From guidetti at univ-tlse2.fr Thu Jun 1 15:54:14 2006 From: guidetti at univ-tlse2.fr (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Mich=E8le_Guidetti?=) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 17:54:14 +0200 Subject: special issue of First Language/call for papers In-Reply-To: <200512170220.jBH2Ku7Z015783@gw1-mail.cict.fr> Message-ID: Call for papers for a Special Issue of First Language Gestures and communicative development Guest Editors: Michèle Guidetti, Université Toulouse II (France) Elena Nicoladis, University of Alberta (Canada) There is growing evidence that gestures play an important role in language, cognitive and communicative development. Children may use gestures earlier in development than words in order to communicate. While words may then supplant gestures as children's preferred form of communication, children continue to gesture to reinforce or extend the spoken messages or even to replace them. Gestures can also offer insight into children's unspoken thoughts. This Special Issue will bring together evidence on how gestures are related to language, communication and mind in development. Papers presenting empirical work on the link between early gestures and early language development are of focal interest, as will be new data exploring whether gestures from parents or peers affect or are linked with early cognitive and communicative development. Topics include (but are not restricted to): · Gestures, ontogeny and phylogeny · Different types of gestures and their influences on cognitive and communicative development · Typical and atypical aspects of gestural development · Gestures from the pragmatic point of view · Gestures from a cross-cultural point of view · Production and comprehension of gestures · Gestures in bilingual children Deadline for submissions: 31 December 2006 Submissions and enquiries should be addressed to: Michèle Guidetti, email: guidetti at univ-tlse2.fr Elena Nicoladis, email: elenan at ualberta.ca From m.perkins at sheffield.ac.uk Fri Jun 9 12:23:37 2006 From: m.perkins at sheffield.ac.uk (Mick Perkins) Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 13:23:37 +0100 Subject: Studentships/Teaching Assistantships Message-ID: UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION SCIENCES TWO STUDENTSHIPS / TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIPS IN HUMAN COMMUNICATION SCIENCES The Department of Human Communication Sciences at Sheffield is one of the leading UK centres for education and research in communication and its disorders, offering undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses. It has ESRC 1+3 and CASE recognition for research training, and was awarded a 4 in RAE 2001. Two graduates with a bachelor's (1st or 2.1) or masters degree in psychology, linguistics, speech and language therapy, education or related subjects, are sought, to pursue research into an area of human communication sciences for which supervision is available. The department has strong research interests in clinical phonetics and linguistics, cognitive neuroscience of speech and language; speech, language and literacy development and disorders; psychosocial aspects of communication. For details of staff research interests, see the departmental web page: http://www.shef.ac.uk/hcs or the Human Communication Sciences Graduate Prospectus, obtainable from the address below. The successful candidates will register initially for MPhil, with a view to transferring to PhD subject to satisfactory progress. In addition, they will undertake tutorial duties up to 6 hours per week during term-time, with associated preparation and marking. This will involve backing up lectures on various degree courses offered in the department (i.e. the BMedSci Speech and MMedSci in Clinical Communication Studies leading towards qualification as a speech and language therapist, and the non-clinical BSc in Human Communication Sciences and MSc/Diploma in Language and Communication Impairment in Children). In the case of a qualified and experienced speech and language therapist, this may include student supervision and teaching in the departmental clinic. In particular, ability to support teaching in practical phonetics or statistics and research design is sought. Training is provided. The studentship is for 3 years in the first instance, subject to an annual progress review, with the possibility of extension for a fourth year. The stipend, which does not attract UK income tax, is £11000. plus MPhil/PhD fees (home rate). In addition, monies will be available for the purchase of equipment relevant to the area of research and for conference attendance and travel. Applicants should in the first instance submit a c.v. including details of relevant courses taken in previous degrees; an abstract of any research project(s) already undertaken; details of any relevant teaching experience; and description of possible PhD research topic (up to 1 side of A4). Applications should be sent either electronically or by post to Mrs Jill Raffo, Department of Human Communication Sciences, University of Sheffield, 31 Claremont Crescent, Sheffield S10 2TA, j.raffo at sheffield.ac.uk to arrive by 21 June 2006 with interviews likely to take place during week commencing 27 June. From mbecker at email.unc.edu Wed Jun 14 17:53:15 