1 (212) 772.5211 - voice 1 (212) 772.5219 - fax sakas at hunter.cuny.edu From DaleP at health.missouri.edu Mon Feb 28 18:10:35 2005 From: DaleP at health.missouri.edu (Dale, Philip S.) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:10:35 -0600 Subject: Adaptations of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories Message-ID: > The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (CDI) Board is gratified by the research and clinical usefulness of the CDI instruments, and welcomes their adaptation into as many of the world> '> s languages as possible (see http://www.sci.sdsu.edu/cdi/ for a current list). It is important that adaptations of the CDI adhere to shared standards and procedures that make them genuinely comparable to the original and thus insure some degree of coherence and consistency across versions. Furthermore, given the extensive work required to develop an adequate adaptation, it is important that appropriate academic and other resources be available for the project, and that duplication be avoided. For these reasons, the CDI Board has followed a policy of authorizing specific adaptations of the CDI. We have recently updated this policy, and a copy is pasted below. Please note the changes with respect to point #2, review and authorization of the term "MacArthur-Bates CDI" or an equivalent phrase, and point #3, issues that arise when an adaptation is to be commercially published. Also note that these changes are not intended to be retrospective; they will apply only to adaptations in progress or developed in the future. Finally, note that I will be the contact person for the CDI Board with respect to adaptations. > Thank you. > > Philip S. Dale, Professor and Chair > Communication Science and Disorders > 303 Lewis Hall > University of Missouri-Columbia > Columbia, MO 65211 > tel: 573-882-1934 > fax: 573-884-8686 > email: dalep at health.missouri.edu > =========================================================================================================== Guidelines for Authorized Adaptations of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories February, 2005 The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (CDI) Board is gratified by the research and clinical usefulness of the CDI instruments, and welcomes their adaptation into as many of the world's languages as possible. However, it is important that adaptations of the CDI adhere to shared standards and procedures that make them genuinely comparable to the original and thus insure some degree of coherence and consistency across versions. Furthermore, given the extensive work required to develop an adequate adaptation, it is important that appropriate academic and other resources be available for the project, and that duplication be avoided. For these reasons, the CDI Board authorizes specific adaptations of the CDI, using the following guidelines: A. The research team should have appropriate competence and resources for generating a successful adaptation, including norming and validation. We encourage collaboration among researchers in these projects. B. The proposed adaptation should contain the major structure categories that are in the original. Specifically, adaptations of the CDI:Words & Gestures should assess receptive and expressive vocabulary and gestures. Adaptations of the CDI:Words & Sentences should assess expressive vocabulary and grammar, the latter in a format appropriate to the structure of the language. Other components of the CDIs are optional, as are added components not in the English CDIs. C. Adaptations should provide unique content above and beyond previously authorized CDIs. Note that CDI versions covering a closely related language or an additional dialect can meet this criterion. For example, we have authorized adaptations for Mandarin and Cantonese versions of Chinese; for German and Austrian German; and for several of the closely related languages of Spain. The Romance languages of Spain are an informative example: Spanish (separate from Mexican Spanish), Galician, and Catalan each constitute a separate and unique project. Both parent report and vocabulary checklists have long histories antedating the development of the CDI, and nothing here precludes the development of qualitatively different instruments along other lines. Those instruments, however, should not be characterized as MacArthur or MacArthur-Bates CDIs. Investigators interested in developing an authorized adaptation of the CDI should follow these steps: 1. Describe the proposed project, addressing the guidelines listed above, and submit this proposal to the MacArthur-Bates CDI Board. Philip Dale (dalep at health.missouri.edu ) is the contact person for these requests. The request should include - a statement of the nature of the proposed adaptation - names and vitas for the principal authors - an approximate timetable The CDI Board will provide written authorization of the project and is happy to maintain contact during the development period, if the research team would find consultation useful. 2. When the adaptation is complete, a copy should be sent to the MacArthur-Bates CDI Board (again via Philip Dale) for final approval. Only with this final approval, provided in writing, is use of the term "MacArthur-Bates CDI" or an equivalent phrase permitted. Approved adaptations will be listed on the CDI website () with links to the instrument and to the adaptation team 3. Authors of approved versions who wish to explore commercial publication of their MacArthur-titled instruments must obtain explicit, written permission from the CDI Board, holders of the CDI copyright. This permission will normally be granted automatically, if the previous steps have been followed. Authors must also notify Brookes Publishers of their plans. Brookes may offer to publish the adaptation, or to assist in identifying and contracting with an appropriate publisher, as they have extensive experience in international publishing. However, authors are free to make publication arrangements as they choose. A nominal licensing fee for use of the MCDI name may be charged by Brookes. In cases where the commercially published manual for the adaptation includes a substantial amount of material translated from the original MCDI manual, an additional royalty may be charged. All authorizations for publication by the CDI Board are for specific adaptations whose development has been previously authorized, and have no implications for other adaptations. [Note: these requirements for consultation with the CDI Board and Brookes are not intended to be retroactive; they do not apply to adaptations that were published before the end of 2004.] From boehning at ling.uni-potsdam.de Tue Feb 15 13:28:01 2005 From: boehning at ling.uni-potsdam.