From gudrun.ziegler at web.de Tue Jan 6 23:58:19 2009 From: gudrun.ziegler at web.de (Gudrun Ziegler) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 00:58:19 +0100 Subject: (Application by 15.1.2009) Research positions - Vacancies (2 posts, 50% + 1 PhD grant-contract): 3-years project Message-ID: Dear colleagues, please forward to interested colleagues and relevant networks, note the short deadline for applications (15.1.2009), kind regards, Gudrun Ziegler ---------------------------- The University of Luxembourg FLSHASE - Educational Sciences & Language Development is looking for the following profiles within the national research project "Development of English in Plurilingual Settings", deadline for applications: JANUARY 15, 2009, positions to start by March/May 2009: 1 Postdoctoral researcher Ref: F3R-LCM-PUL-09FUND 2 year-contract, renewable once, 20h/week (50%), starting spring 2009 1 Research associate Ref: F3R-LCM-PUL-09FUND 2 year-contract, renewable once, 20h/week (50%), starting spring 2009 1 PhD student grant Ref: F3R-LCM-AFR-0809 AFR (Contract, type: "Aide à la formation recherche", 40h/week, starting spring 2009, 3 years) The project "Development of English in Plurilingual Settings" is concerned with the development of English amongst young learners in plurilingual settings. It builds and completes a corpus with regard to developmental features of the learner variety from a discourse-in- interaction perspective. The successful candidate(s) will join the project Development of "English in Plurilingual Settings" which runs from Spring 2009 to end of 2012. Activities: * collecting different types (audio, video, oral, written) of data covering an array of activities in English in a plurilingual learning environment * managing interactional data for implementation in a data-base and a coded corpus * managing project schedule according to advances in analysis and results * analysis of data (discourse, science, media) * observation, analysis and building of inventories * implementation and development (theoretical and methodological concepts in line with the focus of the project * drafting reports, minutes, presentations, papers Profile: * Relevant degree (MA-level or doctorate (PhD)) in one of the following fields, relevant to the project: language development, empirical developmental research, English as international language and/or ESL research, applied linguistics, multilingualism, study of child language or communication analysis, data-treatment, corpus building * Highly motivated, internationally experienced researcher or professional (MA-level and/or PhD-level) in one/several of the fields concerend with a proven record as regards the integration, set-up and/ or management of data-driven scientific projects. * Experience with data-bases, corpus design and/or implementation and/or (early) schooling institutions an asset. * Substantial, theoretically grounded methodological skills as regards the (analytical/technical) handling of developmental/ interactional data are required, prior experiences in collecting and integrating situated data into corpora-/data-treatment-systems are an asset. * Experiences in working with development (language/s, resources, socio-cognitive dimensions, activity dimensions) in a specific domain or a specific age group represent an advantage. As the candidate/s will be working with different types of data covering an array of languages and modalities, she/he has excellent command of at least two of the following languages: English (and its varieties), German and/or French (written and spoken), Luxembourgish and/or a further language an asset. Excellent self-management skills, ability and willingness to engage into active team-management, intercultural, technical and interdisciplinary awareness as well as a motivation to join a challenging environment within a trilingual, international and young University are prerequisites for the positions open within this project. For further information please contact: Ass.-Prof. Dr. Gudrun Ziegler Phone: (+352) 46 66 44 9363 Mail: gudrun.ziegler @ uni.lu Candidates should submit the following documents: * letter of motivation, stating the link of previous work/ interests with the position and the project * curriculum vitae * record of publications and projects (if applicable) * copies of diploma(s) * two references (relevant to the position) by sending applications - DEADLINE JANUARY 15, 2009 - to: University of Luxembourg Ass.-Prof. Dr. Gudrun Ziegler - Secrétariat Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education Campus Walferdange B.P. 2 L-7201 Luxembourg-Walferdange Grand-Duché de Luxembourg Applications will be handled in strict confidence. 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It builds and completes a corpus with regard to developmental features of the learner variety from a discourse-in- interaction perspective. The successful candidate(s) will join the project Development of "English in Plurilingual Settings" which runs from Spring 2009 to end of 2012. Activities: * collecting different types (audio, video, oral, written) of data covering an array of activities in English in a plurilingual learning environment * managing interactional data for implementation in a data-base and a coded corpus * managing project schedule according to advances in analysis and results * analysis of data (discourse, science, media) * observation, analysis and building of inventories * implementation and development (theoretical and methodological concepts in line with the focus of the project * drafting reports, minutes, presentations, papers Profile: * Relevant degree (MA-level or doctorate (PhD)) in one of the following fields, relevant to the project: language development, empirical developmental research, English as international language and/or ESL research, applied linguistics, multilingualism, study of child language or communication analysis, data-treatment, corpus building * Highly motivated, internationally experienced researcher or professional (MA-level and/or PhD-level) in one/several of the fields concerend with a proven record as regards the integration, set-up and/ or management of data-driven scientific projects. * Experience with data-bases, corpus design and/or implementation and/or (early) schooling institutions an asset. * Substantial, theoretically grounded methodological skills as regards the (analytical/technical) handling of developmental/ interactional data are required, prior experiences in collecting and integrating situated data into corpora-/data-treatment-systems are an asset. * Experiences in working with development (language/s, resources, socio-cognitive dimensions, activity dimensions) in a specific domain or a specific age group represent an advantage. As the candidate/s will be working with different types of data covering an array of languages and modalities, she/he has excellent command of at least two of the following languages: English (and its varieties), German and/or French (written and spoken), Luxembourgish and/or a further language an asset. Excellent self-management skills, ability and willingness to engage into active team-management, intercultural, technical and interdisciplinary awareness as well as a motivation to join a challenging environment within a trilingual, international and young University are prerequisites for the positions open within this project. For further information please contact: Ass.-Prof. Dr. Gudrun Ziegler Phone: (+352) 46 66 44 9363 Mail: gudrun.ziegler @ uni.lu Candidates should submit the following documents: * letter of motivation, stating the link of previous work/ interests with the position and the project * curriculum vitae * record of publications and projects (if applicable) * copies of diploma(s) * two references (relevant to the position) by sending applications - DEADLINE JANUARY 15, 2009 - to: University of Luxembourg Ass.-Prof. Dr. Gudrun Ziegler - Secrétariat Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education Campus Walferdange B.P. 2 L-7201 Luxembourg-Walferdange Grand-Duché de Luxembourg Applications will be handled in strict confidence. 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URL: From gudrun.ziegler at web.de Wed Jan 7 00:34:31 2009 From: gudrun.ziegler at web.de (Gudrun Ziegler) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 01:34:31 +0100 Subject: (Application by 15.1.2009) Research positions - Vacancies (2 posts, 50% + 1 PhD grant-contract): 3-years project Message-ID: > > Dear colleagues, > > please forward to interested colleagues and relevant networks, note > the short deadline for applications (15.1.2009), kind regards, > Gudrun Ziegler > > ---------------------------- > > > The University of Luxembourg FLSHASE - Educational Sciences & > Language Development > > is looking for the following profiles within the national research > project > > "Development of English in Plurilingual Settings", > > deadline for applications: JANUARY 15, 2009, > > positions to start by March/May 2009: > > > 1 Postdoctoral researcher > Ref: F3R-LCM-PUL-09FUND > 2 year-contract, renewable once, 20h/week (50%), starting spring 2009 > > 1 Research associate > Ref: F3R-LCM-PUL-09FUND > 2 year-contract, renewable once, 20h/week (50%), starting spring 2009 > > 1 PhD student grant > Ref: F3R-LCM-AFR-0809 > AFR (Contract, type: "Aide à la formation recherche", 40h/week, > starting spring 2009, 3 years) > > The project "Development of English in Plurilingual Settings" is > concerned with the development of English amongst young learners in > plurilingual settings. It builds and completes a corpus with regard > to developmental features of the learner variety from a discourse-in- > interaction perspective. > > > The successful candidate(s) will join the project Development of > "English in Plurilingual Settings" which runs from Spring 2009 to > end of 2012. > > Activities: > > * collecting different types (audio, video, oral, written) of > data covering an array of activities in English in a plurilingual > learning environment > * managing interactional data for implementation in a data-base > and a coded corpus > * managing project schedule according to advances in analysis and > results > * analysis of data (discourse, science, media) > * observation, analysis and building of inventories > * implementation and development (theoretical and methodological > concepts in line with the focus of the project > * drafting reports, minutes, presentations, papers > > Profile: > > * Relevant degree (MA-level or doctorate (PhD)) in one of the > following fields, relevant to the project: language development, > empirical developmental research, English as international language > and/or ESL research, applied linguistics, multilingualism, study of > child language or communication analysis, data-treatment, corpus > building > * Highly motivated, internationally experienced researcher or > professional (MA-level and/or PhD-level) in one/several of the > fields concerend with a proven record as regards the integration, > set-up and/or management of data-driven scientific projects. > * Experience with data-bases, corpus design and/or implementation > and/or (early) schooling institutions an asset. > * Substantial, theoretically grounded methodological skills as > regards the (analytical/technical) handling of developmental/ > interactional data are required, prior experiences in collecting and > integrating situated data into corpora-/data-treatment-systems are > an asset. > * Experiences in working with development (language/s, resources, > socio-cognitive dimensions, activity dimensions) in a specific > domain or a specific age group represent an advantage. > > > As the candidate/s will be working with different types of data > covering an array of languages and modalities, she/he has excellent > command of at least two of the following languages: English (and its > varieties), German and/or French (written and spoken), Luxembourgish > and/or a further language an asset. > > Excellent self-management skills, ability and willingness to engage > into active team-management, intercultural, technical and > interdisciplinary awareness as well as a motivation to join a > challenging environment within a trilingual, international and young > University are prerequisites for the positions open within this > project. > > For further information please contact: > > Ass.-Prof. Dr. Gudrun Ziegler > Phone: (+352) 46 66 44 9363 > Mail: gudrun.ziegler @ uni.lu > > > Candidates should submit the following documents: > > * letter of motivation, stating the link of previous work/ > interests with the position and the project > * curriculum vitae > * record of publications and projects (if applicable) > * copies of diploma(s) > * two references (relevant to the position) > > by sending applications - DEADLINE JANUARY 15, 2009 - to: > > University of Luxembourg > Ass.-Prof. Dr. Gudrun Ziegler - Secrétariat > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education > Campus Walferdange > B.P. 2 > L-7201 Luxembourg-Walferdange > Grand-Duché de Luxembourg > > Applications will be handled in strict confidence. 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It builds and completes a corpus with regard > to developmental features of the learner variety from a discourse-in- > interaction perspective. > > > The successful candidate(s) will join the project Development of > "English in Plurilingual Settings" which runs from Spring 2009 to > end of 2012. > > Activities: > > * collecting different types (audio, video, oral, written) of > data covering an array of activities in English in a plurilingual > learning environment > * managing interactional data for implementation in a data-base > and a coded corpus > * managing project schedule according to advances in analysis and > results > * analysis of data (discourse, science, media) > * observation, analysis and building of inventories > * implementation and development (theoretical and methodological > concepts in line with the focus of the project > * drafting reports, minutes, presentations, papers > > Profile: > > * Relevant degree (MA-level or doctorate (PhD)) in one of the > following fields, relevant to the project: language development, > empirical developmental research, English as international language > and/or ESL research, applied linguistics, multilingualism, study of > child language or communication analysis, data-treatment, corpus > building > * Highly motivated, internationally experienced researcher or > professional (MA-level and/or PhD-level) in one/several of the > fields concerend with a proven record as regards the integration, > set-up and/or management of data-driven scientific projects. > * Experience with data-bases, corpus design and/or implementation > and/or (early) schooling institutions an asset. > * Substantial, theoretically grounded methodological skills as > regards the (analytical/technical) handling of developmental/ > interactional data are required, prior experiences in collecting and > integrating situated data into corpora-/data-treatment-systems are > an asset. > * Experiences in working with development (language/s, resources, > socio-cognitive dimensions, activity dimensions) in a specific > domain or a specific age group represent an advantage. > > > As the candidate/s will be working with different types of data > covering an array of languages and modalities, she/he has excellent > command of at least two of the following languages: English (and its > varieties), German and/or French (written and spoken), Luxembourgish > and/or a further language an asset. > > Excellent self-management skills, ability and willingness to engage > into active team-management, intercultural, technical and > interdisciplinary awareness as well as a motivation to join a > challenging environment within a trilingual, international and young > University are prerequisites for the positions open within this > project. > > For further information please contact: > > Ass.-Prof. Dr. Gudrun Ziegler > Phone: (+352) 46 66 44 9363 > Mail: gudrun.ziegler @ uni.lu > > > Candidates should submit the following documents: > > * letter of motivation, stating the link of previous work/ > interests with the position and the project > * curriculum vitae > * record of publications and projects (if applicable) > * copies of diploma(s) > * two references (relevant to the position) > > by sending applications - DEADLINE JANUARY 15, 2009 - to: > > University of Luxembourg > Ass.-Prof. Dr. Gudrun Ziegler - Secrétariat > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education > Campus Walferdange > B.P. 2 > L-7201 Luxembourg-Walferdange > Grand-Duché de Luxembourg > > Applications will be handled in strict confidence. The University of > Luxembourg is an equal opportunity employer. > > > > --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- > --- --- > > Check out our European Project SEMLANG > - Training Language Teachers for a Multilingual Europe - > http://www.semlang.eu > > Vient de paraître: > - Précis du plurilinguisme et du pluriculturalisme - > http://precis.berkeley.edu > > --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- > --- --- > > Find out more about the > - Master - Learning & Development in Multilingual and Multicultural > Contexts (MA multi-LEARN) - > http://multi-learn.uni.lu > > Find out more about current research activities: > - http://www.dica-lab.org - > > Dr. Gudrun Ziegler, Ass.