From L.Henrichs at uva.nl Mon Jul 3 10:05:19 2006 From: L.Henrichs at uva.nl (Henrichs, L.F.) Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 12:05:19 +0200 Subject: directing freq output? Message-ID: Dear all, I hope someone has a solution to the following question I have; I use the FREQ command to count codes that I used in my coding / transcripts. In some transcripts one of the codes doesn't exist. Is it possible to direct the FREQ output in such a way, that it gives a "0" on the given code in stead of just skipping it in the output? This is important for me because I import the data from the output in excel by creating a textfile first. Thank you very much in advance! kind regards, Lotte Henrichs Lotte Henrichs, PhD candidate University of Amsterdam / ACLC Spuistraat 210 1012 VT Amsterdam +31 (0)20 5253805 l.henrichs at uva.nl http:\\home.medewerker.uva.nl/l.henrichs -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From W.B.T.Blom at uva.nl Mon Jul 3 10:25:07 2006 From: W.B.T.Blom at uva.nl (Blom, W.B.T.) Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 12:25:07 +0200 Subject: Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research (EMLAR III) Message-ID: > *** apologies for cross-posting *** > > On 7th-9th November 2006, EMLAR III will take place! > > Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS will hold its third workshop on the > issue of Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research (EMLAR III). > This workshop, which is part of the Netherlands Graduate School of > Linguistics (LOT) graduate programme, aims to provide PhD and MA students > with the opportunity to learn more about the different methods used in the > field of (first and second) language acquisition research. The programme > will consist of a series of lectures (each on a different method), and > several more hands-on sessions on more practical aspects of language > acquisition research. Each session addresses issues such as: subject > selection, rationale behind a given method, practicalities involved in the > actual execution of the experiment, advantages and disadvantages of a given > method and do's and don't's. > > The full program of EMLAR III (7th-9th November 2006, Utrecht University) > and details about registration can be found at: > http://www.let.uu.nl/~Frans.Adriaans/personal/emlar06.html > For further questions, contact us at: emlar at let.uu.nl. > > Deadline for registration: 29-Sep-2006 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From macw at cmu.edu Mon Jul 3 13:00:44 2006 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 22:00:44 +0900 Subject: directing freq output? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Lotte, Questions on CLAN functions are really supposed to be posted to info-chibolts, but for convenience, let me answer yours here. Basically, you should be using the +d2 option in FREQ. This creates output for the STATFREQ program. STATFREQ is very happy to create lots of zeroes for missing material in just the right EXCEL format. Here is the command that I used on the ne20 sample directory in the CLAN/lib/samples folder statfreq stat.out.cex +t*CHI +f +d After you run that, you are told that you are next supposed to run statfreq stat.out.cex +f +d And then your output is in stat.out.sat.cex Good luck with this, Brian MacWhinney On Jul 3, 2006, at 7:05 PM, Henrichs, L.F. wrote: > Dear all, > I hope someone has a solution to the following question I have; > I use the FREQ command to count codes that I used in my coding / > transcripts. In some transcripts one of the codes doesn't exist. Is > it possible to direct the FREQ output in such a way, that it gives > a "0" on the given code in stead of just skipping it in the output? > This is important for me because I import the data from the output > in excel by creating a textfile first. > > Thank you very much in advance! > kind regards, Lotte Henrichs > Lotte Henrichs, PhD candidate > University of Amsterdam / ACLC > Spuistraat 210 > 1012 VT Amsterdam > +31 (0)20 5253805 > l.henrichs at uva.nl > http:\\home.medewerker.uva.nl/l.henrichs > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bpearson at comdis.umass.edu Mon Jul 3 14:36:14 2006 From: bpearson at comdis.umass.edu (Barbara Zurer Pearson) Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 10:36:14 -0400 Subject: donating books and journals In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Infochilds, Thank you to everyone who has responded so far to my request for places to donate old books and journals. I have the email list at the bottom of this message of candidates for receiving the materials. I have been given information about sending M-bags ($18 for 20 pounds) and also a source of book-sized boxes. What I will do now (in the next two weeks) is make a general list of what there is and I'll send it to those who have responded (or rather to the people who have been referred by those who responded). So, I will try to match needs and materials to some extent. I have tried to include just the name of the suggested recipient but still have the suggester if someone was going to get me a name and an address. If I have neglected someone, have an error, or haven't yet heard from you, please feel free to contact me. Thank you again for your outpouring of suggestions. It looks like some good will come out of my office downsizing. Cheers, Barbara jzhou at spe.ecnu.edu.cn gfgb at terra.com.br khirshpa at temple.edu sandra.levey at lehman.cuny.edu sslystr at ucl.ac.uk eh82 at evansville.edu marefat at ut.ac.ir stoll at eva.mpg.de collinjo at gse.harvard.edu masmo at lingua.filg.uj.edu.pl victorcdaac at yahoo.ca cbowen at ihug.com.au vavaoka at gmail.com podlesskaya at ocrus.ru dandjelk at f.bg.ac.yu natasha.ringblom at english.su.se chharford at yahoo.com dkasia at ifa.amu.edu.pl eblasco at libero.it fidelholtz at gmail.com m.vihman at bangor.ac.uk On Jun 30, 2006, at 11:19 AM, Barbara Pearson wrote: > Dear All, > > Does anyone know a good place to donate books and > journals? (speech and language journals from the 80s and > 90s, some jcl, some language, some applied psycholinguistics. > TESOL books, some reading series..... a mixed bag). > > I'm willing to pay something to mail them places if it's where > they will get used.... > > Thank you, > > Barbara > > > ***************************************** > Barbara Zurer Pearson, Ph. D. > Project Manager, Research Associate > Dept. of Communication Disorders > University of Massachusetts > Amherst MA 01003 > > 413.545.5023 > fax: 545.0803 > > bpearson at comdis.umass.edu > http://www.umass.edu/aae/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 3658 bytes Desc: not available URL: From m.perkins at sheffield.ac.uk Wed Jul 5 13:36:36 2006 From: m.perkins at sheffield.ac.uk (Mick Perkins) Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 