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Marita_B=F6hning?=) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:28:01 +0100 Subject: Conference Information: Science of Aphasia 6, Helsinki, Summer '05 Message-ID: Conference Announcement Full Title: Science of Aphasia 6 Short Title: SoA 6 Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics Date: 26-Aug-2005 - 30-Aug-2005 Location: Helsinki, Finland Contact Person: Satu-Anniina Pakarinen Meeting Email: aphasianeuro.hut.fi Web Site: http://www.soa-online.com Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2005 Meeting Description: The SoA conferences are intended to bring together established and junior scientists working in the multidisciplinary field of neurolinguistics and language neuroscience, both normal function and disorders. In the year 2005, the 6th SoA conference focuses on recovery and treatment of aphasia, from basic neuroscience to clinic. Contributed papers are planned primarily in the form of poster sessions, starting with brief oral presentations to present the highlights of each poster (3-5 min), and with ample time for discussion. Science of Aphasia VI invites submission of abstracts for poster presentations on any neurolinguistic research topic. Guidelines for submission : - abstracts for poster presentation must be in English. - abstracts should not exceed 1000 words and should contain information about the research question, the design of the study, the results, including the data and a discussion of the results - all abstracts will be refereed by members of the scientific organizing committee - the deadline for submission is April 15 and we will let you know before May 15 whether your submission has been accepted - format of posters should be portrait, ca. 118 x 84 cm Further information can be found under http://www.soa-online.com ************************************ Marita Boehning Department of Linguistics (Erasmus/Sokrates co-ordinator) P.O. Box 601553 D - 14415 Potsdam Germany Phone: +49 331 977 2929 Fax: +49 331 977 2095 email: boehning at ling.uni-potsdam.de ************************************ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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For details, visit our web site: http://www.otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp/tcp/ -------------------------------------------------------- < Program > Day 1 (March 18, 2005) 10:00-10:10 Opening Yukio Otsu (keio University) 10:10-10:40 (Short Presentation) "Double-Gapped Relative Clauses in Chinese: Grammar and Processing" Xuenin Cao (Macau Polytechnique Institute) Helen Goodluck (University of York) Shan Xing Yuan (Harbin University of Science and Technology) Chair: Koji Sugisaki (Mie University) 10:45-11:15 (Short Presentation) "Bilingual Lexical Processing : Contrastive Polysemies" Somsukla Banerjee, Achla M. Raina and Harish Karnick (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur) Chair: Koji Sugisaki (Mie University) 11:20-11:50(Short Presentation) "Evidence for Parsing Universals from Turkish and Japanese" Sandiway Fong (University of Arizona) Chair: Koji Sugisaki (Mie University) Lunch 13:30-14:15 (Long Presentation) "Remarks on the Scope of Nominative Objects in Japanese" Masashi Nomura (University of Connecticut) Chair: Hisatsugu Kitahara (Keio University) 14:20-15:05 (Long Presentation) "N?-Ellipsis Reconsidered" Makoto Kadowaki (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Chair: Hisatsugu Kitahara (Keio University) Break 15:20-16:05 (Long Presentation) "Interpretation of Pronouns in VP-Ellipsis Constructions in Dutch Broca's and Wernicke's Aphasia" Nada Vasic, Sergey Avrutin and Esther Ruigendijk (Uil OTS, Utrecht University) Chair: Yukio Otsu (Keio University) 16:10-16:55 (Long Presentation) "Cognitive Processes Involved in Parsing Japanese Ditransitives: an Even?-Related Potential Study" Ayumi Koso, Hiroko Hagiwara and Takahiro Soshi (Tokyo Metropolitan University) Chair: Yukio Otsu (Keio University) 17:05-18:05 Invited Lecture "Syntactic Structure of Ditransitive Constructions in Japanese: Behavioral and Imaging Studies" Masatoshi Koizumi (Tohoku University) Chair: Yukio Otsu (Keio University) Reception Day 2 (March 19, 2005) 10:00-10:30 (Short Presentation) "Examining Perceptual Distance in Phonological Vowel Reduction" Dylan Herrick (Mie University) Chair: Takeru Honma (Tokyo Metropolitan University) 10:35:11:05 (Short Presentation) "Speech Segmentation at the Lexical Level" Yukiko Asano? (SUNY at Stony Brook) Chair: Takeru Honma (Tokyo Metropolitan University) 11:10-11:55 (Long Presentation) "L2 Poverty of the Stimulus at the Syntax-Semantics Interface: Quantifier Scope in Non-Native Japanese" Heather Marsden (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne) Chair: Makiko Hirakawa (Tokyo International University) Lunch 13:30-14:00 (Short Presentation) "Exclamatives as Comparatives: Evidence from English and Japanese" Toshiko Oda (Tokyo Keizai University) Chair: Akira Watanabe (University of Tokyo) 14:05:14:35 (Short Presentation) "Japanese Sluicing as a Specificational Pseudo-Cleft" Chizuru Nakao and Masaya Yoshida (University of Maryland, College Park) Chair: Akira Watanabe (University of Tokyo) 14:40-15:10 (Short Presentation) "'One'" Issue in Acquisition" Koji Sugisaki?