From taylorcassidy64 at gmail.com Thu Apr 2 22:43:43 2009 From: taylorcassidy64 at gmail.com (pcomp) Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 15:43:43 -0700 Subject: PsychoCompLA - 2009 Call for Papers Message-ID: ************************ Call for Short Papers **************************** Psychocomputational Models of Human Language Acquisition (PsychoCompLA-2009) July 28th & 29th at CogSci 2009 - Amsterdam, Netherlands Submission Deadline: May 15, 2009 http://www.colag.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/psychocomp/ Workshop Topic: The workshop is devoted to psychologically-motivated computational models of language acquisition. That is, models which are compatible with research in psycholinguistics, developmental psychology and linguistics. Invited Speakers: * Tom Griffiths, University of California, Berkeley * Amy Weinberg, University of Maryland (to be confirmed) Workshop History: This is the fifth meeting of the Psychocomputational Models of Human Language Acquisition workshop following PsychoCompLA-2004, held in Geneva, Switzerland as part of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING- 2004), PsychoCompLA-2005 as part of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2005) held in Ann Arbor, Michigan where the workshop shared a joint session with the Ninth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-2005), PsychoCompLA-2007 held in Nashville, Tennessee as part of the 29th meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci- 2007), and PsychoCompLA-2008 held in Washington D.C., as part of the 30th meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci-2008). Given the increasing interest, this year the workshop will be spread over two days directly before the main conference of the 31st meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci-2009) which begins on July 30th, 2009. Workshop Description: The workshop will present research and foster discussion centered around psychologically-motivated computational models of language acquisition, with an emphasis on the acquisition of syntax. In recent decades there has been a thriving research agenda that applies computational learning techniques to emerging natural language technologies and many meetings, conferences and workshops in which to present such research. However, there have been only a few (but growing number of) venues in which psychocomputational models of how humans acquire their native language(s) are the primary focus. Psychocomputational models of language acquisition are of particular interest in light of recent results in developmental psychology that suggest that very young infants are adept at detecting statistical patterns in an audible input stream. Though, how children might plausibly apply statistical 'machinery' to the task of grammar acquisition, with or without an innate language component, remains an open and important question. One effective line of investigation is to computationally model the acquisition process and determine interrelationships between a model and linguistic or psycholinguistic theory, and/or correlations between a model's performance and data from linguistic environments that children are exposed to. Topics and Goals: Short papers that present research on (but not necessarily limited to) the following topics are welcome: * Models that address the acquisition of word-order; * Models that combine parsing and learning; * Formal learning-theoretic and grammar induction models that incorporate psychologically plausible constraints; * Comparative surveys that critique previously reported studies; * Models that have a cross-linguistic or bilingual perspective; * Models that address learning bias in terms of innate linguistic knowledge versus statistical regularity in the input; * Models that employ language modeling techniques from corpus linguistics; * Models that employ techniques from machine learning; * Models of language change and its effect on language acquisition or vice versa; * Models that employ statistical/probabilistic grammars; * Computational models that can be used to evaluate existing linguistic or developmental theories (e.g., principles & parameters, optimality theory, construction grammar, etc.) * Empirical models that make use of child-directed corpora such as CHILDES. This workshop intends to bring together researchers from cognitive psychology, computational linguistics, other computer/mathematical sciences, linguistics and psycholinguistics working on all areas of language acquisition. Diversity and cross-fertilization of ideas is the central goal. Workshop Organizers: Rens Bod, University of Amsterdam (rens.bod at uva.nl) William Gregory Sakas, City University of New York (sakas at hunter.cuny.edu) Workshop Co-Organizer: Taylor Cassidy, City University of New York (Pyshco.Comp at hunter.cuny.edu) Submission details: Authors are invited to submit short papers of (maximally) 2 pages of narrative plus 2 pages for data, references and other supplementary materials. Papers should be anonymous, clearly titled and the narrative section should be no more than 1400 words in length. Either PDF, or MS Word formats are acceptable. Please include a cover sheet (as a separate attachment) containing the title of your submission, your name, contact details and affiliation. Send your submission electronically to Email: Psycho.Comp at hunter.cuny.edu. with PsychoCompLA-2009 Submission somewhere in the subject line. Publication: The accepted papers will appear in the online workshop proceedings. Full papers of accepted short papers will be considered in Fall 2009 for inclusion in an issue of the new Cognitive Science Society Journal - topiCS - whose focus will be psychocomputational modeling of human language acquisition. Submission deadline: May 15, 2009 Contact: Psycho.Comp at hunter.cuny.edu with PsychoCompLA-2009 somewhere in the subject line. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 leher.singh at gmail.com Fri Apr 3 23:26:58 2009 From: leher.singh at gmail.com (Leher Singh) Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 19:26:58 -0400 Subject: BUCLD now accepting submissions Message-ID: NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS - CALL FOR PAPERS THE 34th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT NOVEMBER 6-8, 2009 Keynote Address “Developing Fluency in Understanding: How it matters” Anne Fernald, Stanford University Plenary Address “Innate Syntax - Still the Best Hypothesis” Virginia Valian, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center Lunch Symposium “Recent Advances in the Study of Production and Comprehension: Implications for Language Acquisition Research” John Trueswell, University of Pennsylvania Mike Tanenhaus, University of Rochester Kay Bock, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Submissions which present research on any topic in the fields of first and second language acquisition from any theoretical perspectives will be fully considered, including Bilingualism, Cognition & Language, Creoles & Pidgins, Dialects, Discourse and Narrative, Gesture, Hearing Impairment and Deafness, Input & Interaction, Language Disorders, Linguistic Theory, Neurolinguistics, Pragmatics, Pre-linguistic Development, Reading and Literacy, Signed Languages, Sociolinguistics, and Speech Perception & Production. ABSTRACTS • Abstracts must represent original, unpublished research. • Abstracts should be anonymous, clearly titled and no more than 500 words in length. Please note the word count at the bottom of the abstract. • Detailed information regarding abstract format, content, and evaluation criteria can be found at our website: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/ SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS • Abstracts may now be submitted using the form available at the conference website: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/abstract.htm • This year we are enacting a new author policy: Although each author may submit as many abstracts as desired, we will accept for presentation a maximum of 1 first authored paper/poster. There is no limit on the number of additional acceptances of papers/posters in any other authorship status. DEADLINE • All submissions must be received by 8:00 PM EST, May 15, 2009. There will be no exceptions. JEAN BERKO GLEASON AWARD BUCLD is proud to introduce the Jean Berko Gleason Award for the best student papers. In honor of Jean Berko Gleason, Professor Emerita of Psychology at Boston University, three awards will be given at the Plenary address on Saturday night. All students who are first and presenting authors on a paper will be considered for the award. FURTHER INFORMATION Questions about abstracts should be sent to abstract at bu.edu Boston University Conference on Language Development 96 Cummington Street, Room 244 Boston, MA 02215 U.S.A. Telephone: (617) 353-3085 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 serratrice at manchester.ac.uk Tue Apr 7 00:28:17 2009 From: serratrice at manchester.ac.uk (Ludovica Serratrice) Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 01:28:17 +0100 Subject: Join IASCL now Message-ID: Dear colleagues, This is an invitation to join the International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL, http://iascl.talkbank.org). If you attended the latest IASCL meeting last year in Edinburgh you are already a member. If you did not attend the conference and you would like to join, or renew your membership, you can do so now. Current membership fees are £50 for regular members, and £27 for students. Members are eligible for a substantial discount for volumes 1-6 of TiLAR, and for a reduced subscription fee to the following journals: the Journal of Child Language, First Language, and the International Journal of Bilingualism. Your fees will contribute to the organization of the upcoming Congress and they will be especially valuable in the provision of student travel bursaries. You can renew your membership by contacting the IASCL Treasurer, Anna Theakston (anna.theakston at manchester.ac.uk). Fees: Membership (£50 for regular members; or £27 for students) is for three years, and expires on the first day of the next triennial Congress, to be held in the summer of 2011 in Montreal. Members in countries with nonconvertible currencies or currency transfer restrictions or other economic difficulties should request a waiver of the membership fee. Additional contributions for the support of colleagues and program in countries with currency and/or economic difficulties are welcomed. Best wishes, Ludovica Serratrice IASCL Secretary --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 tzamuner at gmail.com Thu Apr 9 22:01:33 2009 From: tzamuner at gmail.com (tzamuner at gmail.com) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 15:01:33 -0700 Subject: Research Assistant/Lab Coordinator, University of British Columbia Message-ID: Dr. Janet F. Werker is seeking to fill the position of Research Assistant/Lab Coordinator for the Infant Studies Centre in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia. Graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, faculty, collaborators and visiting scholars at the Centre conduct research into a wide variety of topics in infant language acquisition using both behavioural and neuroimaging techniques. The Centre provides a genially collaborative, intellectually challenging, and supportive environment for this research. The successful candidate will play an integral part in ensuring the efficient and smooth maintenance of this environment. Duties include scheduling participants, assisting in running studies, maintaining ethics approvals and troubleshooting computer and technical issues. The position is grant-funded, approximately 25 hours per week, for the period June 1, 2009 to August 31, 2010, renewable. To see further details and to apply, please refer to position #5145 here: http://www.hr.ubc.ca/careers/staff_postings.html. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 cbowen at ihug.com.au Fri Apr 10 03:05:34 2009 From: cbowen at ihug.com.au (Caroline Bowen) Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:05:34 +1000 Subject: Research Assistant/Lab Coordinator, University of British Columbia In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Anne, In thought you might be interested in this. Is there any other UBC news <>? Caroline (in Hawaii) Caroline Bowen PhD CPSP Speech Language Pathologist 9 Hillcrest Road Wentworth Falls NSW 2782 Australia e: cbowen at ihug.com.au i: http://speech-language-therapy.com/ t: 61 2 4757 1136 f: 61 2 4757 1598 [from my laptop] -----Original Message----- From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of tzamuner at gmail.com Sent: Friday, 10 April 2009 8:02 AM To: Info-CHILDES Cc: jwlab at psych.ubc.ca Subject: Research Assistant/Lab Coordinator, University of British Columbia Dr. Janet F. Werker is seeking to fill the position of Research Assistant/Lab Coordinator for the Infant Studies Centre in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia. Graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, faculty, collaborators and visiting scholars at the Centre conduct research into a wide variety of topics in infant language acquisition using both behavioural and neuroimaging techniques. The Centre provides a genially collaborative, intellectually challenging, and supportive environment for this research. The successful candidate will play an integral part in ensuring the efficient and smooth maintenance of this environment. Duties include scheduling participants, assisting in running studies, maintaining ethics approvals and troubleshooting computer and technical issues. The position is grant-funded, approximately 25 hours per week, for the period June 1, 2009 to August 31, 2010, renewable. To see further details and to apply, please refer to position #5145 here: http://www.hr.ubc.ca/careers/staff_postings.html. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 snedeker at wjh.harvard.edu Fri Apr 10 15:36:33 2009 From: snedeker at wjh.harvard.edu (snedeker at wjh.harvard.edu) Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:36:33 -0700 Subject: Research Assistant/Lab Coordinator, Harvard (Snedeker lab) Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, My lab is searching for two research assistants for next year. One position would start in June. The start date for the other is flexible. Our ideal applicant: * has an undergraduate degree in psychology, linguistics or cognitive science * has a strong interest in the psychology of language * is equally comfortable with toddlers and tech manuals The two research assistants would split responsibility for coordinating our lab (training undergraduate assistants, managing the summer internship program, maintaining equipment, coordinating the use of space, organizing meetings, handling financial paperwork etc). Both would also conduct research. One position focuses on moment-to-moment language comprehension in typically-developing children and children with autism spectrum disorders. The second focuses on language development in children who are internationally adopted. Skills that would be put to good use include: * Knowledge of Russian or Mandarin Chinese * Experience with CHILDES and corpus analyses * Knowledge of ToBI prosodic coding * Experience with tobii eye-trackers * Coursework in semantics, pragmatics or syntax * Experience with kids on the autism spectrum * A sense of humor * Infinite patience * Experience with E-prime * Knowledge of ERP * Ability to multitask Our lab is embedded in larger communities both within Harvard and in the wider Boston area, which offer rich resources for students interested in developmental psychology, psycholinguistics, and linguistics. Research assistants are encouraged to make use of these resources. Potential applicants should email me: a letter of interest, a CV, and three references (email addresses and phone numbers, please). Please feel free to write with questions as well. Jesse Snedeker --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 megha.sundara at humnet.ucla.edu Mon Apr 13 18:17:15 2009 From: megha.sundara at humnet.ucla.edu (Sundara, Megha) Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:17:15 -0700 Subject: Lab coordinator position at UCLA Department of Linguistics Message-ID: LANGUAGE ACQUISITION LABORATORY COORDINATOR AT UCLA We are looking for a curious, dynamic and organized person to work as full-time Laboratory Coordinator for the Language Acquisition Laboratory at the UCLA Department of Linguistics. Responsibilities include organizing and managing subject recruitment, interacting with parents and children, aiding in designing experiments, testing infants, maintaining data spreadsheets and facilitating undergraduate and graduate research projects. This is a full-time administrative position with benefits; a commitment for at least two years is required. The position starts June 1, 2009 and offers flexible hours. Salary begins at $36,540 per year, and is commensurate to experience. UCLA is an equal opportunity employer. The person must have experience working with children between 0 – 6 years and their parents. A degree (B.A. or M.A.) in Linguistics / Psychology or related field, and research experience with infants and language acquisition is highly desirable. Proficiency in Spanish would also be great. Details of previous research projects are available on the web pages of Nina Hyams, Susie Curtiss, Carson Schütze and Megha Sundara (http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/faculty.htm). If you are interested, please email a CV and names of three referees to Megha Sundara (megha.sundara at humnet.ucla.edu). Applications will be accepted till the position is filled. Megha Sundara UCLA Department of Linguistics 3125 Campbell Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095-1543 Phone: 310-825-0041 Fax: 310-206-5743 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andreaf414 at gmail.com Tue Apr 14 22:46:36 2009 From: andreaf414 at gmail.com (Andrea) Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:46:36 -0700 Subject: Acquisition of moral language Message-ID: I am posting a query from a student who is in a philosophy PhD program at Princeton and is writing a dissertation on the acquisition of morality. He is interested in getting some suggestions on where to look for articles on how/when children develop a sense of morality and can distinguish between right and wrong from a linguistic perspective. I would appreciate any suggestions for articles or a direction he might pursue. Thank you, Dr. Andrea Feldman, Senior Instructor University of Colorado at Boulder 317 UCB, ENVD Bldg. Program for Writing and Rhetoric Boulder, CO 80309-0317 303-492-4396 FAX 303-492-7877 feldman at spot.colorado.edu --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 cynthia.fisher at gmail.com Wed Apr 15 13:39:32 2009 From: cynthia.fisher at gmail.com (cynthia.fisher at gmail.com) Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:39:32 -0700 Subject: Postdoc Position at the University of Illinois Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Please pass on this announcement to anyone you know who might be interested. I'm hoping to find a postdoc who can start in the fall, but am flexible. This project is primarily focused on our work on syntactic bootstrapping and early sentence comprehension, but involves work on the development of sentence comprehension at many levels of analysis. thanks for your help, Cindy Fisher ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Postdoctoral Position in Developmental Psycholinguistics A full-time postdoctoral position is available in