2006 From: mbecker at email.unc.edu (Misha Becker) Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:53:15 -0400 Subject: question about DVD camcorders Message-ID: Dear Info-childes, I am looking for a new video camera, and I wondered if any of you had tried using the digital camcorders that record onto DVDs. There are several brands that have models for under $1000, but only a few of these (by Hitachi and Panasonic) allow for plugging in an external microphone. I wondered if anyone knew whether the internal mics in these recorders (Canon, Sony, etc.) have improved enough that they are sufficient for recording children's speech (I suspect not--although I'm looking at syntax and lexical use, not phonetic detail), and if anyone knew of other models that did allow for an external mic. I can go a little over $1000, but not too much. I've checked the J&R, BH and G&G websites so far. I appreciate any tips or suggestions! Thanks, Misha -- Misha Becker Assistant Professor UNC Linguistics Department (919) 962-5009 From macw at cmu.edu Thu Jun 15 12:52:47 2006 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:52:47 -0400 Subject: question about DVD camcorders In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, Yvan, and Misha, Internal mikes are never going to be as good as external mikes. The noise on a miniDV camera is not the only issue, although it is a factor. It is just that the internal mikes are typically not very good. I should add that digital taperecorders that record to flash memory do not have a motor noise issue at all, since nothing is being transported. I have found that mike built in to the Edirol digital recorder is actually the first internal mike that seems acceptable. Please please don't record to the DVD format, if you plan to do further analysis of your data. It is a highly proprietary format. Someday, we will probably be able to "crack" the code for the DVD format in terms of linking to programming, but who knows when? --Brian MacWhinney From mjwilcox at asu.edu Thu Jun 15 13:35:40 2006 From: mjwilcox at asu.edu (Jeanne Wilcox) Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 06:35:40 -0700 Subject: question about DVD camcorders Message-ID: Has anyone used the newer camcorders that record to a hard drive? My understanding is that the video can be downloaded via USB to a hard drive on a computer. This sounds great, although I am worried about not having something like a mini DV for a permanent archive. I was thinking of keeping the archive files on a server that is backed up regularly, and then keeping the working copy on a series of compact hard drives that connect to a computer via USB. Thoughts? Have others been thinking about this? Jeanne Wilcox Arizona State University -------------------------- MJ Wilcox Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Device ----- Original Message ----- From: info-childes at mail.talkbank.org To: info-childes at mail.talkbank.org Sent: Thu Jun 15 05:52:47 2006 Subject: Re: question about DVD camcorders Dear Info-CHILDES, Yvan, and Misha, Internal mikes are never going to be as good as external mikes. The noise on a miniDV camera is not the only issue, although it is a factor. It is just that the internal mikes are typically not very good. I should add that digital taperecorders that record to flash memory do not have a motor noise issue at all, since nothing is being transported. I have found that mike built in to the Edirol digital recorder is actually the first internal mike that seems acceptable. Please please don't record to the DVD format, if you plan to do further analysis of your data. It is a highly proprietary format. Someday, we will probably be able to "crack" the code for the DVD format in terms of linking to programming, but who knows when? --Brian MacWhinney From alaakso at indiana.edu Thu Jun 15 14:26:13 2006 From: alaakso at indiana.edu (Aarre Laakso) Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 10:26:13 -0400 Subject: question about DVD camcorders In-Reply-To: <3F425874-F7D0-46E2-83FF-AE0685144D6A@cmu.edu> Message-ID: Brian MacWhinney wrote: > Please please don't record to the DVD format, if you plan to do > further analysis of your data. It is a highly proprietary format. > Someday, we will probably be able to "crack" the code for the DVD format > in terms of linking to programming, but who knows when? This is a bit off-topic, but I feel compelled to note that software to "crack" the DVD encoding was released in 1999 by a 15-year old Norwegian named Jon Johansen. The original and many other implementations are still widely available, although usually not in a particularly "user friendly" form, for legal reasons. Dave Touretzky maintains a "gallery" of examples at: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/index.html and some further information at: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/index.html that together provide a fascinating case study of the both the necessity and the ongoing difficulty of redefining such basic notions as "property" and "speech" some 60 years after the dawn of the information age. I agree with Brian: do not record your original data to DVD. Regards, Aarre Laakso From macw at cmu.edu Thu Jun 15 22:06:17 2006 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 18:06:17 -0400 Subject: question