(Mie University) Chair: Tetsuya Sano (Meiji Gakuin University) Break 15:25-16:10 (Long Presentation) "Interpretation of Focus in Chinese: Child vs. Adult Language" Chunyuan Jing and Stephan Crain (University of Maryland, College Park) Ching-Fen Hsu (National Yang-Ming University) Chair: Tetsuya Sano (Meiji Gakuin University) 16:15-17:00 (Long Presentation) "Constraints on Reference in Discourse Fragments" Anastasia Conroy and Rosalind Thornton (University of Maryland, College Park) Chair: Tetsuya Sano (Meiji Gakuin University) 17:10-18:10 Invited Lecture "The Universal Phase Requirement: A Replacement for the A-Chain Deficit Hypothesis" Ken Wexler (MIT) Chair: Koji Sugisaki (Mie University) -------------------------------------------------------- From tomoko at midway.uchicago.edu Thu Feb 3 22:07:27 2005 From: tomoko at midway.uchicago.edu (Tomoko Asano) Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 16:07:27 -0600 Subject: How to post message (fwd) Message-ID: Hello all, I am trying to get in touch with Dr. Linda Cote-Reilly, who was/is a developmental psycholgy researcher at NICHD. If any of you knows her email address or any other information, could you let me know? I worked as a transcriber for one of her projects at NICHD, looking at Japanese/English bilingual mother-infant interactions, in the spring of 2000. I'd like to ask her about the progress of the project, but Dr. Cote and I haven't been in touch for about 2 years and her old email addresses (cotel at cfr.nichd.nih.gov; lrcote-reilly at home.com; lrcote-reilly at adelphia.net; LRCote-Reilly at cox.net) do not work anymore. I would appreciate any contact information you could give me of Dr. Cote. Thank you. Tomoko Asano Goldin-Meadow Lab University of Chicago tomoko at uchicago.edu From Tania.Zamuner at mpi.nl Fri Feb 4 13:51:58 2005 From: Tania.Zamuner at mpi.nl (Tania Zamuner) Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 14:51:58 +0100 Subject: role of repetition in word familiarity In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, I posted a query a while back asking about research looking at whether word repetition plays a role in word familarity (specifically in first language acquisition). Below is a summary of the literature suggestions we received. I've limited the summary to available research. Many people rightfully pointed out the ambiguity of the terms 'repetition' and 'familiarity'. To clarify the question, we are specifically interested in the role of children's own repetition of a word form and how this might contribute to word familarity. If this clarification triggers any further suggestions, please let me know. Thank you for your help. Tania Zamuner ******************** Research showing a correlation between parental input frequency and age of acquisition for words on the MacArthur CDI. Philip Dale & Judith Goodman, Commonality and individual differences in vocabulary growth. In M. Tomasello & D.I. Slobin (Eds,), Beyond nature-nurture: Essays in honor of Elizabeth Bates. Mahwah NJ: Erlbaum, 41-78. ERP paper that examines both familiarity and repetition in a word learning task with 20-month old infants. Mills, Plunkett, Prat & Schafer (in press). Watching the infant brain learn words: effects of vocabulary size and experience. Cognitive Development. Work looking at the function of repetition in young children's word acquisition. Eve V. Clark. (2003). First Language Acquisition. Michelle M. Chouinard & Eve V. Clark. (2003). Adult reformulations of child errors as negative evidence. 30: 637-669. Repetition and word acquisition. Childers, J. B. & Tomasello, M. (2002). Two-year-olds learn novel nouns, verbs, and conventional actions from massed or spaced exposures. Developmental Psychology, 38, 967-978. ****************** Philip Dale Debbie Mills Ray Weitzman Eve Clark Lisa Goffman Dan Swingley Annette Fox From mariateresa.guasti at unimib.it Sun Feb 6 17:29:26 2005 From: mariateresa.guasti at unimib.it (Maria Teresa Guasti) Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 18:29:26 +0100 Subject: No subject Message-ID: Hi, does anyone have the email of Natasha Mueller? thank and best Teresa From dcavar at indiana.edu Sun Feb 6 19:11:02 2005 From: dcavar at indiana.edu (=?UTF-8?Q?Damir_=C4=86avar?=) Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 14:11:02 -0500 Subject: Call for papers: Computational Modeling of Lexical Acquisition - Split, Croatia Message-ID: Call for Papers Workshop on Computational Modeling of Lexical Acquisition - The Split Meeting - http://www.ohz.unist.hr/cpala/ Time: 25.-28. July 2005 Location: University of Split, Croatia The Croatian Language Technologies Society (CLTS) and the University of Split are pleased to sponsor the inaugural meeting of the Workshop on Computational Linguistics held in Split, Croatia, focusing on the topic of "Computational Modeling of Lexical Acquisition". We will build on the topics in formal-theoretical and computational linguistics, in particular on issues in learnability, complexity and modeling of lexical knowledge. This workshop is especially intended to provide a forum for the presentation of unique and original research on computational linguistic topics in the domain of learning of lexical properties, i.e. lexical acquisition, including but not limited to the following topics: a. machine learning methods for lexical acquisition - speech and language segmentation into lexical units - induction and learning of phonological and morphological structure - inducing formal grammars from discovered structural properties - learning lexical semantic properties and lexical disambiguation - computational models of psycholinguistic aspects of lexical acquisition b. corpora, evaluation and applications - induction of part-of-speech information for tagging and automatic annotation (via e.g. clustering and classification, using Vector Space Modeling or other strategies) - corpora for learning phonological and morphological regularities and a common gold standard - applications using machine learning and automatic lexical acquisition (e.g. tagger, ontologies, textmining) - evaluation strategies and methods for learning approaches This workshop will expand into a fixed annual event organized by the Croatian Language Technologies Society (CLTS) to be hosted, in turn, and shared among all interested and committed Croatian Universities. Time: 25.