From afernald at stanford.edu Thu Apr 1 18:43:33 2010 From: afernald at stanford.edu (Anne Fernald) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 11:43:33 -0700 Subject: RA Position at Stanford Message-ID: Please bring this announcement to the attention of talented and highly motivated students you know who are looking for a research position studying language processing by infants and young children: Lab manager In Anne Fernald's research group at Stanford University Social Science RA position in the Department of Psychology to conduct research on the development of spoken language understanding by infants and young children. Primary responsibilities include running experiments with children from 6 months to 5 years of age; coding and analyzing data; maintaining detailed research records; developing experimental stimuli; training and supervising undergraduates who help with testing and coding. This position is centered at our main lab on the Stanford campus where studies with English-learning children are the focus. However, our research group also runs a flourishing community lab where we work with Spanish-learning children, and a mobile lab van in which we conduct outreach studies with English- learning children living in diverse circumstances. This is a full-time position with excellent benefits. Minimum two-year commitment. Start date: Spring 2010 Qualifications: Recommended background and skills include B.A. degree in Psychology or related field; previous research experience working with children; strong organizational and interpersonal skills; meticulous attention to detail; facility with computers and software such as Excel, Photoshop, SPSS. This is an excellent training opportunity for an energetic and highly motivated person interested in early language development who would like to join a dynamic research group. Please send a letter describing your research experience and goals, a resume and unofficial college transcript, and a list of references to Chris Potter cepotter at stanford.edu. Review of applications will begin immediately, and we are hoping to fill this position as soon as possible. ______________________ Anne Fernald, Ph.D. Dept Psychology and Program in Human Biology Stanford University Stanford CA 94305 650-723-1257 - lab http://babylab.stanford.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... 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Perhaps we could work together to get them to > apply their considerable computational skills to parallel issues in child > language. > > http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/translateforanimals/tour.html > > Watch it in action: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I24bSteJpw&feature=player_embedded > > -- 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. > -- 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 pamelanortonphd at gmail.com Fri Apr 2 05:53:08 2010 From: pamelanortonphd at gmail.com (Pamela Norton) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 22:53:08 -0700 Subject: Digest for info-childes@googlegroups.com - 9 Messages in 1 Topic In-Reply-To: <00151750ef1494bcf704832c2643@google.com> Message-ID: My aunt spoke for the first time at the age of 4, when she startled everyone at the table by saying, "Pass the fish, please!" Pam Norton, PhD, CCC-SLP On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:39 AM, > wrote: > Today's Topic Summary > > Group: http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes/topics > > - mystery book (children who begin speaking in sentences)<#127b961f65a2b892_group_thread_0>[9 Updates] > > Topic: mystery book (children who begin speaking in sentences) > > Lorraine McCune Mar 31 09:25AM -0400 ^<#127b961f65a2b892_digest_top> > > This does seem to be an under the radar phenomenon! I had one > participant in my first study who did speak in single words, but also > had a lot of what seemed like jargon. We eventually realized that > much of the jargon was "amalgams" or sentences with the words mushed > together. The one I always remember was "There it is" said with no > consonants and a singsong intonation of surprise. > > Lorraine McCune > > At 02:31 AM 3/31/2010, you wrote: > >info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com > . > >For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. > > Lorraine McCune, EdD > Chair, Department of Educational Psychology > Graduate School of Education > Rutgers University > 10 Seminary Place > New Brunswick, NJ 08901 > > Ph: 732-932-7496 ex. 8310 > FAX: 732932-6829 > > Web Page: www.gse.rutgers.edu > > > > > "Shari Berkowitz" Mar 31 09:42AM -0400 ^<#127b961f65a2b892_digest_top> > > I may have already told this anecdote here: > My daughter's first "word" was: > 'Don't touch it, it's mine!' > (with most of the consonants and all of the intention intact). > > Can you guess that she was the second child? > This word-sentence was followed by mama, dada, brother, book, etc. in > the > more typical fashion. > > Shari Berkowitz > Mercy College > Dobbs Ferry, NY > > > > > "Nelson, Katherine" Mar 31 10:04AM -0400 ^<#127b961f65a2b892_digest_top> > > Hi to Jesse and all, > I do not know the book or books referred to, but the phenomenon of late > talkers who begin to talk in sentences almost as soon as they begin to talk > at all is not exceedingly rare, at least in my experience. It has occurred > in my extended family several times: my second child (Laura) said almost > nothing until the end of the second year, and by 24 months was talking > extensively in complete sentences. (I had not entered graduate school at > that time and did not keep a record, but the phenonenon was notable because > my first daughter talked early and acquired an extensive lexicon by 18 > months.) Laura's daughter (my granddaughter) followed the same pattern - > virtually no babble, completely normal comprehension, and at 25 months > beginning with sentences, rapidly catching up. My niece, whom I did not > track so closely, apparently followed the same pattern. > > One of the boys in my 1973 monograph study (second-born) also followed > this pattern. Those familiar with the monograph recall that I focused on > individual differences, but the Expressive group was different - these > children spoke at similar times and rates to the Referential (object-word > group) but in small phrases or expressions. I think of the silent one's (no > or a few scattered words rarely used until 2-years) as a rarer but not > exotically rare case of the individuality of learning to talk. I strongly > believe that it is a mistake to instruct parents to expect early word > learning of mainly nouns, but rather to expect individuality in becoming a > language user. Of course, I believe that it is a mistake for psychologists > or speech and hearing experts to expect all children to follow the mean > pattern too. Comprehension of what is said is a much better indication of > language during the second year than production, in my view. The following > references discuss the significance of individuality in the process of > learning to talk. > > > Nelson, K. (1973). "Structure and strategy in learning to talk." > Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development 38 (1-2, Serial > No. 149). > > Nelson, K. (1981). "Individual differences in language development: > Implications for development and language." Developmental Psychology 17: > 170-187. > > Lieven, E. V. M., J. M. Pine, et al. (1992). "Individual differences in > early vocabulary development: redefining the referential-expressive > distinction." Journal of Child Language 19: 287-310. > > Hampson, J. and K. Nelson (1993). "The relation of maternal language to > variation in rate and style of language acquisition." Journal of child > language 20: 313-342. > > Nelson, K., J. Hampson, et al. (1993). "Nouns in early lexicons: > Evidence, explanations, and implications." Journal of Child Language 20: > 61-84. > > Katherine Nelson > > > ________________________________________ > From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [info-childes at googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of Celeste Kidd [ckidd at bcs.rochester.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 1:34 AM > To: info-childes at googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: mystery book (children who begin speaking in sentences) > > Hi, Jesse (& all). > > I don't think it's likely that these are the books you are looking for, > since they were only published in 1998 (does that count as years and > years ago?) and they don't quite follow the flow you describe > (evaluating various claims, then reaching a maybe reasonable > conclusion), but I thought it might be helpful to point them out in > case > you hadn't already encountered them in your most recent search. Thomas > Sowell's "Late-Talking Children" and "The Einstein Syndrome: Bright > Children Who Talk Late" make reference to these sorts of claims. On > page > 18 of "Einstein", Thomas Sowell writes: > > "In short, there is no standard way in which late-talking children like > these finally begin to speak ... Some begin to speak as other children > do, first in babbles and isolated words, and then proceed in stages > toward normal speech, only later than other children. In other cases, > however, children with delayed speech development did not coo or babble > as other infants do, but remained silent right up to the moment where > they suddenly startle their parents by speaking a complete sentence." > > He makes reference to kids in his own and Stephen Camarata's studies on > late-talkers in this chapter. I am not sure about the reliability of > these claims, as I have not actually sought out and read the studies he > refers to. A Dateline NBC episode on Camarata I saw in high school > called my attention to these. > > Sowell mentions a bunch of famous sentences-before-words claims and > claimers, like hydrogen-bomb inventor Edward Teller, Nobel-prize > winning > economist Gary Becker and physicist Richard Feynman. He also talks > about > a lot of acquaintances-of-friends who talked late and in whole > sentences. I checked his website in the hopes of finding something more > about the studies he refers to, but didn't find them. I did find a link > to an article where Sowell expresses his skepticism that global warming > is a thing though > (http://www.creators.com/opinion/thomas-sowell.html?columnsName=tso), > which is perhaps an indication of the value Sowell places on empirical > evidence when making claims. > > Good luck in your search! > > Cheers, > Celeste > > CELESTE KIDD | Brain & Cognitive Sciences > Meliora Hall 323F, Box 270268 > University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627-0268 > Email: ckidd at bcs.rochester.edu > Web: www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/ckidd/ > Mobile: 617 515 2461 > > > > > > -- > 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. > > > > > Ann Peters Mar 31 08:29AM -0700 ^<#127b961f65a2b892_digest_top> > > I did some writing on these issues in the early 80s, particularly > addressing children who were near Katherine Nelson's Expressive end of the > continuum. My 1983 monograph, The Units of Language Acquisition, is long out > of print, but I managed to get back the copyright and it is now posted on my > web site, for the easy taking. > ann > > Ann M. Peters, PhD > Professor Emerita and Co-Graduate Chair > Department of Linguistics, 1890 East West Road > Honolulu HI 96822 808 956-8602 > ann at hawaii.edu http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/faculty/ann > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nelson, Katherine" > Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 7:05 am > Subject: RE: mystery book (children who begin speaking in sentences) > To: "info-childes at googlegroups.com" > > > > > > Jean Berko Gleason Mar 31 11:40AM -0400 ^<#127b961f65a2b892_digest_top> > > Hi everyone, > > For an old book with reference to late talkers starting out in full > sentences, try Bertrand Russell, 1927, An Outline of Philosophy. He > repeats the old story about Lord Macauley, who purportedly said nothing > > until someone spilled hot tea/coffee on him when he was 4. When asked > if > he was OK, he replied, "Thank you, madame, the agony is [quite] > [somewhat] abated." Macauley's biographer notes that although M may > not have spoken, he had already read the bible by this age. > > Russell also refers to Thomas Carlyle, who was silent until the age of > 3, but then, on hearing his baby brother cry, asked, "What ails wee > Jock?" > > These anecdotes have an almost timeless appeal, and I think we all know > > some of our own. For instance, I have a colleague, a psychoanalyst, who > > tells me he said nothing until the age of nearly 4, when his family > took > a holiday in Canada. The formerly silent child looked out the train > window and said, "Look, Daddy, Lake Ontario!" > > I'm sure the science is not there (no real studies on groups of > children > who are silent until they suddenly burst forth with full blown language > > in the preschool years), but the stories, like folk tales, have > consistent and satisfying elements. So, why do we delight in these > anecdotes? > > > http://books.google.com/books?id=-AVp6Jm25WEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=bertrand+russell+outline+of+philosophy&source=bl&ots=YfmW4Sn0BA&sig=g1V3gmVsznY02LIlj1zBVKfECiE&hl=en&ei=6GezS8WnH8KBlAe3z5C6BA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CA4Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=&f=false > > > Jean > > > > > > > > > Aliyah MORGENSTERN Mar 31 07:37PM +0200 > ^ <#127b961f65a2b892_digest_top> > > I highly recommand Ann Peters Units of Language Acquisition, it > presented an innovative perspective on language acquisition in line > with Katherine Nelson's work long before construction grammar was used > in the field of language acquisition or known in France. > > Aliyah MORGENSTERN > > Professeur de linguistique > Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 > Institut du Monde Anglophone > 5 rue de l'Ecole de Médecine > 75006 Paris > > > > > Le 31 mars 10 à 17:29, Ann Peters a écrit : > > > > > > "Dan I. Slobin" Mar 31 12:58PM -0700 ^<#127b961f65a2b892_digest_top> > > Well done, Ann - I mean posting your book. How did you get the > copyright back? I'd like to try that too. > > Warm regards, > Dan > > At 08:29 AM 3/31/2010, you wrote: > >Department of Linguistics, 1890 East West Road > >Honolulu HI 96822 808 956-8602 > >ann at hawaii.edu http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/faculty/ann > > > ****************************************************************************************************************************** > Dan I. Slobin, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Linguistics, > University of California, Berkeley > address: > email: slobin at berkeley.edu > 2323 Rose St. phone (home): > 1-510-848-1769 > Berkeley, CA 94708, > USA > > http://psychology.berkeley.edu/faculty/profiles/dslobin.html > > ****************************************************************************************************************************** > > > > > "Barbara Zurer Pearson" Mar 31 04:11PM > -0400 ^ <#127b961f65a2b892_digest_top> > > Dear Dan, > I don't know how Ann did it, but I just asked. So, Random House gave me > the Spanish language rights to my book back. Their contract department sent > me an addendum to the original contract. The fun part is that I'm getting my > book published in Spanish(!) (The little company in Spain has also asked for > the rights to Basque, Gallego, and Catalan, but they haven't come through as > easily. I guess it has about zero priority for them.) > > Asking is a good starting point. > > Cheers, > Barbara > ************************************************************* > Barbara Zurer Pearson, Ph.D. > Research Associate > Depts of Linguistics & Communication Disorders > RAB, 70 Butterfield Terrace > University of Massachusetts > Amherst MA 01003 > > Tel: 413-545-5023 > Fax: 413-545-2792 > > bpearson at research.umass.edu > www.umass.edu/aae/bp_indexold.htm > www.zurer.com/pearson/bilingualchild/ > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dan I. Slobin > To: info-childes at googlegroups.com > Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 3:58 PM > Subject: out of copyright > > > Well done, Ann - I mean posting your book. How did you get the > copyright back? I'd like to try that too. > > Warm regards, > Dan > > At 08:29 AM 3/31/2010, you wrote: > > I did some writing on these issues in the early 80s, particularly > addressing children who were near Katherine Nelson's Expressive end of the > continuum. My 1983 monograph, The Units of Language Acquisition, is long out > of print, but I managed to get back the copyright and it is now posted on my > web site, for the easy taking. > ann > > Ann M. Peters, PhD > Professor Emerita and Co-Graduate Chair > Department of Linguistics, 1890 East West Road > Honolulu HI 96822 808 956-8602 > ann at hawaii.edu http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/faculty/ann > > > > > ****************************************************************************************************************************** > Dan I. Slobin, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Linguistics, > University of California, Berkeley > address: email: slobin at berkeley.edu > 2323 Rose St. phone (home): 1-510-848-1769 > Berkeley, CA 94708, USA > http://psychology.berkeley.edu/faculty/profiles/dslobin.html > > ****************************************************************************************************************************** > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. > To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. > > > > > Ann Peters Mar 31 01:39PM -0700 ^<#127b961f65a2b892_digest_top> > > Hi Dan, > As Barbara said, I just asked - Cambridge in my case. Then I had to get > it scanned in and do a spell check to check for scanning errors. Good luck! > ann > > Ann M. Peters, PhD > Professor Emerita and Co-Graduate Chair > Department of Linguistics, 1890 East West Road > Honolulu HI 96822 808 956-8602 > ann at hawaii.edu http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/faculty/ann > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dan I. Slobin" > Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 12:59 pm > Subject: out of copyright > To: info-childes at googlegroups.com > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > 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. > | > > > 2323 Rose St. phone (home): > 1-510-848-1769 > > Berkeley, CA 94708, USA > http://psychology.berkeley.edu/faculty/profiles/dslobin.html > > > ****************************************************************************************************************************** > > |----------------------------------------------------------- > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Info-CHILDES" group. > To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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Psicología Básica II Facultad de Psicología Universidad Complutense de Madrid Madrid 28223 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian MacWhinney" To: "CHILDES" Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 6:42 PM Subject: one million mark Dear Info-CHILDES, I was happy to notice this morning that the number of "hits" to the CHILDES home page since 2003 passed the one million mark sometime this last weekend. In this age of trillion dollar deficits and terabyte drives, a million may seem a small number. However, for a small academic discipline, it is not bad at all. Also, I have noticed that the number of hits to the web page seems to be an accelerating function, which is another nice signal. Best regards, -- 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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. From macw at cmu.edu Tue Apr 6 21:23:28 2010 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 17:23:28 -0400 Subject: ChildFREQ Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, Rasmus Bååth at Lund University Cognitive Science has created a web site devoted to the analysis of lexical frequency patterns in the American and British English segments of the CHILDES corpora. The site is located at http://childfreq.sumsar.net and there is now a link to this site and the PDF of the paper describing the system from the CHILDES home page. Many thanks to Rasmus for contributing this valuable method of analyzing and exploring lexical patterns. --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 xiaoweizhao at gmail.com Wed Apr 7 00:20:27 2010 From: xiaoweizhao at gmail.com (Xiaowei) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 17:20:27 -0700 Subject: Contextual Self-organizing Map package. Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, We (Xiaowei Zhao, Ping Li and Teuvo Kohonen) have just developed a software package (CTM_pack) that can automatically derive semantic representations of words from text copora. The algorithm relies on the analyses of contextual information extracted from a text corpus, specifically, analyses of word co-occurrences in large-scale electronic database of text. Here a target word is represented as the combination of the average of all the words preceding the target and all the words following it in a text corpus. The semantic representation of the target words can be further presented to a self- organizing map (SOM, Kohonen, 2001), an unsupervised neural network model that provides efficient data extraction and representation. We present demos of how the method is applied to extract semantic representations for both Chinese and English words. Such a representation system can be used for a variety of purposes, including computational modeling of language acquisition and processing. It is also our hope that scientists working in the field of child language development can find this system useful in their studies. This work has been previously presented at the 2009 Society for Computers in Psychology. And a full paper described this system is under review now. If you are interested in this tool, please go to: http://sites.google.com/site/xiaoweizhao/tools to download it. The program is written in MatLab, and should be run under the MatLab Enviroment. Your comments and suggestions on the program are extremely welcome! Best wishes, Xiaowei Zhao Xiaowei Zhao, Ph.D. Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Psychology Colgate University Hamilton, NY 13346 Phone: 315-228-6717 Email: xzhao at colgate.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 sbresee at umd.edu Wed Apr 7 02:01:28 2010 From: sbresee at umd.edu (sbresee at umd.edu) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 22:01:28 -0400 Subject: ChildFREQ In-Reply-To: <41EF4C6C-DA6B-4503-9FC3-F8F929DF3A74@cmu.edu> Message-ID: The graphing of words is delightful! One of our oldest son's favorite early words was dog. I graphed it for 12 to 71 months and it was a smooth decelerating curve. When I graphed it for 6 months to 71 months, however, the graph was uneven for the 12 to 71 part that had been smooth. Why did the graph change? Thank you Rasmus. Susan ---- Original message ---- >Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 17:23:28 -0400 >From: Brian MacWhinney >Subject: ChildFREQ >To: CHILDES >Cc: Rasmus Bååth > >Dear Info-CHILDES, > > Rasmus Bååth at Lund University Cognitive Science has created a web site devoted to the analysis of lexical frequency patterns in the American and British English segments of the CHILDES corpora. The site is located at http://childfreq.sumsar.net and there is now a link to this site and the PDF of the paper describing the system from the CHILDES home page. Many thanks to Rasmus for contributing this valuable method of analyzing and exploring lexical patterns. > >--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. > -- 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 rasmus.baath at gmail.com Wed Apr 7 18:35:29 2010 From: rasmus.baath at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?B?UmFzbXVzIELl5XRo?=) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 11:35:29 -0700 Subject: ChildFREQ In-Reply-To: <20100406220128.BWO34313@po3.mail.umd.edu> Message-ID: Hi Susan, well the boring answer is that this is how the data looks. When you change 12 into 6 the data points are shifted so that he first data point that contained counts from 12-24 now contain counts from 6-18. If you change the time resolution (group size) from 12 to 6 you will see how the word count is distributed at a higher resolution, here you will also see that the graph is more uneven. When using ChildFreq one should be aware that there is not much data for very young and very old children, thus count data from them is quite unreliable. How many word tokens the tokens/1000,000 measure is based om is reported in the table below the graph. I hope this answered your question! /Rasmus On Apr 7, 4:01 am, wrote: > The graphing of words is delightful! One of our oldest son's favorite early words was dog. I graphed it for 12 to 71 months and it was a smooth decelerating curve. When I graphed it for 6 months to 71 months, however, the graph was uneven for the 12 to 71 part that had been smooth. Why did the graph change? Thank you Rasmus.   > Susan > > ---- Original message ---- > >Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 17:23:28 -0400 > >From: Brian MacWhinney   > >Subject: ChildFREQ   > >To: CHILDES > >Cc: Rasmus Bååth > > >Dear Info-CHILDES, > > >   Rasmus Bååth at Lund University Cognitive Science has created a web site devoted to the analysis of lexical frequency patterns in the American and British English segments of the CHILDES corpora.  The site is located athttp://childfreq.sumsar.netand there is now a link to this site and the PDF of the paper describing the system from the CHILDES home page.  Many thanks to Rasmus for contributing this valuable method of analyzing and exploring lexical patterns. > > >--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 athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. From serratrice at manchester.ac.uk Thu Apr 8 14:39:22 2010 From: serratrice at manchester.ac.uk (Ludovica Serratrice) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 15:39:22 +0100 Subject: IASCL 2011 - Second Call for Papers Message-ID: Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM), Montreal, Canada Tuesday, July 19 to Saturday, July 23, 2011 Second Call for Papers Call Deadline: 01-Aug-2010 (symposia) 01-Oct-2010 (posters) Call for Papers A number of keynote speakers have been invited. There will be a plenary session (keynote speaker) each day of the conference. Confirmed speakers are Deb Roy (MIT), Simon Fisher (Oxford), Fred Genesee (McGill), Penelope Brown (MPI, NL). We are aiming for keynote presentations that will inform the general community of child language researchers with state of the art and latest advances and challenges in multidisciplinary areas of interests. We expect to have a few invited symposia (10-15%) on topics of general interest and closely related to the theme of the conference. However, the great majority of thematic sessions will be those submitted by participants on original, previously unpublished research on any aspect of child language. Symposia are 2 hours in duration and there are 4 presentations in each symposium. The submission deadline for symposium abstracts is Aug 1 2010. As with the last conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, there will be allocated time periods for poster sessions, with no other parallel sessions. Also, note that we will not feature independent oral presentations, as we are moving towards thematic sessions and individual poster presentations only. The submission deadline for individual poster abstracts will be Oct 1 2010. For more information about submissions, please visit: http://iascl2011.org/submission.php Thank you for your interest. We look forward to receiving your proposal. The organising committee.   -- 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 mcfrank at mit.edu Fri Apr 9 18:33:50 2010 From: mcfrank at mit.edu (Michael C. Frank) Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 14:33:50 -0400 Subject: Research Assistant position at Stanford Message-ID: Hi all, Please forward this job posting to students or others that you think might be interested in applying. Thanks! Mike ----------------------- Research assistant job in Michael Frank's lab at Stanford University Interested in language, cognition, and development? The Department of Psychology is looking for a full time Research Assistant. This is a one year fixed term position with possibility of renewal. RA will assist with empirical work on language learning, social development, and cross-cultural cognition. Duties will include assisting in designing, creating, running, and analyzing experiments with infants, children, and adults (including experiments delivered using web-based platforms); coordinating and recruiting undergraduate research assistants; coordinate participant recruitment; and assisting in planning lab events and meetings. Other optional opportunities: RA may have opportunities for scientific creativity on conference presentations and journal articles. There may also be opportunities for international travel to collaboration sites in India, Brazil, or Indonesia. Qualifications: RA should have working knowledge of MS Office and good organizational and communication skills. Frequent email and phone communication will be necessary, and keeping organized (scheduling and record-keeping) is an essential part of the job. Previous research experience is strongly preferred. A good candidate will have additional technical skills such as programming (Flash, Matlab, and R especially, but shell scripting, Perl, or Java also useful), statistical knowledge, and graphic design (Photoshop/Illustrator/Dreamweaver). Must be a quick learner, able to work independently, and show initiative. The position is ideal for individuals who wish to further their research training. To apply, go to http://jobs.stanford.edu/, type 37792 in “Keyword Search” box, and click “Search.” Please email mcfrank at stanford.edu with any questions. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. From kristine at hum.aau.dk Sat Apr 10 08:04:02 2010 From: kristine at hum.aau.dk (Kristine Jensen de Lopez) Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 01:04:02 -0700 Subject: LIMoBiS 2010 - Final Call for Papers Message-ID: *** SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR ABSTRACTS *** EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF all abstracts APRIL 30th LIMoBiS 2010 Language Impairment in Monolingual and Bilingual Society Speakers: Sharon Armon-Lotem, Bar-Ilan University Dorothy V. M. Bishop, Oxford University Nicola Botting, City University London Daniela Brizzolara, University of Pisa Medical School Kathryn Kohnert, University of Minnesota Jan de Jong, University of Amsterdam Laurie Anne Tuller, Université François Rabelais Theodoros Marinis, University of Reading Dates: 27th September – 1st October 2010 Venue: Aalborg, Denmark Don’t miss the preconference Ph.D. course September 27th-28th. Web site: http://limobis.aau.dk/speakers.html Language Impairment in Monolingual and Bilingual Society is an interdisciplinary conference that brings together psychologists, linguistics, and speech and language professionals who work on language acquisition and cognition in children with typical and atypical language development and who are acquiring one language or more. The goal of the conference is to integrate knowledge about typical and atypical language development in monolingual and bilingual environments. All topics related to language impairment in monolingual and multilingual populations are welcomed. For more information, please contact the local organizers: limobis at hum.aau.dk The registration fee concludes a wine reception at the Utzon Center, lunch, beverages, fruit and a conference dinner. This conference is supported by: Cognitive Psychology Unit & NASUD Doctoral Programme in Human Centered Communication and Informatics Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. From monkeybusiness26 at gmail.com Sat Apr 10 16:34:05 2010 From: monkeybusiness26 at gmail.com (antje Van Oosten) Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 17:34:05 +0100 Subject: No subject Message-ID: http://MarlenDirth3294.co.cc -- 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 reilly1 at mail.sdsu.edu Tue Apr 13 15:55:57 2010 From: reilly1 at mail.sdsu.edu (Judy Reilly) Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:55:57 -0700 Subject: IASCL 2011 - Second Call for Papers In-Reply-To: <20100408153922703.00000006012@HD-00A2801> Message-ID: Salut Josie, J'ai recu ce notice et je pensais qu'on peut postuler les narrations LI orales si tu veux. Et peut-etre ton equipe aura aussi autres choses? que penses tu? est-ce qu'il y a autres personnes qui travaillent sur les narrations our les LI ou on peut faire un symposium? bisous judy Judy Reilly Professor, Psychology San Diego State University 6330 Alvarado Ct Suit 208 San Diego, CA 92120 619-594-2840 On Apr 8, 2010, at 7:39 AM, Ludovica Serratrice wrote: > Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM), Montreal, Canada Tuesday, > July 19 to Saturday, July 23, 2011 > > Second Call for Papers > Call Deadline: 01-Aug-2010 (symposia) > 01-Oct-2010 (posters) > > Call for Papers > > A number of keynote speakers have been invited. There will be a > plenary session (keynote speaker) each day of the conference. > Confirmed speakers are Deb Roy (MIT), Simon Fisher (Oxford), Fred > Genesee (McGill), Penelope Brown (MPI, NL). We are aiming for keynote > presentations that will inform the general community of child > language researchers with state of the art and latest advances and > challenges in multidisciplinary areas of interests. > > We expect to have a few invited symposia (10-15%) on topics of > general interest and closely related to the theme of the conference. > However, the great majority of thematic sessions will be those > submitted by participants on original, previously unpublished > research on any aspect of child language. Symposia are 2 hours in > duration and there are 4 presentations in each symposium. The > submission deadline for symposium abstracts is Aug 1 2010. > > As with the last conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, there will be > allocated time periods for poster sessions, with no other parallel > sessions. Also, note that we will not feature independent oral > presentations, as we are moving towards thematic sessions and > individual poster presentations only. The submission deadline for > individual poster abstracts will be Oct 1 2010. > > For more information about submissions, please visit: > http://iascl2011.org/submission.php > > Thank you for your interest. We look forward to receiving your > proposal. > > The organising committee. > > > > > -- > 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 > . > -- 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 rbahr at cas.usf.edu Wed Apr 14 13:38:18 2010 From: rbahr at cas.usf.edu (Bahr, Ruth) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:38:18 -0400 Subject: Position description In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Could you please post this position on CHILDES? Thank you! Ruth Bahr Ruth Huntley Bahr, Ph.D. Professor Director, Graduate Speech-Language Pathology Program Dept. of Communication Sciences and Disorders Cognitive and Neural Sciences 4202 E. Fowler Ave. PCD 1017 University of South Florida Tampa, FL 33620 Phone: 813-974-3182 Fax: 813-974-0822 email: rbahr at cas.usf.edu http://csd.bcs.usf.edu/graduate/masters.aspx Board Certified Specialist in Child Language -- 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. 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Preferred qualifications: 1) Eligible for CCC, 2) Expertise in one of the following areas: child language and literacy or adult neurogenic disorders. 3) Interest in bilingualism, especially Spanish. Other specialty areas in SLP will be considered. For consideration at the rank of Associate Professor, the applicant must have a record of scholarly productivity and evidence of a research program that could lead to external funding. For consideration at the rank of Assistant Professor, the applicant must demonstrate potential for scholarly publications and show promise of a research program that could lead to external funding. Summer teaching is possible. Responsibilities: Develop and teach graduate and undergraduate courses in areas of specialty; advise Master's and Doctoral students. Conduct research, seek external funding, publish in areas of interest, and provide service to the department, college, university, and profession. Salary: Negotiable, depending upon qualifications. Application Process: Applicants must apply for this position through the USF on-line employment application system, Careers at USF https://employment.usf.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/Welcome_css.jsp (view faculty positions for the College of Behavioral and Community Sciences, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, position 17140), enter basic demographic information and upload letter of intent, CV, and other requested information on-line. The posting is open until filled, but the review of applications will begin on May 17, 2010. Applications must include (1) a letter of interest which describes the candidate's research agenda and teaching philosophy, (2) curriculum vita, (3) graduate transcripts, (4) three letters of recommendation, and (5) a maximum of three reprints of representative publications. 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Does anyone know of any research concerning how children's and L2 learners' pronunciation errors are perceived by their interlocutors? It seems intuitive that children's errors would be more likely to be overlooked and would be perceived as "cute," whereas L2 learners' errors would be more likely to be perceived as "annoying" (and perhaps even as "uneducated"); however, I have as yet been unable to locate any research substantiating this claim, and I am admittedly not very well-versed in this particular line of research. If any such research exists, I would greatly appreciate if if you could point me to it. 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URL: From miquel.serra at ub.edu Tue Apr 20 17:05:20 2010 From: miquel.serra at ub.edu (Miquel Serra) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:05:20 +0200 Subject: one million mark In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Many thanks and a big bravo, Brian! I'm a bit late, but nonetheless merciful for your far reaching and lasting work! The international community of psychologists, linguists and child researchers will always be in debt with you Miquel Serra Professor University of Barcelona -- 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 Tue Apr 20 17:38:43 2010 From: roeper at linguist.umass.edu (Tom Roeper) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:38:43 -0400 Subject: one million mark In-Reply-To: <4BCDDED0.4010905@ub.edu> Message-ID: Brian--- one million is a great success. And like many things, but not all, making data universally accessible is an important step in the democratization of knowledge. I am glad that the field of acquisition is in the forefront of this movement. And unlike other databases, acquisition data requires calls for labor and some expertise in its collection. It is a tribute to those who share their data as well. In principle all data gathered under government grants should be open to everyone. Tom Roeper On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Miquel Serra wrote: > Many thanks and a big bravo, Brian! > I'm a bit late, but nonetheless merciful for your far reaching and lasting > work! > The international community of psychologists, linguists and child > researchers will always be in debt with you > > Miquel Serra > Professor > University of Barcelona > > -- > 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. > > -- 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. 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Rosa Graciela Montes Miró Directora General de Investigación Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Estudios de Posgrado Benemérita Universidad Autonóma de Puebla 4 Sur 303 (Altos) Centro Histórico, Puebla, Puebla, 72000, México, Tel. oficina: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext. 5737 Fax: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext.5631 Email- rosa.montes at gmail.com, rosa.montes at viep.buap.mx On Mar 29, 11:42 am, Brian MacWhinney wrote: > Dear Info-CHILDES, > >     I was happy to notice this morning that the number of "hits" to the CHILDES home page since 2003 passed the one million mark sometime this last weekend.  In this age of trillion dollar deficits and terabyte drives, a million may seem a small number.  However, for a small academic discipline, it is not bad at all.  Also, I have noticed that the number of hits to the web page seems to be an accelerating function, which is another nice signal. > > Best regards, > > -- 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 annickej at yahoo.com Thu Apr 22 07:08:59 2010 From: annickej at yahoo.com (Annick De Houwer) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:08:59 -0700 Subject: one million mark In-Reply-To: <6c4cee09-9ef0-4712-a90d-dfea975beb0e@a9g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> Message-ID: I want to add to all the congratulations! A monumental and great job, Brian, for which you deserve gratitude and recognition. CHILDES members, how can we make sure Brian's work gets LASTING gratitude and recognition? Annick Annick De Houwer, PhD Chair for Language Acquisition and Language Teaching Director of the Language Center University of Erfurt, Germany http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachlehr-und-lernforschung/personen/de-houwer/ http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachenzentrum/personen/ please refer to http://www.multilingualmatters.com for the two books on early bilingualism I published last year Postal address: Frau Prof. Dr. A. De Houwer Sprachwissenschaft (Anglistik) Universität Erfurt Nordhäuser Str. 63 D-99089 Erfurt Germany tel. +49-361-737-4331 (secretary: -2700 or -4320) fax +49-361-737-4329 On Apr 21, 5:44 pm, Rosa Montes wrote: > Congratulations Brian! The list and site are wonderful resources for > researchers and they are especially appreciated in places where access > to other resources is limited. > > Thank you for all your efforts and your unflagging enthusiasm, > > Rosa > > -- > Dra. Rosa Graciela Montes Miró > Directora General de Investigación > Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Estudios de Posgrado > Benemérita Universidad Autonóma de Puebla > 4 Sur 303 (Altos) > Centro Histórico, Puebla, > Puebla, 72000, México, > > Tel. oficina: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext. 5737 > Fax:  +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext.5631 > > Email- rosa.mon... at gmail.com, rosa.mon... at viep.buap.mx > > On Mar 29, 11:42 am, Brian MacWhinney wrote: > > > Dear Info-CHILDES, > > >     I was happy to notice this morning that the number of "hits" to the CHILDES home page since 2003 passed the one million mark sometime this last weekend.  In this age of trillion dollar deficits and terabyte drives, a million may seem a small number.  However, for a small academic discipline, it is not bad at all.  Also, I have noticed that the number of hits to the web page seems to be an accelerating function, which is another nice signal. > > > Best regards, > > > -- 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 athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. -- 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 aliyah.morgenstern at gmail.com Thu Apr 22 07:12:28 2010 From: aliyah.morgenstern at gmail.com (Aliyah MORGENSTERN) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:12:28 +0200 Subject: one million mark In-Reply-To: <762637da-7b85-41c3-809d-4e7baad9bab8@k36g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> Message-ID: Dear Annick, by USING CHILDES, CLAn and other compatible software and transmitting our knowledge about CHILDES and data to generations of young students passionate about child language...so that they continue using it in honor of Brian and all the people who have helped him. Best, Aliyah MORGENSTERN Professeur de linguistique Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 Institut du Monde Anglophone 5 rue de l'Ecole de Médecine 75006 Paris Le 22 avr. 10 à 09:08, Annick De Houwer a écrit : > I want to add to all the congratulations! A monumental and great job, > Brian, for which you deserve gratitude and recognition. CHILDES > members, how can we make sure Brian's work gets LASTING gratitude and > recognition? > > Annick > > Annick De Houwer, PhD > Chair for Language Acquisition and Language Teaching > Director of the Language Center > University of Erfurt, Germany > > http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachlehr-und-lernforschung/personen/de-houwer/ > http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachenzentrum/personen/ > > please refer to http://www.multilingualmatters.com for the two books > on early bilingualism I published last year > > Postal address: > Frau Prof. Dr. A. De Houwer > Sprachwissenschaft (Anglistik) > Universität Erfurt > Nordhäuser Str. 63 > D-99089 Erfurt > Germany > > tel. +49-361-737-4331 (secretary: -2700 or -4320) > fax +49-361-737-4329 > > On Apr 21, 5:44 pm, Rosa Montes wrote: >> Congratulations Brian! The list and site are wonderful resources for >> researchers and they are especially appreciated in places where >> access >> to other resources is limited. >> >> Thank you for all your efforts and your unflagging enthusiasm, >> >> Rosa >> >> -- >> Dra. Rosa Graciela Montes Miró >> Directora General de Investigación >> Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Estudios de Posgrado >> Benemérita Universidad Autonóma de Puebla >> 4 Sur 303 (Altos) >> Centro Histórico, Puebla, >> Puebla, 72000, México, >> >> Tel. oficina: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext. 5737 >> Fax: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext.5631 >> >> Email- rosa.mon... at gmail.com, rosa.mon... at viep.buap.mx >> >> On Mar 29, 11:42 am, Brian MacWhinney wrote: >> >>> Dear Info-CHILDES, >> >>> I was happy to notice this morning that the number of "hits" >>> to the CHILDES home page since 2003 passed the one million mark >>> sometime this last weekend. In this age of trillion dollar >>> deficits and terabyte drives, a million may seem a small number. >>> However, for a small academic discipline, it is not bad at all. >>> Also, I have noticed that the number of hits to the web page seems >>> to be an accelerating function, which is another nice signal. >> >>> Best regards, >> >>> -- 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 athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en >> . > > -- > 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 > . > -- 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 kevin at dotmon.com Fri Apr 23 18:44:21 2010 From: kevin at dotmon.com (donnek) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:44:21 -0700 Subject: Compiling Unix-CLAN? Message-ID: I was just wondering if anyone has succeeded in compiling Unix-CLAN recently. I have tried running make on two different Linux distros, and get a slew of errors. I'm assuming all you're supposed to do is run make - there is no configure script, and no README either, so I may be wrong :-) The Windows version of CLAN seems to run fine on WINE, but I would like to be able to access CLAN commands via piping or a web-interface, and I don't think that would be possible with WINE, whereas it should be with a Linux version. -- 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 nikvenieris at gmail.com Fri Apr 23 20:17:48 2010 From: nikvenieris at gmail.com (Nikolas Venieris) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:17:48 -0700 Subject: Type Token Ratio and Mean Length of Utterance in Modern Greek Message-ID: Good evening. I would like to ask if there is a research about the correlation of Type-Token Ratio and the Mean Length of Utterance in written language in modern Greek, in children who are diagnosed with SLI or Dyslexia? Thank you. -- 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 gleason at bu.edu Sat Apr 24 04:15:38 2010 From: gleason at bu.edu (Jean Berko Gleason) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 00:15:38 -0400 Subject: one million mark In-Reply-To: <762637da-7b85-41c3-809d-4e7baad9bab8@k36g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> Message-ID: Annick is (as ever) right. Brian should receive some recognition that goes beyond our heartfelt thanks. He should receive an official award, prize, something, that will have lasting value and that will indicate to the world that he has made a great contribution to our field. I think APA has a variety of similar awards that he could be a candidate for , but probably most of the members of info-childes are not APA members. Here's one possibility: How about if we encourage IASCL to establish an award for outstanding contributions to the field of language acquisition. We name it the Brian MacWhinney Award and Brian is the first recipient and gets the prize (medal, plaque, cheque, box of chocolates, whatever) at the Montreal meeting. The IASCL will be asked to have a committee that thereafter will receive and evaluate nominations, and every 3 years thereafter some other deserving soul will receive the IASCL Brian MacWhinney Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Language Acquisition. Something like that. Don't all volunteer at once. Since it is discussion and not planning I'm not trying to hide anything from Brian. jean Jean Berko Gleason, Professor Emerita Department of Psychology Boston University http://www.bu.edu/psych/faculty/gleason/ Annick De Houwer wrote: > I want to add to all the congratulations! A monumental and great job, > Brian, for which you deserve gratitude and recognition. CHILDES > members, how can we make sure Brian's work gets LASTING gratitude and > recognition? > > Annick > > Annick De Houwer, PhD > Chair for Language Acquisition and Language Teaching > Director of the Language Center > University of Erfurt, Germany > > http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachlehr-und-lernforschung/personen/de-houwer/ > http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachenzentrum/personen/ > > please refer to http://www.multilingualmatters.com for the two books > on early bilingualism I published last year > > Postal address: > Frau Prof. Dr. A. De Houwer > Sprachwissenschaft (Anglistik) > Universität Erfurt > Nordhäuser Str. 63 > D-99089 Erfurt > Germany > > tel. +49-361-737-4331 (secretary: -2700 or -4320) > fax +49-361-737-4329 > > On Apr 21, 5:44 pm, Rosa Montes wrote: > >> Congratulations Brian! The list and site are wonderful resources for >> researchers and they are especially appreciated in places where access >> to other resources is limited. >> >> Thank you for all your efforts and your unflagging enthusiasm, >> >> Rosa >> >> -- >> Dra. Rosa Graciela Montes Miró >> Directora General de Investigación >> Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Estudios de Posgrado >> Benemérita Universidad Autonóma de Puebla >> 4 Sur 303 (Altos) >> Centro Histórico, Puebla, >> Puebla, 72000, México, >> >> Tel. oficina: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext. 5737 >> Fax: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext.5631 >> >> Email- rosa.mon... at gmail.com, rosa.mon... at viep.buap.mx >> >> On Mar 29, 11:42 am, Brian MacWhinney wrote: >> >> >>> Dear Info-CHILDES, >>> >>> I was happy to notice this morning that the number of "hits" to the CHILDES home page since 2003 passed the one million mark sometime this last weekend. In this age of trillion dollar deficits and terabyte drives, a million may seem a small number. However, for a small academic discipline, it is not bad at all. Also, I have noticed that the number of hits to the web page seems to be an accelerating function, which is another nice signal. >>> >>> Best regards, >>> >>> -- 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 athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. >> > > -- 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 dalep at unm.edu Sat Apr 24 04:25:24 2010 From: dalep at unm.edu (Philip Dale) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 22:25:24 -0600 Subject: one million mark In-Reply-To: <4BD2706A.4080308@bu.edu> Message-ID: Jean’s idea is a terrific one. I really like the idea of an award not so much for individual theoretical and empirical contributions to the field, important as they are, but for doing something that enables the wider language development community to work more effectively. Philip _____ From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jean Berko Gleason Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 10:16 PM To: info-childes at googlegroups.com Subject: Re: one million mark Annick is (as ever) right. Brian should receive some recognition that goes beyond our heartfelt thanks. He should receive an official award, prize, something, that will have lasting value and that will indicate to the world that he has made a great contribution to our field. I think APA has a variety of similar awards that he could be a candidate for , but probably most of the members of info-childes are not APA members. Here's one possibility: How about if we encourage IASCL to establish an award for outstanding contributions to the field of language acquisition. We name it the Brian MacWhinney Award and Brian is the first recipient and gets the prize (medal, plaque, cheque, box of chocolates, whatever) at the Montreal meeting. The IASCL will be asked to have a committee that thereafter will receive and evaluate nominations, and every 3 years thereafter some other deserving soul will receive the IASCL Brian MacWhinney Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Language Acquisition. Something like that. Don't all volunteer at once. Since it is discussion and not planning I'm not trying to hide anything from Brian. jean Jean Berko Gleason, Professor Emerita Department of Psychology Boston University http://www.bu.edu/psych/faculty/gleason/ Annick De Houwer wrote: I want to add to all the congratulations! A monumental and great job, Brian, for which you deserve gratitude and recognition. CHILDES members, how can we make sure Brian's work gets LASTING gratitude and recognition? Annick Annick De Houwer, PhD Chair for Language Acquisition and Language Teaching Director of the Language Center University of Erfurt, Germany http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachlehr-und-lernforschung/personen/de-houwer/ http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachenzentrum/personen/ please refer to http://www.multilingualmatters.com for the two books on early bilingualism I published last year Postal address: Frau Prof. Dr. A. De Houwer Sprachwissenschaft (Anglistik) Universität Erfurt Nordhäuser Str. 63 D-99089 Erfurt Germany tel. +49-361-737-4331 (secretary: -2700 or -4320) fax +49-361-737-4329 On Apr 21, 5:44 pm, Rosa Montes wrote: Congratulations Brian! The list and site are wonderful resources for researchers and they are especially appreciated in places where access to other resources is limited. Thank you for all your efforts and your unflagging enthusiasm, Rosa -- Dra. Rosa Graciela Montes Miró Directora General de Investigación Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Estudios de Posgrado Benemérita Universidad Autonóma de Puebla 4 Sur 303 (Altos) Centro Histórico, Puebla, Puebla, 72000, México, Tel. oficina: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext. 5737 Fax: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext.5631 Email- rosa.mon... at gmail.com, rosa.mon... at viep.buap.mx On Mar 29, 11:42 am, Brian MacWhinney wrote: Dear Info-CHILDES, I was happy to notice this morning that the number of "hits" to the CHILDES home page since 2003 passed the one million mark sometime this last weekend. In this age of trillion dollar deficits and terabyte drives, a million may seem a small number. However, for a small academic discipline, it is not bad at all. Also, I have noticed that the number of hits to the web page seems to be an accelerating function, which is another nice signal. 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I think APA has a variety of similar > awards that he could be a candidate for , but probably most of the > members of info-childes are not APA members. > Here's one possibility: > > How about if we encourage IASCL to establish an award for > outstanding contributions to the field of language acquisition. We > name it the Brian MacWhinney Award and Brian is the first recipient > and gets the prize (medal, plaque, cheque, box of chocolates, > whatever) at the Montreal meeting. The IASCL will be asked to have > a committee that thereafter will receive and evaluate nominations, > and every 3 years thereafter some other deserving soul will receive > the IASCL Brian MacWhinney Award for Outstanding Contributions to > the Field of Language Acquisition. > > Something like that. Don't all volunteer at once. Since it is > discussion and not planning I'm not trying to hide anything from > Brian. > > > jean > Jean Berko Gleason, Professor Emerita > Department of Psychology > Boston University > > http://www.bu.edu/psych/faculty/gleason/ > > > Annick De Houwer wrote: >> >> I want to add to all the congratulations! A monumental and great job, >> Brian, for which you deserve gratitude and recognition. CHILDES >> members, how can we make sure Brian's work gets LASTING gratitude and >> recognition? >> >> Annick >> >> Annick De Houwer, PhD >> Chair for Language Acquisition and Language Teaching >> Director of the Language Center >> University of Erfurt, Germany >> >> http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachlehr-und-lernforschung/personen/de-houwer/ >> http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachenzentrum/personen/ >> >> please refer to http://www.multilingualmatters.com for the two books >> on early bilingualism I published last year >> >> Postal address: >> Frau Prof. Dr. A. De Houwer >> Sprachwissenschaft (Anglistik) >> Universität Erfurt >> Nordhäuser Str. 63 >> D-99089 Erfurt >> Germany >> >> tel. +49-361-737-4331 (secretary: -2700 or -4320) >> fax +49-361-737-4329 >> >> On Apr 21, 5:44 pm, Rosa Montes wrote: >> >>> Congratulations Brian! The list and site are wonderful resources for >>> researchers and they are especially appreciated in places where >>> access >>> to other resources is limited. >>> >>> Thank you for all your efforts and your unflagging enthusiasm, >>> >>> Rosa >>> >>> -- >>> Dra. Rosa Graciela Montes Miró >>> Directora General de Investigación >>> Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Estudios de Posgrado >>> Benemérita Universidad Autonóma de Puebla >>> 4 Sur 303 (Altos) >>> Centro Histórico, Puebla, >>> Puebla, 72000, México, >>> >>> Tel. oficina: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext. 5737 >>> Fax: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext.5631 >>> >>> Email- rosa.mon... at gmail.com, rosa.mon... at viep.buap.mx >>> >>> On Mar 29, 11:42 am, Brian MacWhinney wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Dear Info-CHILDES, >>>> >>>> I was happy to notice this morning that the number of "hits" >>>> to the CHILDES home page since 2003 passed the one million mark >>>> sometime this last weekend. In this age of trillion dollar >>>> deficits and terabyte drives, a million may seem a small number. >>>> However, for a small academic discipline, it is not bad at all. >>>> Also, I have noticed that the number of hits to the web page >>>> seems to be an accelerating function, which is another nice signal. >>>> >>>> Best regards, >>>> >>>> -- 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 athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en >>> . >>> >> >> > > > -- > 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 > . -- 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 nratner at hesp.umd.edu Sat Apr 24 14:06:56 2010 From: nratner at hesp.umd.edu (Nan Ratner) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 10:06:56 -0400 Subject: one million mark In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I third it; I think Jean has made the point very eloquently. I know my entire academic life has been changed for the better by what Brian has done for the field. Nan Nan Bernstein Ratner, Professor and Chairman Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences 0100 Lefrak Hall University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 nratner at hesp.umd.edu http://www.bsos.umd.edu/hesp/facultyStaff/ratnern.htm 301-405-4213 301-314-2023 (fax) >>> Annick De Houwer 4/24/2010 9:51 AM >>> I second Jean's proposal. Annick On Apr 24, 9:03 am, Aliyah MORGENSTERN wrote: > That's a terrific idea! > maybe the IASCL board members could all give their opinion. > Best, > Aliyah MORGENSTERN > > Professeur de linguistique > Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 > Institut du Monde Anglophone > 5 rue de l'Ecole de Médecine > 75006 Paris > > Le 24 avr. 10 à 06:15, Jean Berko Gleason a écrit : > > > > > > > Annick is (as ever) right. Brian should receive some recognition > > that goes beyond our heartfelt thanks. He should receive an > > official award, prize, something, that will have lasting value and > > that will indicate to the world that he has made a great > > contribution to our field. I think APA has a variety of similar > > awards that he could be a candidate for , but probably most of the > > members of info-childes are not APA members. > > Here's one possibility: > > > How about if we encourage IASCL to establish an award for > > outstanding contributions to the field of language acquisition. We > > name it the Brian MacWhinney Award and Brian is the first recipient > > and gets the prize (medal, plaque, cheque, box of chocolates, > > whatever) at the Montreal meeting. The IASCL will be asked to have > > a committee that thereafter will receive and evaluate nominations, > > and every 3 years thereafter some other deserving soul will receive > > the IASCL Brian MacWhinney Award for Outstanding Contributions to > > the Field of Language Acquisition. > > > Something like that. Don't all volunteer at once. Since it is > > discussion and not planning I'm not trying to hide anything from > > Brian. > > > jean > > Jean Berko Gleason, Professor Emerita > > Department of Psychology > > Boston University > > >http://www.bu.edu/psych/faculty/gleason/ > > > Annick De Houwer wrote: > > >> I want to add to all the congratulations! A monumental and great job, > >> Brian, for which you deserve gratitude and recognition. CHILDES > >> members, how can we make sure Brian's work gets LASTING gratitude and > >> recognition? > > >> Annick > > >> Annick De Houwer, PhD > >> Chair for Language Acquisition and Language Teaching > >> Director of the Language Center > >> University of Erfurt, Germany > > >>http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachlehr-und-lernforschung/personen/de-hou... > >>http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachenzentrum/personen/ > > >> please refer tohttp://www.multilingualmatters.comfor the two books > >> on early bilingualism I published last year > > >> Postal address: > >> Frau Prof. Dr. A. De Houwer > >> Sprachwissenschaft (Anglistik) > >> Universität Erfurt > >> Nordhäuser Str. 63 > >> D-99089 Erfurt > >> Germany > > >> tel. +49-361-737-4331 (secretary: -2700 or -4320) > >> fax +49-361-737-4329 > > >> On Apr 21, 5:44 pm, Rosa Montes wrote: > > >>> Congratulations Brian! The list and site are wonderful resources for > >>> researchers and they are especially appreciated in places where > >>> access > >>> to other resources is limited. > > >>> Thank you for all your efforts and your unflagging enthusiasm, > > >>> Rosa > > >>> -- > >>> Dra. Rosa Graciela Montes Miró > >>> Directora General de Investigación > >>> Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Estudios de Posgrado > >>> Benemérita Universidad Autonóma de Puebla > >>> 4 Sur 303 (Altos) > >>> Centro Histórico, Puebla, > >>> Puebla, 72000, México, > > >>> Tel. oficina: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext. 5737 > >>> Fax: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext.5631 > > >>> Email- rosa.mon... at gmail.com, rosa.mon... at viep.buap.mx > > >>> On Mar 29, 11:42 am, Brian MacWhinney wrote: > > >>>> Dear Info-CHILDES, > > >>>> I was happy to notice this morning that the number of "hits" > >>>> to the CHILDES home page since 2003 passed the one million mark > >>>> sometime this last weekend. In this age of trillion dollar > >>>> deficits and terabyte drives, a million may seem a small number. > >>>> However, for a small academic discipline, it is not bad at all. > >>>> Also, I have noticed that the number of hits to the web page > >>>> seems to be an accelerating function, which is another nice signal. > > >>>> Best regards, > > >>>> -- 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 athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en > >>> . > > > -- > > 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 athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en > > . > > -- > 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 athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. -- 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. -- 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 khirshpa at temple.edu Sat Apr 24 14:32:19 2010 From: khirshpa at temple.edu (Kathy Hirsh-Pasek) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 10:32:19 -0400 Subject: one million mark In-Reply-To: <4BD2C2CA.DA94.005A.0@hesp.umd.edu> Message-ID: I not only "fourth" the idea but want to add that Brian's vision was a very early model of how science could profit by using the connectedness of the internet. As a field, we were a social network before the term was even invented. Thank you Brian. Kathy On Apr 24, 2010, at 10:06 AM, Nan Ratner wrote: > I third it; I think Jean has made the point very eloquently. I know my > entire academic life has been changed for the better by what Brian has > done for the field. > Nan > > > Nan Bernstein Ratner, Professor and Chairman > Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences > 0100 Lefrak Hall > University of Maryland > College Park, MD 20742 > nratner at hesp.umd.edu > http://www.bsos.umd.edu/hesp/facultyStaff/ratnern.htm > 301-405-4213 > 301-314-2023 (fax) > >>>> Annick De Houwer 4/24/2010 9:51 AM >>> > I second Jean's proposal. > > Annick > > On Apr 24, 9:03 am, Aliyah MORGENSTERN > wrote: >> That's a terrific idea! >> maybe the IASCL board members could all give their opinion. >> Best, >> Aliyah MORGENSTERN >> >> Professeur de linguistique >> Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 >> Institut du Monde Anglophone >> 5 rue de l'Ecole de Médecine >> 75006 Paris >> >> Le 24 avr. 10 à 06:15, Jean Berko Gleason a écrit : >> >> >> >> >> >>> Annick is (as ever) right. Brian should receive some recognition > >>> that goes beyond our heartfelt thanks. He should receive an >>> official award, prize, something, that will have lasting value and > >>> that will indicate to the world that he has made a great >>> contribution to our field. I think APA has a variety of similar >>> awards that he could be a candidate for , but probably most of the > >>> members of info-childes are not APA members. >>> Here's one possibility: >> >>> How about if we encourage IASCL to establish an award for >>> outstanding contributions to the field of language acquisition. We > >>> name it the Brian MacWhinney Award and Brian is the first recipient > >>> and gets the prize (medal, plaque, cheque, box of chocolates, >>> whatever) at the Montreal meeting. The IASCL will be asked to have > >>> a committee that thereafter will receive and evaluate nominations, > >>> and every 3 years thereafter some other deserving soul will receive > >>> the IASCL Brian MacWhinney Award for Outstanding Contributions to > >>> the Field of Language Acquisition. >> >>> Something like that. Don't all volunteer at once. Since it is > >>> discussion and not planning I'm not trying to hide anything from >>> Brian. >> >>> jean >>> Jean Berko Gleason, Professor Emerita >>> Department of Psychology >>> Boston University >> >>> http://www.bu.edu/psych/faculty/gleason/ >> >>> Annick De Houwer wrote: >> >>>> I want to add to all the congratulations! A monumental and great > job, >>>> Brian, for which you deserve gratitude and recognition. CHILDES >>>> members, how can we make sure Brian's work gets LASTING gratitude > and >>>> recognition? >> >>>> Annick >> >>>> Annick De Houwer, PhD >>>> Chair for Language Acquisition and Language Teaching >>>> Director of the Language Center >>>> University of Erfurt, Germany >> >> >>> http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachlehr-und-lernforschung/personen/de-hou... >>>> http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachenzentrum/personen/ >> >>>> please refer tohttp://www.multilingualmatters.comfor the two > books >>>> on early bilingualism I published last year >> >>>> Postal address: >>>> Frau Prof. Dr. A. De Houwer >>>> Sprachwissenschaft (Anglistik) >>>> Universität Erfurt >>>> Nordhäuser Str. 63 >>>> D-99089 Erfurt >>>> Germany >> >>>> tel. +49-361-737-4331 (secretary: -2700 or -4320) >>>> fax +49-361-737-4329 >> >>>> On Apr 21, 5:44 pm, Rosa Montes wrote: >> >>>>> Congratulations Brian! The list and site are wonderful resources > for >>>>> researchers and they are especially appreciated in places where > >>>>> access >>>>> to other resources is limited. >> >>>>> Thank you for all your efforts and your unflagging enthusiasm, >> >>>>> Rosa >> >>>>> -- >>>>> Dra. Rosa Graciela Montes Miró >>>>> Directora General de Investigación >>>>> Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Estudios de Posgrado >>>>> Benemérita Universidad Autonóma de Puebla >>>>> 4 Sur 303 (Altos) >>>>> Centro Histórico, Puebla, >>>>> Puebla, 72000, México, >> >>>>> Tel. oficina: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext. 5737 >>>>> Fax: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext.5631 >> >>>>> Email- rosa.mon... at gmail.com, rosa.mon... at viep.buap.mx >> >>>>> On Mar 29, 11:42 am, Brian MacWhinney wrote: >> >>>>>> Dear Info-CHILDES, >> >>>>>> I was happy to notice this morning that the number of "hits" > >>>>>> to the CHILDES home page since 2003 passed the one million mark > >>>>>> sometime this last weekend. In this age of trillion dollar >>>>>> deficits and terabyte drives, a million may seem a small number. > >>>>>> However, for a small academic discipline, it is not bad at all. > >>>>>> Also, I have noticed that the number of hits to the web page >>>>>> seems to be an accelerating function, which is another nice > signal. >> >>>>>> Best regards, >> >>>>>> -- 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en >>>>> . >> >>> -- >>> 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en >>> . >> >> -- >> 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. > > -- > 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. > > -- > 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. > -- 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 Lise.Menn at Colorado.EDU Sat Apr 24 14:34:34 2010 From: Lise.Menn at Colorado.EDU (Lise Menn) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 08:34:34 -0600 Subject: Digest for info-childes@googlegroups.com - 5 Messages in 3 Topics In-Reply-To: <0015175111e620475a0484fae3bb@google.com> Message-ID: I also second Jean's proposal! What do we do to make it happen? On Apr 24, 2010, at 6:43 AM, info-childes+noreply at googlegroups.com wrote: > Today's Topic Summary > Group: http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes/topics > > one million mark [3 Updates] > Type Token Ratio and Mean Length of Utterance in Modern Greek [1 > Update] > Compiling Unix-CLAN? [1 Update] > Topic: one million mark > Jean Berko Gleason Apr 24 12:15AM -0400 ^ > > Annick is (as ever) right. Brian should receive some recognition that > goes beyond our heartfelt thanks. He should receive an official award, > prize, something, that will have lasting value and that will > indicate to > the world that he has made a great contribution to our field. I think > APA has a variety of similar awards that he could be a candidate for , > but probably most of the members of info-childes are not APA members. > Here's one possibility: > > How about if we encourage IASCL to establish an award for outstanding > contributions to the field of language acquisition. We name it the > Brian MacWhinney Award and Brian is the first recipient and gets the > prize (medal, plaque, cheque, box of chocolates, whatever) at the > Montreal meeting. The IASCL will be asked to have a committee that > thereafter will receive and evaluate nominations, and every 3 years > thereafter some other deserving soul will receive the IASCL Brian > MacWhinney Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of > Language > Acquisition. > > Something like that. Don't all volunteer at once. Since it is > discussion and not planning I'm not trying to hide anything from > Brian. > > > jean > > Jean Berko Gleason, Professor Emerita > Department of Psychology > Boston University > > http://www.bu.edu/psych/faculty/gleason/ > > > > Annick De Houwer wrote: > > -- > 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 > . > > "Philip Dale" Apr 23 10:25PM -0600 ^ > > Jean’s idea is a terrific one. I really like the idea of an award > not so > much for individual theoretical and empirical contributions to the > field, > important as they are, but for doing something that enables the wider > language development community to work more effectively. > > Philip > > > > _____ > > From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com > ] > On Behalf Of Jean Berko Gleason > Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 10:16 PM > To: info-childes at googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: one million mark > > > > Annick is (as ever) right. Brian should receive some recognition > that goes > beyond our heartfelt thanks. He should receive an official award, > prize, > something, that will have lasting value and that will indicate to > the world > that he has made a great contribution to our field. I think APA has a > variety of similar awards that he could be a candidate for , but > probably > most of the members of info-childes are not APA members. > Here's one possibility: > > How about if we encourage IASCL to establish an award for outstanding > contributions to the field of language acquisition. We name it the > Brian > MacWhinney Award and Brian is the first recipient and gets the prize > (medal, > plaque, cheque, box of chocolates, whatever) at the Montreal > meeting. The > IASCL will be asked to have a committee that thereafter will receive > and > evaluate nominations, and every 3 years thereafter some other > deserving soul > will receive the IASCL Brian MacWhinney Award for Outstanding > Contributions > to the Field of Language Acquisition. > > Something like that. Don't all volunteer at once. Since it is > discussion and not planning I'm not trying to hide anything from > Brian. > > > jean > > > > > Jean Berko Gleason, Professor Emerita > Department of Psychology > Boston University > > http://www.bu.edu/psych/faculty/gleason/ > > > > Annick De Houwer wrote: > > I want to add to all the congratulations! A monumental and great job, > Brian, for which you deserve gratitude and recognition. CHILDES > members, how can we make sure Brian's work gets LASTING gratitude and > recognition? > > Annick > > Annick De Houwer, PhD > Chair for Language Acquisition and Language Teaching > Director of the Language Center > University of Erfurt, Germany > > http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachlehr-und-lernforschung/personen/de-houwer/ > http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachenzentrum/personen/ > > please refer to http://www.multilingualmatters.com for the two books > on early bilingualism I published last year > > Postal address: > Frau Prof. Dr. A. De Houwer > Sprachwissenschaft (Anglistik) > Universität Erfurt > Nordhäuser Str. 63 > D-99089 Erfurt > Germany > > tel. +49-361-737-4331 (secretary: -2700 or -4320) > fax +49-361-737-4329 > > On Apr 21, 5:44 pm, Rosa Montes > wrote: > > > Congratulations Brian! The list and site are wonderful resources for > researchers and they are especially appreciated in places where access > to other resources is limited. > > Thank you for all your efforts and your unflagging enthusiasm, > > Rosa > > -- > Dra. Rosa Graciela Montes Miró > Directora General de Investigación > Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Estudios de Posgrado > Benemérita Universidad Autonóma de Puebla > 4 Sur 303 (Altos) > Centro Histórico, Puebla, > Puebla, 72000, México, > > Tel. oficina: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext. 5737 > Fax: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext.5631 > > Email- rosa.mon... at gmail.com, rosa.mon... at viep.buap.mx > > On Mar 29, 11:42 am, Brian MacWhinney > > wrote: > > > > Dear Info-CHILDES, > > > I was happy to notice this morning that the number of "hits" to the > CHILDES home page since 2003 passed the one million mark sometime > this last > weekend. In this age of trillion dollar deficits and terabyte > drives, a > million may seem a small number. However, for a small academic > discipline, > it is not bad at all. Also, I have noticed that the number of hits > to the > web page seems to be an accelerating function, which is another nice > signal. > > > Best regards, > > > -- 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. > > > > > > -- > 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. > > -- > 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 > . > > Aliyah MORGENSTERN Apr 24 09:03AM > +0200 ^ > > That's a terrific idea! > maybe the IASCL board members could all give their opinion. > Best, > Aliyah MORGENSTERN > > Professeur de linguistique > Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 > Institut du Monde Anglophone > 5 rue de l'Ecole de Médecine > 75006 Paris > > > > > Le 24 avr. 10 à 06:15, Jean Berko Gleason a écrit : > > > -- > 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 > . > > Topic: Type Token Ratio and Mean Length of Utterance in Modern Greek > Nikolas Venieris Apr 23 01:17PM -0700 ^ > > Good evening. > I would like to ask if there is a research about the correlation of > Type-Token Ratio > and the Mean Length of Utterance in written language in modern Greek, > in children who are diagnosed with SLI or Dyslexia? > Thank you. > > -- > 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 > . > > Topic: Compiling Unix-CLAN? > donnek Apr 23 11:44AM -0700 ^ > > I was just wondering if anyone has succeeded in compiling Unix-CLAN > recently. I have tried running make on two different Linux distros, > and get a slew of errors. I'm assuming all you're supposed to do is > run make - there is no configure script, and no README either, so I > may be wrong :-) The Windows version of CLAN seems to run fine on > WINE, but I would like to be able to access CLAN commands via piping > or a web-interface, and I don't think that would be possible with > WINE, whereas it should be with a Linux version. > > -- > 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 > . > > > -- > 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 > . 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URL: From annickej at yahoo.com Sat Apr 24 13:51:07 2010 From: annickej at yahoo.com (Annick De Houwer) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 06:51:07 -0700 Subject: one million mark In-Reply-To: <58AEFD45-BDA9-40F2-9373-6C5127107EA9@gmail.com> Message-ID: I second Jean's proposal. Annick On Apr 24, 9:03 am, Aliyah MORGENSTERN wrote: > That's a terrific idea! > maybe the IASCL board members could all give their opinion. > Best, > Aliyah MORGENSTERN > > Professeur de linguistique > Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 > Institut du Monde Anglophone > 5 rue de l'Ecole de Médecine > 75006 Paris > > Le 24 avr. 10 à 06:15, Jean Berko Gleason a écrit : > > > > > > > Annick is (as ever) right.  Brian should receive some recognition   > > that goes beyond our heartfelt thanks.  He should receive an   > > official award, prize, something, that will have lasting value and   > > that will indicate to the world that he has made a great   > > contribution to our field.  I think APA has a variety of similar   > > awards that he could be a candidate for , but probably most of the   > > members of info-childes are not APA members. > > Here's one possibility: > > > How about if we encourage IASCL to establish an award for   > > outstanding contributions to the field of language acquisition.  We   > > name it the Brian MacWhinney Award and Brian is the first recipient   > > and gets the prize (medal, plaque, cheque, box of chocolates,   > > whatever) at the Montreal meeting.  The IASCL will be asked to have   > > a committee that thereafter will receive and evaluate nominations,   > > and every 3 years thereafter some other deserving soul will receive   > > the IASCL Brian MacWhinney Award for Outstanding Contributions to   > > the Field of Language Acquisition. > > > Something like that.   Don't all volunteer at once.    Since it is   > > discussion and not planning I'm not trying to hide anything from   > > Brian. > > > jean > > Jean Berko Gleason, Professor Emerita > > Department of Psychology > > Boston University > > >http://www.bu.edu/psych/faculty/gleason/ > > > Annick De Houwer wrote: > > >> I want to add to all the congratulations! A monumental and great job, > >> Brian, for which you deserve gratitude and recognition. CHILDES > >> members, how can we make sure Brian's work gets LASTING gratitude and > >> recognition? > > >> Annick > > >> Annick De Houwer, PhD > >> Chair for Language Acquisition and Language Teaching > >> Director of the Language Center > >> University of Erfurt, Germany > > >>http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachlehr-und-lernforschung/personen/de-hou... > >>http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachenzentrum/personen/ > > >> please refer tohttp://www.multilingualmatters.comfor the two books > >> on early bilingualism I published last year > > >> Postal address: > >> Frau Prof. Dr. A. De Houwer > >> Sprachwissenschaft (Anglistik) > >> Universität Erfurt > >> Nordhäuser Str. 63 > >> D-99089 Erfurt > >> Germany > > >> tel. +49-361-737-4331 (secretary: -2700 or -4320) > >> fax +49-361-737-4329 > > >> On Apr 21, 5:44 pm, Rosa Montes wrote: > > >>> Congratulations Brian! The list and site are wonderful resources for > >>> researchers and they are especially appreciated in places where   > >>> access > >>> to other resources is limited. > > >>> Thank you for all your efforts and your unflagging enthusiasm, > > >>> Rosa > > >>> -- > >>> Dra. Rosa Graciela Montes Miró > >>> Directora General de Investigación > >>> Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Estudios de Posgrado > >>> Benemérita Universidad Autonóma de Puebla > >>> 4 Sur 303 (Altos) > >>> Centro Histórico, Puebla, > >>> Puebla, 72000, México, > > >>> Tel. oficina: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext. 5737 > >>> Fax:  +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext.5631 > > >>> Email- rosa.mon... at gmail.com, rosa.mon... at viep.buap.mx > > >>> On Mar 29, 11:42 am, Brian MacWhinney wrote: > > >>>> Dear Info-CHILDES, > > >>>>     I was happy to notice this morning that the number of "hits"   > >>>> to the CHILDES home page since 2003 passed the one million mark   > >>>> sometime this last weekend.  In this age of trillion dollar   > >>>> deficits and terabyte drives, a million may seem a small number.   > >>>> However, for a small academic discipline, it is not bad at all.   > >>>> Also, I have noticed that the number of hits to the web page   > >>>> seems to be an accelerating function, which is another nice signal. > > >>>> Best regards, > > >>>> -- 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 athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en > >>> . > > > -- > > 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 athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en > > . > > -- > 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 athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. From djackson at uaq.mx Sat Apr 24 15:08:22 2010 From: djackson at uaq.mx (Donna Jackson) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 10:08:22 -0500 Subject: one million mark In-Reply-To: <4BD2706A.4080308@bu.edu> Message-ID: I vote in favor of Jean´s proposal. There should be a special award. We should bring it up with the IASCL board. How do we start this? Does anyone know? Donna Jackson-Maldonado Jean Berko Gleason escribió: > Annick is (as ever) right. Brian should receive some recognition that > goes beyond our heartfelt thanks. He should receive an official > award, prize, something, that will have lasting value and that will > indicate to the world that he has made a great contribution to our > field. I think APA has a variety of similar awards that he could be a > candidate for , but probably most of the members of info-childes are > not APA members. > Here's one possibility: > > How about if we encourage IASCL to establish an award for outstanding > contributions to the field of language acquisition. We name it the > Brian MacWhinney Award and Brian is the first recipient and gets the > prize (medal, plaque, cheque, box of chocolates, whatever) at the > Montreal meeting. The IASCL will be asked to have a committee that > thereafter will receive and evaluate nominations, and every 3 years > thereafter some other deserving soul will receive the IASCL Brian > MacWhinney Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of > Language Acquisition. > > Something like that. Don't all volunteer at once. Since it is > discussion and not planning I'm not trying to hide anything from Brian. > > > jean > Jean Berko Gleason, Professor Emerita > Department of Psychology > Boston University > > http://www.bu.edu/psych/faculty/gleason/ > > > > Annick De Houwer wrote: >> I want to add to all the congratulations! A monumental and great job, >> Brian, for which you deserve gratitude and recognition. CHILDES >> members, how can we make sure Brian's work gets LASTING gratitude and >> recognition? >> >> Annick >> >> Annick De Houwer, PhD >> Chair for Language Acquisition and Language Teaching >> Director of the Language Center >> University of Erfurt, Germany >> >> http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachlehr-und-lernforschung/personen/de-houwer/ >> http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachenzentrum/personen/ >> >> please refer to http://www.multilingualmatters.com for the two books >> on early bilingualism I published last year >> >> Postal address: >> Frau Prof. Dr. A. De Houwer >> Sprachwissenschaft (Anglistik) >> Universität Erfurt >> Nordhäuser Str. 63 >> D-99089 Erfurt >> Germany >> >> tel. +49-361-737-4331 (secretary: -2700 or -4320) >> fax +49-361-737-4329 >> >> On Apr 21, 5:44 pm, Rosa Montes wrote: >> >>> Congratulations Brian! The list and site are wonderful resources for >>> researchers and they are especially appreciated in places where access >>> to other resources is limited. >>> >>> Thank you for all your efforts and your unflagging enthusiasm, >>> >>> Rosa >>> >>> -- >>> Dra. Rosa Graciela Montes Miró >>> Directora General de Investigación >>> Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Estudios de Posgrado >>> Benemérita Universidad Autonóma de Puebla >>> 4 Sur 303 (Altos) >>> Centro Histórico, Puebla, >>> Puebla, 72000, México, >>> >>> Tel. oficina: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext. 5737 >>> Fax: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext.5631 >>> >>> Email- rosa.mon... at gmail.com, rosa.mon... at viep.buap.mx >>> >>> On Mar 29, 11:42 am, Brian MacWhinney wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Dear Info-CHILDES, >>>> >>>> I was happy to notice this morning that the number of "hits" to the CHILDES home page since 2003 passed the one million mark sometime this last weekend. In this age of trillion dollar deficits and terabyte drives, a million may seem a small number. However, for a small academic discipline, it is not bad at all. Also, I have noticed that the number of hits to the web page seems to be an accelerating function, which is another nice signal. >>>> >>>> Best regards, >>>> >>>> -- 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 athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. >>> >> >> > -- > 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. -- Dr. Donna Jackson-Maldonado Facultad de Lenguas y Letras Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro Querétaro, México tel & fax: (52) 442 2180264 office: (52) 442 1921200 x. 6120/6114 web: www.donnajackson.weebly.com e-mail: djackson at uaq.mx or djacksonmal at hotmail.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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: djackson.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 453 bytes Desc: not available URL: From msninio at pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il Sat Apr 24 15:20:14 2010 From: msninio at pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il (Anat Ninio) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 18:20:14 +0300 Subject: one million mark Message-ID: And let's not forget Catherine Snow who was the other founder of CHILDES and who continued to collaborate with Brian on getting the grants and shaping the archive, for most of CHILDES' existence. To remind ourselves, some references: MacWhinney, B. and Snow, C. (1985). The Child Language Data Exchange System. Journal of Child Language, 12, 271-295. MacWhinney, B. and Snow, C. (1990). The Child Language Data Exchange System: An update. Journal of Child Language, 17, 457-472. Snow, C. E. and Sokolov, J. L. (1994). Handbook of Research in Language Development Using Childes. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Anat Ninio -- 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 sophie_rimbaud at yahoo.fr Sat Apr 24 15:23:08 2010 From: sophie_rimbaud at yahoo.fr (Sophie Rimbaud) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 08:23:08 -0700 Subject: Compiling Unix-CLAN? In-Reply-To: <89ed3619-7127-489d-b12e-6778eac5c4bd@j21g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> Message-ID: Hi, I am a Lunix-user and i am also a Clan user but i can't use it on Linux, i have to use windows and it doesn't work well. Is there an update for Unix version of the CLAN editor? On 23 avr, 20:44, donnek wrote: > I was just wondering if anyone has succeeded in compiling Unix-CLAN > recently.  I have tried running make on two different Linux distros, > and get a slew of errors.  