From michael at georgetown.edu Thu Jun 5 17:37:11 2008 From: michael at georgetown.edu (Michael Ullman) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 13:37:11 -0400 Subject: RA position open now at the Brain and Language Lab Message-ID: The Brain and Language Lab at Georgetown University (brainlang.georgetown.edu) has one new position, open immediately, for a Research Assistant/Lab Manager. If you know of any excellent candidates for this position (e.g., recently graduated seniors or master's students), can you please forward them this email? I would also greatly appreciate it if you could forward/post the job description below to any appropriate email lists at your institution. Thank you very much, Michael Ullman *************************************** RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITION AVAILABLE IN THE BRAIN AND LANGUAGE LAB THE BRAIN AND LANGUAGE LAB The Brain and Language Lab at Georgetown University investigates the biological and psychological bases of first and second language, and the relations between language and other cognitive domains, including memory, music and motor function. The lab's members test their hypotheses using a set of complementary behavioral, neurological, neuroimaging (ERP, MEG, fMRI) and other biological (genetic, endocrine, pharmacological) approaches. They are interested in the normal acquisition and processing of language and non-language functions, and their neurocognitive variability as a function of factors such as genetics, hormones, sex, handedness, age and learning environment; and in the breakdown, recovery and rehabilitation of language and non-language functions in a variety of disorders, including Specific Language Impairment, ADHD, dyslexia, autism, Tourette syndrome, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, and aphasia. For a fuller description of the Brain and Language Lab, please go to brainlang.georgetown.edu. RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITION We are seeking a full-time Research Assistant/Lab Manager. The successful candidate, who will work with the other RA/Lab Managers currently in the lab, will have the opportunity to be involved in a variety of projects, using a range of methodological approaches (see above and brainlang.georgetown.edu). S/he will have responsibility for various aspects of research and laboratory management and organization, including creating experimental stimuli; setting up and running experiments on a variety of subject groups; performing statistical analyses; helping manage the lab’s computers; managing undergraduate assistants; and working with the laboratory director and other lab members in preparing and managing grants and IRB protocols. Minimum requirements for the position include a Bachelor's or Master's degree, with a significant amount of course-work or research experience in at least two and ideally three of the following: linguistics, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, computer science, and statistics. Familiarity with Windows (and ideally Linux) is highly desirable, as is experience in programming or statistics and/or a strong math aptitude. A car is preferable because subject testing is conducted at multiple sites. The candidate must be extremely responsible, reliable, energetic, hard-working, organized, and efficient, and be able to work with a diverse group of people. To allow for sufficient time to learn new skills and to be productive, candidates should be available to work for at least two years, and ideally for three. Preference will be given to candidates who can begin immediately. Interested candidates should email Marco Piñeyro (map89 at georgetown.edu) their CV and one or two publications or other writing samples, and have 3 recommenders email him their recommendations directly. Salary will be commensurate with experience and qualifications. The position, which includes health benefits, is NIH-funded. Georgetown University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes-unsubscribe at googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- From jedwards2 at wisc.edu Mon Jun 9 15:31:09 2008 From: jedwards2 at wisc.edu (JAN R EDWARDS) Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 10:31:09 -0500 Subject: wireless microphone overseas In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi everyone, I wonder if any of you have ever bought a wireless microphone in the US and brought it overseas for recording. I just sent a student to Korea with to wireless microphones, but then I got an email from my salesperson at Full Compass which stated: "cannot take wireless oversees....customs will most likely not allow it.....you will have to obtain a wireless unit there if needed........ every country is different but wireless is 99% of the time banned or regulated to a point that you can't use it....." Have any of you had experience with this? Thanks! Yours, Jan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes-unsubscribe at googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- From AnjaMueller at em.uni-frankfurt.de Mon Jun 16 08:02:24 2008 From: AnjaMueller at em.uni-frankfurt.de (AnjaMueller at em.uni-frankfurt.de) Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:02:24 +0200 Subject: Call for Papers Message-ID: Production-comprehension asymmetries in child language Call Deadline: 20-August-2008 We are very pleased to announce the Workshop Comprehension-Production- Asymmetries in Child Language, to be held at the University of Osnabrück (Germany), March 3 to March 6, 2009, as part of the Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS). The workshop comprises a main and a special session. The main session aims at considering comprehension-production asymmetries in child language from theoretical and methodical perspectives (chairs by Angela Grimm & Anja Müller). The topic of the special session is Pronouns, Clitics, and Binding Theory (chairs by Cornelia Hamann & Esther Ruigendijk). Contributions should address al least one of the following topics ? new results and theoretical accounts ? monolingual and bilingual acquisition ? atypical development ? advantages and disadvantages of experimental research methods Presentations are allotted to 25 minutes (20 min. presentation and 5 min. for discussion). A more detailed description of the workshop (call for the main session and call for the special session) and information on the DGfS-Meeting can be found at http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/fb/fb10/inst_i/DaZ/Wissenschaftliche_Tagungen/DGfS_2009_AG3 Guidelines for Abstract submissions: The abstract should consist in a two-pages MS-Word or PDF file. The first page should include the title of your presentation and your abstract (2.5 cm margins on each side and 12pt font size, single-spaced). The second page should include the author´s name(s), affiliation(s), email address and again the title of your presentation. Please indicate at this page the session (main or special session) you are submitting the abstract to. Submit your abstract to dgfs-ag3 at dlist.uni-frankfurt.de Abstract and workshop language is English. Dates and Deadlines Call deadline: August 20, 2008. Notification of acceptance: September 5, 2008 Preliminary program, September 16, 2008 Final Program: December 1, 2008 Workshop: March 3 to March 6, 2009. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes-unsubscribe at googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- From AnjaMueller at em.uni-frankfurt.de Mon Jun 16 08:15:46 2008 From: AnjaMueller at em.uni-frankfurt.de (AnjaMueller at em.uni-frankfurt.de) Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:15:46 +0200 Subject: Call for Papers Message-ID: Sorry, in my first mail I send you an incomplete link to our homepage. Now it works. Best wishes, Anja Production-comprehension asymmetries in child language Call Deadline: 20-August-2008 We are very pleased to announce the Workshop Comprehension-Production- Asymmetries in Child Language, to be held at the University of Osnabrück (Germany), March 3 to March 6, 2009, as part of the Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS). The workshop comprises a main and a special session. The main session aims at considering comprehension-production asymmetries in child language from theoretical and methodical perspectives (chairs by Angela Grimm & Anja Müller). The topic of the special session is Pronouns, Clitics, and Binding Theory (chairs by Cornelia Hamann & Esther Ruigendijk). Contributions should address al least one of the following topics ? new results and theoretical accounts ? monolingual and bilingual acquisition ? atypical development ? advantages and disadvantages of experimental research methods Presentations are allotted to 25 minutes (20 min. presentation and 5 min. for discussion). A more detailed description of the workshop (call for the main session and call for the special session) and information on the DGfS-Meeting can be found at http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/fb/fb10/inst_i/DaZ/Wissenschaftliche_Tagungen/index.html Guidelines for Abstract submissions: The abstract should consist in a two-pages MS-Word or PDF file. The first page should include the title of your presentation and your abstract (2.5 cm margins on each side and 12pt font size, single-spaced). The second page should include the author´s name(s), affiliation(s), email address and again the title of your presentation. Please indicate at this page the session (main or special session) you are submitting the abstract to. Submit your abstract to dgfs-ag3 at dlist.uni-frankfurt.de Abstract and workshop language is English. Dates and Deadlines Call deadline: August 20, 2008. Notification of acceptance: September 5, 2008 Preliminary program, September 16, 2008 Final Program: December 1, 2008 Workshop: March 3 to March 6, 2009. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes-unsubscribe at googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- From c.l.cannizzaro at rug.nl Tue Jun 17 08:27:38 2008 From: c.l.cannizzaro at rug.nl (C Cannizzaro) Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:27:38 -0700 Subject: Call for papers - RASCAL Conference Message-ID: Relating Asymmetries between Speech & Comprehension in the Acquisition of Language (RASCAL) Conference University of Groningen, the Netherlands January 24th & January 25th, 2009 Call deadline: September 22, 2008 Background: In the past decades, research on language acquisition has identified several asymmetries between production and comprehension in various languages and in various components of the grammar (e.g., word order, tense/aspect, contrastive stress and referring expressions such as pronouns). It has been shown that young children sometimes use a particular grammatical form, for example the pronoun him, in an adult- like systematic way when they speak. Yet, research also shows that they often do not understand this same form correctly when uttered by someone else. In other cases, children understand a form before they seem to be able to use it themselves. Such asymmetries came as a surprise to investigators, since speakers who obey a rule in production are presumed to know this rule, and hence should obey this rule in comprehension, too (and vice versa for hearers). Obviously, such asymmetries in acquisition create difficulties for a traditional rule-based grammar, since no asymmetries are expected under the view of the grammar as a direction-insensitive system of rules. The aim of this conference is to bring together theoretical and empirical research addressing symmetries and asymmetries in child language comprehension and production. Invited speakers: Lila Gleitman, University of Pennsylvania Helen Tager-Flusberg, Boston University We welcome contributions related to the following fields: - Linguistic Theory - First language acquisition - Second language acquisition - Bilingualism - Language Disorders - Cognition & Language - Psycholinguistics - Semantics - Syntax - Pragmatics - Discourse & Narrative We are interested in submissions that consider the theoretical implications of (a)symmetrical relations between production and comprehension, submissions that address the role of grammar and cognitive development in language acquisition and submissions that address methodological problems in comparing performance in comprehension with performance in production. Furthermore, submissions that focus on language disorders and symmetries/asymmetries between comprehension and production are also solicited. Abstracts: Abstracts are invited for 30 minute talks (with 15 minutes for discussion), as well as poster presentations. The conference language is English. Submissions should include: - A cover page with the title of the paper/poster, all authors’ names and affiliations,and contact information of the 1st author (postal address, email address, telephone). On the cover page, include 2-4 key words relating to research fields and indicate whether you would like your abstract to be considered for a poster, a paper, or both. - A one-page abstract (single-spaced with at least size 11 font), with an optional second page for examples, data and references. No identity properties of the author should be found on the abstract page(s). Cover page and abstract must be submitted electronically to rascal at rug.nl, in PDF FORMAT. Please title the email “Abstract RASCAL” + the first author’s last name. All authors will be invited to submit their paper for a journal proceedings volume. The deadline for abstract submission is September 22, 2008 and notification of acceptance will be sent no later than October 27, 2008. Further information is available on our website: www.rug.nl/let/RASCAL2009 rascal at rug.nl Organizers: Charlotte Koster, Sanne Kuijper, Gisi Cannizzaro, Petra Hendriks --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes-unsubscribe at googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- From macw at cmu.edu Mon Jun 23 21:20:48 2008 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:20:48 -0400 Subject: webCLAN Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, Leonid has written a web-based version of CLAN called WebCLAN. This facility runs off a link that can be found right near the top of the CHILDES home page. The link is the second one in the right column and it is called WebCLAN. To run WebCLAN, just go through these steps. 