-28. July 2005 Location: University of Split, Croatia Abstract Deadline: 15th of March, 2005 Acceptance Information: 1st of April, 2005 Draft paper submission deadline: 1st of June 2005 Final paper submission deadline: 1st of August 2005 Registration and accommodation: We will provide limited space for participants in the University guest house, the hotel Spinut in Split. Early registration is required to reserve the space. The price for a room per night can be in the range of 150-250 Croatian Kuna (approx. 25-35 EURO, $ 30-40 US). For accommodation reservation please contact the organizing committee asap, at: cpala at ohz.unist.hr Detailed instructions on abstract submission and registration can be found on the following web page: http://www.ohz.unist.hr/cpala/ Organizing Committee: Bozo Bekavac, Uni. of Zagreb Dunja Brozovic-Roncevic, IHJJ Zagreb Damir Cavar, Indiana Uni. Malgorzata Cavar, Indiana Uni. Morten Christiansen, Cornell Uni. Zdravko Dovedan, Uni. of Zagreb Hans-Martin Gaertner, ZAS, Berlin John Goldsmith, Chicago Uni. Thomas Hanneforth, Uni. of Potsdam Joshua Herring, Indiana Uni. Toshikazu Ikuta, Indiana Uni. Gerhard Jaeger, Uni. of Bielefeld Ivo-Pavao Jazbec, Uni. of Zagreb Bryan Jurish, Potsdam Uni. Marcus Kracht, UCLA Hagen Langer, Uni. of Bremen Roland Meyer, Uni. of Regensburg Jens Michaelis, Uni. of Potsdam Adam Przepiorkowski, Polish Academy of Science Paul Rodrigues, Indiana Uni. William G. Sakas, CUNY Giancarlo Schrementi, Indiana Uni. Tomislav Stojanov, Uni. of Zagreb Marko Tadic, Uni. of Zagreb Kristina Vuckovic, Uni. of Zagreb Menno van Zaanen, Macquarie Uni. Alexander Geyken, BBAW Sponsoring Institutions: University of Split Hrvatsko Drustvo za Jezicne Tehnologije (Croatian Language Technologies Society (CLTS)) Institut za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, Zagreb From elizabeth.lanza at ilf.uio.no Sun Feb 6 23:00:10 2005 From: elizabeth.lanza at ilf.uio.no (Elizabeth Lanza) Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 00:00:10 +0100 Subject: Auto: I'm away from my mail (was: info-childes Digest - 02/06/05 ) Message-ID: Dear This is an automatic reply. Feel free to send additional mail, as only this one notice will be generated. The following is a prerecorded message, sent for elizabeth.lanza at ilf.uio.no: ==================================================== Jeg er bortreist og er tilbake p? Blindern 18. februar. I am away from my office until February 18th. From DaleP at health.missouri.edu Mon Feb 7 15:58:44 2005 From: DaleP at health.missouri.edu (Dale, Philip S.) Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:58:44 -0600 Subject: CDIs for children with language impairment Message-ID: Dear colleagues, I'm looking for projects that might have MacArthur CDIs (either CDI:WG or CDI:WS, but must be the longform) on children who either at the time or later are classified as having some kind of language-related disability, such as SLI, NSLI, learning disability, or reading disability (not other defined syndromes such as Down Syndrome, Fragile X, Williams Syndrome, etc.). This is for a research project I'm proposing on distinctive profiles of language development associated with these disabilities. If you have such a dataset, and would be interested in participating in this project, please let me know. Thank you. Philip Dale From DaleP at health.missouri.edu Mon Feb 7 16:27:20 2005 From: DaleP at health.missouri.edu (Dale, Philip S.) Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 10:27:20 -0600 Subject: PS RE CDIs for children with language impairment Message-ID: I forgot to mention that Spanish-language CDIs (the IDHC) would also be welcome ... Philip Dale From mbecker at email.unc.edu Wed Feb 9 15:24:14 2005 From: mbecker at email.unc.edu (Misha Becker) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 10:24:14 -0500 Subject: Final call for papers Message-ID: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS The journal Language Acquisition invites submissions for a special issue on theoretical approaches to Aspect and (Non)Finiteness in L1 or L2 grammar. If you are interested, please submit an abstract of 2-3 pages summarizing the research and analysis. We anticipate that between 5 and 10 authors will be invited to submit a paper for inclusion in the special issue. All papers will undergo a full review. Abstract specifications: 2-3 pages, single-spaced, including examples submit in *pdf* format only by e-mail to mbecker at email.unc.edu or in hard copy by mail to Misha Becker Linguistics Department 318 Dey Hall, CB#3155 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3155 USA Deadline for abstracts: February 15, 2005 Authors will be notified by March 15, 2005 Selected papers will be due on July 30, 2005 For questions please contact: mbecker at email.unc.edu From rchumak at ryerson.ca Wed Feb 9 16:46:34 2005 From: rchumak at ryerson.ca (Roma Chumak-Horbatsch) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 11:46:34 -0500 Subject: picture study research Message-ID: I am looking for studies which used pictures (with familiar, humorous, action-filled content) to elicit oral language from children. Thank you in advance for suggestions. Roma Roma Chumak-Horbatsch PhD School of Early Childhood Education Ryerson University 350 Victoria Street Toronto, Ontario M5B 2K3 CANADA From mazzocco at kennedykrieger.org Fri Feb 11 15:40:55 2005 From: mazzocco at kennedykrieger.org (Michele Mazzocco) Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 10:40:55 -0500 Subject: Maryland - Postdoc / Research Assistant Positions in Learning Disabilities Message-ID: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Learning disabilities/math skills Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Child Development needed to participate in ongoing, NICHD-funded longitudinal research on cognitive and genetic correlates of math ability / math disability. The fellow would join the P.I., a current Postdoctoral Fellow, and a small research team to contribute to one or more of the following: 1) an ongoing study of cognitive phenotypes in school age children with fragile X or Turner syndrome; 2) a normative study of math ability and cognitive correlates; and/or 3) a prospective longitudinal study of math learning disability. The