I'm assuming all you're supposed to do is > run make - there is no configure script, and no README either, so I > may be wrong :-)  The Windows version of CLAN seems to run fine on > WINE, but I would like to be able to access CLAN commands via piping > or a web-interface, and I don't think that would be possible with > WINE, whereas it should be with a Linux version. > > -- > 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 athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. -- 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 Apr 24 16:13:06 2010 From: k1n at psu.edu (Keith Nelson) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 12:13:06 -0400 Subject: one million mark In-Reply-To: <4BD2C2CA.DA94.005A.0@hesp.umd.edu> Message-ID: I FOURTH IT ! Great idea. Keith At 10:06 AM -0400 4/24/10, Nan Ratner wrote: >I third it; I think Jean has made the point very eloquently. I know my >entire academic life has been changed for the better by what Brian has >done for the field. >Nan > > >Nan Bernstein Ratner, Professor and Chairman >Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences >0100 Lefrak Hall >University of Maryland >College Park, MD 20742 >nratner at hesp.umd.edu >http://www.bsos.umd.edu/hesp/facultyStaff/ratnern.htm >301-405-4213 >301-314-2023 (fax) > >>>> Annick De Houwer 4/24/2010 9:51 AM >>> >I second Jean's proposal. > >Annick > >On Apr 24, 9:03 am, Aliyah MORGENSTERN >wrote: >> That's a terrific idea! >> maybe the IASCL board members could all give their opinion. >> Best, >> Aliyah MORGENSTERN >> >> Professeur de linguistique >> Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 >> Institut du Monde Anglophone >> 5 rue de l'Ecole de Médecine >> 75006 Paris >> >> Le 24 avr. 10 à 06:15, Jean Berko Gleason a écrit : >> >> >> >> >> >> > Annick is (as ever) right. Brian should receive some recognition > >> > that goes beyond our heartfelt thanks. He should receive an  >> > official award, prize, something, that will have lasting value and > >> > that will indicate to the world that he has made a great  >> > contribution to our field. I think APA has a variety of similar  >> > awards that he could be a candidate for , but probably most of the > >> > members of info-childes are not APA members. >> > Here's one possibility: >> >> > How about if we encourage IASCL to establish an award for  >> > outstanding contributions to the field of language acquisition. We > >> > name it the Brian MacWhinney Award and Brian is the first recipient > >> > and gets the prize (medal, plaque, cheque, box of chocolates,  >> > whatever) at the Montreal meeting. The IASCL will be asked to have > >> > a committee that thereafter will receive and evaluate nominations, > >> > and every 3 years thereafter some other deserving soul will receive > >> > the IASCL Brian MacWhinney Award for Outstanding Contributions to > >> > the Field of Language Acquisition. > > >> > Something like that. Don't all volunteer at once. Since it is > >> > discussion and not planning I'm not trying to hide anything from  >> > Brian. >> >> > jean >> > Jean Berko Gleason, Professor Emerita >> > Department of Psychology >> > Boston University >> >> >http://www.bu.edu/psych/faculty/gleason/ >> >> > Annick De Houwer wrote: >> >> >> I want to add to all the congratulations! A monumental and great >job, >> >> Brian, for which you deserve gratitude and recognition. CHILDES >> >> members, how can we make sure Brian's work gets LASTING gratitude >and >> >> recognition? >> >> >> Annick >> >> >> Annick De Houwer, PhD >> >> Chair for Language Acquisition and Language Teaching >> >> Director of the Language Center >> >> University of Erfurt, Germany >> >> >>>http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachlehr-und-lernforschung/personen/de-hou... >> >>http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachenzentrum/personen/ >> >> >> please refer tohttp://www.multilingualmatters.comfor the two >books >> >> on early bilingualism I published last year >> >> >> Postal address: >> >> Frau Prof. Dr. A. De Houwer >> >> Sprachwissenschaft (Anglistik) >> >> Universität Erfurt >> >> Nordhäuser Str. 63 >> >> D-99089 Erfurt >> >> Germany >> >> >> tel. +49-361-737-4331 (secretary: -2700 or -4320) >> >> fax +49-361-737-4329 >> >> >> On Apr 21, 5:44 pm, Rosa Montes wrote: >> >> >>> Congratulations Brian! The list and site are wonderful resources >for >> >>> researchers and they are especially appreciated in places where > >> >>> access >> >>> to other resources is limited. >> >> >>> Thank you for all your efforts and your unflagging enthusiasm, >> >> >>> Rosa >> >> >>> -- >> >>> Dra. Rosa Graciela Montes Miró >> >>> Directora General de Investigación >> >>> Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Estudios de Posgrado >> >>> Benemérita Universidad Autonóma de Puebla >> >>> 4 Sur 303 (Altos) >> >>> Centro Histórico, Puebla, > > >>> Puebla, 72000, México, >> >> >>> Tel. oficina: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext. 5737 >> >>> Fax: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext.5631 >> >> >>> Email- rosa.mon... at gmail.com, rosa.mon... at viep.buap.mx >> >> >>> On Mar 29, 11:42 am, Brian MacWhinney wrote: >> >> >>>> Dear Info-CHILDES, >> >> >>>> I was happy to notice this morning that the number of "hits" > >> >>>> to the CHILDES home page since 2003 passed the one million mark > >> >>>> sometime this last weekend. In this age of trillion dollar  >> >>>> deficits and terabyte drives, a million may seem a small number. > >> >>>> However, for a small academic discipline, it is not bad at all. > >> >>>> Also, I have noticed that the number of hits to the web page  >> >>>> seems to be an accelerating function, which is another nice >signal. >> >> >>>> Best regards, >> >> >>>> -- 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 >athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en >> >>> . >> >> > -- >> > 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 >athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en >> > . >> >> -- >> 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 >athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. > >-- >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. > >-- >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. -- Keith Nelson Professor of Psychology Penn State University 414 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. 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 lempert at psych.utoronto.ca Sat Apr 24 21:00:31 2010 From: lempert at psych.utoronto.ca (Henrietta Lempert) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:00:31 -0400 Subject: one million mark In-Reply-To: <4BD2706A.4080308@bu.edu> Message-ID: That's a wonderful idea! -henrietta lempert > Annick is (as ever) right. Brian should receive some recognition that > goes beyond our heartfelt thanks. He should receive an official award, > prize, something, that will have lasting value and that will indicate to > the world that he has made a great contribution to our field. I think > APA has a variety of similar awards that he could be a candidate for , > but probably most of the members of info-childes are not APA members. > Here's one possibility: > > How about if we encourage IASCL to establish an award for outstanding > contributions to the field of language acquisition. We name it the > Brian MacWhinney Award and Brian is the first recipient and gets the > prize (medal, plaque, cheque, box of chocolates, whatever) at the > Montreal meeting. The IASCL will be asked to have a committee that > thereafter will receive and evaluate nominations, and every 3 years > thereafter some other deserving soul will receive the IASCL Brian > MacWhinney Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Language > Acquisition. > > Something like that. Don't all volunteer at once. Since it is > discussion and not planning I'm not trying to hide anything from Brian. > > > jean > > Jean Berko Gleason, Professor Emerita > Department of Psychology > Boston University > > http://www.bu.edu/psych/faculty/gleason/ > > > > Annick De Houwer wrote: >> I want to add to all the congratulations! A monumental and great job, >> Brian, for which you deserve gratitude and recognition. CHILDES >> members, how can we make sure Brian's work gets LASTING gratitude and >> recognition? >> >> Annick >> >> Annick De Houwer, PhD >> Chair for Language Acquisition and Language Teaching >> Director of the Language Center >> University of Erfurt, Germany >> >> http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachlehr-und-lernforschung/personen/de-houwer/ >> http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachenzentrum/personen/ >> >> please refer to http://www.multilingualmatters.com for the two books >> on early bilingualism I published last year >> >> Postal address: >> Frau Prof. Dr. A. De Houwer >> Sprachwissenschaft (Anglistik) >> Universität Erfurt >> Nordhäuser Str. 63 >> D-99089 Erfurt >> Germany >> >> tel. +49-361-737-4331 (secretary: -2700 or -4320) >> fax +49-361-737-4329 >> >> On Apr 21, 5:44 pm, Rosa Montes wrote: >> >>> Congratulations Brian! The list and site are wonderful resources for >>> researchers and they are especially appreciated in places where access >>> to other resources is limited. >>> >>> Thank you for all your efforts and your unflagging enthusiasm, >>> >>> Rosa >>> >>> -- >>> Dra. Rosa Graciela Montes Miró >>> Directora General de Investigación >>> Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Estudios de Posgrado >>> Benemérita Universidad Autonóma de Puebla >>> 4 Sur 303 (Altos) >>> Centro Histórico, Puebla, >>> Puebla, 72000, México, >>> >>> Tel. oficina: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext. 5737 >>> Fax: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext.5631 >>> >>> Email- rosa.mon... at gmail.com, rosa.mon... at viep.buap.mx >>> >>> On Mar 29, 11:42 am, Brian MacWhinney wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Dear Info-CHILDES, >>>> >>>> I was happy to notice this morning that the number of "hits" to >>>> the CHILDES home page since 2003 passed the one million mark >>>> sometime this last weekend. In this age of trillion dollar >>>> deficits and terabyte drives, a million may seem a small number. >>>> However, for a small academic discipline, it is not bad at all. >>>> Also, I have noticed that the number of hits to the web page seems >>>> to be an accelerating function, which is another nice signal. >>>> >>>> Best regards, >>>> >>>> -- 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 >>> athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. >>> >> >> > > -- > 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. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. From macw at cmu.edu Sat Apr 24 22:38:11 2010 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 18:38:11 -0400 Subject: messages regarding CLAN Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, For those of you who have questions about the details of running of the CLAN programs, we have a separate mailing list at chibolts at googlegroups.com that is devoted to the discussion of the technicalities of CLAN. Let me encourage people to post questions on those issue to that bulletin board. Many thanks. --Brian MacWhinney, CMU -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. From macw at cmu.edu Sat Apr 24 23:01:43 2010 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 19:01:43 -0400 Subject: one million mark In-Reply-To: <4BD2706A.4080308@bu.edu> Message-ID: Dear Friends, I had floated the idea of IASCL awards for contributions a few years back and I still think it is a good one. However, as Anat says, it would probably have to be titled the Brian MacWhinney, Catherine Snow, and Many Many Others award. And Kathy is right on when she explains that organizing CHILDES was possible because of the pre-existing solidity of the social network in child language research. So, with your kind permission, I would like to have Catherine and I receive the honorary chocolates (they better be dark truffles) and leave the award without a person's name. But I really do think that having an award of this type administered through IASCL is a great idea. It will require a review committee and it may be appropriate to consider different types or levels of award (best dissertation, best paper, best book), but I definitely think that the field of child language should institute an award of this type. Best regards, - Brian MacWhinney On Apr 24, 2010, at 12:15 AM, Jean Berko Gleason wrote: > Annick is (as ever) right. Brian should receive some recognition that goes beyond our heartfelt thanks. He should receive an official award, prize, something, that will have lasting value and that will indicate to the world that he has made a great contribution to our field. I think APA has a variety of similar awards that he could be a candidate for , but probably most of the members of info-childes are not APA members. > Here's one possibility: > > How about if we encourage IASCL to establish an award for outstanding contributions to the field of language acquisition. We name it the Brian MacWhinney Award and Brian is the first recipient and gets the prize (medal, plaque, cheque, box of chocolates, whatever) at the Montreal meeting. The IASCL will be asked to have a committee that thereafter will receive and evaluate nominations, and every 3 years thereafter some other deserving soul will receive the IASCL Brian MacWhinney Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Language Acquisition. > > Something like that. Don't all volunteer at once. Since it is discussion and not planning I'm not trying to hide anything from Brian. > > > jean > Jean Berko Gleason, Professor Emerita > Department of Psychology > Boston University > > http://www.bu.edu/psych/faculty/gleason/ > > > Annick De Houwer wrote: >> >> I want to add to all the congratulations! A monumental and great job, >> Brian, for which you deserve gratitude and recognition. CHILDES >> members, how can we make sure Brian's work gets LASTING gratitude and >> recognition? >> >> Annick >> >> Annick De Houwer, PhD >> Chair for Language Acquisition and Language Teaching >> Director of the Language Center >> University of Erfurt, Germany >> >> http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachlehr-und-lernforschung/personen/de-houwer/ >> http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachenzentrum/personen/ >> >> please refer to http://www.multilingualmatters.com for the two books >> on early bilingualism I published last year >> >> Postal address: >> Frau Prof. Dr. A. De Houwer >> Sprachwissenschaft (Anglistik) >> Universität Erfurt >> Nordhäuser Str. 63 >> D-99089 Erfurt >> Germany >> >> tel. +49-361-737-4331 (secretary: -2700 or -4320) >> fax +49-361-737-4329 >> >> On Apr 21, 5:44 pm, Rosa Montes wrote: >> >>> Congratulations Brian! The list and site are wonderful resources for >>> researchers and they are especially appreciated in places where access >>> to other resources is limited. >>> >>> Thank you for all your efforts and your unflagging enthusiasm, >>> >>> Rosa >>> >>> -- >>> Dra. Rosa Graciela Montes Miró >>> Directora General de Investigación >>> Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Estudios de Posgrado >>> Benemérita Universidad Autonóma de Puebla >>> 4 Sur 303 (Altos) >>> Centro Histórico, Puebla, >>> Puebla, 72000, México, >>> >>> Tel. oficina: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext. 5737 >>> Fax: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext.5631 >>> >>> Email- rosa.mon... at gmail.com, rosa.mon... at viep.buap.mx >>> >>> On Mar 29, 11:42 am, Brian MacWhinney wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Dear Info-CHILDES, >>>> >>>> I was happy to notice this morning that the number of "hits" to the CHILDES home page since 2003 passed the one million mark sometime this last weekend. In this age of trillion dollar deficits and terabyte drives, a million may seem a small number. However, for a small academic discipline, it is not bad at all. Also, I have noticed that the number of hits to the web page seems to be an accelerating function, which is another nice signal. >>>> >>>> Best regards, >>>> >>>> -- 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 athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. >>> >> >> > > > -- > 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. -- 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 lmorett at ucsc.edu Sun Apr 25 02:25:11 2010 From: lmorett at ucsc.edu (Laura Morett) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 19:25:11 -0700 Subject: one million mark In-Reply-To: <4BD30C2E.50508@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il> Message-ID: May I also point out that Brian has served not only the field of language acquisition research through the creation and maintenance of CHILDES, but also the disciplines of psychology and linguistics through the development of PsyScope and STEP. All of these resources have been invaluable to me as a member of a program with very little money and very few resources. Thank you, Brian, for having the vision to create these resources, which have not only advanced research tremendously, but have also helped to unify its practitioners. I agree that the creation of a special award to recognize contributions to the field--in the sense of service rather than individual research accomplishments--is a wonderful idea. Although I have little experience in these types of matters, as I am only a student, I would suggest that someone--perhaps the suggestor of the idea--take the initiative to approach the members of the IASCL board with this idea. My guess is that they would be happy to explain what would need to happen for the idea to become a reality and to help out, and then those who are interested in making it happen can go from there. Regards, Laura Morett On Apr 24, 8:20 am, Anat Ninio wrote: > And let's not forget Catherine Snow who was the other founder of CHILDES > and who continued to  collaborate with Brian on getting the grants and > shaping the archive, for most of CHILDES' existence. > To remind ourselves, some references: > > MacWhinney, B. and Snow, C. (1985). The Child Language Data Exchange > System. Journal of Child Language, 12, 271-295. > > MacWhinney, B. and Snow, C. (1990). The Child Language Data Exchange > System: An update. Journal of Child Language, 17, 457-472. > > Snow, C. E. and  Sokolov, J. L. (1994). Handbook of Research in Language > Development Using Childes. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. > > Anat Ninio > > -- > 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 athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. From macw at cmu.edu Sun Apr 25 14:49:49 2010 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 10:49:49 -0400 Subject: Bilingualism by Francois Grosjean Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, I would like to post this book announcement from Harvard University Press for François Grosjean's new book on bilingualism, including childhood bilingualism. -- Brian MacWhinney Bilingual Life and Reality François Grosjean Harvard University Press, 2010, 304 pages ISBN 9780674048874 Whether in family life, social interactions, or business negotiations, half the people in the world speak more than one language every day. Yet many myths persist about bilingualism and bilinguals. Does being bilingual mean you are equally fluent in two languages, or that you belong to two cultures, or even that you have multiple personalities? Can you become bilingual only as a child? Why do bilinguals switch from one language to another in mid-sentence? Will raising bilingual children confuse and delay their learning of any language? In this book, François Grosjean, an international authority on bilingualism and son of an English mother and a French father, explores the many facets of bilingualism, drawing on research, interviews, autobiographies, and the engaging examples of bilingual authors. He describes the various strategies—some useful, some not—used by parents raising bilingual children, explains how children easily pick up and forget languages, and considers how bilingualism affects the experience and expression of emotions, thoughts, and dreams. This book shows that speaking two or more languages is not a sign of intelligence, evasiveness, cultural alienation, or political disloyalty. For millions of people, it’s simply a way of navigating the complexities of life. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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A terrific book: clear, informative, comprehensive, persuasive, beautifully written. Michael Swan, author of Practical English Usage. Abstract The acquisition of language is a staggering feat, yet one that all typically developing children manage by the time they reach school age. Child Language: Acquisition and Development presents the latest thinking and research on how children acquire or develop their first language, written in an engaging, stimulating style, suitable for a range of undergraduate students. The reader is taken from a standing start to the point where they can engage with key debates and current research in the field of child language. No background knowledge of linguistic theory is assumed and all specialist terms are introduced in clear, non-technical language. A theme running through the book is the nature-nurture debate, rekindled in the modern era by Noam Chomsky, with his belief that the form language takes in the child is largely determined by genetic factors. This book is rare in its balanced presentation of evidence from both sides of the nature-nurture divide; in effect, it uniquely presents a case for language acquisition and development. The reader is encouraged to adopt a critical stance throughout and weigh the evidence for themselves. Key features for the student include: boxes and exercises to foster an understanding of key concepts in language and linguistics; a glossary of key terms; suggestions for further reading; a list of useful websites at the end of each chapter; discussion points for use in class; and separate author and subject indexes. -- 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 edy.veneziano at paris5.sorbonne.fr Mon Apr 26 07:31:42 2010 From: edy.veneziano at paris5.sorbonne.fr (edy veneziano) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:31:42 +0200 Subject: IASCL award In-Reply-To: <4BD2706A.4080308@bu.edu> Message-ID: I find the idea of having an IASCL award (or several, finances permitting) great. Equally great is the of having Brian and Catherine, as the initators of CHILDES, the first awardees. As to the name of the award, several options can be considered. A neutral possibility would be to call it The IASCL award for Outstanding contributions to LA Other possibilities would have a name attached. If we go back to the founding fathers/mothers, one name that comes immediately to my mind is that of Roger Brown and a possibility would be to call it the IASCL Roger Brown award Best to all Edy On 24 avr. 10, at 06:15, Jean Berko Gleason wrote: > > How about if we encourage IASCL to establish an award for > outstanding contributions to the field of language acquisition. We > name it the Brian MacWhinney Award and Brian is the first recipient > and gets the prize (medal, plaque, cheque, box of chocolates, > whatever) at the Montreal meeting. The IASCL will be asked to have > a committee that thereafter will receive and evaluate nominations, > and every 3 years thereafter some other deserving soul will receive > the IASCL Brian MacWhinney Award for Outstanding Contributions to > the Field of Language Acquisition. > > Something like that. Don't all volunteer at once. Since it is > discussion and not planning I'm not trying to hide anything from > Brian. > > > jean -- 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 msninio at pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il Mon Apr 26 08:22:29 2010 From: msninio at pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il (Anat Ninio) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:22:29 +0300 Subject: IASCL award In-Reply-To: <195BE2B1-2AB7-44FF-8C9B-456FE48E1B77@paris5.sorbonne.fr> Message-ID: I second Edy's proposals -- what a wonderful idea to honor Roger Brown! I also join her in proposing both Brian and Catherine as the first awardees. CHILDES is wonderful and deserves to be singled out as an outstanding contribution to the study of child language. The choice of future awardees will be much more difficult, I suspect. Maybe we should think of a Web-utilizing, universal voting process open to members of IASCL? Anat edy veneziano wrote: > I find the idea of having an IASCL award (or several, finances > permitting) great. Equally great is the of having Brian and > Catherine, as the initators of CHILDES, the first awardees. > As to the name of the award, several options can be considered. > > A neutral possibility would be to call it > The IASCL award for Outstanding contributions to LA > > Other possibilities would have a name attached. > If we go back to the founding fathers/mothers, one name that comes > immediately to my mind is that of Roger Brown > and a possibility would be to call it > the IASCL Roger Brown award > > Best to all > Edy > > > On 24 avr. 10, at 06:15, Jean Berko Gleason wrote: >> >> How about if we encourage IASCL to establish an award for outstanding >> contributions to the field of language acquisition. We name it the >> Brian MacWhinney Award and Brian is the first recipient and gets the >> prize (medal, plaque, cheque, box of chocolates, whatever) at the >> Montreal meeting. The IASCL will be asked to have a committee that >> thereafter will receive and evaluate nominations, and every 3 years >> thereafter some other deserving soul will receive the IASCL Brian >> MacWhinney Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of >> Language Acquisition. >> >> Something like that. Don't all volunteer at once. Since it is >> discussion and not planning I'm not trying to hide anything from Brian. >> >> >> jean > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. From cslater at alma.edu Mon Apr 26 13:32:16 2010 From: cslater at alma.edu (Carol Slater) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:32:16 -0400 Subject: IASCL award Message-ID: May I add my support for naming the proposed award after Roger Brown? It would be lovely to be able to honor at once two people to whom we are all so deeply indebted. Carol Slater Alma College -- 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 akuntay at ku.edu.tr Mon Apr 26 15:49:39 2010 From: akuntay at ku.edu.tr (AYLIN KUNTAY) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:49:39 +0300 Subject: IASCL award In-Reply-To: <20100426093216.BCG10610@mp1.cc.alma.edu> Message-ID: I'd love to see the proposed award to be in Roger Brown's book. Reading his book, "A first language", in a directed reading course with Ayhan Aksu-Koç was my first initiation rite to the field of child language in the late 1980s. aylin küntay. >>> Carol Slater 26.04.2010 16:32 >>> May I add my support for naming the proposed award after Roger Brown? It would be lovely to be able to honor at once two people to whom we are all so deeply indebted. Carol Slater Alma College -- 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. -- 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 eclark at stanford.edu Mon Apr 26 16:07:02 2010 From: eclark at stanford.edu (Eve V. Clark) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:07:02 -0700 Subject: IASCL award Message-ID: I too would be delighted to see such an award named for Roger Brown: his earlier books (Words and Things, Social Psychology) , all beautifully written, were what got me into psycholinguistics, into language acquisition. Eve Clark -- 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. 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Clark wrote: > > > I too would be delighted to see such an award named for Roger Brown: > his earlier books (*Words and Things*, *Social Psychology*) , all > beautifully written, > were what got me into psycholinguistics, into language acquisition. > > Eve Clark > > -- > 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. > -- 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. 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Reading >his book, > "A first language", in a directed reading course with Ayhan Aksu-Koç >was my first initiation rite to the field of child language in the late >1980s. > >aylin küntay. > > >>> Carol Slater 26.04.2010 16:32 >>> >May I add my support for naming the proposed award after Roger Brown? >It would be lovely to be able to honor at once two people to whom we are >all so deeply indebted. >Carol Slater >Alma College > >-- >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. > >-- >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. ****************************************************************************************************************************** Dan I. 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Regards, Ewa Haman ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi Date: 27 Kwi, 18:08 Subject: Deadline extended for Language as Social Coordination, Warsaw 16-18 2010 -- MAY 15th 2010 To: IKBJ Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw; Society for Interdisciplinary Studies on Language and the Distributed Language Group have a pleasure to invite you to: LANGUAGE AS SOCIAL COORDINATION: AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE        Warsaw, 16-18 September 2010 The conference emphasizes the biological nature of language, underscoring its coordinative function. The aim of the conference is to 1) show continuity of natural language with other informational systems in biology; 2) show that language arises from and is crucial for human co-action. Taking an evolutionary and comparative perspective, will draw attention to the kinds of social coordination that arise without (human-like) language, and that contribute to the background used by (and present in) linguistic communication. By so doing, it will be easier to appreciate the qualitatively different types of co-ordination that are specific to humans and language-dependent. INVITED SPEAKERS: * John Collier, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban * Terrence Deacon, University of California at Berkeley * Merlin Donald, Queen's University, Kingston * Don Favareau, National University of Singapore * Bruno Galantucci, Yeshiva University, New York * Don Ross, University of Alabama at Birmingham and University of Cape Town * John Schumann, University of California, Los Angeles * Colwyn Trevarthen, University of Edinburgh CALL FOR PAPERS We welcome papers from biology, linguistics, psychology, communication science, philosophy, anthropology and artificial intelligence in a joint effort to provide a theoretical ground for such a view of language, and - even more importantly - to provide empirical data clarifying the mechanisms of language functioning and emergence. 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From macw at cmu.edu Wed Apr 28 16:09:50 2010 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:09:50 -0400 Subject: special issue of JCL Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, Attached is an PDF announcement of a special issue of the Journal of Child Language on computational models of child language learning. This issue has now appeared on line and is soon to be mailed out. -- 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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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This position is centered at our main lab on the Stanford campus where studies with English-learning children are the focus. However, our research group also runs a flourishing community lab where we work with Spanish-learning children, and a mobile lab van in which we conduct outreach studies with English- learning children living in diverse circumstances. This is a full-time position with excellent benefits. Minimum two-year commitment. Start date: Spring 2010 Qualifications: Recommended background and skills include B.A. degree in Psychology or related field; previous research experience working with children; strong organizational and interpersonal skills; meticulous attention to detail; facility with computers and software such as Excel, Photoshop, SPSS. This is an excellent training opportunity for an energetic and highly motivated person interested in early language development who would like to join a dynamic research group. 