From gordoning at gmail.com Sun Feb 1 10:40:32 2009 From: gordoning at gmail.com (Gordon Ingram) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 10:40:32 +0000 Subject: research on test questions In-Reply-To: <24843d17-e522-4204-8338-3438130b9d32@e1g2000pra.googlegroups.com> Message-ID: Hi Gerlind, I suspect there might be quite a lot of educational research into this sort of topic, though obviously coming from a more applied perspective. It reminds me of a recent study by Siraj-Blatchford and Manni: Siraj-Blatchford, I., & Manni, L. (2008). 'Would you like to tidy up now?' An analysis of adult questioning in the English foundation stage. Early Years, 28, 5-22. This was an observational rather than an experimental study, but interestingly they found that 95% of adult questioning of preschoolers was in the form of closed questions, to which there was either one correct answer or no real answer at all. "Test" questions in your sense would seem to form a subset of "closed" questions as they define them, though they also included various sorts of rhetorical and "request" questions (like the one in their title), which would be similar to the test requests you refer to. Hope this helps, Gordon =================================== Gordon Ingram Research Fellow Centre for Effective Education Queen's University, Belfast Tel: +44 28 9097 1340 Mob: +44 7973 136820 http://www.qub.ac.uk/cee =================================== On 30 Jan 2009, at 11:05, Hauser, Gerlind wrote: > > Hi everybody! > > I am interested in research, especially experiments, on so-called > "test questions" and test requests. By "test question" I mean > questions (mostly from an adult to a child), where it is clear from > context that the adult has the information he is asking for and thus > asks in order to test the child's knowledge/memory or to simply > interact with the child. Analogous there are also test requests, where > the adult could perfectly take the object he is requesting also > without the child's help. > > I would be grateful for any suggestions, > > Gerlind > > -- > Gerlind Grosse PhD student at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary > Anthropology Deutscher Platz 6 04103 Leipzig > Work: 0049 341 3550 407 > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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... 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Books published in > 2007 and 2008 are eligible for the award this year. > > > > Nominations should be sent to the chair of the Book Award Committee, > Katherine Nelson, knelson at gc.cuny.edu. Nominations must include the > author's name and address, the name of the book, publication date, > publisher's name and address, and a brief description of the book's > content and contribution to the field. Nominations must be received by > February 1, 2009. > > > > Self nominations are welcome. > > > > For further information and prior awardees please consult the Division > 7 webpage. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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Katherine Nelson Distinguished Professor Emerita Ph.D. Program in Psychology City University of New York Graduate Center Home address for correspondence: 50 Riverside Drive #4B New York, NY 10024 knelson at gc.cuny.edu ________________________________ From: info-childes at googlegroups.com on behalf of William Snyder Sent: Tue 2/3/2009 7:25 PM To: info-childes at googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Eleanor Maccoby book award 2009 Dear Professor Nelson, I just came across your message to info-childes from this past fall... Is it too late for me to nominate my 2007 book, Child Language: The Parametric Approach (www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199296705) for the Maccoby Award? Best wishes, William Snyder Nelson, Katherine wrote: > > THE ELEANOR MACCOBY BOOK AWARD IN DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY > > > > Nominations are invited for the 2009 Eleanor Maccoby book award given > by APA Division 7 (Developmental). The award is made to the author > (not an editor) of a book in psychology that has had or promises to > have a profound effect on the field of developmental psychology or any > of its areas. (Co-authored books may be nominated.) Books published in > 2007 and 2008 are eligible for the award this year. > > > > Nominations should be sent to the chair of the Book Award Committee, > Katherine Nelson, knelson at gc.cuny.edu. Nominations must include the > author's name and address, the name of the book, publication date, > publisher's name and address, and a brief description of the book's > content and contribution to the field. Nominations must be received by > February 1, 2009. > > > > Self nominations are welcome. > > > > For further information and prior awardees please consult the Division > 7 webpage. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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Best wishes - William Nelson, Katherine wrote: > The final list of eligible books for the Eleanor Maccoby Book Award from APA Division 7 has been compiled and nominations are no longer being received. > > > Katherine Nelson > Distinguished Professor Emerita > Ph.D. Program in Psychology > City University of New York Graduate Center > Home address for correspondence: > 50 Riverside Drive #4B > New York, NY 10024 > knelson at gc.cuny.edu > > ________________________________ > > From: info-childes at googlegroups.com on behalf of William Snyder > Sent: Tue 2/3/2009 7:25 PM > To: info-childes at googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Eleanor Maccoby book award 2009 > > > > > Dear Professor Nelson, > > I just came across your message to info-childes from this past fall... > Is it too late for me to nominate my 2007 book, Child Language: The > Parametric Approach (www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199296705) for the > Maccoby Award? > > Best wishes, > > William Snyder > > > > Nelson, Katherine wrote: > >> THE ELEANOR MACCOBY BOOK AWARD IN DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY >> >> >> >> Nominations are invited for the 2009 Eleanor Maccoby book award given >> by APA Division 7 (Developmental). The award is made to the author >> (not an editor) of a book in psychology that has had or promises to >> have a profound effect on the field of developmental psychology or any >> of its areas. (Co-authored books may be nominated.) Books published in >> 2007 and 2008 are eligible for the award this year. >> >> >> >> Nominations should be sent to the chair of the Book Award Committee, >> Katherine Nelson, knelson at gc.cuny.edu. Nominations must include the >> author's name and address, the name of the book, publication date, >> publisher's name and address, and a brief description of the book's >> content and contribution to the field. Nominations must be received by >> February 1, 2009. >> >> >> >> Self nominations are welcome. >> >> >> >> For further information and prior awardees please consult the Division >> 7 webpage. >> >> >> > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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For details, visit our website: http://www.otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp/tcp/ -------------------------------------------------------------- TCP 2009 Program Day 1 (March 13, 2009) 10:30-13:35 Opening Yukio Otsu (Keio University) 10:35-11:05 "Acquiring the Syntax and Semantics of Dutch Raising-Verbs" Loes Koring (Utrecht University) Chair: Miwa Isobe (Tokyo University of the Arts) 11:05-11:35 "Quantification and Individuation in the Acquisition of Chinese Classifiers" Aijun Huang (Chinese University of Hong Kong/ Macquarie University) and Thomas Hun-tak Lee (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Chair: Miwa Isobe (Tokyo University of the Arts) Lunch 13:00-13:30 "Expectation Driven by Case-Markers: Its Effect in Japanese Relative Clause Processing" Atsushi Sato, Barış Kahraman (Hiroshima University), Hajime Ono (Kansai Gaidai University) and Hiromu Sakai (Hiroshima University) Chair: Takuya Goro (Ibaraki University) 13:30-14:00 "The Problem of Quantifiers in Object Position: A New Experimental Evidence Against the Extra Computation that They Are Supposed to Trigger" Isabelle Charnavel (University of California, Los Angeles) Chair: Takuya Goro (Ibaraki University) 14:00:14:30 "Organisation of ‘Number’ Information in the Lexicon: Insights from Aphasic Plural Errors" Britta Biedermann, Lyndsey Nickels and Anna Elisabeth Beyersmann (Macquarie University) Chair: Takuya Goro (Ibaraki University) Break 14:50-15:20 "The Online Processing of French Reflexives: Cross Modal Lexical Priming Experimental Evidence for Their Unaccusativity" Isabelle Charnavel (University of California, Los Angeles), Flavia Adani (Università Milano-Bicocca) and Nina Hyams (University of California, Los Angeles) Chair: Masakazu Kuno (Waseda University) 15:20-15:50 "Syntax-Prosody Interface of Wh-Q Dependency in Tokyo Japanese: Right-Dislocation/Scrambling (A)Symmetries" Hideaki Yamashita (Yokohama National University) Chair: Masakazu Kuno (Waseda University) 15:50-16:20 "The Nominative/Accusative Alternation in the Transitive Adjective Construction in Modern Japanese: An ANOVA Analysis" Hideki Maki (Gifu University), Kana Ito (UBUKATA INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.), Megumi Hasebe, Kenichi Goto (Gifu University), Michiyo Hamasaki (Aichi University of Education), Takashi Munakata (Yokohama National University) and Yukiko Ueda (Akita University) Chair: Masakazu Kuno (Waseda University) Break 16:35-17:35 (Invited Lecture) "Measure Phrases in PP" Akira Watanabe (The University of Tokyo) Chair: Masashi Nomura (Chukyo University) RECEPTION Day 2 (March 14, 2009) 10:00-10:30 "Nominative Case Marking and Verbal Inflection in L2 Grammar: Evidence from Japanese College Students' Compositions" Noriko Yoshimura (University of Shizuoka) Mineharu Nakayama (The Ohio State University) Chair: Makiko Hirakawa (Bunkyo University) 10:30-11:00 "Processing of Lexical Prosody in L2 Word Recognition: Evidence f rom Japanese