the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois working in the research group led by Dr. Cynthia Fisher. The research is funded by the NICHD and the NSF, and involves experimental and computational studies of early verb learning and the development of sentence comprehension. We are particularly interested in postdoctoral fellows who want to contribute to both the experimental and computational components of this interdisciplinary project. We encourage applications from candidates with research training in cognitive science, developmental psychology, psycholinguistics, or a related area. The position is available for one year, and renewable for a second year. Interested applicants should send a letter describing their graduate training and research interests and a curriculum vitae, and arrange to have three letters of recommendation sent to: Prof. Cynthia Fisher, Psychology Department, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61821; clfishe at illinois.edu. Review of applications will begin immediately. The start date is flexible. Feel free to contact Cynthia Fisher with questions. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- Cynthia Fisher Psychology Department University of Illinois Champaign, IL 61820 phone: 217-333-3545 fax: 217-244-5876 clfishe at illinois.edu --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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Cheers, Hugh LAB MANAGER POSITION in Cognitive and Language Development at NEW YORK UNIVERSITY The NYU Infant Cognition and Communication Laboratory (http:// www.psych.nyu.edu/niccl/) under the direction of Dr. Athena Vouloumanos and the NYU Center for Child Language (http:// www.psych.nyu.edu/gary/babylab/babylabhome.html) under the direction of Dr. Gary Marcus are seeking a full-time lab manager to coordinate research on language acquisition and cognitive development in infants and young children beginning at the end of August 2009 and based at NYU's Greenwich Village campus. Job duties include: (1) conducting experiments with infants, young children and adults; (2) training and supervising a staff of undergraduate research assistants; (3) general administrative duties, including data management and maintenance of budgets, lab web pages and participant recruiting systems; and (4) providing general support for the professors and other researchers in the laboratory. Candidates should have: a bachelor's degree in psychology or a related scientific field such as cognitive science; one or more years of research experience; the ability to work independently; keen attention to detail; excellent public relations skills; and the ability to interact warmly and professionally with parents and children. Strong organizational, computational, managerial, problem- solving, and analytic skills are essential. Please send a letter of interest describing your research experiences and career goals, a current resume, unofficial college transcript, and two or more reference letters to Christina Starmans at psych.niccl at nyu.edu. For best consideration please apply by April 30, 2009. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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Name: Callforpapers-AcquisiLyon09.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 105705 bytes Desc: not available URL: From guidetti at univ-tlse2.fr Fri Apr 17 12:46:06 2009 From: guidetti at univ-tlse2.fr (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Mich=E8le_Guidetti?=) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:46:06 +0200 Subject: "From gesture to sign : pointing in oral and signed languages" Conference, Lille June 4-5 Message-ID: Dear All, The program of the "From gesture to sign : pointing in oral and signed languages" conference which will be held in Lille (France) June 4-5 in now on-line http://stl.recherche.univ-lille3.fr/colloques/20082009/Du_geste_au_signe/col loque_dugesteausigne_callforpapers.html#keydates and registrations are open (on line, see here http://stl.recherche.univ-lille3.fr/colloques/20082009/Du_geste_au_signe/col loqueLSF2009_accueil.html) Best wishes Michèle Guidetti Université de Toulouse (France) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cdd24 at georgetown.edu Fri Apr 17 14:03:03 2009 From: cdd24 at georgetown.edu (Cristina Dye) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:03:03 -0400 Subject: Call for Papers -AcquisiLyon In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Caroline, Will the presenters at this conference be PhD students only or also post-doctoral researchers and other early-career researchers? best regards, Cristina Dye --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 carolinemagali at gmail.com Fri Apr 17 22:14:48 2009 From: carolinemagali at gmail.com (info childes) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:14:48 -0700 Subject: Call for Papers -AcquisiLyon In-Reply-To: <20090417100303.ADT01106@mstore-prod-1.pdc.uis.georgetown.edu> Message-ID: Dear Cristina, Post-doctoral / early career researchers will be most welcome! We also forgot to mention that a selection of papers will be published online. Best, Caroline On 17 avr, 16:03, wrote: > Dear Caroline, > > Will the presenters at this conference be PhD students only or also post-doctoral researchers and other early-career researchers? > > best regards, > Cristina Dye --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 gordoning at gmail.com Tue Apr 21 23:01:15 2009 From: gordoning at gmail.com (Gordon Ingram) Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:01:15 +0100 Subject: Acquisition of moral language In-Reply-To: <7935658d-ee95-42c0-97f1-cca5fa855752@x1g2000prh.googlegroups.com> Message-ID: Hi Andrea, There is obviously a wealth of literature out there on the acquisition of morality. Not sure how much the student has looked at so far, but a good place to start might be one of the handbooks of moral development, e.g.: Killen, M., & Smetana, J. G. (Eds.). (2006). /Handbook of moral development/. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Being a philosopher he may already be familiar with the work of Shaun Nichols, who included a really well-written and accessible review of the literature on moral development as part of his theory of normative evolution: Nichols, S. (2004). /Sentimental rules: On the natural foundations of moral judgment/. Oxford: Oxford University Press. From the standpoint of the development of everyday moral discourse, I think not so much has been done, but there was recently a nice little study using the CHILDES corpus: Wright, J. C., & Bartsch, K. (2008). Portraits of early moral sensibility in two children's everyday conversations./ Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, //54/, 56-85. Two experimental studies that may be relevant are Harris and Núñez (1996), who showed that 3-4-year-old children were better at identifying violations of permission rules than violations of description rules, and Rakoczy, Warneken and Tomasello (2008), who showed that 2-3-year-old children were quite ready to make normative protests about violations of novel rules for made-up games (e.g., "daxing") that they had only just been taught: Harris, P. L., & Núñez, M. (1996). Understanding of permission rules by preschool children./ Child Development, //67/, 1572-1591. Rakoczy, H., Warneken, F., & Tomasello, M. (2008). The sources of normativity: Young children's awareness of the normative structure of games./ Developmental Psychology, //44/, 875-881. Hope this helps somewhat, and apologies for the randomness of this selection: it is mostly stuff I cited while writing a paper that I just spent the last few days finishing off (which is why I couldn't reply earlier). I can also send you that paper if it would be of interest - it is on young children's everyday reports of norm violations by peers in preschool settings. Best regards, Gordon Gordon Ingram Institute of Cognition and Culture Queen's University Belfast Tel: +44 28 9097 1340 Mob: +44 7973 136820 http://www.qub.ac.uk/icc Andrea wrote: > I am posting a query from a student who is in a philosophy PhD > program at Princeton and is writing a dissertation on the acquisition > of > morality. > > He is interested in getting some suggestions on where to look > for articles on how/when children develop a sense of morality and can > distinguish between right and wrong from a linguistic perspective. > I would appreciate any suggestions for articles or a direction he > might > pursue. > > Thank you, > > Dr. Andrea Feldman, Senior Instructor > University of Colorado at Boulder > 317 UCB, ENVD Bldg. > Program for Writing and Rhetoric Boulder, CO 80309-0317 > 303-492-4396 > FAX 303-492-7877 feldman at spot.colorado.edu > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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That is, models which are compatible with research in psycholinguistics, developmental psychology and linguistics. Invited Speakers: * Tom Griffiths, University of California, Berkeley * Amy Weinberg, University of Maryland (to be confirmed) Workshop History: This is the fifth meeting of the Psychocomputational Models of Human Language Acquisition workshop following PsychoCompLA-2004, held in Geneva, Switzerland as part of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING- 2004), PsychoCompLA-2005 as part of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2005) held in Ann Arbor, Michigan where the workshop shared a joint session with the Ninth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-2005), PsychoCompLA-2007 held in Nashville, Tennessee as part of the 29th meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci- 2007), and PsychoCompLA-2008 held in Washington D.C., as part of the 30th meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci-2008). Given the increasing interest, this year the workshop will be spread over two days directly before the main conference of the 31st meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci-2009) which begins on July 30th, 2009. Workshop Description: The workshop will present research and foster discussion centered around psychologically-motivated computational models of language acquisition, with an emphasis on the acquisition of syntax. In recent decades there has been a thriving research agenda that applies computational learning techniques to emerging natural language technologies and many meetings, conferences and workshops in which to present such research. However, there have been only a few (but growing number of) venues in which psychocomputational models of how humans acquire their native language(s) are the primary focus. Psychocomputational models of language acquisition are of particular interest in light of recent results in developmental psychology that suggest that very young infants are adept at detecting statistical patterns in an audible input stream. Though, how children might plausibly apply statistical 'machinery' to the task of grammar acquisition, with or without an innate language component, remains an open and important question. One effective line of investigation is to computationally model the acquisition process and determine interrelationships between a model and linguistic or psycholinguistic theory, and/or correlations between a model's performance and data from linguistic environments that children are exposed to. Topics and Goals: Short papers that present research on (but not necessarily limited to) the following topics are welcome: * Models that address the acquisition of word-order; * Models that combine parsing and learning; * Formal learning-theoretic and grammar induction models that incorporate psychologically plausible constraints; * Comparative surveys that critique previously reported studies; * Models that have a cross-linguistic or bilingual perspective; * Models that address learning bias in terms of innate linguistic knowledge versus statistical regularity in the input; * Models that employ language modeling techniques from corpus linguistics; * Models that employ techniques from machine learning; * Models of language change and its effect on language acquisition or vice versa; * Models that employ statistical/probabilistic grammars; * Computational models that can be used to evaluate existing linguistic or developmental theories (e.g., principles & parameters, optimality theory, construction grammar, etc.) * Empirical models that make use of child-directed corpora such as CHILDES. This workshop intends to bring together researchers from cognitive psychology, computational linguistics, other computer/mathematical sciences, linguistics and psycholinguistics working on all areas of language acquisition. Diversity and cross-fertilization of ideas is the central goal. Workshop Organizers: Rens Bod, University of Amsterdam (rens.bod at uva.nl) William Gregory Sakas, City University of New York (sakas at hunter.cuny.edu) Workshop Co-Organizer: Taylor Cassidy, City University of New York (Pyshco.Comp at hunter.cuny.edu) Submission details: Authors are invited to submit short papers of (maximally) 2 pages of narrative plus 2 pages for data, references and other supplementary materials. Papers should be anonymous, clearly titled and the narrative section should be no more than 1400 words in length. Either PDF, or MS Word formats are acceptable. 