-Professor > Faculty of Language & Literature, Humanities, Arts & Education > > Mail to: gudrun.ziegler at uni.lu AND gudrun.ziegler at web.de > > Send to: University of Luxembourg, Campus Walferdange, Route de > Diekrich, L-7201 Luxembourg > Call: 00352 46 66 44 - 93 63 > Fax: 00352 46 66 44 - 96 38 > > --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- > --- --- > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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It builds and completes a corpus with regard > to developmental features of the learner variety from a discourse-in- > interaction perspective. > > > The successful candidate(s) will join the project Development of > "English in Plurilingual Settings" which runs from Spring 2009 to > end of 2012. > > Activities: > > * collecting different types (audio, video, oral, written) of > data covering an array of activities in English in a plurilingual > learning environment > * managing interactional data for implementation in a data-base > and a coded corpus > * managing project schedule according to advances in analysis and > results > * analysis of data (discourse, science, media) > * observation, analysis and building of inventories > * implementation and development (theoretical and methodological > concepts in line with the focus of the project > * drafting reports, minutes, presentations, papers > > Profile: > > * Relevant degree (MA-level or doctorate (PhD)) in one of the > following fields, relevant to the project: language development, > empirical developmental research, English as international language > and/or ESL research, applied linguistics, multilingualism, study of > child language or communication analysis, data-treatment, corpus > building > * Highly motivated, internationally experienced researcher or > professional (MA-level and/or PhD-level) in one/several of the > fields concerend with a proven record as regards the integration, > set-up and/or management of data-driven scientific projects. > * Experience with data-bases, corpus design and/or implementation > and/or (early) schooling institutions an asset. > * Substantial, theoretically grounded methodological skills as > regards the (analytical/technical) handling of developmental/ > interactional data are required, prior experiences in collecting and > integrating situated data into corpora-/data-treatment-systems are > an asset. > * Experiences in working with development (language/s, resources, > socio-cognitive dimensions, activity dimensions) in a specific > domain or a specific age group represent an advantage. > > > As the candidate/s will be working with different types of data > covering an array of languages and modalities, she/he has excellent > command of at least two of the following languages: English (and its > varieties), German and/or French (written and spoken), Luxembourgish > and/or a further language an asset. > > Excellent self-management skills, ability and willingness to engage > into active team-management, intercultural, technical and > interdisciplinary awareness as well as a motivation to join a > challenging environment within a trilingual, international and young > University are prerequisites for the positions open within this > project. > > For further information please contact: > > Ass.-Prof. Dr. Gudrun Ziegler > Phone: (+352) 46 66 44 9363 > Mail: gudrun.ziegler @ uni.lu > > > Candidates should submit the following documents: > > * letter of motivation, stating the link of previous work/ > interests with the position and the project > * curriculum vitae > * record of publications and projects (if applicable) > * copies of diploma(s) > * two references (relevant to the position) > > by sending applications - DEADLINE JANUARY 15, 2009 - to: > > University of Luxembourg > Ass.-Prof. Dr. Gudrun Ziegler - Secrétariat > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education > Campus Walferdange > B.P. 2 > L-7201 Luxembourg-Walferdange > Grand-Duché de Luxembourg > > Applications will be handled in strict confidence. The University of > Luxembourg is an equal opportunity employer. > > > > --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- > --- --- > > Check out our European Project SEMLANG > - Training Language Teachers for a Multilingual Europe - > http://www.semlang.eu > > Vient de paraître: > - Précis du plurilinguisme et du pluriculturalisme - > http://precis.berkeley.edu > > --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- > --- --- > > Find out more about the > - Master - Learning & Development in Multilingual and Multicultural > Contexts (MA multi-LEARN) - > http://multi-learn.uni.lu > > Find out more about current research activities: > - http://www.dica-lab.org - > > Dr. Gudrun Ziegler, Ass.-Professor > Faculty of Language & Literature, Humanities, Arts & Education > > Mail to: gudrun.ziegler at uni.lu AND gudrun.ziegler at web.de > > Send to: University of Luxembourg, Campus Walferdange, Route de > Diekrich, L-7201 Luxembourg > Call: 00352 46 66 44 - 93 63 > Fax: 00352 46 66 44 - 96 38 > > --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- > --- --- > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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It builds and completes a corpus with regard > to developmental features of the learner variety from a discourse-in- > interaction perspective. > > > The successful candidate(s) will join the project Development of > "English in Plurilingual Settings" which runs from Spring 2009 to > end of 2012. > > Activities: > > * collecting different types (audio, video, oral, written) of > data covering an array of activities in English in a plurilingual > learning environment > * managing interactional data for implementation in a data-base > and a coded corpus > * managing project schedule according to advances in analysis and > results > * analysis of data (discourse, science, media) > * observation, analysis and building of inventories > * implementation and development (theoretical and methodological > concepts in line with the focus of the project > * drafting reports, minutes, presentations, papers > > Profile: > > * Relevant degree (MA-level or doctorate (PhD)) in one of the > following fields, relevant to the project: language development, > empirical developmental research, English as international language > and/or ESL research, applied linguistics, multilingualism, study of > child language or communication analysis, data-treatment, corpus > building > * Highly motivated, internationally experienced researcher or > professional (MA-level and/or PhD-level) in one/several of the > fields concerend with a proven record as regards the integration, > set-up and/or management of data-driven scientific projects. > * Experience with data-bases, corpus design and/or implementation > and/or (early) schooling institutions an asset. > * Substantial, theoretically grounded methodological skills as > regards the (analytical/technical) handling of developmental/ > interactional data are required, prior experiences in collecting and > integrating situated data into corpora-/data-treatment-systems are > an asset. > * Experiences in working with development (language/s, resources, > socio-cognitive dimensions, activity dimensions) in a specific > domain or a specific age group represent an advantage. > > > As the candidate/s will be working with different types of data > covering an array of languages and modalities, she/he has excellent > command of at least two of the following languages: English (and its > varieties), German and/or French (written and spoken), Luxembourgish > and/or a further language an asset. > > Excellent self-management skills, ability and willingness to engage > into active team-management, intercultural, technical and > interdisciplinary awareness as well as a motivation to join a > challenging environment within a trilingual, international and young > University are prerequisites for the positions open within this > project. > > For further information please contact: > > Ass.-Prof. Dr. Gudrun Ziegler > Phone: (+352) 46 66 44 9363 > Mail: gudrun.ziegler @ uni.lu > > > Candidates should submit the following documents: > > * letter of motivation, stating the link of previous work/ > interests with the position and the project > * curriculum vitae > * record of publications and projects (if applicable) > * copies of diploma(s) > * two references (relevant to the position) > > by sending applications - DEADLINE JANUARY 15, 2009 - to: > > University of Luxembourg > Ass.-Prof. Dr. Gudrun Ziegler - Secrétariat > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education > Campus Walferdange > B.P. 2 > L-7201 Luxembourg-Walferdange > Grand-Duché de Luxembourg > > Applications will be handled in strict confidence. The University of > Luxembourg is an equal opportunity employer. > > > > --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- > --- --- > > Check out our European Project SEMLANG > - Training Language Teachers for a Multilingual Europe - > http://www.semlang.eu > > Vient de paraître: > - Précis du plurilinguisme et du pluriculturalisme - > http://precis.berkeley.edu > > --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- > --- --- > > Find out more about the > - Master - Learning & Development in Multilingual and Multicultural > Contexts (MA multi-LEARN) - > http://multi-learn.uni.lu > > Find out more about current research activities: > - http://www.dica-lab.org - > > Dr. Gudrun Ziegler, Ass.-Professor > Faculty of Language & Literature, Humanities, Arts & Education > > Mail to: gudrun.ziegler at uni.lu AND gudrun.ziegler at web.de > > Send to: University of Luxembourg, Campus Walferdange, Route de > Diekrich, L-7201 Luxembourg > Call: 00352 46 66 44 - 93 63 > Fax: 00352 46 66 44 - 96 38 > > --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- > --- --- > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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Many thanks. -- Brian MacWhinney On Jan 6, 2009, at 7:58 PM, Gudrun Ziegler wrote: > >> >> >> Dear colleagues, >> >> please forward to interested colleagues and relevant networks, note >> the short deadline for applications (15.1.2009), kind regards, >> Gudrun Ziegler >> >> ---------------------------- >> >> >> The University of Luxembourg FLSHASE - Educational Sciences & >> Language Development >> >> is looking for the following profiles within the national research >> project >> >> "Development of English in Plurilingual Settings", >> >> deadline for applications: JANUARY 15, 2009, >> >> positions to start by March/May 2009: >> >> >> 1 Postdoctoral researcher >> Ref: F3R-LCM-PUL-09FUND >> 2 year-contract, renewable once, 20h/week (50%), starting spring 2009 >> >> 1 Research associate >> Ref: F3R-LCM-PUL-09FUND >> 2 year-contract, renewable once, 20h/week (50%), starting spring 2009 >> >> 1 PhD student grant >> Ref: F3R-LCM-AFR-0809 >> AFR (Contract, type: "Aide à la formation recherche", 40h/week, >> starting spring 2009, 3 years) >> >> The project "Development of English in Plurilingual Settings" is >> concerned with the development of English amongst young learners in >> plurilingual settings. It builds and completes a corpus with regard >> to developmental features of the learner variety from a discourse- >> in-interaction perspective. >> >> >> The successful candidate(s) will join the project Development of >> "English in Plurilingual Settings" which runs from Spring 2009 to >> end of 2012. >> >> Activities: >> >> * collecting different types (audio, video, oral, written) of >> data covering an array of activities in English in a plurilingual >> learning environment >> * managing interactional data for implementation in a data-base >> and a coded corpus >> * managing project schedule according to advances in analysis >> and results >> * analysis of data (discourse, science, media) >> * observation, analysis and building of inventories >> * implementation and development (theoretical and methodological >> concepts in line with the focus of the project >> * drafting reports, minutes, presentations, papers >> >> Profile: >> >> * Relevant degree (MA-level or doctorate (PhD)) in one of the >> following fields, relevant to the project: language development, >> empirical developmental research, English as international language >> and/or ESL research, applied linguistics, multilingualism, study of >> child language or communication analysis, data-treatment, corpus >> building >> * Highly motivated, internationally experienced researcher or >> professional (MA-level and/or PhD-level) in one/several of the >> fields concerend with a proven record as regards the integration, >> set-up and/or management of data-driven scientific projects. >> * Experience with data-bases, corpus design and/or >> implementation and/or (early) schooling institutions an asset. >> * Substantial, theoretically grounded methodological skills as >> regards the (analytical/technical) handling of developmental/ >> interactional data are required, prior experiences in collecting >> and integrating situated data into corpora-/data-treatment-systems >> are an asset. >> * Experiences in working with development (language/s, >> resources, socio-cognitive dimensions, activity dimensions) in a >> specific domain or a specific age group represent an advantage. >> >> >> As the candidate/s will be working with different types of data >> covering an array of languages and modalities, she/he has excellent >> command of at least two of the following languages: English (and >> its varieties), German and/or French (written and spoken), >> Luxembourgish and/or a further language an asset. >> >> Excellent self-management skills, ability and willingness to engage >> into active team-management, intercultural, technical and >> interdisciplinary awareness as well as a motivation to join a >> challenging environment within a trilingual, international and >> young University are prerequisites for the positions open within >> this project. >> >> For further information please contact: >> >> Ass.-Prof. Dr. Gudrun Ziegler >> Phone: (+352) 46 66 44 9363 >> Mail: gudrun.ziegler @ uni.lu >> >> >> Candidates should submit the following documents: >> >> * letter of motivation, stating the link of previous work/ >> interests with the position and the project >> * curriculum vitae >> * record of publications and projects (if applicable) >> * copies of diploma(s) >> * two references (relevant to the position) >> >> by sending applications - DEADLINE JANUARY 15, 2009 - to: >> >> University of Luxembourg >> Ass.-Prof. Dr. Gudrun Ziegler - Secrétariat >> Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education >> Campus Walferdange >> B.P. 2 >> L-7201 Luxembourg-Walferdange >> Grand-Duché de Luxembourg >> >> Applications will be handled in strict confidence. The University >> of Luxembourg is an equal opportunity employer. >> >> >> >> --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- >> --- --- >> >> Check out our European Project SEMLANG >> - Training Language Teachers for a Multilingual Europe - >> http://www.semlang.eu >> >> Vient de paraître: >> - Précis du plurilinguisme et du pluriculturalisme - >> http://precis.berkeley.edu >> >> --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- >> --- --- >> >> Find out more about the >> - Master - Learning & Development in Multilingual and Multicultural >> Contexts (MA multi-LEARN) - >> http://multi-learn.uni.lu >> >> Find out more about current research activities: >> - http://www.dica-lab.org - >> >> Dr. Gudrun Ziegler, Ass.-Professor >> Faculty of Language & Literature, Humanities, Arts & Education >> >> Mail to: gudrun.ziegler at uni.lu AND gudrun.ziegler at web.de >> >> Send to: University of Luxembourg, Campus Walferdange, Route de >> Diekrich, L-7201 Luxembourg >> Call: 00352 46 66 44 - 93 63 >> Fax: 00352 46 66 44 - 96 38 >> >> --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- >> --- --- >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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All the best, Karla --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 karla.vrbova at centrum.cz Thu Jan 8 13:23:27 2009 From: karla.vrbova at centrum.cz (Karla) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 05:23:27 -0800 Subject: Literature on acquisition of spatial particles in English Message-ID: Dear all, I am currently working on my master thesis and have troubles to find literature. The plan is to compare the acquisition of spatial particles in English with the acquisition of spatial verbal prefixes in Czech and see whether this comparrison gives support for any syntactic analysis of spatial particles/prefixes. Can anyone recommend literature relevent to this topic? All the best, Karla --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 Thu Jan 8 16:18:12 2009 From: carolinemagali at gmail.com (info childes) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 08:18:12 -0800 Subject: Literature on acquisition of spatial particles in English In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Karla, I've had the same problem, and I'm afraid I couldn't find much in the field of acquisition...I found Clark&Carpenter's article on the notion of source very inspiring, though probably not what you're looking for - more of a semantic analysis (see Language 65, vol. 1). But otherwise you'll probably find interesting stuff in: BOLINGER, Dwight, 1971. The Phrasal Verb in English. Cambridge (Ma) : Harvard University Press. DEHÉ, Nicole, Ray Jackendoff, Andrew McIntyre et al., 2002. Verb- Particle Explorations. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter. BRINTON, Laurel J., 1985. "Iconicity and semantic change : Old English verbal prefixes". Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 23 : 55-70. FISCHER, Olga et al., 2000. "Verb-particles in Old and Middle English". The Syntax of Early English. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press : 80-210. MITCHELL, Bruce, 1978. "Prepositions, adverbs, prepositional adverbs, postpositions, separable prefixes, or inseparable prefixes, in Old English?". Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 79 : 240-57. I've also got a couple of articles that I could send you as pdfs, but I would need an email address. And there's this one (a PhD) I couldn't get so if you manage to find it, could you please let me know... LINDNER S.J., 1983. A Lexico-Semantic Analysis of English Verb- Particle Constructions with out and up. Indiana University Linguistics Club. Best, Caroline Rossi Caroline.Rossi at univ-lyon2.fr On Jan 8, 2:23 pm, Karla wrote: > Dear all, > I am currently working on my master thesis and have troubles to find > literature. The plan is to compare the acquisition of spatial > particles in English with the acquisition of spatial verbal prefixes > in Czech and see whether this comparrison gives support for any > syntactic analysis of spatial particles/prefixes. Can anyone > recommend literature relevent to this topic? > > All the best, > > Karla --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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Professeur des Universités Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage (UMR 5596) Institut des Sciences de l'Homme 14 avenue Berthelot 69363 Lyon Cedex 07 France e-mail: harriet.jisa at univ-lyon2.fr Tél: 33 (0)4 72 72 64 26 Fax: 33 (0)4 72 72 65 90 If you are calling from outside of France, leave off the (0) _____ De : info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] De la part de Fatima Badry Zalami Envoyé : vendredi 9 janvier 2009 13:28 À : info-childes at googlegroups.com Objet : latest research on Arabic acquisition Dear colleagues I need help locating any new research on Arabic acquisition conducted in the last 5 years. Most of what I have found so far is related to either phonology or literacy development. I suspect that there are theses out there that deal with other areas. I would appreciate any information you may provide as thesis directors or writers. Thanks, Fatima Fatima Badry, PhD American University of Sharjah POB 26666 Sharjah Tel:971 6 515 2701 www.aus.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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From badry at aus.edu Fri Jan 9 12:27:53 2009 From: badry at aus.edu (Fatima Badry Zalami) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 16:27:53 +0400 Subject: latest research on Arabic acquisition Message-ID: Dear colleagues I need help locating any new research on Arabic acquisition conducted in the last 5 years. Most of what I have found so far is related to either phonology or literacy development. I suspect that there are theses out there that deal with other areas. I would appreciate any information you may provide as thesis directors or writers. Thanks, Fatima Fatima Badry, PhD American University of Sharjah POB 26666 Sharjah Tel:971 6 515 2701 www.aus.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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From william.snyder at uconn.edu Fri Jan 9 18:33:09 2009 From: william.snyder at uconn.edu (William Snyder) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 13:33:09 -0500 Subject: Literature on acquisition of spatial particles in English In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Karla, I've done quite a bit of work on children's acquisition of English spatial particles, and I have a proposal concerning why English differs from languages like Czech in this respect. The generalization seems to be that a language permits separable spatial particles (as in _LIFT the book UP_), only if it freely allows the creation of novel, endocentric root compounds (as in _zoo book_, for a book about the zoo). I haven't examined Czech, but my guess is that it's similar to Russian and Serbo-Croatian in this respect: Instead of a bare root compound like "zoo book," one would need to say something more like 'book on zoos' or perhaps 'book zoo-GENITIVE'. (Note that genitive modifiers are quite different from bare root compounding.) If so, it's expected that Czech would resort to something other than separable particles; the inseparable prefixes that you mention are one of the options that we find in such languages. For more information about my proposals, and for supporting evidence (from children acquisition of English, and from cross-linguistic surveys of adult speakers), you can refer to the following: Snyder, W. (2001) "On the nature of syntactic variation: Evidence from complex predicates and complex word-formation. " /Language/ 77:324-342. [http://web2.uconn.edu/snyder/papers/Snyder_Lg.pdf] Snyder, W. (2007) /Child Language: The Parametric Approach/. Oxford University Press. [Chapter 5] Very best wishes, William Snyder Karla wrote: > Dear all, > I am currently working on my master thesis and have troubles to find > literature. The plan is to compare the acquisition of spatial > particles in English with the acquisition of spatial verbal prefixes > in Czech and see whether this comparrison gives support for any > syntactic analysis of spatial particles/prefixes. Can anyone > recommend literature relevent to this topic? > > All the best, > > Karla > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 Sun Jan 11 02:12:59 2009 From: william.snyder at uconn.edu (William Snyder) Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:12:59 -0500 Subject: latest research on Arabic acquisition Message-ID: Dear Dr. Badry, The following works on the acquisition of Arabic are relatively recent, and might be of interest to you. Best wishes, William Snyder University of Connecticut Aljenaie, K., (2001). The emergence of tense and agreement in Kuwaiti Arabic child language. PhD thesis, The University of Reading., UK. Aljenaie, K. (2008). Negation in early Kuwaiti Arabic child language. Arab Journal for the Humanities, 26,102. Kuwait: Kuwait University. Aljenaie, K. & Farghal, M. (in press). Comprehension of three word orders in Kuwaiti Arabic child language. Journal of Language Sciences. Elsevier. Abdullah, F. (2002). Specific language impairment in Arabic-speaking children: deficits in morphosyntax. Ph.D. thesis, McGill University, Canada. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Bulk] latest research on Arabic acquisition Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:27:53 +0400 From: Fatima Badry Zalami > Reply-To: info-childes at googlegroups.com To: info-childes at googlegroups.com Dear colleagues I need help locating any new research on Arabic acquisition conducted in the last 5 years. Most of what I have found so far is related to either phonology or literacy development. I suspect that there are theses out there that deal with other areas. I would appreciate any information you may provide as thesis directors or writers. Thanks, Fatima Fatima Badry, PhD American University of Sharjah POB 26666 Sharjah Tel:971 6 515 2701 www.aus.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 roeper at linguist.umass.edu Sun Jan 11 03:55:26 2009 From: roeper at linguist.umass.edu (Tom Roeper) Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:55:26 -0500 Subject: latest research on Arabic acquisition In-Reply-To: <1EDFC9BD56E94873A03C8FE1EDEA59D5@ddl.ishlyon.cnrs.fr> Message-ID: contact Lamya Abdulkarim who is currently at SMith college for a good deal of research. Tom Roeper On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Harriet Jisa wrote: > Can you help this person ? > > > > > > Professeur des Universités > > Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage (UMR 5596) > > Institut des Sciences de l'Homme > > 14 avenue Berthelot 69363 Lyon Cedex 07 > > France > > e-mail: harriet.jisa at univ-lyon2.fr > > Tél: 33 (0)4 72 72 64 26 > > Fax: 33 (0)4 72 72 65 90 > > If you are calling from outside of France, leave off the (0) > ------------------------------ > > *De :* info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] > *De la part de* Fatima Badry Zalami > *Envoyé :* vendredi 9 janvier 2009 13:28 > *À :* info-childes at googlegroups.com > *Objet :* latest research on Arabic acquisition > > > > Dear colleagues > > I need help locating any new research on Arabic acquisition conducted in > the last 5 years. Most of what I have found so far is related to either > phonology or literacy development. I suspect that there are theses out > there that deal with other areas. I would appreciate any information you > may provide as thesis directors or writers. > > Thanks, > > Fatima > > Fatima Badry, PhD > > American University of Sharjah > > POB 26666 > > Sharjah > > Tel:971 6 515 2701 > > www.aus.edu > > > > > > > > > > > -- Tom Roeper Dept of Lingiustics UMass South College Amherst, Mass. 01003 ISA 413 256 0390 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 barriere.isa at gmail.com Sun Jan 11 15:48:00 2009 From: barriere.isa at gmail.com (isa barriere) Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 09:48:00 -0600 Subject: latest research on Arabic acquisition In-Reply-To: <008101c97255$b1b84540$1528cfc0$@edu> Message-ID: Hi, 2 other people to contact: - Natasha Trudeau natacha.trudeau at umontreal.ca has developed a CDI for Lebanese Arabic - Donia Fahim (dfahin at hunter.cuny.edu) a) did her PhD at Birkbeck College, U. of London on SLI in Egyptian Arabic and has developed a language test for Arabic. Hope this helps, Best, Isabelle Barriere, PhD On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Fatima Badry Zalami wrote: > Dear colleagues > > I need help locating any new research on Arabic acquisition conducted in > the last 5 years. Most of what I have found so far is related to either > phonology or literacy development. I suspect that there are theses out > there that deal with other areas. I would appreciate any information you > may provide as thesis directors or writers. > > Thanks, > > Fatima > > Fatima Badry, PhD > > American University of Sharjah > > POB 26666 > > Sharjah > > Tel:971 6 515 2701 > > www.aus.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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From macw at cmu.edu Sun Jan 11 18:27:12 2009 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:27:12 -0500 Subject: latest research on Arabic acquisition In-Reply-To: <5cbb1b480901110748w725992b1s4fef735f16c6631c@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: It is great to hear that there are so many theses on Arabic ad so many tests. I wonder if any of these theses are based on any recorded data that could be contributed to CHILDES. Currently, Arabic is the only major international language for which we have no monolingual acquisition data in CHILDES. There are recordings from bilingual Moroccan-Dutch children in the AarsenBos corpus, but no monolingual data at all. In terms of tools for transcribing and analyzing Arabic, the site at semtalk.talkbank.org has some useful information. -- Brian MacWhinney --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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URL: From karla.vrbova at centrum.cz Mon Jan 12 19:33:14 2009 From: karla.vrbova at centrum.cz (Karla Vrbova) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:33:14 +0100 Subject: Literature on acquisition of spatial particles in English In-Reply-To: <49679865.1010709@uconn.edu> Message-ID: Dear Mr Snyder, thank you very much for responding to my question! This sounds very good and I am going to read the article and the book.   Best wishes Karla   ______________________________________________________________ > Od: william.snyder at uconn.edu > Komu: info-childes at googlegroups.com > Datum: 09.01.2009 19:32 > Předmět: Re: Literature on acquisition of spatial particles in English > Dear Karla, I've done quite a bit of work on children's acquisition of English spatial particles, and I have a proposal concerning why English differs from languages like Czech in this respect. The generalization seems to be that a language permits separable spatial particles (as in _LIFT the book UP_), only if it freely allows the creation of novel, endocentric root compounds (as in _zoo book_, for a book about the zoo). I haven't examined Czech, but my guess is that it's similar to Russian and Serbo-Croatian in this respect: Instead of a bare root compound like "zoo book," one would need to say something more like 'book on zoos' or perhaps 'book zoo-GENITIVE'. (Note that genitive modifiers are quite different from bare root compounding.) If so, it's expected that Czech would resort to something other than separable particles; the inseparable prefixes that you mention are one of the options that we find in such languages. For more information about my proposals, and for supporting evidence (from children acquisition of English, and from cross-linguistic surveys of adult speakers), you can refer to the following: Snyder, W. (2001) "On the nature of syntactic variation: Evidence from complex predicates and complex word-formation. " /Language/ 77:324-342. [http://web2.uconn.edu/snyder/papers/Snyder_Lg.pdf] Snyder, W. (2007) /Child Language: The Parametric Approach/. Oxford University Press. [Chapter 5] Very best wishes, William Snyder Karla wrote: > Dear all, > I am currently working on my master thesis and have troubles to find > literature. The plan is to compare the acquisition of spatial > particles in English with the acquisition of spatial verbal prefixes > in Czech and see whether this comparrison gives support for any > syntactic analysis of spatial particles/prefixes. Can anyone > recommend literature relevent to this topic? > > All the best, > > Karla > > > >   --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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They would be willing to use an audio-only corpus, but only if it were transcribed with features (specifically, frication, nasality, and voicing) as they are crucial to the purposes of the study. I am writing to ask for your assistance as they have searched for corpora with these components but have been unsuccessful in locating one that is satisfactory. Thank you in advance for your assistance in this matter. Sincerely, Laura Morett --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 Tue Jan 13 20:31:49 2009 From: william.snyder at uconn.edu (William Snyder) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:31:49 -0500 Subject: [Bulk] Re: Literature on acquisition of spatial particles in English In-Reply-To: <200901122033.1625@centrum.cz> Message-ID: Dear Karla (if I may, and feel free to call me William), I'd be quite interested to see your thesis (or any paper that you might write along the way), whenever it's ready to circulate! Best wishes, William Karla Vrbova wrote: > > Dear Mr Snyder, > > thank you very much for responding to my question! This sounds very > good and I am going to read the article and the book. > > > > Best wishes > > Karla > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > Od: william.snyder at uconn.edu > > Komu: info-childes at googlegroups.com > > Datum: 09.01.2009 19:32 > > Předmět: Re: Literature on acquisition of spatial particles in English > > > > Dear Karla, > > I've done quite a bit of work on children's acquisition of English > spatial particles, and I have a proposal concerning why English differs > from languages like Czech in this respect. > > The generalization seems to be that a language permits separable spatial > particles (as in _LIFT the book UP_), only if it freely allows the > creation of novel, endocentric root compounds (as in _zoo book_, for a > book about the zoo). > > I haven't examined Czech, but my guess is that it's similar to Russian > and Serbo-Croatian in this respect: Instead of a bare root compound like > "zoo book," one would need to say something more like 'book on zoos' or > perhaps 'book zoo-GENITIVE'. (Note that genitive modifiers are quite > different from bare root compounding.) If so, it's expected that Czech > would resort to something other than separable particles; the > inseparable prefixes that you mention are one of the options that we > find in such languages. > > For more information about my proposals, and for supporting evidence > (from children acquisition of English, and from cross-linguistic surveys > of adult speakers), you can refer to the following: > > Snyder, W. (2001) "On the nature of syntactic variation: Evidence from > complex predicates and complex word-formation. " > /Language/ 77:324-342. > [http://web2.uconn.edu/snyder/papers/Snyder_Lg.pdf] > > > Snyder, W. (2007) /Child Language: The Parametric Approach/. Oxford > University Press. [Chapter 5] > > Very best wishes, > > William Snyder > > Karla wrote: > > Dear all, > > I am currently working on my master thesis and have troubles to find > > literature. The plan is to compare the acquisition of spatial > > particles in English with the acquisition of spatial verbal prefixes > > in Czech and see whether this comparrison gives support for any > > syntactic analysis of spatial particles/prefixes. Can anyone > > recommend literature relevent to this topic? > > > > All the best, > > > > Karla > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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The fellowship is for study and research in the area of grammatically-oriented psycholinguistics at an institution of the applicant's choice. Applications should be received by February 28, 2009 and it is expected that a decision will be announced by April 2, 2009. Applications should be submitted electronically, in English, and should include: -CV, including evidence of competence in spoken English -A four-page statement of purpose describing the proposed plan of study/research -Papers, reports, Ph.D dissertation written in English or Italian by the candidate. 