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Perhaps we could work together to get them to > apply their considerable computational skills to parallel issues in child > language. > > http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/translateforanimals/tour.html > > Watch it in action: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I24bSteJpw&feature=player_embedded > > -- 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. > -- 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. 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Pam Norton, PhD, CCC-SLP On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:39 AM, > wrote: > Today's Topic Summary > > Group: http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes/topics > > - mystery book (children who begin speaking in sentences)<#127b961f65a2b892_group_thread_0>[9 Updates] > > Topic: mystery book (children who begin speaking in sentences) > > Lorraine McCune Mar 31 09:25AM -0400 ^<#127b961f65a2b892_digest_top> > > This does seem to be an under the radar phenomenon! I had one > participant in my first study who did speak in single words, but also > had a lot of what seemed like jargon. We eventually realized that > much of the jargon was "amalgams" or sentences with the words mushed > together. The one I always remember was "There it is" said with no > consonants and a singsong intonation of surprise. > > Lorraine McCune > > At 02:31 AM 3/31/2010, you wrote: > >info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com > . > >For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. > > Lorraine McCune, EdD > Chair, Department of Educational Psychology > Graduate School of Education > Rutgers University > 10 Seminary Place > New Brunswick, NJ 08901 > > Ph: 732-932-7496 ex. 8310 > FAX: 732932-6829 > > Web Page: www.gse.rutgers.edu > > > > > "Shari Berkowitz" Mar 31 09:42AM -0400 ^<#127b961f65a2b892_digest_top> > > I may have already told this anecdote here: > My daughter's first "word" was: > 'Don't touch it, it's mine!' > (with most of the consonants and all of the intention intact). > > Can you guess that she was the second child? > This word-sentence was followed by mama, dada, brother, book, etc. in > the > more typical fashion. > > Shari Berkowitz > Mercy College > Dobbs Ferry, NY > > > > > "Nelson, Katherine" Mar 31 10:04AM -0400 ^<#127b961f65a2b892_digest_top> > > Hi to Jesse and all, > I do not know the book or books referred to, but the phenomenon of late > talkers who begin to talk in sentences almost as soon as they begin to talk > at all is not exceedingly rare, at least in my experience. It has occurred > in my extended family several times: my second child (Laura) said almost > nothing until the end of the second year, and by 24 months was talking > extensively in complete sentences. (I had not entered graduate school at > that time and did not keep a record, but the phenonenon was notable because > my first daughter talked early and acquired an extensive lexicon by 18 > months.) Laura's daughter (my granddaughter) followed the same pattern - > virtually no babble, completely normal comprehension, and at 25 months > beginning with sentences, rapidly catching up. My niece, whom I did not > track so closely, apparently followed the same pattern. > > One of the boys in my 1973 monograph study (second-born) also followed > this pattern. Those familiar with the monograph recall that I focused on > individual differences, but the Expressive group was different - these > children spoke at similar times and rates to the Referential (object-word > group) but in small phrases or expressions. I think of the silent one's (no > or a few scattered words rarely used until 2-years) as a rarer but not > exotically rare case of the individuality of learning to talk. I strongly > believe that it is a mistake to instruct parents to expect early word > learning of mainly nouns, but rather to expect individuality in becoming a > language user. Of course, I believe that it is a mistake for psychologists > or speech and hearing experts to expect all children to follow the mean > pattern too. Comprehension of what is said is a much better indication of > language during the second year than production, in my view. The following > references discuss the significance of individuality in the process of > learning to talk. > > > Nelson, K. (1973). "Structure and strategy in learning to talk." > Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development 38 (1-2, Serial > No. 149). > > Nelson, K. (1981). "Individual differences in language development: > Implications for development and language." Developmental Psychology 17: > 170-187. > > Lieven, E. V. M., J. M. Pine, et al. (1992). "Individual differences in > early vocabulary development: redefining the referential-expressive > distinction." Journal of Child Language 19: 287-310. > > Hampson, J. and K. Nelson (1993). "The relation of maternal language to > variation in rate and style of language acquisition." Journal of child > language 20: 313-342. > > Nelson, K., J. Hampson, et al. (1993). "Nouns in early lexicons: > Evidence, explanations, and implications." Journal of Child Language 20: > 61-84. > > Katherine Nelson > > > ________________________________________ > From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [info-childes at googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of Celeste Kidd [ckidd at bcs.rochester.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 1:34 AM > To: info-childes at googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: mystery book (children who begin speaking in sentences) > > Hi, Jesse (& all). > > I don't think it's likely that these are the books you are looking for, > since they were only published in 1998 (does that count as years and > years ago?) and they don't quite follow the flow you describe > (evaluating various claims, then reaching a maybe reasonable > conclusion), but I thought it might be helpful to point them out in > case > you hadn't already encountered them in your most recent search. Thomas > Sowell's "Late-Talking Children" and "The Einstein Syndrome: Bright > Children Who Talk Late" make reference to these sorts of claims. On > page > 18 of "Einstein", Thomas Sowell writes: > > "In short, there is no standard way in which late-talking children like > these finally begin to speak ... Some begin to speak as other children > do, first in babbles and isolated words, and then proceed in stages > toward normal speech, only later than other children. In other cases, > however, children with delayed speech development did not coo or babble > as other infants do, but remained silent right up to the moment where > they suddenly startle their parents by speaking a complete sentence." > > He makes reference to kids in his own and Stephen Camarata's studies on > late-talkers in this chapter. I am not sure about the reliability of > these claims, as I have not actually sought out and read the studies he > refers to. A Dateline NBC episode on Camarata I saw in high school > called my attention to these. > > Sowell mentions a bunch of famous sentences-before-words claims and > claimers, like hydrogen-bomb inventor Edward Teller, Nobel-prize > winning > economist Gary Becker and physicist Richard Feynman. He also talks > about > a lot of acquaintances-of-friends who talked late and in whole > sentences. I checked his website in the hopes of finding something more > about the studies he refers to, but didn't find them. I did find a link > to an article where Sowell expresses his skepticism that global warming > is a thing though > (http://www.creators.com/opinion/thomas-sowell.html?columnsName=tso), > which is perhaps an indication of the value Sowell places on empirical > evidence when making claims. > > Good luck in your search! > > Cheers, > Celeste > > CELESTE KIDD | Brain & Cognitive Sciences > Meliora Hall 323F, Box 270268 > University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627-0268 > Email: ckidd at bcs.rochester.edu > Web: www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/ckidd/ > Mobile: 617 515 2461 > > > > > > -- > 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. > > > > > Ann Peters Mar 31 08:29AM -0700 ^<#127b961f65a2b892_digest_top> > > I did some writing on these issues in the early 80s, particularly > addressing children who were near Katherine Nelson's Expressive end of the > continuum. My 1983 monograph, The Units of Language Acquisition, is long out > of print, but I managed to get back the copyright and it is now posted on my > web site, for the easy taking. > ann > > Ann M. Peters, PhD > Professor Emerita and Co-Graduate Chair > Department of Linguistics, 1890 East West Road > Honolulu HI 96822 808 956-8602 > ann at hawaii.edu http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/faculty/ann > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nelson, Katherine" > Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 7:05 am > Subject: RE: mystery book (children who begin speaking in sentences) > To: "info-childes at googlegroups.com" > > > > > > Jean Berko Gleason Mar 31 11:40AM -0400 ^<#127b961f65a2b892_digest_top> > > Hi everyone, > > For an old book with reference to late talkers starting out in full > sentences, try Bertrand Russell, 1927, An Outline of Philosophy. He > repeats the old story about Lord Macauley, who purportedly said nothing > > until someone spilled hot tea/coffee on him when he was 4. When asked > if > he was OK, he replied, "Thank you, madame, the agony is [quite] > [somewhat] abated." Macauley's biographer notes that although M may > not have spoken, he had already read the bible by this age. > > Russell also refers to Thomas Carlyle, who was silent until the age of > 3, but then, on hearing his baby brother cry, asked, "What ails wee > Jock?" > > These anecdotes have an almost timeless appeal, and I think we all know > > some of our own. For instance, I have a colleague, a psychoanalyst, who > > tells me he said nothing until the age of nearly 4, when his family > took > a holiday in Canada. The formerly silent child looked out the train > window and said, "Look, Daddy, Lake Ontario!" > > I'm sure the science is not there (no real studies on groups of > children > who are silent until they suddenly burst forth with full blown language > > in the preschool years), but the stories, like folk tales, have > consistent and satisfying elements. So, why do we delight in these > anecdotes? > > > http://books.google.com/books?id=-AVp6Jm25WEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=bertrand+russell+outline+of+philosophy&source=bl&ots=YfmW4Sn0BA&sig=g1V3gmVsznY02LIlj1zBVKfECiE&hl=en&ei=6GezS8WnH8KBlAe3z5C6BA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CA4Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=&f=false > > > Jean > > > > > > > > > Aliyah MORGENSTERN Mar 31 07:37PM +0200 > ^ <#127b961f65a2b892_digest_top> > > I highly recommand Ann Peters Units of Language Acquisition, it > presented an innovative perspective on language acquisition in line > with Katherine Nelson's work long before construction grammar was used > in the field of language acquisition or known in France. > > Aliyah MORGENSTERN > > Professeur de linguistique > Universit? Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 > Institut du Monde Anglophone > 5 rue de l'Ecole de M?decine > 75006 Paris > > > > > Le 31 mars 10 ? 17:29, Ann Peters a ?crit : > > > > > > "Dan I. Slobin" Mar 31 12:58PM -0700 ^<#127b961f65a2b892_digest_top> > > Well done, Ann - I mean posting your book. How did you get the > copyright back? I'd like to try that too. > > Warm regards, > Dan > > At 08:29 AM 3/31/2010, you wrote: > >Department of Linguistics, 1890 East West Road > >Honolulu HI 96822 808 956-8602 > >ann at hawaii.edu http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/faculty/ann > > > ****************************************************************************************************************************** > Dan I. Slobin, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Linguistics, > University of California, Berkeley > address: > email: slobin at berkeley.edu > 2323 Rose St. phone (home): > 1-510-848-1769 > Berkeley, CA 94708, > USA > > http://psychology.berkeley.edu/faculty/profiles/dslobin.html > > ****************************************************************************************************************************** > > > > > "Barbara Zurer Pearson" Mar 31 04:11PM > -0400 ^ <#127b961f65a2b892_digest_top> > > Dear Dan, > I don't know how Ann did it, but I just asked. So, Random House gave me > the Spanish language rights to my book back. Their contract department sent > me an addendum to the original contract. The fun part is that I'm getting my > book published in Spanish(!) (The little company in Spain has also asked for > the rights to Basque, Gallego, and Catalan, but they haven't come through as > easily. I guess it has about zero priority for them.) > > Asking is a good starting point. > > Cheers, > Barbara > ************************************************************* > Barbara Zurer Pearson, Ph.D. > Research Associate > Depts of Linguistics & Communication Disorders > RAB, 70 Butterfield Terrace > University of Massachusetts > Amherst MA 01003 > > Tel: 413-545-5023 > Fax: 413-545-2792 > > bpearson at research.umass.edu > www.umass.edu/aae/bp_indexold.htm > www.zurer.com/pearson/bilingualchild/ > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dan I. Slobin > To: info-childes at googlegroups.com > Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 3:58 PM > Subject: out of copyright > > > Well done, Ann - I mean posting your book. How did you get the > copyright back? I'd like to try that too. > > Warm regards, > Dan > > At 08:29 AM 3/31/2010, you wrote: > > I did some writing on these issues in the early 80s, particularly > addressing children who were near Katherine Nelson's Expressive end of the > continuum. My 1983 monograph, The Units of Language Acquisition, is long out > of print, but I managed to get back the copyright and it is now posted on my > web site, for the easy taking. > ann > > Ann M. Peters, PhD > Professor Emerita and Co-Graduate Chair > Department of Linguistics, 1890 East West Road > Honolulu HI 96822 808 956-8602 > ann at hawaii.edu http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/faculty/ann > > > > > ****************************************************************************************************************************** > Dan I. Slobin, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Linguistics, > University of California, Berkeley > address: email: slobin at berkeley.edu > 2323 Rose St. phone (home): 1-510-848-1769 > Berkeley, CA 94708, USA > http://psychology.berkeley.edu/faculty/profiles/dslobin.html > > ****************************************************************************************************************************** > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. > To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. > > > > > Ann Peters Mar 31 01:39PM -0700 ^<#127b961f65a2b892_digest_top> > > Hi Dan, > As Barbara said, I just asked - Cambridge in my case. Then I had to get > it scanned in and do a spell check to check for scanning errors. Good luck! > ann > > Ann M. Peters, PhD > Professor Emerita and Co-Graduate Chair > Department of Linguistics, 1890 East West Road > Honolulu HI 96822 808 956-8602 > ann at hawaii.edu http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/faculty/ann > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dan I. Slobin" > Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 12:59 pm > Subject: out of copyright > To: info-childes at googlegroups.com > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > 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. > | > > > 2323 Rose St. phone (home): > 1-510-848-1769 > > Berkeley, CA 94708, USA > http://psychology.berkeley.edu/faculty/profiles/dslobin.html > > > ****************************************************************************************************************************** > > |----------------------------------------------------------- > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Info-CHILDES" group. > To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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Psicolog?a B?sica II Facultad de Psicolog?a Universidad Complutense de Madrid Madrid 28223 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian MacWhinney" To: "CHILDES" Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 6:42 PM Subject: one million mark Dear Info-CHILDES, I was happy to notice this morning that the number of "hits" to the CHILDES home page since 2003 passed the one million mark sometime this last weekend. In this age of trillion dollar deficits and terabyte drives, a million may seem a small number. However, for a small academic discipline, it is not bad at all. Also, I have noticed that the number of hits to the web page seems to be an accelerating function, which is another nice signal. Best regards, -- 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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. From macw at cmu.edu Tue Apr 6 21:23:28 2010 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 17:23:28 -0400 Subject: ChildFREQ Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, Rasmus B??th at Lund University Cognitive Science has created a web site devoted to the analysis of lexical frequency patterns in the American and British English segments of the CHILDES corpora. The site is located at http://childfreq.sumsar.net and there is now a link to this site and the PDF of the paper describing the system from the CHILDES home page. Many thanks to Rasmus for contributing this valuable method of analyzing and exploring lexical patterns. --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 xiaoweizhao at gmail.com Wed Apr 7 00:20:27 2010 From: xiaoweizhao at gmail.com (Xiaowei) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 17:20:27 -0700 Subject: Contextual Self-organizing Map package. Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, We (Xiaowei Zhao, Ping Li and Teuvo Kohonen) have just developed a software package (CTM_pack) that can automatically derive semantic representations of words from text copora. The algorithm relies on the analyses of contextual information extracted from a text corpus, specifically, analyses of word co-occurrences in large-scale electronic database of text. Here a target word is represented as the combination of the average of all the words preceding the target and all the words following it in a text corpus. The semantic representation of the target words can be further presented to a self- organizing map (SOM, Kohonen, 2001), an unsupervised neural network model that provides efficient data extraction and representation. We present demos of how the method is applied to extract semantic representations for both Chinese and English words. Such a representation system can be used for a variety of purposes, including computational modeling of language acquisition and processing. It is also our hope that scientists working in the field of child language development can find this system useful in their studies. This work has been previously presented at the 2009 Society for Computers in Psychology. And a full paper described this system is under review now. If you are interested in this tool, please go to: http://sites.google.com/site/xiaoweizhao/tools to download it. The program is written in MatLab, and should be run under the MatLab Enviroment. Your comments and suggestions on the program are extremely welcome! Best wishes, Xiaowei Zhao Xiaowei Zhao, Ph.D. Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Psychology Colgate University Hamilton, NY 13346 Phone: 315-228-6717 Email: xzhao at colgate.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 sbresee at umd.edu Wed Apr 7 02:01:28 2010 From: sbresee at umd.edu (sbresee at umd.edu) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 22:01:28 -0400 Subject: ChildFREQ In-Reply-To: <41EF4C6C-DA6B-4503-9FC3-F8F929DF3A74@cmu.edu> Message-ID: The graphing of words is delightful! One of our oldest son's favorite early words was dog. I graphed it for 12 to 71 months and it was a smooth decelerating curve. When I graphed it for 6 months to 71 months, however, the graph was uneven for the 12 to 71 part that had been smooth. Why did the graph change? Thank you Rasmus. Susan ---- Original message ---- >Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 17:23:28 -0400 >From: Brian MacWhinney >Subject: ChildFREQ >To: CHILDES >Cc: Rasmus B??th > >Dear Info-CHILDES, > > Rasmus B??th at Lund University Cognitive Science has created a web site devoted to the analysis of lexical frequency patterns in the American and British English segments of the CHILDES corpora. The site is located at http://childfreq.sumsar.net and there is now a link to this site and the PDF of the paper describing the system from the CHILDES home page. Many thanks to Rasmus for contributing this valuable method of analyzing and exploring lexical patterns. > >--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. > -- 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 rasmus.baath at gmail.com Wed Apr 7 18:35:29 2010 From: rasmus.baath at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?B?UmFzbXVzIELl5XRo?=) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 11:35:29 -0700 Subject: ChildFREQ In-Reply-To: <20100406220128.BWO34313@po3.mail.umd.edu> Message-ID: Hi Susan, well the boring answer is that this is how the data looks. When you change 12 into 6 the data points are shifted so that he first data point that contained counts from 12-24 now contain counts from 6-18. If you change the time resolution (group size) from 12 to 6 you will see how the word count is distributed at a higher resolution, here you will also see that the graph is more uneven. When using ChildFreq one should be aware that there is not much data for very young and very old children, thus count data from them is quite unreliable. How many word tokens the tokens/1000,000 measure is based om is reported in the table below the graph. I hope this answered your question! /Rasmus On Apr 7, 4:01?am, wrote: > The graphing of words is delightful! One of our oldest son's favorite early words was dog. I graphed it for 12 to 71 months and it was a smooth decelerating curve. When I graphed it for 6 months to 71 months, however, the graph was uneven for the 12 to 71 part that had been smooth. Why did the graph change? Thank you Rasmus. ? > Susan > > ---- Original message ---- > >Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 17:23:28 -0400 > >From: Brian MacWhinney ? > >Subject: ChildFREQ ? > >To: CHILDES > >Cc: Rasmus B??th > > >Dear Info-CHILDES, > > > ? Rasmus B??th at Lund University Cognitive Science has created a web site devoted to the analysis of lexical frequency patterns in the American and British English segments of the CHILDES corpora. ?The site is located athttp://childfreq.sumsar.netand there is now a link to this site and the PDF of the paper describing the system from the CHILDES home page. ?Many thanks to Rasmus for contributing this valuable method of analyzing and exploring lexical patterns. > > >--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 athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. From serratrice at manchester.ac.uk Thu Apr 8 14:39:22 2010 From: serratrice at manchester.ac.uk (Ludovica Serratrice) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 15:39:22 +0100 Subject: IASCL 2011 - Second Call for Papers Message-ID: Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al (UQ?M), Montreal, Canada Tuesday, July 19 to Saturday, July 23, 2011 Second Call for Papers Call Deadline: 01-Aug-2010 (symposia) 01-Oct-2010 (posters) Call for Papers A number of keynote speakers have been invited. There will be a plenary session (keynote speaker) each day of the conference. Confirmed speakers are Deb Roy (MIT), Simon Fisher (Oxford), Fred Genesee (McGill), Penelope Brown (MPI, NL). We are aiming for keynote presentations that will inform the general community of child language researchers with state of the art and latest advances and challenges in multidisciplinary areas of interests. We expect to have a few invited symposia (10-15%) on topics of general interest and closely related to the theme of the conference. However, the great majority of thematic sessions will be those submitted by participants on original, previously unpublished research on any aspect of child language. Symposia are 2 hours in duration and there are 4 presentations in each symposium. The submission deadline for symposium abstracts is Aug 1 2010. As with the last conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, there will be allocated time periods for poster sessions, with no other parallel sessions. Also, note that we will not feature independent oral presentations, as we are moving towards thematic sessions and individual poster presentations only. The submission deadline for individual poster abstracts will be Oct 1 2010. For more information about submissions, please visit: http://iascl2011.org/submission.php Thank you for your interest. We look forward to receiving your proposal. The organising committee. ? -- 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 mcfrank at mit.edu Fri Apr 9 18:33:50 2010 From: mcfrank at mit.edu (Michael C. Frank) Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 14:33:50 -0400 Subject: Research Assistant position at Stanford Message-ID: Hi all, Please forward this job posting to students or others that you think might be interested in applying. Thanks! Mike ----------------------- Research assistant job in Michael Frank's lab at Stanford University Interested in language, cognition, and development? The Department of Psychology is looking for a full time Research Assistant. This is a one year fixed term position with possibility of renewal. RA will assist with empirical work on language learning, social development, and cross-cultural cognition. Duties will include assisting in designing, creating, running, and analyzing experiments with infants, children, and adults (including experiments delivered using web-based platforms); coordinating and recruiting undergraduate research assistants; coordinate participant recruitment; and assisting in planning lab events and meetings. Other optional opportunities: RA may have opportunities for scientific creativity on conference presentations and journal articles. There may also be opportunities for international travel to collaboration sites in India, Brazil, or Indonesia. Qualifications: RA should have working knowledge of MS Office and good organizational and communication skills. Frequent email and phone communication will be necessary, and keeping organized (scheduling and record-keeping) is an essential part of the job. Previous research experience is strongly preferred. A good candidate will have additional technical skills such as programming (Flash, Matlab, and R especially, but shell scripting, Perl, or Java also useful), statistical knowledge, and graphic design (Photoshop/Illustrator/Dreamweaver). Must be a quick learner, able to work independently, and show initiative. The position is ideal for individuals who wish to further their research training. To apply, go to http://jobs.stanford.edu/, type 37792 in ?Keyword Search? box, and click ?Search.? Please email mcfrank at stanford.edu with any questions. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. From kristine at hum.aau.dk Sat Apr 10 08:04:02 2010 From: kristine at hum.aau.dk (Kristine Jensen de Lopez) Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 01:04:02 -0700 Subject: LIMoBiS 2010 - Final Call for Papers Message-ID: *** SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR ABSTRACTS *** EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF all abstracts APRIL 30th LIMoBiS 2010 Language Impairment in Monolingual and Bilingual Society Speakers: Sharon Armon-Lotem, Bar-Ilan University Dorothy V. M. Bishop, Oxford University Nicola Botting, City University London Daniela Brizzolara, University of Pisa Medical School Kathryn Kohnert, University of Minnesota Jan de Jong, University of Amsterdam Laurie Anne Tuller, Universit? Fran?ois Rabelais Theodoros Marinis, University of Reading Dates: 27th September ? 