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John Trueswell, University of Pennsylvania Mike Tanenhaus, University of Rochester Kay Bock, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Submissions which present research on any topic in the fields of first and second language acquisition from any theoretical perspectives will be fully considered, including Bilingualism, Cognition & Language, Creoles & Pidgins, Dialects, Discourse and Narrative, Gesture, Hearing Impairment and Deafness, Input & Interaction, Language Disorders, Linguistic Theory, Neurolinguistics, Pragmatics, Pre-linguistic Development, Reading and Literacy, Signed Languages, Sociolinguistics, and Speech Perception & Production. ABSTRACTS ? Abstracts must represent original, unpublished research. ? Abstracts should be anonymous, clearly titled and no more than 500 words in length. Please note the word count at the bottom of the abstract. ? 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Members are eligible for a substantial discount for volumes 1-6 of TiLAR, and for a reduced subscription fee to the following journals: the Journal of Child Language, First Language, and the International Journal of Bilingualism. Your fees will contribute to the organization of the upcoming Congress and they will be especially valuable in the provision of student travel bursaries. You can renew your membership by contacting the IASCL Treasurer, Anna Theakston (anna.theakston at manchester.ac.uk). Fees: Membership (?50 for regular members; or ?27 for students) is for three years, and expires on the first day of the next triennial Congress, to be held in the summer of 2011 in Montreal. Members in countries with nonconvertible currencies or currency transfer restrictions or other economic difficulties should request a waiver of the membership fee. Additional contributions for the support of colleagues and program in countries with currency and/or economic difficulties are welcomed. Best wishes, Ludovica Serratrice IASCL Secretary --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 tzamuner at gmail.com Thu Apr 9 22:01:33 2009 From: tzamuner at gmail.com (tzamuner at gmail.com) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 15:01:33 -0700 Subject: Research Assistant/Lab Coordinator, University of British Columbia Message-ID: Dr. Janet F. Werker is seeking to fill the position of Research Assistant/Lab Coordinator for the Infant Studies Centre in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia. Graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, faculty, collaborators and visiting scholars at the Centre conduct research into a wide variety of topics in infant language acquisition using both behavioural and neuroimaging techniques. The Centre provides a genially collaborative, intellectually challenging, and supportive environment for this research. The successful candidate will play an integral part in ensuring the efficient and smooth maintenance of this environment. Duties include scheduling participants, assisting in running studies, maintaining ethics approvals and troubleshooting computer and technical issues. The position is grant-funded, approximately 25 hours per week, for the period June 1, 2009 to August 31, 2010, renewable. To see further details and to apply, please refer to position #5145 here: http://www.hr.ubc.ca/careers/staff_postings.html. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 cbowen at ihug.com.au Fri Apr 10 03:05:34 2009 From: cbowen at ihug.com.au (Caroline Bowen) Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:05:34 +1000 Subject: Research Assistant/Lab Coordinator, University of British Columbia In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Anne, In thought you might be interested in this. Is there any other UBC news <>? Caroline (in Hawaii) Caroline Bowen PhD CPSP Speech Language Pathologist 9 Hillcrest Road Wentworth Falls NSW 2782 Australia e: cbowen at ihug.com.au i: http://speech-language-therapy.com/ t: 61 2 4757 1136 f: 61 2 4757 1598 [from my laptop] -----Original Message----- From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of tzamuner at gmail.com Sent: Friday, 10 April 2009 8:02 AM To: Info-CHILDES Cc: jwlab at psych.ubc.ca Subject: Research Assistant/Lab Coordinator, University of British Columbia Dr. Janet F. Werker is seeking to fill the position of Research Assistant/Lab Coordinator for the Infant Studies Centre in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia. Graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, faculty, collaborators and visiting scholars at the Centre conduct research into a wide variety of topics in infant language acquisition using both behavioural and neuroimaging techniques. The Centre provides a genially collaborative, intellectually challenging, and supportive environment for this research. The successful candidate will play an integral part in ensuring the efficient and smooth maintenance of this environment. Duties include scheduling participants, assisting in running studies, maintaining ethics approvals and troubleshooting computer and technical issues. The position is grant-funded, approximately 25 hours per week, for the period June 1, 2009 to August 31, 2010, renewable. To see further details and to apply, please refer to position #5145 here: http://www.hr.ubc.ca/careers/staff_postings.html. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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Our ideal applicant: * has an undergraduate degree in psychology, linguistics or cognitive science * has a strong interest in the psychology of language * is equally comfortable with toddlers and tech manuals The two research assistants would split responsibility for coordinating our lab (training undergraduate assistants, managing the summer internship program, maintaining equipment, coordinating the use of space, organizing meetings, handling financial paperwork etc). Both would also conduct research. One position focuses on moment-to-moment language comprehension in typically-developing children and children with autism spectrum disorders. The second focuses on language development in children who are internationally adopted. Skills that would be put to good use include: * Knowledge of Russian or Mandarin Chinese * Experience with CHILDES and corpus analyses * Knowledge of ToBI prosodic coding * Experience with tobii eye-trackers * Coursework in semantics, pragmatics