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The De Vincenzi Foundation was established in the will of the late Italian psycholinguist Marica de Vincenzi for the support of young Italian scholars who intend to carry out research abroad in the domain of grammatically-oriented psycholinguistics preferably at US institutions (or a European institution) of the applicant's choice. The scientific committee includes Lyn Frazier as president, Maria Teresa Guasti as vice-president, Janet Dean Fodor, Colin Phillips, Luigi Rizzi, and Sandro Zucchi. Head of the administrative board is Remo Job. Prof.ssa Maria Teresa Guasti Ph.D. Professor of Linguistics Università di Milano Bicocca Diprtimento di Psicologia Via dell'Innovazione 10 20126 Milano www.unimib.it/go/Home/Pagine-Speciali/Elenco-Docenti/GUASTI-MARIA-TERESA fax: 0264483788 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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I plan to next tag the Geneva corpus and then work bit by bit through all our French corpora. A big "merci" to Christophe for his work on this. -- Brian MacWhinney --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- From leah.gedalyovich at gmail.com Sun Jan 18 21:06:37 2009 From: leah.gedalyovich at gmail.com (Leah Paltiel-Gedalyovich) Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:06:37 -0800 Subject: studies on atypical development of compositional semantic skills Message-ID: Dear all, I am currently working with a group developing a comprehensive developmental language test. I am interested in any studies into disordered compositional semantic language skills in developmental language disorders. Not lexical disorders but compositional semantic disorders like difficulties with interpreting logical words/ coordinators, difficulties with scope interpretations, etc. References of any studies will be very welcome. I will post a summary if there are any responses. Thanx in advance for your help Leah "Hedim" Israel leah.gedalyovich at gmail.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 roeper at linguist.umass.edu Mon Jan 19 01:10:52 2009 From: roeper at linguist.umass.edu (Tom Roeper) Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:10:52 -0500 Subject: studies on atypical development of compositional semantic skills In-Reply-To: <0ce61827-4c16-47b9-8912-ae96ef9d7dca@v5g2000pre.googlegroups.com> Message-ID: Dear Leah--- The DELV test has many features of quantifiers in its test battery. There are, of course, many other fascinating issues about multiple quantifiers that we do not much about---though there is quite a literature on quantification in acquisition which is the place to start---see the Language Acquisition journal which has many relevant articles. Tom Roeper On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Leah Paltiel-Gedalyovich < leah.gedalyovich at gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear all, > I am currently working with a group developing a comprehensive > developmental language test. I am interested in any studies into > disordered compositional semantic language skills in developmental > language disorders. Not lexical disorders but compositional semantic > disorders like difficulties with interpreting logical words/ > coordinators, difficulties with scope interpretations, etc. > References of any studies will be very welcome. > > I will post a summary if there are any responses. > > Thanx in advance for your help > > Leah > "Hedim" Israel > leah.gedalyovich at gmail.com > > > > > -- Tom Roeper Dept of Lingiustics UMass South College Amherst, Mass. 01003 ISA 413 256 0390 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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Thanks Christophe Parisse (Paris Ouest Nanterre University) Chers collègues, dans le cadre du GDR Langues, langage oral, cognition : acquisition et dysfonctionnements – nouvelles approches, le CNRS nous a confié la mission d’effectuer un inventaire des ressources existantes concernant les recherches en acquisition du langage dans le domaine de l’oral. L’objectif est, au terme de ce travail et grâce à votre participation, de mettre à la disposition de la communauté un état des lieux précis des pratiques de recherches en France et sur la langue Française (quelque soit le pays dans lequel vous travaillez) dans ce domaine, sorte de cartographie des types de données et des types de recherche sur lesquelles se fondent les recherches en cours dans le domaine. Pour ce faire, un questionnaire est à votre disposition sur le site du GDR : http://www.modyco.fr/gdr/quest.html Pour toute information complémentaire, s’adresser à Christophe Parisse, cparisse at u-paris10.fr Voir aussi www.modyco.fr/gdr/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 cbrc at cuhk.edu.hk Mon Jan 19 15:25:39 2009 From: cbrc at cuhk.edu.hk (Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre) Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 07:25:39 -0800 Subject: Leonard Bloomfield Book Award 2009 Message-ID: Dear all, The Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre (CBRC) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong is pleased to announce that The Bilingual Child: Early Development and Language Contact, by Virginia Yip and Stephen Matthews (Cambridge University Press, 2007) has received the Leonard Bloomfield Book Award 2009 from the Linguistic Society America. The citation of the LSA committee and the award acceptance speech by the authors are posted at: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/lin/cbrc/honors.html With greetings from Hong Kong and best wishes for the Year of the Ox! CBRC Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages Chinese University of Hong Kong --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 chen at uga.edu Mon Jan 19 16:39:40 2009 From: chen at uga.edu (Liang Chen) Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:39:40 -0500 Subject: Leonard Bloomfield Book Award 2009 Message-ID: Hearty congraduations to Dr. Yip and Dr. Matthews, who unfortunately I haven't had a chance to meet. Great book indeed. Hope to attend the Conference on Bilingual Acquisition in Early Childhood next time. Best, Liang Liang Chen,Ph.D. Assistant Professor University of Georgia Communication Sciences and Special Education 542 Aderhold Hall Athens, GA 30602 Phone: 706-542-4566 http://myweb.chen.uga.edu ---- Original message ---- >Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 07:25:39 -0800 (PST) >From: Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre >Subject: Leonard Bloomfield Book Award 2009 >To: Info-CHILDES >Cc: cbrc at cuhk.edu.hk > > >Dear all, > >The Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre (CBRC) at the Chinese >University of Hong Kong is pleased to announce that The Bilingual >Child: Early Development and Language Contact, by Virginia Yip and >Stephen Matthews (Cambridge University Press, 2007) has received the >Leonard Bloomfield Book Award 2009 from the Linguistic Society >America. The citation of the LSA committee and the award acceptance >speech by the authors are posted at: > >http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/lin/cbrc/honors.html > >With greetings from Hong Kong and best wishes for the Year of the Ox! > >CBRC >Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages >Chinese University of Hong Kong >> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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Verb morphology defects in Arabic-speaking children with specific language impairment. Applied Psycholinguistics 29:315-340. Abdullah, F. (2002). Specific language impairment in Arabic-speaking children: deficits in morphosyntax. Ph.D. thesis, McGill University, Canada Al-Buainain, H. (2003). Developmental stages of the acquisition of negation and interrogation by children native speakers of Qatari dialect. Journal of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science 25: 9-45. Aljenaie, K., (2001). The emergence of tense and agreement in Kuwaiti Arabic child language. PhD thesis, The University of Reading., UK. Aljenaie, K. (2008). Negation in early Kuwaiti Arabic child language. Arab Journal for the Humanities, 26,102. Kuwait: Kuwait University. Aljenaie, K. & Farghal, M. (in press). Comprehension of three word orders in Kuwaiti Arabic child language. Journal of Language Sciences. Elsevier. Amayreh, Mousa and Alice Dyson. 2000. “Phonetic inventories of young Arabic-speaking children”. Clinical linguistics and phonetics. 14,3:193-215. Amayreh, Mousa. 2003. “Completion of the consonant inventory of Arabic”. Journal of speech, language, and hearing research. 46:517-529. Arab Journal for the Humanities, 26,102. Kuwait: Kuwait University. Badry, F. 2004. Acquiring the Arabic lexicon: Evidence of productive strategies and pedagogical implications. Bethesda, MD: Academica Press. Badry, F. (2005) Acquisition of Arabic word formation: A multi path approach. In Alhawary, M. & Benmamoun, E. (eds). Perspectives in Arabic Linguistics Series XVII- XVIII. Badry, F. (2006). First language acquisition. In Encyclopedia of Arabic language and literature. Vol 2. Leiden: Brill. Costa, J., & Friedmann, N. (2007, December). Hebrew and Arabic children going Romance:The acquisition of subject verb order in Hebrew, Palestinian Arabic, Spanish, and European Portuguese. Presented at Going Romance: Twenty-First Symposium on Romance Linguistics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Friedmann, N. (2003, October). Functional categories in Hebrew and Palestinian Arabic: a view from agrammatism. Presented at the Semitic Linguistics within Contemporary Approaches conference, Florida, USA. Friedmann, N. (2008, May). Results on Wh questions and relative clauses in Hebrew and Palestinian Arabic. Presented at the COST A33 meeting, Crosslinguistically robust stage of children’s linguistic performance, Warsaw, Poland. Friedmann, N. (2008, September). Elicitation of relative clauses in Hebrew and Palestinian Arabic. Presented at the COST A33 meeting, Crosslinguistically robust stage of children’s linguistic performance, Aalborg, Denmark. Levin, I. Saeigh-Haddad, E. Hende, N. Ziv, M., (2008). Early literacy in Arabic: An intervention study among Israeli Palestinian kindergartners. Applied Psycholinguistics 29 (2008), 413–436 Friedmann, N & Manar Haddad. The Comprehension of Sentences Derived by Syntactic Movement in Palestinian Arabic-Speaking Children with Hearing Impairment (manuscript from author) Friedmann, N. & João Costa Acquisition of SV and VS Order in Hebrew, European Portuguese, Palestinian Arabic, and Spanish (manuscript from author) Moawad, R. (2006). The Acquisition of the Arabic Gender and Number Systems. PhD. Thesis. University of Wales, Bangor, UK. Omar. M. (1973). The Acquisition of Egyptian Arabic as a Native Language. The hague: Mouton (republished by Georgetown University Press, 2007) Ravid, Dorit. and Lubna Hayek. L. (2003). “Learning about different ways of expressing number in the development of Palestinian Arabic”. First language. 23: 41-63. Ravid, Dorit and Rola Farah (2001). “The early plural lexicon of Palestinian Arabic: A longitudinal case study”. ELA. Proceedings. Institut de sciences de l' homme, Université Lumiere, Lyon. Saeigh Salameh, Eva-Kristina, Ulrika Nettelbladt and Kjell Norlin. (2003). “Assessing phonologies in bilingual Swedish-Arabic children with and without language impairment”. Child language teaching and therapy. 19, 3 : 338-365. Zablit, C., Trudeau, N. (2008). Le vocabulaire chez les enfants libanais bilingues libanais arabophones, francophones et bilingues. Glossa, 103, 35-53. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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Further particulars of the post are available at the following URL: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/academic/vacancy/index.htm?ref=150849 Enquiries should be addressed to Professor Eva Schultze-Berndt. Please note the correct e-mail address: eva.schultze-berndt at manchester.ac.uk For more information about the Department, please visit its website and blog: http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/subjects/lel/ http://manling.wordpress.com/ The deadline for applications is 20 February 2009. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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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. 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I don't know of any research that directly compares - for example - a condition where (a) the main experimenter asks the question and (b) a naïve second experimenter asks the question (you guys should run one!). Having said that, you should get in touch with Danielle Matthews - I think her studies may have a condition where the experimenter can/cannot see the stimuli she is asking about. I wanted to mention, though, two studies where we have deliberately tried to avoid that problem (though again I'm not quite sure this is what you're asking for) First we did a study where we elicited wh-questions from children - the child has to put a question to a "talking dog" toy - so we deliberately made the questions ones to which neither the experimenter or child knew the answer, so the child was forced to ask, and it made sense for her to do so! Second - where possible rather than getting production data (e.g., what's Ernie doing to Bert) I get kids to rate the acceptability of sentences (e.g., how good is "Ernie's tamming Bert" on a 5-point smiley face rating scale). Obviously this doesn't work well with young kids, and only lets you test acceptability not whether they've acquired a construction, but it does get around that (and other) problems with elicitation methods. I'm not quite sure this is really what you wanted but hope you find it at least slightly interesting, if nothing else! Best wishes! Ben On 30/01/2009 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 > > > -- Dr Ben Ambridge School of Psychology University of Liverpool Eleanor Rathbone Building Bedford St South Liverpool L69 7ZA Tel +44 151 794 1111 http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~ambridge/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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The MPCSS, based in the School of Psychological Sciences, is part of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. Research is concerned with children's early language acquisition, carried out through both experimental studies and analysis of naturalistic data. These studentships are not tied into pre-defined projects, however the topic of the PhD must be within the field of first language development using naturalistic and/or experimental data. Our focus is on children learning either English or German although we have ongoing studies of Polish, French, Russian and Finnish. We are increasingly conducting comparative studies in different languages. We are also interested in how children learn to use pragmatically appropriate language (for example, using appropriate referring expressions) and in the relation between social cognition and language development. Below is a brief summary of some of the ongoing research in the Centre. *Naturalistic Studies* Ongoing research involves tracking the sources of children’s developing constructions, including the transitives, questions and complex sentences as well as conducting quantitative analyses of the children’s input. This is done through analyzing children’s own prior speech and that of their caregivers. As well as using the Manchester corpus, available on the CHILDES database, we are also developing denser corpora. These contain recordings of children taped for between 5 – 10 hours per week. This far better sampling rate allows for in depth analyses, which have rarely been possible previously. We have corpora for four children sampled at differing rates between 2;0-3;0, three children between 3;0 – 4;0, with two continuing to 5;0. We also have access to relatively dense corpora for young children learning Polish, German, Finnish and Japanese. *Experimental Studies* Experimental studies focus on a number of aspects of language acquisition, such as the development of general syntactic categories (such as noun and verb), constructions (such as transitives and questions) and the development of inflectional morphology (for instance, case-marking in Polish). We also look at how children learn the pragmatics of language (for example, the comprehension and production of referring expressions, answering questions appropriately and registering given/new relations in an utterance). A number of different methodologies are used including priming, act-out tasks, training studies and preferential looking. Experiments often employ novel or frequency-controlled words to determine children's ability to extend their knowledge of language to words with which they are not familiar. The Child Study Centre is run by Professor Elena Lieven and is funded by the Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, directed by Professor Michael Tomasello, at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. Students are supervised jointly by Professors Lieven and Tomasello together with Dr. Anna Theakston. Further details can be obtained from the following web pages: http://www.psych-sci.manchester.ac.uk/research/groups/languageandcommunication/maxplanck/ http://www.eva.mpg.de/psycho/kids/kids_research.html http://www.psych-sci.manchester.ac.uk/staff/AnnaTheakston Applicants should have, or expect to obtain, a minimum 2:1 degree (or equivalent) in psychology, linguistics or an associated discipline. Interested students are encouraged to contact Elena Lieven by email for preliminary discussions on project proposals: lieven at eva.mpg.de General enquiries can be sent to the Research Centre Secretary, Mrs Mickie Glover: Max Plank Child Study Centre School of Psychological Sciences University of Manchester Manchester M13 9PL mickie.glover at manchester.ac.uk ; 0161 275 2444 Although there is no closing date for applications, interested individuals are encouraged to apply as early as possible. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- From k.j.alcock at lancaster.ac.uk Fri Jan 30 17:40:08 2009 From: k.j.alcock at lancaster.ac.uk (Katie Alcock) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:40:08 -0800 Subject: research on test questions In-Reply-To: <24843d17-e522-4204-8338-3438130b9d32@e1g2000pra.googlegroups.com> Message-ID: There's quite a lot of work on question form in cognitive development work - it has been investigated more closely I suspect than in language development work. See for example Pratt, C. (1990). On asking children--and adults--bizarre questions. First Language, 10(29, Pt 2), 167-175. Pratt, C. (1988). The child's conception of the conservation task. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 6(2), 157-167. As well as this memorably titled article in The Psychologist (which is no doubt why it sprang to my mind!) http://www.thepsychologist.org.uk/archive/archive_home.cfm?volumeID=14&editi onID=72&ArticleID=298 On 30/01/2009 03:05, "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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- From k1n at psu.edu Sat Jan 31 00:38:06 2009 From: k1n at psu.edu (Keith Nelson) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:38:06 -0500 Subject: research on test questions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Have a look at some older research and discussion on this by William Hall, in the book series Children's Language. Best of luck, Keith Nelson At 9:40 AM -0800 1/30/09, Katie Alcock wrote: >There's quite a lot of work on question form in cognitive development work - >it has been investigated more closely I suspect than in language development >work. > >See for example > >Pratt, C. (1990). On asking children--and adults--bizarre questions. First >Language, 10(29, Pt 2), 167-175. >Pratt, C. (1988). The child's conception of the conservation task. British >Journal of Developmental Psychology, 6(2), 157-167. > >As well as this memorably titled article in The Psychologist (which is no >doubt why it sprang to my mind!) > >http://www.thepsychologist.org.uk/archive/archive_home.cfm?volumeID=14&editi >onID=72&ArticleID=298 > > >On 30/01/2009 03:05, "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 >> >> > > > > -- Keith Nelson Professor of Psychology Penn State University 423 Moore Building University Park, PA 16802 keithnelsonart at psu.edu 814 863 1747 And what is mind and how is it recognized ? It is clearly drawn in Sumi  ink, the sound of breezes drifting through pine. --Ikkyu Sojun Japanese Zen Master 1394-1481 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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It builds and completes a corpus with regard to developmental features of the learner variety from a discourse-in- interaction perspective. The successful candidate(s) will join the project Development of "English in Plurilingual Settings" which runs from Spring 2009 to end of 2012. Activities: * collecting different types (audio, video, oral, written) of data covering an array of activities in English in a plurilingual learning environment * managing interactional data for implementation in a data-base and a coded corpus * managing project schedule according to advances in analysis and results * analysis of data (discourse, science, media) * observation, analysis and building of inventories * implementation and development (theoretical and methodological concepts in line with the focus of the project * drafting reports, minutes, presentations, papers Profile: * Relevant degree (MA-level or doctorate (PhD)) in one of the following fields, relevant to the project: language development, empirical developmental research, English as international language and/or ESL research, applied linguistics, multilingualism, study of child language or communication analysis, data-treatment, corpus building * Highly motivated, internationally experienced researcher or professional (MA-level and/or PhD-level) in one/several of the fields concerend with a proven record as regards the integration, set-up and/ or management of data-driven scientific projects. * Experience with data-bases, corpus design and/or implementation and/or (early) schooling institutions an asset. * Substantial, theoretically grounded methodological skills as regards the (analytical/technical) handling of developmental/ interactional data are required, prior experiences in collecting and integrating situated data into corpora-/data-treatment-systems are an asset. * Experiences in working with development (language/s, resources, socio-cognitive dimensions, activity dimensions) in a specific domain or a specific age group represent an advantage. As the candidate/s will be working with different types of data covering an array of languages and modalities, she/he has excellent command of at least two of the following languages: English (and its varieties), German and/or French (written and spoken), Luxembourgish and/or a further language an asset. Excellent self-management skills, ability and willingness to engage into active team-management, intercultural, technical and interdisciplinary awareness as well as a motivation to join a challenging environment within a trilingual, international and young University are prerequisites for the positions open within this project. For further information please contact: Ass.-Prof. Dr. Gudrun Ziegler Phone: (+352) 46 66 44 9363 Mail: gudrun.ziegler @ uni.lu Candidates should submit the following documents: * letter of motivation, stating the link of previous work/ interests with the position and the project * curriculum vitae * record of publications and projects (if applicable) * copies of diploma(s) * two references (relevant to the position) by sending applications - DEADLINE JANUARY 15, 2009 - to: University of Luxembourg Ass.-Prof. Dr. Gudrun Ziegler - Secr?tariat Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education Campus Walferdange B.P. 2 L-7201 Luxembourg-Walferdange Grand-Duch? de Luxembourg Applications will be handled in strict confidence. 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It builds and completes a corpus with regard to developmental features of the learner variety from a discourse-in- interaction perspective. The successful candidate(s) will join the project Development of "English in Plurilingual Settings" which runs from Spring 2009 to end of 2012. Activities: * collecting different types (audio, video, oral, written) of data covering an array of activities in English in a plurilingual learning environment * managing interactional data for implementation in a data-base and a coded corpus * managing project schedule according to advances in analysis and results * analysis of data (discourse, science, media) * observation, analysis and building of inventories * implementation and development (theoretical and methodological concepts in line with the focus of the project * drafting reports, minutes, presentations, papers Profile: * Relevant degree (MA-level or doctorate (PhD)) in one of the following fields, relevant to the project: language development, empirical developmental research, English as international language and/or ESL research, applied linguistics, multilingualism, study of child language or communication analysis, data-treatment, corpus building * Highly motivated, internationally experienced researcher or professional (MA-level and/or PhD-level) in one/several of the fields concerend with a proven record as regards the integration, set-up and/ or management of data-driven scientific projects. * Experience with data-bases, corpus design and/or implementation and/or (early) schooling institutions an asset. * Substantial, theoretically grounded methodological skills as regards the (analytical/technical) handling of developmental/ interactional data are required, prior experiences in collecting and integrating situated data into corpora-/data-treatment-systems are an asset. * Experiences in working with development (language/s, resources, socio-cognitive dimensions, activity dimensions) in a specific domain or a specific age group represent an advantage. As the candidate/s will be working with different types of data covering an array of languages and modalities, she/he has excellent command of at least two of the following languages: English (and its varieties), German and/or French (written and spoken), Luxembourgish and/or a further language an asset. Excellent self-management skills, ability and willingness to engage into active team-management, intercultural, technical and interdisciplinary awareness as well as a motivation to join a challenging environment within a trilingual, international and young University are prerequisites for the positions open within this project. For further information please contact: Ass.-Prof. Dr. Gudrun Ziegler Phone: (+352) 46 66 44 9363 Mail: gudrun.ziegler @ uni.lu Candidates should submit the following documents: * letter of motivation, stating the link of previous work/ interests with the position and the project * curriculum vitae * record of publications and projects (if applicable) * copies of diploma(s) * two references (relevant to the position) by sending applications - DEADLINE JANUARY 15, 2009 - to: University of Luxembourg Ass.-Prof. Dr. Gudrun Ziegler - Secr?tariat Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education Campus Walferdange B.P. 2 L-7201 Luxembourg-Walferdange Grand-Duch? de Luxembourg Applications will be handled in strict confidence. 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It builds and completes a corpus with regard > to developmental features of the learner variety from a discourse-in- > interaction perspective. > > > The successful candidate(s) will join the project Development of > "English in Plurilingual Settings" which runs from Spring 2009 to > end of 2012. > > Activities: > > * collecting different types (audio, video, oral, written) of > data covering an array of activities in English in a plurilingual > learning environment > * managing interactional data for implementation in a data-base > and a coded corpus > * managing project schedule according to advances in analysis and > results > * analysis of data (discourse, science, media) > * observation, analysis and building of inventories > * implementation and development (theoretical and methodological > concepts in line with the focus of the project > * drafting reports, minutes, presentations, papers > > Profile: > > * Relevant degree (MA-level or doctorate (PhD)) in one of the > following fields, relevant to the project: language development, > empirical developmental research, English as international language > and/or ESL research, applied linguistics, multilingualism, study of > child language or communication analysis, data-treatment, corpus > building > * Highly motivated, internationally experienced researcher or > professional (MA-level and/or PhD-level) in one/several of the > fields concerend with a proven record as regards the integration, > set-up and/or management of data-driven scientific projects. > * Experience with data-bases, corpus design and/or implementation > and/or (early) schooling institutions an asset. > * Substantial, theoretically grounded methodological skills as > regards the (analytical/technical) handling of developmental/ > interactional data are required, prior experiences in collecting and > integrating situated data into corpora-/data-treatment-systems are > an asset. > * Experiences in working with development (language/s, resources, > socio-cognitive dimensions, activity dimensions) in a specific > domain or a specific age group represent an advantage. > > > As the candidate/s will be working with different types of data > covering an array of languages and modalities, she/he has excellent > command of at least two of the following languages: English (and its > varieties), German and/or French (written and spoken), Luxembourgish > and/or a further language an asset. > > Excellent self-management skills, ability and willingness to engage > into active team-management, intercultural, technical and > interdisciplinary awareness as well as a motivation to join a > challenging environment within a trilingual, international and young > University are prerequisites for the positions open within this > project. > > For further information please contact: > > Ass.-Prof. Dr. Gudrun Ziegler > Phone: (+352) 46 66 44 9363 > Mail: gudrun.ziegler @ uni.lu > > > Candidates should submit the following documents: > > * letter of motivation, stating the link of previous work/ > interests with the position and the project > * curriculum vitae > * record of publications and projects (if applicable) > * copies of diploma(s) > * two references (relevant to the position) > > by sending applications - DEADLINE JANUARY 15, 2009 - to: > > University of Luxembourg > Ass.-Prof. Dr. Gudrun Ziegler - Secr?tariat > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education > Campus Walferdange > B.P. 2 > L-7201 Luxembourg-Walferdange > Grand-Duch? de Luxembourg > > Applications will be handled in strict confidence. 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It builds and completes a corpus with regard > to developmental features of the learner variety from a discourse-in- > interaction perspective. > > > The successful candidate(s) will join the project Development of > "English in Plurilingual Settings" which runs from Spring 2009 to > end of 2012. > > Activities: > > * collecting different types (audio, video, oral, written) of > data covering an array of activities in English in a plurilingual > learning environment > * managing interactional data for implementation in a data-base > and a coded corpus > * managing project schedule according to advances in analysis and > results > * analysis of data (discourse, science, media) > * observation, analysis and building of inventories > * implementation and development (theoretical and methodological > concepts in line with the focus of the project > * drafting reports, minutes, presentations, papers > > Profile: > > * Relevant degree (MA-level or doctorate (PhD)) in one of the > following fields, relevant to the project: language development, > empirical developmental research, English as international language > and/or ESL research, applied linguistics, multilingualism, study of > child language or communication analysis, data-treatment, corpus > building > * Highly motivated, internationally experienced researcher or > professional (MA-level and/or PhD-level) in one/several of the > fields concerend with a proven record as regards the integration, > set-up and/or management of data-driven scientific projects. > * Experience with data-bases, corpus design and/or implementation > and/or (early) schooling institutions an asset. > * Substantial, theoretically grounded methodological skills as > regards the (analytical/technical) handling of developmental/ > interactional data are required, prior experiences in collecting and > integrating situated data into corpora-/data-treatment-systems are > an asset. > * Experiences in working with development (language/s, resources, > socio-cognitive dimensions, activity dimensions) in a specific > domain or a specific age group represent an advantage. > > > As the candidate/s will be working with different types of data > covering an array of languages and modalities, she/he has excellent > command of at least two of the following languages: English (and its > varieties), German and/or French (written and spoken), Luxembourgish > and/or a further language an asset. > > Excellent self-management skills, ability and willingness to engage > into active team-management, intercultural, technical and > interdisciplinary awareness as well as a motivation to join a > challenging environment within a trilingual, international and young > University are prerequisites for the positions open within this > project. > > For further information please contact: > > Ass.-Prof. Dr. Gudrun Ziegler > Phone: (+352) 46 66 44 9363 > Mail: gudrun.ziegler @ uni.lu > > > Candidates should submit the following documents: > > * letter of motivation, stating the link of previous work/ > interests with the position and the project > * curriculum vitae > * record of publications and projects (if applicable) > * copies of diploma(s) > * two references (relevant to the position) > > by sending applications - DEADLINE JANUARY 15, 2009 - to: > > University of Luxembourg > Ass.-Prof. Dr. Gudrun Ziegler - Secr?tariat > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education > Campus Walferdange > B.P. 2 > L-7201 Luxembourg-Walferdange > Grand-Duch? de Luxembourg > > Applications will be handled in strict confidence. 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It builds and completes a corpus with regard > to developmental features of the learner variety from a discourse-in- > interaction perspective. > > > The successful candidate(s) will join the project Development of > "English in Plurilingual Settings" which runs from Spring 2009 to > end of 2012. > > Activities: > > * collecting different types (audio, video, oral, written) of > data covering an array of activities in English in a plurilingual > learning environment > * managing interactional data for implementation in a data-base > and a coded corpus > * managing project schedule according to advances in analysis and > results > * analysis of data (discourse, science, media) > * observation, analysis and building of inventories > * implementation and development (theoretical and methodological > concepts in line with the focus of the project > * drafting reports, minutes, presentations, papers > > Profile: > > * Relevant degree (MA-level or doctorate (PhD)) in one of the > following fields, relevant to the project: language development, > empirical developmental research, English as international language > and/or ESL research, applied linguistics, multilingualism, study of > child language or communication analysis, data-treatment, corpus > building > * Highly motivated, internationally experienced researcher or > professional (MA-level and/or PhD-level) in one/several of the > fields concerend with a proven record as regards the integration, > set-up and/or management of data-driven scientific projects. > * Experience with data-bases, corpus design and/or implementation > and/or (early) schooling institutions an asset. > * Substantial, theoretically grounded methodological skills as > regards the (analytical/technical) handling of developmental/ > interactional data are required, prior experiences in collecting and > integrating situated data into corpora-/data-treatment-systems are > an asset. > * Experiences in working with development (language/s, resources, > socio-cognitive dimensions, activity dimensions) in a specific > domain or a specific age group represent an advantage. > > > As the candidate/s will be working with different types of data > covering an array of languages and modalities, she/he has excellent > command of at least two of the following languages: English (and its > varieties), German and/or French (written and spoken), Luxembourgish > and/or a further language an asset. > > Excellent self-management skills, ability and willingness to engage > into active team-management, intercultural, technical and > interdisciplinary awareness as well as a motivation to join a > challenging environment within a trilingual, international and young > University are prerequisites for the positions open within this > project. > > For further information please contact: > > Ass.