1st October 2010 Venue: Aalborg, Denmark Don?t miss the preconference Ph.D. course September 27th-28th. Web site: http://limobis.aau.dk/speakers.html Language Impairment in Monolingual and Bilingual Society is an interdisciplinary conference that brings together psychologists, linguistics, and speech and language professionals who work on language acquisition and cognition in children with typical and atypical language development and who are acquiring one language or more. The goal of the conference is to integrate knowledge about typical and atypical language development in monolingual and bilingual environments. All topics related to language impairment in monolingual and multilingual populations are welcomed. For more information, please contact the local organizers: limobis at hum.aau.dk The registration fee concludes a wine reception at the Utzon Center, lunch, beverages, fruit and a conference dinner. This conference is supported by: Cognitive Psychology Unit & NASUD Doctoral Programme in Human Centered Communication and Informatics Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. From monkeybusiness26 at gmail.com Sat Apr 10 16:34:05 2010 From: monkeybusiness26 at gmail.com (antje Van Oosten) Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 17:34:05 +0100 Subject: No subject Message-ID: http://MarlenDirth3294.co.cc -- 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 reilly1 at mail.sdsu.edu Tue Apr 13 15:55:57 2010 From: reilly1 at mail.sdsu.edu (Judy Reilly) Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:55:57 -0700 Subject: IASCL 2011 - Second Call for Papers In-Reply-To: <20100408153922703.00000006012@HD-00A2801> Message-ID: Salut Josie, J'ai recu ce notice et je pensais qu'on peut postuler les narrations LI orales si tu veux. Et peut-etre ton equipe aura aussi autres choses? que penses tu? est-ce qu'il y a autres personnes qui travaillent sur les narrations our les LI ou on peut faire un symposium? bisous judy Judy Reilly Professor, Psychology San Diego State University 6330 Alvarado Ct Suit 208 San Diego, CA 92120 619-594-2840 On Apr 8, 2010, at 7:39 AM, Ludovica Serratrice wrote: > Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al (UQ?M), Montreal, Canada Tuesday, > July 19 to Saturday, July 23, 2011 > > Second Call for Papers > Call Deadline: 01-Aug-2010 (symposia) > 01-Oct-2010 (posters) > > Call for Papers > > A number of keynote speakers have been invited. There will be a > plenary session (keynote speaker) each day of the conference. > Confirmed speakers are Deb Roy (MIT), Simon Fisher (Oxford), Fred > Genesee (McGill), Penelope Brown (MPI, NL). We are aiming for keynote > presentations that will inform the general community of child > language researchers with state of the art and latest advances and > challenges in multidisciplinary areas of interests. > > We expect to have a few invited symposia (10-15%) on topics of > general interest and closely related to the theme of the conference. > However, the great majority of thematic sessions will be those > submitted by participants on original, previously unpublished > research on any aspect of child language. Symposia are 2 hours in > duration and there are 4 presentations in each symposium. The > submission deadline for symposium abstracts is Aug 1 2010. > > As with the last conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, there will be > allocated time periods for poster sessions, with no other parallel > sessions. Also, note that we will not feature independent oral > presentations, as we are moving towards thematic sessions and > individual poster presentations only. The submission deadline for > individual poster abstracts will be Oct 1 2010. > > For more information about submissions, please visit: > http://iascl2011.org/submission.php > > Thank you for your interest. We look forward to receiving your > proposal. > > The organising committee. > > > > > -- > 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 > . > -- 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 rbahr at cas.usf.edu Wed Apr 14 13:38:18 2010 From: rbahr at cas.usf.edu (Bahr, Ruth) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:38:18 -0400 Subject: Position description In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Could you please post this position on CHILDES? Thank you! Ruth Bahr Ruth Huntley Bahr, Ph.D. Professor Director, Graduate Speech-Language Pathology Program Dept. of Communication Sciences and Disorders Cognitive and Neural Sciences 4202 E. Fowler Ave. PCD 1017 University of South Florida Tampa, FL 33620 Phone: 813-974-3182 Fax: 813-974-0822 email: rbahr at cas.usf.edu http://csd.bcs.usf.edu/graduate/masters.aspx Board Certified Specialist in Child Language -- 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. 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Preferred qualifications: 1) Eligible for CCC, 2) Expertise in one of the following areas: child language and literacy or adult neurogenic disorders. 3) Interest in bilingualism, especially Spanish. Other specialty areas in SLP will be considered. For consideration at the rank of Associate Professor, the applicant must have a record of scholarly productivity and evidence of a research program that could lead to external funding. For consideration at the rank of Assistant Professor, the applicant must demonstrate potential for scholarly publications and show promise of a research program that could lead to external funding. Summer teaching is possible. Responsibilities: Develop and teach graduate and undergraduate courses in areas of specialty; advise Master's and Doctoral students. Conduct research, seek external funding, publish in areas of interest, and provide service to the department, college, university, and profession. Salary: Negotiable, depending upon qualifications. Application Process: Applicants must apply for this position through the USF on-line employment application system, Careers at USF https://employment.usf.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/Welcome_css.jsp (view faculty positions for the College of Behavioral and Community Sciences, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, position 17140), enter basic demographic information and upload letter of intent, CV, and other requested information on-line. The posting is open until filled, but the review of applications will begin on May 17, 2010. Applications must include (1) a letter of interest which describes the candidate's research agenda and teaching philosophy, (2) curriculum vita, (3) graduate transcripts, (4) three letters of recommendation, and (5) a maximum of three reprints of representative publications. For additional information, you may contact Ruth Huntley Bahr, Ph.D., Search Committee Chair, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, rbahr at cas.usf.edu or (813) 974-3182. -- 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 lmorett at ucsc.edu Sun Apr 18 08:13:12 2010 From: lmorett at ucsc.edu (Laura Morett) Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 01:13:12 -0700 Subject: Perception of children's vs. adult L2 learners' errors Message-ID: I am in the process of writing my qualifying paper, and one of my sections focuses on differences in children's vs. adult L2 learners' phonological acquisition. Does anyone know of any research concerning how children's and L2 learners' pronunciation errors are perceived by their interlocutors? It seems intuitive that children's errors would be more likely to be overlooked and would be perceived as "cute," whereas L2 learners' errors would be more likely to be perceived as "annoying" (and perhaps even as "uneducated"); however, I have as yet been unable to locate any research substantiating this claim, and I am admittedly not very well-versed in this particular line of research. If any such research exists, I would greatly appreciate if if you could point me to it. Thanks, Laura ************************************************************************************************ Laura Maribeth Morett Ph.D. Student Cognitive Psychology Area Department of Psychology University of California, Santa Cruz Office: Social Sciences 2, Room 419 Lab: Bilingualism & Cognition, SS2 411 Mailstop: Psychology Faculty Services Phone: (831) 459-4592 Fax: (831) 459-5319 Personal website: http://people.ucsc.edu/~lmorett Email: lmorett at ucsc.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 miquel.serra at ub.edu Tue Apr 20 17:05:20 2010 From: miquel.serra at ub.edu (Miquel Serra) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:05:20 +0200 Subject: one million mark In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Many thanks and a big bravo, Brian! I'm a bit late, but nonetheless merciful for your far reaching and lasting work! The international community of psychologists, linguists and child researchers will always be in debt with you Miquel Serra Professor University of Barcelona -- 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 Tue Apr 20 17:38:43 2010 From: roeper at linguist.umass.edu (Tom Roeper) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:38:43 -0400 Subject: one million mark In-Reply-To: <4BCDDED0.4010905@ub.edu> Message-ID: Brian--- one million is a great success. And like many things, but not all, making data universally accessible is an important step in the democratization of knowledge. I am glad that the field of acquisition is in the forefront of this movement. And unlike other databases, acquisition data requires calls for labor and some expertise in its collection. It is a tribute to those who share their data as well. In principle all data gathered under government grants should be open to everyone. Tom Roeper On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Miquel Serra wrote: > Many thanks and a big bravo, Brian! > I'm a bit late, but nonetheless merciful for your far reaching and lasting > work! > The international community of psychologists, linguists and child > researchers will always be in debt with you > > Miquel Serra > Professor > University of Barcelona > > -- > 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. > > -- 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. 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Directora General de Investigaci?n Vicerrector?a de Investigaci?n y Estudios de Posgrado Benem?rita Universidad Auton?ma de Puebla 4 Sur 303 (Altos) Centro Hist?rico, Puebla, Puebla, 72000, M?xico, Tel. oficina: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext. 5737 Fax: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext.5631 Email- rosa.montes at gmail.com, rosa.montes at viep.buap.mx On Mar 29, 11:42?am, Brian MacWhinney wrote: > Dear Info-CHILDES, > > ? ? I was happy to notice this morning that the number of "hits" to the CHILDES home page since 2003 passed the one million mark sometime this last weekend. ?In this age of trillion dollar deficits and terabyte drives, a million may seem a small number. ?However, for a small academic discipline, it is not bad at all. ?Also, I have noticed that the number of hits to the web page seems to be an accelerating function, which is another nice signal. > > Best regards, > > -- 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 annickej at yahoo.com Thu Apr 22 07:08:59 2010 From: annickej at yahoo.com (Annick De Houwer) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:08:59 -0700 Subject: one million mark In-Reply-To: <6c4cee09-9ef0-4712-a90d-dfea975beb0e@a9g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> Message-ID: I want to add to all the congratulations! A monumental and great job, Brian, for which you deserve gratitude and recognition. CHILDES members, how can we make sure Brian's work gets LASTING gratitude and recognition? Annick Annick De Houwer, PhD Chair for Language Acquisition and Language Teaching Director of the Language Center University of Erfurt, Germany http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachlehr-und-lernforschung/personen/de-houwer/ http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachenzentrum/personen/ please refer to http://www.multilingualmatters.com for the two books on early bilingualism I published last year Postal address: Frau Prof. Dr. A. De Houwer Sprachwissenschaft (Anglistik) Universit?t Erfurt Nordh?user Str. 63 D-99089 Erfurt Germany tel. +49-361-737-4331 (secretary: -2700 or -4320) fax +49-361-737-4329 On Apr 21, 5:44?pm, Rosa Montes wrote: > Congratulations Brian! The list and site are wonderful resources for > researchers and they are especially appreciated in places where access > to other resources is limited. > > Thank you for all your efforts and your unflagging enthusiasm, > > Rosa > > -- > Dra. Rosa Graciela Montes Mir? > Directora General de Investigaci?n > Vicerrector?a de Investigaci?n y Estudios de Posgrado > Benem?rita Universidad Auton?ma de Puebla > 4 Sur 303 (Altos) > Centro Hist?rico, Puebla, > Puebla, 72000, M?xico, > > Tel. oficina: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext. 5737 > Fax: ?+52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext.5631 > > Email- rosa.mon... at gmail.com, rosa.mon... at viep.buap.mx > > On Mar 29, 11:42?am, Brian MacWhinney wrote: > > > Dear Info-CHILDES, > > > ? ? I was happy to notice this morning that the number of "hits" to the CHILDES home page since 2003 passed the one million mark sometime this last weekend. ?In this age of trillion dollar deficits and terabyte drives, a million may seem a small number. ?However, for a small academic discipline, it is not bad at all. ?Also, I have noticed that the number of hits to the web page seems to be an accelerating function, which is another nice signal. > > > Best regards, > > > -- 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 athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. -- 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 aliyah.morgenstern at gmail.com Thu Apr 22 07:12:28 2010 From: aliyah.morgenstern at gmail.com (Aliyah MORGENSTERN) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:12:28 +0200 Subject: one million mark In-Reply-To: <762637da-7b85-41c3-809d-4e7baad9bab8@k36g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> Message-ID: Dear Annick, by USING CHILDES, CLAn and other compatible software and transmitting our knowledge about CHILDES and data to generations of young students passionate about child language...so that they continue using it in honor of Brian and all the people who have helped him. Best, Aliyah MORGENSTERN Professeur de linguistique Universit? Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 Institut du Monde Anglophone 5 rue de l'Ecole de M?decine 75006 Paris Le 22 avr. 10 ? 09:08, Annick De Houwer a ?crit : > I want to add to all the congratulations! A monumental and great job, > Brian, for which you deserve gratitude and recognition. CHILDES > members, how can we make sure Brian's work gets LASTING gratitude and > recognition? > > Annick > > Annick De Houwer, PhD > Chair for Language Acquisition and Language Teaching > Director of the Language Center > University of Erfurt, Germany > > http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachlehr-und-lernforschung/personen/de-houwer/ > http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachenzentrum/personen/ > > please refer to http://www.multilingualmatters.com for the two books > on early bilingualism I published last year > > Postal address: > Frau Prof. Dr. A. De Houwer > Sprachwissenschaft (Anglistik) > Universit?t Erfurt > Nordh?user Str. 63 > D-99089 Erfurt > Germany > > tel. +49-361-737-4331 (secretary: -2700 or -4320) > fax +49-361-737-4329 > > On Apr 21, 5:44 pm, Rosa Montes wrote: >> Congratulations Brian! The list and site are wonderful resources for >> researchers and they are especially appreciated in places where >> access >> to other resources is limited. >> >> Thank you for all your efforts and your unflagging enthusiasm, >> >> Rosa >> >> -- >> Dra. Rosa Graciela Montes Mir? >> Directora General de Investigaci?n >> Vicerrector?a de Investigaci?n y Estudios de Posgrado >> Benem?rita Universidad Auton?ma de Puebla >> 4 Sur 303 (Altos) >> Centro Hist?rico, Puebla, >> Puebla, 72000, M?xico, >> >> Tel. oficina: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext. 5737 >> Fax: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext.5631 >> >> Email- rosa.mon... at gmail.com, rosa.mon... at viep.buap.mx >> >> On Mar 29, 11:42 am, Brian MacWhinney wrote: >> >>> Dear Info-CHILDES, >> >>> I was happy to notice this morning that the number of "hits" >>> to the CHILDES home page since 2003 passed the one million mark >>> sometime this last weekend. In this age of trillion dollar >>> deficits and terabyte drives, a million may seem a small number. >>> However, for a small academic discipline, it is not bad at all. >>> Also, I have noticed that the number of hits to the web page seems >>> to be an accelerating function, which is another nice signal. >> >>> Best regards, >> >>> -- 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 athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en >> . > > -- > 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 > . > -- 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 kevin at dotmon.com Fri Apr 23 18:44:21 2010 From: kevin at dotmon.com (donnek) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:44:21 -0700 Subject: Compiling Unix-CLAN? Message-ID: I was just wondering if anyone has succeeded in compiling Unix-CLAN recently. I have tried running make on two different Linux distros, and get a slew of errors. I'm assuming all you're supposed to do is run make - there is no configure script, and no README either, so I may be wrong :-) The Windows version of CLAN seems to run fine on WINE, but I would like to be able to access CLAN commands via piping or a web-interface, and I don't think that would be possible with WINE, whereas it should be with a Linux version. -- 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 nikvenieris at gmail.com Fri Apr 23 20:17:48 2010 From: nikvenieris at gmail.com (Nikolas Venieris) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:17:48 -0700 Subject: Type Token Ratio and Mean Length of Utterance in Modern Greek Message-ID: Good evening. I would like to ask if there is a research about the correlation of Type-Token Ratio and the Mean Length of Utterance in written language in modern Greek, in children who are diagnosed with SLI or Dyslexia? Thank you. -- 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 gleason at bu.edu Sat Apr 24 04:15:38 2010 From: gleason at bu.edu (Jean Berko Gleason) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 00:15:38 -0400 Subject: one million mark In-Reply-To: <762637da-7b85-41c3-809d-4e7baad9bab8@k36g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> Message-ID: Annick is (as ever) right. Brian should receive some recognition that goes beyond our heartfelt thanks. He should receive an official award, prize, something, that will have lasting value and that will indicate to the world that he has made a great contribution to our field. I think APA has a variety of similar awards that he could be a candidate for , but probably most of the members of info-childes are not APA members. Here's one possibility: How about if we encourage IASCL to establish an award for outstanding contributions to the field of language acquisition. We name it the Brian MacWhinney Award and Brian is the first recipient and gets the prize (medal, plaque, cheque, box of chocolates, whatever) at the Montreal meeting. The IASCL will be asked to have a committee that thereafter will receive and evaluate nominations, and every 3 years thereafter some other deserving soul will receive the IASCL Brian MacWhinney Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Language Acquisition. Something like that. Don't all volunteer at once. Since it is discussion and not planning I'm not trying to hide anything from Brian. jean Jean Berko Gleason, Professor Emerita Department of Psychology Boston University http://www.bu.edu/psych/faculty/gleason/ Annick De Houwer wrote: > I want to add to all the congratulations! A monumental and great job, > Brian, for which you deserve gratitude and recognition. CHILDES > members, how can we make sure Brian's work gets LASTING gratitude and > recognition? > > Annick > > Annick De Houwer, PhD > Chair for Language Acquisition and Language Teaching > Director of the Language Center > University of Erfurt, Germany > > http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachlehr-und-lernforschung/personen/de-houwer/ > http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachenzentrum/personen/ > > please refer to http://www.multilingualmatters.com for the two books > on early bilingualism I published last year > > Postal address: > Frau Prof. Dr. A. De Houwer > Sprachwissenschaft (Anglistik) > Universit?t Erfurt > Nordh?user Str. 63 > D-99089 Erfurt > Germany > > tel. +49-361-737-4331 (secretary: -2700 or -4320) > fax +49-361-737-4329 > > On Apr 21, 5:44 pm, Rosa Montes wrote: > >> Congratulations Brian! The list and site are wonderful resources for >> researchers and they are especially appreciated in places where access >> to other resources is limited. >> >> Thank you for all your efforts and your unflagging enthusiasm, >> >> Rosa >> >> -- >> Dra. Rosa Graciela Montes Mir? >> Directora General de Investigaci?n >> Vicerrector?a de Investigaci?n y Estudios de Posgrado >> Benem?rita Universidad Auton?ma de Puebla >> 4 Sur 303 (Altos) >> Centro Hist?rico, Puebla, >> Puebla, 72000, M?xico, >> >> Tel. oficina: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext. 5737 >> Fax: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext.5631 >> >> Email- rosa.mon... at gmail.com, rosa.mon... at viep.buap.mx >> >> On Mar 29, 11:42 am, Brian MacWhinney wrote: >> >> >>> Dear Info-CHILDES, >>> >>> I was happy to notice this morning that the number of "hits" to the CHILDES home page since 2003 passed the one million mark sometime this last weekend. In this age of trillion dollar deficits and terabyte drives, a million may seem a small number. However, for a small academic discipline, it is not bad at all. Also, I have noticed that the number of hits to the web page seems to be an accelerating function, which is another nice signal. >>> >>> Best regards, >>> >>> -- 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 athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. >> > > -- 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 dalep at unm.edu Sat Apr 24 04:25:24 2010 From: dalep at unm.edu (Philip Dale) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 22:25:24 -0600 Subject: one million mark In-Reply-To: <4BD2706A.4080308@bu.edu> Message-ID: Jean?s idea is a terrific one. I really like the idea of an award not so much for individual theoretical and empirical contributions to the field, important as they are, but for doing something that enables the wider language development community to work more effectively. Philip _____ From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jean Berko Gleason Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 10:16 PM To: info-childes at googlegroups.com Subject: Re: one million mark Annick is (as ever) right. Brian should receive some recognition that goes beyond our heartfelt thanks. He should receive an official award, prize, something, that will have lasting value and that will indicate to the world that he has made a great contribution to our field. I think APA has a variety of similar awards that he could be a candidate for , but probably most of the members of info-childes are not APA members. Here's one possibility: How about if we encourage IASCL to establish an award for outstanding contributions to the field of language acquisition. We name it the Brian MacWhinney Award and Brian is the first recipient and gets the prize (medal, plaque, cheque, box of chocolates, whatever) at the Montreal meeting. The IASCL will be asked to have a committee that thereafter will receive and evaluate nominations, and every 3 years thereafter some other deserving soul will receive the IASCL Brian MacWhinney Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Language Acquisition. Something like that. Don't all volunteer at once. Since it is discussion and not planning I'm not trying to hide anything from Brian. jean Jean Berko Gleason, Professor Emerita Department of Psychology Boston University http://www.bu.edu/psych/faculty/gleason/ Annick De Houwer wrote: I want to add to all the congratulations! A monumental and great job, Brian, for which you deserve gratitude and recognition. CHILDES members, how can we make sure Brian's work gets LASTING gratitude and recognition? Annick Annick De Houwer, PhD Chair for Language Acquisition and Language Teaching Director of the Language Center University of Erfurt, Germany http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachlehr-und-lernforschung/personen/de-houwer/ http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachenzentrum/personen/ please refer to http://www.multilingualmatters.com for the two books on early bilingualism I published last year Postal address: Frau Prof. Dr. A. De Houwer Sprachwissenschaft (Anglistik) Universit?t Erfurt Nordh?user Str. 63 D-99089 Erfurt Germany tel. +49-361-737-4331 (secretary: -2700 or -4320) fax +49-361-737-4329 On Apr 21, 5:44 pm, Rosa Montes wrote: Congratulations Brian! The list and site are wonderful resources for researchers and they are especially appreciated in places where access to other resources is limited. Thank you for all your efforts and your unflagging enthusiasm, Rosa -- Dra. Rosa Graciela Montes Mir? Directora General de Investigaci?n Vicerrector?a de Investigaci?n y Estudios de Posgrado Benem?rita Universidad Auton?ma de Puebla 4 Sur 303 (Altos) Centro Hist?rico, Puebla, Puebla, 72000, M?xico, Tel. oficina: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext. 5737 Fax: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext.5631 Email- rosa.mon... at gmail.com, rosa.mon... at viep.buap.mx On Mar 29, 11:42 am, Brian MacWhinney wrote: Dear Info-CHILDES, I was happy to notice this morning that the number of "hits" to the CHILDES home page since 2003 passed the one million mark sometime this last weekend. In this age of trillion dollar deficits and terabyte drives, a million may seem a small number. However, for a small academic discipline, it is not bad at all. Also, I have noticed that the number of hits to the web page seems to be an accelerating function, which is another nice signal. Best regards, -- Brian MacWhinney -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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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 aliyah.morgenstern at gmail.com Sat Apr 24 07:03:28 2010 From: aliyah.morgenstern at gmail.com (Aliyah MORGENSTERN) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:03:28 +0200 Subject: one million mark In-Reply-To: <4BD2706A.4080308@bu.edu> Message-ID: That's a terrific idea! maybe the IASCL board members could all give their opinion. Best, Aliyah MORGENSTERN Professeur de linguistique Universit? Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 Institut du Monde Anglophone 5 rue de l'Ecole de M?decine 75006 Paris Le 24 avr. 10 ? 06:15, Jean Berko Gleason a ?crit : > Annick is (as ever) right. Brian should receive some recognition > that goes beyond our heartfelt thanks. He should receive an > official award, prize, something, that will have lasting value and > that will indicate to the world that he has made a great > contribution to our field. I think APA has a variety of similar > awards that he could be a candidate for , but probably most of the > members of info-childes are not APA members. > Here's one possibility: > > How about if we encourage IASCL to establish an award for > outstanding contributions to the field of language acquisition. We > name it the Brian MacWhinney Award and Brian is the first recipient > and gets the prize (medal, plaque, cheque, box of chocolates, > whatever) at the Montreal meeting. The IASCL will be asked to have > a committee that thereafter will receive and evaluate nominations, > and every 3 years thereafter some other deserving soul will receive > the IASCL Brian MacWhinney Award for Outstanding Contributions to > the Field of Language Acquisition. > > Something like that. Don't all volunteer at once. Since it is > discussion and not planning I'm not trying to hide anything from > Brian. > > > jean > Jean Berko Gleason, Professor Emerita > Department of Psychology > Boston University > > http://www.bu.edu/psych/faculty/gleason/ > > > Annick De Houwer wrote: >> >> I want to add to all the congratulations! A monumental and great job, >> Brian, for which you deserve gratitude and recognition. CHILDES >> members, how can we make sure Brian's work gets LASTING gratitude and >> recognition? >> >> Annick >> >> Annick De Houwer, PhD >> Chair for Language Acquisition and Language Teaching >> Director of the Language Center >> University of Erfurt, Germany >> >> http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachlehr-und-lernforschung/personen/de-houwer/ >> http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachenzentrum/personen/ >> >> please refer to http://www.multilingualmatters.com for the two books >> on early bilingualism I published last year >> >> Postal address: >> Frau Prof. Dr. A. De Houwer >> Sprachwissenschaft (Anglistik) >> Universit?t Erfurt >> Nordh?user Str. 63 >> D-99089 Erfurt >> Germany >> >> tel. +49-361-737-4331 (secretary: -2700 or -4320) >> fax +49-361-737-4329 >> >> On Apr 21, 5:44 pm, Rosa Montes wrote: >> >>> Congratulations Brian! The list and site are wonderful resources for >>> researchers and they are especially appreciated in places where >>> access >>> to other resources is limited. >>> >>> Thank you for all your efforts and your unflagging enthusiasm, >>> >>> Rosa >>> >>> -- >>> Dra. Rosa Graciela Montes Mir? >>> Directora General de Investigaci?n >>> Vicerrector?a de Investigaci?n y Estudios de Posgrado >>> Benem?rita Universidad Auton?ma de Puebla >>> 4 Sur 303 (Altos) >>> Centro Hist?rico, Puebla, >>> Puebla, 72000, M?xico, >>> >>> Tel. oficina: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext. 5737 >>> Fax: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext.5631 >>> >>> Email- rosa.mon... at gmail.com, rosa.mon... at viep.buap.mx >>> >>> On Mar 29, 11:42 am, Brian MacWhinney wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Dear Info-CHILDES, >>>> >>>> I was happy to notice this morning that the number of "hits" >>>> to the CHILDES home page since 2003 passed the one million mark >>>> sometime this last weekend. In this age of trillion dollar >>>> deficits and terabyte drives, a million may seem a small number. >>>> However, for a small academic discipline, it is not bad at all. >>>> Also, I have noticed that the number of hits to the web page >>>> seems to be an accelerating function, which is another nice signal. >>>> >>>> Best regards, >>>> >>>> -- 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 athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en >>> . >>> >> >> > > > -- > 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 > . -- 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 nratner at hesp.umd.edu Sat Apr 24 14:06:56 2010 From: nratner at hesp.umd.edu (Nan Ratner) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 10:06:56 -0400 Subject: one million mark In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I third it; I think Jean has made the point very eloquently. I know my entire academic life has been changed for the better by what Brian has done for the field. Nan Nan Bernstein Ratner, Professor and Chairman Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences 0100 Lefrak Hall University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 nratner at hesp.umd.edu http://www.bsos.umd.edu/hesp/facultyStaff/ratnern.htm 301-405-4213 301-314-2023 (fax) >>> Annick De Houwer 4/24/2010 9:51 AM >>> I second Jean's proposal. Annick On Apr 24, 9:03 am, Aliyah MORGENSTERN wrote: > That's a terrific idea! > maybe the IASCL board members could all give their opinion. > Best, > Aliyah MORGENSTERN > > Professeur de linguistique > Universit? Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 > Institut du Monde Anglophone > 5 rue de l'Ecole de M?decine > 75006 Paris > > Le 24 avr. 10 ? 