about DVD camcorders In-Reply-To: <44916E05.4050603@indiana.edu> Message-ID: Dear Aarre and Info-CHILDES, Let me get a bit more technical, since this stuff is actually quite complicated. First, the material Dave Touretzky has collected is designed to decrypt the CSS (content scrambling system) used for Hollywood DVDs. This is not the problem for us, since the DVD videos that are produced by home cameras or home computer programs do not use CSS. Our goal is to play a homemade DVD video through QuickTime. You would think this would be easy, but unfortunately it is not. The video on a home DVD video is stored in MPEG-2 files and you can navigate about the DVD to locate these files. The problem is that the MPEG2 plugin that Apple sells for Quicktime has not been seriously updated for years. Once Apple produced iDVD, it appears to have lost interest in the MPEG2 plugin as a product. We can see this easily by playing the MPEG2 files on the DVD in the separate VCL or MPEG2Player applications. The problem is that CLAN uses QuickTime to play media. To rewrite CLAN to play directly using VCL would take months of programming, if it is possible. I spent the whole afternoon trying to find a way around this barrier with no luck. I wish I could report better news on this front, but for now I have to just repeat my warning that people who want to use CLAN should not record to DVD video format. --Brian On Jun 15, 2006, at 10:26 AM, Aarre Laakso wrote: > Brian MacWhinney wrote: >> Please please don't record to the DVD format, if you plan to do >> further analysis of your data. It is a highly proprietary >> format. Someday, we will probably be able to "crack" the code for >> the DVD format in terms of linking to programming, but who knows >> when? > > This is a bit off-topic, but I feel compelled to note that software > to "crack" the DVD encoding was released in 1999 by a 15-year old > Norwegian named Jon Johansen. The original and many other > implementations are still widely available, although usually not in > a particularly "user friendly" form, for legal reasons. Dave > Touretzky maintains a "gallery" of examples at: > http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/index.html > and some further information at: > http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/index.html > that together provide a fascinating case study of the both the > necessity and the ongoing difficulty of redefining such basic > notions as "property" and "speech" some 60 years after the dawn of > the information age. > > I agree with Brian: do not record your original data to DVD. > > Regards, > Aarre Laakso > > > > From t.marinis at reading.ac.uk Fri Jun 16 15:33:17 2006 From: t.marinis at reading.ac.uk (Theodoros Marinis) Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 16:33:17 +0100 Subject: Lectureship in clinical linguistics and/or phonetics Message-ID: The University of Reading School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences Lectureship in clinical linguistics and/or phonetics Lecturer A/B Full-time, permanent We are seeking a full-time member of staff to join our lively and friendly team of academic and clinical staff in this new post. 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Best wishes, Misha From mblume at utep.edu Tue Jun 20 00:59:44 2006 From: mblume at utep.edu (Blume, Maria) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 18:59:44 -0600 Subject: Transcribing software? Message-ID: Hi: I know you have this information somewhere in the website but I couldn't find it. Can someone recommend a good software and footpedal to use in transcription? I basically want to be able to put a CD or DVD in the computer and use the footpedal to stop/rewind/play, just like in a cassette transcriber, and then trancribe into Word, Excel, etc. Thanks, María María Blume Assistant Professor Department of Languages and Linguistics Liberal Arts Building, Room 119 University of Texas at El Paso (915) 747-6320 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From iris.antoons at vub.ac.be Tue Jun 20 15:12:37 2006 From: iris.antoons at vub.ac.be (Antoons Iris) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:12:37 +0200 Subject: acquisition and non-parametric tests Message-ID: Dear Childes-member, Does anyone have publications regarding/references to acquisition studies and the use of any of the following non-parametric tests: 1) percentage of non-overlapping data, 2) Cohen ‘d and 3) Pearson r? Thanks, ________________ Iris Antoons Vrije Universiteit Brussel 1050 Brussel E-mail: iris.antoons at vub.ac.be, iris.antoons at ecats.gcsu.edu From deak at cogsci.ucsd.edu Mon Jun 26 21:33:57 2006 From: deak at cogsci.ucsd.edu (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gedeon_De=E1k?=) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 14:33:57 -0700 Subject: question about DVD camcorders In-Reply-To: <6DC38348EDE07642B024AA3CA0AA1BDC26EC3A@EX04.asurite.ad.asu.edu> Message-ID: We are trying the JVC Everios. Yes, you should back up. We're using a raid for that in the lab; cards and drives are cheap enough that it's not prohibitive to put one together. However, for later back-up the file transfer rate is way faster than the capture rate from mini-DVs, so if you're recording a lot of data from the field, there's a significant time savings compared to mini-DVs. The video quality is about as good/bad as the average mid-priced consumer-level DV (e.g., not as good as "pro-sumer" cameras, but way better than 1/4 CCD mini-cams...the Everios give "true" NTSC in the highest-quality mode, or something like it). The Everios are small (no tape mechanisms), so they're less obtrusive than most mini-DVs, which is nice for observational studies. Can't yet speak to reliability, durability or customer service on Everios. So don't read this as an endorsement but as an interim update from a new user. Anyone who's really interested can email me back in another month or so, & I'll provide a more detailed critique. On Jun 15, 2006, at 6:35 AM, Jeanne Wilcox wrote: > Has anyone used the newer camcorders that record to a hard drive? > My understanding is that the video can be downloaded via USB to a > hard drive on a computer. This sounds great, although I am worried > about not having something like a mini DV for a permanent archive. > I was thinking of keeping the archive files on a server that is > backed up regularly, and then keeping the working copy on a series > of compact hard drives that connect to a computer via USB. > Thoughts? Have others been thinking about this? > > Jeanne Wilcox > Arizona State University > -------------------------- > MJ Wilcox > Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Device > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: info-childes at mail.talkbank.org > To: info-childes at mail.talkbank.org > Sent: Thu Jun 15 05:52:47 2006 > Subject: Re: question about DVD camcorders > > Dear Info-CHILDES, Yvan, and Misha, > Internal mikes are never going to be as good as external mikes. > The noise on a miniDV camera is not the only issue, although it is a > factor. It is just that the internal mikes are typically not very > good. I should add that digital taperecorders that record to flash > memory do not have a motor noise issue at all, since nothing is being > transported. I have found that mike built in to the Edirol digital > recorder is actually the first internal mike that seems acceptable. > Please please don't record to the DVD format, if you plan to do > further analysis of your data. It is a highly proprietary format. > Someday, we will probably be able to "crack" the code for the DVD > format in terms of linking to programming, but who knows when? > > --Brian MacWhinney > > From edy.veneziano at paris5.sorbonne.fr Wed Jun 28 12:13:58 2006 From: edy.veneziano at paris5.sorbonne.fr (edy veneziano) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:13:58 +0200 Subject: Extended deadline - Special Issue of First Language on Conversation In-Reply-To: <8bcffd1faec1cb3de4f8414e059fad07@paris5.sorbonne.fr> Message-ID: ATTENTION! EXTENDED DEADLINE to submit papers for a special issue of FIRST LANGUAGE on conversation and language development NEW Deadline for Submission : SEPTEMBER 30th 2006 Responding to the demand of several perspective authors we extend the deadline for the submission of manuscripts till September 30th 2006. We wish to thank all the authors who submitted their manuscripts within the first deadline. Call for papers for a Special Issue of First Language Conversation in language development and use Guest editor: Edy Veneziano, Université Paris 5 - CNRS Conversation is almost unanimously recognized as the privileged site of language acquisition. In conversation, children have to draw deeply on their communicative and language resources and both to use and to extend their formal and pragmatic competencies. This Special Issue addresses the nature, effects and development of exchanges unfolding among children and their co-conversationalists. Papers presenting empirical work on tangible effects of conversation on the acquisition and/or use of early as well as later language are of focal interest to this Special Issue. Topics include (but are not restricted to): • The role of conversational exchanges in early language acquisition and/or use (lexical, syntactic, morphological and pragmatic knowledge) • The implications of conversational scaffolding for later developments (morphosyntactic, narrative and argumentative skills) • Effects of acquiring and using conversational skills, including conversational repairs, explanations, justifications and argumentation • Learning to adjust one's speech to the interlocutor: style, topic, means • Individual differences • Conversational skills in children with language impairments and other disorders Deadline for submissions: 30 June 2006 Submissions and enquiries should be addressed to: Edy Veneziano, Université Descartes Paris 5 - CNRS, 46 rue St Jacques, 75005 Paris, France email: edy.veneziano at univ-paris5.fr -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Best wishes, Deb Kelemen From maria at nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Fri Jun 30 22:51:47 2006 From: maria at nmr.mgh.harvard.edu (Maria Mody) Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 18:51:47 -0400 Subject: normed online picture database for use with children In-Reply-To: <20060415102114.4020753063@webmail219.herald.ox.ac.uk> Message-ID: We are looking at verbal reasoning skills in children (10-2 years) and wish to test this with pictures. The pictures should be of familiar objects, actions (e.g., carpenter hammering a nail), scenes (e.g. restaurant, sports field), etc. Could anyone direct me to a good source of child-friendly pixs, preferably a database of pictures with child norms that is available online? many thanks, -maria --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Maria Mody, PhD Harvard Medical School MGH/MIT/HMS Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging Bldg. 149, 13th St., CNY2301 | tel +1-617-726 6913 Charlestown, MA 02129 | maria at nmr.mgh.harvard.edu From guidetti at univ-tlse2.fr Thu Jun 1 15:54:14 2006 From: guidetti at univ-tlse2.fr (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Mich=E8le_Guidetti?=) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 17:54:14 +0200 Subject: special issue of First Language/call for papers In-Reply-To: <200512170220.jBH2Ku7Z015783@gw1-mail.cict.fr> Message-ID: Call for papers for a Special Issue of First Language Gestures and communicative development Guest Editors: Mich?le Guidetti, Universit? Toulouse II (France) Elena Nicoladis, University of Alberta (Canada) There is growing evidence that gestures play an important role in language, cognitive and communicative development. Children may use gestures earlier in development than words in order to communicate. While words may then supplant gestures as children's preferred form of communication, children continue to gesture to reinforce or extend the spoken messages or even to replace them. Gestures can also offer insight into children's unspoken thoughts. This Special Issue will bring together evidence on how gestures are related to language, communication and mind in development. Papers presenting empirical work on the link between early gestures and early language development are of focal interest, as will be new data exploring whether gestures from parents or peers affect or are linked with early cognitive and communicative development. Topics include (but are not restricted to): ? Gestures, ontogeny and phylogeny ? Different types of gestures and their influences on cognitive and communicative development ? Typical and atypical aspects of gestural development ? Gestures from the pragmatic point of view ? Gestures from a cross-cultural point of view ? Production and comprehension of gestures ? Gestures in bilingual children Deadline for submissions: 31 December 2006 Submissions and enquiries should be addressed to: Mich?le Guidetti, email: guidetti at univ-tlse2.fr Elena Nicoladis, email: elenan at ualberta.ca From m.perkins at sheffield.ac.uk Fri Jun 9 12:23:37 2006 From: m.perkins at sheffield.ac.uk (Mick Perkins) Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 13:23:37 +0100 Subject: Studentships/Teaching Assistantships Message-ID: UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION SCIENCES TWO STUDENTSHIPS / TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIPS IN HUMAN COMMUNICATION SCIENCES The Department of Human Communication Sciences at Sheffield is one of the leading UK centres for education and research in communication and its disorders, offering undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses. It has ESRC 1+3 and CASE recognition for research training, and was awarded a 4 in RAE 2001. Two graduates with a bachelor's (1st or 2.1) or masters degree in psychology, linguistics, speech and language therapy, education or related subjects, are sought, to pursue research into an area of human communication sciences for which supervision is available. The department has strong research interests in clinical phonetics and linguistics, cognitive neuroscience of speech and language; speech, language and literacy development and disorders; psychosocial aspects of communication. For details of staff research interests, see the departmental web page: http://www.shef.ac.uk/hcs or the Human Communication Sciences Graduate Prospectus, obtainable from the address below. The successful candidates will register initially for MPhil, with a view to transferring to PhD subject to satisfactory progress. In addition, they will undertake tutorial duties up to 6 hours per week during term-time, with associated preparation and marking. This will involve backing up lectures on various degree courses offered in the department (i.e. the BMedSci Speech and MMedSci in Clinical Communication Studies leading towards qualification as a speech and language therapist, and the non-clinical BSc in Human Communication Sciences and MSc/Diploma in Language and Communication Impairment in Children). In the case of a qualified and experienced speech and language therapist, this may include student supervision and teaching in the departmental clinic. In particular, ability to support teaching in practical phonetics or statistics and research design is sought. Training is provided. The studentship is for 3 years in the first instance, subject to an annual progress review, with the possibility of extension for a fourth year. The stipend, which does not attract UK income tax, is ?11000. plus MPhil/PhD fees (home rate). In addition, monies will be available for the purchase of equipment relevant to the area of research and for conference attendance and travel. Applicants should in the first instance submit a c.v. including details of relevant courses taken in previous degrees; an abstract of any research project(s) already