L2ers of English" Jeonghwa Shin and Shari R. Speer (The Ohio State University) Chair: Makiko Hirakawa (Bunkyo University) 11:00-11:30 "The Role of Indirect Negative Evidence and Paradigm Uniformity in L1 Acquisition of the Two Types of Japanese Adjectives" Haruka Fukazawa (Keio University) and Miho Fujiwara (Willamette University) Chair: Makiko Hirakawa (Bunkyo University) Lunch -------------------------------------------------------------- 12:30-14:00 Poster Session "Referential Context Effects in L2 Ambiguity Resolution: Evidence from Self-Paced Reading" Hui-Yu Pan and Claudia Felser (University of Essex) "Argument Ellipsis in Child Japanese: A Preliminary Report" Koji Sugisaki (Mie University) "Acquisition of Japanese Passives Revisited: Children Understand Long Passives" Masahiko Takahashi (University of Connecticut) and Misako Hatayama (Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University/ Japan Science and Technology Agency) ----------------------------------------------------------------- 14:00-14:30 "The Sloppy Identity Interpretation in Child Japanese: Its Acquisition and Implications" Koichi Otaki (University of Connecticut ) and Noriaki Yusa (Miyagi Gakuin Women's University / Japan Science and Technology Agency) Chair: Yukio Otsu (Keio University) 14:30-15:00 "The Acquisition of Participle Agreement in Early Romance" Vincent Torrens(U.N.E.D.) and Anna Gavarro (U.A.B.) Chair: Yukio Otsu (Keio University) 15:00-15:30 "Children’s Knowledge of an Asymmetric Universal in Mandarin Chinese" Yi (Esther) Su and Stephen Crain (Macquarie University) Chair: Yukio Otsu (Keio University) Break 15:45-16:45 (Invited Lecture) "Eventivity Effects in Early Grammar: The Case of Non-Finite Verbs" Nina Hyams (University of California, Los Angeles) Chair: Tetsuya Sano (Meiji Gakuin University) ----------------------------------------------------------------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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Moreover, it offers excellent fringe benefits and a corporate culture in which commitment and cooperation are central themes. Faculty of Humanities, Department of Communication and Information Sciences Research and education of the Department of Communication and Information Sciences is organized around the themes of language technology, human-computer interaction, perception and cognition, business communication and digital media, and discourse studies. The department’s inspiring working environment stimulates its employees to realize their ambitions. Within the Department of Communication and Information Sciences, we are looking for a new enthusiastic and competent PhD-colleague PhD RESEARCHER Vacancy number 500.09.02 4 years, fulltime Intended starting date: August 1, 2009 The PhD researcher will collaborate with Dr. Paul Vogt on the project 'Cultural and social aspects of multimodal interaction in language acquisition (CASA MILA)'. This project is concerned with the relation between joint attentional usage and infants' first language acquisition. The project consists of roughly two phases: The collection of quantitative data on joint attention and multimodal interactions between caregivers and infants (9-24 months old) during field trips to Mozambique and the Netherlands. The incorporation of these data in computer simulations on language evolution. For a summary of the project proposal, see http://www.paul-vogt.nl. The successful candidate will have the following tasks: - Prepare and perform empirical research on joint attention and child language acquisition within the CASA MILA project. - Carry out fieldwork in Mozambique and in the Netherlands. - Publish and present the results at international scientific conferences and in journals. - Write a dissertation. It is required to spend one period of 8 Months in 2010 and one of 2 Months in 2011 in Maputo (Mozambique), but the PhD researcher will be based at Tilburg University for the remainder of the appointment. Requirements He or she will have the following profile: - An MA or MSc in (Linguistic/Psychological) Anthropology, (Developmental) Psychology, Psycholinguistics, Linguistics, Cognitive Science or related subject. - Highly motivated and autonomous with good contactual skills. - Proven research experience regarding child language acquisition or developmental psychology. (Experience with carrying out ethnographic fieldwork is an asset.) - An excellent command of oral and written English. - A good command of Dutch and Portuguese (also Spanish/Italian/ French or Changana/Tsonga are acceptable) or the willingness to learn Dutch and/or Portuguese. Information For more information please contact dr. Paul Vogt via email (P.A.Vogt at uvt.nl ). Relevant links: Tilburg University (http://www.uvt.nl / http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/) , Department of Communication and Information Sciences (http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/faculties/humanities/dci/ ), CASA MILA (www.paul-vogt.nl). Terms of employment Tilburg University is rated among the top Dutch employers, offering excellent terms of employment. The collective labour agreement of Tilburg University applies. The selected candidates will start with a contract for one year, concluded by an evaluation. Upon a positive outcome of the first-year evaluation, the candidate will be offered an employment contract for the remaining three years. The PhD candidate will receive a starting salary of € 2.042 gross per month in the first year, up to € 2.612 in the 4th year. The selected candidate is expected to have written a PhD thesis by the end of the contract. Furthermore, the usual facilities (desk, computer, options model) are offered, as well as support with housing, immigrations, etc. Applications Applications should include cover letter, Curriculum Vitae, and names of two references. Application letters should be sent before the application deadline of April 15, 2009, by regular mail to mr. P. van Balen, Human Resource Manager, Faculty of Humanities, Room D304, Tilburg University, P.O. Box 90153, NL-5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands or by email to solliciterenfdl at uvt.nl. In your letter, please refer to the relevant vacancy code. Job interviews dates: 29 May and 2 June 2009. It is the policy of the university to increase the number of women employed. Also members of ethnic minority groups and handicapped people are expressly invited to apply. -------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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THURSDAY 25TH JUNE 2009 Conference website: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/linguistics/news/events/item/assessment-management FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS This one day conference will take place in the Research Beehive at Newcastle University. This is a follow-up and dissemination event to an ESRC funded seminar series. Anyone with an interest in the area is welcome! Early registration fee: £40 (includes lunch and refreshments) KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Professor Virginia Gathercole, ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism in Theory and Practice, Bangor University. Abstracts for papers or posters addressing any aspect of working with EAL or bilingual children who have underlying speech, Language and communication needs/difficulties are welcome. Please restrict the length of your abstract to 400 words and indicate whether you wish to give an oral or poster presentation. DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: FRIDAY 27TH MARCH 2009. We will let you know whether your proposal has been successful by 25th April. DEADLINE FOR EARLY REGISTRATION: 25TH MAY 2009. Please submit abstracts to: crills at ncl.ac.uk , clearly marked for conference: 'ASSESSMENT, MANAGEMENT AND INTERVENTION FOR EAL CHILDREN WITH SPEECH, LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION DISORDERS' Conference website: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/linguistics/news/events/item/assessment-management If you have any specific queries please email Carolyn Letts: c.a.letts at ncl.ac.uk Carolyn Letts, Ghada Khattab. Conference Organisers --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 marina_russa at hotmail.com Thu Feb 19 04:05:53 2009 From: marina_russa at hotmail.com (Marina) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:05:53 -0800 Subject: PPVT Message-ID: Hello, I am a graduate student in linguistics. I am working on my graduate thesis, and I am planning to use the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test to measure the bilingualism levels of my subjects. However, no one on campus has used the test. The prices on the publisher's site are excesive, so I am trying to see if there is some other way of getting this test. I will apreciate if someone can share some information regarding this with me. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 djackson at uaq.mx Thu Feb 19 04:09:27 2009 From: djackson at uaq.mx (Donna Jackson) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:09:27 -0600 Subject: PPVT In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I would recommend you use some other test. The validity of the Spanish (if that is what you are going to use) is not good. Donna Jackson-Maldonado Marina escribió: > Hello, I am a graduate student in linguistics. I am working on my > graduate thesis, and I am planning to use the Peabody Picture > Vocabulary Test to measure the bilingualism levels of my subjects. > However, no one on campus has used the test. The prices on the > publisher's site are excesive, so I am trying to see if there is some > other way of getting this test. > I will apreciate if someone can share some information regarding this > with me. > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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I would also greatly appreciate it if you could forward or post the job description below to any appropriate email lists at your institution. Thanks very much, Michael Ullman *************************************** THE BRAIN AND LANGUAGE LAB The Brain and Language Lab at Georgetown University, directed by Michael Ullman, investigates the biological and psychological bases of first and second language in normal and disordered children and adults, and the relations between language and other cognitive domains, primarily 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 genotype, hormone levels, 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, autism, ADHD, dyslexia, Tourette syndrome, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, and aphasia. For a fuller description of the Brain and Language Lab, please see http://brainlang.georgetown.edu. RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITION We are seeking a full-time Research Assistant. The successful candidate, who will work with other RAs in the lab, will have the opportunity to be involved in a variety of projects, using a range of methodological approaches (see above). S/he will have responsibility for various aspects of research and laboratory management, including a number of the following, depending on aptitude and experience: creating experimental stimuli; designing experiments; 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 degree (a Master's degree is a plus), with a significant amount of course-work or research experience in at least two and ideally three of the following: cognitive psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, 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. 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 must be available to work for at least two years, and ideally for three. The successful candidate will be trained in a variety of the methods and approaches used in the lab, including (depending on the focus of his/her work) statistics, experimental design, subject testing, and neuroimaging methods. S/he will work closely with lab members as well as collaborators (see http://brainlang.georgetown.edu). The ideal start date would be early summer 2009. Interested candidates should email Ann McMahon (brainlangadmin at georgetown.edu) their CV and one or two publications or other writing samples, and have 3 recommenders email her their recommendations directly. Salary will be commensurate with experience and qualifications. The position, which includes health benefits, is contingent upon funding. Georgetown University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer. POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW POSITION The postdoctoral fellow will have the opportunity to be involved in a number of different projects, using a variety of methodological approaches (see above), and to carry out her/his own studies related to lab interests. The candidate must have completed all PhD degree requirements prior to starting the position. S/he must have significant experience in at least one and ideally two or more of the following areas: cognitive neuroscience, cognitive psychology, linguistics, computer science, statistics. Research experience in the neurocognition of language is desirable but not necessary, although the candidate must have a strong interest in this area of research. S/he must also have expertise in two or more of the following: ERPs, fMRI, MEG, adult-onset disorders, developmental disorders, psycholinguistic behavioral techniques, statistics, molecular techniques. Excellent skills at experimental design, statistics and writing, a strong publication record, and previous success at obtaining funding, will all be considered advantageous. To allow for sufficient time to learn new skills and to publish, candidates must be available to work for at least two years, and ideally for three. The successful candidate will be trained in a variety of the methods and approaches used in the lab, including (depending on the focus of his/her work) aspects of experimental design, statistics, and neuroimaging methods. S/he will work closely with lab members as well as collaborators (see http://brainlang.georgetown.edu). The ideal start date would be summer 2009. Interested candidates should email Ann McMahon (brainlangadmin at georgetown.edu) their CV and two or three publications, and have 3 recommenders email her their recommendations directly. Salary will be commensurate with experience and qualifications. The position, which includes health benefits, is contingent upon funding. 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 Thu Feb 19 20:49:34 2009 From: jedwards2 at wisc.edu (JAN R EDWARDS) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:49:34 -0600 Subject: project manager position Message-ID: Hi everyone, Here's a position listing. See http://www.ohr.wisc.edu/pvl/pv_061259.html or view details below. Yours, Jan UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON Position Vacancy Listing PVL# 61259 Working title: RESEARCH SPECIALIST-WAISMAN CENTER Official title: RESEARCH SPECIALIST(T16DN) or ASSOC RESEARCH SPEC(T16FN) Degree and area of specialization: Bachelor's degree required. A degree in psychology, communicative disorders, or linguistics is preferred. Degree in related field considered. Minimum number of years and type of relevant work experience: A minimum of one year behavioral research experience in an academic setting is preferred. Strong interpresonal skills and ability to work in ethnically, economically, and racially diverse settings essential. Background working with minority children in preschools or elementary schools highly advantageous. The successful candidate will possess: 1) Excellent oral and written communication skills 2) Organizational skills and attention to detail 3) An ability to prioritize 4) Excellent interpersonal skills 5) Knowledge of computers with an understanding of common Microsoft programs. Experience with programming in R (or related languages) is highly desirable. Principal duties: This position involves the conduct of research on factors that affect success in learning to read among minority, principally African American, children. The position involves managing and coordinating activities among the individuals (undergraduates, graduate students, post docs, research assistants) conducting research at settings such as preschools and elementary schools. This individual will schedule and coordinate researchers in the field; training testers; collate and organize data, and perform simple data analyses. The incumbent will also participate in creating materials for behavioral studies involving Standard American English and African American English. This individual will also manage the lab on a day-to-day basis. Specific duties will include, but are not limited to: -working with teachers and administrators at preschools and elementary schools -scheduling testing at such settings -coordinating schedules of field researchers -training field researchers -coordinating distribution and collection of consent forms -collecting, checking, coding, and inputing research data -R-scripting to analyze research data -assist with management of research funds -general laboratory maintenance Additional Information: Must be available a minimum of 5 half days per week or 3 full days per week, including Mondays. A Criminal Background Check will be performed. A criminal background check will be conducted prior to hiring. A period of evaluation will be required ************************* Appointment type: Academic Staff Department(s): GRAD/WAISMAN CENTER Full time salary rate: Minimum $29,095 ANNUAL (12 months) Depending on Qualifications Term: This is a renewable appointment. Appointment percent: 50% - 100% Anticipated begin date: MARCH 01, 2009 Number of positions: 1 TO ENSURE CONSIDERATION Application must be received by: FEBRUARY 23, 2009 HOW TO APPLY: Unless another application procedure has been specified above, please send resume and cover letter referring to Position Vacancy Listing #61259 to Email: jedwards2 at wisc.edu NOTE: Unless confidentiality is requested in writing, information regarding the names of applicants must be released upon request. Finalists cannot be guaranteed confidentiality. UW-Madison is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. We promote excellence through diversity and encourage all qualified individuals to apply. For more academic job opportunities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison please click on PVL HOME For more information on the University of Wisconsin-Madison Office of Human Resources please click on http://www.ohr.wisc.edu/ For more information on the University of Wisconsin-Madison see our home page at http://www.wisc.edu/ For UW Madison Campus Safety Information see http://www.wisc.edu/students/faculty/safety.htm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 aurora.bel at upf.edu Sat Feb 21 13:14:51 2009 From: aurora.bel at upf.edu (aurora.bel at upf.edu) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:14:51 +0100 Subject: Barcelona Summer School on Bilingualism (7-10 Sep 2009) Message-ID: Barcelona Summer School on Bi- and Multilingualism Date: 07-Sep-2009 - 10-Sep-2009 Location: Barcelona, Spain Contact: Carmen Perez Contact Email: bilingualism.school at upf.edu URL: http://www.upf.edu/dtf/recerca/summer/index.html Description: The aim of the summer school is to bring together prominent experts on bilingualism and multilingualism who represent different disciplinary approaches and will discuss state-of-the-art research on the topics. The school is intended for post-graduate students and researchers interested in an updated overview of the field in an international academic context. The summer school includes the following courses: - Michel Paradis (McGill University, Montreal) Neurolinguistic Perspective - Antonella Sorace (University of Edinburgh) Linguistic Perspective - Judith Kroll (Pennsylvania State University) Cognitive Perspective - Li Wei (University of London) Socio-cultural Perspective - Istvan Kecskes (State University of New York, Albany) Discourse Perspective Workshops will be held on Thursday afternoon (September 10): Albert Costa (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Workshop Chair Barcelona Summer School directors: Prof. Istvan Kecskes (State University of New York, Albany) Prof. Carmen Pérez Vidal (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona) Location: Campus de la Comunicació (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Roc Boronat, 138 - 08005 (Barcelona) Price: 440.