06:15, Jean Berko Gleason a ?crit : > > > > > > > Annick is (as ever) right. Brian should receive some recognition > > that goes beyond our heartfelt thanks. He should receive an > > official award, prize, something, that will have lasting value and > > that will indicate to the world that he has made a great > > contribution to our field. I think APA has a variety of similar > > awards that he could be a candidate for , but probably most of the > > members of info-childes are not APA members. > > Here's one possibility: > > > How about if we encourage IASCL to establish an award for > > outstanding contributions to the field of language acquisition. We > > name it the Brian MacWhinney Award and Brian is the first recipient > > and gets the prize (medal, plaque, cheque, box of chocolates, > > whatever) at the Montreal meeting. The IASCL will be asked to have > > a committee that thereafter will receive and evaluate nominations, > > and every 3 years thereafter some other deserving soul will receive > > the IASCL Brian MacWhinney Award for Outstanding Contributions to > > the Field of Language Acquisition. > > > Something like that. Don't all volunteer at once. Since it is > > discussion and not planning I'm not trying to hide anything from > > Brian. > > > jean > > Jean Berko Gleason, Professor Emerita > > Department of Psychology > > Boston University > > >http://www.bu.edu/psych/faculty/gleason/ > > > Annick De Houwer wrote: > > >> I want to add to all the congratulations! A monumental and great job, > >> Brian, for which you deserve gratitude and recognition. CHILDES > >> members, how can we make sure Brian's work gets LASTING gratitude and > >> recognition? > > >> Annick > > >> Annick De Houwer, PhD > >> Chair for Language Acquisition and Language Teaching > >> Director of the Language Center > >> University of Erfurt, Germany > > >>http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachlehr-und-lernforschung/personen/de-hou... > >>http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachenzentrum/personen/ > > >> please refer tohttp://www.multilingualmatters.comfor the two books > >> on early bilingualism I published last year > > >> Postal address: > >> Frau Prof. Dr. A. De Houwer > >> Sprachwissenschaft (Anglistik) > >> Universit?t Erfurt > >> Nordh?user Str. 63 > >> D-99089 Erfurt > >> Germany > > >> tel. +49-361-737-4331 (secretary: -2700 or -4320) > >> fax +49-361-737-4329 > > >> On Apr 21, 5:44 pm, Rosa Montes wrote: > > >>> Congratulations Brian! The list and site are wonderful resources for > >>> researchers and they are especially appreciated in places where > >>> access > >>> to other resources is limited. > > >>> Thank you for all your efforts and your unflagging enthusiasm, > > >>> Rosa > > >>> -- > >>> Dra. Rosa Graciela Montes Mir? > >>> Directora General de Investigaci?n > >>> Vicerrector?a de Investigaci?n y Estudios de Posgrado > >>> Benem?rita Universidad Auton?ma de Puebla > >>> 4 Sur 303 (Altos) > >>> Centro Hist?rico, Puebla, > >>> Puebla, 72000, M?xico, > > >>> Tel. oficina: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext. 5737 > >>> Fax: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext.5631 > > >>> Email- rosa.mon... at gmail.com, rosa.mon... at viep.buap.mx > > >>> On Mar 29, 11:42 am, Brian MacWhinney wrote: > > >>>> Dear Info-CHILDES, > > >>>> I was happy to notice this morning that the number of "hits" > >>>> to the CHILDES home page since 2003 passed the one million mark > >>>> sometime this last weekend. In this age of trillion dollar > >>>> deficits and terabyte drives, a million may seem a small number. > >>>> However, for a small academic discipline, it is not bad at all. > >>>> Also, I have noticed that the number of hits to the web page > >>>> seems to be an accelerating function, which is another nice signal. > > >>>> Best regards, > > >>>> -- 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 athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en > >>> . > > > -- > > 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 athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en > > . > > -- > 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 athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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As a field, we were a social network before the term was even invented. Thank you Brian. Kathy On Apr 24, 2010, at 10:06 AM, Nan Ratner wrote: > I third it; I think Jean has made the point very eloquently. I know my > entire academic life has been changed for the better by what Brian has > done for the field. > Nan > > > Nan Bernstein Ratner, Professor and Chairman > Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences > 0100 Lefrak Hall > University of Maryland > College Park, MD 20742 > nratner at hesp.umd.edu > http://www.bsos.umd.edu/hesp/facultyStaff/ratnern.htm > 301-405-4213 > 301-314-2023 (fax) > >>>> Annick De Houwer 4/24/2010 9:51 AM >>> > I second Jean's proposal. > > Annick > > On Apr 24, 9:03 am, Aliyah MORGENSTERN > wrote: >> That's a terrific idea! >> maybe the IASCL board members could all give their opinion. >> Best, >> Aliyah MORGENSTERN >> >> Professeur de linguistique >> Universit? Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 >> Institut du Monde Anglophone >> 5 rue de l'Ecole de M?decine >> 75006 Paris >> >> Le 24 avr. 10 ? 06:15, Jean Berko Gleason a ?crit : >> >> >> >> >> >>> Annick is (as ever) right. Brian should receive some recognition > >>> that goes beyond our heartfelt thanks. He should receive an >>> official award, prize, something, that will have lasting value and > >>> that will indicate to the world that he has made a great >>> contribution to our field. I think APA has a variety of similar >>> awards that he could be a candidate for , but probably most of the > >>> members of info-childes are not APA members. >>> Here's one possibility: >> >>> How about if we encourage IASCL to establish an award for >>> outstanding contributions to the field of language acquisition. We > >>> name it the Brian MacWhinney Award and Brian is the first recipient > >>> and gets the prize (medal, plaque, cheque, box of chocolates, >>> whatever) at the Montreal meeting. The IASCL will be asked to have > >>> a committee that thereafter will receive and evaluate nominations, > >>> and every 3 years thereafter some other deserving soul will receive > >>> the IASCL Brian MacWhinney Award for Outstanding Contributions to > >>> the Field of Language Acquisition. >> >>> Something like that. Don't all volunteer at once. Since it is > >>> discussion and not planning I'm not trying to hide anything from >>> Brian. >> >>> jean >>> Jean Berko Gleason, Professor Emerita >>> Department of Psychology >>> Boston University >> >>> http://www.bu.edu/psych/faculty/gleason/ >> >>> Annick De Houwer wrote: >> >>>> I want to add to all the congratulations! A monumental and great > job, >>>> Brian, for which you deserve gratitude and recognition. CHILDES >>>> members, how can we make sure Brian's work gets LASTING gratitude > and >>>> recognition? >> >>>> Annick >> >>>> Annick De Houwer, PhD >>>> Chair for Language Acquisition and Language Teaching >>>> Director of the Language Center >>>> University of Erfurt, Germany >> >> >>> http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachlehr-und-lernforschung/personen/de-hou... >>>> http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachenzentrum/personen/ >> >>>> please refer tohttp://www.multilingualmatters.comfor the two > books >>>> on early bilingualism I published last year >> >>>> Postal address: >>>> Frau Prof. Dr. A. De Houwer >>>> Sprachwissenschaft (Anglistik) >>>> Universit?t Erfurt >>>> Nordh?user Str. 63 >>>> D-99089 Erfurt >>>> Germany >> >>>> tel. +49-361-737-4331 (secretary: -2700 or -4320) >>>> fax +49-361-737-4329 >> >>>> On Apr 21, 5:44 pm, Rosa Montes wrote: >> >>>>> Congratulations Brian! The list and site are wonderful resources > for >>>>> researchers and they are especially appreciated in places where > >>>>> access >>>>> to other resources is limited. >> >>>>> Thank you for all your efforts and your unflagging enthusiasm, >> >>>>> Rosa >> >>>>> -- >>>>> Dra. Rosa Graciela Montes Mir? >>>>> Directora General de Investigaci?n >>>>> Vicerrector?a de Investigaci?n y Estudios de Posgrado >>>>> Benem?rita Universidad Auton?ma de Puebla >>>>> 4 Sur 303 (Altos) >>>>> Centro Hist?rico, Puebla, >>>>> Puebla, 72000, M?xico, >> >>>>> Tel. oficina: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext. 5737 >>>>> Fax: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext.5631 >> >>>>> Email- rosa.mon... at gmail.com, rosa.mon... at viep.buap.mx >> >>>>> On Mar 29, 11:42 am, Brian MacWhinney wrote: >> >>>>>> Dear Info-CHILDES, >> >>>>>> I was happy to notice this morning that the number of "hits" > >>>>>> to the CHILDES home page since 2003 passed the one million mark > >>>>>> sometime this last weekend. In this age of trillion dollar >>>>>> deficits and terabyte drives, a million may seem a small number. > >>>>>> However, for a small academic discipline, it is not bad at all. > >>>>>> Also, I have noticed that the number of hits to the web page >>>>>> seems to be an accelerating function, which is another nice > signal. >> >>>>>> Best regards, >> >>>>>> -- 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en >>>>> . >> >>> -- >>> 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en >>> . >> >> -- >> 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. > > -- > 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. > > -- > 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. > -- 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 Lise.Menn at Colorado.EDU Sat Apr 24 14:34:34 2010 From: Lise.Menn at Colorado.EDU (Lise Menn) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 08:34:34 -0600 Subject: Digest for info-childes@googlegroups.com - 5 Messages in 3 Topics In-Reply-To: <0015175111e620475a0484fae3bb@google.com> Message-ID: I also second Jean's proposal! What do we do to make it happen? On Apr 24, 2010, at 6:43 AM, info-childes+noreply at googlegroups.com wrote: > Today's Topic Summary > Group: http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes/topics > > one million mark [3 Updates] > Type Token Ratio and Mean Length of Utterance in Modern Greek [1 > Update] > Compiling Unix-CLAN? [1 Update] > Topic: one million mark > Jean Berko Gleason Apr 24 12:15AM -0400 ^ > > Annick is (as ever) right. Brian should receive some recognition that > goes beyond our heartfelt thanks. He should receive an official award, > prize, something, that will have lasting value and that will > indicate to > the world that he has made a great contribution to our field. I think > APA has a variety of similar awards that he could be a candidate for , > but probably most of the members of info-childes are not APA members. > Here's one possibility: > > How about if we encourage IASCL to establish an award for outstanding > contributions to the field of language acquisition. We name it the > Brian MacWhinney Award and Brian is the first recipient and gets the > prize (medal, plaque, cheque, box of chocolates, whatever) at the > Montreal meeting. The IASCL will be asked to have a committee that > thereafter will receive and evaluate nominations, and every 3 years > thereafter some other deserving soul will receive the IASCL Brian > MacWhinney Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of > Language > Acquisition. > > Something like that. Don't all volunteer at once. Since it is > discussion and not planning I'm not trying to hide anything from > Brian. > > > jean > > Jean Berko Gleason, Professor Emerita > Department of Psychology > Boston University > > http://www.bu.edu/psych/faculty/gleason/ > > > > Annick De Houwer wrote: > > -- > 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 > . > > "Philip Dale" Apr 23 10:25PM -0600 ^ > > Jean?s idea is a terrific one. I really like the idea of an award > not so > much for individual theoretical and empirical contributions to the > field, > important as they are, but for doing something that enables the wider > language development community to work more effectively. > > Philip > > > > _____ > > From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com > ] > On Behalf Of Jean Berko Gleason > Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 10:16 PM > To: info-childes at googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: one million mark > > > > Annick is (as ever) right. Brian should receive some recognition > that goes > beyond our heartfelt thanks. He should receive an official award, > prize, > something, that will have lasting value and that will indicate to > the world > that he has made a great contribution to our field. I think APA has a > variety of similar awards that he could be a candidate for , but > probably > most of the members of info-childes are not APA members. > Here's one possibility: > > How about if we encourage IASCL to establish an award for outstanding > contributions to the field of language acquisition. We name it the > Brian > MacWhinney Award and Brian is the first recipient and gets the prize > (medal, > plaque, cheque, box of chocolates, whatever) at the Montreal > meeting. The > IASCL will be asked to have a committee that thereafter will receive > and > evaluate nominations, and every 3 years thereafter some other > deserving soul > will receive the IASCL Brian MacWhinney Award for Outstanding > Contributions > to the Field of Language Acquisition. > > Something like that. Don't all volunteer at once. Since it is > discussion and not planning I'm not trying to hide anything from > Brian. > > > jean > > > > > Jean Berko Gleason, Professor Emerita > Department of Psychology > Boston University > > http://www.bu.edu/psych/faculty/gleason/ > > > > Annick De Houwer wrote: > > I want to add to all the congratulations! A monumental and great job, > Brian, for which you deserve gratitude and recognition. CHILDES > members, how can we make sure Brian's work gets LASTING gratitude and > recognition? > > Annick > > Annick De Houwer, PhD > Chair for Language Acquisition and Language Teaching > Director of the Language Center > University of Erfurt, Germany > > http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachlehr-und-lernforschung/personen/de-houwer/ > http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachenzentrum/personen/ > > please refer to http://www.multilingualmatters.com for the two books > on early bilingualism I published last year > > Postal address: > Frau Prof. Dr. A. De Houwer > Sprachwissenschaft (Anglistik) > Universit?t Erfurt > Nordh?user Str. 63 > D-99089 Erfurt > Germany > > tel. +49-361-737-4331 (secretary: -2700 or -4320) > fax +49-361-737-4329 > > On Apr 21, 5:44 pm, Rosa Montes > wrote: > > > Congratulations Brian! The list and site are wonderful resources for > researchers and they are especially appreciated in places where access > to other resources is limited. > > Thank you for all your efforts and your unflagging enthusiasm, > > Rosa > > -- > Dra. Rosa Graciela Montes Mir? > Directora General de Investigaci?n > Vicerrector?a de Investigaci?n y Estudios de Posgrado > Benem?rita Universidad Auton?ma de Puebla > 4 Sur 303 (Altos) > Centro Hist?rico, Puebla, > Puebla, 72000, M?xico, > > Tel. oficina: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext. 5737 > Fax: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext.5631 > > Email- rosa.mon... at gmail.com, rosa.mon... at viep.buap.mx > > On Mar 29, 11:42 am, Brian MacWhinney > > wrote: > > > > Dear Info-CHILDES, > > > I was happy to notice this morning that the number of "hits" to the > CHILDES home page since 2003 passed the one million mark sometime > this last > weekend. In this age of trillion dollar deficits and terabyte > drives, a > million may seem a small number. However, for a small academic > discipline, > it is not bad at all. Also, I have noticed that the number of hits > to the > web page seems to be an accelerating function, which is another nice > signal. > > > Best regards, > > > -- 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. > > > > > > -- > 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. > > -- > 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 > . > > Aliyah MORGENSTERN Apr 24 09:03AM > +0200 ^ > > That's a terrific idea! > maybe the IASCL board members could all give their opinion. > Best, > Aliyah MORGENSTERN > > Professeur de linguistique > Universit? Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 > Institut du Monde Anglophone > 5 rue de l'Ecole de M?decine > 75006 Paris > > > > > Le 24 avr. 10 ? 06:15, Jean Berko Gleason a ?crit : > > > -- > 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 > . > > Topic: Type Token Ratio and Mean Length of Utterance in Modern Greek > Nikolas Venieris Apr 23 01:17PM -0700 ^ > > Good evening. > I would like to ask if there is a research about the correlation of > Type-Token Ratio > and the Mean Length of Utterance in written language in modern Greek, > in children who are diagnosed with SLI or Dyslexia? > Thank you. > > -- > 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 > . > > Topic: Compiling Unix-CLAN? > donnek Apr 23 11:44AM -0700 ^ > > I was just wondering if anyone has succeeded in compiling Unix-CLAN > recently. I have tried running make on two different Linux distros, > and get a slew of errors. I'm assuming all you're supposed to do is > run make - there is no configure script, and no README either, so I > may be wrong :-) The Windows version of CLAN seems to run fine on > WINE, but I would like to be able to access CLAN commands via piping > or a web-interface, and I don't think that would be possible with > WINE, whereas it should be with a Linux version. > > -- > 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 > . > > > -- > 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 > . Lise Menn Home Office: 303-444-4274 1625 Mariposa Ave Fax: 303-413-0017 Boulder CO 80302 home page: http://spot.colorado.edu/~menn/ Professor Emerita of Linguistics Fellow, Institute of Cognitive Science University of Colorado Secretary, AAAS Section Z [Linguistics] Fellow, Linguistic Society of America Campus Mail Address: UCB 594, Institute for Cognitive Science Campus Physical Address: CINC 234 1777 Exposition Ave, Boulder -- 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 annickej at yahoo.com Sat Apr 24 13:51:07 2010 From: annickej at yahoo.com (Annick De Houwer) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 06:51:07 -0700 Subject: one million mark In-Reply-To: <58AEFD45-BDA9-40F2-9373-6C5127107EA9@gmail.com> Message-ID: I second Jean's proposal. Annick On Apr 24, 9:03?am, Aliyah MORGENSTERN wrote: > That's a terrific idea! > maybe the IASCL board members could all give their opinion. > Best, > Aliyah MORGENSTERN > > Professeur de linguistique > Universit? Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 > Institut du Monde Anglophone > 5 rue de l'Ecole de M?decine > 75006 Paris > > Le 24 avr. 10 ? 06:15, Jean Berko Gleason a ?crit : > > > > > > > Annick is (as ever) right. ?Brian should receive some recognition ? > > that goes beyond our heartfelt thanks. ?He should receive an ? > > official award, prize, something, that will have lasting value and ? > > that will indicate to the world that he has made a great ? > > contribution to our field. ?I think APA has a variety of similar ? > > awards that he could be a candidate for , but probably most of the ? > > members of info-childes are not APA members. > > Here's one possibility: > > > How about if we encourage IASCL to establish an award for ? > > outstanding contributions to the field of language acquisition. ?We ? > > name it the Brian MacWhinney Award and Brian is the first recipient ? > > and gets the prize (medal, plaque, cheque, box of chocolates, ? > > whatever) at the Montreal meeting. ?The IASCL will be asked to have ? > > a committee that thereafter will receive and evaluate nominations, ? > > and every 3 years thereafter some other deserving soul will receive ? > > the IASCL Brian MacWhinney Award for Outstanding Contributions to ? > > the Field of Language Acquisition. > > > Something like that. ? Don't all volunteer at once. ? ?Since it is ? > > discussion and not planning I'm not trying to hide anything from ? > > Brian. > > > jean > > Jean Berko Gleason, Professor Emerita > > Department of Psychology > > Boston University > > >http://www.bu.edu/psych/faculty/gleason/ > > > Annick De Houwer wrote: > > >> I want to add to all the congratulations! A monumental and great job, > >> Brian, for which you deserve gratitude and recognition. CHILDES > >> members, how can we make sure Brian's work gets LASTING gratitude and > >> recognition? > > >> Annick > > >> Annick De Houwer, PhD > >> Chair for Language Acquisition and Language Teaching > >> Director of the Language Center > >> University of Erfurt, Germany > > >>http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachlehr-und-lernforschung/personen/de-hou... > >>http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachenzentrum/personen/ > > >> please refer tohttp://www.multilingualmatters.comfor the two books > >> on early bilingualism I published last year > > >> Postal address: > >> Frau Prof. Dr. A. De Houwer > >> Sprachwissenschaft (Anglistik) > >> Universit?t Erfurt > >> Nordh?user Str. 63 > >> D-99089 Erfurt > >> Germany > > >> tel. +49-361-737-4331 (secretary: -2700 or -4320) > >> fax +49-361-737-4329 > > >> On Apr 21, 5:44 pm, Rosa Montes wrote: > > >>> Congratulations Brian! The list and site are wonderful resources for > >>> researchers and they are especially appreciated in places where ? > >>> access > >>> to other resources is limited. > > >>> Thank you for all your efforts and your unflagging enthusiasm, > > >>> Rosa > > >>> -- > >>> Dra. Rosa Graciela Montes Mir? > >>> Directora General de Investigaci?n > >>> Vicerrector?a de Investigaci?n y Estudios de Posgrado > >>> Benem?rita Universidad Auton?ma de Puebla > >>> 4 Sur 303 (Altos) > >>> Centro Hist?rico, Puebla, > >>> Puebla, 72000, M?xico, > > >>> Tel. oficina: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext. 5737 > >>> Fax: ?+52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext.5631 > > >>> Email- rosa.mon... at gmail.com, rosa.mon... at viep.buap.mx > > >>> On Mar 29, 11:42 am, Brian MacWhinney wrote: > > >>>> Dear Info-CHILDES, > > >>>> ? ? I was happy to notice this morning that the number of "hits" ? > >>>> to the CHILDES home page since 2003 passed the one million mark ? > >>>> sometime this last weekend. ?In this age of trillion dollar ? > >>>> deficits and terabyte drives, a million may seem a small number. ? > >>>> However, for a small academic discipline, it is not bad at all. ? > >>>> Also, I have noticed that the number of hits to the web page ? > >>>> seems to be an accelerating function, which is another nice signal. > > >>>> Best regards, > > >>>> -- 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 athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en > >>> . > > > -- > > 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 athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en > > . > > -- > 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 athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. From djackson at uaq.mx Sat Apr 24 15:08:22 2010 From: djackson at uaq.mx (Donna Jackson) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 10:08:22 -0500 Subject: one million mark In-Reply-To: <4BD2706A.4080308@bu.edu> Message-ID: I vote in favor of Jean?s proposal. There should be a special award. We should bring it up with the IASCL board. How do we start this? Does anyone know? Donna Jackson-Maldonado Jean Berko Gleason escribi?: > Annick is (as ever) right. Brian should receive some recognition that > goes beyond our heartfelt thanks. He should receive an official > award, prize, something, that will have lasting value and that will > indicate to the world that he has made a great contribution to our > field. I think APA has a variety of similar awards that he could be a > candidate for , but probably most of the members of info-childes are > not APA members. > Here's one possibility: > > How about if we encourage IASCL to establish an award for outstanding > contributions to the field of language acquisition. We name it the > Brian MacWhinney Award and Brian is the first recipient and gets the > prize (medal, plaque, cheque, box of chocolates, whatever) at the > Montreal meeting. The IASCL will be asked to have a committee that > thereafter will receive and evaluate nominations, and every 3 years > thereafter some other deserving soul will receive the IASCL Brian > MacWhinney Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of > Language Acquisition. > > Something like that. Don't all volunteer at once. Since it is > discussion and not planning I'm not trying to hide anything from Brian. > > > jean > Jean Berko Gleason, Professor Emerita > Department of Psychology > Boston University > > http://www.bu.edu/psych/faculty/gleason/ > > > > Annick De Houwer wrote: >> I want to add to all the congratulations! A monumental and great job, >> Brian, for which you deserve gratitude and recognition. CHILDES >> members, how can we make sure Brian's work gets LASTING gratitude and >> recognition? >> >> Annick >> >> Annick De Houwer, PhD >> Chair for Language Acquisition and Language Teaching >> Director of the Language Center >> University of Erfurt, Germany >> >> http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachlehr-und-lernforschung/personen/de-houwer/ >> http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachenzentrum/personen/ >> >> please refer to http://www.multilingualmatters.com for the two books >> on early bilingualism I published last year >> >> Postal address: >> Frau Prof. Dr. A. De Houwer >> Sprachwissenschaft (Anglistik) >> Universit?t Erfurt >> Nordh?user Str. 63 >> D-99089 Erfurt >> Germany >> >> tel. +49-361-737-4331 (secretary: -2700 or -4320) >> fax +49-361-737-4329 >> >> On Apr 21, 5:44 pm, Rosa Montes wrote: >> >>> Congratulations Brian! The list and site are wonderful resources for >>> researchers and they are especially appreciated in places where access >>> to other resources is limited. >>> >>> Thank you for all your efforts and your unflagging enthusiasm, >>> >>> Rosa >>> >>> -- >>> Dra. Rosa Graciela Montes Mir? >>> Directora General de Investigaci?n >>> Vicerrector?a de Investigaci?n y Estudios de Posgrado >>> Benem?rita Universidad Auton?ma de Puebla >>> 4 Sur 303 (Altos) >>> Centro Hist?rico, Puebla, >>> Puebla, 72000, M?xico, >>> >>> Tel. oficina: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext. 5737 >>> Fax: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext.5631 >>> >>> Email- rosa.mon... at gmail.com, rosa.mon... at viep.buap.mx >>> >>> On Mar 29, 11:42 am, Brian MacWhinney wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Dear Info-CHILDES, >>>> >>>> I was happy to notice this morning that the number of "hits" to the CHILDES home page since 2003 passed the one million mark sometime this last weekend. In this age of trillion dollar deficits and terabyte drives, a million may seem a small number. However, for a small academic discipline, it is not bad at all. Also, I have noticed that the number of hits to the web page seems to be an accelerating function, which is another nice signal. >>>> >>>> Best regards, >>>> >>>> -- 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 athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. >>> >> >> > -- > 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. -- Dr. Donna Jackson-Maldonado Facultad de Lenguas y Letras Universidad Aut?noma de Quer?taro Quer?taro, M?xico tel & fax: (52) 442 2180264 office: (52) 442 1921200 x. 6120/6114 web: www.donnajackson.weebly.com e-mail: djackson at uaq.mx or djacksonmal at hotmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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Journal of Child Language, 12, 271-295. MacWhinney, B. and Snow, C. (1990). The Child Language Data Exchange System: An update. Journal of Child Language, 17, 457-472. Snow, C. E. and Sokolov, J. L. (1994). Handbook of Research in Language Development Using Childes. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Anat Ninio -- 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 sophie_rimbaud at yahoo.fr Sat Apr 24 15:23:08 2010 From: sophie_rimbaud at yahoo.fr (Sophie Rimbaud) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 08:23:08 -0700 Subject: Compiling Unix-CLAN? In-Reply-To: <89ed3619-7127-489d-b12e-6778eac5c4bd@j21g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> Message-ID: Hi, I am a Lunix-user and i am also a Clan user but i can't use it on Linux, i have to use windows and it doesn't work well. Is there an update for Unix version of the CLAN editor? On 23 avr, 20:44, donnek wrote: > I was just wondering if anyone has succeeded in compiling Unix-CLAN > recently. ?I have tried running make on two different Linux distros, > and get a slew of errors. ?I'm assuming all you're supposed to do is > run make - there is no configure script, and no README either, so I > may be wrong :-) ?The Windows version of CLAN seems to run fine on > WINE, but I would like to be able to access CLAN commands via piping > or a web-interface, and I don't think that would be possible with > WINE, whereas it should be with a Linux version. > > -- > 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 athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. -- 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 Apr 24 16:13:06 2010 From: k1n at psu.edu (Keith Nelson) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 12:13:06 -0400 Subject: one million mark In-Reply-To: <4BD2C2CA.DA94.005A.0@hesp.umd.edu> Message-ID: I FOURTH IT ! Great idea. Keith At 10:06 AM -0400 4/24/10, Nan Ratner wrote: >I third it; I think Jean has made the point very eloquently. I know my >entire academic life has been changed for the better by what Brian has >done for the field. >Nan > > >Nan Bernstein Ratner, Professor and Chairman >Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences >0100 Lefrak Hall >University of Maryland >College Park, MD 20742 >nratner at hesp.umd.edu >http://www.bsos.umd.edu/hesp/facultyStaff/ratnern.htm >301-405-4213 >301-314-2023 (fax) > >>>> Annick De Houwer 4/24/2010 9:51 AM >>> >I second Jean's proposal. > >Annick > >On Apr 24, 9:03 am, Aliyah MORGENSTERN >wrote: >> That's a terrific idea! >> maybe the IASCL board members could all give their opinion. >> Best, >> Aliyah MORGENSTERN >> >> Professeur de linguistique >> Universit? Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 >> Institut du Monde Anglophone >> 5 rue de l'Ecole de M?decine >> 75006 Paris >> >> Le 24 avr. 10 ? 