one million mark

[Henrietta Lempert]

That's a wonderful idea!

-henrietta lempert
> 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 <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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