-Prof. Dr. Gudrun Ziegler > Phone: (+352) 46 66 44 9363 > Mail: gudrun.ziegler @ uni.lu > > > Candidates should submit the following documents: > > * letter of motivation, stating the link of previous work/ > interests with the position and the project > * curriculum vitae > * record of publications and projects (if applicable) > * copies of diploma(s) > * two references (relevant to the position) > > by sending applications - DEADLINE JANUARY 15, 2009 - to: > > University of Luxembourg > Ass.-Prof. Dr. Gudrun Ziegler - Secr?tariat > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education > Campus Walferdange > B.P. 2 > L-7201 Luxembourg-Walferdange > Grand-Duch? de Luxembourg > > Applications will be handled in strict confidence. 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It builds and completes a corpus with regard > to developmental features of the learner variety from a discourse-in- > interaction perspective. > > > The successful candidate(s) will join the project Development of > "English in Plurilingual Settings" which runs from Spring 2009 to > end of 2012. > > Activities: > > * collecting different types (audio, video, oral, written) of > data covering an array of activities in English in a plurilingual > learning environment > * managing interactional data for implementation in a data-base > and a coded corpus > * managing project schedule according to advances in analysis and > results > * analysis of data (discourse, science, media) > * observation, analysis and building of inventories > * implementation and development (theoretical and methodological > concepts in line with the focus of the project > * drafting reports, minutes, presentations, papers > > Profile: > > * Relevant degree (MA-level or doctorate (PhD)) in one of the > following fields, relevant to the project: language development, > empirical developmental research, English as international language > and/or ESL research, applied linguistics, multilingualism, study of > child language or communication analysis, data-treatment, corpus > building > * Highly motivated, internationally experienced researcher or > professional (MA-level and/or PhD-level) in one/several of the > fields concerend with a proven record as regards the integration, > set-up and/or management of data-driven scientific projects. > * Experience with data-bases, corpus design and/or implementation > and/or (early) schooling institutions an asset. > * Substantial, theoretically grounded methodological skills as > regards the (analytical/technical) handling of developmental/ > interactional data are required, prior experiences in collecting and > integrating situated data into corpora-/data-treatment-systems are > an asset. > * Experiences in working with development (language/s, resources, > socio-cognitive dimensions, activity dimensions) in a specific > domain or a specific age group represent an advantage. > > > As the candidate/s will be working with different types of data > covering an array of languages and modalities, she/he has excellent > command of at least two of the following languages: English (and its > varieties), German and/or French (written and spoken), Luxembourgish > and/or a further language an asset. > > Excellent self-management skills, ability and willingness to engage > into active team-management, intercultural, technical and > interdisciplinary awareness as well as a motivation to join a > challenging environment within a trilingual, international and young > University are prerequisites for the positions open within this > project. > > For further information please contact: > > Ass.-Prof. Dr. Gudrun Ziegler > Phone: (+352) 46 66 44 9363 > Mail: gudrun.ziegler @ uni.lu > > > Candidates should submit the following documents: > > * letter of motivation, stating the link of previous work/ > interests with the position and the project > * curriculum vitae > * record of publications and projects (if applicable) > * copies of diploma(s) > * two references (relevant to the position) > > by sending applications - DEADLINE JANUARY 15, 2009 - to: > > University of Luxembourg > Ass.-Prof. Dr. Gudrun Ziegler - Secr?tariat > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education > Campus Walferdange > B.P. 2 > L-7201 Luxembourg-Walferdange > Grand-Duch? de Luxembourg > > Applications will be handled in strict confidence. 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Many thanks. -- Brian MacWhinney On Jan 6, 2009, at 7:58 PM, Gudrun Ziegler wrote: > >> >> >> Dear colleagues, >> >> please forward to interested colleagues and relevant networks, note >> the short deadline for applications (15.1.2009), kind regards, >> Gudrun Ziegler >> >> ---------------------------- >> >> >> The University of Luxembourg FLSHASE - Educational Sciences & >> Language Development >> >> is looking for the following profiles within the national research >> project >> >> "Development of English in Plurilingual Settings", >> >> deadline for applications: JANUARY 15, 2009, >> >> positions to start by March/May 2009: >> >> >> 1 Postdoctoral researcher >> Ref: F3R-LCM-PUL-09FUND >> 2 year-contract, renewable once, 20h/week (50%), starting spring 2009 >> >> 1 Research associate >> Ref: F3R-LCM-PUL-09FUND >> 2 year-contract, renewable once, 20h/week (50%), starting spring 2009 >> >> 1 PhD student grant >> Ref: F3R-LCM-AFR-0809 >> AFR (Contract, type: "Aide ? la formation recherche", 40h/week, >> starting spring 2009, 3 years) >> >> The project "Development of English in Plurilingual Settings" is >> concerned with the development of English amongst young learners in >> plurilingual settings. It builds and completes a corpus with regard >> to developmental features of the learner variety from a discourse- >> in-interaction perspective. >> >> >> The successful candidate(s) will join the project Development of >> "English in Plurilingual Settings" which runs from Spring 2009 to >> end of 2012. >> >> Activities: >> >> * collecting different types (audio, video, oral, written) of >> data covering an array of activities in English in a plurilingual >> learning environment >> * managing interactional data for implementation in a data-base >> and a coded corpus >> * managing project schedule according to advances in analysis >> and results >> * analysis of data (discourse, science, media) >> * observation, analysis and building of inventories >> * implementation and development (theoretical and methodological >> concepts in line with the focus of the project >> * drafting reports, minutes, presentations, papers >> >> Profile: >> >> * Relevant degree (MA-level or doctorate (PhD)) in one of the >> following fields, relevant to the project: language development, >> empirical developmental research, English as international language >> and/or ESL research, applied linguistics, multilingualism, study of >> child language or communication analysis, data-treatment, corpus >> building >> * Highly motivated, internationally experienced researcher or >> professional (MA-level and/or PhD-level) in one/several of the >> fields concerend with a proven record as regards the integration, >> set-up and/or management of data-driven scientific projects. >> * Experience with data-bases, corpus design and/or >> implementation and/or (early) schooling institutions an asset. >> * Substantial, theoretically grounded methodological skills as >> regards the (analytical/technical) handling of developmental/ >> interactional data are required, prior experiences in collecting >> and integrating situated data into corpora-/data-treatment-systems >> are an asset. >> * Experiences in working with development (language/s, >> resources, socio-cognitive dimensions, activity dimensions) in a >> specific domain or a specific age group represent an advantage. >> >> >> As the candidate/s will be working with different types of data >> covering an array of languages and modalities, she/he has excellent >> command of at least two of the following languages: English (and >> its varieties), German and/or French (written and spoken), >> Luxembourgish and/or a further language an asset. >> >> Excellent self-management skills, ability and willingness to engage >> into active team-management, intercultural, technical and >> interdisciplinary awareness as well as a motivation to join a >> challenging environment within a trilingual, international and >> young University are prerequisites for the positions open within >> this project. >> >> For further information please contact: >> >> Ass.-Prof. Dr. Gudrun Ziegler >> Phone: (+352) 46 66 44 9363 >> Mail: gudrun.ziegler @ uni.lu >> >> >> Candidates should submit the following documents: >> >> * letter of motivation, stating the link of previous work/ >> interests with the position and the project >> * curriculum vitae >> * record of publications and projects (if applicable) >> * copies of diploma(s) >> * two references (relevant to the position) >> >> by sending applications - DEADLINE JANUARY 15, 2009 - to: >> >> University of Luxembourg >> Ass.-Prof. Dr. Gudrun Ziegler - Secr?tariat >> Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education >> Campus Walferdange >> B.P. 2 >> L-7201 Luxembourg-Walferdange >> Grand-Duch? de Luxembourg >> >> Applications will be handled in strict confidence. The University >> of Luxembourg is an equal opportunity employer. >> >> >> >> --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- >> --- --- >> >> Check out our European Project SEMLANG >> - Training Language Teachers for a Multilingual Europe - >> http://www.semlang.eu >> >> Vient de para?tre: >> - Pr?cis du plurilinguisme et du pluriculturalisme - >> http://precis.berkeley.edu >> >> --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- >> --- --- >> >> Find out more about the >> - Master - Learning & Development in Multilingual and Multicultural >> Contexts (MA multi-LEARN) - >> http://multi-learn.uni.lu >> >> Find out more about current research activities: >> - http://www.dica-lab.org - >> >> Dr. Gudrun Ziegler, Ass.-Professor >> Faculty of Language & Literature, Humanities, Arts & Education >> >> Mail to: gudrun.ziegler at uni.lu AND gudrun.ziegler at web.de >> >> Send to: University of Luxembourg, Campus Walferdange, Route de >> Diekrich, L-7201 Luxembourg >> Call: 00352 46 66 44 - 93 63 >> Fax: 00352 46 66 44 - 96 38 >> >> --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- >> --- --- >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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All the best, Karla --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 karla.vrbova at centrum.cz Thu Jan 8 13:23:27 2009 From: karla.vrbova at centrum.cz (Karla) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 05:23:27 -0800 Subject: Literature on acquisition of spatial particles in English Message-ID: Dear all, I am currently working on my master thesis and have troubles to find literature. The plan is to compare the acquisition of spatial particles in English with the acquisition of spatial verbal prefixes in Czech and see whether this comparrison gives support for any syntactic analysis of spatial particles/prefixes. Can anyone recommend literature relevent to this topic? All the best, Karla --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 Thu Jan 8 16:18:12 2009 From: carolinemagali at gmail.com (info childes) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 08:18:12 -0800 Subject: Literature on acquisition of spatial particles in English In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Karla, I've had the same problem, and I'm afraid I couldn't find much in the field of acquisition...I found Clark&Carpenter's article on the notion of source very inspiring, though probably not what you're looking for - more of a semantic analysis (see Language 65, vol. 1). But otherwise you'll probably find interesting stuff in: BOLINGER, Dwight, 1971. The Phrasal Verb in English. Cambridge (Ma) : Harvard University Press. DEH?, Nicole, Ray Jackendoff, Andrew McIntyre et al., 2002. Verb- Particle Explorations. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter. BRINTON, Laurel J., 1985. "Iconicity and semantic change : Old English verbal prefixes". Amsterdamer Beitr?ge zur ?lteren Germanistik 23 : 55-70. FISCHER, Olga et al., 2000. "Verb-particles in Old and Middle English". The Syntax of Early English. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press : 80-210. MITCHELL, Bruce, 1978. "Prepositions, adverbs, prepositional adverbs, postpositions, separable prefixes, or inseparable prefixes, in Old English?". Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 79 : 240-57. I've also got a couple of articles that I could send you as pdfs, but I would need an email address. And there's this one (a PhD) I couldn't get so if you manage to find it, could you please let me know... LINDNER S.J., 1983. A Lexico-Semantic Analysis of English Verb- Particle Constructions with out and up. Indiana University Linguistics Club. Best, Caroline Rossi Caroline.Rossi at univ-lyon2.fr On Jan 8, 2:23?pm, Karla wrote: > Dear all, > I am currently working on my master thesis and have troubles to find > literature. The plan is to compare the acquisition of spatial > particles in English with the acquisition of spatial verbal prefixes > in Czech and see whether this comparrison gives support for any > syntactic analysis of spatial particles/prefixes. Can anyone > recommend literature relevent to this topic? > > All the best, > > Karla --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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Professeur des Universit?s Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage (UMR 5596) Institut des Sciences de l'Homme 14 avenue Berthelot 69363 Lyon Cedex 07 France e-mail: harriet.jisa at univ-lyon2.fr T?l: 33 (0)4 72 72 64 26 Fax: 33 (0)4 72 72 65 90 If you are calling from outside of France, leave off the (0) _____ De : info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] De la part de Fatima Badry Zalami Envoy? : vendredi 9 janvier 2009 13:28 ? : info-childes at googlegroups.com Objet : latest research on Arabic acquisition Dear colleagues I need help locating any new research on Arabic acquisition conducted in the last 5 years. Most of what I have found so far is related to either phonology or literacy development. I suspect that there are theses out there that deal with other areas. I would appreciate any information you may provide as thesis directors or writers. Thanks, Fatima Fatima Badry, PhD American University of Sharjah POB 26666 Sharjah Tel:971 6 515 2701 www.aus.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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From badry at aus.edu Fri Jan 9 12:27:53 2009 From: badry at aus.edu (Fatima Badry Zalami) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 16:27:53 +0400 Subject: latest research on Arabic acquisition Message-ID: Dear colleagues I need help locating any new research on Arabic acquisition conducted in the last 5 years. Most of what I have found so far is related to either phonology or literacy development. I suspect that there are theses out there that deal with other areas. I would appreciate any information you may provide as thesis directors or writers. Thanks, Fatima Fatima Badry, PhD American University of Sharjah POB 26666 Sharjah Tel:971 6 515 2701 www.aus.