06:15, Jean Berko Gleason a ?crit : >> >> >> >> >> >> > Annick is (as ever) right. Brian should receive some recognition > >> > that goes beyond our heartfelt thanks. He should receive an? >> > official award, prize, something, that will have lasting value and > >> > that will indicate to the world that he has made a great? >> > contribution to our field. I think APA has a variety of similar? >> > awards that he could be a candidate for , but probably most of the > >> > members of info-childes are not APA members. >> > Here's one possibility: >> >> > How about if we encourage IASCL to establish an award for? >> > outstanding contributions to the field of language acquisition. We > >> > name it the Brian MacWhinney Award and Brian is the first recipient > >> > and gets the prize (medal, plaque, cheque, box of chocolates,? >> > whatever) at the Montreal meeting. The IASCL will be asked to have > >> > a committee that thereafter will receive and evaluate nominations, > >> > and every 3 years thereafter some other deserving soul will receive > >> > the IASCL Brian MacWhinney Award for Outstanding Contributions to > >> > the Field of Language Acquisition. > > >> > Something like that. Don't all volunteer at once. Since it is > >> > discussion and not planning I'm not trying to hide anything from? >> > Brian. >> >> > jean >> > Jean Berko Gleason, Professor Emerita >> > Department of Psychology >> > Boston University >> >> >http://www.bu.edu/psych/faculty/gleason/ >> >> > Annick De Houwer wrote: >> >> >> I want to add to all the congratulations! A monumental and great >job, >> >> Brian, for which you deserve gratitude and recognition. CHILDES >> >> members, how can we make sure Brian's work gets LASTING gratitude >and >> >> recognition? >> >> >> Annick >> >> >> Annick De Houwer, PhD >> >> Chair for Language Acquisition and Language Teaching >> >> Director of the Language Center >> >> University of Erfurt, Germany >> >> >>>http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachlehr-und-lernforschung/personen/de-hou... >> >>http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachenzentrum/personen/ >> >> >> please refer tohttp://www.multilingualmatters.comfor the two >books >> >> on early bilingualism I published last year >> >> >> Postal address: >> >> Frau Prof. Dr. A. De Houwer >> >> Sprachwissenschaft (Anglistik) >> >> Universit?t Erfurt >> >> Nordh?user Str. 63 >> >> D-99089 Erfurt >> >> Germany >> >> >> tel. +49-361-737-4331 (secretary: -2700 or -4320) >> >> fax +49-361-737-4329 >> >> >> On Apr 21, 5:44 pm, Rosa Montes wrote: >> >> >>> Congratulations Brian! The list and site are wonderful resources >for >> >>> researchers and they are especially appreciated in places where > >> >>> access >> >>> to other resources is limited. >> >> >>> Thank you for all your efforts and your unflagging enthusiasm, >> >> >>> Rosa >> >> >>> -- >> >>> Dra. Rosa Graciela Montes Mir? >> >>> Directora General de Investigaci?n >> >>> Vicerrector?a de Investigaci?n y Estudios de Posgrado >> >>> Benem?rita Universidad Auton?ma de Puebla >> >>> 4 Sur 303 (Altos) >> >>> Centro Hist?rico, Puebla, > > >>> Puebla, 72000, M?xico, >> >> >>> Tel. oficina: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext. 5737 >> >>> Fax: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext.5631 >> >> >>> Email- rosa.mon... at gmail.com, rosa.mon... at viep.buap.mx >> >> >>> On Mar 29, 11:42 am, Brian MacWhinney wrote: >> >> >>>> Dear Info-CHILDES, >> >> >>>> I was happy to notice this morning that the number of "hits" > >> >>>> to the CHILDES home page since 2003 passed the one million mark > >> >>>> sometime this last weekend. In this age of trillion dollar? >> >>>> deficits and terabyte drives, a million may seem a small number. > >> >>>> However, for a small academic discipline, it is not bad at all. > >> >>>> Also, I have noticed that the number of hits to the web page? >> >>>> seems to be an accelerating function, which is another nice >signal. >> >> >>>> Best regards, >> >> >>>> -- 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 >athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en >> >>> . >> >> > -- >> > 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 >athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en >> > . >> >> -- >> 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 >athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. > >-- >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. > >-- >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. -- Keith Nelson Professor of Psychology Penn State University 414 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. 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 lempert at psych.utoronto.ca Sat Apr 24 21:00:31 2010 From: lempert at psych.utoronto.ca (Henrietta Lempert) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:00:31 -0400 Subject: one million mark In-Reply-To: <4BD2706A.4080308@bu.edu> Message-ID: That's a wonderful idea! -henrietta lempert > Annick is (as ever) right. Brian should receive some recognition that > goes beyond our heartfelt thanks. He should receive an official award, > prize, something, that will have lasting value and that will indicate to > the world that he has made a great contribution to our field. I think > APA has a variety of similar awards that he could be a candidate for , > but probably most of the members of info-childes are not APA members. > Here's one possibility: > > How about if we encourage IASCL to establish an award for outstanding > contributions to the field of language acquisition. We name it the > Brian MacWhinney Award and Brian is the first recipient and gets the > prize (medal, plaque, cheque, box of chocolates, whatever) at the > Montreal meeting. The IASCL will be asked to have a committee that > thereafter will receive and evaluate nominations, and every 3 years > thereafter some other deserving soul will receive the IASCL Brian > MacWhinney Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Language > Acquisition. > > Something like that. Don't all volunteer at once. Since it is > discussion and not planning I'm not trying to hide anything from Brian. > > > jean > > Jean Berko Gleason, Professor Emerita > Department of Psychology > Boston University > > http://www.bu.edu/psych/faculty/gleason/ > > > > Annick De Houwer wrote: >> I want to add to all the congratulations! A monumental and great job, >> Brian, for which you deserve gratitude and recognition. CHILDES >> members, how can we make sure Brian's work gets LASTING gratitude and >> recognition? >> >> Annick >> >> Annick De Houwer, PhD >> Chair for Language Acquisition and Language Teaching >> Director of the Language Center >> University of Erfurt, Germany >> >> http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachlehr-und-lernforschung/personen/de-houwer/ >> http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachenzentrum/personen/ >> >> please refer to http://www.multilingualmatters.com for the two books >> on early bilingualism I published last year >> >> Postal address: >> Frau Prof. Dr. A. De Houwer >> Sprachwissenschaft (Anglistik) >> Universit?t Erfurt >> Nordh?user Str. 63 >> D-99089 Erfurt >> Germany >> >> tel. +49-361-737-4331 (secretary: -2700 or -4320) >> fax +49-361-737-4329 >> >> On Apr 21, 5:44 pm, Rosa Montes wrote: >> >>> Congratulations Brian! The list and site are wonderful resources for >>> researchers and they are especially appreciated in places where access >>> to other resources is limited. >>> >>> Thank you for all your efforts and your unflagging enthusiasm, >>> >>> Rosa >>> >>> -- >>> Dra. Rosa Graciela Montes Mir? >>> Directora General de Investigaci?n >>> Vicerrector?a de Investigaci?n y Estudios de Posgrado >>> Benem?rita Universidad Auton?ma de Puebla >>> 4 Sur 303 (Altos) >>> Centro Hist?rico, Puebla, >>> Puebla, 72000, M?xico, >>> >>> Tel. oficina: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext. 5737 >>> Fax: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext.5631 >>> >>> Email- rosa.mon... at gmail.com, rosa.mon... at viep.buap.mx >>> >>> On Mar 29, 11:42 am, Brian MacWhinney wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Dear Info-CHILDES, >>>> >>>> I was happy to notice this morning that the number of "hits" to >>>> the CHILDES home page since 2003 passed the one million mark >>>> sometime this last weekend. In this age of trillion dollar >>>> deficits and terabyte drives, a million may seem a small number. >>>> However, for a small academic discipline, it is not bad at all. >>>> Also, I have noticed that the number of hits to the web page seems >>>> to be an accelerating function, which is another nice signal. >>>> >>>> Best regards, >>>> >>>> -- 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 >>> athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. >>> >> >> > > -- > 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. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. From macw at cmu.edu Sat Apr 24 22:38:11 2010 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 18:38:11 -0400 Subject: messages regarding CLAN Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, For those of you who have questions about the details of running of the CLAN programs, we have a separate mailing list at chibolts at googlegroups.com that is devoted to the discussion of the technicalities of CLAN. Let me encourage people to post questions on those issue to that bulletin board. Many thanks. --Brian MacWhinney, CMU -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. From macw at cmu.edu Sat Apr 24 23:01:43 2010 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 19:01:43 -0400 Subject: one million mark In-Reply-To: <4BD2706A.4080308@bu.edu> Message-ID: Dear Friends, I had floated the idea of IASCL awards for contributions a few years back and I still think it is a good one. However, as Anat says, it would probably have to be titled the Brian MacWhinney, Catherine Snow, and Many Many Others award. And Kathy is right on when she explains that organizing CHILDES was possible because of the pre-existing solidity of the social network in child language research. So, with your kind permission, I would like to have Catherine and I receive the honorary chocolates (they better be dark truffles) and leave the award without a person's name. But I really do think that having an award of this type administered through IASCL is a great idea. It will require a review committee and it may be appropriate to consider different types or levels of award (best dissertation, best paper, best book), but I definitely think that the field of child language should institute an award of this type. Best regards, - Brian MacWhinney On Apr 24, 2010, at 12:15 AM, Jean Berko Gleason wrote: > Annick is (as ever) right. Brian should receive some recognition that goes beyond our heartfelt thanks. He should receive an official award, prize, something, that will have lasting value and that will indicate to the world that he has made a great contribution to our field. I think APA has a variety of similar awards that he could be a candidate for , but probably most of the members of info-childes are not APA members. > Here's one possibility: > > How about if we encourage IASCL to establish an award for outstanding contributions to the field of language acquisition. We name it the Brian MacWhinney Award and Brian is the first recipient and gets the prize (medal, plaque, cheque, box of chocolates, whatever) at the Montreal meeting. The IASCL will be asked to have a committee that thereafter will receive and evaluate nominations, and every 3 years thereafter some other deserving soul will receive the IASCL Brian MacWhinney Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Language Acquisition. > > Something like that. Don't all volunteer at once. Since it is discussion and not planning I'm not trying to hide anything from Brian. > > > jean > Jean Berko Gleason, Professor Emerita > Department of Psychology > Boston University > > http://www.bu.edu/psych/faculty/gleason/ > > > Annick De Houwer wrote: >> >> I want to add to all the congratulations! A monumental and great job, >> Brian, for which you deserve gratitude and recognition. CHILDES >> members, how can we make sure Brian's work gets LASTING gratitude and >> recognition? >> >> Annick >> >> Annick De Houwer, PhD >> Chair for Language Acquisition and Language Teaching >> Director of the Language Center >> University of Erfurt, Germany >> >> http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachlehr-und-lernforschung/personen/de-houwer/ >> http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachenzentrum/personen/ >> >> please refer to http://www.multilingualmatters.com for the two books >> on early bilingualism I published last year >> >> Postal address: >> Frau Prof. Dr. A. De Houwer >> Sprachwissenschaft (Anglistik) >> Universit?t Erfurt >> Nordh?user Str. 63 >> D-99089 Erfurt >> Germany >> >> tel. +49-361-737-4331 (secretary: -2700 or -4320) >> fax +49-361-737-4329 >> >> On Apr 21, 5:44 pm, Rosa Montes wrote: >> >>> Congratulations Brian! The list and site are wonderful resources for >>> researchers and they are especially appreciated in places where access >>> to other resources is limited. >>> >>> Thank you for all your efforts and your unflagging enthusiasm, >>> >>> Rosa >>> >>> -- >>> Dra. Rosa Graciela Montes Mir? >>> Directora General de Investigaci?n >>> Vicerrector?a de Investigaci?n y Estudios de Posgrado >>> Benem?rita Universidad Auton?ma de Puebla >>> 4 Sur 303 (Altos) >>> Centro Hist?rico, Puebla, >>> Puebla, 72000, M?xico, >>> >>> Tel. oficina: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext. 5737 >>> Fax: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext.5631 >>> >>> Email- rosa.mon... at gmail.com, rosa.mon... at viep.buap.mx >>> >>> On Mar 29, 11:42 am, Brian MacWhinney wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Dear Info-CHILDES, >>>> >>>> I was happy to notice this morning that the number of "hits" to the CHILDES home page since 2003 passed the one million mark sometime this last weekend. In this age of trillion dollar deficits and terabyte drives, a million may seem a small number. However, for a small academic discipline, it is not bad at all. Also, I have noticed that the number of hits to the web page seems to be an accelerating function, which is another nice signal. >>>> >>>> Best regards, >>>> >>>> -- 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 athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. >>> >> >> > > > -- > 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. -- 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 lmorett at ucsc.edu Sun Apr 25 02:25:11 2010 From: lmorett at ucsc.edu (Laura Morett) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 19:25:11 -0700 Subject: one million mark In-Reply-To: <4BD30C2E.50508@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il> Message-ID: May I also point out that Brian has served not only the field of language acquisition research through the creation and maintenance of CHILDES, but also the disciplines of psychology and linguistics through the development of PsyScope and STEP. All of these resources have been invaluable to me as a member of a program with very little money and very few resources. Thank you, Brian, for having the vision to create these resources, which have not only advanced research tremendously, but have also helped to unify its practitioners. I agree that the creation of a special award to recognize contributions to the field--in the sense of service rather than individual research accomplishments--is a wonderful idea. Although I have little experience in these types of matters, as I am only a student, I would suggest that someone--perhaps the suggestor of the idea--take the initiative to approach the members of the IASCL board with this idea. My guess is that they would be happy to explain what would need to happen for the idea to become a reality and to help out, and then those who are interested in making it happen can go from there. Regards, Laura Morett On Apr 24, 8:20?am, Anat Ninio wrote: > And let's not forget Catherine Snow who was the other founder of CHILDES > and who continued to ?collaborate with Brian on getting the grants and > shaping the archive, for most of CHILDES' existence. > To remind ourselves, some references: > > MacWhinney, B. and Snow, C. (1985). The Child Language Data Exchange > System. Journal of Child Language, 12, 271-295. > > MacWhinney, B. and Snow, C. (1990). The Child Language Data Exchange > System: An update. Journal of Child Language, 17, 457-472. > > Snow, C. E. and ?Sokolov, J. L. (1994). Handbook of Research in Language > Development Using Childes. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. > > Anat Ninio > > -- > 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 athttp://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. From macw at cmu.edu Sun Apr 25 14:49:49 2010 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 10:49:49 -0400 Subject: Bilingualism by Francois Grosjean Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, I would like to post this book announcement from Harvard University Press for Fran?ois Grosjean's new book on bilingualism, including childhood bilingualism. -- Brian MacWhinney Bilingual Life and Reality Fran?ois Grosjean Harvard University Press, 2010, 304 pages ISBN 9780674048874 Whether in family life, social interactions, or business negotiations, half the people in the world speak more than one language every day. Yet many myths persist about bilingualism and bilinguals. Does being bilingual mean you are equally fluent in two languages, or that you belong to two cultures, or even that you have multiple personalities? Can you become bilingual only as a child? Why do bilinguals switch from one language to another in mid-sentence? Will raising bilingual children confuse and delay their learning of any language? In this book, Fran?ois Grosjean, an international authority on bilingualism and son of an English mother and a French father, explores the many facets of bilingualism, drawing on research, interviews, autobiographies, and the engaging examples of bilingual authors. He describes the various strategies?some useful, some not?used by parents raising bilingual children, explains how children easily pick up and forget languages, and considers how bilingualism affects the experience and expression of emotions, thoughts, and dreams. This book shows that speaking two or more languages is not a sign of intelligence, evasiveness, cultural alienation, or political disloyalty. For millions of people, it?s simply a way of navigating the complexities of life. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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A terrific book: clear, informative, comprehensive, persuasive, beautifully written. Michael Swan, author of Practical English Usage. Abstract The acquisition of language is a staggering feat, yet one that all typically developing children manage by the time they reach school age. Child Language: Acquisition and Development presents the latest thinking and research on how children acquire or develop their first language, written in an engaging, stimulating style, suitable for a range of undergraduate students. The reader is taken from a standing start to the point where they can engage with key debates and current research in the field of child language. No background knowledge of linguistic theory is assumed and all specialist terms are introduced in clear, non-technical language. A theme running through the book is the nature-nurture debate, rekindled in the modern era by Noam Chomsky, with his belief that the form language takes in the child is largely determined by genetic factors. This book is rare in its balanced presentation of evidence from both sides of the nature-nurture divide; in effect, it uniquely presents a case for language acquisition and development. The reader is encouraged to adopt a critical stance throughout and weigh the evidence for themselves. Key features for the student include: boxes and exercises to foster an understanding of key concepts in language and linguistics; a glossary of key terms; suggestions for further reading; a list of useful websites at the end of each chapter; discussion points for use in class; and separate author and subject indexes. -- 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 edy.veneziano at paris5.sorbonne.fr Mon Apr 26 07:31:42 2010 From: edy.veneziano at paris5.sorbonne.fr (edy veneziano) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:31:42 +0200 Subject: IASCL award In-Reply-To: <4BD2706A.4080308@bu.edu> Message-ID: I find the idea of having an IASCL award (or several, finances permitting) great. Equally great is the of having Brian and Catherine, as the initators of CHILDES, the first awardees. As to the name of the award, several options can be considered. A neutral possibility would be to call it The IASCL award for Outstanding contributions to LA Other possibilities would have a name attached. If we go back to the founding fathers/mothers, one name that comes immediately to my mind is that of Roger Brown and a possibility would be to call it the IASCL Roger Brown award Best to all Edy On 24 avr. 10, at 06:15, Jean Berko Gleason wrote: > > How about if we encourage IASCL to establish an award for > outstanding contributions to the field of language acquisition. We > name it the Brian MacWhinney Award and Brian is the first recipient > and gets the prize (medal, plaque, cheque, box of chocolates, > whatever) at the Montreal meeting. The IASCL will be asked to have > a committee that thereafter will receive and evaluate nominations, > and every 3 years thereafter some other deserving soul will receive > the IASCL Brian MacWhinney Award for Outstanding Contributions to > the Field of Language Acquisition. > > Something like that. Don't all volunteer at once. Since it is > discussion and not planning I'm not trying to hide anything from > Brian. > > > jean -- 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 msninio at pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il Mon Apr 26 08:22:29 2010 From: msninio at pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il (Anat Ninio) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:22:29 +0300 Subject: IASCL award In-Reply-To: <195BE2B1-2AB7-44FF-8C9B-456FE48E1B77@paris5.sorbonne.fr> Message-ID: I second Edy's proposals -- what a wonderful idea to honor Roger Brown! I also join her in proposing both Brian and Catherine as the first awardees. CHILDES is wonderful and deserves to be singled out as an outstanding contribution to the study of child language. The choice of future awardees will be much more difficult, I suspect. Maybe we should think of a Web-utilizing, universal voting process open to members of IASCL? Anat edy veneziano wrote: > I find the idea of having an IASCL award (or several, finances > permitting) great. Equally great is the of having Brian and > Catherine, as the initators of CHILDES, the first awardees. > As to the name of the award, several options can be considered. > > A neutral possibility would be to call it > The IASCL award for Outstanding contributions to LA > > Other possibilities would have a name attached. > If we go back to the founding fathers/mothers, one name that comes > immediately to my mind is that of Roger Brown > and a possibility would be to call it > the IASCL Roger Brown award > > Best to all > Edy > > > On 24 avr. 10, at 06:15, Jean Berko Gleason wrote: >> >> How about if we encourage IASCL to establish an award for outstanding >> contributions to the field of language acquisition. We name it the >> Brian MacWhinney Award and Brian is the first recipient and gets the >> prize (medal, plaque, cheque, box of chocolates, whatever) at the >> Montreal meeting. The IASCL will be asked to have a committee that >> thereafter will receive and evaluate nominations, and every 3 years >> thereafter some other deserving soul will receive the IASCL Brian >> MacWhinney Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of >> Language Acquisition. >> >> Something like that. Don't all volunteer at once. Since it is >> discussion and not planning I'm not trying to hide anything from Brian. >> >> >> jean > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. From cslater at alma.edu Mon Apr 26 13:32:16 2010 From: cslater at alma.edu (Carol Slater) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:32:16 -0400 Subject: IASCL award Message-ID: May I add my support for naming the proposed award after Roger Brown? It would be lovely to be able to honor at once two people to whom we are all so deeply indebted. Carol Slater Alma College -- 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 akuntay at ku.edu.tr Mon Apr 26 15:49:39 2010 From: akuntay at ku.edu.tr (AYLIN KUNTAY) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:49:39 +0300 Subject: IASCL award In-Reply-To: <20100426093216.BCG10610@mp1.cc.alma.edu> Message-ID: I'd love to see the proposed award to be in Roger Brown's book. Reading his book, "A first language", in a directed reading course with Ayhan Aksu-Ko? was my first initiation rite to the field of child language in the late 1980s. aylin k?ntay. >>> Carol Slater 26.04.2010 16:32 >>> May I add my support for naming the proposed award after Roger Brown? It would be lovely to be able to honor at once two people to whom we are all so deeply indebted. Carol Slater Alma College -- 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. -- 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 eclark at stanford.edu Mon Apr 26 16:07:02 2010 From: eclark at stanford.edu (Eve V. Clark) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:07:02 -0700 Subject: IASCL award Message-ID: I too would be delighted to see such an award named for Roger Brown: his earlier books (Words and Things, Social Psychology) , all beautifully written, were what got me into psycholinguistics, into language acquisition. Eve Clark -- 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. 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Clark wrote: > > > I too would be delighted to see such an award named for Roger Brown: > his earlier books (*Words and Things*, *Social Psychology*) , all > beautifully written, > were what got me into psycholinguistics, into language acquisition. > > Eve Clark > > -- > 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. > -- 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 slobin at berkeley.edu Mon Apr 26 17:17:43 2010 From: slobin at berkeley.edu (Dan I. Slobin) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:17:43 -0700 Subject: IASCL award In-Reply-To: <4BD5E043.E9DF.00A9.0@ku.edu.tr> Message-ID: I agree. Following the family line, Ayhan was my student and I was Roger's student--along with Jean Berko Gleason, Courtney Cazden, Ursie Bellugi, the late Rick Cromer, Melissa Bowerman, Jill de Villiers, Mike Maratsos, Laura Petitto, Helen Tager-Flusberg, Kenji Hakuta, and more. It's fitting to establish an award in Roger's name, and to begin it with honoring Brian and Catherine, who have carried on his mission so effectively, for so long, and into the future. Dan Slobin At 08:49 AM 4/26/2010, you wrote: >I'd love to see the proposed award to be in Roger Brown's book. Reading >his book, > "A first language", in a directed reading course with Ayhan Aksu-Ko? >was my first initiation rite to the field of child language in the late >1980s. > >aylin k?ntay. > > >>> Carol Slater 26.04.2010 16:32 >>> >May I add my support for naming the proposed award after Roger Brown? >It would be lovely to be able to honor at once two people to whom we are >all so deeply indebted. >Carol Slater >Alma College > >-- >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. > >-- >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. ****************************************************************************************************************************** Dan I. 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URL: From meh at psych.uw.edu.pl Tue Apr 27 20:45:06 2010 From: meh at psych.uw.edu.pl (Ewa Haman) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:45:06 -0700 Subject: Deadline extended for Language as Social Coordination, Warsaw 16-18 September 2010 -- MAY 15th 2010 In-Reply-To: <4BD70BFA.9010109@psych.uw.edu.pl> Message-ID: Dear All, Below you will find information about conference Language as Social Coordination, 16-18 September 2010, Warsaw, Poland. Regards, Ewa Haman ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Joanna R?czaszek-Leonardi Date: 27 Kwi, 18:08 Subject: Deadline extended for Language as Social Coordination, Warsaw 16-18 2010 -- MAY 15th 2010 To: IKBJ Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw; Society for Interdisciplinary Studies on Language and the Distributed Language Group have a pleasure to invite you to: LANGUAGE AS SOCIAL COORDINATION: AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE ? ? ? ?Warsaw, 16-18 September 2010 The conference emphasizes the biological nature of language, underscoring its coordinative function. The aim of the conference is to 1) show continuity of natural language with other informational systems in biology; 2) show that language arises from and is crucial for human co-action. Taking an evolutionary and comparative perspective, will draw attention to the kinds of social coordination that arise without (human-like) language, and that contribute to the background used by (and present in) linguistic communication. By so doing, it will be easier to appreciate the qualitatively different types of co-ordination that are specific to humans and language-dependent. INVITED SPEAKERS: * John Collier, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban * Terrence Deacon, University of California at Berkeley * Merlin Donald, Queen's University, Kingston * Don Favareau, National University of Singapore * Bruno Galantucci, Yeshiva University, New York * Don Ross, University of Alabama at Birmingham and University of Cape Town * John Schumann, University of California, Los Angeles * Colwyn Trevarthen, University of Edinburgh CALL FOR PAPERS We welcome papers from biology, linguistics, psychology, communication science, philosophy, anthropology and artificial intelligence in a joint effort to provide a theoretical ground for such a view of language, and - even more importantly - to provide empirical data clarifying the mechanisms of language functioning and emergence. For more information please visit our webpage:www.psych.uw.edu.pl/lasc Abstracts of 250-500 words length should be sent to LaSC_Warsaw2... at psych.uw.edu.pl or racza... at psych.uw.edu.pl ? ? Deadline for abstracts: May 15th, 2010 ? ? Abstract notification: May 28th, 2010 ? ? Early Registration: May 28th - August 15th, 2010 ? ? Late Registration: After August 15th, 2010 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en. From macw at cmu.edu Wed Apr 28 16:09:50 2010 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:09:50 -0400 Subject: special issue of JCL Message-ID: Dear Info-CHILDES, Attached is an PDF announcement of a special issue of the Journal of Child Language on computational models of child language learning. 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