1. Click on the link that takes you to the WebCLAN page. 2. Select a corpus you wish to analyze. Select the files you wish to analyze or simply enter *.cha. 3. Choose a CLAN program, such as MLU or FREQ. 4. Add the additional switches such as +s, +t, +u that you would normally use with this command. I think this way of running CLAN is particularly useful for students who are conducting class projects, since it saves them the hassle of downloading the raw data files. I would be happy to receive input regarding this new function. However, I should add that we are, in parallel, working on a more user-friendly XQuery-based web interface that would allow you to compose these search strings through dialogs. -- Brian MacWhinney --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes-unsubscribe at googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- From sigaluk at gmail.com Mon Jun 23 21:49:46 2008 From: sigaluk at gmail.com (Sigal Uziel-Karl) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:49:46 +0300 Subject: webCLAN In-Reply-To: <3DEEE211-E4C9-44C6-80CA-A9BFA7447BE6@cmu.edu> Message-ID: Dear Brian, Thank you! The web application is really neat! I tried running MLT on some Hebrew files and it worked very nicely! I guess the commands can run this way only on main lines or on corpora that were contributed to CHILDES already coded, right? I mean, if I wanted to run a command on a certain coding line (say %mor), I would still have to download the transcript, code it and only then run the command. The current web-based interface does not let you do on-line coding, right? Thank you, Sigal. -----Original Message----- From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brian MacWhinney Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 12:21 AM To: info-childes at googlegroups.com Subject: webCLAN Dear Info-CHILDES, Leonid has written a web-based version of CLAN called WebCLAN. This facility runs off a link that can be found right near the top of the CHILDES home page. The link is the second one in the right column and it is called WebCLAN. To run WebCLAN, just go through these steps. 1. Click on the link that takes you to the WebCLAN page. 2. Select a corpus you wish to analyze. Select the files you wish to analyze or simply enter *.cha. 3. Choose a CLAN program, such as MLU or FREQ. 4. Add the additional switches such as +s, +t, +u that you would normally use with this command. I think this way of running CLAN is particularly useful for students who are conducting class projects, since it saves them the hassle of downloading the raw data files. I would be happy to receive input regarding this new function. However, I should add that we are, in parallel, working on a more user-friendly XQuery-based web interface that would allow you to compose these search strings through dialogs. -- Brian MacWhinney --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes-unsubscribe at googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- From macw at cmu.edu Tue Jun 24 02:59:03 2008 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:59:03 -0400 Subject: webCLAN In-Reply-To: <013301c8d57b$0dd0a390$1200000a@sigallenovo> Message-ID: Dear Sigal, Yes, I am afraid it is limited in this way and many other ways. By the end of the year, we will have another, more flexible method, but this is all we have for now, I am afraid. -- Brian On Jun 23, 2008, at 5:49 PM, Sigal Uziel-Karl wrote: > > Dear Brian, > > Thank you! The web application is really neat! I tried running MLT > on some > Hebrew files and it worked very nicely! > > I guess the commands can run this way only on main lines or on > corpora that > were contributed to CHILDES already coded, right? I mean, if I > wanted to run > a command on a certain coding line (say %mor), I would still have to > download the transcript, code it and only then run the command. The > current > web-based interface does not let you do on-line coding, right? > > Thank you, > > Sigal. > > -----Original Message----- > From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com > ] > On Behalf Of Brian MacWhinney > Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 12:21 AM > To: info-childes at googlegroups.com > Subject: webCLAN > > > Dear Info-CHILDES, > > Leonid has written a web-based version of CLAN called WebCLAN. > This facility runs off a link that can be found right near the top of > the CHILDES home page. The link is the second one in the right column > and it is called WebCLAN. > To run WebCLAN, just go through these steps. > 1. Click on the link that takes you to the WebCLAN page. > 2. Select a corpus you wish to analyze. Select the files you wish to > analyze or simply enter *.cha. > 3. Choose a CLAN program, such as MLU or FREQ. > 4. Add the additional switches such as +s, +t, +u that you would > normally use with this command. > > I think this way of running CLAN is particularly useful for students > who are conducting class projects, since it saves them the hassle of > downloading the raw data files. I would be happy to receive input > regarding this new function. However, I should add that we are, in > parallel, working on a more user-friendly XQuery-based web interface > that would allow you to compose these search strings through dialogs. > > -- Brian MacWhinney > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes-unsubscribe at googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- From k.j.alcock at lancaster.ac.uk Tue Jun 24 08:45:07 2008 From: k.j.alcock at lancaster.ac.uk (Alcock, Katie) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:45:07 +0100 Subject: Fully-funded MSc plus PhD place at Lancaster University - Revised closing date (4th July) Message-ID: Fully-funded MSc plus PhD place at Lancaster University, in partnership with the Down Syndrome Educational Trust, Portsmouth, to commence in October, 2008. Please note this is a *change of closing date* and any pending applications are still being considered. Oral motor abilities: Speech and Language in Down Syndrome This project will provide funding for a student to complete both the MSc in Psychological Research Methods (or in Developmental Psychology, as preferred by the student), and three years registration at PhD level, subject to satisfactory completion of the MSc. Alternatively, students who already hold a suitable Masters degree are encouraged to apply for funding for a three year PhD place. Background to the project: Children who have Down Syndrome (DS) have difficulties with speech and language. Usually these are more impaired than non-verbal abilities for such children, and unintelligible