- Euro (Tuition and 5 nights' accommodation included) Please go to the website of the summer school where you will find a Registration Form, payment information and details about the program: Web:http://www.upf.edu/dtf/recerca/summer/index.html Please register at your earliest convenience because number of participants is limited. If you have any questions, please contact the organizers: E-mail contact: bilingualism.school at upf.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 jenny.jmt49 at gmail.com Sun Feb 22 20:34:46 2009 From: jenny.jmt49 at gmail.com (Jenny Thomson) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:34:46 -0800 Subject: 2nd Conference of the International Mind, Brain and Education Society Message-ID: Colleagues, The biennial conference of the International Mind, Brain, and Education Society (www.imbes.org) will be held May 28-­30, 2009, at the Sheraton Society Hill Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The conference provides a forum to explore exciting new advances in the emerging field of Mind, Brain, and Education. In the spirit of encouraging and supporting collaborative efforts among cognitive scientists, developmental scientists, neuroscientists, and educators, the IMBES conferences create a promising environment in which committed researchers and educators can together offer new insights into behavior and the brain that can inform both educational practice and new scientific investigations. PRECONFERENCE SESSION Introduction to the Brain and Neurosciences for Educators and Clinicians, by Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, University of Southern California. This workshop is designed to help participants become informed and critical consumers of brain research as it is portrayed both in technical reports and in the popular press. This is a dynamic and popular workshop with limited space, so register early. CALL FOR PROPOSALS Proposals for Symposia, Panel Discussions, and Posters are welcome. Examples of topics include how research findings can influence how educators think about cognitive or developmental change, the role of memory in learning, the educational relevance of neural plasticity, how educational practice and policy can inform educational research, or the implications of research findings for the construction of standards, as well as many other topics. Proposals should explicitly address connections among mind, brain, and education. See the IMBES website (www.imbes.org) for complete instructions on how to submit proposals for review. The deadline before which all proposals will be considered for the program is March 1, 2009. Later proposals will be reviewed if space is still available in the program. See the IMBES website (www.imbes.org) for complete instructions on how to submit proposals. THE INVITED PROGRAM Distinguished Plenary Speakers will include (abstracts are posted online at www.imbes.org): Stanislas Dehaene, College of France, Paris How Learning to Read Affects the Developing Brain: The Neuronal Recycling Hypothesis Nora Newcombe, Temple University, Philadelphia Educating Spatial Intelligence: The Right Questions, and Some Answers Antonio Battro, Battro & Denham, Buenos Aires The Teaching Brain: The New Challenges Patricia Kuhl, University of Washington, Seattle Minds, Brains, and Early Learning: How Infants ŒCrack the Speech Code¹ REGISTRATION Your registration fee includes admission to all conference events (except the optional short course), two breakfasts, one lunch, and two receptions, one sponsored by Wiley/Blackwell and one sponsored by Temple University in Philadelphia. IMBES extends its gratitude to both sponsors. You may download a brochure and register online at www.imbes.org or by contacting the IMBES Business Office. You are encouraged to contact David Daniel (dbdaniel at imbes.org) with any questions. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 xiaoweizhao at gmail.com Tue Feb 24 05:09:56 2009 From: xiaoweizhao at gmail.com (xiaoweizhao at gmail.com) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:09:56 +0000 Subject: An online database of phnological representation for Mandarin Chinese monosyllables. Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, We (Xiaowei Zhao, University of Richmond; and Ping Li, Pennsylvania State University) have just developed an online database of phnological representation for Mandarin Chinese monosyllables. This system builds on the idea of slot-based syllabic template, as adopted by PatPho (A phonological pattern generator for neural networks, see Li & MacWhinney, 2002). We hope that the database can provide psycholinguists and connectionnists an easily accessible interface of Mandarin Chinese characters' phonological representation. This representation system can be used for a variety of purposes, in particular, connectionist language modeling, and more generally, the study of Chinese phonology. It is also our hope that scientists working in the field of child language development (monolingual or multilingual with Chinese) can find the usfulness of this system in their studies. A paper described this system will be published on Behavior Research Methods soon. If you are interested in this database, please go to: http://cogsci.richmond.edu/Mandarin_patpho.php to find the online interactive querying system of it. Your comments and suggestions on the database are extremely welcome! Many thanks! Best wishes, Xiaowei Zhao -- Xiaowei Zhao, Ph.D. Visiting Lecturer of Psychology Department of Psychology Richmond Hall, RM M08-2 University of Richmond Richmond, VA 23173 Phone: 804-287-1915 Fax: 804-287-1905 email: xzhao2 at richmond.edu; xiaoweizhao at gmail.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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The successful candidate will be based at the University of Manchester (UK) and will conduct two periods of fieldwork in Italy (Milan) and Spain (Madrid/Barcelona). You should have a PhD in linguistics, psychology or related field, experience of testing school-age children, and an interest in language processing and bilingualism. It is also essential that you have native or near-native knowledge of Italian and a good command of Spanish. The start date for the position is 1st May 2009. Please contact Dr Ludovica Serratrice for informal enquiries (serratrice at manchester.ac.uk). Application forms and further particulars are available at http://www.manchester.ac.uk/vacancies or from The Directorate of Human Resources, Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences. Tel: 0161 275 8835 or email: mhs-hr at manchester.ac.uk Closing date: 9 March 2009. Please quote reference. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 Sun Feb 1 10:40:32 2009 From: gordoning at gmail.com (Gordon Ingram) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 10:40:32 +0000 Subject: research on test questions In-Reply-To: <24843d17-e522-4204-8338-3438130b9d32@e1g2000pra.googlegroups.com> Message-ID: Hi Gerlind, I suspect there might be quite a lot of educational research into this sort of topic, though obviously coming from a more applied perspective. It reminds me of a recent study by Siraj-Blatchford and Manni: Siraj-Blatchford, I., & Manni, L. (2008). 'Would you like to tidy up now?' An analysis of adult questioning in the English foundation stage. Early Years, 28, 5-22. This was an observational rather than an experimental study, but interestingly they found that 95% of adult questioning of preschoolers was in the form of closed questions, to which there was either one correct answer or no real answer at all. "Test" questions in your sense would seem to form a subset of "closed" questions as they define them, though they also included various sorts of rhetorical and "request" questions (like the one in their title), which would be similar to the test requests you refer to. Hope this helps, Gordon =================================== Gordon Ingram Research Fellow Centre for Effective Education Queen's University, Belfast Tel: +44 28 9097 1340 Mob: +44 7973 136820 http://www.qub.ac.uk/cee =================================== On 30 Jan 2009, at 11:05, Hauser, Gerlind wrote: > > Hi everybody! > > I am interested in research, especially experiments, on so-called > "test questions" and test requests. By "test question" I mean > questions (mostly from an adult to a child), where it is clear from > context that the adult has the information he is asking for and thus > asks in order to test the child's knowledge/memory or to simply > interact with the child. Analogous there are also test requests, where > the adult could perfectly take the object he is requesting also > without the child's help. > > I would be grateful for any suggestions, > > Gerlind > > -- > Gerlind Grosse PhD student at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary > Anthropology Deutscher Platz 6 04103 Leipzig > Work: 0049 341 3550 407 > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 phyllis.schneider at ualberta.ca Tue Feb 3 18:32:58 2009 From: phyllis.schneider at ualberta.ca (Schneider, Phyllis) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 11:32:58 -0700 Subject: positions at the University of Alberta Message-ID: FACULTY OPENINGS Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine Recent expansion of Canada's largest master's degree program in speech-language pathology has resulted in the creation of three new full-time, tenure track faculty positions. Qualified candidates are invited to apply. Highly regarded for the outstanding academic, clinical, and research preparation of its graduates and the supportive learning environment provided, the Department of Speech Pathology & Audiology in the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Alberta is housed within one of Canada's top research universities. Research initiatives by Department faculty members are encouraged