one million mark

Sat Apr 24 13:51:07 UTC 2010

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 :
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> > 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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