speech, as well as difficulties in constructing meaningful sentences, lead to social, communication, and educational difficulties. It has also been found that children with DS have problems with oral motor control (control of mouth movements). It is not known how much these two sets of difficulties are linked. Do children find it hard to speak because they cannot control their mouth movements? Or do children who have poor speech and do not practice moving their mouths while speaking lack the experience of motor control to be able to perform other types of mouth movements? It is also hard to know whether children's language difficulties are due to their poor speech - difficulty with word formation leading to difficulty with sentence formation - or whether, for example, memory or cognitive difficulties are more closely related to language difficulties. This project will compare children with DS to typically developing (TD) children with the same mental age, testing both groups of children at three time points on tests of oral motor control, speech, language, and non-verbal abilities. We will be able to see whether poor oral motor control when children are younger leads to poor speech and/or language when children are older, or whether the link is in the other direction. This research will give us more information about the motor, speech and language abilities of children with Down Syndrome. It will therefore help speech and language therapists, parents, teachers, and psychologists providing assessments and interventions, especially in determining how development might be expected to proceed in these children. We will also be able to find out more about the possible links between oral movements, speech and language in typically developing children and those with speech and language difficulties. Research will be carried out in the North-West and in Portsmouth but it is expected that the student will be resident in Lancaster with data collection trips lasting 2 to 8 weeks spent in Portsmouth. There are now several popular speech therapies being promoted and taught that involve oral motor practice. Knowing how much early oral motor abilities contribute to later speech and language abilities may also help us to determine whether these therapies are based on genuine links between children's speech, language and oral motor skill development. The successful student will be registered for an MSc from 1st October 2008 and will receive a tax-free stipend of £14,600 per annum, payment of tuition fees, and research expenses which will be provided by the non-academic partner. Stipends may only be paid to EU or UK students who satisfy the basic residential eligibility requirements. We welcome applications from well-qualified new graduates or those about to graduate, or those with an appropriate Masters degree. Note that the successful candidate will be required to undergo a CRB check. The deadline for applications is 4th July. Potential applicants are encouraged to contact Dr Katie Alcock (k.j.alcock at lancaster.ac.uk) for informal discussion. Alternatively contact the Department's postgraduate coordinator for an application form: Telephone: +44 (0)1524 594975 Fax: +44 (0)1524 593744 Email: postgraduate.psychology at lancaster.ac.uk Address: Psychology Department Lancaster University Lancaster, LA1 4YF --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes-unsubscribe at googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- From smiyata at asu.aasa.ac.jp Sat Jun 28 10:06:59 2008 From: smiyata at asu.aasa.ac.jp (Miyata, Susanne: Japan) Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:06:59 -0700 Subject: webCLAN In-Reply-To: <3DEEE211-E4C9-44C6-80CA-A9BFA7447BE6@cmu.edu> Message-ID: Dear Brian, this is a great function, especially for teaching. No fuss with working directory setting and bak.bak.bak files etc. :-) Susanne --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes-unsubscribe at googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- From victoria.murphy at education.ox.ac.uk Mon Jun 30 09:42:27 2008 From: victoria.murphy at education.ox.ac.uk (Vicki) Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:42:27 -0700 Subject: Oxford L1-L2 Conference Message-ID: First and second languages: Exploring the relationship in pedagogy- related contexts. Friday, 27 March – Saturday, 28 March 2009 University of Oxford, Oxford UK Organizing Committee: The Applied Linguistics Research Group (University of Oxford) Plenary speakers: Professor Fred Genesee, Department of Psychology, McGill University Professor Vivian Cook School of ECLS, University of Newcastle Professor Kees de Bot Department of Applied Linguistics, University of Groningen Deadlines: As a result of a number of requests from colleagues around the world who were alerted to this event only recently, we have extended the deadline for proposals for the conference to 31st July 2008, and therefore we will now be contacting you with the committee's decisions in early September. We apologise for this delay. If you haven't submitted a proposal but would like to, please send proposals by providing a Title and an Abstract of no more than 200 words to ernesto.macaro at education.ox.ac.uk --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes-unsubscribe at googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- From cslater at alma.edu Mon Jun 30 18:52:39 2008 From: cslater at alma.edu (Carol Slater) Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:52:39 -0400 Subject: webCLAN In-Reply-To: <3DEEE211-E4C9-44C6-80CA-A9BFA7447BE6@cmu.edu> Message-ID: Sounds great! Thanks to Leonid and the CHILDES crew. Carol ---- Original message ---- >Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:20:48 -0400 >From: Brian MacWhinney >Subject: webCLAN >To: info-childes at googlegroups.com > > >Dear Info-CHILDES, > > Leonid has written a web-based version of CLAN called WebCLAN. >This facility runs off a link that can be found right near the top of >the CHILDES home page. The link is the second one in the right column >and it is called WebCLAN. > To run WebCLAN, just go through these steps. >1. Click on the link that takes you to the WebCLAN page. >2. Select a corpus you wish to analyze. Select the files you wish to >analyze or simply enter *.cha. >3. Choose a CLAN program, such as MLU or FREQ. >4. Add the additional switches such as +s, +t, +u that you would >normally use with this command. > >I think this way of running CLAN is particularly useful for students >who are conducting class projects, since it saves them the hassle of >downloading the raw data files. I would be happy to receive input >regarding this new function. However, I should add that we are, in >parallel, working on a more user-friendly XQuery-based web interface >that would allow you to compose these search strings through dialogs. > >-- Brian MacWhinney > > > >> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes-unsubscribe at googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- From