and supported through enviable teaching loads, state of the art facilities and a range of other resources. Department faculty members are actively involved in individual and collaborative research, nationally and internationally, in basic and applied communication sciences. As part of the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine (OT, PT, SLP) the Department is a key participant in an interdisciplinary PhD program. Located in Canada's fifth largest municipality and the capital of the province of Alberta, Edmonton offers a high quality affordable lifestyle, a wide range of recreational opportunities and excellent cultural venues and options, all within a natural setting close to the Canadian Rockies. Qualified candidates must hold a PhD (Communications Sciences and Disorders or related areas) and demonstrate outstanding potential for an independent research career. Clinical certification and experience in speech-language pathology practice are desirable but not required. Salary and rank will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. If you are interested in being considered for one of these opportunities, please forward your cover letter, curriculum vitae and a minimum of three referees and contact information to Ms. Elizabeth Hurley or Ms. Shayleen Stringer, Davies Park Executive Search Consultants, 1505 Scotia 2 - 10060 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T5J 3R8. It is preferred that applications be sent electronically to : careers at daviespark.com; however, faxes may be forwarded to (780) 426-2936. Visit our website at www.daviespark.com for a copy of the Opportunity Profile. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. If suitable Canadian citizens or permanent residents cannot be found, other individuals will be considered. The University of Alberta hires on the basis of merit. We are committed to the principle of equity in employment. We welcome diversity and encourage applications from all qualified women and men, including persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities, and Aboriginal persons. Opportunity Profile: http://www.daviespark.com/careers/Upload/Profile%20UofA%20Faculty%20SP&A .pdf --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 william.snyder at uconn.edu Wed Feb 4 00:25:20 2009 From: william.snyder at uconn.edu (William Snyder) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 19:25:20 -0500 Subject: Eleanor Maccoby book award 2009 In-Reply-To: <63B7BFD15E49DF42BF14DAC6E55ABC513D8456@MAILBE.acad.gc.cuny.edu> Message-ID: Dear Professor Nelson, I just came across your message to info-childes from this past fall... Is it too late for me to nominate my 2007 book, Child Language: The Parametric Approach (www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199296705) for the Maccoby Award? Best wishes, William Snyder Nelson, Katherine wrote: > > THE ELEANOR MACCOBY BOOK AWARD IN DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY > > > > Nominations are invited for the 2009 Eleanor Maccoby book award given > by APA Division 7 (Developmental). The award is made to the author > (not an editor) of a book in psychology that has had or promises to > have a profound effect on the field of developmental psychology or any > of its areas. (Co-authored books may be nominated.) Books published in > 2007 and 2008 are eligible for the award this year. > > > > Nominations should be sent to the chair of the Book Award Committee, > Katherine Nelson, knelson at gc.cuny.edu. Nominations must include the > author's name and address, the name of the book, publication date, > publisher's name and address, and a brief description of the book's > content and contribution to the field. Nominations must be received by > February 1, 2009. > > > > Self nominations are welcome. > > > > For further information and prior awardees please consult the Division > 7 webpage. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 KNelson at gc.cuny.edu Wed Feb 4 19:37:58 2009 From: KNelson at gc.cuny.edu (Nelson, Katherine) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 14:37:58 -0500 Subject: Eleanor Maccoby book award 2009 Message-ID: The final list of eligible books for the Eleanor Maccoby Book Award from APA Division 7 has been compiled and nominations are no longer being received. Katherine Nelson Distinguished Professor Emerita Ph.D. Program in Psychology City University of New York Graduate Center Home address for correspondence: 50 Riverside Drive #4B New York, NY 10024 knelson at gc.cuny.edu ________________________________ From: info-childes at googlegroups.com on behalf of William Snyder Sent: Tue 2/3/2009 7:25 PM To: info-childes at googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Eleanor Maccoby book award 2009 Dear Professor Nelson, I just came across your message to info-childes from this past fall... Is it too late for me to nominate my 2007 book, Child Language: The Parametric Approach (www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199296705) for the Maccoby Award? Best wishes, William Snyder Nelson, Katherine wrote: > > THE ELEANOR MACCOBY BOOK AWARD IN DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY > > > > Nominations are invited for the 2009 Eleanor Maccoby book award given > by APA Division 7 (Developmental). The award is made to the author > (not an editor) of a book in psychology that has had or promises to > have a profound effect on the field of developmental psychology or any > of its areas. (Co-authored books may be nominated.) Books published in > 2007 and 2008 are eligible for the award this year. > > > > Nominations should be sent to the chair of the Book Award Committee, > Katherine Nelson, knelson at gc.cuny.edu. Nominations must include the > author's name and address, the name of the book, publication date, > publisher's name and address, and a brief description of the book's > content and contribution to the field. Nominations must be received by > February 1, 2009. > > > > Self nominations are welcome. > > > > For further information and prior awardees please consult the Division > 7 webpage. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 william.snyder at uconn.edu Wed Feb 4 23:52:39 2009 From: william.snyder at uconn.edu (William Snyder) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 18:52:39 -0500 Subject: Eleanor Maccoby book award 2009 In-Reply-To: <63B7BFD15E49DF42BF14DAC6E55ABC513D853A@MAILBE.acad.gc.cuny.edu> Message-ID: Thank you in any case for getting back to me. Best wishes - William Nelson, Katherine wrote: > The final list of eligible books for the Eleanor Maccoby Book Award from APA Division 7 has been compiled and nominations are no longer being received. > > > Katherine Nelson > Distinguished Professor Emerita > Ph.D. Program in Psychology > City University of New York Graduate Center > Home address for correspondence: > 50 Riverside Drive #4B > New York, NY 10024 > knelson at gc.cuny.edu > > ________________________________ > > From: info-childes at googlegroups.com on behalf of William Snyder > Sent: Tue 2/3/2009 7:25 PM > To: info-childes at googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Eleanor Maccoby book award 2009 > > > > > Dear Professor Nelson, > > I just came across your message to info-childes from this past fall... > Is it too late for me to nominate my 2007 book, Child Language: The > Parametric Approach (www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199296705) for the > Maccoby Award? > > Best wishes, > > William Snyder > > > > Nelson, Katherine wrote: > >> THE ELEANOR MACCOBY BOOK AWARD IN DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY >> >> >> >> Nominations are invited for the 2009 Eleanor Maccoby book award given >> by APA Division 7 (Developmental). The award is made to the author >> (not an editor) of a book in psychology that has had or promises to >> have a profound effect on the field of developmental psychology or any >> of its areas. (Co-authored books may be nominated.) Books published in >> 2007 and 2008 are eligible for the award this year. >> >> >> >> Nominations should be sent to the chair of the Book Award Committee, >> Katherine Nelson, knelson at gc.cuny.edu. Nominations must include the >> author's name and address, the name of the book, publication date, >> publisher's name and address, and a brief description of the book's >> content and contribution to the field. Nominations must be received by >> February 1, 2009. >> >> >> >> Self nominations are welcome. >> >> >> >> For further information and prior awardees please consult the Division >> 7 webpage. >> >> >> > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 kei at aya.yale.edu Mon Feb 9 06:05:36 2009 From: kei at aya.yale.edu (Nakamura, Kei) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 22:05:36 -0800 Subject: Ninth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics (TCP2009) March 13 & 14 Message-ID: The Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies at Keio University will be sponsoring the ninth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics (TCP2009) on March 13 and 14, 2009 to be held at Kita-kan Hall, Keio University, Mita,Tokyo. The invited speakers are Dr. Nina Hyams (UCLA) and Dr. Akira Watanabe (The University of Tokyo). Below you fill find the conference program. For details, visit our website: http://www.otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp/tcp/ -------------------------------------------------------------- TCP 2009 Program Day 1 (March 13, 2009) 10:30-13:35 Opening Yukio Otsu (Keio University) 10:35-11:05 "Acquiring the Syntax and Semantics of Dutch Raising-Verbs" Loes Koring (Utrecht University) Chair: Miwa Isobe (Tokyo University of the Arts) 11:05-11:35 "Quantification and Individuation in the Acquisition of Chinese Classifiers" Aijun Huang (Chinese University of Hong Kong/ Macquarie University) and Thomas Hun-tak Lee (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Chair: Miwa Isobe (Tokyo University of the Arts) Lunch 13:00-13:30 "Expectation Driven by Case-Markers: Its Effect in Japanese Relative Clause Processing" Atsushi Sato, Bar?? Kahraman (Hiroshima