stats on IASCL meetings

[Tom Roeper]

Brian---
  the meeting I think it was 1978 that occurred in Tokyo was so sparsely
attended I think they considered cancelling it.
If you track that one down, you will get a big spread in current and former
numbers.

Tom Roeper

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Virginia Valian <vvvstudents at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Brian MacWhinney and I are collaborating on a project we hope you will
> help us with.  We would like to post on the IASCL site the statistics on
> the numbers of contributors and attendees since the first meeting in 1975.
>  We believe that we would see an enormous increase over the years.  Data of
> this sort could be very useful for funding requests, especially for
> international collaborations, since they would document the widespread
> interest and value of work in child language.
>
> Some of you were organizers, some contributors, some attendees.  Each of
> you may have different information to convey.  Brian and I will attempt to
> collate and organize the information so that it will be useful.  Perhaps
> you have a program from one of the previous meetings.  If you could mail us
> a copy or scan a copy, we will undertake to scan any programs we receive
> and return the originals to their owners and perform the tabulations listed
> below as well as others that you may suggest.
>
> Even if all you know is that the meeting you attended did not have
> concurrent sessions and met in a room that held no more than N people, that
> would be helpful.  We have no way of knowing whether we will be flooded
> with information or will receive almost none.  At present, we're hoping for
> the former more than the latter!
>
> Here is the information we are particularly interested in:
> number of talks
> number of posters
> number of registered participants
> number of faculty, post-docs, independent researchers, students
> number of countries represented
> number of languages reported on in a talk or poster
> number of symposia
> number of symposia with more than one country represented
> invited addresses (with stats on country represented and sex)
> organizers
> location of meeting (e.g., a university, a convention center)
>
> If there is other information you think it would be useful to track,
> please let us know.
>
> Please also correct, if necessary, the information we have at present on
> dates, locations, and primary organizers of previous conferences. We are
> sorry if we have failed to include organizers or credited the wrong people!
>
> 1975 - London
> 1978 - Tokyo (Fred Peng)
> 1981 - Vancouver (John Gilbert)
> 1984 - Austin (Anne VanKleeck)
> 1987 - Lund
> 1990 - Budapest (Zita Reger)
> 1993 - Trieste (Maria Silvia Barbieri)
> 1996 - Istanbul (Ayhan Aksu)
> 1999 - San Sebastian/Donostia (Jasone Cenoz)
> 2002 - Madison (Jon Miller)
> 2005 - Berlin
> 2008 - Edinburgh (Sorace)
> 2011 - Montreal (Henri Cohen)
> 2014 - Amsterdam
> 2017 - Lyon
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Virginia Valian
>
> --
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> Distinguished Professor
> Department of Psychology, Hunter College
> PhD Programs in Linguistics, Psychology, and Speech-Language-Hearing
> Sciences, CUNY Grad Center
> vvvstudents at gmail.com
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Tom Roeper
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UMass South College
Amherst, Mass. 01003 ISA
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