one million mark

Keith Nelson k1n at psu.edu
Sat Apr 24 16:13:06 UTC 2010


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
>
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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
>>
>>  >>> --
>>  >>> Dra. Rosa Graciela Montes Miró
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>>  >>> Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Estudios de Posgrado
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>>  >>> Tel. oficina: +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext. 5737
>>  >>> Fax:  +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext.5631
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>>  >>> Email- rosa.mon... at gmail.com, rosa.mon... at viep.buap.mx
>>
>>  >>> 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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