one million mark

Sat Apr 24 14:32:19 UTC 2010

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
> 
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>>>> Annick De Houwer <annickej at yahoo.com> 4/24/2010 9:51 AM >>>
> I second Jean's proposal.
> 
> Annick
> 
> On Apr 24, 9:03 am, Aliyah MORGENSTERN <aliyah.morgenst... at gmail.com>
> 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 <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 <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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