or syntax * Experience with kids on the autism spectrum * A sense of humor * Infinite patience * Experience with E-prime * Knowledge of ERP * Ability to multitask Our lab is embedded in larger communities both within Harvard and in the wider Boston area, which offer rich resources for students interested in developmental psychology, psycholinguistics, and linguistics. Research assistants are encouraged to make use of these resources. Potential applicants should email me: a letter of interest, a CV, and three references (email addresses and phone numbers, please). Please feel free to write with questions as well. Jesse Snedeker --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 megha.sundara at humnet.ucla.edu Mon Apr 13 18:17:15 2009 From: megha.sundara at humnet.ucla.edu (Sundara, Megha) Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:17:15 -0700 Subject: Lab coordinator position at UCLA Department of Linguistics Message-ID: LANGUAGE ACQUISITION LABORATORY COORDINATOR AT UCLA We are looking for a curious, dynamic and organized person to work as full-time Laboratory Coordinator for the Language Acquisition Laboratory at the UCLA Department of Linguistics. Responsibilities include organizing and managing subject recruitment, interacting with parents and children, aiding in designing experiments, testing infants, maintaining data spreadsheets and facilitating undergraduate and graduate research projects. This is a full-time administrative position with benefits; a commitment for at least two years is required. The position starts June 1, 2009 and offers flexible hours. Salary begins at $36,540 per year, and is commensurate to experience. UCLA is an equal opportunity employer. The person must have experience working with children between 0 ? 6 years and their parents. A degree (B.A. or M.A.) in Linguistics / Psychology or related field, and research experience with infants and language acquisition is highly desirable. Proficiency in Spanish would also be great. Details of previous research projects are available on the web pages of Nina Hyams, Susie Curtiss, Carson Sch?tze and Megha Sundara (http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/faculty.htm). If you are interested, please email a CV and names of three referees to Megha Sundara (megha.sundara at humnet.ucla.edu). Applications will be accepted till the position is filled. Megha Sundara UCLA Department of Linguistics 3125 Campbell Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095-1543 Phone: 310-825-0041 Fax: 310-206-5743 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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Thank you, Dr. Andrea Feldman, Senior Instructor University of Colorado at Boulder 317 UCB, ENVD Bldg. Program for Writing and Rhetoric Boulder, CO 80309-0317 303-492-4396 FAX 303-492-7877 feldman at spot.colorado.edu --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 cynthia.fisher at gmail.com Wed Apr 15 13:39:32 2009 From: cynthia.fisher at gmail.com (cynthia.fisher at gmail.com) Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:39:32 -0700 Subject: Postdoc Position at the University of Illinois Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Please pass on this announcement to anyone you know who might be interested. I'm hoping to find a postdoc who can start in the fall, but am flexible. This project is primarily focused on our work on syntactic bootstrapping and early sentence comprehension, but involves work on the development of sentence comprehension at many levels of analysis. thanks for your help, Cindy Fisher ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Postdoctoral Position in Developmental Psycholinguistics A full-time postdoctoral position is available in the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois working in the research group led by Dr. Cynthia Fisher. The research is funded by the NICHD and the NSF, and involves experimental and computational studies of early verb learning and the development of sentence comprehension. We are particularly interested in postdoctoral fellows who want to contribute to both the experimental and computational components of this interdisciplinary project. We encourage applications from candidates with research training in cognitive science, developmental psychology, psycholinguistics, or a related area. The position is available for one year, and renewable for a second year. Interested applicants should send a letter describing their graduate training and research interests and a curriculum vitae, and arrange to have three letters of recommendation sent to: Prof. Cynthia Fisher, Psychology Department, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61821; clfishe at illinois.edu. Review of applications will begin immediately. The start date is flexible. Feel free to contact Cynthia Fisher with questions. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- Cynthia Fisher Psychology Department University of Illinois Champaign, IL 61820 phone: 217-333-3545 fax: 217-244-5876 clfishe at illinois.edu --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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Cheers, Hugh LAB MANAGER POSITION in Cognitive and Language Development at NEW YORK UNIVERSITY The NYU Infant Cognition and Communication Laboratory (http:// www.psych.nyu.edu/niccl/) under the direction of Dr. Athena Vouloumanos and the NYU Center for Child Language (http:// www.psych.nyu.edu/gary/babylab/babylabhome.html) under the direction of Dr. Gary Marcus are seeking a full-time lab manager to coordinate research on language acquisition and cognitive development in infants and young children beginning at the end of August 2009 and based at NYU's Greenwich Village campus. Job duties include: (1) conducting experiments with infants, young children and adults; (2) training and supervising a staff of undergraduate research assistants; (3) general administrative duties, including data management and maintenance of budgets, lab web pages and participant recruiting systems; and (4) providing general support for the professors and other researchers in the laboratory. Candidates should have: a bachelor's degree in psychology or a related scientific field such as cognitive science; one or more years of research experience; the ability to work independently; keen attention to detail; excellent public relations skills; and the ability to interact warmly and professionally with parents and children. Strong organizational, computational, managerial, problem- solving, and analytic skills are essential. Please send a letter of interest describing your research experiences and career goals, a current resume, unofficial college transcript, and two or more reference letters to Christina Starmans at psych.niccl at nyu.edu. For best consideration please apply by April 30, 2009. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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Name: Callforpapers-AcquisiLyon09.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 105705 bytes Desc: not available URL: From guidetti at univ-tlse2.fr Fri Apr 17 12:46:06 2009 From: guidetti at univ-tlse2.fr (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Mich=E8le_Guidetti?=) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:46:06 +0200 Subject: "From gesture to sign : pointing in oral and signed languages" Conference, Lille June 4-5 Message-ID: Dear All, The program of the "From gesture to sign : pointing in oral and signed languages" conference which will be held in Lille (France) June 4-5 in now on-line http://stl.recherche.univ-lille3.fr/colloques/20082009/Du_geste_au_signe/col loque_dugesteausigne_callforpapers.html#keydates and registrations are open (on line, see here http://stl.recherche.univ-lille3.fr/colloques/20082009/Du_geste_au_signe/col loqueLSF2009_accueil.html) Best wishes Mich?le Guidetti Universit? de Toulouse (France) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cdd24 at georgetown.edu Fri Apr 17 14:03:03 2009 From: cdd24 at georgetown.edu (Cristina Dye) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:03:03 -0400 Subject: Call for Papers -AcquisiLyon In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Caroline, Will the presenters at this conference be PhD students only or also post-doctoral researchers and other early-career researchers? best regards, Cristina Dye --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 carolinemagali at gmail.com Fri Apr 17 22:14:48 2009 From: carolinemagali at gmail.com (info childes) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:14:48 -0700 Subject: Call for Papers -AcquisiLyon In-Reply-To: <20090417100303.ADT01106@mstore-prod-1.pdc.uis.georgetown.edu> Message-ID: Dear Cristina, Post-doctoral / early career researchers will be most welcome! We also forgot to mention that a selection of papers will be published online. Best, Caroline On 17 avr, 16:03, wrote: > Dear Caroline, > > Will the presenters at this conference be PhD students only or also post-doctoral researchers and other early-career researchers? > > best regards, > Cristina Dye --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 gordoning at gmail.com Tue Apr 21 23:01:15 2009 From: gordoning at gmail.com (Gordon Ingram) Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:01:15 +0100 Subject: Acquisition of moral language In-Reply-To: <7935658d-ee95-42c0-97f1-cca5fa855752@x1g2000prh.googlegroups.com> Message-ID: Hi Andrea, There is obviously a wealth of literature out there on the acquisition of morality. Not sure how much the student has looked at so far, but a good place to start might be one of the handbooks of moral development, e.g.: Killen, M., & Smetana, J. G. (Eds.). (2006). /Handbook of moral development/. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Being a philosopher he may already be familiar with the work of Shaun Nichols, who included a really well-written and accessible review of the literature on moral development as part of his theory of normative evolution: Nichols, S. (2004). /Sentimental rules: On the natural foundations of moral judgment/. Oxford: Oxford University Press. From the standpoint of the development of everyday moral discourse, I think not so much has been done, but there was recently a nice little study using the CHILDES corpus: Wright, J. C., & Bartsch, K. (2008). Portraits of early moral sensibility in two children's everyday conversations./ Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, //54/, 56-85. Two experimental studies that may be relevant are Harris and N??ez (1996), who showed that 3-4-year-old children were better at identifying violations of permission rules than violations of description rules, and Rakoczy, Warneken and Tomasello (2008), who showed that 2-3-year-old children were quite ready to make normative protests about violations of novel rules for made-up games (e.g., "daxing") that they had only just been taught: Harris, P. L., & N??ez, M. (1996). Understanding of permission rules by preschool children./ Child Development, //67/, 1572-1591. Rakoczy, H., Warneken, F., & Tomasello, M. (2008). The sources of normativity: Young children's awareness of the normative structure of games./ Developmental Psychology, //44/, 875-881. Hope this helps somewhat, and apologies for the randomness of this selection: it is mostly stuff I cited while writing a paper that I just spent the last few days finishing off (which is why I couldn't reply earlier). I can also send you that paper if it would be of interest - it is on young children's everyday reports of norm violations by peers in preschool settings. Best regards, Gordon Gordon Ingram Institute of Cognition and Culture Queen's University Belfast Tel: +44 28 9097 1340 Mob: +44 7973 136820 http://www.qub.ac.uk/icc Andrea wrote: > I am posting a query from a student who is in a philosophy PhD > program at Princeton and is writing a dissertation on the acquisition > of > morality. > > He is interested in getting some suggestions on where to look > for articles on how/when children develop a sense of morality and can > distinguish between right and wrong from a linguistic perspective. > I would appreciate any suggestions for articles or a direction he > might > pursue. > > Thank you, > > Dr. Andrea Feldman, Senior Instructor > University of Colorado at Boulder > 317 UCB, ENVD Bldg. > Program for Writing and Rhetoric Boulder, CO 80309-0317 > 303-492-4396 > FAX 303-492-7877 feldman at spot.colorado.edu > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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For more information on projects, see http://www.sbneuman.com We encourage applications from candidates with research training in developmental psychology and are familiar with education studies. The position is available for one year and renewable for a second year. Interested applicants should send a letter describing their graduate training and research interests and a curriculum vitae, and arrange to have three letters of recommendation sent to sbneuman at umich.edu no later than June 1, 2009. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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