fellow would have opportunities to work directly with children, and will have many opportunities for manuscript preparation and involvement with grant application processes. Minimal travel may occur for data collection or conference presentation. The position begins in 2005, for one to two years. Start date is flexible, but would be no later than August 2005 (earlier is preferred). The candidate must have a Ph.D. in Psychology or a related area, training in child development, interest in school age children, working knowledge of statistical analyses, documented writing ability, and strong research interests. To apply, please send cover letter, curriculum vitae, the names of three references from whom letters may be requested if needed, and sample reprints/preprints if applicable to: Dr. Mazzocco, MSDP, 3825 Greenspring Ave., Painter Building Top Floor; Baltimore, MD. 21211. Email Address mazzocco at kennedykrieger.org Email inquiries welcome. Hard copies of reprints and letters are preferred, but all other materials may be submitted electronically. To arrange an informal interview during the SRCD meeting, please contact Dr. Mazzocco prior to April 4. Research Assistant position will also be available beginning in or soon after May 2005. The Research Coordinator will be involved in coordinating ongoing research efforts, data collection, data scoring, and date entry, with possible involvement in manuscript preparation. Data collection will involve assessments with middle school children in school settings, and both in state and out of state assessments of children, ages five to thirteen years, with fragile X or Turner syndrome. We seek a dedicated, detail oriented individual who enjoys working with children and families, and who is interested in contributing to research on mathematics learning disability. Bachelor's Degree in psychology or related field is required. Experience with data sets (excel, access) and statistics (SPSS) is desirable, but not required. For more information about this position, please contact Dr. Mazzocco at mazzocco at kennedykrieger.org Email inquiries welcome. EOE Michele M. M. Mazzocco, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Psychiatry Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Principal Investigator, Math Skills Development Project Kennedy Krieger West Campus 3825 Greenspring Avenue, Painter Bldg Top Floor Baltimore, Maryland 21211 443-923-4125 tel 443-923-4130 fax mazzocco at kennedykrieger.org From chammelrath at wanadoo.fr Mon Feb 14 08:45:50 2005 From: chammelrath at wanadoo.fr (chammelrath) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:45:50 +0100 Subject: hammelrath Message-ID: after recording in the clan and analysis is it possible to transfer result in excel ? I have 256 file in the clan. is it possible to have an analysis of the more frequently words of all files ? what is the command ? is there a place where I could find all the commands for my analysis Thanks Claudine Hammelrath -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Annette -- ________________________________________________________________ Professor A.Karmiloff-Smith, CBE, FBA, FMedSci, Head, Neurocognitive Development Unit, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, U.K. tel: 0207 905 2754 fax: 0207 242 7717 sec: 0207 905 2334 http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/ich/html/academicunits/neurocog_dev/n_d_unit.html From hwafroda at slu.edu Thu Feb 17 16:16:37 2005 From: hwafroda at slu.edu (Deborah Hwa-Froelich, Ph.D.) Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 10:16:37 -0600 Subject: Relationship between eating and sleep? Message-ID: Annette, Although I know of no studies, I do know that when working with a set of twins with growth retardation, their pediatrician recommended meds to help them sleep because sleep is associated with growth. I would be interested in what you find. Please share! Thanks and good luck! Deb Hwa-Froelich Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith wrote: > Does anyone know of any studies that looked at the relationship > between sleep and eating habits? In other words, is it known whether > a child who sleeps poorly also eats poorly? > Many thanks in anticipation of any leads. > Annette > > -- > > ________________________________________________________________ > Professor A.Karmiloff-Smith, CBE, FBA, FMedSci, > Head, Neurocognitive Development Unit, > Institute of Child Health, > 30 Guilford Street, > London WC1N 1EH, U.K. > tel: 0207 905 2754 > fax: 0207 242 7717 > sec: 0207 905 2334 > http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/ich/html/academicunits/neurocog_dev/n_d_unit.html From jr111 at hermes.cam.ac.uk Tue Feb 22 15:46:40 2005 From: jr111 at hermes.cam.ac.uk (James Russell) Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:46:40 +0000 Subject: responses to mislabelling Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, I vaguely recall there being research into young children's reactions when adults deliberately mislabel objects -- such as calling a cat a canary. Can anyone enlighten me? Jim Russell Cambridge, UK From dkelemen at bu.edu Tue Feb 22 16:11:32 2005 From: dkelemen at bu.edu (Deborah Kelemen) Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:11:32 -0500 Subject: responses to mislabelling In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Jim, There is a really lovely paper by Melissa Koenig, Fabrice Cl?ment, and Paul Harris on this in a recent Psych Science (Vol 15(10), Oct 2004. pp. 694-698). Abstract follows. I hope this helps. Best, Deb Abstract: The extent to which young children monitor and use the truth of assertions to gauge the reliability of subsequent testimony was examined. Three- and 4-year-old children were presented with two informants, an accurate labeler and an inaccurate labeler. They were then invited to learn names for novel objects from these informants. The children correctly monitored and identified the informants on the basis of the truth of their prior labeling. Furthermore, children who explicitly identified the unreliable or reliable informant across two tasks went on to demonstrate selective trust in the novel