michael at georgetown.edu Thu Jun 5 17:37:11 2008 From: michael at georgetown.edu (Michael Ullman) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 13:37:11 -0400 Subject: RA position open now at the Brain and Language Lab Message-ID: The Brain and Language Lab at Georgetown University (brainlang.georgetown.edu) has one new position, open immediately, for a Research Assistant/Lab Manager. If you know of any excellent candidates for this position (e.g., recently graduated seniors or master's students), can you please forward them this email? I would also greatly appreciate it if you could forward/post the job description below to any appropriate email lists at your institution. Thank you very much, Michael Ullman *************************************** RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITION AVAILABLE IN THE BRAIN AND LANGUAGE LAB THE BRAIN AND LANGUAGE LAB The Brain and Language Lab at Georgetown University investigates the biological and psychological bases of first and second language, and the relations between language and other cognitive domains, including memory, music and motor function. The lab's members test their hypotheses using a set of complementary behavioral, neurological, neuroimaging (ERP, MEG, fMRI) and other biological (genetic, endocrine, pharmacological) approaches. They are interested in the normal acquisition and processing of language and non-language functions, and their neurocognitive variability as a function of factors such as genetics, hormones, sex, handedness, age and learning environment; and in the breakdown, recovery and rehabilitation of language and non-language functions in a variety of disorders, including Specific Language Impairment, ADHD, dyslexia, autism, Tourette syndrome, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, and aphasia. For a fuller description of the Brain and Language Lab, please go to brainlang.georgetown.edu. RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITION We are seeking a full-time Research Assistant/Lab Manager. The successful candidate, who will work with the other RA/Lab Managers currently in the lab, will have the opportunity to be involved in a variety of projects, using a range of methodological approaches (see above and brainlang.georgetown.edu). S/he will have responsibility for various aspects of research and laboratory management and organization, including creating experimental stimuli; setting up and running experiments on a variety of subject groups; performing statistical analyses; helping manage the lab?s computers; managing undergraduate assistants; and working with the laboratory director and other lab members in preparing and managing grants and IRB protocols. Minimum requirements for the position include a Bachelor's or Master's degree, with a significant amount of course-work or research experience in at least two and ideally three of the following: linguistics, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, computer science, and statistics. Familiarity with Windows (and ideally Linux) is highly desirable, as is experience in programming or statistics and/or a strong math aptitude. A car is preferable because subject testing is conducted at multiple sites. The candidate must be extremely responsible, reliable, energetic, hard-working, organized, and efficient, and be able to work with a diverse group of people. To allow for sufficient time to learn new skills and to be productive, candidates should be available to work for at least two years, and ideally for three. Preference will be given to candidates who can begin immediately. Interested candidates should email Marco Pi?eyro (map89 at georgetown.edu) their CV and one or two publications or other writing samples, and have 3 recommenders email him their recommendations directly. Salary will be commensurate with experience and qualifications. The position, which includes health benefits, is NIH-funded. Georgetown University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes-unsubscribe at googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- From jedwards2 at wisc.edu Mon Jun 9 15:31:09 2008 From: jedwards2 at wisc.edu (JAN R EDWARDS) Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 10:31:09 -0500 Subject: wireless microphone overseas In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi everyone, I wonder if any of you have ever bought a wireless microphone in the US and brought it overseas for recording. I just sent a student to Korea with to wireless microphones, but then I got an email from my salesperson at Full Compass which stated: "cannot take wireless oversees....customs will most likely not allow it.....you will have to obtain a wireless unit there if needed........ every country is different but wireless is 99% of the time banned or regulated to a point that you can't use it....." Have any of you had experience with this? Thanks! Yours, Jan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes-unsubscribe at googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- From AnjaMueller at em.uni-frankfurt.de Mon Jun 16 08:02:24 2008 From: AnjaMueller at em.uni-frankfurt.de (AnjaMueller at em.uni-frankfurt.de) Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:02:24 +0200 Subject: Call for Papers Message-ID: Production-comprehension asymmetries in child language Call Deadline: 20-August-2008 We are very pleased to announce the Workshop Comprehension-Production- Asymmetries in Child Language, to be held at the University of Osnabr?ck (Germany), March 3 to March 6, 2009, as part of the Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS). The workshop comprises a main and a special session. The main session aims at considering comprehension-production asymmetries in child language from theoretical and methodical perspectives (chairs by Angela Grimm & Anja M?ller). The topic of the special session is Pronouns, Clitics, and Binding Theory (chairs by Cornelia Hamann & Esther Ruigendijk). Contributions should address al least one of the following topics ? new results and theoretical accounts ? monolingual and bilingual acquisition ? atypical development ? advantages and disadvantages of experimental research methods Presentations are allotted to 25 minutes (20 min. presentation and 5 min. for discussion). A more detailed description of the workshop (call for the main session and call for the special session) and information on the DGfS-Meeting can be found at http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/fb/fb10/inst_i/DaZ/Wissenschaftliche_Tagungen/DGfS_2009_AG3 Guidelines for Abstract submissions: The abstract should consist in a two-pages MS-Word or PDF file. The first page should include the title of your presentation and your abstract (2.5 cm margins on each side and 12pt font size, single-spaced). The second page should include the author?s name(s), affiliation(s), email address and again the title of your presentation. Please indicate at this page the session (main or special session) you are submitting the abstract to. Submit your abstract to dgfs-ag3 at dlist.uni-frankfurt.de Abstract and workshop language is English. Dates and Deadlines Call deadline: August 20, 2008. Notification of acceptance: September 5, 2008 Preliminary program, September 16, 2008 Final Program: December 1, 2008 Workshop: March 3 to March 6, 2009. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes-unsubscribe at googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- From AnjaMueller at em.uni-frankfurt.de Mon Jun 16 08:15:46 2008 From: AnjaMueller at em.uni-frankfurt.de (AnjaMueller at em.uni-frankfurt.de) Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:15:46 +0200 Subject: Call for Papers Message-ID: Sorry, in my first mail I send you an incomplete link to our homepage. Now it works. Best wishes, Anja Production-comprehension asymmetries in child language Call Deadline: 20-August-2008 We are very pleased to announce the Workshop Comprehension-Production- Asymmetries in Child Language, to be held at the University of Osnabr?ck (Germany), March 3 to March 6, 2009, as part of the Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS). The workshop comprises a main and a special session. The main session aims at considering comprehension-production asymmetries in child language from theoretical and methodical perspectives (chairs by Angela Grimm & Anja M?ller). The topic of the special session is Pronouns, Clitics, and Binding Theory (chairs by Cornelia Hamann & Esther Ruigendijk). Contributions should address al least one of the following topics ? new results and theoretical accounts ? monolingual and bilingual acquisition ? atypical development ? advantages and disadvantages of experimental research methods Presentations are allotted to 25 minutes (20 min. presentation and 5 min. for discussion). A more detailed description of the workshop (call for the main session and call for the special session) and information on the DGfS-Meeting can be found at http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/fb/fb10/inst_i/DaZ/Wissenschaftliche_Tagungen/index.html Guidelines for Abstract submissions: The abstract should consist in a two-pages MS-Word or PDF file. The first page should include the title of your presentation and your abstract (2.5 cm margins on each side and 12pt font size, single-spaced). The second page should include the author?s name(s), affiliation(s), email address and again the title of your presentation. Please indicate at this page the session (main or special session) you are submitting the abstract to. Submit your abstract to dgfs-ag3 at dlist.uni-frankfurt.de Abstract and workshop language is English. Dates and Deadlines Call deadline: August 20, 2008. Notification of acceptance: September 5, 2008 Preliminary program, September 16, 2008 Final Program: December 1, 2008 Workshop: March 3 to March 6, 2009. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes-unsubscribe at googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- From c.l.cannizzaro at rug.nl Tue Jun 17 08:27:38 2008 From: c.l.cannizzaro at rug.nl (C Cannizzaro) Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:27:38 -0700 Subject: Call for papers - RASCAL Conference Message-ID: Relating Asymmetries between Speech & Comprehension in the Acquisition of Language (RASCAL) Conference University of Groningen, the Netherlands January 24th & January 25th, 2009 Call deadline: September 22, 2008 Background: In the past decades, research on language acquisition has identified several asymmetries between production and comprehension in various languages and in various components of the grammar (e.g., word order, tense/aspect, contrastive stress and referring expressions such as pronouns). It has been shown that young children sometimes use a particular grammatical form, for example the pronoun him, in an adult- like systematic way when they speak. Yet, research also shows that they often do not understand this same form correctly when uttered by someone else. In other cases, children understand a form before they seem to be able to use it themselves. Such asymmetries came as a surprise to investigators, since speakers who obey a rule in production are presumed to know this rule, and hence should obey this rule in comprehension, too (and vice versa for hearers). Obviously, such asymmetries in acquisition create difficulties for a traditional rule-based grammar, since no asymmetries are expected under the view of the grammar as a direction-insensitive system of rules. The aim of this conference is to bring together theoretical and empirical research addressing symmetries and asymmetries in child language comprehension and production. Invited speakers: Lila Gleitman, University of Pennsylvania Helen Tager-Flusberg, Boston University We welcome contributions related to the following fields: - Linguistic Theory - First language acquisition - Second language acquisition - Bilingualism - Language Disorders - Cognition & Language - Psycholinguistics - Semantics - Syntax - Pragmatics - Discourse & Narrative We are interested in submissions that consider the theoretical implications of (a)symmetrical relations between production and comprehension, submissions that address the role of grammar and cognitive development in language acquisition and submissions that address methodological problems in comparing performance in comprehension with performance in production. Furthermore, submissions that focus on language disorders and symmetries/asymmetries between comprehension and production are also solicited. Abstracts: Abstracts are invited for 30 minute talks (with 15 minutes for discussion), as well as poster presentations. The conference language is English. Submissions should include: - A cover page with the title of the paper/poster, all authors? names and affiliations,and contact information of the 1st author (postal address, email address, telephone). On the cover page, include 2-4 key words relating to research fields and indicate whether you would like your abstract to be considered for a poster, a paper, or both. - A one-page abstract (single-spaced with at least size 11 font), with an optional second page for examples, data and references. No identity properties of the author should be found on the abstract page(s). Cover page and abstract must be submitted electronically to rascal at rug.nl, in PDF FORMAT. Please title the email ?Abstract RASCAL? + the first author?s last name. All authors will be invited to submit their paper for a journal proceedings volume. The deadline for abstract submission is September 22, 2008 and notification of acceptance will be sent no later than October 27, 2008. Further information is available on our website: www.rug.nl/let/RASCAL2009 rascal at rug.nl Organizers: Charlotte Koster, Sanne Kuijper, Gisi Cannizzaro, Petra Hendriks --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes-unsubscribe at googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- From macw at cmu.edu Mon Jun 23 21:20:48 2008 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:20:48 -0400 Subject: webCLAN Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, Leonid has written a web-based version of CLAN called WebCLAN. This facility runs off a link that can be found right near the top of the CHILDES home page. The link is the second one in the right column and it is called WebCLAN. To run WebCLAN, just go through these steps. 