14:36:36 +0100 Subject: Lectureship opportunity Message-ID: Lectureship (Language and Education) - permanent, full-time. Department of Human Communication Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK We are one of the leading research and teaching departments in the UK specialising in communication disorders and require a qualified teacher, educational psychologist, or speech and language therapist to undertake teaching and research in the area of language and education. The postholder will assist in the running and development of our well-established Web CT distance learning programmes for professionals. Applicants should have an appropriate qualification in teaching and/or Educational Psychology/Speech and Language Therapy. This post is available from 1 October 2006, or as soon as possible thereafter. For further details and application procedure, see http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/jobs/academic.html From Zwickel.Eva at t-online.de Fri Jul 7 10:19:52 2006 From: Zwickel.Eva at t-online.de (Zwickel.Eva at t-online.de) Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 12:19:52 +0200 Subject: comprehension deficit Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ann.dowker at psy.ox.ac.uk Fri Jul 7 11:06:32 2006 From: ann.dowker at psy.ox.ac.uk (Ann Dowker) Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 12:06:32 +0100 Subject: comprehension deficit In-Reply-To: <1FynRA-0jBnJg0@fwd27.aul.t-online.de> Message-ID: An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: not available URL: From claudia.schlesiger at uni-dortmund.de Mon Jul 10 09:11:19 2006 From: claudia.schlesiger at uni-dortmund.de (Claudia Schlesiger) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 11:11:19 +0200 Subject: comprehension deficit In-Reply-To: <1FynRA-0jBnJg0@fwd27.aul.t-online.de> Message-ID: Dear Eva, you find a good summary about international and German studies concerning language comprehension and SLI in preschool children in: Schlesiger, Claudia (2001). Sprachverstehen bei spezifischer Sprachentwicklungsstoerung. Grundlagen und Diagnostik. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. There are also two chapters about German language comprehension tests, but only the ones that existed before the year 2000, so these chapters do not discuss the more recent tests. Claudia Schlesiger Universitaet Dortmund Rehabilitation und Paedagogik bei Sprach-, Kommunikations- und Hoerstoerungen Emil-Figge-Str. 50 44227 Dortmund Germany > Hello.I´m a student at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and looking > for German or English literature for a thesis about developmental > receptive language disorders or comprehension deficit, especially models, > diagnostic and therapy. I would be glad, if you could help me.Thanks a lot > alrady now, Eva Zwickel. > > > -- From pm at sfsu.edu Tue Jul 11 04:45:42 2006 From: pm at sfsu.edu (Philip M. Prinz) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 21:45:42 -0700 Subject: Developmental Language Researchers and LanguageTeachers/Administrators at Schools/Clinics in Russia In-Reply-To: <00ca01c6a038$0c426b50$9a8fa78f@hcs865> Message-ID: PLEASE POST: Dear Colleagues, I will be visiting Russia in early September and am interested in making contact with individuals conducting research on "typical" and "atypical" language acquisition in children as well as teachers and administrators at schools or clinics providing language intervention in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg. If you have names of researchers or educators working in Russia, please send them to: Dr. Philip Prinz E-mail: pm at sfsu.edu Thank you. Philip Prinz From hitomi-murata at mri.biglobe.ne.jp Tue Jul 11 13:33:31 2006 From: hitomi-murata at mri.biglobe.ne.jp (Hitomi Murata) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 22:33:31 +0900 Subject: TCP 2007: Call for Papers Message-ID: Dear Colleague, The Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies at Keio University will be holding the eighth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics(TCP2007) on March 16 and 17, 2007. The invited speakers are Prof. Thomas Roeper (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and Prof. Christopher Tancredi (University of Tokyo). We encourage you to submit papers for oral presentation and poster presentation. For details, visit our web site: http://www.otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp/tcp/ ---------------------------------------------------------- The Eighth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics http://www.otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp/tcp/ Keio University, Mita, Tokyo March 16 and 17, 2007 The Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics welcomes submissions for paper presentations at its eighth conference. Also, from this year, we will accept submissions for poster sessions. We believe that there are some types of studies which are suitable for oral presentations, and others, which are suitable for poster presentations. We would like to accept both types of studies at the Conference. However, the same abstract cannot be submitted for both the oral presentations and poster sessions. We will accept papers and posters that represent any scientific endeavor that addresses itself to “Plato’s problem” concerning language acquisition: “How we can 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. A) Oral Presentations There are two types of presentations, namely long ones and short ones. A long presentation will be 30 minutes, with 15 additional minutes devoted to discussions (a total of 45 minutes). A short presentation will be 20 minutes, with 10 additional minutes devoted to discussion (a total of 30 minutes). Please send an abstract following the guidelines below: 1. Only e-mail submissions addressed to tcpabst#otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp (Please replace # with @.) will be accepted. The subject of the e-mail should be “abstract/oral” or “abstract/poster”. 2. Please indicate whether your abstract involves: (Please check.) __Linguistic Theory __L1 acquisition __L2 acquisition __Language Processing __Neuroscience of Language __Other And whether it involves: (Please check.) __Morphology __Phonetics __Phonology __Semantics __Syntax __Pragmatics __Other Please also indicate the language(s) which you are focusing on in your paper. Also, please list 3 keywords/phrases that best describe the content of your abstract. 3. Author information should be included in the body of the e-mail. The information should include: (a) Oral or Poster, (b) If Oral, presentation format (i.e., long vs. short), (c) name, (d) affiliation, (e) title of paper, (f) mailing address, (g) e-mail address, and (h) telephone number. If youare in Japan, add kanji where relevant (i.e., all items except (f) and (g)). If your paper has multiple authors, please provide information regarding all of the co-authors. 