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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From william.snyder at uconn.edu Fri Jan 9 18:33:09 2009 From: william.snyder at uconn.edu (William Snyder) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 13:33:09 -0500 Subject: Literature on acquisition of spatial particles in English In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Karla, I've done quite a bit of work on children's acquisition of English spatial particles, and I have a proposal concerning why English differs from languages like Czech in this respect. The generalization seems to be that a language permits separable spatial particles (as in _LIFT the book UP_), only if it freely allows the creation of novel, endocentric root compounds (as in _zoo book_, for a book about the zoo). I haven't examined Czech, but my guess is that it's similar to Russian and Serbo-Croatian in this respect: Instead of a bare root compound like "zoo book," one would need to say something more like 'book on zoos' or perhaps 'book zoo-GENITIVE'. (Note that genitive modifiers are quite different from bare root compounding.) If so, it's expected that Czech would resort to something other than separable particles; the inseparable prefixes that you mention are one of the options that we find in such languages. For more information about my proposals, and for supporting evidence (from children acquisition of English, and from cross-linguistic surveys of adult speakers), you can refer to the following: Snyder, W. (2001) "On the nature of syntactic variation: Evidence from complex predicates and complex word-formation. " /Language/ 77:324-342. [http://web2.uconn.edu/snyder/papers/Snyder_Lg.pdf] Snyder, W. (2007) /Child Language: The Parametric Approach/. Oxford University Press. [Chapter 5] Very best wishes, William Snyder Karla wrote: > Dear all, > I am currently working on my master thesis and have troubles to find > literature. The plan is to compare the acquisition of spatial > particles in English with the acquisition of spatial verbal prefixes > in Czech and see whether this comparrison gives support for any > syntactic analysis of spatial particles/prefixes. Can anyone > recommend literature relevent to this topic? > > All the best, > > Karla > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 Sun Jan 11 02:12:59 2009 From: william.snyder at uconn.edu (William Snyder) Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:12:59 -0500 Subject: latest research on Arabic acquisition Message-ID: Dear Dr. Badry, The following works on the acquisition of Arabic are relatively recent, and might be of interest to you. Best wishes, William Snyder University of Connecticut Aljenaie, K., (2001). The emergence of tense and agreement in Kuwaiti Arabic child language. PhD thesis, The University of Reading., UK. Aljenaie, K. (2008). Negation in early Kuwaiti Arabic child language. Arab Journal for the Humanities, 26,102. Kuwait: Kuwait University. Aljenaie, K. & Farghal, M. (in press). Comprehension of three word orders in Kuwaiti Arabic child language. Journal of Language Sciences. Elsevier. Abdullah, F. (2002). Specific language impairment in Arabic-speaking children: deficits in morphosyntax. Ph.D. thesis, McGill University, Canada. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Bulk] latest research on Arabic acquisition Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:27:53 +0400 From: Fatima Badry Zalami > Reply-To: info-childes at googlegroups.com To: info-childes at googlegroups.com Dear colleagues I need help locating any new research on Arabic acquisition conducted in the last 5 years. Most of what I have found so far is related to either phonology or literacy development. I suspect that there are theses out there that deal with other areas. I would appreciate any information you may provide as thesis directors or writers. Thanks, Fatima Fatima Badry, PhD American University of Sharjah POB 26666 Sharjah Tel:971 6 515 2701 www.aus.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 roeper at linguist.umass.edu Sun Jan 11 03:55:26 2009 From: roeper at linguist.umass.edu (Tom Roeper) Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:55:26 -0500 Subject: latest research on Arabic acquisition In-Reply-To: <1EDFC9BD56E94873A03C8FE1EDEA59D5@ddl.ishlyon.cnrs.fr> Message-ID: contact Lamya Abdulkarim who is currently at SMith college for a good deal of research. Tom Roeper On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Harriet Jisa wrote: > Can you help this person ? > > > > > > Professeur des Universit?s > > Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage (UMR 5596) > > Institut des Sciences de l'Homme > > 14 avenue Berthelot 69363 Lyon Cedex 07 > > France > > e-mail: harriet.jisa at univ-lyon2.fr > > T?l: 33 (0)4 72 72 64 26 > > Fax: 33 (0)4 72 72 65 90 > > If you are calling from outside of France, leave off the (0) > ------------------------------ > > *De :* info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] > *De la part de* Fatima Badry Zalami > *Envoy? :* vendredi 9 janvier 2009 13:28 > *? :* info-childes at googlegroups.com > *Objet :* latest research on Arabic acquisition > > > > Dear colleagues > > I need help locating any new research on Arabic acquisition conducted in > the last 5 years. Most of what I have found so far is related to either > phonology or literacy development. I suspect that there are theses out > there that deal with other areas. I would appreciate any information you > may provide as thesis directors or writers. > > Thanks, > > Fatima > > Fatima Badry, PhD > > American University of Sharjah > > POB 26666 > > Sharjah > > Tel:971 6 515 2701 > > www.aus.edu > > > > > > > > > > > -- Tom Roeper Dept of Lingiustics UMass South College Amherst, Mass. 01003 ISA 413 256 0390 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 barriere.isa at gmail.com Sun Jan 11 15:48:00 2009 From: barriere.isa at gmail.com (isa barriere) Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 09:48:00 -0600 Subject: latest research on Arabic acquisition In-Reply-To: <008101c97255$b1b84540$1528cfc0$@edu> Message-ID: Hi, 2 other people to contact: - Natasha Trudeau natacha.trudeau at umontreal.ca has developed a CDI for Lebanese Arabic - Donia Fahim (dfahin at hunter.cuny.edu) a) did her PhD at Birkbeck College, U. of London on SLI in Egyptian Arabic and has developed a language test for Arabic. Hope this helps, Best, Isabelle Barriere, PhD On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Fatima Badry Zalami wrote: > Dear colleagues > > I need help locating any new research on Arabic acquisition conducted in > the last 5 years. Most of what I have found so far is related to either > phonology or literacy development. I suspect that there are theses out > there that deal with other areas. I would appreciate any information you > may provide as thesis directors or writers. > > Thanks, > > Fatima > > Fatima Badry, PhD > > American University of Sharjah > > POB 26666 > > Sharjah > > Tel:971 6 515 2701 > > www.aus.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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From macw at cmu.edu Sun Jan 11 18:27:12 2009 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:27:12 -0500 Subject: latest research on Arabic acquisition In-Reply-To: <5cbb1b480901110748w725992b1s4fef735f16c6631c@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: It is great to hear that there are so many theses on Arabic ad so many tests. I wonder if any of these theses are based on any recorded data that could be contributed to CHILDES. Currently, Arabic is the only major international language for which we have no monolingual acquisition data in CHILDES. There are recordings from bilingual Moroccan-Dutch children in the AarsenBos corpus, but no monolingual data at all. In terms of tools for transcribing and analyzing Arabic, the site at semtalk.talkbank.org has some useful information. -- Brian MacWhinney --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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URL: From karla.vrbova at centrum.cz Mon Jan 12 19:33:14 2009 From: karla.vrbova at centrum.cz (Karla Vrbova) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:33:14 +0100 Subject: Literature on acquisition of spatial particles in English In-Reply-To: <49679865.1010709@uconn.edu> Message-ID: Dear Mr Snyder, thank you very much for responding to my question! This sounds very good and I am going to read the article and the book. ? Best wishes Karla ? ______________________________________________________________ > Od: william.snyder at uconn.edu > Komu: info-childes at googlegroups.com > Datum: 09.01.2009 19:32 > P?edm?t: Re: Literature on acquisition of spatial particles in English > Dear Karla, I've done quite a bit of work on children's acquisition of English spatial particles, and I have a proposal concerning why English differs from languages like Czech in this respect. The generalization seems to be that a language permits separable spatial particles (as in _LIFT the book UP_), only if it freely allows the creation of novel, endocentric root compounds (as in _zoo book_, for a book about the zoo). I haven't examined Czech, but my guess is that it's similar to Russian and Serbo-Croatian in this respect: Instead of a bare root compound like "zoo book," one would need to say something more like 'book on zoos' or perhaps 'book zoo-GENITIVE'. (Note that genitive modifiers are quite different from bare root compounding.) If so, it's expected that Czech would resort to something other than separable particles; the inseparable prefixes that you mention are one of the options that we find in such languages. For more information about my proposals, and for supporting evidence (from children acquisition of English, and from cross-linguistic surveys of adult speakers), you can refer to the following: Snyder, W. (2001) "On the nature of syntactic variation: Evidence from complex predicates and complex word-formation. " /Language/ 77:324-342. [http://web2.uconn.edu/snyder/papers/Snyder_Lg.pdf] Snyder, W. (2007) /Child Language: The Parametric Approach/. Oxford University Press. [Chapter 5] Very best wishes, William Snyder Karla wrote: > Dear all, > I am currently working on my master thesis and have troubles to find > literature. The plan is to compare the acquisition of spatial > particles in English with the acquisition of spatial verbal prefixes > in Czech and see whether this comparrison gives support for any > syntactic analysis of spatial particles/prefixes. Can anyone > recommend literature relevent to this topic? > > All the best, > > Karla > > > > ? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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They would be willing to use an audio-only corpus, but only if it were transcribed with features (specifically, frication, nasality, and voicing) as they are crucial to the purposes of the study. I am writing to ask for your assistance as they have searched for corpora with these components but have been unsuccessful in locating one that is satisfactory. Thank you in advance for your assistance in this matter. Sincerely, Laura Morett --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 Tue Jan 13 20:31:49 2009 From: william.snyder at uconn.edu (William Snyder) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:31:49 -0500 Subject: [Bulk] Re: Literature on acquisition of spatial particles in English In-Reply-To: <200901122033.1625@centrum.cz> Message-ID: Dear Karla (if I may, and feel free to call me William), I'd be quite interested to see your thesis (or any paper that you might write along the way), whenever it's ready to circulate! Best wishes, William Karla Vrbova wrote: > > Dear Mr Snyder, > > thank you very much for responding to my question! This sounds very > good and I am going to read the article and the book. > > > > Best wishes > > Karla > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > Od: william.snyder at uconn.edu > > Komu: info-childes at googlegroups.com > > Datum: 09.01.2009 19:32 > > P?edm?t: Re: Literature on acquisition of spatial particles in English > > > > Dear Karla, > > I've done quite a bit of work on children's acquisition of English > spatial particles, and I have a proposal concerning why English differs > from languages like Czech in this respect. > > The generalization seems to be that a language permits separable spatial > particles (as in _LIFT the book UP_), only if it freely allows the > creation of novel, endocentric root compounds (as in _zoo book_, for a > book about the zoo). > > I haven't examined Czech, but my guess is that it's similar to Russian > and Serbo-Croatian in this respect: Instead of a bare root compound like > "zoo book," one would need to say something more like 'book on zoos' or > perhaps 'book zoo-GENITIVE'. (Note that genitive modifiers are quite > different from bare root compounding.) If so, it's expected that Czech > would resort to something other than separable particles; the > inseparable prefixes that you mention are one of the options that we > find in such languages. > > For more information about my proposals, and for supporting evidence > (from children acquisition of English, and from cross-linguistic surveys > of adult speakers), you can refer to the following: > > Snyder, W. (2001) "On the nature of syntactic variation: Evidence from > complex predicates and complex word-formation. " > /Language/ 77:324-342. > [http://web2.uconn.edu/snyder/papers/Snyder_Lg.pdf] > > > Snyder, W. (2007) /Child Language: The Parametric Approach/. Oxford > University Press. [Chapter 5] > > Very best wishes, > > William Snyder > > Karla wrote: > > Dear all, > > I am currently working on my master thesis and have troubles to find > > literature. The plan is to compare the acquisition of spatial > > particles in English with the acquisition of spatial verbal prefixes > > in Czech and see whether this comparrison gives support for any > > syntactic analysis of spatial particles/prefixes. Can anyone > > recommend literature relevent to this topic? > > > > All the best, > > > > Karla > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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The De Vincenzi Foundation was established in the will of the late Italian psycholinguist Marica de Vincenzi for the support of young Italian scholars who intend to carry out research abroad in the domain of grammatically-oriented psycholinguistics preferably at US institutions (or a European institution) of the applicant's choice. The scientific committee includes Lyn Frazier as president, Maria Teresa Guasti as vice-president, Janet Dean Fodor, Colin Phillips, Luigi Rizzi, and Sandro Zucchi. Head of the administrative board is Remo Job. Prof.ssa Maria Teresa Guasti Ph.D. Professor of Linguistics Universit? di Milano Bicocca Diprtimento di Psicologia Via dell'Innovazione 10 20126 Milano www.unimib.it/go/Home/Pagine-Speciali/Elenco-Docenti/GUASTI-MARIA-TERESA fax: 0264483788 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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I plan to next tag the Geneva corpus and then work bit by bit through all our French corpora. A big "merci" to Christophe for his work on this. -- Brian MacWhinney --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- From leah.gedalyovich at gmail.com Sun Jan 18 21:06:37 2009 From: leah.gedalyovich at gmail.com (Leah Paltiel-Gedalyovich) Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:06:37 -0800 Subject: studies on atypical development of compositional semantic skills Message-ID: Dear all, I am currently working with a group developing a comprehensive developmental language test. I am interested in any studies into disordered compositional semantic language skills in developmental language disorders. Not lexical disorders but compositional semantic disorders like difficulties with interpreting logical words/ coordinators, difficulties with scope interpretations, etc. References of any studies will be very welcome. I will post a summary if there are any responses. Thanx in advance for your help Leah "Hedim" Israel leah.gedalyovich at gmail.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 roeper at linguist.umass.edu Mon Jan 19 01:10:52 2009 From: roeper at linguist.umass.edu (Tom Roeper) Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:10:52 -0500 Subject: studies on atypical development of compositional semantic skills In-Reply-To: <0ce61827-4c16-47b9-8912-ae96ef9d7dca@v5g2000pre.googlegroups.com> Message-ID: Dear Leah--- The DELV test has many features of quantifiers in its test battery. There are, of course, many other fascinating issues about multiple quantifiers that we do not much about---though there is quite a literature on quantification in acquisition which is the place to start---see the Language Acquisition journal which has many relevant articles. Tom Roeper On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Leah Paltiel-Gedalyovich < leah.gedalyovich at gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear all, > I am currently working with a group developing a comprehensive > developmental language test. I am interested in any studies into > disordered compositional semantic language skills in developmental > language disorders. Not lexical disorders but compositional semantic > disorders like difficulties with interpreting logical words/ > coordinators, difficulties with scope interpretations, etc. > References of any studies will be very welcome. > > I will post a summary if there are any responses. > > Thanx in advance for your help > > Leah > "Hedim" Israel > leah.gedalyovich at gmail.com > > > > > -- Tom Roeper Dept of Lingiustics UMass South College Amherst, Mass. 01003 ISA 413 256 0390 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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Thanks Christophe Parisse (Paris Ouest Nanterre University) Chers coll?gues, dans le cadre du GDR Langues, langage oral, cognition : acquisition et dysfonctionnements ? nouvelles approches, le CNRS nous a confi? la mission d?effectuer un inventaire des ressources existantes concernant les recherches en acquisition du langage dans le domaine de l?oral. L?objectif est, au terme de ce travail et gr?ce ? votre participation, de mettre ? la disposition de la communaut? un ?tat des lieux pr?cis des pratiques de recherches en France et sur la langue Fran?aise (quelque soit le pays dans lequel vous travaillez) dans ce domaine, sorte de cartographie des types de donn?es et des types de recherche sur lesquelles se fondent les recherches en cours dans le domaine. Pour ce faire, un questionnaire est ? votre disposition sur le site du GDR : http://www.modyco.fr/gdr/quest.html Pour toute information compl?mentaire, s?adresser ? 