1. Click on the link that takes you to the WebCLAN page. 2. Select a corpus you wish to analyze. Select the files you wish to analyze or simply enter *.cha. 3. Choose a CLAN program, such as MLU or FREQ. 4. Add the additional switches such as +s, +t, +u that you would normally use with this command. I think this way of running CLAN is particularly useful for students who are conducting class projects, since it saves them the hassle of downloading the raw data files. I would be happy to receive input regarding this new function. However, I should add that we are, in parallel, working on a more user-friendly XQuery-based web interface that would allow you to compose these search strings through dialogs. -- Brian MacWhinney --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes-unsubscribe at googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- From sigaluk at gmail.com Mon Jun 23 21:49:46 2008 From: sigaluk at gmail.com (Sigal Uziel-Karl) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:49:46 +0300 Subject: webCLAN In-Reply-To: <3DEEE211-E4C9-44C6-80CA-A9BFA7447BE6@cmu.edu> Message-ID: Dear Brian, Thank you! The web application is really neat! I tried running MLT on some Hebrew files and it worked very nicely! I guess the commands can run this way only on main lines or on corpora that were contributed to CHILDES already coded, right? I mean, if I wanted to run a command on a certain coding line (say %mor), I would still have to download the transcript, code it and only then run the command. The current web-based interface does not let you do on-line coding, right? Thank you, Sigal. -----Original Message----- From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brian MacWhinney Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 12:21 AM To: info-childes at googlegroups.com Subject: webCLAN Dear Info-CHILDES, Leonid has written a web-based version of CLAN called WebCLAN. This facility runs off a link that can be found right near the top of the CHILDES home page. The link is the second one in the right column and it is called WebCLAN. To run WebCLAN, just go through these steps. 1. Click on the link that takes you to the WebCLAN page. 2. Select a corpus you wish to analyze. Select the files you wish to analyze or simply enter *.cha. 3. Choose a CLAN program, such as MLU or FREQ. 4. Add the additional switches such as +s, +t, +u that you would normally use with this command. I think this way of running CLAN is particularly useful for students who are conducting class projects, since it saves them the hassle of downloading the raw data files. I would be happy to receive input regarding this new function. However, I should add that we are, in parallel, working on a more user-friendly XQuery-based web interface that would allow you to compose these search strings through dialogs. -- Brian MacWhinney --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes-unsubscribe at googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- From macw at cmu.edu Tue Jun 24 02:59:03 2008 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:59:03 -0400 Subject: webCLAN In-Reply-To: <013301c8d57b$0dd0a390$1200000a@sigallenovo> Message-ID: Dear Sigal, Yes, I am afraid it is limited in this way and many other ways. By the end of the year, we will have another, more flexible method, but this is all we have for now, I am afraid. -- Brian On Jun 23, 2008, at 5:49 PM, Sigal Uziel-Karl wrote: > > Dear Brian, > > Thank you! The web application is really neat! I tried running MLT > on some > Hebrew files and it worked very nicely! > > I guess the commands can run this way only on main lines or on > corpora that > were contributed to CHILDES already coded, right? I mean, if I > wanted to run > a command on a certain coding line (say %mor), I would still have to > download the transcript, code it and only then run the command. The > current > web-based interface does not let you do on-line coding, right? > > Thank you, > > Sigal. > > -----Original Message----- > From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com > ] > On Behalf Of Brian MacWhinney > Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 12:21 AM > To: info-childes at googlegroups.com > Subject: webCLAN > > > Dear Info-CHILDES, > > Leonid has written a web-based version of CLAN called WebCLAN. > This facility runs off a link that can be found right near the top of > the CHILDES home page. The link is the second one in the right column > and it is called WebCLAN. > To run WebCLAN, just go through these steps. > 1. Click on the link that takes you to the WebCLAN page. > 2. Select a corpus you wish to analyze. Select the files you wish to > analyze or simply enter *.cha. > 3. Choose a CLAN program, such as MLU or FREQ. > 4. Add the additional switches such as +s, +t, +u that you would > normally use with this command. > > I think this way of running CLAN is particularly useful for students > who are conducting class projects, since it saves them the hassle of > downloading the raw data files. I would be happy to receive input > regarding this new function. However, I should add that we are, in > parallel, working on a more user-friendly XQuery-based web interface > that would allow you to compose these search strings through dialogs. > > -- Brian MacWhinney > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes-unsubscribe at googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- From k.j.alcock at lancaster.ac.uk Tue Jun 24 08:45:07 2008 From: k.j.alcock at lancaster.ac.uk (Alcock, Katie) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:45:07 +0100 Subject: Fully-funded MSc plus PhD place at Lancaster University - Revised closing date (4th July) Message-ID: Fully-funded MSc plus PhD place at Lancaster University, in partnership with the Down Syndrome Educational Trust, Portsmouth, to commence in October, 2008. Please note this is a *change of closing date* and any pending applications are still being considered. Oral motor abilities: Speech and Language in Down Syndrome This project will provide funding for a student to complete both the MSc in Psychological Research Methods (or in Developmental Psychology, as preferred by the student), and three years registration at PhD level, subject to satisfactory completion of the MSc. Alternatively, students who already hold a suitable Masters degree are encouraged to apply for funding for a three year PhD place. Background to the project: Children who have Down Syndrome (DS) have difficulties with speech and language. Usually these are more impaired than non-verbal abilities for such children, and unintelligible