information provided by the previously reliable informant. Children who did not consistently identify the unreliable or reliable informant proved indiscriminate. At 3:46 PM +0000 2/22/05, James Russell wrote: >Dear Colleagues, > >I vaguely recall there being research into young >children's reactions when adults deliberately >mislabel objects -- such as calling a cat a >canary. Can anyone enlighten me? > >Jim Russell >Cambridge, UK -- Deborah Kelemen, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Boston University Department of Psychology 64 Cummington Street Boston MA 02215 Email: dkelemen at bu.edu Office Phone: (617) 353-2758 Child Cognition Lab Phone: (617) 358-1738 Fax: (617) 353-6933 URL: http://www.bu.edu/childcognition -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From genesee at ego.psych.mcgill.ca Wed Feb 23 15:10:13 2005 From: genesee at ego.psych.mcgill.ca (Fred Genesee) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:10:13 -0500 Subject: responses to mislabelling In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Jim: there is a long history of "mislabelling" objects to examine differences in bilingual and monolingual children's awareness of the arbitrariness of names for objects -- sometimes referred to as the "sun-moon" task. A review of this material is included in Colin Baker's book Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. 3rd edition. (Multilingual Matters). Fred Genesee At 03:46 PM 22/02/2005 +0000, James Russell wrote: >Dear Colleagues, > >I vaguely recall there being research into young children's reactions >when adults deliberately mislabel objects -- such as calling a cat a >canary. Can anyone enlighten me? > >Jim Russell >Cambridge, UK > Department of Psychology Phone: 514-398-6022 McGill University Fax: 514-398-4896 1205 Docteur Penfield Ave. Montreal QC Canada H3A 1B1 From amykhasky at hotmail.com Fri Feb 25 09:27:03 2005 From: amykhasky at hotmail.com (amy khasky) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:27:03 +0000 Subject: RDLS III -interpretation of scores Message-ID: Hello, I can't find my scoring manual for the RDLS and was hoping that someone could tell me what the normal range of scores is for the comprehension scale for children aged 28-36 months. Thank you in advance for any help amy khasky University of London, Royal Holloway From Aris.Xanthos at unil.ch Fri Feb 25 22:33:39 2005 From: Aris.Xanthos at unil.ch (Aris Xanthos) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 23:33:39 +0100 Subject: Call for papers: Psychocomputational Models of Human Language Acquisition Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple postings] *** Call for Papers *** Psychocomputational Models of Human Language Acquisition Workshop at ACL 2005 29-30 June 2005 at University of Michigan Ann Arbor **** Submission Deadline: 4 April 2005 **** http://www.colag.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/psychocomp Workshop Topic -------------- The workshop, which is a follow-up to the successful workshop held at COLING in 2004, will be devoted to psychologically motivated computational models of language acquisition -- models that are compatible with, or motivated by research in psycholinguistics, developmental psychology with particular emphasis on the acquisition of syntax, though work on the acquisition of morphology, phonology and other levels of linguistic description is also welcome. The workshop will be taking place at the same time as CoNLL-2005 (http://cnts.uia.ac.be/conll/cfp.html) and if there is sufficient interest there will be a plenary session for papers that are relevant to both audiences. Invited Talks ------------- Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh Brian MacWhinney, Carnegie Mellon University Workshop Description and Motivation ----------------------------------- In recent decades there has been a great deal of successful research that applies computational learning techniques to emerging natural language technologies, along with many meetings, conferences and workshops in which to present such research. These have generally been motivated primarily by engineering concerns. There have been only a few venues in which computational models of human (first) language acquisition are the focus. In the light of recent results in developmental psychology, indicating that very young infants are capable of detecting statistical patterns in an audible input stream, statistically motivated approaches have gained in plausibility. However, this raises the question of whether or not a psychologically credible statistical learning strategy can be successfully exploited in a full-blown psychocomputational acquisition model, and the extent to which such algorithms must use domain-specific knowledge. The principal goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers who work within computational linguistics, formal learning theory, grammatical inference, machine learning, artificial intelligence, linguistics, psycholinguistics and other fields, who have created or are investigating computational models of language acquisition. In particular, it will provide a forum for establishing links and common themes between diverse paradigms. Although research which directly addresses the acquisition of syntax is strongly encouraged, related studies that inform research on the acquisition of other areas of language are also welcome. Papers are invited on, but not limited to, the following topics: * Models that employ statistical/probabilistic grammars; * Formal learning theoretic and grammar induction models that incorporate psychologically plausible constraints; * Models that employ language models from corpus linguistics; * Models that address the question of learning bias in terms of innate linguistic knowledge versus domain general strategies * Models that can acquire natural language word-order; * Hybrid models that cross established paradigms; * Models that directly make use of or can be used to evaluate existing linguistic or developmental theories in a computational framework (e.g. the principles & parameters framework, Optimality Theory, or Construction Grammar); * Models that combine parsing