University), Hajime Ono (Kansai Gaidai University) and Hiromu Sakai (Hiroshima University) Chair: Takuya Goro (Ibaraki University) 13:30-14:00 "The Problem of Quantifiers in Object Position: A New Experimental Evidence Against the Extra Computation that They Are Supposed to Trigger" Isabelle Charnavel (University of California, Los Angeles) Chair: Takuya Goro (Ibaraki University) 14:00:14:30 "Organisation of ?Number? Information in the Lexicon: Insights from Aphasic Plural Errors" Britta Biedermann, Lyndsey Nickels and Anna Elisabeth Beyersmann (Macquarie University) Chair: Takuya Goro (Ibaraki University) Break 14:50-15:20 "The Online Processing of French Reflexives: Cross Modal Lexical Priming Experimental Evidence for Their Unaccusativity" Isabelle Charnavel (University of California, Los Angeles), Flavia Adani (Universit? Milano-Bicocca) and Nina Hyams (University of California, Los Angeles) Chair: Masakazu Kuno (Waseda University) 15:20-15:50 "Syntax-Prosody Interface of Wh-Q Dependency in Tokyo Japanese: Right-Dislocation/Scrambling (A)Symmetries" Hideaki Yamashita (Yokohama National University) Chair: Masakazu Kuno (Waseda University) 15:50-16:20 "The Nominative/Accusative Alternation in the Transitive Adjective Construction in Modern Japanese: An ANOVA Analysis" Hideki Maki (Gifu University), Kana Ito (UBUKATA INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.), Megumi Hasebe, Kenichi Goto (Gifu University), Michiyo Hamasaki (Aichi University of Education), Takashi Munakata (Yokohama National University) and Yukiko Ueda (Akita University) Chair: Masakazu Kuno (Waseda University) Break 16:35-17:35 (Invited Lecture) "Measure Phrases in PP" Akira Watanabe (The University of Tokyo) Chair: Masashi Nomura (Chukyo University) RECEPTION Day 2 (March 14, 2009) 10:00-10:30 "Nominative Case Marking and Verbal Inflection in L2 Grammar: Evidence from Japanese College Students' Compositions" Noriko Yoshimura (University of Shizuoka) Mineharu Nakayama (The Ohio State University) Chair: Makiko Hirakawa (Bunkyo University) 10:30-11:00 "Processing of Lexical Prosody in L2 Word Recognition:?Evidence f rom Japanese L2ers of English" Jeonghwa Shin and Shari R. Speer (The Ohio State University) Chair: Makiko Hirakawa (Bunkyo University) 11:00-11:30 "The Role of Indirect Negative Evidence and Paradigm Uniformity in L1 Acquisition of the Two Types of Japanese Adjectives" Haruka Fukazawa (Keio University) and Miho Fujiwara (Willamette University) Chair: Makiko Hirakawa (Bunkyo University) Lunch -------------------------------------------------------------- 12:30-14:00 Poster Session "Referential Context Effects in L2 Ambiguity Resolution: Evidence from Self-Paced Reading" Hui-Yu Pan and Claudia Felser (University of Essex) "Argument Ellipsis in Child Japanese: A Preliminary Report" Koji Sugisaki (Mie University) "Acquisition of Japanese Passives Revisited: Children Understand Long Passives" Masahiko Takahashi (University of Connecticut) and Misako Hatayama (Miyagi Gakuin Women?s University/ Japan Science and Technology Agency) ----------------------------------------------------------------- 14:00-14:30 "The Sloppy Identity Interpretation in Child Japanese: Its Acquisition and Implications" Koichi Otaki (University of Connecticut ) and Noriaki Yusa (Miyagi Gakuin Women's University / Japan Science and Technology Agency) Chair: Yukio Otsu (Keio University) 14:30-15:00 "The Acquisition of Participle Agreement in Early Romance" Vincent Torrens(U.N.E.D.) and Anna Gavarro (U.A.B.) Chair: Yukio Otsu (Keio University) 15:00-15:30 "Children?s Knowledge of an Asymmetric Universal in Mandarin Chinese" Yi (Esther) Su and Stephen Crain (Macquarie University) Chair: Yukio Otsu (Keio University) Break 15:45-16:45 (Invited Lecture) "Eventivity Effects in Early Grammar: The Case of Non-Finite Verbs" Nina Hyams (University of California, Los Angeles) Chair: Tetsuya Sano (Meiji Gakuin University) ----------------------------------------------------------------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 vogt.pa at gmail.com Mon Feb 9 12:57:27 2009 From: vogt.pa at gmail.com (Paul Vogt) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 13:57:27 +0100 Subject: Ph.D. position on joint attention and language acquisition available at Tilburg University Message-ID: Dear colleague, Please forward this email to those who might be interested. Apologies for multiple posting. Tilburg University Tilburg University is a modern, specialized university. Its education and research are of high quality. Students and employees experience Tilburg University as an environment in which they are challenged and inspired. Moreover, it offers excellent fringe benefits and a corporate culture in which commitment and cooperation are central themes. Faculty of Humanities, Department of Communication and Information Sciences Research and education of the Department of Communication and Information Sciences is organized around the themes of language technology, human-computer interaction, perception and cognition, business communication and digital media, and discourse studies. The department?s inspiring working environment stimulates its employees to realize their ambitions. Within the Department of Communication and Information Sciences, we are looking for a new enthusiastic and competent PhD-colleague PhD RESEARCHER Vacancy number 500.09.02 4 years, fulltime Intended starting date: August 1, 2009 The PhD researcher will collaborate with Dr. Paul Vogt on the project 'Cultural and social aspects of multimodal interaction in language acquisition (CASA MILA)'. This project is concerned with the relation between joint attentional usage and infants' first language acquisition. The project consists of roughly two phases: The collection of quantitative data on joint attention and multimodal interactions between caregivers and infants (9-24 months old) during field trips to Mozambique and the Netherlands. The incorporation of these data in computer simulations on language evolution. For a summary of the project proposal, see http://www.paul-vogt.nl. The successful candidate will have the following tasks: - Prepare and perform empirical research on joint attention and child language acquisition within the CASA MILA project. - Carry out fieldwork in Mozambique and in the Netherlands. - Publish and present the results at international scientific conferences and in journals. - Write a dissertation. It is required to spend one period of 8 Months in 2010 and one of 2 Months in 2011 in Maputo (Mozambique), but the PhD researcher will be based at Tilburg University for the remainder of the appointment. Requirements He or she will have the following profile: - An MA or MSc in (Linguistic/Psychological) Anthropology, (Developmental) Psychology, Psycholinguistics, Linguistics, Cognitive Science or related subject. - Highly motivated and autonomous with good contactual skills. - Proven research experience regarding child language acquisition or developmental psychology. (Experience with carrying out ethnographic fieldwork is an asset.) - An excellent command of oral and written English. - A good command of Dutch and Portuguese (also Spanish/Italian/ French or Changana/Tsonga are acceptable) or the willingness to learn Dutch and/or Portuguese. Information For more information please contact dr. Paul Vogt via email (P.A.Vogt at uvt.nl ). Relevant links: Tilburg University (http://www.uvt.nl / http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/) , Department of Communication and Information Sciences (http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/faculties/humanities/dci/ ), CASA MILA (www.paul-vogt.nl). Terms of employment Tilburg University is rated among the top Dutch employers, offering excellent terms of employment. The collective labour agreement of Tilburg University applies. The selected candidates will start with a contract for one year, concluded by an evaluation. Upon a positive outcome of the first-year evaluation, the candidate will be offered an employment contract for the remaining three years. The PhD candidate will receive a starting salary of ? 2.042 gross per month in the first year, up to ? 2.612 in the 4th year. The selected candidate is expected to have written a PhD thesis by the end of the contract. Furthermore, the usual facilities (desk, computer, options model) are offered, as well as support with housing, immigrations, etc. Applications Applications should include cover letter, Curriculum Vitae, and names of two references. Application letters should be sent before the application deadline of April 15, 2009, by regular mail to mr. P. van Balen, Human Resource Manager, Faculty of Humanities, Room D304, Tilburg University, P.O. Box 90153, NL-5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands or by email to solliciterenfdl at uvt.nl. In your letter, please refer to the relevant vacancy code. Job interviews dates: 29 May and 2 June 2009. It is the policy of the university to increase the number of women employed. Also members of ethnic minority groups and handicapped people are expressly invited to apply. -------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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THURSDAY 25TH JUNE 2009 Conference website: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/linguistics/news/events/item/assessment-management FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS This one day conference will take place in the Research Beehive at Newcastle University. This is a follow-up and dissemination event to an ESRC funded seminar series. Anyone with an interest in the area is welcome! Early registration fee: ?40 (includes lunch and refreshments) KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Professor Virginia Gathercole, ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism in Theory and Practice, Bangor University. Abstracts for papers or posters addressing any aspect of working with EAL or bilingual children who have underlying speech, Language and communication needs/difficulties are welcome. Please restrict the length of your abstract to 400 words and indicate whether you wish to give an oral or poster presentation. DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: FRIDAY 27TH MARCH 2009. We will let you know whether your proposal has been successful by 25th April. DEADLINE FOR EARLY REGISTRATION: 25TH MAY 2009. Please submit abstracts to: crills at ncl.ac.uk , clearly marked for conference: 'ASSESSMENT, MANAGEMENT AND INTERVENTION FOR EAL CHILDREN WITH SPEECH, LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION DISORDERS' Conference website: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/linguistics/news/events/item/assessment-management If you have any specific queries please email Carolyn Letts: c.a.letts at ncl.ac.uk Carolyn Letts, Ghada Khattab. Conference Organisers --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 marina_russa at hotmail.com Thu Feb 19 04:05:53 2009 From: marina_russa at hotmail.com (Marina) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:05:53 -0800 Subject: PPVT Message-ID: Hello, I am a graduate student in linguistics. I am working on my graduate thesis, and I am planning to use the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test to measure the bilingualism levels of my subjects. However, no one on campus has used the test. The prices on the publisher's site are excesive, so I am trying to see if there is some other way of getting this test. I will apreciate if someone can share some information regarding this with me. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 djackson at uaq.mx Thu Feb 19 04:09:27 2009 From: djackson at uaq.mx (Donna Jackson) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:09:27 -0600 Subject: PPVT In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I would recommend you use some other test. The validity of the Spanish (if that is what you are going to use) is not good. Donna Jackson-Maldonado Marina escribi?: > Hello, I am a graduate student in linguistics. I am working on my > graduate thesis, and I am planning to use the Peabody Picture > Vocabulary Test to measure the bilingualism levels of my subjects. > However, no one on campus has used the test. The prices on the > publisher's site are excesive, so I am trying to see if there is some > other way of getting this test. > I will apreciate if someone can share some information regarding this > with me. > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 Feb 19 17:46:43 2009 From: michael at georgetown.edu (Michael Ullman) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:46:43 -0500 Subject: Postdoc and RA positions at the Brain and Language Lab Message-ID: The Brain and Language Lab at Georgetown University (http://brainlang.georgetown.edu) has positions for both a Postdoctoral Fellow and a Research Assistant. If you know of any excellent candidates for these positions (e.g., graduating Bachelor's or Master's students for the RA position, and recent or imminent PhDs for the postdoc position), can you please forward them this email? I would also greatly appreciate it if you could forward or post the job description below to any appropriate email lists at your institution. Thanks very much, Michael Ullman *************************************** THE BRAIN AND LANGUAGE LAB The Brain and Language Lab at Georgetown University, directed by Michael Ullman, investigates the biological and psychological bases of first and second language in normal and disordered children and adults, and the relations between language and other cognitive domains, primarily 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 genotype, hormone levels, 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, autism, ADHD, dyslexia, Tourette syndrome, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, and aphasia. For a fuller description of the Brain and Language Lab, please see http://brainlang.georgetown.edu. RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITION We are seeking a full-time Research Assistant. The successful candidate, who will work with other RAs in the lab, will have the opportunity to be involved in a variety of projects, using a range of methodological approaches (see above). S/he will have responsibility for various aspects of research and laboratory management, including a number of the following, depending on aptitude and experience: creating experimental stimuli; designing experiments; 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 degree (a Master's degree is a plus), with a significant amount of course-work or research experience in at least two and ideally three of the following: cognitive psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, 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. 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 must be available to work for at least two years, and ideally for three. The successful candidate will be trained in a variety of the methods and approaches used in the lab, including (depending on the focus of his/her work) statistics, experimental design, subject testing, and neuroimaging methods. S/he will work closely with lab members as well as collaborators (see http://brainlang.georgetown.edu). The ideal start date would be early summer 2009. Interested candidates should email Ann McMahon (brainlangadmin at georgetown.edu) their CV and one or two publications or other writing samples, and have 3 recommenders email her their recommendations directly. Salary will be commensurate with experience and qualifications. The position, which includes health benefits, is contingent upon funding. Georgetown University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer. POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW POSITION The postdoctoral fellow will have the opportunity to be involved in a number of different projects, using a variety of methodological approaches (see above), and to carry out her/his own studies related to lab interests. The candidate must have completed all PhD degree requirements prior to starting the position. S/he must have significant experience in at least one and ideally two or more of the following areas: cognitive neuroscience, cognitive psychology, linguistics, computer science, statistics. Research experience in the neurocognition of language is desirable but not necessary, although the candidate must have a strong interest in this area of research. S/he must also have expertise in two or more of the following: ERPs, fMRI, MEG, adult-onset disorders, developmental disorders, psycholinguistic behavioral techniques, statistics, molecular techniques. Excellent skills at experimental design, statistics and writing, a strong publication record, and previous success at obtaining funding, will all be considered advantageous. To allow for sufficient time to learn new skills and to publish, candidates must be available to work for at least two years, and ideally for three. The successful candidate will be trained in a variety of the methods and approaches used in the lab, including (depending on the focus of his/her work) aspects of experimental design, statistics, and neuroimaging methods. S/he will work closely with lab members as well as collaborators (see http://brainlang.georgetown.edu). The ideal start date would be summer 2009. Interested candidates should email Ann McMahon (brainlangadmin at georgetown.edu) their CV and two or three publications, and have 3 recommenders email her their recommendations directly. Salary will be commensurate with experience and qualifications. The position, which includes health benefits, is contingent upon funding. 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 Thu Feb 19 20:49:34 2009 From: jedwards2 at wisc.edu (JAN R EDWARDS) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:49:34 -0600 Subject: project manager position Message-ID: Hi everyone, Here's a position listing. See http://www.ohr.wisc.edu/pvl/pv_061259.html or view details below. Yours, Jan UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON Position Vacancy Listing PVL# 61259 Working title: RESEARCH SPECIALIST-WAISMAN CENTER Official title: RESEARCH SPECIALIST(T16DN) or ASSOC RESEARCH SPEC(T16FN) Degree and area of specialization: Bachelor's degree required. A degree in psychology, communicative disorders, or linguistics is preferred. Degree in related field considered. Minimum number of years and type of relevant work experience: A minimum of one year behavioral research experience in an academic setting is preferred. Strong interpresonal skills and ability to work in ethnically, economically, and racially diverse settings essential. Background working with minority children in preschools or elementary schools highly advantageous. The successful candidate will possess: 1) Excellent oral and written communication skills 2) Organizational skills and attention to detail 3) An ability to prioritize 4) Excellent interpersonal skills 5) Knowledge of computers with an understanding of common Microsoft programs. Experience with programming in R (or related languages) is highly desirable. Principal duties: This position involves the conduct of research on factors that affect success in learning to read among minority, principally African American, children. The position involves managing and coordinating activities among the individuals (undergraduates, graduate students, post docs, research assistants) conducting research at settings such as preschools and elementary schools. This individual will schedule and coordinate researchers in the field; training testers; collate and organize data, and perform simple data analyses. The incumbent will also participate in creating materials for behavioral studies involving Standard American English and African American English. This individual will also manage the lab on a day-to-day basis. Specific duties will include, but are not limited to: -working with teachers and administrators at preschools and elementary schools -scheduling testing at such settings -coordinating schedules of field researchers -training field researchers -coordinating distribution and collection of consent forms -collecting, checking, coding, and inputing research data -R-scripting to analyze