speech, as well as difficulties in constructing meaningful sentences, lead to social, communication, and educational difficulties. It has also been found that children with DS have problems with oral motor control (control of mouth movements). It is not known how much these two sets of difficulties are linked. Do children find it hard to speak because they cannot control their mouth movements? Or do children who have poor speech and do not practice moving their mouths while speaking lack the experience of motor control to be able to perform other types of mouth movements? It is also hard to know whether children's language difficulties are due to their poor speech - difficulty with word formation leading to difficulty with sentence formation - or whether, for example, memory or cognitive difficulties are more closely related to language difficulties. This project will compare children with DS to typically developing (TD) children with the same mental age, testing both groups of children at three time points on tests of oral motor control, speech, language, and non-verbal abilities. We will be able to see whether poor oral motor control when children are younger leads to poor speech and/or language when children are older, or whether the link is in the other direction. This research will give us more information about the motor, speech and language abilities of children with Down Syndrome. It will therefore help speech and language therapists, parents, teachers, and psychologists providing assessments and interventions, especially in determining how development might be expected to proceed in these children. We will also be able to find out more about the possible links between oral movements, speech and language in typically developing children and those with speech and language difficulties. Research will be carried out in the North-West and in Portsmouth but it is expected that the student will be resident in Lancaster with data collection trips lasting 2 to 8 weeks spent in Portsmouth. There are now several popular speech therapies being promoted and taught that involve oral motor practice. Knowing how much early oral motor abilities contribute to later speech and language abilities may also help us to determine whether these therapies are based on genuine links between children's speech, language and oral motor skill development. The successful student will be registered for an MSc from 1st October 2008 and will receive a tax-free stipend of ?14,600 per annum, payment of tuition fees, and research expenses which will be provided by the non-academic partner. Stipends may only be paid to EU or UK students who satisfy the basic residential eligibility requirements. We welcome applications from well-qualified new graduates or those about to graduate, or those with an appropriate Masters degree. Note that the successful candidate will be required to undergo a CRB check. The deadline for applications is 4th July. Potential applicants are encouraged to contact Dr Katie Alcock (k.j.alcock at lancaster.ac.uk) for informal discussion. Alternatively contact the Department's postgraduate coordinator for an application form: Telephone: +44 (0)1524 594975 Fax: +44 (0)1524 593744 Email: postgraduate.psychology at lancaster.ac.uk Address: Psychology Department Lancaster University Lancaster, LA1 4YF --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes-unsubscribe at googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- From smiyata at asu.aasa.ac.jp Sat Jun 28 10:06:59 2008 From: smiyata at asu.aasa.ac.jp (Miyata, Susanne: Japan) Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:06:59 -0700 Subject: webCLAN In-Reply-To: <3DEEE211-E4C9-44C6-80CA-A9BFA7447BE6@cmu.edu> Message-ID: Dear Brian, this is a great function, especially for teaching. No fuss with working directory setting and bak.bak.bak files etc. :-) Susanne --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes-unsubscribe at googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- From victoria.murphy at education.ox.ac.uk Mon Jun 30 09:42:27 2008 From: victoria.murphy at education.ox.ac.uk (Vicki) Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:42:27 -0700 Subject: Oxford L1-L2 Conference Message-ID: First and second languages: Exploring the relationship in pedagogy- related contexts. Friday, 27 March ? Saturday, 28 March 2009 University of Oxford, Oxford UK Organizing Committee: The Applied Linguistics Research Group (University of Oxford) Plenary speakers: Professor Fred Genesee, Department of Psychology, McGill University Professor Vivian Cook School of ECLS, University of Newcastle Professor Kees de Bot Department of Applied Linguistics, University of Groningen Deadlines: As a result of a number of requests from colleagues around the world who were alerted to this event only recently, we have extended the deadline for proposals for the conference to 31st July 2008, and therefore we will now be contacting you with the committee's decisions in early September. We apologise for this delay. If you haven't submitted a proposal but would like to, please send proposals by providing a Title and an Abstract of no more than 200 words to ernesto.macaro at education.ox.ac.uk --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes-unsubscribe at googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- From cslater at alma.edu Mon Jun 30 18:52:39 2008 From: cslater at alma.edu (Carol Slater) Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:52:39 -0400 Subject: webCLAN In-Reply-To: <3DEEE211-E4C9-44C6-80CA-A9BFA7447BE6@cmu.edu> Message-ID: Sounds great! Thanks to Leonid and the CHILDES crew. Carol ---- Original message ---- >Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:20:48 -0400 >From: Brian MacWhinney >Subject: webCLAN >To: info-childes at googlegroups.com > > >Dear Info-CHILDES, > > Leonid has written a web-based version of CLAN called WebCLAN. >This facility runs off a link that can be found right near the top of >the CHILDES home page. The link is the second one in the right column >and it is called WebCLAN. > To run WebCLAN, just go through these steps. >1. Click on the link that takes you to the WebCLAN page. >2. Select a corpus you wish to analyze. Select the files you wish to >analyze or simply enter *.cha. >3. Choose a CLAN program, such as MLU or FREQ. >4. Add the additional switches such as +s, +t, +u that you would >normally use with this command. > >I think this way of running CLAN is particularly useful for students >who are conducting class projects, since it saves them the hassle of >downloading the raw data files. I would be happy to receive input >regarding this new function. However, I should add that we are, in >parallel, working on a more user-friendly XQuery-based web interface >that would allow you to compose these search strings through dialogs. > >-- Brian MacWhinney > > > >> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes-unsubscribe at googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---