one million mark

Sat Apr 24 04:25:24 UTC 2010

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

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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  <mailto:rosa.mon... at gmail.com>
<rosa.mon... at gmail.com> 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

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On Mar 29, 11:42 am, Brian MacWhinney  <mailto:m... at cmu.edu> <m... at cmu.edu>
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

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