research data -assist with management of research funds -general laboratory maintenance Additional Information: Must be available a minimum of 5 half days per week or 3 full days per week, including Mondays. A Criminal Background Check will be performed. A criminal background check will be conducted prior to hiring. A period of evaluation will be required ************************* Appointment type: Academic Staff Department(s): GRAD/WAISMAN CENTER Full time salary rate: Minimum $29,095 ANNUAL (12 months) Depending on Qualifications Term: This is a renewable appointment. Appointment percent: 50% - 100% Anticipated begin date: MARCH 01, 2009 Number of positions: 1 TO ENSURE CONSIDERATION Application must be received by: FEBRUARY 23, 2009 HOW TO APPLY: Unless another application procedure has been specified above, please send resume and cover letter referring to Position Vacancy Listing #61259 to Email: jedwards2 at wisc.edu NOTE: Unless confidentiality is requested in writing, information regarding the names of applicants must be released upon request. Finalists cannot be guaranteed confidentiality. UW-Madison is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. We promote excellence through diversity and encourage all qualified individuals to apply. For more academic job opportunities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison please click on PVL HOME For more information on the University of Wisconsin-Madison Office of Human Resources please click on http://www.ohr.wisc.edu/ For more information on the University of Wisconsin-Madison see our home page at http://www.wisc.edu/ For UW Madison Campus Safety Information see http://www.wisc.edu/students/faculty/safety.htm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 aurora.bel at upf.edu Sat Feb 21 13:14:51 2009 From: aurora.bel at upf.edu (aurora.bel at upf.edu) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:14:51 +0100 Subject: Barcelona Summer School on Bilingualism (7-10 Sep 2009) Message-ID: Barcelona Summer School on Bi- and Multilingualism Date: 07-Sep-2009 - 10-Sep-2009 Location: Barcelona, Spain Contact: Carmen Perez Contact Email: bilingualism.school at upf.edu URL: http://www.upf.edu/dtf/recerca/summer/index.html Description: The aim of the summer school is to bring together prominent experts on bilingualism and multilingualism who represent different disciplinary approaches and will discuss state-of-the-art research on the topics. The school is intended for post-graduate students and researchers interested in an updated overview of the field in an international academic context. The summer school includes the following courses: - Michel Paradis (McGill University, Montreal) Neurolinguistic Perspective - Antonella Sorace (University of Edinburgh) Linguistic Perspective - Judith Kroll (Pennsylvania State University) Cognitive Perspective - Li Wei (University of London) Socio-cultural Perspective - Istvan Kecskes (State University of New York, Albany) Discourse Perspective Workshops will be held on Thursday afternoon (September 10): Albert Costa (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Workshop Chair Barcelona Summer School directors: Prof. Istvan Kecskes (State University of New York, Albany) Prof. Carmen P?rez Vidal (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona) Location: Campus de la Comunicaci? (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Roc Boronat, 138 - 08005 (Barcelona) Price: 440.- Euro (Tuition and 5 nights' accommodation included) Please go to the website of the summer school where you will find a Registration Form, payment information and details about the program: Web:http://www.upf.edu/dtf/recerca/summer/index.html Please register at your earliest convenience because number of participants is limited. If you have any questions, please contact the organizers: E-mail contact: bilingualism.school at upf.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 jenny.jmt49 at gmail.com Sun Feb 22 20:34:46 2009 From: jenny.jmt49 at gmail.com (Jenny Thomson) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:34:46 -0800 Subject: 2nd Conference of the International Mind, Brain and Education Society Message-ID: Colleagues, The biennial conference of the International Mind, Brain, and Education Society (www.imbes.org) will be held May 28-?30, 2009, at the Sheraton Society Hill Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The conference provides a forum to explore exciting new advances in the emerging field of Mind, Brain, and Education. In the spirit of encouraging and supporting collaborative efforts among cognitive scientists, developmental scientists, neuroscientists, and educators, the IMBES conferences create a promising environment in which committed researchers and educators can together offer new insights into behavior and the brain that can inform both educational practice and new scientific investigations. PRECONFERENCE SESSION Introduction to the Brain and Neurosciences for Educators and Clinicians, by Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, University of Southern California. This workshop is designed to help participants become informed and critical consumers of brain research as it is portrayed both in technical reports and in the popular press. This is a dynamic and popular workshop with limited space, so register early. CALL FOR PROPOSALS Proposals for Symposia, Panel Discussions, and Posters are welcome. Examples of topics include how research findings can influence how educators think about cognitive or developmental change, the role of memory in learning, the educational relevance of neural plasticity, how educational practice and policy can inform educational research, or the implications of research findings for the construction of standards, as well as many other topics. Proposals should explicitly address connections among mind, brain, and education. See the IMBES website (www.imbes.org) for complete instructions on how to submit proposals for review. The deadline before which all proposals will be considered for the program is March 1, 2009. Later proposals will be reviewed if space is still available in the program. See the IMBES website (www.imbes.org) for complete instructions on how to submit proposals. THE INVITED PROGRAM Distinguished Plenary Speakers will include (abstracts are posted online at www.imbes.org): Stanislas Dehaene, College of France, Paris How Learning to Read Affects the Developing Brain: The Neuronal Recycling Hypothesis Nora Newcombe, Temple University, Philadelphia Educating Spatial Intelligence: The Right Questions, and Some Answers Antonio Battro, Battro & Denham, Buenos Aires The Teaching Brain: The New Challenges Patricia Kuhl, University of Washington, Seattle Minds, Brains, and Early Learning: How Infants ?Crack the Speech Code? REGISTRATION Your registration fee includes admission to all conference events (except the optional short course), two breakfasts, one lunch, and two receptions, one sponsored by Wiley/Blackwell and one sponsored by Temple University in Philadelphia. IMBES extends its gratitude to both sponsors. You may download a brochure and register online at www.imbes.org or by contacting the IMBES Business Office. You are encouraged to contact David Daniel (dbdaniel at imbes.org) with any questions. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 xiaoweizhao at gmail.com Tue Feb 24 05:09:56 2009 From: xiaoweizhao at gmail.com (xiaoweizhao at gmail.com) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:09:56 +0000 Subject: An online database of phnological representation for Mandarin Chinese monosyllables. Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, We (Xiaowei Zhao, University of Richmond; and Ping Li, Pennsylvania State University) have just developed an online database of phnological representation for Mandarin Chinese monosyllables. This system builds on the idea of slot-based syllabic template, as adopted by PatPho (A phonological pattern generator for neural networks, see Li & MacWhinney, 2002). We hope that the database can provide psycholinguists and connectionnists an easily accessible interface of Mandarin Chinese characters' phonological representation. This representation system can be used for a variety of purposes, in particular, connectionist language modeling, and more generally, the study of Chinese phonology. It is also our hope that scientists working in the field of child language development (monolingual or multilingual with Chinese) can find the usfulness of this system in their studies. A paper described this system will be published on Behavior Research Methods soon. If you are interested in this database, please go to: http://cogsci.richmond.edu/Mandarin_patpho.php to find the online interactive querying system of it. Your comments and suggestions on the database are extremely welcome! Many thanks! Best wishes, Xiaowei Zhao -- Xiaowei Zhao, Ph.D. Visiting Lecturer of Psychology Department of Psychology Richmond Hall, RM M08-2 University of Richmond Richmond, VA 23173 Phone: 804-287-1915 Fax: 804-287-1905 email: xzhao2 at richmond.edu; xiaoweizhao at gmail.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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The successful candidate will be based at the University of Manchester (UK) and will conduct two periods of fieldwork in Italy (Milan) and Spain (Madrid/Barcelona). You should have a PhD in linguistics, psychology or related field, experience of testing school-age children, and an interest in language processing and bilingualism. It is also essential that you have native or near-native knowledge of Italian and a good command of Spanish. The start date for the position is 1st May 2009. Please contact Dr Ludovica Serratrice for informal enquiries (serratrice at manchester.ac.uk). Application forms and further particulars are available at http://www.manchester.ac.uk/vacancies or from The Directorate of Human Resources, Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences. Tel: 0161 275 8835 or email: mhs-hr at manchester.ac.uk Closing date: 9 March 2009. 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