4. A PDF file of your abstract in English should be attached to the e-mail. Document files (MS WORD) cannot be accepted. 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 tcp2007#otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp (Please replace # with @.) 5. Format the files of your abstracts (including bibliography) to A4 paper size, single-spaced, limiting the length to a maximum of 2 pages. 6. The font size should be 12 point. For any fonts used, a font file should be attached. 7. Do not put your name on your abstract. (The abstract reviews will be anonymous.) 8. Put “Oral” or “Poster” on the left side of the top of the first page. 9. Put the title in the center of the top of the first page. 10. The abstract, if accepted, will be photocopied to be included in the conference handbook. Therefore, make sure your margins have ample room. 11. You may not submit more than one single (single author) paper and one joint (co-authored) paper. 12. Clearly state the nature of the problem that you are addressing. 13. Cite sufficient data, and explain why and how they support your argument. 14. Avoid vague promissory notes such as "A solution will be presented". 15. The accepted abstracts will be placed on the TCP website. 16. In case your paper is accepted as a short presentation even though you submitted an abstract for the long presentation, please check the following. __I am willing to do a short presentation. __I am not willing to do a short presentation. B) Poster Sessions The guideline for sending an abstract for the poster sessions is the same as the guidelines for oral presentations. Abstracts for oral presentations and poster sessions will be reviewed separately. a) The poster should be 1 page of 90 cm (width) x 180 cm (length). There are no regulations regarding format and font. b) Bring your poster to the Conference site on the first day and place your poster on the indicated board. c) The poster sessions will be 90 minutes long. They will be held after lunch on the second day of the TCP. d) No oral presentations will be scheduled during the time of the poster sessions. The abstract must be received by November 30, 2006 by 11:59 pm JST (Japan Standard Time) via e-mail to: tcpabst#otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp (Please replace # with @.) Late submissions will not be accepted. No exceptions will be made. 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 via e-mail by January 12, 2007 at the latest. Those who are accepted as speakers will be requested to reply within several days if they are willing to present their papers at TCP 2007. Please let us know if you plan to be away from e-mail in early January. 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 2007. 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: tcp2007#otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp (Please replace # with @.) ------------------------------------------------------------ From L.Dominguez at soton.ac.uk Tue Jul 11 18:24:52 2006 From: L.Dominguez at soton.ac.uk (Laura Dominguez) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 19:24:52 +0100 Subject: A new way of learning a second language? Message-ID: Hello, I saw this in the news today and I thought it might be interesting to some of you: http://travel.guardian.co.uk/countries/story/0,,1817831,00.html At least, it's different. Best, Laura -- Dr. Laura Dominguez Modern Languages University of Southampton UK From alaakso at indiana.edu Wed Jul 12 13:43:29 2006 From: alaakso at indiana.edu (Aarre Laakso) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 09:43:29 -0400 Subject: CFP: Dynamics and Psychology Message-ID: ************** APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS ******************* SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS *New Ideas in Psychology* Published by Elsevier Science B.V. ISSN 0732-118X, URL: A Special Issue on 'Dynamics and Psychology' GUEST EDITORS Paco Calvo (U. Murcia, Spain) Aarre Laakso (Indiana University, USA) Toni Gomila (U. Illes Balears, Spain) Paper Submission Deadline: September 30th, 2006 New Ideas in Psychology is calling papers for a special issue entitled 'Dynamics and Psychology'. The purpose of this special issue is to bring together some of the leading views on dynamicism as it relates to psychological phenomena. Although the primary focus is on conceptual ideas regarding the status of dynamicism from the standpoint of Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, and related fields, empirical work is also welcome insofar as it bears explicitly upon theoretical debate. New Ideas in Psychology invites original contributions for the forthcoming special issue on Dynamics and Psychology from a broad scope of areas. Some key research issues and topics relevant to this special issue include: *Brain and cognitive function *Categorical perception *Dynamic computer simulations *Dynamic field approach *Dynamic systems theory and developmental theory *Dynamics of control of processing *Dynamics of social interaction *Emergence *Intermodality *Language development *Mental representation *Motor development *Neurobiological constraints *Perceptual learning *Self-organization of behavior *Sensory-motor and perception-action loops *Temporality SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS AND DEADLINE Manuscripts, following the New Ideas in Psychology guidelines () should be emailed to Paco Calvo (fjcalvo at um.es) by September 30th, 2006. INVITED CONTRIBUTORS The special issue will include invited papers by: Dante Chialvo (Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago) Eliana Colunga (Colorado, Boulder) and Linda Smith (Indiana University) Rick Grush (UCSD) Aarre Laakso (Indiana University) John Spencer (University of Iowa) RELATED AND SAMPLE ARTICLES *Bechtel, W. (1998) "Representations and cognitive explanations: assessing the dynamicist's challenge in cognitive science", Cognitive Science, 22, 295-318. *Beer, R. D. (1995) "A dynamical systems perspective on agent-environment interaction", Artificial Intelligence, 72, 173-215. *Clark, A. (1997) "The dynamical challenge", Cognitive Science, 21, 461-481. *Erlhagen, W. & Schöner, G. (2002) "Dynamic field theory of movement preparation", Psychological Review, 109, 545-572. *Nuñez, R. & Freeman, W.J. (1999) Reclaiming cognition: the primacy of action, intention and emotion. Imprint Academic. *Prinz, J. J., & Barsalou, L. W. (2000) "Steering a course for embodied representation", In E. Dietrich & A. B. *Markman (Eds.), Cognitive dynamics: Conceptual and representational change in humans and machines (pp. 51-77). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. *Spencer, J.P. & Schöner, G. (2003) "Bridging the representational gap in the dynamic systems approach to development", Developmental Science, 6, 392-412. *Sporns, O., Chialvo, D., Kaiser, M. & Hilgetag, C. (2004) "Organization, development and function of complex brain networks", Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9, 418-425. *Thelen, E., Schöner, G., Scheier, C. & Smith, L. (2001) "The dynamics of embodiment: A field theory of infant perseverative reaching", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 1-86. *Townsend, J. T., & Busemeyer, J. (1995) "Dynamic representation of decision making", In R. F. Port & T. Van Gelder (Eds.), Mind as motion. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. *Turvey, M. T., & Carello, C. (1995) "Some dynamical themes in perception and action" In R. F. Port & T. Van *Gelder (Eds.), Mind as motion. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. *van Gelder, T. (1998) "The dynamical hypothesis in Cognitive Science", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21, 615-665. GUEST EDITORS Paco Calvo Departamento de Filosofía Universidad de Murcia E-30100 Murcia - SPAIN e-mail: fjcalvo at um.es Aarre Laakso Department of Psychology Indiana University 1101 East 10th Street Bloomington, IN 47405 e-mail: alaakso at indiana.edu Toni Gomila Department of Psychology University of the Balearic Islands E-07122 Palma de Mallorca - SPAIN e-mail: toni.gomila at uib.es From george.hunt at ed.ac.uk Wed Jul 12 19:32:33 2006 From: george.hunt at ed.ac.uk (George Hunt) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 20:32:33 +0100 Subject: comprehension deficit Message-ID: From k.j.alcock at lancaster.ac.uk Mon Jul 17 10:40:34 2006 From: k.j.alcock at lancaster.ac.uk (Katie Alcock) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:40:34 +0100 Subject: RCUK Fellowship in Sensory and Perceptual Development at Lancaster University In-Reply-To: <3f0561062fbacabb5faabfe0c2f6ede4@lancaster.ac.uk> Message-ID: Please bring this advert to the notice of individuals who might be interested Vacancy - Department of Psychology Lancaster University   The Department, graded 5A in RAE 2001 and with a maximum 24 points in the QAA exercise seeks to fill the following vacancy:   RCUK RESEARCH FELLOW IN SENSORY AND PERCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT We are seeking an individual of outstanding promise to conduct research into the development of sensory and perceptual skills in humans, as part of an interdisciplinary team comprising members of the Centre for Research in Human Development and the Sensory Neuroscience Unit. The fellowship is available for 5 years from October 2006 or as soon as possible thereafter. Subject to the successful completion of a probationary period and meeting the University¹s criteria for appointment to an academic post, the University will guarantee a permanent academic position after completion of the fellowship. Individuals who already hold or have held a permanent University position or an offer of one are not eligible to apply. Individuals currently holding a personal research fellowship or research grant are eligible. Informal enquiries can be made to the Head of Department, Professor Tom Ormerod (Tel: 01524 593164, email: t.ormerod at lancaster.ac.uk). General information about the Department is available at http://www.psych.lancs.ac.uk/ To apply or receive further information online, please visithttp://www.personnel.lancs.ac.ukor, telephone Personnel Services, quoting appropriate reference,on answerphone (01524) 846549.  The closing date for applications is 11th September 2006. Lancaster University is a dynamic institution committed to building on the reputation it has developed during its first forty years for pioneering innovation and excellence in teaching and research. Katie Alcock, DPhil Lecturer Department of Psychology University of Lancaster Fylde College Lancaster LA1 4YF Tel 01524 593833 Fax 01524 593744 Web http://www.psych.lancs.ac.uk/people/KatieAlcock.html From yuchikoshi at ucdavis.edu Wed Jul 19 21:49:58 2006 From: yuchikoshi at ucdavis.edu (Yuuko Uchikoshi) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:49:58 -0700 Subject: recording & DVD camera equiptment Message-ID: Hello, I am looking to videotape parent-child (1-year-old) book-reading conversations and wondered if people could recommend some good equipment to do this (tape and transcribe). I would like to record the conversations, transcribe, and analyze dialogue as well as gestures. I checked the archives but found a posting for this back in 1999 and hoped someone could recommend more recent equipment. Thank you in advance. Best, Yuuko Yuuko Uchikoshi Assistant Professor School of Education University of California, Davis 2059 Academic Surge Davis, CA 95616 530-754-6271 From Chris.Letts at newcastle.ac.uk Thu Jul 27 10:18:59 2006 From: Chris.Letts at newcastle.ac.uk (Chris Letts) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:18:59 +0100 Subject: digital recording - Edirol R9 Message-ID: We have previously used the EDIROL R1 for digital recording, and it has some shortcomings. We've now been using the new EDIROL R9 for a couple of months, and I'm pleased to report that it is an improvement over the R1 in many ways: 1. the built-in microphone is more sensitive and gives perfectly good speech recordings in any normal room setting (the R1 was too insensitive for some uses) 2. Recordings seem to have less noise, especially so if using mains power. 3. The battery life, though not wonderful, is much better than the R1 - we use rechargeable AA batteries and seem to get several hours per charge (a shame though that the batteries have to be taken out for recharge) 4. our users (mostly students) have found it much easier to use - virtually a 'one-touch' recording. The only thing we're not sure about is whether the slightly flimsy USB /battery cover will stand up to regular use. We'll almost certainly be adopting this as our standard machine for most speech recording. Chris Letts, Technical Site Manager, School of Education, Communication & Language Sciences, King George VI Building University of Newcastle, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 7RU, U.K. From amirgu at gmail.com Mon Jul 31 16:48:38 2006 From: amirgu at gmail.com (Rachel and Amir Eitan) Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 18:48:38 +0200 Subject: prosody recording equipment In-Reply-To: <7337d0340607310327j7f2bc560lfb068ed827e946d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Dear All, I am a postgraduate student studying prosody of hebrew ditransitive. I am looking for advice on portable recording equipment. it is important that the equipment will be suitable for child recording. thanks in advance for your help, Rachel Eitan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From L.Henrichs at uva.nl Mon Jul 3 10:05:19 2006 From: L.Henrichs at uva.nl (Henrichs, L.F.) Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 12:05:19 +0200 Subject: directing freq output? Message-ID: Dear all, I hope someone has a solution to the following question I have; I use the FREQ command to count codes that I used in my coding / transcripts. In some transcripts one of the codes doesn't exist. Is it possible to direct the FREQ output in such a way, that it gives a "0" on the given code in stead of just skipping it in the output? This is important for me because I import the data from the output in excel by creating a textfile first. Thank you very much in advance! kind regards, Lotte Henrichs Lotte Henrichs, PhD candidate University of Amsterdam / ACLC Spuistraat 210 1012 VT Amsterdam +31 (0)20 5253805 l.henrichs at uva.nl http:\\home.medewerker.uva.nl/l.henrichs -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From W.B.T.Blom at uva.nl Mon Jul 3 10:25:07 2006 From: W.B.T.Blom at uva.nl (Blom, W.B.T.) Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 12:25:07 +0200 Subject: Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research (EMLAR III) Message-ID: > *** apologies for cross-posting *** > > On 7th-9th November 2006, EMLAR III will take place! > > Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS will hold its third workshop on the > issue of Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research (EMLAR III). > This workshop, which is part of the Netherlands Graduate School of > Linguistics (LOT) graduate programme, aims to provide PhD and MA students > with the opportunity to learn more about the different methods used in the > field of (first and second) language acquisition research. The programme > will consist of a series of lectures (each on a different method), and > several more hands-on sessions on more practical aspects of language > acquisition research. Each session addresses issues such as: subject > selection, rationale behind a given method, practicalities involved in the > actual execution of the experiment, advantages and disadvantages of a given > method and do's and don't's. > > The full program of EMLAR III (7th-9th November 2006, Utrecht University) > and details about registration can be found at: > http://www.let.uu.nl/~Frans.Adriaans/personal/emlar06.html > For further questions, contact us at: emlar at let.uu.nl. > > Deadline for registration: 29-Sep-2006 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From macw at cmu.edu Mon Jul 3 13:00:44 2006 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 22:00:44 +0900 Subject: directing freq output? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Lotte, Questions on CLAN functions are really supposed to be posted to info-chibolts, but for convenience, let me answer yours here. Basically, you should be using the +d2 option in FREQ. This creates output for the STATFREQ program. STATFREQ is very happy to create lots of zeroes for missing material in just the right EXCEL format. Here is the command that I used on the ne20 sample directory in the CLAN/lib/samples folder statfreq stat.out.cex +t*CHI +f +d After you run that, you are told that you are next supposed to run statfreq stat.out.cex +f +d And then your output is in stat.out.sat.cex Good luck with this, Brian MacWhinney On Jul 3, 2006, at 7:05 PM, Henrichs, L.F. wrote: > Dear all, > I hope someone has a solution to the following question I have; > I use the FREQ command to count codes that I used in my coding / > transcripts. In some transcripts one of the codes doesn't exist. Is > it possible to direct the FREQ output in such a way, that it gives > a "0" on the given code in stead of just skipping it in the output? > This is important for me because I import the data from the output > in excel by creating a textfile first. > > Thank you very much in advance! > kind regards, Lotte Henrichs > Lotte Henrichs, PhD candidate > University of Amsterdam / ACLC > Spuistraat 210 > 1012 VT Amsterdam > +31 (0)20 5253805 > l.henrichs at uva.nl > http:\\home.medewerker.uva.nl/l.henrichs > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bpearson at comdis.umass.edu Mon Jul 3 14:36:14 2006 From: bpearson at comdis.umass.edu (Barbara Zurer Pearson) Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 10:36:14 -0400 Subject: donating books and journals In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Infochilds, Thank you to everyone who has responded so far to my request for places to donate old books and journals. I have the email list at the bottom of this message of candidates for receiving the materials. I have been given information about sending M-bags ($18 for 20 pounds) and also a source of book-sized boxes. What I will do now (in the next two weeks) is make a general list of what there is and I'll send it to those who have responded (or rather to the people who have been referred by those who responded). So, I will try to match needs and materials to some extent. I have tried to include just the name of the suggested recipient but still have the suggester if someone was going to get me a name and an address. If I have neglected someone, have an error, or haven't yet heard from you, please feel free to contact me. Thank you again for your outpouring of suggestions. It looks like some good will come out of my office downsizing. Cheers, Barbara jzhou at spe.ecnu.edu.cn gfgb at terra.com.br khirshpa at temple.edu sandra.levey at lehman.cuny.edu sslystr at ucl.ac.uk eh82 at evansville.edu marefat at ut.ac.ir stoll at eva.mpg.de collinjo at gse.harvard.edu masmo at lingua.filg.uj.edu.pl victorcdaac at yahoo.ca cbowen at ihug.com.au vavaoka at gmail.com podlesskaya at ocrus.ru dandjelk at f.bg.ac.yu natasha.ringblom at english.su.se chharford at yahoo.com dkasia at ifa.amu.edu.pl eblasco at libero.it fidelholtz at gmail.com m.vihman at bangor.ac.uk On Jun 30, 2006, at 11:19 AM, Barbara Pearson wrote: > Dear All, > > Does anyone know a good place to donate books and > journals? (speech and language journals from the 80s and > 90s, some jcl, some language, some applied psycholinguistics. > TESOL books, some reading series..... a mixed bag). > > I'm willing to pay something to mail them places if it's where > they will get used.... > > Thank you, > > Barbara > > > ***************************************** > Barbara Zurer Pearson, Ph. D. > Project Manager, Research Associate > Dept. of Communication Disorders > University of Massachusetts > Amherst MA 01003 > > 413.545.5023 > fax: 545.0803 > > bpearson at comdis.umass.edu > http://www.umass.edu/aae/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 3658 bytes Desc: not available URL: From m.perkins at sheffield.ac.uk Wed Jul 5 13:36:36 2006 From: m.perkins at sheffield.ac.uk (Mick Perkins) Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 