and learning; * Models that have a cross-linguistic or bilingual perspective; * Empirical models that make use of child-directed corpora; * Comparative surveys, across multiple paradigms, that critique previously published studies; Paper Length: Submissions should be no longer than 8 pages (A4 or the equivalent). High-quality short papers or extended abstracts of 4 to 5 pages are encouraged. Submission and format details are below. Important Dates --------------- Please note that the turnaround time for accepted papers is quite short. Deadline for main session paper submission: April 4, 2005 Notification of acceptance: May 5, 2005 Deadline for camera-ready papers: May 17, 2005 Conference: June 29-30, 2005 Workshop Organizers ------------------- * William Gregory Sakas (Chair), City University of New York, USA (sakas at hunter.cuny.edu) * Alexander Clark, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK (alexc at cs.rhul.ac.uk) * James Cussens, University of York, UK (jc at cs.york.ac.uk) * Aris Xanthos, University of Lausanne, Switzerland (aris.xanthos at unil.ch) Program Committee ----------------- * Robert Berwick, MIT, USA * Antal van den Bosch, Tilburg University, The Netherlands * Ted Briscoe, University of Cambridge, UK * Damir Cavar, Indiana University, USA * Nick Chater, University of Warwick, UK * Stephen Clark, University of Edinburgh, UK * Walter Daelemanns, University of Antwerp, Belgium and Tilburg University, The Netherlands * Elan Dresher, University of Toronto, Canada * Jeff Elman, University of California, San Diego, USA * Jerry Feldman, University of California, Berkeley, USA * John Goldsmith, University of Chicago, USA * John Hale, University of Michigan, USA * Mark Johnson, Brown University, USA * Vincenzo Lombardo, Universita di Torino, Italy * Paola Merlo, University of Geneva, Switzerland * Sandeep Prasada, City University of New York, USA * Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA * Jenny Saffran, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA * Ivan Sag, Stanford University, USA * Ed Stabler, University of California, Los Angeles, USA * Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh, UK * Suzanne Stevenson, University of Toronto, Canada * Patrick Sturt, University of Glasgow, UK * Charles Yang, Yale University, USA Paper Submission ---------------- Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references. We strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word Style files tailored for this year's conference. They are available at http://www.aclweb.org/acl2005/styles/. High-quality short papers or extended abstracts of 4 to 5 pages are encouraged. Electronic Submission: All submissions will be by email. Reviews will be blind, so be careful not to disclose authorship or affiliation. PDF submissions are preferred and will be required for the final camera-ready copy. Submissions should be sent as an attachment to: psycho.comp at hunter.cuny.edu. The subject line must contain the single word: Submission. Please be sure to include accurate contact information in the body of the email. Workshop contact: ----------------- email: psycho.comp at hunter.cuny.edu web: http://www.colag.cs.cuny.edu/psychocomp or William Gregory Sakas Department of Computer Science, North 1008 Hunter College, City University of New York 695 Park Avenue New York, NY 10021 USA 1 (212) 772.5211 - voice 1 (212) 772.5219 - fax sakas at hunter.cuny.edu From DaleP at health.missouri.edu Mon Feb 28 18:10:35 2005 From: DaleP at health.missouri.edu (Dale, Philip S.) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:10:35 -0600 Subject: Adaptations of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories Message-ID: > The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (CDI) Board is gratified by the research and clinical usefulness of the CDI instruments, and welcomes their adaptation into as many of the world> '> s languages as possible (see http://www.sci.sdsu.edu/cdi/ for a current list). It is important that adaptations of the CDI adhere to shared standards and procedures that make them genuinely comparable to the original and thus insure some degree of coherence and consistency across versions. Furthermore, given the extensive work required to develop an adequate adaptation, it is important that appropriate academic and other resources be available for the project, and that duplication be avoided. For these reasons, the CDI Board has followed a policy of authorizing specific adaptations of the CDI. We have recently updated this policy, and a copy is pasted below. Please note the changes with respect to point #2, review and authorization of the term "MacArthur-Bates CDI" or an equivalent phrase, and point #3, issues that arise when an adaptation is to be commercially published. Also note that these changes are not intended to be retrospective; they will apply only to adaptations in progress or developed in the future. Finally, note that I will be the contact person for the CDI Board with respect to adaptations. > Thank you. > > Philip S. Dale, Professor and Chair > Communication Science and Disorders > 303 Lewis Hall > University of Missouri-Columbia > Columbia, MO 65211 > tel: 573-882-1934 > fax: 573-884-8686 > email: dalep at health.missouri.edu > =========================================================================================================== Guidelines for Authorized Adaptations of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories February, 2005 The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (CDI) Board is gratified by the research and clinical usefulness of the CDI instruments, and welcomes their adaptation into as many of the world's languages as possible. However, it is important that adaptations of the CDI adhere to shared standards and procedures that make them genuinely comparable to the original and thus insure some degree of coherence and consistency across versions. Furthermore, given the extensive work required to develop an adequate adaptation, it is important that appropriate academic and other resources be available for the project, and that duplication be avoided. For these reasons, the CDI Board authorizes