undertaken; details of any relevant teaching experience; and description of possible PhD research topic (up to 1 side of A4). Applications should be sent either electronically or by post to Mrs Jill Raffo, Department of Human Communication Sciences, University of Sheffield, 31 Claremont Crescent, Sheffield S10 2TA, j.raffo at sheffield.ac.uk to arrive by 21 June 2006 with interviews likely to take place during week commencing 27 June. From mbecker at email.unc.edu Wed Jun 14 17:53:15 2006 From: mbecker at email.unc.edu (Misha Becker) Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:53:15 -0400 Subject: question about DVD camcorders Message-ID: Dear Info-childes, I am looking for a new video camera, and I wondered if any of you had tried using the digital camcorders that record onto DVDs. There are several brands that have models for under $1000, but only a few of these (by Hitachi and Panasonic) allow for plugging in an external microphone. I wondered if anyone knew whether the internal mics in these recorders (Canon, Sony, etc.) have improved enough that they are sufficient for recording children's speech (I suspect not--although I'm looking at syntax and lexical use, not phonetic detail), and if anyone knew of other models that did allow for an external mic. I can go a little over $1000, but not too much. I've checked the J&R, BH and G&G websites so far. I appreciate any tips or suggestions! Thanks, Misha -- Misha Becker Assistant Professor UNC Linguistics Department (919) 962-5009 From macw at cmu.edu Thu Jun 15 12:52:47 2006 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:52:47 -0400 Subject: question about DVD camcorders In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, Yvan, and Misha, Internal mikes are never going to be as good as external mikes. The noise on a miniDV camera is not the only issue, although it is a factor. It is just that the internal mikes are typically not very good. I should add that digital taperecorders that record to flash memory do not have a motor noise issue at all, since nothing is being transported. I have found that mike built in to the Edirol digital recorder is actually the first internal mike that seems acceptable. Please please don't record to the DVD format, if you plan to do further analysis of your data. It is a highly proprietary format. Someday, we will probably be able to "crack" the code for the DVD format in terms of linking to programming, but who knows when? --Brian MacWhinney From mjwilcox at asu.edu Thu Jun 15 13:35:40 2006 From: mjwilcox at asu.edu (Jeanne Wilcox) Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 06:35:40 -0700 Subject: question about DVD camcorders Message-ID: Has anyone used the newer camcorders that record to a hard drive? My understanding is that the video can be downloaded via USB to a hard drive on a computer. This sounds great, although I am worried about not having something like a mini DV for a permanent archive. I was thinking of keeping the archive files on a server that is backed up regularly, and then keeping the working copy on a series of compact hard drives that connect to a computer via USB. Thoughts? Have others been thinking about this? Jeanne Wilcox Arizona State University -------------------------- MJ Wilcox Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Device ----- Original Message ----- From: info-childes at mail.talkbank.org To: info-childes at mail.talkbank.org Sent: Thu Jun 15 05:52:47 2006 Subject: Re: question about DVD camcorders Dear Info-CHILDES, Yvan, and Misha, Internal mikes are never going to be as good as external mikes. The noise on a miniDV camera is not the only issue, although it is a factor. It is just that the internal mikes are typically not very good. I should add that digital taperecorders that record to flash memory do not have a motor noise issue at all, since nothing is being transported. I have found that mike built in to the Edirol digital recorder is actually the first internal mike that seems acceptable. Please please don't record to the DVD format, if you plan to do further analysis of your data. It is a highly proprietary format. Someday, we will probably be able to "crack" the code for the DVD format in terms of linking to programming, but who knows when? --Brian MacWhinney From alaakso at indiana.edu Thu Jun 15 14:26:13 2006 From: alaakso at indiana.edu (Aarre Laakso) Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 10:26:13 -0400 Subject: question about DVD camcorders In-Reply-To: <3F425874-F7D0-46E2-83FF-AE0685144D6A@cmu.edu> Message-ID: Brian MacWhinney wrote: > Please please don't record to the DVD format, if you plan to do > further analysis of your data. It is a highly proprietary format. > Someday, we will probably be able to "crack" the code for the DVD format > in terms of linking to programming, but who knows when? This is a bit off-topic, but I feel compelled to note that software to "crack" the DVD encoding was released in 1999 by a 15-year old Norwegian named Jon Johansen. The original and many other implementations are still widely available, although usually not in a particularly "user friendly" form, for legal reasons. Dave Touretzky maintains a "gallery" of examples at: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/index.html and some further information