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Sat Apr 24 14:34:34 UTC 2010

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  
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> 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 <gleason at bu.edu> 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:
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> "Philip Dale" <dalep at unm.edu> 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
>
>
>
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> On Behalf Of Jean Berko Gleason
> Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 10:16 PM
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> 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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> Aliyah MORGENSTERN <aliyah.morgenstern at gmail.com> Apr 24 09:03AM  
> +0200 ^
>
> That's a terrific idea!
> maybe the IASCL board members could all give their opinion.
> Best,
> Aliyah MORGENSTERN
>
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> Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3
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> Le 24 avr. 10 à 06:15, Jean Berko Gleason a écrit :
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>  Topic: Type Token Ratio and Mean Length of Utterance in Modern Greek
> Nikolas Venieris <nikvenieris at gmail.com> 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.
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>  Topic: Compiling Unix-CLAN?
> donnek <kevin at dotmon.com> Apr 23 11:44AM -0700 ^
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> 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.
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