specific adaptations of the CDI, using the following guidelines: A. The research team should have appropriate competence and resources for generating a successful adaptation, including norming and validation. We encourage collaboration among researchers in these projects. B. The proposed adaptation should contain the major structure categories that are in the original. Specifically, adaptations of the CDI:Words & Gestures should assess receptive and expressive vocabulary and gestures. Adaptations of the CDI:Words & Sentences should assess expressive vocabulary and grammar, the latter in a format appropriate to the structure of the language. Other components of the CDIs are optional, as are added components not in the English CDIs. C. Adaptations should provide unique content above and beyond previously authorized CDIs. Note that CDI versions covering a closely related language or an additional dialect can meet this criterion. For example, we have authorized adaptations for Mandarin and Cantonese versions of Chinese; for German and Austrian German; and for several of the closely related languages of Spain. The Romance languages of Spain are an informative example: Spanish (separate from Mexican Spanish), Galician, and Catalan each constitute a separate and unique project. Both parent report and vocabulary checklists have long histories antedating the development of the CDI, and nothing here precludes the development of qualitatively different instruments along other lines. Those instruments, however, should not be characterized as MacArthur or MacArthur-Bates CDIs. Investigators interested in developing an authorized adaptation of the CDI should follow these steps: 1. Describe the proposed project, addressing the guidelines listed above, and submit this proposal to the MacArthur-Bates CDI Board. Philip Dale (dalep at health.missouri.edu ) is the contact person for these requests. The request should include - a statement of the nature of the proposed adaptation - names and vitas for the principal authors - an approximate timetable The CDI Board will provide written authorization of the project and is happy to maintain contact during the development period, if the research team would find consultation useful. 2. When the adaptation is complete, a copy should be sent to the MacArthur-Bates CDI Board (again via Philip Dale) for final approval. Only with this final approval, provided in writing, is use of the term "MacArthur-Bates CDI" or an equivalent phrase permitted. Approved adaptations will be listed on the CDI website () with links to the instrument and to the adaptation team 3. Authors of approved versions who wish to explore commercial publication of their MacArthur-titled instruments must obtain explicit, written permission from the CDI Board, holders of the CDI copyright. This permission will normally be granted automatically, if the previous steps have been followed. Authors must also notify Brookes Publishers of their plans. Brookes may offer to publish the adaptation, or to assist in identifying and contracting with an appropriate publisher, as they have extensive experience in international publishing. However, authors are free to make publication arrangements as they choose. A nominal licensing fee for use of the MCDI name may be charged by Brookes. In cases where the commercially published manual for the adaptation includes a substantial amount of material translated from the original MCDI manual, an additional royalty may be charged. All authorizations for publication by the CDI Board are for specific adaptations whose development has been previously authorized, and have no implications for other adaptations. [Note: these requirements for consultation with the CDI Board and Brookes are not intended to be retroactive; they do not apply to adaptations that were published before the end of 2004.] From boehning at ling.uni-potsdam.de Tue Feb 15 13:28:01 2005 From: boehning at ling.uni-potsdam.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Marita_B=F6hning?=) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:28:01 +0100 Subject: Conference Information: Science of Aphasia 6, Helsinki, Summer '05 Message-ID: Conference Announcement Full Title: Science of Aphasia 6 Short Title: SoA 6 Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics Date: 26-Aug-2005 - 30-Aug-2005 Location: Helsinki, Finland Contact Person: Satu-Anniina Pakarinen Meeting Email: aphasianeuro.hut.fi Web Site: http://www.soa-online.com Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2005 Meeting Description: The SoA conferences are intended to bring together established and junior scientists working in the multidisciplinary field of neurolinguistics and language neuroscience, both normal function and disorders. In the year 2005, the 6th SoA conference focuses on recovery and treatment of aphasia, from basic neuroscience to clinic. Contributed papers are planned primarily in the form of poster sessions, starting with brief oral presentations to present the highlights of each poster (3-5 min), and with ample time for discussion. Science of Aphasia VI invites submission of abstracts for poster presentations on any neurolinguistic research topic. Guidelines for submission : - abstracts for poster presentation must be in English. - abstracts should not exceed 1000 words and should contain information about the research question, the design of the study, the results, including the data and a discussion of the results - all abstracts will be refereed by members of the scientific organizing committee - the deadline for submission is April 15 and we will let you know before May 15 whether your submission has been accepted - format of posters should be portrait, ca. 118 x 84 cm Further information can be found under http://www.soa-online.com ************************************ Marita Boehning Department of Linguistics (Erasmus/Sokrates co-ordinator) P.O. Box 601553 D - 14415 Potsdam Germany Phone: +49 331 977 2929 Fax: +49 331 977 2095 email: boehning at ling.uni-potsdam.de ************************************ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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