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URL: From cbrc at cuhk.edu.hk Mon Jan 19 15:25:39 2009 From: cbrc at cuhk.edu.hk (Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre) Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 07:25:39 -0800 Subject: Leonard Bloomfield Book Award 2009 Message-ID: Dear all, The Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre (CBRC) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong is pleased to announce that The Bilingual Child: Early Development and Language Contact, by Virginia Yip and Stephen Matthews (Cambridge University Press, 2007) has received the Leonard Bloomfield Book Award 2009 from the Linguistic Society America. The citation of the LSA committee and the award acceptance speech by the authors are posted at: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/lin/cbrc/honors.html With greetings from Hong Kong and best wishes for the Year of the Ox! CBRC Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages Chinese University of Hong Kong --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 chen at uga.edu Mon Jan 19 16:39:40 2009 From: chen at uga.edu (Liang Chen) Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:39:40 -0500 Subject: Leonard Bloomfield Book Award 2009 Message-ID: Hearty congraduations to Dr. Yip and Dr. Matthews, who unfortunately I haven't had a chance to meet. Great book indeed. Hope to attend the Conference on Bilingual Acquisition in Early Childhood next time. Best, Liang Liang Chen,Ph.D. Assistant Professor University of Georgia Communication Sciences and Special Education 542 Aderhold Hall Athens, GA 30602 Phone: 706-542-4566 http://myweb.chen.uga.edu ---- Original message ---- >Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 07:25:39 -0800 (PST) >From: Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre >Subject: Leonard Bloomfield Book Award 2009 >To: Info-CHILDES >Cc: cbrc at cuhk.edu.hk > > >Dear all, > >The Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre (CBRC) at the Chinese >University of Hong Kong is pleased to announce that The Bilingual >Child: Early Development and Language Contact, by Virginia Yip and >Stephen Matthews (Cambridge University Press, 2007) has received the >Leonard Bloomfield Book Award 2009 from the Linguistic Society >America. The citation of the LSA committee and the award acceptance >speech by the authors are posted at: > >http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/lin/cbrc/honors.html > >With greetings from Hong Kong and best wishes for the Year of the Ox! > >CBRC >Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages >Chinese University of Hong Kong >> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 badry at aus.edu Fri Jan 23 09:54:48 2009 From: badry at aus.edu (badry) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:54:48 +0400 Subject: Arabic Acquisition responses In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I would like to thank all those who responded to my query on Info childes post on January 9, 2009 about latest resources on Arabic acquisition. Special thanks to Sigal Uziel-Karl, Ghada Khattab, William Snyder, Tom Roeper, Isabelle Barriere. Virginia Gathercole, Natasha Trudeau, Naama Friedman, Cynthia Zablit, Ruba Moawad, and Khawla Aljenaie. Here is a summary. For some of these sources I do not have complete citations. Sorry! Abdulla, F. & M. Crago (2008). Verb morphology defects in Arabic-speaking children with specific language impairment. Applied Psycholinguistics 29:315-340. Abdullah, F. (2002). Specific language impairment in Arabic-speaking children: deficits in morphosyntax. Ph.D. thesis, McGill University, Canada Al-Buainain, H. (2003). Developmental stages of the acquisition of negation and interrogation by children native speakers of Qatari dialect. Journal of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science 25: 9-45. Aljenaie, K., (2001). The emergence of tense and agreement in Kuwaiti Arabic child language. PhD thesis, The University of Reading., UK. Aljenaie, K. (2008). Negation in early Kuwaiti Arabic child language. Arab Journal for the Humanities, 26,102. Kuwait: Kuwait University. Aljenaie, K. & Farghal, M. (in press). Comprehension of three word orders in Kuwaiti Arabic child language. Journal of Language Sciences. Elsevier. Amayreh, Mousa and Alice Dyson. 2000. ?Phonetic inventories of young Arabic-speaking children?. Clinical linguistics and phonetics. 14,3:193-215. Amayreh, Mousa. 2003. ?Completion of the consonant inventory of Arabic?. Journal of speech, language, and hearing research. 46:517-529. Arab Journal for the Humanities, 26,102. Kuwait: Kuwait University. Badry, F. 2004. Acquiring the Arabic lexicon: Evidence of productive strategies and pedagogical implications. Bethesda, MD: Academica Press. Badry, F. (2005) Acquisition of Arabic word formation: A multi path approach. In Alhawary, M. & Benmamoun, E. (eds). Perspectives in Arabic Linguistics Series XVII- XVIII. Badry, F. (2006). First language acquisition. In Encyclopedia of Arabic language and literature. Vol 2. Leiden: Brill. Costa, J., & Friedmann, N. (2007, December). Hebrew and Arabic children going Romance:The acquisition of subject verb order in Hebrew, Palestinian Arabic, Spanish, and European Portuguese. Presented at Going Romance: Twenty-First Symposium on Romance Linguistics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Friedmann, N. (2003, October). Functional categories in Hebrew and Palestinian Arabic: a view from agrammatism. Presented at the Semitic Linguistics within Contemporary Approaches conference, Florida, USA. Friedmann, N. (2008, May). Results on Wh questions and relative clauses in Hebrew and Palestinian Arabic. Presented at the COST A33 meeting, Crosslinguistically robust stage of children?s linguistic performance, Warsaw, Poland. Friedmann, N. (2008, September). Elicitation of relative clauses in Hebrew and Palestinian Arabic. Presented at the COST A33 meeting, Crosslinguistically robust stage of children?s linguistic performance, Aalborg, Denmark. Levin, I. Saeigh-Haddad, E. Hende, N. Ziv, M., (2008). Early literacy in Arabic: An intervention study among Israeli Palestinian kindergartners. Applied Psycholinguistics 29 (2008), 413?436 Friedmann, N & Manar Haddad. The Comprehension of Sentences Derived by Syntactic Movement in Palestinian Arabic-Speaking Children with Hearing Impairment (manuscript from author) Friedmann, N. & Jo?o Costa Acquisition of SV and VS Order in Hebrew, European Portuguese, Palestinian Arabic, and Spanish (manuscript from author) Moawad, R. (2006). The Acquisition of the Arabic Gender and Number Systems. PhD. Thesis. University of Wales, Bangor, UK. Omar. M. (1973). The Acquisition of Egyptian Arabic as a Native Language. The hague: Mouton (republished by Georgetown University Press, 2007) Ravid, Dorit. and Lubna Hayek. L. (2003). ?Learning about different ways of expressing number in the development of Palestinian Arabic?. First language. 23: 41-63. Ravid, Dorit and Rola Farah (2001). ?The early plural lexicon of Palestinian Arabic: A longitudinal case study?. ELA. Proceedings. Institut de sciences de l' homme, Universit? Lumiere, Lyon. Saeigh Salameh, Eva-Kristina, Ulrika Nettelbladt and Kjell Norlin. (2003). ?Assessing phonologies in bilingual Swedish-Arabic children with and without language impairment?. Child language teaching and therapy. 19, 3 : 338-365. Zablit, C., Trudeau, N. (2008). Le vocabulaire chez les enfants libanais bilingues libanais arabophones, francophones et bilingues. Glossa, 103, 35-53. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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Further particulars of the post are available at the following URL: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/academic/vacancy/index.htm?ref=150849 Enquiries should be addressed to Professor Eva Schultze-Berndt. Please note the correct e-mail address: eva.schultze-berndt at manchester.ac.uk For more information about the Department, please visit its website and blog: http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/subjects/lel/ http://manling.wordpress.com/ The deadline for applications is 20 February 2009. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- From hauser at eva.mpg.de Fri Jan 30 11:05:51 2009 From: hauser at eva.mpg.de (Hauser, Gerlind) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:05:51 -0800 Subject: research on test questions Message-ID: 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- From Ben.Ambridge at Liverpool.ac.uk Fri Jan 30 11:21:05 2009 From: Ben.Ambridge at Liverpool.ac.uk (Ben Ambridge) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:21:05 +0000 Subject: research on test questions In-Reply-To: <24843d17-e522-4204-8338-3438130b9d32@e1g2000pra.googlegroups.com> Message-ID: Hi Gerlind I don't know if this is really what you're interested in but I think your email highlights a real problem with most experimental child language research - The experimenters are always asking children stupid questions (e.g., What's Ernie doing to Bert?) that they know the answers to themselves perfectly well (Tamming him!) I don't know of any research that directly compares - for example - a condition where (a) the main experimenter asks the question and (b) a na?ve second experimenter asks the question (you guys should run one!). Having said that, you should get in touch with Danielle Matthews - I think her studies may have a condition where the experimenter can/cannot see the stimuli she is asking about. I wanted to mention, though, two studies where we have deliberately tried to avoid that problem (though again I'm not quite sure this is what you're asking for) First we did a study where we elicited wh-questions from children - the child has to put a question to a "talking dog" toy - so we deliberately made the questions ones to which neither the experimenter or child knew the answer, so the child was forced to ask, and it made sense for her to do so! Second - where possible rather than getting production data (e.g., what's Ernie doing to Bert) I get kids to rate the acceptability of sentences (e.g., how good is "Ernie's tamming Bert" on a 5-point smiley face rating scale). Obviously this doesn't work well with young kids, and only lets you test acceptability not whether they've acquired a construction, but it does get around that (and other) problems with elicitation methods. I'm not quite sure this is really what you wanted but hope you find it at least slightly interesting, if nothing else! Best wishes! Ben On 30/01/2009 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 > > > -- Dr Ben Ambridge School of Psychology University of Liverpool Eleanor Rathbone Building Bedford St South Liverpool L69 7ZA Tel +44 151 794 1111 http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~ambridge/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 lieven at eva.mpg.de Fri Jan 30 12:47:37 2009 From: lieven at eva.mpg.de (Elena Lieven) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:47:37 +0100 Subject: PhD studentships at Max Planck Child Study Centre, Manchester Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Please circulate this and inform any interested students. Best wishes Elena Lieven The Max Planck Child Study Centre (MPCSS) invites applications for up to two 3-year PhD studentships commencing in October 2009. The studentships will provide a maintenance stipend equating to approximately 16,000 Euros per annum plus generous support for travel and equipment. UK/EU fees will also be covered. The MPCSS, based in the School of Psychological Sciences, is part of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. Research is concerned with children's early language acquisition, carried out through both experimental studies and analysis of naturalistic data. These studentships are not tied into pre-defined projects, however the topic of the PhD must be within the field of first language development using naturalistic and/or experimental data. Our focus is on children learning either English or German although we have ongoing studies of Polish, French, Russian and Finnish. We are increasingly conducting comparative studies in different languages. We are also interested in how children learn to use pragmatically appropriate language (for example, using appropriate referring expressions) and in the relation between social cognition and language development. Below is a brief summary of some of the ongoing research in the Centre. *Naturalistic Studies* Ongoing research involves tracking the sources of children?s developing constructions, including the transitives, questions and complex sentences as well as conducting quantitative analyses of the children?s input. This is done through analyzing children?s own prior speech and that of their caregivers. As well as using the Manchester corpus, available on the CHILDES database, we are also developing denser corpora. These contain recordings of children taped for between 5 ? 10 hours per week. This far better sampling rate allows for in depth analyses, which have rarely been possible previously. We have corpora for four children sampled at differing rates between 2;0-3;0, three children between 3;0 ? 4;0, with two continuing to 5;0. We also have access to relatively dense corpora for young children learning Polish, German, Finnish and Japanese. *Experimental Studies* Experimental studies focus on a number of aspects of language acquisition, such as the development of general syntactic categories (such as noun and verb), constructions (such as transitives and questions) and the development of inflectional morphology (for instance, case-marking in Polish). We also look at how children learn the pragmatics of language (for example, the comprehension and production of referring expressions, answering questions appropriately and registering given/new relations in an utterance). A number of different methodologies are used including priming, act-out tasks, training studies and preferential looking. Experiments often employ novel or frequency-controlled words to determine children's ability to extend their knowledge of language to words with which they are not familiar. The Child Study Centre is run by Professor Elena Lieven and is funded by the Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, directed by Professor Michael Tomasello, at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. Students are supervised jointly by Professors Lieven and Tomasello together with Dr. Anna Theakston. Further details can be obtained from the following web pages: http://www.psych-sci.manchester.ac.uk/research/groups/languageandcommunication/maxplanck/ http://www.eva.mpg.de/psycho/kids/kids_research.html http://www.psych-sci.manchester.ac.uk/staff/AnnaTheakston Applicants should have, or expect to obtain, a minimum 2:1 degree (or equivalent) in psychology, linguistics or an associated discipline. Interested students are encouraged to contact Elena Lieven by email for preliminary discussions on project proposals: lieven at eva.mpg.de General enquiries can be sent to the Research Centre Secretary, Mrs Mickie Glover: Max Plank Child Study Centre School of Psychological Sciences University of Manchester Manchester M13 9PL mickie.glover at manchester.ac.uk ; 0161 275 2444 Although there is no closing date for applications, interested individuals are encouraged to apply as early as possible. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- From k.j.alcock at lancaster.ac.uk Fri Jan 30 17:40:08 2009 From: k.j.alcock at lancaster.ac.uk (Katie Alcock) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:40:08 -0800 Subject: research on test questions In-Reply-To: <24843d17-e522-4204-8338-3438130b9d32@e1g2000pra.googlegroups.com> Message-ID: There's quite a lot of work on question form in cognitive development work - it has been investigated more closely I suspect than in language development work. See for example Pratt, C. (1990). On asking children--and adults--bizarre questions. First Language, 10(29, Pt 2), 167-175. Pratt, C. (1988). The child's conception of the conservation task. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 6(2), 157-167. As well as this memorably titled article in The Psychologist (which is no doubt why it sprang to my mind!) http://www.thepsychologist.org.uk/archive/archive_home.cfm?volumeID=14&editi onID=72&ArticleID=298 On 30/01/2009 03:05, "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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- From k1n at psu.edu Sat Jan 31 00:38:06 2009 From: k1n at psu.edu (Keith Nelson) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:38:06 -0500 Subject: research on test questions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Have a look at some older research and discussion on this by William Hall, in the book series Children's Language. Best of luck, Keith Nelson At 9:40 AM -0800 1/30/09, Katie Alcock wrote: >There's quite a lot of work on question form in cognitive development work - >it has been investigated more closely I suspect than in language development >work. > >See for example > >Pratt, C. (1990). On asking children--and adults--bizarre questions. First >Language, 10(29, Pt 2), 167-175. >Pratt, C. (1988). The child's conception of the conservation task. British >Journal of Developmental Psychology, 6(2), 157-167. > >As well as this memorably titled article in The Psychologist (which is no >doubt why it sprang to my mind!) > >http://www.thepsychologist.org.uk/archive/archive_home.cfm?volumeID=14&editi >onID=72&ArticleID=298 > > >On 30/01/2009 03:05, "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 >> >> > > > > -- Keith Nelson Professor of Psychology Penn State University 423 Moore Building University Park, PA 16802 keithnelsonart at psu.edu 814 863 1747 And what is mind and how is it recognized ? It is clearly drawn in Sumi? ink, the sound of breezes drifting through pine. --Ikkyu Sojun Japanese Zen Master 1394-1481 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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