at: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/index.html that together provide a fascinating case study of the both the necessity and the ongoing difficulty of redefining such basic notions as "property" and "speech" some 60 years after the dawn of the information age. I agree with Brian: do not record your original data to DVD. Regards, Aarre Laakso From macw at cmu.edu Thu Jun 15 22:06:17 2006 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 18:06:17 -0400 Subject: question about DVD camcorders In-Reply-To: <44916E05.4050603@indiana.edu> Message-ID: Dear Aarre and Info-CHILDES, Let me get a bit more technical, since this stuff is actually quite complicated. First, the material Dave Touretzky has collected is designed to decrypt the CSS (content scrambling system) used for Hollywood DVDs. This is not the problem for us, since the DVD videos that are produced by home cameras or home computer programs do not use CSS. Our goal is to play a homemade DVD video through QuickTime. You would think this would be easy, but unfortunately it is not. The video on a home DVD video is stored in MPEG-2 files and you can navigate about the DVD to locate these files. The problem is that the MPEG2 plugin that Apple sells for Quicktime has not been seriously updated for years. Once Apple produced iDVD, it appears to have lost interest in the MPEG2 plugin as a product. We can see this easily by playing the MPEG2 files on the DVD in the separate VCL or MPEG2Player applications. The problem is that CLAN uses QuickTime to play media. To rewrite CLAN to play directly using VCL would take months of programming, if it is possible. I spent the whole afternoon trying to find a way around this barrier with no luck. I wish I could report better news on this front, but for now I have to just repeat my warning that people who want to use CLAN should not record to DVD video format. --Brian On Jun 15, 2006, at 10:26 AM, Aarre Laakso wrote: > Brian MacWhinney wrote: >> Please please don't record to the DVD format, if you plan to do >> further analysis of your data. It is a highly proprietary >> format. Someday, we will probably be able to "crack" the code for >> the DVD format in terms of linking to programming, but who knows >> when? > > This is a bit off-topic, but I feel compelled to note that software > to "crack" the DVD encoding was released in 1999 by a 15-year old > Norwegian named Jon Johansen. The original and many other > implementations are still widely available, although usually not in > a particularly "user friendly" form, for legal reasons. Dave > Touretzky maintains a "gallery" of examples at: > http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/index.html > and some further information at: > http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/index.html > that together provide a fascinating case study of the both the > necessity and the ongoing difficulty of redefining such basic > notions as "property" and "speech" some 60 years after the dawn of > the information age. > > I agree with Brian: do not record your original data to DVD. > > Regards, > Aarre Laakso > > > > From t.marinis at reading.ac.uk Fri Jun 16 15:33:17 2006 From: t.marinis at reading.ac.uk (Theodoros Marinis) Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 16:33:17 +0100 Subject: Lectureship in clinical linguistics and/or phonetics Message-ID: The University of Reading School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences Lectureship in clinical linguistics and/or phonetics Lecturer A/B Full-time, permanent We are seeking a full-time member of staff to join our lively and friendly team of academic and clinical staff in this new post. 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Best wishes, Misha From mblume at utep.edu Tue Jun 20 00:59:44 2006 From: mblume at utep.edu (Blume, Maria) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 18:59:44 -0600 Subject: Transcribing software? Message-ID: Hi: I know you have this information somewhere in the website but I couldn't find it. Can someone recommend a good software and footpedal to use in transcription? I basically want to be able to put a CD or DVD in the computer and use the footpedal to stop/rewind/play, just like in a cassette transcriber, and then trancribe into Word, Excel, etc. Thanks, Mar?a Mar?a Blume Assistant Professor Department of Languages and Linguistics Liberal Arts Building, Room 119 University of Texas at El Paso (915) 747-6320 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From iris.antoons at vub.ac.be Tue Jun 20 15:12:37 2006 From: iris.antoons at vub.ac.be (Antoons Iris) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:12:37 +0200 Subject: acquisition and non-parametric tests Message-ID: Dear Childes-member, Does anyone have publications regarding/references to acquisition studies and the use of any of the following non-parametric tests: 1) percentage of non-overlapping data, 2) Cohen ?d and 3) Pearson r? Thanks, ________________ Iris Antoons Vrije Universiteit Brussel 1050 Brussel E-mail: iris.antoons at vub.ac.be, iris.antoons at ecats.gcsu.edu From deak at cogsci.ucsd.edu Mon Jun 26 21:33:57 2006 From: deak at cogsci.ucsd.edu (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gedeon_De=E1k?=) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 14:33:57 -0700 Subject: question about DVD camcorders In-Reply-To: <6DC38348EDE07642B024AA3CA0AA1BDC26EC3A@EX04.asurite.ad.asu.edu> Message-ID: We are trying the JVC Everios. Yes, you should back up. We're using a raid for that in the lab; cards and drives are cheap enough that it's not prohibitive to put one together. However, for later back-up the file transfer rate is way faster than the capture rate from mini-DVs, so if you're recording a lot of data from the field, there's a significant time savings compared to mini-DVs. The video quality is about as good/bad as the average mid-priced consumer-level DV (e.g., not as good as "pro-sumer" cameras, but way better than 1/4 CCD mini-cams...the Everios give "true" NTSC in the highest-quality mode, or something like it). The Everios are small (no tape mechanisms), so they're less obtrusive than most mini-DVs, which is nice for observational studies. Can't yet speak to reliability, durability or customer service on Everios. So don't read this as an endorsement but as an interim update from a new user. Anyone who's really interested can email me back in another month or so, & I'll provide a more detailed critique. On Jun 15, 2006, at 6:35 AM, Jeanne Wilcox wrote: > Has anyone used the newer camcorders that record to a hard drive? > My understanding is that the video can be downloaded via USB to a > hard drive on a computer. This sounds great, although I am worried > about not having something like a mini DV for a permanent archive. > I was thinking of keeping the archive files on a server that is > backed up regularly, and then keeping the working copy on a series > of compact hard drives that connect to a computer via USB. > Thoughts? Have others been thinking about this? > > Jeanne Wilcox > Arizona State University > -------------------------- > MJ Wilcox > Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Device > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: info-childes at mail.talkbank.org > To: info-childes at mail.talkbank.org > Sent: Thu Jun 15 05:52:47 2006 > Subject: Re: question about DVD camcorders > > Dear Info-CHILDES, Yvan, and Misha, > Internal mikes are never going to be as good as external mikes. > The noise on a miniDV camera is not the only issue, although it is a > factor. It is just that the internal mikes are typically not very > good. I should add that digital taperecorders that record to flash > memory do not have a motor noise issue at all, since nothing is being > transported. I have found that mike built in to the Edirol digital > recorder is actually the first internal mike that seems acceptable. > Please please don't record to the DVD format, if you plan to do > further analysis of your data. It is a highly proprietary format. > Someday, we will probably be able to "crack" the code for the DVD > format in terms of linking to programming, but who knows when? > > --Brian MacWhinney > > From edy.veneziano at paris5.sorbonne.fr Wed Jun 28 12:13:58 2006 From: edy.veneziano at paris5.sorbonne.fr (edy veneziano) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:13:58 +0200 Subject: Extended deadline - Special Issue of First Language on Conversation In-Reply-To: <8bcffd1faec1cb3de4f8414e059fad07@paris5.sorbonne.fr> Message-ID: ATTENTION! EXTENDED DEADLINE to submit papers for a special issue of FIRST LANGUAGE on conversation and language development NEW Deadline for Submission : SEPTEMBER 30th 2006 Responding to the demand of several perspective authors we extend the deadline for the submission of manuscripts till September 30th 2006. We wish to thank all the authors who submitted their manuscripts within the first deadline. Call for papers for a Special Issue of First Language Conversation in language development and use Guest editor: Edy Veneziano, Universit? Paris 5 - CNRS Conversation is almost unanimously recognized as the privileged site of language acquisition. In conversation, children have to draw deeply on their communicative and language resources and both to use and to extend their formal and pragmatic competencies. This Special Issue addresses the nature, effects and development of exchanges unfolding among children and their co-conversationalists. Papers presenting empirical work on tangible effects of conversation on the acquisition and/or use of early as well as later language are of focal interest to this Special Issue. Topics include (but are not restricted to): ? The role of conversational exchanges in early language acquisition and/or use (lexical, syntactic, morphological and pragmatic knowledge) ? The implications of conversational scaffolding for later developments (morphosyntactic, narrative and argumentative skills) ? Effects of acquiring and using conversational skills, including conversational repairs, explanations, justifications and argumentation ? Learning to adjust one's speech to the interlocutor: style, topic, means ? Individual differences ? Conversational skills in children with language impairments and other disorders Deadline for submissions: 30 June 2006 Submissions and enquiries should be addressed to: Edy Veneziano, Universit? Descartes Paris 5 - CNRS, 46 rue St Jacques, 75005 Paris, France email: edy.veneziano at univ-paris5.fr -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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