14:36:36 +0100 Subject: Lectureship opportunity Message-ID: Lectureship (Language and Education) - permanent, full-time. Department of Human Communication Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK We are one of the leading research and teaching departments in the UK specialising in communication disorders and require a qualified teacher, educational psychologist, or speech and language therapist to undertake teaching and research in the area of language and education. The postholder will assist in the running and development of our well-established Web CT distance learning programmes for professionals. Applicants should have an appropriate qualification in teaching and/or Educational Psychology/Speech and Language Therapy. This post is available from 1 October 2006, or as soon as possible thereafter. For further details and application procedure, see http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/jobs/academic.html From Zwickel.Eva at t-online.de Fri Jul 7 10:19:52 2006 From: Zwickel.Eva at t-online.de (Zwickel.Eva at t-online.de) Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 12:19:52 +0200 Subject: comprehension deficit Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ann.dowker at psy.ox.ac.uk Fri Jul 7 11:06:32 2006 From: ann.dowker at psy.ox.ac.uk (Ann Dowker) Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 12:06:32 +0100 Subject: comprehension deficit In-Reply-To: <1FynRA-0jBnJg0@fwd27.aul.t-online.de> Message-ID: An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: not available URL: From claudia.schlesiger at uni-dortmund.de Mon Jul 10 09:11:19 2006 From: claudia.schlesiger at uni-dortmund.de (Claudia Schlesiger) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 11:11:19 +0200 Subject: comprehension deficit In-Reply-To: <1FynRA-0jBnJg0@fwd27.aul.t-online.de> Message-ID: Dear Eva, you find a good summary about international and German studies concerning language comprehension and SLI in preschool children in: Schlesiger, Claudia (2001). Sprachverstehen bei spezifischer Sprachentwicklungsstoerung. Grundlagen und Diagnostik. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. There are also two chapters about German language comprehension tests, but only the ones that existed before the year 2000, so these chapters do not discuss the more recent tests. Claudia Schlesiger Universitaet Dortmund Rehabilitation und Paedagogik bei Sprach-, Kommunikations- und Hoerstoerungen Emil-Figge-Str. 50 44227 Dortmund Germany > Hello.I?m a student at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and looking > for German or English literature for a thesis about developmental > receptive language disorders or comprehension deficit, especially models, > diagnostic and therapy. I would be glad, if you could help me.Thanks a lot > alrady now, Eva Zwickel. > > > -- From pm at sfsu.edu Tue Jul 11 04:45:42 2006 From: pm at sfsu.edu (Philip M. Prinz) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 21:45:42 -0700 Subject: Developmental Language Researchers and LanguageTeachers/Administrators at Schools/Clinics in Russia In-Reply-To: <00ca01c6a038$0c426b50$9a8fa78f@hcs865> Message-ID: PLEASE POST: Dear Colleagues, I will be visiting Russia in early September and am interested in making contact with individuals conducting research on "typical" and "atypical" language acquisition in children as well as teachers and administrators at schools or clinics providing language intervention in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg. If you have names of researchers or educators working in Russia, please send them to: Dr. Philip Prinz E-mail: pm at sfsu.edu Thank you. Philip Prinz From hitomi-murata at mri.biglobe.ne.jp Tue Jul 11 13:33:31 2006 From: hitomi-murata at mri.biglobe.ne.jp (Hitomi Murata) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 22:33:31 +0900 Subject: TCP 2007: Call for Papers Message-ID: Dear Colleague, The Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies at Keio University will be holding the eighth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics(TCP2007) on March 16 and 17, 2007. The invited speakers are Prof. Thomas Roeper (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and Prof. Christopher Tancredi (University of Tokyo). We encourage you to submit papers for oral presentation and poster presentation. For details, visit our web site: http://www.otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp/tcp/ ---------------------------------------------------------- The Eighth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics http://www.otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp/tcp/ Keio University, Mita, Tokyo March 16 and 17, 2007 The Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics welcomes submissions for paper presentations at its eighth conference. Also, from this year, we will accept submissions for poster sessions. We believe that there are some types of studies which are suitable for oral presentations, and others, which are suitable for poster presentations. We would like to accept both types of studies at the Conference. However, the same abstract cannot be submitted for both the oral presentations and poster sessions. We will accept papers and posters that represent any scientific endeavor that addresses itself to ?Plato?s problem? concerning language acquisition: ?How we can 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. A) Oral Presentations There are two types of presentations, namely long ones and short ones. A long presentation will be 30 minutes, with 15 additional minutes devoted to discussions (a total of 45 minutes). A short presentation will be 20 minutes, with 10 additional minutes devoted to discussion (a total of 30 minutes). Please send an abstract following the guidelines below: 1. Only e-mail submissions addressed to tcpabst#otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp (Please replace # with @.) will be accepted. The subject of the e-mail should be ?abstract/oral? or ?abstract/poster?. 2. Please indicate whether your abstract involves: (Please check.) __Linguistic Theory __L1 acquisition __L2 acquisition __Language Processing __Neuroscience of Language __Other And whether it involves: (Please check.) __Morphology __Phonetics __Phonology __Semantics __Syntax __Pragmatics __Other Please also indicate the language(s) which you are focusing on in your paper. Also, please list 3 keywords/phrases that best describe the content of your abstract. 3. Author information should be included in the body of the e-mail. The information should include: (a) Oral or Poster, (b) If Oral, presentation format (i.e., long vs. short), (c) name, (d) affiliation, (e) title of paper, (f) mailing address, (g) e-mail address, and (h) telephone number. If youare in Japan, add kanji where relevant (i.e., all items except (f) and (g)). If your paper has multiple authors, please provide information regarding all of the co-authors. 