thanks

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Info-CHILDES,

     I would like to thank all of you who submitted letters of support for the NIH CHILDES renewal proposal. We received 144 letters stretching providing 292 pages of documentation of the use of CHILDES programs and data.  This was the strongest set of letters for any of the CHILDES proposals over the last 28 years, and it is great testimony to the value of the community data in CHILDES and the health of the field of child language.
  
In the course of writing the proposal, I found that Google provides a great method for tracking the use of CHILDES data.  If one just goes to scholar.google.com and searches for "Brian MacWhinney" and then looks up the four core papers documenting the system (which people were asked to cite), you can find all of the literature that used CHILDES.  Using this method, I learned the following.  

Since 1987, the productivity of the project in terms of articles published in a given year has increased each year.  There are now well over 6000 articles based in whole or part on the use of CHILDES data. One can find 863 citations of MacWhinney and Snow (1985), 473  citations of MacWhinney and Snow (1990), 1427 citations of MacWhinney (1991) and 2259 citations of MacWhinney (2000). Because Google does not thoroughly index non-English publications, this total of 5022 citations is missing many of the publications in other languages that use CHILDES.  A more accurate count would be close to 6500.  A graph of the number of articles published each year (non-cumulative) shows a continual straight-line slope of increasing productivity with a few dozen articles published each year during the early years and 250-300 published per year in recent years.

I have finished writing the proposal.  If you are curious about what we hope to do in the next five years, you can download the proposal from http://talkbank.org/3strategy.pdf   And once the United States of America gets a government again, I may even be able to submit the proposal!

Best,

-- Brian MacWhinney
 

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