4. A PDF file of your abstract in English should be attached to the e-mail. Document files (MS WORD) cannot be accepted. 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 tcp2007#otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp (Please replace # with @.) 5. Format the files of your abstracts (including bibliography) to A4 paper size, single-spaced, limiting the length to a maximum of 2 pages. 6. The font size should be 12 point. For any fonts used, a font file should be attached. 7. Do not put your name on your abstract. (The abstract reviews will be anonymous.) 8. Put ?Oral? or ?Poster? on the left side of the top of the first page. 9. Put the title in the center of the top of the first page. 10. The abstract, if accepted, will be photocopied to be included in the conference handbook. Therefore, make sure your margins have ample room. 11. You may not submit more than one single (single author) paper and one joint (co-authored) paper. 12. Clearly state the nature of the problem that you are addressing. 13. Cite sufficient data, and explain why and how they support your argument. 14. Avoid vague promissory notes such as "A solution will be presented". 15. The accepted abstracts will be placed on the TCP website. 16. In case your paper is accepted as a short presentation even though you submitted an abstract for the long presentation, please check the following. __I am willing to do a short presentation. __I am not willing to do a short presentation. B) Poster Sessions The guideline for sending an abstract for the poster sessions is the same as the guidelines for oral presentations. Abstracts for oral presentations and poster sessions will be reviewed separately. a) The poster should be 1 page of 90 cm (width) x 180 cm (length). There are no regulations regarding format and font. b) Bring your poster to the Conference site on the first day and place your poster on the indicated board. c) The poster sessions will be 90 minutes long. They will be held after lunch on the second day of the TCP. d) No oral presentations will be scheduled during the time of the poster sessions. The abstract must be received by November 30, 2006 by 11:59 pm JST (Japan Standard Time) via e-mail to: tcpabst#otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp (Please replace # with @.) Late submissions will not be accepted. No exceptions will be made. 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 via e-mail by January 12, 2007 at the latest. Those who are accepted as speakers will be requested to reply within several days if they are willing to present their papers at TCP 2007. Please let us know if you plan to be away from e-mail in early January. 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 2007. 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: tcp2007#otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp (Please replace # with @.) ------------------------------------------------------------ From L.Dominguez at soton.ac.uk Tue Jul 11 18:24:52 2006 From: L.Dominguez at soton.ac.uk (Laura Dominguez) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 19:24:52 +0100 Subject: A new way of learning a second language? Message-ID: Hello, I saw this in the news today and I thought it might be interesting to some of you: http://travel.guardian.co.uk/countries/story/0,,1817831,00.html At least, it's different. Best, Laura -- Dr. Laura Dominguez Modern Languages University of Southampton UK From alaakso at indiana.edu Wed Jul 12 13:43:29 2006 From: alaakso at indiana.edu (Aarre Laakso) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 09:43:29 -0400 Subject: CFP: Dynamics and Psychology Message-ID: ************** APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS ******************* SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS *New Ideas in Psychology* Published by Elsevier Science B.V. ISSN 0732-118X, URL: A Special Issue on 'Dynamics and Psychology' GUEST EDITORS Paco Calvo (U. Murcia, Spain) Aarre Laakso (Indiana University, USA) Toni Gomila (U. Illes Balears, Spain) Paper Submission Deadline: September 30th, 2006 New Ideas in Psychology is calling papers for a special issue entitled 'Dynamics and Psychology'. The purpose of this special issue is to bring together some of the leading views on dynamicism as it relates to psychological phenomena. Although the primary focus is on conceptual ideas regarding the status of dynamicism from the standpoint of Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, and related fields, empirical work is also welcome insofar as it bears explicitly upon theoretical debate. New Ideas in Psychology invites original contributions for the forthcoming special issue on Dynamics and Psychology from a broad scope of areas. Some key research issues and topics relevant to this special issue include: *Brain and cognitive function *Categorical perception *Dynamic computer simulations *Dynamic field approach *Dynamic systems theory and developmental theory *Dynamics of control of processing *Dynamics of social interaction *Emergence *Intermodality *Language development *Mental representation *Motor development *Neurobiological constraints *Perceptual learning *Self-organization of behavior *Sensory-motor and perception-action loops *Temporality SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS AND DEADLINE Manuscripts, following the New Ideas in Psychology guidelines () should be emailed to Paco Calvo (fjcalvo at um.es) by September 30th, 2006. INVITED CONTRIBUTORS The special issue will include invited papers by: Dante Chialvo (Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago) Eliana Colunga (Colorado, Boulder) and Linda Smith (Indiana University) Rick Grush (UCSD) Aarre Laakso (Indiana University) John Spencer (University of Iowa) RELATED AND SAMPLE ARTICLES *Bechtel, W. (1998) "Representations and cognitive explanations: assessing the dynamicist's challenge in cognitive science", Cognitive Science, 22, 295-318. *Beer, R. D. (1995) "A dynamical systems perspective on agent-environment interaction", Artificial Intelligence, 72, 173-215. *Clark, A. (1997) "The dynamical challenge", Cognitive Science, 21, 461-481. *Erlhagen, W. & Sch?ner, G. (2002) "Dynamic field theory of movement preparation", Psychological Review, 109, 545-572. *Nu?ez, R. & Freeman, W.J. (1999) Reclaiming cognition: the primacy of action, intention and emotion. Imprint Academic. *Prinz, J. J., & Barsalou, L. W. (2000) "Steering a course for embodied representation", In E. Dietrich & A. B. *Markman (Eds.), Cognitive dynamics: Conceptual and representational change in humans and machines (pp. 51-77). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. *Spencer, J.P. & Sch?ner, G. (2003) "Bridging the representational gap in the dynamic systems approach to development", Developmental Science, 6, 392-412. *Sporns, O., Chialvo, D., Kaiser, M. & Hilgetag, C. (2004) "Organization, development and function of complex brain networks", Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9, 418-425. *Thelen, E., Sch?ner, G., Scheier, C. & Smith, L. (2001) "The dynamics of embodiment: A field theory of infant perseverative reaching", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 1-86. *Townsend, J. T., & Busemeyer, J. (1995) "Dynamic representation of decision making", In R. F. Port & T. Van Gelder (Eds.), Mind as motion. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. *Turvey, M. T., & Carello, C. (1995) "Some dynamical themes in perception and action" In R. F. Port & T. Van *Gelder (Eds.), Mind as motion. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. *van Gelder, T. (1998) "The dynamical hypothesis in Cognitive Science", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21, 615-665. GUEST EDITORS Paco Calvo Departamento de Filosof?a Universidad de Murcia E-30100 Murcia - SPAIN e-mail: fjcalvo at um.es Aarre Laakso Department of Psychology Indiana University 1101 East 10th Street Bloomington, IN 47405 e-mail: alaakso at indiana.edu Toni Gomila Department of Psychology University of the Balearic Islands E-07122 Palma de Mallorca - SPAIN e-mail: toni.gomila at uib.es From george.hunt at ed.ac.uk Wed Jul 12 19:32:33 2006 From: george.hunt at ed.ac.uk (George Hunt) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 20:32:33 +0100 Subject: comprehension deficit Message-ID: From k.j.alcock at lancaster.ac.uk Mon Jul 17 10:40:34 2006 From: k.j.alcock at lancaster.ac.uk (Katie Alcock) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:40:34 +0100 Subject: RCUK Fellowship in Sensory and Perceptual Development at Lancaster University In-Reply-To: <3f0561062fbacabb5faabfe0c2f6ede4@lancaster.ac.uk> Message-ID: Please bring this advert to the notice of individuals who might be interested Vacancy - Department of Psychology Lancaster University ? The Department, graded 5A in RAE 2001 and with a maximum 24 points in the QAA exercise seeks to fill the following vacancy: ? RCUK RESEARCH FELLOW IN SENSORY AND PERCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT We are seeking an individual of outstanding promise to conduct research into the development of sensory and perceptual skills in humans, as part of an interdisciplinary team comprising members of the Centre for Research in Human Development and the Sensory Neuroscience Unit.?The fellowship is available for 5 years from October 2006 or as soon as possible thereafter. Subject to the successful completion of a probationary period and meeting the University?s criteria for appointment to an academic post, the University will guarantee a permanent academic position after completion of the fellowship. Individuals who already hold or have held a permanent University position or an offer of one are not eligible to apply. Individuals currently holding a personal research fellowship or research grant are eligible. Informal enquiries can be made to the Head of Department, Professor Tom Ormerod (Tel: 01524 593164, email: t.ormerod at lancaster.ac.uk). General information about the Department is available at http://www.psych.lancs.ac.uk/ To apply or receive further information online, please visithttp://www.personnel.lancs.ac.ukor, telephone Personnel Services, quoting appropriate reference,on answerphone (01524) 846549.??The closing date for applications is 11th September 2006. Lancaster University is a dynamic institution committed to building on the reputation it has developed during its first forty years for pioneering innovation and excellence in teaching and research. Katie Alcock, DPhil Lecturer Department of Psychology University of Lancaster Fylde College Lancaster LA1 4YF Tel 01524 593833 Fax 01524 593744 Web http://www.psych.lancs.ac.uk/people/KatieAlcock.html From yuchikoshi at ucdavis.edu Wed Jul 19 21:49:58 2006 From: yuchikoshi at ucdavis.edu (Yuuko Uchikoshi) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:49:58 -0700 Subject: recording & DVD camera equiptment Message-ID: Hello, I am looking to videotape parent-child (1-year-old) book-reading conversations and wondered if people could recommend some good equipment to do this (tape and transcribe). I would like to record the conversations, transcribe, and analyze dialogue as well as gestures. I checked the archives but found a posting for this back in 1999 and hoped someone could recommend more recent equipment. Thank you in advance. Best, Yuuko Yuuko Uchikoshi Assistant Professor School of Education University of California, Davis 2059 Academic Surge Davis, CA 95616 530-754-6271 From Chris.Letts at newcastle.ac.uk Thu Jul 27 10:18:59 2006 From: Chris.Letts at newcastle.ac.uk (Chris Letts) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:18:59 +0100 Subject: digital recording - Edirol R9 Message-ID: We have previously used the EDIROL R1 for digital recording, and it has some shortcomings. We've now been using the new EDIROL R9 for a couple of months, and I'm pleased to report that it is an improvement over the R1 in many ways: 1. the built-in microphone is more sensitive and gives perfectly good speech recordings in any normal room setting (the R1 was too insensitive for some uses) 2. Recordings seem to have less noise, especially so if using mains power. 3. The battery life, though not wonderful, is much better than the R1 - we use rechargeable AA batteries and seem to get several hours per charge (a shame though that the batteries have to be taken out for recharge) 4. our users (mostly students) have found it much easier to use - virtually a 'one-touch' recording. The only thing we're not sure about is whether the slightly flimsy USB /battery cover will stand up to regular use. We'll almost certainly be adopting this as our standard machine for most speech recording. Chris Letts, Technical Site Manager, School of Education, Communication & Language Sciences, King George VI Building University of Newcastle, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 7RU, U.K. From amirgu at gmail.com Mon Jul 31 16:48:38 2006 From: amirgu at gmail.com (Rachel and Amir Eitan) Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 18:48:38 +0200 Subject: prosody recording equipment In-Reply-To: <7337d0340607310327j7f2bc560lfb068ed827e946d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Dear All, I am a postgraduate student studying prosody of hebrew ditransitive. I am looking for advice on portable recording equipment. it is important that the equipment will be suitable for child recording. thanks in advance for your help, Rachel Eitan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: