From victoria.murphy at education.ox.ac.uk Mon Sep 2 13:18:29 2013 From: victoria.murphy at education.ox.ac.uk (Victoria Murphy) Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 13:18:29 +0000 Subject: Research Assistant post at University of Oxford Message-ID: Dear info-childes, Applications are invited for the post of Research Assistant in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, in collaboration with the Department of Education and the Department of Computer Science. The appointee will have expertise in computational linguistics and will work on a research programme entitled “Using the Oxford Children’s Corpus to explore children's literacy development: an inter-disciplinary approach”. It is hoped that the appointee will be able to take up the post in early January 2014, or as soon as possible thereafter. The post is full-time and is for 12 months. Interviews are scheduled for 21st October 2013. It is expected that the appointee will have an undergraduate qualification in a relevant subject (e.g., Psychology, Computer Science, Linguistics) and a post-graduate qualification to at least Masters-level in a relevant topic. They will have expertise in analysing large corpora to explore linguistic phenomena. The appointee is expected to take the lead in delivering the programme of research, working with the Principal Investigators: Professor Kate Nation (Department of Experimental Psychology), Dr. Victoria Murphy (Department of Education) and Professor Stephen Pulman (Department of Computer Science). The Oxford Children’s Corpus is a large, representative corpus of children’s written language, comprising many millions of words, sampled from material written for children (including fiction, curriculum material, websites, magazines) and by children themselves. It is has been developed by Oxford University Press. This project will use the corpus to examine a variety of lexical phenomena including (a) the identification of features of children’s reading experience that might relate to reading development, in particular, contextual diversity and semantic similarity and (b) the examination of collocation patterns in children’s own writing. Further information about the Principal Investigators can be found at their websites: Nation: http://lcd.psy.ox.ac.uk/ Murphy: http://www.education.ox.ac.uk/real/ Pulman: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/stephen.pulman/ For further information is attached and see http://www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/jobs/ ********************************** Victoria A. Murphy, PhD Department of Education University of Oxford 15 Norham Gardens Oxford, OX2 6PY Tel: +44(0)1865 274042 Fax: +44(0)1865 274027 [cid:f603cd94-de60-4fde-adbc-3a5f3672233e at ad.oak.ox.ac.uk] http://www.education.ox.ac.uk/research/applied-linguistics/r-e-a-l/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/89e47fcb-e2fc-4f24-9a63-0e17a12bdcb9%40HUB04.ad.oak.ox.ac.uk. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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We will then include these citations in the CHILDES-BIB that is on the web, as well as in the proposal. Also, they should mention any new features that you would like to see included in the programs and the database. The proposal is due November 1, but I must finalize the text well before then. This means that we need to receive letters by October 1 at the latest. Sooner would be even better. There is no need to send the letter in paper form; email is fine. You can just email your letter to Margie Forbes at forbesmm at cmu.edu. Margie will acknowledge each email, as she receives it. If you would like to make sure that we don't send you multiple requests for a letter, please just send a note right now to Margie telling her when you will be sending a letter. Please note, there is no usage fee for the CHILDES programs or database. Being able to submit a good set of support letters that document usage is really the best way to guarantee continued funding. Many thanks for your support for the continuation of this important component of the scientific infrastructure for the study of child language development. Best regards, -- Brian MacWhinney, Professor of Psychology, CMU P.S. The new proposal will focus on: · continued expansion of the database, · tighter linkage to PHON and Praat for phonological analysis, · fuller support for systems using the database for automatic grammar and lexicon extraction, · more support for coding gesture, · expansion of the new KidEVAL methods for aligning individual children to a comparison database, · more complete web-based search and analysis programs, · completion of automatic computation of IPSyn, · Monte Carlo methods for IRT testing of items in IPSyn, DSS, and KidEVAL · extension of automatic morphosyntactic analysis to more languages using standard formats, · support for quantitative analysis using Conversation Analysis (CA) coding, · computer-assisted methods for increasingly rapid first-pass transcription, and · extended interoperability with other major computer programs. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/D19F32FB-6303-4124-BA17-235B6121FC0C%40cmu.edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. From djacksonqro at gmail.com Thu Sep 5 22:29:54 2013 From: djacksonqro at gmail.com (Donna Jackson) Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 00:29:54 +0200 Subject: NIH Grant Competing Continuation In-Reply-To: Message-ID: is next week okay? 2013/9/5 Brian MacWhinney > Dear Info-CHILDES, > > The NICHD grant for CHILDES is up for renewal this year and we are busy > soliciting letters documenting its usage over the last five years. So, if > you, your colleagues, or your students have been making use of CHILDES or > the CLAN program, could you please ask send us a letter documenting your > usage? > > Letters should include citations for articles, conference presentations, > talks, teaching activities, or student papers based on the use of CHILDES > programs or data. We will then include these citations in the CHILDES-BIB > that is on the web, as well as in the proposal. Also, they should mention > any new features that you would like to see included in the programs and > the database. > > The proposal is due November 1, but I must finalize the text well before > then. This means that we need to receive letters by October 1 at the > latest. Sooner would be even better. There is no need to send the letter > in paper form; email is fine. > > You can just email your letter to Margie Forbes at forbesmm at cmu.edu. > Margie will acknowledge each email, as she receives it. If you would like > to make sure that we don't send you multiple requests for a letter, please > just send a note right now to Margie telling her when you will be sending a > letter. > > Please note, there is no usage fee for the CHILDES programs or database. > Being able to submit a good set of support letters that document usage is > really the best way to guarantee continued funding. > > Many thanks for your support for the continuation of this important > component of the scientific infrastructure for the study of child language > development. > > Best regards, > > -- Brian MacWhinney, Professor of Psychology, CMU > > P.S. The new proposal will focus on: > · continued expansion of the database, > · tighter linkage to PHON and Praat for phonological analysis, > · fuller support for systems using the database for automatic grammar > and lexicon extraction, > · more support for coding gesture, > · expansion of the new KidEVAL methods for aligning individual > children to a comparison database, > · more complete web-based search and analysis programs, > · completion of automatic computation of IPSyn, > · Monte Carlo methods for IRT testing of items in IPSyn, DSS, and > KidEVAL > · extension of automatic morphosyntactic analysis to more languages > using standard formats, > · support for quantitative analysis using Conversation Analysis (CA) > coding, > · computer-assisted methods for increasingly rapid first-pass > transcription, and > · extended interoperability with other major computer programs. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Info-CHILDES" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/D19F32FB-6303-4124-BA17-235B6121FC0C%40cmu.edu > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Donna Jackson-Maldonado Centro de Estudios Lingüísticos y Literarios Facultad de Lenguas y Letras, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro Campus Aeropuerto, Circuito Fray Junípero Serra Km 8 Santiago de Querétaro, Qro., México 76140 web: http://www.donnajackson.weebly.com e-mail: djacksonq ro at gmail.com tel: 52 442 192 1200 ex. 61200 o 61140 home: 52 442 2180264 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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URL: From roeper at linguist.umass.edu Thu Sep 5 22:32:24 2013 From: roeper at linguist.umass.edu (Tom Roeper) Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 18:32:24 -0400 Subject: NIH Grant Competing Continuation In-Reply-To: <27676_1378412669_5228E87C_27676_11884_1_D19F32FB-6303-4124-BA17-235B6121FC0C@cmu.edu> Message-ID: Dear Brian--- I cannot put down all the references, but let me give you this to quote: Childes has become the lifeblood of acquisition research, and often the centerpiece of undergraduate education. I do searches on it several times a week (or sometimes several time a day). There is no question that it deserves further support. Tom On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Brian MacWhinney wrote: > Dear Info-CHILDES, > > The NICHD grant for CHILDES is up for renewal this year and we are busy > soliciting letters documenting its usage over the last five years. So, if > you, your colleagues, or your students have been making use of CHILDES or > the CLAN program, could you please ask send us a letter documenting your > usage? > > Letters should include citations for articles, conference presentations, > talks, teaching activities, or student papers based on the use of CHILDES > programs or data. We will then include these citations in the CHILDES-BIB > that is on the web, as well as in the proposal. Also, they should mention > any new features that you would like to see included in the programs and > the database. > > The proposal is due November 1, but I must finalize the text well before > then. This means that we need to receive letters by October 1 at the > latest. Sooner would be even better. There is no need to send the letter > in paper form; email is fine. > > You can just email your letter to Margie Forbes at forbesmm at cmu.edu. > Margie will acknowledge each email, as she receives it. If you would like > to make sure that we don't send you multiple requests for a letter, please > just send a note right now to Margie telling her when you will be sending a > letter. > > Please note, there is no usage fee for the CHILDES programs or database. > Being able to submit a good set of support letters that document usage is > really the best way to guarantee continued funding. > > Many thanks for your support for the continuation of this important > component of the scientific infrastructure for the study of child language > development. > > Best regards, > > -- Brian MacWhinney, Professor of Psychology, CMU > > P.S. The new proposal will focus on: > · continued expansion of the database, > · tighter linkage to PHON and Praat for phonological analysis, > · fuller support for systems using the database for automatic grammar > and lexicon extraction, > · more support for coding gesture, > · expansion of the new KidEVAL methods for aligning individual > children to a comparison database, > · more complete web-based search and analysis programs, > · completion of automatic computation of IPSyn, > · Monte Carlo methods for IRT testing of items in IPSyn, DSS, and > KidEVAL > · extension of automatic morphosyntactic analysis to more languages > using standard formats, > · support for quantitative analysis using Conversation Analysis (CA) > coding, > · computer-assisted methods for increasingly rapid first-pass > transcription, and > · extended interoperability with other major computer programs. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Info-CHILDES" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/D19F32FB-6303-4124-BA17-235B6121FC0C%40cmu.edu > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Tom Roeper Dept of Lingiustics UMass South College Amherst, Mass. 01003 ISA 413 256 0390 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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Thanks on Brian's behalf, Margie Forbes On Sep 5, 2013, at 6:32 PM, Tom Roeper wrote: > Dear Brian--- > > I cannot put down all the references, but let me give you this to quote: > > Childes has become the lifeblood of acquisition research, and often the > centerpiece of undergraduate education. I do searches on it several > times a week (or sometimes several time a day). There is no question > that it deserves further support. > > Tom > > > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Brian MacWhinney wrote: > Dear Info-CHILDES, > > The NICHD grant for CHILDES is up for renewal this year and we are busy soliciting letters documenting its usage over the last five years. So, if you, your colleagues, or your students have been making use of CHILDES or the CLAN program, could you please ask send us a letter documenting your usage? > > Letters should include citations for articles, conference presentations, talks, teaching activities, or student papers based on the use of CHILDES programs or data. We will then include these citations in the CHILDES-BIB that is on the web, as well as in the proposal. Also, they should mention any new features that you would like to see included in the programs and the database. > > The proposal is due November 1, but I must finalize the text well before then. This means that we need to receive letters by October 1 at the latest. Sooner would be even better. There is no need to send the letter in paper form; email is fine. > > You can just email your letter to Margie Forbes at forbesmm at cmu.edu. Margie will acknowledge each email, as she receives it. If you would like to make sure that we don't send you multiple requests for a letter, please just send a note right now to Margie telling her when you will be sending a letter. > > Please note, there is no usage fee for the CHILDES programs or database. Being able to submit a good set of support letters that document usage is really the best way to guarantee continued funding. > > Many thanks for your support for the continuation of this important component of the scientific infrastructure for the study of child language development. > > Best regards, > > -- Brian MacWhinney, Professor of Psychology, CMU > > P.S. The new proposal will focus on: > · continued expansion of the database, > · tighter linkage to PHON and Praat for phonological analysis, > · fuller support for systems using the database for automatic grammar and lexicon extraction, > · more support for coding gesture, > · expansion of the new KidEVAL methods for aligning individual children to a comparison database, > · more complete web-based search and analysis programs, > · completion of automatic computation of IPSyn, > · Monte Carlo methods for IRT testing of items in IPSyn, DSS, and KidEVAL > · extension of automatic morphosyntactic analysis to more languages using standard formats, > · support for quantitative analysis using Conversation Analysis (CA) coding, > · computer-assisted methods for increasingly rapid first-pass transcription, and > · extended interoperability with other major computer programs. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/D19F32FB-6303-4124-BA17-235B6121FC0C%40cmu.edu. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- > Tom Roeper > Dept of Lingiustics > UMass South College > Amherst, Mass. 01003 ISA > 413 256 0390 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/CABkofSn3XG%3DbebPogW72YCeoca0Vxtw5ZHJy_hLoGrBjdPppHA%40mail.gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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If not, I would be grateful if anyone knows of/developed a similar lexical test that might be used for Arabic (for children aged 4-5 years old) and would allow me to use it.  Your help is highly appreciated! Best, Dima Malahmeh -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/1378727027.94821.YahooMailNeo%40web162001.mail.bf1.yahoo.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From k.j.alcock at lancaster.ac.uk Mon Sep 9 12:34:08 2013 From: k.j.alcock at lancaster.ac.uk (Alcock, Katie) Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 12:34:08 +0000 Subject: NIH Grant Competing Continuation In-Reply-To: Message-ID: We've used the database this year to collect dialect words in CDS and children's usage to include on the new UK-CDI. So we're very happy to send a letter! I'll do this, Caro/Kerstin. Katie On 05/09/2013 21:24, "Brian MacWhinney" wrote: >Dear Info-CHILDES, > >The NICHD grant for CHILDES is up for renewal this year and we are busy >soliciting letters documenting its usage over the last five years. So, >if you, your colleagues, or your students have been making use of CHILDES >or the CLAN program, could you please ask send us a letter documenting >your usage? > >Letters should include citations for articles, conference presentations, >talks, teaching activities, or student papers based on the use of CHILDES >programs or data. We will then include these citations in the CHILDES-BIB >that is on the web, as well as in the proposal. Also, they should >mention any new features that you would like to see included in the >programs and the database. > >The proposal is due November 1, but I must finalize the text well before >then. This means that we need to receive letters by October 1 at the >latest. Sooner would be even better. There is no need to send the >letter in paper form; email is fine. > >You can just email your letter to Margie Forbes at forbesmm at cmu.edu. >Margie will acknowledge each email, as she receives it. If you would like >to make sure that we don't send you multiple requests for a letter, >please just send a note right now to Margie telling her when you will be >sending a letter. > >Please note, there is no usage fee for the CHILDES programs or database. >Being able to submit a good set of support letters that document usage is >really the best way to guarantee continued funding. > >Many thanks for your support for the continuation of this important >component of the scientific infrastructure for the study of child >language development. > >Best regards, > >-- Brian MacWhinney, Professor of Psychology, CMU > >P.S. The new proposal will focus on: >· continued expansion of the database, >· tighter linkage to PHON and Praat for phonological analysis, >· fuller support for systems using the database for automatic grammar >and lexicon extraction, >· more support for coding gesture, >· expansion of the new KidEVAL methods for aligning individual >children to a comparison database, >· more complete web-based search and analysis programs, >· completion of automatic computation of IPSyn, >· Monte Carlo methods for IRT testing of items in IPSyn, DSS, and >KidEVAL >· extension of automatic morphosyntactic analysis to more languages >using standard formats, >· support for quantitative analysis using Conversation Analysis (CA) >coding, >· computer-assisted methods for increasingly rapid first-pass >transcription, and >· extended interoperability with other major computer programs. > >-- >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >"Info-CHILDES" group. >To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. >To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. >To view this discussion on the web visit >https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/D19F32FB-6303-4124-BA17-235 >B6121FC0C%40cmu.edu. >For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/1B6302315CC46C48962C4C1856B583D224DF0D%40EX-0-MB2.lancs.local. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. From k.j.alcock at lancaster.ac.uk Mon Sep 9 12:40:23 2013 From: k.j.alcock at lancaster.ac.uk (Alcock, Katie) Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 12:40:23 +0000 Subject: CDI for Arabic In-Reply-To: <1378727027.94821.YahooMailNeo@web162001.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: For children of this age, a picture vocabulary scale would be more appropriate than a CDI (though an Arabic CDI exists). A quick Google reveals that an Arabic Picture Vocabulary Scale has been developed http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/20472/1/20472.pdf Your main barriers might be cultural differences in the words and objects children are familiar with but it is usually very easy to get someone to draw locally appropriate pictures, and to change words that are not relevant to the local culture and/or change to dialect words. Katie Alcock Katie Alcock Lecturer Department of Psychology Lancaster University Fylde College Bailrigg Lancaster, LA1 4YF, UK tel: +44 1524 593833 From: Dima Malahmeh > Reply-To: "info-childes at googlegroups.com" > Date: Monday, 9 September 2013 12:43 To: "info-childes at googlegroups.com" > Subject: CDI for Arabic Dear Info-Childes, I am a PhD student working on bilingual children in Jordan (Arabic-English). I would like to ask if any of you have come across a CDI adapted for Arabic? If not, I would be grateful if anyone knows of/developed a similar lexical test that might be used for Arabic (for children aged 4-5 years old) and would allow me to use it. Your help is highly appreciated! Best, Dima Malahmeh -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/1378727027.94821.YahooMailNeo%40web162001.mail.bf1.yahoo.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. 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Best, Caroline On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Dima Malahmeh wrote: > Dear Info-Childes, > > I am a PhD student working on bilingual children in Jordan > (Arabic-English). I would like to ask if any of you have come across a CDI > adapted for Arabic? If not, I would be grateful if anyone knows > of/developed a similar lexical test that might be used for Arabic (for > children aged 4-5 years old) and would allow me to use it. > > Your help is highly appreciated! > > Best, > Dima Malahmeh > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Info-CHILDES" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/1378727027.94821.YahooMailNeo%40web162001.mail.bf1.yahoo.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Dr. Caroline Floccia Reader (Associate Professor) PSQ A213 School of Psychology University of Plymouth Drake Circus Devon PL4 8AA tel: (+0044) 1752 584822 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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This idea seems a little crazy, but our preliminary results show that MLU in syllables correlates very highly with MLU in morphemes in Inuktitut data, so it might just work. Thanks in advance, Shanley Allen. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/E76A86C1-AC94-48E2-8497-182714228C4D%40bu.edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. From nratner at umd.edu Mon Sep 9 21:48:10 2013 From: nratner at umd.edu (Nan Bernstein Ratner) Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 21:48:10 +0000 Subject: MLU in syllables? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: This may seem like a stupid question, but do pediatricians know what a syllable is? My spouse, who is a doctor, probably would prefer something based on a literate unit, like words. I am afraid to ask what he thinks about counting syllables in any language, but I will go home tonight and ask. N Nan Bernstein Ratner, Professor and Chairman Fellow, ASHA Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences 0100 Lefrak Hall University of Maryland, College Park College Park, MD 20742 301-405-4213, 301-405-4217 Fax: 301-314-2023 http://hesp.umd.edu/facultyprofile/Bernstein%20Ratner/Nan Affiliated faculty: Language Sciences, Developmental Science Field Committee Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuroscience Program (NACS) -----Original Message----- From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shanley Allen Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 5:25 PM To: info-childes at googlegroups.com Subject: MLU in syllables? I'm wondering if anyone has tried to calculate MLU in syllables for any language, or knows of any study like this. I'm working with an SLP colleague to devise tests that would be suitable for assessing language delay in Inuktitut. The target user group is pediatricians who don't know Inuktitut well enough to do a morphological analysis, but want to use measures that are appropriate for the language. This idea seems a little crazy, but our preliminary results show that MLU in syllables correlates very highly with MLU in morphemes in Inuktitut data, so it might just work. Thanks in advance, Shanley Allen. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/E76A86C1-AC94-48E2-8497-182714228C4D%40bu.edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/78F7051232E584458D81A07B6C78AF7D20E8A1%40OITMX1008.AD.UMD.EDU. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. From shanley at bu.edu Mon Sep 9 22:04:05 2013 From: shanley at bu.edu (Shanley Allen) Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 00:04:05 +0200 Subject: MLU in syllables? In-Reply-To: <78F7051232E584458D81A07B6C78AF7D20E8A1@OITMX1008.AD.UMD.EDU> Message-ID: No, it's a good question. I wouldn't try this for English, but it makes sense for Inuktitut because Inuktitut is written with a syllabic script. So anyone who writes Inuktitut (98% literacy rate!) is forced to think in syllables, and native speakers of Inuktitut who are assisting in the assessment can easily transcribe the child's speech in syllabics and then simply count the number of characters in each utterance. Those same native speakers would have a very hard time dividing Inuktitut into morphemes to calculate a traditional MLU. And assessing MLU in words (as is done for Irish, for example) is uninformative for Inuktitut because it is polysynthetic and has rampant argument ellipsis so all the interesting linguistic development at early ages happens in the morphology. Shanley. On Sep 9, 2013, at 11:48 PM, Nan Bernstein Ratner wrote: > This may seem like a stupid question, but do pediatricians know what a syllable is? My spouse, who is a doctor, probably would prefer something based on a literate unit, like words. I am afraid to ask what he thinks about counting syllables in any language, but I will go home tonight and ask. > Nan Bernstein Ratner > > -----Original Message----- > From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shanley Allen > Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 5:25 PM > To: info-childes at googlegroups.com > Subject: MLU in syllables? > > I'm wondering if anyone has tried to calculate MLU in syllables for any language, or knows of any study like this. I'm working with an SLP colleague to devise tests that would be suitable for assessing language delay in Inuktitut. The target user group is pediatricians who don't know Inuktitut well enough to do a morphological analysis, but want to use measures that are appropriate for the language. This idea seems a little crazy, but our preliminary results show that MLU in syllables correlates very highly with MLU in morphemes in Inuktitut data, so it might just work. > > Thanks in advance, > Shanley Allen. > Shanley Allen Professor, Psycholinguistics and Language Development Dept. of Social Sciences, University of Kaiserslautern -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/350A371C-88C8-4483-833F-3CE0980CB098%40bu.edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Thanks for this extension! People I know are just beginning the semester in the US and have been feeling overwhelmed with the earlier deadline. Jean -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/522E47FC.4010500%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nratner at umd.edu Tue Sep 10 00:42:38 2013 From: nratner at umd.edu (Nan Bernstein Ratner) Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 00:42:38 +0000 Subject: MLU in syllables? In-Reply-To: <350A371C-88C8-4483-833F-3CE0980CB098@bu.edu> Message-ID: OK, then, pragmatic issues satisfied, Shelley Brundage and I tried this a while back for English and came up with a conversion factor of about 1.5 for American English speaking kids' speech from about 3-8 (JFD, 1989). But you are asking about norms? Because you seem to have identified that the conversion is closer to 1:1 for Inuktitut. This seems to be a question Phon users might be able to compute for longitudinal samples in the database. I guess Brian could say whether any dataset in TalkBank is pre-syllabified. If so, one could theoretically do this on archival data. Best regards to all, Nan From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shanley Allen Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 6:04 PM To: info-childes at googlegroups.com Subject: Re: MLU in syllables? No, it's a good question. I wouldn't try this for English, but it makes sense for Inuktitut because Inuktitut is written with a syllabic script. So anyone who writes Inuktitut (98% literacy rate!) is forced to think in syllables, and native speakers of Inuktitut who are assisting in the assessment can easily transcribe the child's speech in syllabics and then simply count the number of characters in each utterance. Those same native speakers would have a very hard time dividing Inuktitut into morphemes to calculate a traditional MLU. And assessing MLU in words (as is done for Irish, for example) is uninformative for Inuktitut because it is polysynthetic and has rampant argument ellipsis so all the interesting linguistic development at early ages happens in the morphology. Shanley. On Sep 9, 2013, at 11:48 PM, Nan Bernstein Ratner wrote: This may seem like a stupid question, but do pediatricians know what a syllable is? My spouse, who is a doctor, probably would prefer something based on a literate unit, like words. I am afraid to ask what he thinks about counting syllables in any language, but I will go home tonight and ask. Nan Bernstein Ratner -----Original Message----- From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shanley Allen Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 5:25 PM To: info-childes at googlegroups.com Subject: MLU in syllables? I'm wondering if anyone has tried to calculate MLU in syllables for any language, or knows of any study like this. I'm working with an SLP colleague to devise tests that would be suitable for assessing language delay in Inuktitut. The target user group is pediatricians who don't know Inuktitut well enough to do a morphological analysis, but want to use measures that are appropriate for the language. This idea seems a little crazy, but our preliminary results show that MLU in syllables correlates very highly with MLU in morphemes in Inuktitut data, so it might just work. Thanks in advance, Shanley Allen. Shanley Allen Professor, Psycholinguistics and Language Development Dept. of Social Sciences, University of Kaiserslautern -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/350A371C-88C8-4483-833F-3CE0980CB098%40bu.edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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Here is a link to an article (in French) http://www.glossa.fr/pdfs/103-2.pdf Isabelle Barriere, PhD On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Caroline Floccia < caroline at carolinefloccia.info> wrote: > Dear Dima, > Best is to contact Sabah Safi, who has developed a Saudi version of it > with some colleagues. Her email is sabahsafi at mac.com. > However, perhaps it's best to first ask Kim Plunkett in Oxford about it as > he would be able to reach Sabah if you cannot. > Best, > Caroline > > > > On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Dima Malahmeh wrote: > >> Dear Info-Childes, >> >> I am a PhD student working on bilingual children in Jordan >> (Arabic-English). I would like to ask if any of you have come across a CDI >> adapted for Arabic? If not, I would be grateful if anyone knows >> of/developed a similar lexical test that might be used for Arabic (for >> children aged 4-5 years old) and would allow me to use it. >> >> Your help is highly appreciated! >> >> Best, >> Dima Malahmeh >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Info-CHILDES" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/1378727027.94821.YahooMailNeo%40web162001.mail.bf1.yahoo.com >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > > > -- > Dr. Caroline Floccia > Reader (Associate Professor) > PSQ A213 > School of Psychology > University of Plymouth > Drake Circus > Devon PL4 8AA > tel: (+0044) 1752 584822 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Info-CHILDES" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/CAC6wxdHJJ43OA%3Dtw_45Z8xg%2BqbOGc%2Bw-mEqNDbr%2B6nDqCieBOw%40mail.gmail.com > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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However, I wonder whether a morpheme count wouldn't work even better, closer to the original spirit of MLUs, as the syllable count would elude anything meaning-related. Building on Nan's suggestion, I confirm that we could easily rig both a syllabification algorithm (for Inuktitut), and a (general-purpose) syllable-based MLU count in Phon. I would be happy to work with you towards both objectives. This also raises the question of converting your data into the Phon format, something that shouldn't pose any serious problem either given our advances on this front over the last year. A morpheme-based one would require the utterances to be morphologically analyzed first. We did this for Cree a few years ago. Attached is a screen shot illustrating this. Please feel free to contact me separately to discuss the specifics. Best regards, Yvan On 2013-09-09, at 22:12, Nan Bernstein Ratner wrote: > OK, then, pragmatic issues satisfied, Shelley Brundage and I tried this a while back for English and came up with a conversion factor of about 1.5 for American English speaking kids’ speech from about 3-8 (JFD, 1989). But you are asking about norms? Because you seem to have identified that the conversion is closer to 1:1 for Inuktitut. This seems to be a question Phon users might be able to compute for longitudinal samples in the database. I guess Brian could say whether any dataset in TalkBank is pre-syllabified. If so, one could theoretically do this on archival data. > > Best regards to all, > Nan > > From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shanley Allen > Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 6:04 PM > To: info-childes at googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: MLU in syllables? > > No, it's a good question. I wouldn't try this for English, but it makes sense for Inuktitut because Inuktitut is written with a syllabic script. So anyone who writes Inuktitut (98% literacy rate!) is forced to think in syllables, and native speakers of Inuktitut who are assisting in the assessment can easily transcribe the child's speech in syllabics and then simply count the number of characters in each utterance. Those same native speakers would have a very hard time dividing Inuktitut into morphemes to calculate a traditional MLU. And assessing MLU in words (as is done for Irish, for example) is uninformative for Inuktitut because it is polysynthetic and has rampant argument ellipsis so all the interesting linguistic development at early ages happens in the morphology. > Shanley. > > > On Sep 9, 2013, at 11:48 PM, Nan Bernstein Ratner wrote: > > > This may seem like a stupid question, but do pediatricians know what a syllable is? My spouse, who is a doctor, probably would prefer something based on a literate unit, like words. I am afraid to ask what he thinks about counting syllables in any language, but I will go home tonight and ask. > Nan Bernstein Ratner > > -----Original Message----- > From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shanley Allen > Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 5:25 PM > To: info-childes at googlegroups.com > Subject: MLU in syllables? > > I'm wondering if anyone has tried to calculate MLU in syllables for any language, or knows of any study like this. I'm working with an SLP colleague to devise tests that would be suitable for assessing language delay in Inuktitut. The target user group is pediatricians who don't know Inuktitut well enough to do a morphological analysis, but want to use measures that are appropriate for the language. This idea seems a little crazy, but our preliminary results show that MLU in syllables correlates very highly with MLU in morphemes in Inuktitut data, so it might just work. > > Thanks in advance, > Shanley Allen. > > Shanley Allen > Professor, Psycholinguistics and Language Development > Dept. of Social Sciences, University of Kaiserslautern > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/350A371C-88C8-4483-833F-3CE0980CB098%40bu.edu. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/78F7051232E584458D81A07B6C78AF7D20EC7C%40OITMX1008.AD.UMD.EDU. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/AA36BDEE-3655-4952-9AD0-807713750314%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Morpheme-basedMLU.png Type: image/png Size: 156312 bytes Desc: not available URL: From kdemuth07 at gmail.com Tue Sep 10 14:02:23 2013 From: kdemuth07 at gmail.com (Katherine Demuth) Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 16:02:23 +0200 Subject: MLU in syllables? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: We've also morphologized Sesotho - also on the CHILDES database. And Kamil Ud Deen used an 'MLU' criteria for Swahili - number of morphemes per verb, that works well across Bantu languages, and might for other morphologically rich null subject (and object) languages. KD On 10/09/13 1:11 PM, Yvan Rose wrote: > Dear Shanley, everyone, > MLU counts by syllables would potentially work for Inuktitut. However, > I wonder whether a morpheme count wouldn't work even better, closer to > the original spirit of MLUs, as the syllable count would elude > anything meaning-related. > > Building on Nan's suggestion, I confirm that we could easily rig both > a syllabification algorithm (for Inuktitut), and a (general-purpose) > syllable-based MLU count in Phon. I would be happy to work with you > towards both objectives. This also raises the question of converting > your data into the Phon format, something that shouldn't pose any > serious problem either given our advances on this front over the last > year. > > A morpheme-based one would require the utterances to be > morphologically analyzed first. We did this for Cree a few years ago. > Attached is a screen shot illustrating this. Please feel free to > contact me separately to discuss the specifics. > > Best regards, > Yvan > > > On 2013-09-09, at 22:12, Nan Bernstein Ratner > wrote: > >> OK, then, pragmatic issues satisfied, Shelley Brundage and I tried >> this a while back for English and came up with a conversion factor of >> about 1.5 for American English speaking kids’ speech from about 3-8 >> (JFD, 1989). But you are asking about norms? Because you seem to have >> identified that the conversion is closer to 1:1 for Inuktitut. This >> seems to be a question Phon users might be able to compute for >> longitudinal samples in the database. I guess Brian could say whether >> any dataset in TalkBank is pre-syllabified. If so, one could >> theoretically do this on archival data. >> Best regards to all, >> Nan >> *From:*info-childes at googlegroups.com >> [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com >> ]*On Behalf Of*Shanley Allen >> *Sent:*Monday, September 09, 2013 6:04 PM >> *To:*info-childes at googlegroups.com >> *Subject:*Re: MLU in syllables? >> No, it's a good question. I wouldn't try this for English, but it >> makes sense for Inuktitut because Inuktitut is written with a >> syllabic script. So anyone who writes Inuktitut (98% literacy rate!) >> is forced to think in syllables, and native speakers of Inuktitut who >> are assisting in the assessment can easily transcribe the child's >> speech in syllabics and then simply count the number of characters in >> each utterance. Those same native speakers would have a very hard >> time dividing Inuktitut into morphemes to calculate a traditional >> MLU. And assessing MLU in words (as is done for Irish, for example) >> is uninformative for Inuktitut because it is polysynthetic and has >> rampant argument ellipsis so all the interesting linguistic >> development at early ages happens in the morphology. >> Shanley. >> On Sep 9, 2013, at 11:48 PM, Nan Bernstein Ratner wrote: >> >> >> This may seem like a stupid question, but do pediatricians know >> what a syllable is? My spouse, who is a doctor, probably would >> prefer something based on a literate unit, like words. I am >> afraid to ask what he thinks about counting syllables in any >> language, but I will go home tonight and ask. >> Nan Bernstein Ratner >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From:info-childes at googlegroups.com >> [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] >> On Behalf Of Shanley Allen >> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 5:25 PM >> To:info-childes at googlegroups.com >> >> Subject: MLU in syllables? >> >> I'm wondering if anyone has tried to calculate MLU in syllables >> for any language, or knows of any study like this. I'm working >> with an SLP colleague to devise tests that would be suitable for >> assessing language delay in Inuktitut. The target user group is >> pediatricians who don't know Inuktitut well enough to do a >> morphological analysis, but want to use measures that are >> appropriate for the language. This idea seems a little crazy, but >> our preliminary results show that MLU in syllables correlates >> very highly with MLU in morphemes in Inuktitut data, so it might >> just work. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Shanley Allen. >> >> Shanley Allen >> Professor, Psycholinguistics and Language Development >> Dept. of Social Sciences, University of Kaiserslautern >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >> send an email toinfo-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com >> . >> To post to this group, send email toinfo-childes at googlegroups.com >> . >> To view this discussion on the web >> visithttps://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/350A371C-88C8-4483-833F-3CE0980CB098%40bu.edu. >> For more options, visithttps://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >> send an email toinfo-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com >> . >> To post to this group, send email toinfo-childes at googlegroups.com >> . >> To view this discussion on the web >> visithttps://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/78F7051232E584458D81A07B6C78AF7D20EC7C%40OITMX1008.AD.UMD.EDU. >> For more options, visithttps://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/AA36BDEE-3655-4952-9AD0-807713750314%40gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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You're right that morpheme-based MLU makes most sense for Inuktitut, and I've already done that for my own child language corpus. But, as you point out, this involves first analyzing utterances morphologically - not a trivial task given the morphological complexity of Inuktitut. This would be fine for people with training in Inuktitut linguistics. But the people doing the language assessments are typically pediatricians or SLPs who speak little Inuktitut and rely on parental report, or native speaker medical assistants who do not have the requisite linguistic training (and anyway wouldn't have the time for morphological analysis). Thus, we need another solution. Determining the number of syllables in an utterance is very doable for native speakers with no linguistic training, because Inuktitut is written in syllabic characters. So my plan is to calculate both the MLU in morphemes and the MLU in syllables on the data I already have, to see whether there is a high enough correlation between them. If the correlation is high enough, then it would be reasonable to use MLU in syllables as an indicator of linguistic ability for Inuktitut. The data I have for now are already analyzed morphologically and I've calculated MLUs using CLAN. We've also figured out a way to do syllable counts that's workable for now. But if this idea works out and the correlation is high enough, we may well want to test it on more data that isn't coded. And then I'll definitely be in touch! My request to info-childes was more to figure out if anyone has done something like calculating MLU in syllables before. If so, we could benefit from their experience and not reinvent the wheel. In this regard, thanks to Nan and Sarita for the references - very helpful. Best, Shanley. On Sep 10, 2013, at 1:11 PM, Yvan Rose wrote: > Dear Shanley, everyone, > MLU counts by syllables would potentially work for Inuktitut. However, I wonder whether a morpheme count wouldn't work even better, closer to the original spirit of MLUs, as the syllable count would elude anything meaning-related. > > Building on Nan's suggestion, I confirm that we could easily rig both a syllabification algorithm (for Inuktitut), and a (general-purpose) syllable-based MLU count in Phon. I would be happy to work with you towards both objectives. This also raises the question of converting your data into the Phon format, something that shouldn't pose any serious problem either given our advances on this front over the last year. > > A morpheme-based one would require the utterances to be morphologically analyzed first. We did this for Cree a few years ago. Attached is a screen shot illustrating this. Please feel free to contact me separately to discuss the specifics. > > Best regards, > Yvan > > > > On 2013-09-09, at 22:12, Nan Bernstein Ratner wrote: > >> OK, then, pragmatic issues satisfied, Shelley Brundage and I tried this a while back for English and came up with a conversion factor of about 1.5 for American English speaking kids’ speech from about 3-8 (JFD, 1989). But you are asking about norms? Because you seem to have identified that the conversion is closer to 1:1 for Inuktitut. This seems to be a question Phon users might be able to compute for longitudinal samples in the database. I guess Brian could say whether any dataset in TalkBank is pre-syllabified. If so, one could theoretically do this on archival data. >> >> Best regards to all, >> Nan >> >> From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shanley Allen >> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 6:04 PM >> To: info-childes at googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: MLU in syllables? >> >> No, it's a good question. I wouldn't try this for English, but it makes sense for Inuktitut because Inuktitut is written with a syllabic script. So anyone who writes Inuktitut (98% literacy rate!) is forced to think in syllables, and native speakers of Inuktitut who are assisting in the assessment can easily transcribe the child's speech in syllabics and then simply count the number of characters in each utterance. Those same native speakers would have a very hard time dividing Inuktitut into morphemes to calculate a traditional MLU. And assessing MLU in words (as is done for Irish, for example) is uninformative for Inuktitut because it is polysynthetic and has rampant argument ellipsis so all the interesting linguistic development at early ages happens in the morphology. >> Shanley. >> >> >> On Sep 9, 2013, at 11:48 PM, Nan Bernstein Ratner wrote: >> >> >> This may seem like a stupid question, but do pediatricians know what a syllable is? My spouse, who is a doctor, probably would prefer something based on a literate unit, like words. I am afraid to ask what he thinks about counting syllables in any language, but I will go home tonight and ask. >> Nan Bernstein Ratner >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shanley Allen >> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 5:25 PM >> To: info-childes at googlegroups.com >> Subject: MLU in syllables? >> >> I'm wondering if anyone has tried to calculate MLU in syllables for any language, or knows of any study like this. I'm working with an SLP colleague to devise tests that would be suitable for assessing language delay in Inuktitut. The target user group is pediatricians who don't know Inuktitut well enough to do a morphological analysis, but want to use measures that are appropriate for the language. This idea seems a little crazy, but our preliminary results show that MLU in syllables correlates very highly with MLU in morphemes in Inuktitut data, so it might just work. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Shanley Allen. >> >> Shanley Allen >> Professor, Psycholinguistics and Language Development >> Dept. of Social Sciences, University of Kaiserslautern >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/A653E233-5C6B-42A5-A541-36C9DEC53680%40bu.edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shanley at bu.edu Tue Sep 10 22:34:28 2013 From: shanley at bu.edu (Shanley Allen) Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 00:34:28 +0200 Subject: MLU in syllables? In-Reply-To: <78F7051232E584458D81A07B6C78AF7D20EC7C@OITMX1008.AD.UMD.EDU> Message-ID: Hi Nan, We haven't identified anything yet - just looked at a few transcripts so far with promising results, but very preliminary. So far it looks like Inuktitut morphemes are on average 2 syllables long. I'm not asking about norms. I assume there are no norms available for Inuktitut. And I also assume that the relationship between syllables and morphemes would work different for each language. So norms for other languages would probably not be relevant for Inuktitut. At this point, I just would like to know if anyone else has tried to assess MLU by syllable, to learn from what they have already done. Thanks so much for the reference - it will be very helpful. Best, Shanley. On Sep 10, 2013, at 2:42 AM, Nan Bernstein Ratner wrote: > OK, then, pragmatic issues satisfied, Shelley Brundage and I tried this a while back for English and came up with a conversion factor of about 1.5 for American English speaking kids’ speech from about 3-8 (JFD, 1989). But you are asking about norms? Because you seem to have identified that the conversion is closer to 1:1 for Inuktitut. This seems to be a question Phon users might be able to compute for longitudinal samples in the database. I guess Brian could say whether any dataset in TalkBank is pre-syllabified. If so, one could theoretically do this on archival data. > > Best regards to all, > Nan > > From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shanley Allen > Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 6:04 PM > To: info-childes at googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: MLU in syllables? > > No, it's a good question. I wouldn't try this for English, but it makes sense for Inuktitut because Inuktitut is written with a syllabic script. So anyone who writes Inuktitut (98% literacy rate!) is forced to think in syllables, and native speakers of Inuktitut who are assisting in the assessment can easily transcribe the child's speech in syllabics and then simply count the number of characters in each utterance. Those same native speakers would have a very hard time dividing Inuktitut into morphemes to calculate a traditional MLU. And assessing MLU in words (as is done for Irish, for example) is uninformative for Inuktitut because it is polysynthetic and has rampant argument ellipsis so all the interesting linguistic development at early ages happens in the morphology. > Shanley. > > > On Sep 9, 2013, at 11:48 PM, Nan Bernstein Ratner wrote: > > > This may seem like a stupid question, but do pediatricians know what a syllable is? My spouse, who is a doctor, probably would prefer something based on a literate unit, like words. I am afraid to ask what he thinks about counting syllables in any language, but I will go home tonight and ask. > Nan Bernstein Ratner > > -----Original Message----- > From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shanley Allen > Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 5:25 PM > To: info-childes at googlegroups.com > Subject: MLU in syllables? > > I'm wondering if anyone has tried to calculate MLU in syllables for any language, or knows of any study like this. I'm working with an SLP colleague to devise tests that would be suitable for assessing language delay in Inuktitut. The target user group is pediatricians who don't know Inuktitut well enough to do a morphological analysis, but want to use measures that are appropriate for the language. This idea seems a little crazy, but our preliminary results show that MLU in syllables correlates very highly with MLU in morphemes in Inuktitut data, so it might just work. > > Thanks in advance, > Shanley Allen. > > Shanley Allen > Professor, Psycholinguistics and Language Development > Dept. of Social Sciences, University of Kaiserslautern > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/C03CD66F-9575-4E4F-B28F-4A0D7BD22E2F%40bu.edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brunilda at gmail.com Tue Sep 10 23:49:46 2013 From: brunilda at gmail.com (Bruno Estigarribia) Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 19:49:46 -0400 Subject: MLU in syllables? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Actually, you don't even need a good correlation. All you need is to identify a function relating mlu in syllables to mlum that has a good enough fit. Then you can always predict with a certain degree of accuracy mlum from mlus. Bruno Estigarribia UNC Chapel Hill Hi Yvan and all, Thanks for your response and willingness to consider implementing something like this in Phon. You're right that morpheme-based MLU makes most sense for Inuktitut, and I've already done that for my own child language corpus. But, as you point out, this involves first analyzing utterances morphologically - not a trivial task given the morphological complexity of Inuktitut. This would be fine for people with training in Inuktitut linguistics. But the people doing the language assessments are typically pediatricians or SLPs who speak little Inuktitut and rely on parental report, or native speaker medical assistants who do not have the requisite linguistic training (and anyway wouldn't have the time for morphological analysis). Thus, we need another solution. Determining the number of syllables in an utterance is very doable for native speakers with no linguistic training, because Inuktitut is written in syllabic characters. So my plan is to calculate both the MLU in morphemes and the MLU in syllables on the data I already have, to see whether there is a high enough correlation between them. If the correlation is high enough, then it would be reasonable to use MLU in syllables as an indicator of linguistic ability for Inuktitut. The data I have for now are already analyzed morphologically and I've calculated MLUs using CLAN. We've also figured out a way to do syllable counts that's workable for now. But if this idea works out and the correlation is high enough, we may well want to test it on more data that isn't coded. And then I'll definitely be in touch! My request to info-childes was more to figure out if anyone has done something like calculating MLU in syllables before. If so, we could benefit from their experience and not reinvent the wheel. In this regard, thanks to Nan and Sarita for the references - very helpful. Best, Shanley. On Sep 10, 2013, at 1:11 PM, Yvan Rose wrote: Dear Shanley, everyone, MLU counts by syllables would potentially work for Inuktitut. However, I wonder whether a morpheme count wouldn't work even better, closer to the original spirit of MLUs, as the syllable count would elude anything meaning-related. Building on Nan's suggestion, I confirm that we could easily rig both a syllabification algorithm (for Inuktitut), and a (general-purpose) syllable-based MLU count in Phon. I would be happy to work with you towards both objectives. This also raises the question of converting your data into the Phon format, something that shouldn't pose any serious problem either given our advances on this front over the last year. A morpheme-based one would require the utterances to be morphologically analyzed first. We did this for Cree a few years ago. Attached is a screen shot illustrating this. Please feel free to contact me separately to discuss the specifics. Best regards, Yvan On 2013-09-09, at 22:12, Nan Bernstein Ratner wrote: OK, then, pragmatic issues satisfied, Shelley Brundage and I tried this a while back for English and came up with a conversion factor of about 1.5 for American English speaking kids’ speech from about 3-8 (JFD, 1989). But you are asking about norms? Because you seem to have identified that the conversion is closer to 1:1 for Inuktitut. This seems to be a question Phon users might be able to compute for longitudinal samples in the database. I guess Brian could say whether any dataset in TalkBank is pre-syllabified. If so, one could theoretically do this on archival data.**** Best regards to all,**** Nan**** *From:* info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Shanley Allen *Sent:* Monday, September 09, 2013 6:04 PM *To:* info-childes at googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: MLU in syllables?**** ** ** No, it's a good question. I wouldn't try this for English, but it makes sense for Inuktitut because Inuktitut is written with a syllabic script. So anyone who writes Inuktitut (98% literacy rate!) is forced to think in syllables, and native speakers of Inuktitut who are assisting in the assessment can easily transcribe the child's speech in syllabics and then simply count the number of characters in each utterance. Those same native speakers would have a very hard time dividing Inuktitut into morphemes to calculate a traditional MLU. And assessing MLU in words (as is done for Irish, for example) is uninformative for Inuktitut because it is polysynthetic and has rampant argument ellipsis so all the interesting linguistic development at early ages happens in the morphology.**** Shanley.**** ** ** ** ** On Sep 9, 2013, at 11:48 PM, Nan Bernstein Ratner wrote:**** **** This may seem like a stupid question, but do pediatricians know what a syllable is? My spouse, who is a doctor, probably would prefer something based on a literate unit, like words. I am afraid to ask what he thinks about counting syllables in any language, but I will go home tonight and ask. Nan Bernstein Ratner -----Original Message----- From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shanley Allen Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 5:25 PM To: info-childes at googlegroups.com Subject: MLU in syllables? I'm wondering if anyone has tried to calculate MLU in syllables for any language, or knows of any study like this. I'm working with an SLP colleague to devise tests that would be suitable for assessing language delay in Inuktitut. The target user group is pediatricians who don't know Inuktitut well enough to do a morphological analysis, but want to use measures that are appropriate for the language. This idea seems a little crazy, but our preliminary results show that MLU in syllables correlates very highly with MLU in morphemes in Inuktitut data, so it might just work. Thanks in advance, Shanley Allen.**** Shanley Allen Professor, Psycholinguistics and Language Development Dept. of Social Sciences, University of Kaiserslautern**** -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. 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The successful candidate will have a good background in linguistics, preferably with an emphasis on sign language, and strong skills in sign language and communication across sign languages from different cultures. Good English writing ability is also needed for this position. It is offered for three years, with a possibility for extension. The project will start in February 2014, pending final contractual agreement. *PhD POSITION SIGN LANGUAGE STRUCTURE AND THEATRE*. The PhD position is for the sign language theatre laboratory subproject. The subproject will include theatrical training techniques with deaf and hearing actors and will address the research questions through analysis of artistic expression and its interpretation. The position is offered for a student who will be involved in recording and analyzing the actors’ exercises and performances, and in developing methods for assessing interpretation of the ‘grammar of the body’ in this context. A creative person is sought who has very strong expressive and receptive skills in a sign language, as well as some background in theatre. Preference will be given to candidates with a master’s degree in linguistics, cognitive psychology, or a related discipline. If your sign language is not Israeli Sign Language, then an ability to communicate well across sign languages is important. Good English writing skills are also required. The position is for 3 years with a possibility of extension. The project will start in February 2014, pending final contractual agreement. Applications should be sent by email to wendy.sandler at gmail.com, including a cover letter and short research statement, CV, 2-5 publications or links to them, and names and email addresses for three letters of reference. Any questions can be sent to the same email. Deadline: October 5, 2013. Professor Wendy Sandler Director, Sign Language Research Lab Rabin Building University of Haifa 31905 Haifa Israel -- Anat Prior, PhD Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center for the Study of Learning Disabilities Department of Learning Disabilities Faculty of Education Haifa University Haifa, Israel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/CAOMRPpa11kdZOYCtzwTm5o1r%2BS2Lyghc9kBBBMrJ%3DAmY0gXr5w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Our interdisciplinary program, the only program of its kind in California, provides training in normal (spoken and signed) language, language disorders, multilingualism, and in the neural bases of language learning, use, and loss. It is designed to educate a new generation of scientists who are interested in applying state-of-the-art research skills to the study of communicative disorders. We are very proud of our program, students and faculty. Our doctoral program ranked fourth on the Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index rankings compiled by Academic Analytics and released by *The Chronicle of Higher Education *in 2007. The National Research Council (NRC) ranked our doctoral program among the top ten in the nation in their most recent rankings (2010). The majority of our graduates hold faculty positions in universities or research scientist positions in labs here in the US and abroad. *GOALS:* 1. To provide doctoral training in the study of language and communicative behavior with an interdisciplinary focus that integrates state-of-the-art knowledge from the fields of communicative disorders, cognitive sciences, neurosciences, psychology and linguistics represented by the expertise of core faculty from SDSU and UCSD. 2. To prepare professionals, educated in the interface between behavioral and cognitive neuroscience methodologies, who will provide critical leadership in research and health services. 3. To prepare Ph.D.-level scientists in the field of language and communicative disorders to serve as faculty in university programs and scientists in a variety of settings to carry out much-needed research on the processes of language development, disorders, assessment and intervention. 4. To prepare researchers to carry out much-needed research in communicative behavior and disorders in bilingualism. *ASHA CLINICAL CERTIFICATION:* Although this is a research Ph.D. program, SLHS offers a separate graduate program in SLP. It may be possible to complete a CFY or obtain academic and clinical training concurrently with doctoral studies. However, access to clinical training is not automatic nor is it guaranteed. *RESOURCES AND SUPPORT:* In fall 2008 our program at SDSU moved into a new clinical, research, and academic building with state-of-the-art Speech-Language and Audiology clinics, wonderful high-tech labs, and great new instructional facilities. These resources, combined with the outstanding facilities at UCSD, provide doctoral students with the best possible training environment. Several different funding sources are used to support doctoral students including program scholarships, Graduate assistantships, in-state and out-of-state fee support, and faculty grants. Our NIH doctoral training grant “Neurocognitive Approaches to Communication Disorders” was recently renewed for five years of funding ( http://slhs.sdsu.edu/student-resources/current-students/financial-aid/traineeships/nih-grant/). This funding, along with other institutional and grant funding, provides us with resources to support our doctoral students. Contact Dr. Lew Shapiro ( shapiro at mail.sdsu.edu) for more information regarding this training grant. *ASHA CONVENTION 2014:* Doctoral faculty will be attending ASHA in Chicago in November. Interested students planning on attending are invited to contact us and meet us at the Graduate Fair on November 14-15, 2013. *SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communicative Disorders* *San Diego State University* *5500 Campanile Drive* *San Diego, California 92182-1518* *Telephone: (619) 594-6775* http://slhs.sdsu.edu/programs/phd/admissions/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/9b8d9210-bd13-4a5f-9515-37bac9ba0163%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Ben.Ambridge at liverpool.ac.uk Tue Sep 17 15:24:06 2013 From: Ben.Ambridge at liverpool.ac.uk (Ambridge, Ben) Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 15:24:06 +0000 Subject: Call for commentary proposals Message-ID: Dear colleagues The journal Language is launching a new online-only section, "Perspectives", which will follow a target article + commentary format. Current article: Commentary proposals are invited for the target article "Child Language Acquisition: Why Universal Grammar Doesn't Help" (Ben Ambridge, Julian M. Pine & Elena V.M. Lieven) (downloadable at http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~ambridge/).To submit a commentary proposal of up to three pages, or a full commentary up to 8000 words, please contact Language at Rochester.edu Further information about the new journal section is given below. The new online-only section of Language “Perspectives” will be aimed at publishing articles that generate written response to a “target article”. There will be two types of contributions—longer ones (‘Articles’) and shorter ones (‘Short Shots’). Both types will have commentaries published, and a summary response from the authors. Articles will be selected on the basis of quality, readability, and whether they are likely to invite further productive discussion of issues in the field of general interest. Submissions will be evaluated by the editors of Language. Commentaries on articles up to 8,000 words will be selected on the basis of whether they represent thought-provoking perspectives that engage an issue raised by the article; we encourage preliminary submission of abstracts up to three pages as well as full commentaries. We intend to publish a second round of briefer responses to the commentary articles, but go no further than this. Commentaries will be selected on the basis of whether they collectively represent an informative diversity of perspectives. ‘Short Shots’ will also be subject to briefer and possibly sharper commentary, and will be limited to a single round of commentary only. Submissions of articles and ‘Short Shots,’ as well as proposals for potential articles, should be sent to language at rochester.edu, clearly identified as intended for the “Perspectives” online-only section. For more information, please see the journal website at http://www.linguisticsociety.org/lsa-publications/language -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. 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The Institute is a multidisciplinary unit with representation from the departments of Psychology & Neuroscience,Computer Science, Education, Philosophy, Linguistics, Architecture & Planning, and Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences. We seek applicants with a strong research program in human computational neuroscience and neuroimaging that interfaces with one or more of the main research themes of the Institute: Higher Level Cognition; Language Processing; Training and Education (seeics.colorado.edu). The following attributes will be prioritized, and the strongest applicants will show all three: 1) research incorporating human neuroimaging, 2) the use of state-of-the-art computational approaches to address issues in cognitive science, 3) a strong capacity for and commitment to interdisciplinary research. The ideal candidate will be able to teach courses both in his or her speciality as well as courses in Cognitive Science more generally. Successful applicants will join the faculty of both the Institute for Cognitive Science and the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, and are expected to be able to fulfill teaching and research requirements for tenure in Psychology and Neuroscience. Responsibilities include research, research supervision, service, and graduate and undergraduate teaching. For fullest consideration, please apply by September 30, 2013. Applications will continue to be accepted after this date until the position is filled. Applications (consisting of resume/vitae, cover letter, three letters of recommendation, statement of teaching philosophy, statement of research philosophy and minimum of one publication) are not complete until all letters of recommendation are attached to the posting. To apply, please see Jobs at CU Posting #F00710 Quick Link: http://www.jobsatcu.com/postings/71460 Lise Menn Home Office: 303-444-4274 1625 Mariposa Ave Boulder CO 80302 Professor Emerita of Linguistics Fellow, Institute of Cognitive Science University of Colorado -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/98363A00-4FF0-48D7-B0AE-080F719E9497%40colorado.edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Roberta at udel.edu Sun Sep 22 22:00:04 2013 From: Roberta at udel.edu (Roberta Golinkoff) Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 18:00:04 -0400 Subject: ANNOUNCING NEW DOCTORAL PROGRAM IN LEARNING SCIENCES Message-ID: *DOCTORAL PROGRAM YOU AND YOUR STUDENTS SHOULD KNOW ABOUT* *NEW LEARNING SCIENCES PH.D.* *UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE* *http://www.education.udel.edu/doctoral/phd/ls/* Dear Colleague, Do you have undergraduate or masters students who would like to go to graduate school? Students who would like to make a difference in society? Please think of recommending our newly revised PhD program in *Learning Sciences*. Graduates of the Learning Sciences are seriously in demand given the state of American education and society. Our program is for students who wish to receive broad training. We fully recognize that the Learning Sciences require an understanding of the interplay between cultural context, cognition and development, and the architecture of learning environments – both in schools and in other venues like homes and after school programs. We offer an interdisciplinary focus, including cognitive science, psychology and human development as well as a rich methodological toolkit for developing and assessing outcomes of laboratory research, investigations relating to learning and teaching, and interventions of all types. We have a strong faculty that focus on development, schooling, and learning at all ages and educational levels. Many of us hold grants from NIH, NSF, and the Institute of Education Sciences and are eager to mentor students who want to do research in the field. We generally support our students in good standing for 4-5 years of study and equip them to become leaders in their fields. Our track record for placing our graduates is excellent. Please urge your students to consider the University of Delaware, School of Education at www.education.udel.edu/doctoral/phd/ls/. We would be happy to speak with them! All best and have a great semester! Roberta Golinkoff -- Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Ph. D. Unidel H. Rodney Sharp Professor School of Education and Departments of Psychology and Linguistics and Cognitive Science University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716 Office: 302-831-1634; Fax: 302-831-4110 Web page: http://udel.edu/~roberta/ Author of "A Mandate for Playful Learning in Preschool: Presenting the Evidence" (Oxford) http://www.mandateforplayfullearning.com/ Please check out our doctoral program at http://www.udel.edu/education/graduate/index.html The late Mary Dunn said, "Life is the time we have to learn." -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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IDEALAB is a joint PhD organised by the Universities of Potsdam (Germany), Groningen (Netherlands), Newcastle (UK), Trento (Italy). This collaboration means that we can provide expert supervision across a large range of subjects/areas and access to a range of experimental methods. We welcome applications from students with a Research Master’s in a relevant area to do research on any area of experimental or applied linguistics and brain. Possible areas of research include acquired or developmental language disorders, functional brain imaging of language, and experimental phonetics. There are typically 8 or more studentships available a year for students from the EU and other countries with funding from the EU Erasmus MundusProgram. These provide generous living allowances; waiver of all fees; and a generous travel allowance. All students have to spend at least 6 months at at least two different European partners. Further details are given on the program website (http://em-idealab.com). We are seeking applications from students who will complete an appropriate Research Master’s by August 2014. Completed applications for September 2014 entry are due by 15th November 2013. Helena Trompelt University of Potsdam Department of Linguistics Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 24-25 14476 Potsdam Tel. +49 331 977-2747 Fax +49 331 977-2095 info at em-idealab.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/CAGLQsKfxCmjrR2CvOei97CLN9OD8iZAbYKaceY_unQtib3H_7w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mminami at sfsu.edu Mon Sep 23 23:19:22 2013 From: mminami at sfsu.edu (Masahiko Minami) Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 23:19:22 +0000 Subject: International Conference on Practical Linguistics of Japanese (Call for Papers) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: 2014 8th International Conference on Practical Linguistics of Japanese http://online.sfsu.edu/icplj/index.html 2014 8th International Conference on Practical Linguistics of Japanese (ICPLJ8) will be held on March 22-23, 2014, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo, Japan. The International Conference on Practical Linguistics of Japanese (ICPLJ) will be held for the first time in Japan at NINJAL (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics)! Founded in 1998, ICPLJ aims to stimulate research in Japanese linguistics and serve as a bridge between research oriented toward theory and research oriented toward practical application. Its scope covers a wide range of areas including phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, lexicon, pragmatics, second language acquisition, bilingualism, Japanese language education, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) technology, and language production. The 8th ICPLJ is particularly intended to bring together researchers on the cutting edge of Japanese linguistics and to offer a forum in which their research results can be presented in a form that is useful to those desiring practical applications in the fields of teaching Japanese as a second/foreign language. CALL FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS Deadline for abstracts: Sunday, November 24, 2013(Japan time) CONTACT E-mail : icplj8 at ninjal.ac.jp Kumiko Sakoda (NINJAL) & Masahiko Minami (SF State/NINJAL) Co-organizers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Oral presenters have the option to submit papers to the special issue of the Journal of Japanese Linguistics (JJL) in English. Note that since papers submitted for publication will be fully refereed through a peer review process, the invitation does not guarantee the publication of a submitted paper. The number of papers to be selected may be limited to seven or eight, or even less. The publication decision is based on the referees’ reports. For further information, please contact Dr. Masahiko Minami, JJL Editor-in-Chief: mminami at sfsu.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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This collaboration means that we can provide expert supervision across a large range of subjects/areas and access to a range of experimental methods. We welcome applications from students with a Research Master’s in a relevant area to do research on any area of experimental or applied linguistics and brain. Possible areas of research include acquired or developmental language disorders, functional brain imaging of language, and experimental phonetics. There are typically 8 or more studentships available a year for students from the EU and other countries with funding from the EU Erasmus MundusProgram. These provide generous living allowances; waiver of all fees; and a generous travel allowance. All students have to spend at least 6 months at at least two different European partners. Further details are given on the program website (http://em-idealab.com). We are seeking applications from students who will complete an appropriate Research Master’s by August 2014. Completed applications for September 2014 entry are due by 15th November 2013. Helena Trompelt University of Potsdam Department of Linguistics Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 24-25 14476 Potsdam Tel. +49 331 977-2747 Fax +49 331 977-2095 info at em-idealab.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/CAGLQsKcMAZi2DJ9XiwriJZiwQVV%3DJ65s3ttNn7BSxDig71A79g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From puifongkan at gmail.com Tue Sep 24 16:28:08 2013 From: puifongkan at gmail.com (Pui Fong Kan) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 10:28:08 -0600 Subject: Faculty Position at the University of Colorado at Boulder Message-ID: Faculty Position in the Department of Speech Language and Hearing Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder The Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS), University of Colorado Boulder, invites applications for an Open Rank (Full, Associate or Assistant Professor level) tenured or tenure-track position in cognitive and/or neuroscience aspects of speech or language disorders beginning August 2014. Candidates in all areas of cognitive and/or brain-based acquired or life-span disorders of speech/language/communication will be considered. Candidates in the area of autism spectrum disorders, aging, dementia, TBI, Fragile X, Down syndrome, Parkinson’s disease and speech disorders, among others, are encouraged to apply. Minimum qualifications are: doctoral degree in speech, language and hearing sciences, communication disorders and sciences, neuroscience, cognitive science, psychology, linguistics and related fields and a track record of publications in peer-reviewed journals. Two-three years of teaching experience is preferred. The successful candidate will be expected to have an active and independent research program and to provide evidence of success in extra-mural research funding. Candidates are expected to maintain their vigorous research program and have enthusiasm for undergraduate and graduate teaching. The successful candidate will be expected to teach and mentor students in the department’s clinical Master’s SLP program and in the undergraduate and Ph.D. programs. Salary and start-up are highly competitive and commensurate with experience. International candidates are welcome to apply. More information can be found at: slhs.colorado.edu. The SLHS department includes highly ranked, CAA accredited clinical graduate programs in SLP and Audiology and offers B.A., M.A., AuD, and Ph.D. degrees. The successful candidate will benefit from SLHS’s thriving and dynamic ties with other offerings on the Boulder campus such as the Institute of Cognitive Science, the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, the Intermountain Neuroimaging Consortium, the Institute of Behavioral Genetics, the Department of Linguistics, and offerings on the Anschutz campus of the University of Colorado at Denver Medical School such as the JFK partners Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND) program, the Autism Treatment Network, and the Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome. All applicants must submit a curriculum vitae listing research accomplishments & teaching experiences and provide copies of 3 representative publications. Applicants must also provide contact information for least three references. We will pursue references when the candidate makes the short-list, with the candidate’s permission. Applications are accepted electronically at http://www.jobsatcu.com/postings/71453 For questions, contact search committee chair Anu Sharma at anu.sharma at colorado.edu or (303) 492-5089. We will begin reviewing applications December 2, 2013 and will continue to review applications until the position is filled. The University of Colorado is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/0A09631E-A429-4814-BEAD-BA70BF749DD1%40gmail.com. 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There are no limits on the number of first or non-first authorships of oral papers and no limits on non-first authorships of posters" Kind regards on behalf of the IASCL 2014 organizing committee, --Frank Wijnen. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/f966f541-fd36-4ff4-8f8c-b9523eeb617f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From edy.veneziano at paris5.sorbonne.fr Wed Sep 25 09:34:48 2013 From: edy.veneziano at paris5.sorbonne.fr (edy veneziano) Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 11:34:48 +0200 Subject: Reminder: IASCL 2014 submission deadline is September 30, 2013! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Many thanks! Now it is perfectly clear! Best Edy Sent from iPad On 25 sept. 2013, at 11:17, frankw wrote: > Dear all, > > The deadline for IASCL 2014 abstract submissions is approaching rapidly. Please submit your abstracts through the conference website (www.IASCL2014.org) no later than Monday, September 30, 2013. > > A number of people asked us for clarification regarding limitations on the number of submissions per person. In response to these requests we changed the text on the website as follows: "you can be convenor of maximally one symposium and first author of maximally one poster. There are no limits on the number of first or non-first authorships of oral papers and no limits on non-first authorships of posters" > > Kind regards on behalf of the IASCL 2014 organizing committee, > > --Frank Wijnen. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/f966f541-fd36-4ff4-8f8c-b9523eeb617f%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. 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Barbara Pearson's number of 20 or 25 percent input is often cited as necessary to be bilingual, but she only claimed that children with less input than that were reluctant to use the language--not that they didn't know anything. We find that children with only 20 percent input do start to learn vocabulary, but continuing progress may not be sustainable--nobody really knows. Just to make life difficult, I would add that if you are classifying the children you should do it on what they know--bilingual or trilingual input does not guarantee bilingual or trilingual development. Erika Hoff On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Leher Singh wrote: > Dear all, > > I am trying to differentiate participants in terms of being bilingual with > some 3rd language exposure and trilingualism. Unfortunately, the data I > have are confined to percent breakdown of exposure to each language. Could > anyone point me to references as to what kind of language input a child > would have to have to each language at a minimum to be considered > trilingual? Suggestions or criteria currently adopted by others would be > appreciated! > > Best wishes, > Leher > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Info-CHILDES" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/CAFLtzDcJbx%2BfbQvsoEr3i9Mq3zUa_HVSHNix3ap6XurSgMZ7EA%40mail.gmail.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Erika Hoff, Professor Department of Psychology Florida Atlantic University 3200 College Ave. Davie, FL 33314 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. 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Pearson) Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:56:32 +0000 Subject: trilingualism In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Leher, I just looked at some interesting, more recent, work looking at criteria for amounts of exposure (although not necessarily minimal amounts) by Ann Fernald's lab, and I recently cited Hoff et al. (2012), Gathercole (2002), Thordardottir (2006), Peña et al. (many), and Barreña et al. (2008) on this question. How old are your participants?! None of these studies touch the very unresolved issue of what levels of functional use and fluency count as speaking a language at a given time in a person's life. For a rule of thumb, I thought Janet Werker for many years used 30% as a minimum for inclusion in her studies. That, at least, has the practical advantage that one could divide 100% by three and still come out with a reasonable number. We're very interested in what you decide, and as Erika suggests, how you decide to calculate it. Cheers, Barbara Pearson On Sep 25, 2013, at 9:02 AM, Erika Hoff wrote: Good luck. Barbara Pearson's number of 20 or 25 percent input is often cited as necessary to be bilingual, but she only claimed that children with less input than that were reluctant to use the language--not that they didn't know anything. We find that children with only 20 percent input do start to learn vocabulary, but continuing progress may not be sustainable--nobody really knows. Just to make life difficult, I would add that if you are classifying the children you should do it on what they know--bilingual or trilingual input does not guarantee bilingual or trilingual development. Erika Hoff On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Leher Singh > wrote: Dear all, I am trying to differentiate participants in terms of being bilingual with some 3rd language exposure and trilingualism. Unfortunately, the data I have are confined to percent breakdown of exposure to each language. Could anyone point me to references as to what kind of language input a child would have to have to each language at a minimum to be considered trilingual? Suggestions or criteria currently adopted by others would be appreciated! Best wishes, Leher -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/CAFLtzDcJbx%2BfbQvsoEr3i9Mq3zUa_HVSHNix3ap6XurSgMZ7EA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Erika Hoff, Professor Department of Psychology Florida Atlantic University 3200 College Ave. Davie, FL 33314 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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From editor.iascl.clbulletin at gmail.com Thu Sep 26 06:05:36 2013 From: editor.iascl.clbulletin at gmail.com (IASCL Child Language Bulletin Editor) Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 23:05:36 -0700 Subject: BUCLD 38 Schedule and Pricing Message-ID: **Message on behalf of the BUCLD 38 conference committee. Apologies for multiple postings** The 38th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development November 1-3, 2013 Keynote Speaker: Elena Lieven, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology / University of Manchester Plenary Speaker: CANCELED: Heather van der Lely, Harvard University Unfortunately, Heather van der Lely's plenary address has been cancelled for health reasons. We regret that we cannot hear her address and wish her the best in recovery. Symposia: Saturday - 'Resolving A Learnability Paradox in the Acquisition of Verb Argument Structure: What have we learned in the last 25 years' Ben Ambridge (University of Liverpool) (organizer) Adele Goldberg (Princeton University) Joshua Hartshorne (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) & Jesse Snedeker (Harvard University) Steven Pinker (Harvard University) Sunday - 'A new approach to language learning: filtering through the processor' Helen Goodluck (University of York) (organizer) Lyn Frazier (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Colin Phillips (University of Maryland, College Park) We would like to remind you that the deadline to pre-register for BUCLD 38 is Tuesday, October 23, 2013. By pre-registering not only will you receive a reduced rate for the conference, but you will also be able to check-in at the registration desk quickly and proceed to the various exciting talks without waiting in line. Regular full-price registration will continue to be available online from Thursday, October 24 through Tuesday, October 29. To register, please visit the following website: http://www.bu.edu/bucld/conference-info/registration/ For general information on the conference including the full schedule, please visit: http://www.bu.edu/bucld Also, you can register for the Society for Language Development Symposium "Mechanisms of Word Learning" on Thursday October 31, 1-6pm through our website. The SLD would also like to announce their student award. Please see their website for more information: http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/sld/symposium.html Additionally, Boston University is currently searching for an Assistant Professor specializing in language acquisition and linguistic theory, and will be conducting interviews at the BUCLD and LSA meetings for applicants in attendance. The application deadline is OCTOBER 1. 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The successful junior candidate will possess an emerging publication record and strong potential for extramural funding (NIH). A successful mid-career candidate will possess a strong record of publications and extramural funding. Salary is competitive and negotiable, depending upon rank and qualifications. The candidate hired will conduct research, obtain external funding in support of research endeavors, teach undergraduate and graduate courses, advise and direct student theses and dissertations, and engage in professional and collegiate service activities. The University of Iowa offers a rich intellectual environment for scholars in language including a number of established and ongoing interdisciplinary collaborations among communication sciences and disorders, psychology, linguistics and neuroscience groups. The University of Iowa is also home to the DeLTA Center, an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to the study of development and learning. The Iowa City community is a vibrant college town distinguished by recognition as an UNESCO city of literature and by consistently high rankings on quality of life indices (health, safety, education, cost of living). Applicants should apply online at https://jobs.uiowa.edu/ refer to requisition #63305. The applicant should attach a letter describing research and teaching interests, and full curriculum vitae. Three letters of recommendation should be sent to: Karla McGregor, Chair of the Search Committee, CSD, 334b WJSHC, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1012 or emailed to: karla-mcgregor at uiowa.edu. For full consideration, applications must be received by November 8, 2014 but applications are welcome until the position is filled. The Department and the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences are strongly committed to gender and ethnic diversity; the strategic plans of the University and College reflect this commitment. 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It is expected that the appointee will have an undergraduate qualification in a relevant subject (e.g., Psychology, Computer Science, Linguistics) and a post-graduate qualification to at least Masters-level in a relevant topic. They will have expertise in analysing large corpora to explore linguistic phenomena. The appointee is expected to take the lead in delivering the programme of research, working with the Principal Investigators: Professor Kate Nation (Department of Experimental Psychology), Dr. Victoria Murphy (Department of Education) and Professor Stephen Pulman (Department of Computer Science). The Oxford Children?s Corpus is a large, representative corpus of children?s written language, comprising many millions of words, sampled from material written for children (including fiction, curriculum material, websites, magazines) and by children themselves. It is has been developed by Oxford University Press. This project will use the corpus to examine a variety of lexical phenomena including (a) the identification of features of children?s reading experience that might relate to reading development, in particular, contextual diversity and semantic similarity and (b) the examination of collocation patterns in children?s own writing. Further information about the Principal Investigators can be found at their websites: Nation: http://lcd.psy.ox.ac.uk/ Murphy: http://www.education.ox.ac.uk/real/ Pulman: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/stephen.pulman/ For further information is attached and see http://www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/jobs/ ********************************** Victoria A. Murphy, PhD Department of Education University of Oxford 15 Norham Gardens Oxford, OX2 6PY Tel: +44(0)1865 274042 Fax: +44(0)1865 274027 [cid:f603cd94-de60-4fde-adbc-3a5f3672233e at ad.oak.ox.ac.uk] http://www.education.ox.ac.uk/research/applied-linguistics/r-e-a-l/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/89e47fcb-e2fc-4f24-9a63-0e17a12bdcb9%40HUB04.ad.oak.ox.ac.uk. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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We will then include these citations in the CHILDES-BIB that is on the web, as well as in the proposal. Also, they should mention any new features that you would like to see included in the programs and the database. The proposal is due November 1, but I must finalize the text well before then. This means that we need to receive letters by October 1 at the latest. Sooner would be even better. There is no need to send the letter in paper form; email is fine. You can just email your letter to Margie Forbes at forbesmm at cmu.edu. Margie will acknowledge each email, as she receives it. If you would like to make sure that we don't send you multiple requests for a letter, please just send a note right now to Margie telling her when you will be sending a letter. Please note, there is no usage fee for the CHILDES programs or database. Being able to submit a good set of support letters that document usage is really the best way to guarantee continued funding. Many thanks for your support for the continuation of this important component of the scientific infrastructure for the study of child language development. Best regards, -- Brian MacWhinney, Professor of Psychology, CMU P.S. The new proposal will focus on: ? continued expansion of the database, ? tighter linkage to PHON and Praat for phonological analysis, ? fuller support for systems using the database for automatic grammar and lexicon extraction, ? more support for coding gesture, ? expansion of the new KidEVAL methods for aligning individual children to a comparison database, ? more complete web-based search and analysis programs, ? completion of automatic computation of IPSyn, ? Monte Carlo methods for IRT testing of items in IPSyn, DSS, and KidEVAL ? extension of automatic morphosyntactic analysis to more languages using standard formats, ? support for quantitative analysis using Conversation Analysis (CA) coding, ? computer-assisted methods for increasingly rapid first-pass transcription, and ? extended interoperability with other major computer programs. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/D19F32FB-6303-4124-BA17-235B6121FC0C%40cmu.edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. From djacksonqro at gmail.com Thu Sep 5 22:29:54 2013 From: djacksonqro at gmail.com (Donna Jackson) Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 00:29:54 +0200 Subject: NIH Grant Competing Continuation In-Reply-To: Message-ID: is next week okay? 2013/9/5 Brian MacWhinney > Dear Info-CHILDES, > > The NICHD grant for CHILDES is up for renewal this year and we are busy > soliciting letters documenting its usage over the last five years. So, if > you, your colleagues, or your students have been making use of CHILDES or > the CLAN program, could you please ask send us a letter documenting your > usage? > > Letters should include citations for articles, conference presentations, > talks, teaching activities, or student papers based on the use of CHILDES > programs or data. We will then include these citations in the CHILDES-BIB > that is on the web, as well as in the proposal. Also, they should mention > any new features that you would like to see included in the programs and > the database. > > The proposal is due November 1, but I must finalize the text well before > then. This means that we need to receive letters by October 1 at the > latest. Sooner would be even better. There is no need to send the letter > in paper form; email is fine. > > You can just email your letter to Margie Forbes at forbesmm at cmu.edu. > Margie will acknowledge each email, as she receives it. If you would like > to make sure that we don't send you multiple requests for a letter, please > just send a note right now to Margie telling her when you will be sending a > letter. > > Please note, there is no usage fee for the CHILDES programs or database. > Being able to submit a good set of support letters that document usage is > really the best way to guarantee continued funding. > > Many thanks for your support for the continuation of this important > component of the scientific infrastructure for the study of child language > development. > > Best regards, > > -- Brian MacWhinney, Professor of Psychology, CMU > > P.S. The new proposal will focus on: > ? continued expansion of the database, > ? tighter linkage to PHON and Praat for phonological analysis, > ? fuller support for systems using the database for automatic grammar > and lexicon extraction, > ? more support for coding gesture, > ? expansion of the new KidEVAL methods for aligning individual > children to a comparison database, > ? more complete web-based search and analysis programs, > ? completion of automatic computation of IPSyn, > ? Monte Carlo methods for IRT testing of items in IPSyn, DSS, and > KidEVAL > ? extension of automatic morphosyntactic analysis to more languages > using standard formats, > ? support for quantitative analysis using Conversation Analysis (CA) > coding, > ? computer-assisted methods for increasingly rapid first-pass > transcription, and > ? extended interoperability with other major computer programs. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Info-CHILDES" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/D19F32FB-6303-4124-BA17-235B6121FC0C%40cmu.edu > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Donna Jackson-Maldonado Centro de Estudios Ling??sticos y Literarios Facultad de Lenguas y Letras, Universidad Aut?noma de Quer?taro Campus Aeropuerto, Circuito Fray Jun?pero Serra Km 8 Santiago de Quer?taro, Qro., M?xico 76140 web: http://www.donnajackson.weebly.com e-mail: djacksonq ro at gmail.com tel: 52 442 192 1200 ex. 61200 o 61140 home: 52 442 2180264 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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URL: From roeper at linguist.umass.edu Thu Sep 5 22:32:24 2013 From: roeper at linguist.umass.edu (Tom Roeper) Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 18:32:24 -0400 Subject: NIH Grant Competing Continuation In-Reply-To: <27676_1378412669_5228E87C_27676_11884_1_D19F32FB-6303-4124-BA17-235B6121FC0C@cmu.edu> Message-ID: Dear Brian--- I cannot put down all the references, but let me give you this to quote: Childes has become the lifeblood of acquisition research, and often the centerpiece of undergraduate education. I do searches on it several times a week (or sometimes several time a day). There is no question that it deserves further support. Tom On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Brian MacWhinney wrote: > Dear Info-CHILDES, > > The NICHD grant for CHILDES is up for renewal this year and we are busy > soliciting letters documenting its usage over the last five years. So, if > you, your colleagues, or your students have been making use of CHILDES or > the CLAN program, could you please ask send us a letter documenting your > usage? > > Letters should include citations for articles, conference presentations, > talks, teaching activities, or student papers based on the use of CHILDES > programs or data. We will then include these citations in the CHILDES-BIB > that is on the web, as well as in the proposal. Also, they should mention > any new features that you would like to see included in the programs and > the database. > > The proposal is due November 1, but I must finalize the text well before > then. This means that we need to receive letters by October 1 at the > latest. Sooner would be even better. There is no need to send the letter > in paper form; email is fine. > > You can just email your letter to Margie Forbes at forbesmm at cmu.edu. > Margie will acknowledge each email, as she receives it. If you would like > to make sure that we don't send you multiple requests for a letter, please > just send a note right now to Margie telling her when you will be sending a > letter. > > Please note, there is no usage fee for the CHILDES programs or database. > Being able to submit a good set of support letters that document usage is > really the best way to guarantee continued funding. > > Many thanks for your support for the continuation of this important > component of the scientific infrastructure for the study of child language > development. > > Best regards, > > -- Brian MacWhinney, Professor of Psychology, CMU > > P.S. The new proposal will focus on: > ? continued expansion of the database, > ? tighter linkage to PHON and Praat for phonological analysis, > ? fuller support for systems using the database for automatic grammar > and lexicon extraction, > ? more support for coding gesture, > ? expansion of the new KidEVAL methods for aligning individual > children to a comparison database, > ? more complete web-based search and analysis programs, > ? completion of automatic computation of IPSyn, > ? Monte Carlo methods for IRT testing of items in IPSyn, DSS, and > KidEVAL > ? extension of automatic morphosyntactic analysis to more languages > using standard formats, > ? support for quantitative analysis using Conversation Analysis (CA) > coding, > ? computer-assisted methods for increasingly rapid first-pass > transcription, and > ? extended interoperability with other major computer programs. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Info-CHILDES" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/D19F32FB-6303-4124-BA17-235B6121FC0C%40cmu.edu > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Tom Roeper Dept of Lingiustics UMass South College Amherst, Mass. 01003 ISA 413 256 0390 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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Thanks on Brian's behalf, Margie Forbes On Sep 5, 2013, at 6:32 PM, Tom Roeper wrote: > Dear Brian--- > > I cannot put down all the references, but let me give you this to quote: > > Childes has become the lifeblood of acquisition research, and often the > centerpiece of undergraduate education. I do searches on it several > times a week (or sometimes several time a day). There is no question > that it deserves further support. > > Tom > > > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Brian MacWhinney wrote: > Dear Info-CHILDES, > > The NICHD grant for CHILDES is up for renewal this year and we are busy soliciting letters documenting its usage over the last five years. So, if you, your colleagues, or your students have been making use of CHILDES or the CLAN program, could you please ask send us a letter documenting your usage? > > Letters should include citations for articles, conference presentations, talks, teaching activities, or student papers based on the use of CHILDES programs or data. We will then include these citations in the CHILDES-BIB that is on the web, as well as in the proposal. Also, they should mention any new features that you would like to see included in the programs and the database. > > The proposal is due November 1, but I must finalize the text well before then. This means that we need to receive letters by October 1 at the latest. Sooner would be even better. There is no need to send the letter in paper form; email is fine. > > You can just email your letter to Margie Forbes at forbesmm at cmu.edu. Margie will acknowledge each email, as she receives it. If you would like to make sure that we don't send you multiple requests for a letter, please just send a note right now to Margie telling her when you will be sending a letter. > > Please note, there is no usage fee for the CHILDES programs or database. Being able to submit a good set of support letters that document usage is really the best way to guarantee continued funding. > > Many thanks for your support for the continuation of this important component of the scientific infrastructure for the study of child language development. > > Best regards, > > -- Brian MacWhinney, Professor of Psychology, CMU > > P.S. The new proposal will focus on: > ? continued expansion of the database, > ? tighter linkage to PHON and Praat for phonological analysis, > ? fuller support for systems using the database for automatic grammar and lexicon extraction, > ? more support for coding gesture, > ? expansion of the new KidEVAL methods for aligning individual children to a comparison database, > ? more complete web-based search and analysis programs, > ? completion of automatic computation of IPSyn, > ? Monte Carlo methods for IRT testing of items in IPSyn, DSS, and KidEVAL > ? extension of automatic morphosyntactic analysis to more languages using standard formats, > ? support for quantitative analysis using Conversation Analysis (CA) coding, > ? computer-assisted methods for increasingly rapid first-pass transcription, and > ? extended interoperability with other major computer programs. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/D19F32FB-6303-4124-BA17-235B6121FC0C%40cmu.edu. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- > Tom Roeper > Dept of Lingiustics > UMass South College > Amherst, Mass. 01003 ISA > 413 256 0390 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/CABkofSn3XG%3DbebPogW72YCeoca0Vxtw5ZHJy_hLoGrBjdPppHA%40mail.gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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If not, I would be grateful if anyone knows of/developed a similar lexical test that might be used for Arabic (for children aged 4-5 years old) and would allow me to use it.? Your help is highly appreciated! Best, Dima Malahmeh -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/1378727027.94821.YahooMailNeo%40web162001.mail.bf1.yahoo.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From k.j.alcock at lancaster.ac.uk Mon Sep 9 12:34:08 2013 From: k.j.alcock at lancaster.ac.uk (Alcock, Katie) Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 12:34:08 +0000 Subject: NIH Grant Competing Continuation In-Reply-To: Message-ID: We've used the database this year to collect dialect words in CDS and children's usage to include on the new UK-CDI. So we're very happy to send a letter! I'll do this, Caro/Kerstin. Katie On 05/09/2013 21:24, "Brian MacWhinney" wrote: >Dear Info-CHILDES, > >The NICHD grant for CHILDES is up for renewal this year and we are busy >soliciting letters documenting its usage over the last five years. So, >if you, your colleagues, or your students have been making use of CHILDES >or the CLAN program, could you please ask send us a letter documenting >your usage? > >Letters should include citations for articles, conference presentations, >talks, teaching activities, or student papers based on the use of CHILDES >programs or data. We will then include these citations in the CHILDES-BIB >that is on the web, as well as in the proposal. Also, they should >mention any new features that you would like to see included in the >programs and the database. > >The proposal is due November 1, but I must finalize the text well before >then. This means that we need to receive letters by October 1 at the >latest. Sooner would be even better. There is no need to send the >letter in paper form; email is fine. > >You can just email your letter to Margie Forbes at forbesmm at cmu.edu. >Margie will acknowledge each email, as she receives it. If you would like >to make sure that we don't send you multiple requests for a letter, >please just send a note right now to Margie telling her when you will be >sending a letter. > >Please note, there is no usage fee for the CHILDES programs or database. >Being able to submit a good set of support letters that document usage is >really the best way to guarantee continued funding. > >Many thanks for your support for the continuation of this important >component of the scientific infrastructure for the study of child >language development. > >Best regards, > >-- Brian MacWhinney, Professor of Psychology, CMU > >P.S. The new proposal will focus on: >? continued expansion of the database, >? tighter linkage to PHON and Praat for phonological analysis, >? fuller support for systems using the database for automatic grammar >and lexicon extraction, >? more support for coding gesture, >? expansion of the new KidEVAL methods for aligning individual >children to a comparison database, >? more complete web-based search and analysis programs, >? completion of automatic computation of IPSyn, >? Monte Carlo methods for IRT testing of items in IPSyn, DSS, and >KidEVAL >? extension of automatic morphosyntactic analysis to more languages >using standard formats, >? support for quantitative analysis using Conversation Analysis (CA) >coding, >? computer-assisted methods for increasingly rapid first-pass >transcription, and >? extended interoperability with other major computer programs. > >-- >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >"Info-CHILDES" group. >To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. >To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. >To view this discussion on the web visit >https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/D19F32FB-6303-4124-BA17-235 >B6121FC0C%40cmu.edu. >For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/1B6302315CC46C48962C4C1856B583D224DF0D%40EX-0-MB2.lancs.local. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. From k.j.alcock at lancaster.ac.uk Mon Sep 9 12:40:23 2013 From: k.j.alcock at lancaster.ac.uk (Alcock, Katie) Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 12:40:23 +0000 Subject: CDI for Arabic In-Reply-To: <1378727027.94821.YahooMailNeo@web162001.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: For children of this age, a picture vocabulary scale would be more appropriate than a CDI (though an Arabic CDI exists). A quick Google reveals that an Arabic Picture Vocabulary Scale has been developed http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/20472/1/20472.pdf Your main barriers might be cultural differences in the words and objects children are familiar with but it is usually very easy to get someone to draw locally appropriate pictures, and to change words that are not relevant to the local culture and/or change to dialect words. Katie Alcock Katie Alcock Lecturer Department of Psychology Lancaster University Fylde College Bailrigg Lancaster, LA1 4YF, UK tel: +44 1524 593833 From: Dima Malahmeh > Reply-To: "info-childes at googlegroups.com" > Date: Monday, 9 September 2013 12:43 To: "info-childes at googlegroups.com" > Subject: CDI for Arabic Dear Info-Childes, I am a PhD student working on bilingual children in Jordan (Arabic-English). I would like to ask if any of you have come across a CDI adapted for Arabic? If not, I would be grateful if anyone knows of/developed a similar lexical test that might be used for Arabic (for children aged 4-5 years old) and would allow me to use it. Your help is highly appreciated! Best, Dima Malahmeh -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/1378727027.94821.YahooMailNeo%40web162001.mail.bf1.yahoo.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. 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If not, I would be grateful if anyone knows > of/developed a similar lexical test that might be used for Arabic (for > children aged 4-5 years old) and would allow me to use it. > > Your help is highly appreciated! > > Best, > Dima Malahmeh > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Info-CHILDES" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/1378727027.94821.YahooMailNeo%40web162001.mail.bf1.yahoo.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Dr. Caroline Floccia Reader (Associate Professor) PSQ A213 School of Psychology University of Plymouth Drake Circus Devon PL4 8AA tel: (+0044) 1752 584822 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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This idea seems a little crazy, but our preliminary results show that MLU in syllables correlates very highly with MLU in morphemes in Inuktitut data, so it might just work. Thanks in advance, Shanley Allen. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/E76A86C1-AC94-48E2-8497-182714228C4D%40bu.edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. From nratner at umd.edu Mon Sep 9 21:48:10 2013 From: nratner at umd.edu (Nan Bernstein Ratner) Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 21:48:10 +0000 Subject: MLU in syllables? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: This may seem like a stupid question, but do pediatricians know what a syllable is? My spouse, who is a doctor, probably would prefer something based on a literate unit, like words. I am afraid to ask what he thinks about counting syllables in any language, but I will go home tonight and ask. N Nan Bernstein Ratner, Professor and Chairman Fellow, ASHA Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences 0100 Lefrak Hall University of Maryland, College Park College Park, MD 20742 301-405-4213, 301-405-4217 Fax: 301-314-2023 http://hesp.umd.edu/facultyprofile/Bernstein%20Ratner/Nan Affiliated faculty: Language Sciences, Developmental Science Field Committee Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuroscience Program (NACS) -----Original Message----- From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shanley Allen Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 5:25 PM To: info-childes at googlegroups.com Subject: MLU in syllables? I'm wondering if anyone has tried to calculate MLU in syllables for any language, or knows of any study like this. I'm working with an SLP colleague to devise tests that would be suitable for assessing language delay in Inuktitut. The target user group is pediatricians who don't know Inuktitut well enough to do a morphological analysis, but want to use measures that are appropriate for the language. This idea seems a little crazy, but our preliminary results show that MLU in syllables correlates very highly with MLU in morphemes in Inuktitut data, so it might just work. Thanks in advance, Shanley Allen. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/E76A86C1-AC94-48E2-8497-182714228C4D%40bu.edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/78F7051232E584458D81A07B6C78AF7D20E8A1%40OITMX1008.AD.UMD.EDU. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. From shanley at bu.edu Mon Sep 9 22:04:05 2013 From: shanley at bu.edu (Shanley Allen) Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 00:04:05 +0200 Subject: MLU in syllables? In-Reply-To: <78F7051232E584458D81A07B6C78AF7D20E8A1@OITMX1008.AD.UMD.EDU> Message-ID: No, it's a good question. I wouldn't try this for English, but it makes sense for Inuktitut because Inuktitut is written with a syllabic script. So anyone who writes Inuktitut (98% literacy rate!) is forced to think in syllables, and native speakers of Inuktitut who are assisting in the assessment can easily transcribe the child's speech in syllabics and then simply count the number of characters in each utterance. Those same native speakers would have a very hard time dividing Inuktitut into morphemes to calculate a traditional MLU. And assessing MLU in words (as is done for Irish, for example) is uninformative for Inuktitut because it is polysynthetic and has rampant argument ellipsis so all the interesting linguistic development at early ages happens in the morphology. Shanley. On Sep 9, 2013, at 11:48 PM, Nan Bernstein Ratner wrote: > This may seem like a stupid question, but do pediatricians know what a syllable is? My spouse, who is a doctor, probably would prefer something based on a literate unit, like words. I am afraid to ask what he thinks about counting syllables in any language, but I will go home tonight and ask. > Nan Bernstein Ratner > > -----Original Message----- > From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shanley Allen > Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 5:25 PM > To: info-childes at googlegroups.com > Subject: MLU in syllables? > > I'm wondering if anyone has tried to calculate MLU in syllables for any language, or knows of any study like this. I'm working with an SLP colleague to devise tests that would be suitable for assessing language delay in Inuktitut. The target user group is pediatricians who don't know Inuktitut well enough to do a morphological analysis, but want to use measures that are appropriate for the language. This idea seems a little crazy, but our preliminary results show that MLU in syllables correlates very highly with MLU in morphemes in Inuktitut data, so it might just work. > > Thanks in advance, > Shanley Allen. > Shanley Allen Professor, Psycholinguistics and Language Development Dept. of Social Sciences, University of Kaiserslautern -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/350A371C-88C8-4483-833F-3CE0980CB098%40bu.edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Thanks for this extension! People I know are just beginning the semester in the US and have been feeling overwhelmed with the earlier deadline. Jean -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/522E47FC.4010500%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nratner at umd.edu Tue Sep 10 00:42:38 2013 From: nratner at umd.edu (Nan Bernstein Ratner) Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 00:42:38 +0000 Subject: MLU in syllables? In-Reply-To: <350A371C-88C8-4483-833F-3CE0980CB098@bu.edu> Message-ID: OK, then, pragmatic issues satisfied, Shelley Brundage and I tried this a while back for English and came up with a conversion factor of about 1.5 for American English speaking kids' speech from about 3-8 (JFD, 1989). But you are asking about norms? Because you seem to have identified that the conversion is closer to 1:1 for Inuktitut. This seems to be a question Phon users might be able to compute for longitudinal samples in the database. I guess Brian could say whether any dataset in TalkBank is pre-syllabified. If so, one could theoretically do this on archival data. Best regards to all, Nan From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shanley Allen Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 6:04 PM To: info-childes at googlegroups.com Subject: Re: MLU in syllables? No, it's a good question. I wouldn't try this for English, but it makes sense for Inuktitut because Inuktitut is written with a syllabic script. So anyone who writes Inuktitut (98% literacy rate!) is forced to think in syllables, and native speakers of Inuktitut who are assisting in the assessment can easily transcribe the child's speech in syllabics and then simply count the number of characters in each utterance. Those same native speakers would have a very hard time dividing Inuktitut into morphemes to calculate a traditional MLU. And assessing MLU in words (as is done for Irish, for example) is uninformative for Inuktitut because it is polysynthetic and has rampant argument ellipsis so all the interesting linguistic development at early ages happens in the morphology. Shanley. On Sep 9, 2013, at 11:48 PM, Nan Bernstein Ratner wrote: This may seem like a stupid question, but do pediatricians know what a syllable is? My spouse, who is a doctor, probably would prefer something based on a literate unit, like words. I am afraid to ask what he thinks about counting syllables in any language, but I will go home tonight and ask. Nan Bernstein Ratner -----Original Message----- From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shanley Allen Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 5:25 PM To: info-childes at googlegroups.com Subject: MLU in syllables? I'm wondering if anyone has tried to calculate MLU in syllables for any language, or knows of any study like this. I'm working with an SLP colleague to devise tests that would be suitable for assessing language delay in Inuktitut. The target user group is pediatricians who don't know Inuktitut well enough to do a morphological analysis, but want to use measures that are appropriate for the language. This idea seems a little crazy, but our preliminary results show that MLU in syllables correlates very highly with MLU in morphemes in Inuktitut data, so it might just work. Thanks in advance, Shanley Allen. Shanley Allen Professor, Psycholinguistics and Language Development Dept. of Social Sciences, University of Kaiserslautern -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/350A371C-88C8-4483-833F-3CE0980CB098%40bu.edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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Here is a link to an article (in French) http://www.glossa.fr/pdfs/103-2.pdf Isabelle Barriere, PhD On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Caroline Floccia < caroline at carolinefloccia.info> wrote: > Dear Dima, > Best is to contact Sabah Safi, who has developed a Saudi version of it > with some colleagues. Her email is sabahsafi at mac.com. > However, perhaps it's best to first ask Kim Plunkett in Oxford about it as > he would be able to reach Sabah if you cannot. > Best, > Caroline > > > > On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Dima Malahmeh wrote: > >> Dear Info-Childes, >> >> I am a PhD student working on bilingual children in Jordan >> (Arabic-English). I would like to ask if any of you have come across a CDI >> adapted for Arabic? If not, I would be grateful if anyone knows >> of/developed a similar lexical test that might be used for Arabic (for >> children aged 4-5 years old) and would allow me to use it. >> >> Your help is highly appreciated! >> >> Best, >> Dima Malahmeh >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Info-CHILDES" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/1378727027.94821.YahooMailNeo%40web162001.mail.bf1.yahoo.com >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > > > -- > Dr. Caroline Floccia > Reader (Associate Professor) > PSQ A213 > School of Psychology > University of Plymouth > Drake Circus > Devon PL4 8AA > tel: (+0044) 1752 584822 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Info-CHILDES" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/CAC6wxdHJJ43OA%3Dtw_45Z8xg%2BqbOGc%2Bw-mEqNDbr%2B6nDqCieBOw%40mail.gmail.com > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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However, I wonder whether a morpheme count wouldn't work even better, closer to the original spirit of MLUs, as the syllable count would elude anything meaning-related. Building on Nan's suggestion, I confirm that we could easily rig both a syllabification algorithm (for Inuktitut), and a (general-purpose) syllable-based MLU count in Phon. I would be happy to work with you towards both objectives. This also raises the question of converting your data into the Phon format, something that shouldn't pose any serious problem either given our advances on this front over the last year. A morpheme-based one would require the utterances to be morphologically analyzed first. We did this for Cree a few years ago. Attached is a screen shot illustrating this. Please feel free to contact me separately to discuss the specifics. Best regards, Yvan On 2013-09-09, at 22:12, Nan Bernstein Ratner wrote: > OK, then, pragmatic issues satisfied, Shelley Brundage and I tried this a while back for English and came up with a conversion factor of about 1.5 for American English speaking kids? speech from about 3-8 (JFD, 1989). But you are asking about norms? Because you seem to have identified that the conversion is closer to 1:1 for Inuktitut. This seems to be a question Phon users might be able to compute for longitudinal samples in the database. I guess Brian could say whether any dataset in TalkBank is pre-syllabified. If so, one could theoretically do this on archival data. > > Best regards to all, > Nan > > From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shanley Allen > Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 6:04 PM > To: info-childes at googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: MLU in syllables? > > No, it's a good question. I wouldn't try this for English, but it makes sense for Inuktitut because Inuktitut is written with a syllabic script. So anyone who writes Inuktitut (98% literacy rate!) is forced to think in syllables, and native speakers of Inuktitut who are assisting in the assessment can easily transcribe the child's speech in syllabics and then simply count the number of characters in each utterance. Those same native speakers would have a very hard time dividing Inuktitut into morphemes to calculate a traditional MLU. And assessing MLU in words (as is done for Irish, for example) is uninformative for Inuktitut because it is polysynthetic and has rampant argument ellipsis so all the interesting linguistic development at early ages happens in the morphology. > Shanley. > > > On Sep 9, 2013, at 11:48 PM, Nan Bernstein Ratner wrote: > > > This may seem like a stupid question, but do pediatricians know what a syllable is? My spouse, who is a doctor, probably would prefer something based on a literate unit, like words. I am afraid to ask what he thinks about counting syllables in any language, but I will go home tonight and ask. > Nan Bernstein Ratner > > -----Original Message----- > From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shanley Allen > Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 5:25 PM > To: info-childes at googlegroups.com > Subject: MLU in syllables? > > I'm wondering if anyone has tried to calculate MLU in syllables for any language, or knows of any study like this. I'm working with an SLP colleague to devise tests that would be suitable for assessing language delay in Inuktitut. The target user group is pediatricians who don't know Inuktitut well enough to do a morphological analysis, but want to use measures that are appropriate for the language. This idea seems a little crazy, but our preliminary results show that MLU in syllables correlates very highly with MLU in morphemes in Inuktitut data, so it might just work. > > Thanks in advance, > Shanley Allen. > > Shanley Allen > Professor, Psycholinguistics and Language Development > Dept. of Social Sciences, University of Kaiserslautern > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/350A371C-88C8-4483-833F-3CE0980CB098%40bu.edu. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/78F7051232E584458D81A07B6C78AF7D20EC7C%40OITMX1008.AD.UMD.EDU. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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And Kamil Ud Deen used an 'MLU' criteria for Swahili - number of morphemes per verb, that works well across Bantu languages, and might for other morphologically rich null subject (and object) languages. KD On 10/09/13 1:11 PM, Yvan Rose wrote: > Dear Shanley, everyone, > MLU counts by syllables would potentially work for Inuktitut. However, > I wonder whether a morpheme count wouldn't work even better, closer to > the original spirit of MLUs, as the syllable count would elude > anything meaning-related. > > Building on Nan's suggestion, I confirm that we could easily rig both > a syllabification algorithm (for Inuktitut), and a (general-purpose) > syllable-based MLU count in Phon. I would be happy to work with you > towards both objectives. This also raises the question of converting > your data into the Phon format, something that shouldn't pose any > serious problem either given our advances on this front over the last > year. > > A morpheme-based one would require the utterances to be > morphologically analyzed first. We did this for Cree a few years ago. > Attached is a screen shot illustrating this. Please feel free to > contact me separately to discuss the specifics. > > Best regards, > Yvan > > > On 2013-09-09, at 22:12, Nan Bernstein Ratner > wrote: > >> OK, then, pragmatic issues satisfied, Shelley Brundage and I tried >> this a while back for English and came up with a conversion factor of >> about 1.5 for American English speaking kids? speech from about 3-8 >> (JFD, 1989). But you are asking about norms? Because you seem to have >> identified that the conversion is closer to 1:1 for Inuktitut. This >> seems to be a question Phon users might be able to compute for >> longitudinal samples in the database. I guess Brian could say whether >> any dataset in TalkBank is pre-syllabified. If so, one could >> theoretically do this on archival data. >> Best regards to all, >> Nan >> *From:*info-childes at googlegroups.com >> [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com >> ]*On Behalf Of*Shanley Allen >> *Sent:*Monday, September 09, 2013 6:04 PM >> *To:*info-childes at googlegroups.com >> *Subject:*Re: MLU in syllables? >> No, it's a good question. I wouldn't try this for English, but it >> makes sense for Inuktitut because Inuktitut is written with a >> syllabic script. So anyone who writes Inuktitut (98% literacy rate!) >> is forced to think in syllables, and native speakers of Inuktitut who >> are assisting in the assessment can easily transcribe the child's >> speech in syllabics and then simply count the number of characters in >> each utterance. Those same native speakers would have a very hard >> time dividing Inuktitut into morphemes to calculate a traditional >> MLU. And assessing MLU in words (as is done for Irish, for example) >> is uninformative for Inuktitut because it is polysynthetic and has >> rampant argument ellipsis so all the interesting linguistic >> development at early ages happens in the morphology. >> Shanley. >> On Sep 9, 2013, at 11:48 PM, Nan Bernstein Ratner wrote: >> >> >> This may seem like a stupid question, but do pediatricians know >> what a syllable is? My spouse, who is a doctor, probably would >> prefer something based on a literate unit, like words. I am >> afraid to ask what he thinks about counting syllables in any >> language, but I will go home tonight and ask. >> Nan Bernstein Ratner >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From:info-childes at googlegroups.com >> [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] >> On Behalf Of Shanley Allen >> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 5:25 PM >> To:info-childes at googlegroups.com >> >> Subject: MLU in syllables? >> >> I'm wondering if anyone has tried to calculate MLU in syllables >> for any language, or knows of any study like this. I'm working >> with an SLP colleague to devise tests that would be suitable for >> assessing language delay in Inuktitut. The target user group is >> pediatricians who don't know Inuktitut well enough to do a >> morphological analysis, but want to use measures that are >> appropriate for the language. This idea seems a little crazy, but >> our preliminary results show that MLU in syllables correlates >> very highly with MLU in morphemes in Inuktitut data, so it might >> just work. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Shanley Allen. >> >> Shanley Allen >> Professor, Psycholinguistics and Language Development >> Dept. of Social Sciences, University of Kaiserslautern >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >> send an email toinfo-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com >> . >> To post to this group, send email toinfo-childes at googlegroups.com >> . >> To view this discussion on the web >> visithttps://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/350A371C-88C8-4483-833F-3CE0980CB098%40bu.edu. >> For more options, visithttps://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >> send an email toinfo-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com >> . >> To post to this group, send email toinfo-childes at googlegroups.com >> . >> To view this discussion on the web >> visithttps://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/78F7051232E584458D81A07B6C78AF7D20EC7C%40OITMX1008.AD.UMD.EDU. >> For more options, visithttps://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/AA36BDEE-3655-4952-9AD0-807713750314%40gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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You're right that morpheme-based MLU makes most sense for Inuktitut, and I've already done that for my own child language corpus. But, as you point out, this involves first analyzing utterances morphologically - not a trivial task given the morphological complexity of Inuktitut. This would be fine for people with training in Inuktitut linguistics. But the people doing the language assessments are typically pediatricians or SLPs who speak little Inuktitut and rely on parental report, or native speaker medical assistants who do not have the requisite linguistic training (and anyway wouldn't have the time for morphological analysis). Thus, we need another solution. Determining the number of syllables in an utterance is very doable for native speakers with no linguistic training, because Inuktitut is written in syllabic characters. So my plan is to calculate both the MLU in morphemes and the MLU in syllables on the data I already have, to see whether there is a high enough correlation between them. If the correlation is high enough, then it would be reasonable to use MLU in syllables as an indicator of linguistic ability for Inuktitut. The data I have for now are already analyzed morphologically and I've calculated MLUs using CLAN. We've also figured out a way to do syllable counts that's workable for now. But if this idea works out and the correlation is high enough, we may well want to test it on more data that isn't coded. And then I'll definitely be in touch! My request to info-childes was more to figure out if anyone has done something like calculating MLU in syllables before. If so, we could benefit from their experience and not reinvent the wheel. In this regard, thanks to Nan and Sarita for the references - very helpful. Best, Shanley. On Sep 10, 2013, at 1:11 PM, Yvan Rose wrote: > Dear Shanley, everyone, > MLU counts by syllables would potentially work for Inuktitut. However, I wonder whether a morpheme count wouldn't work even better, closer to the original spirit of MLUs, as the syllable count would elude anything meaning-related. > > Building on Nan's suggestion, I confirm that we could easily rig both a syllabification algorithm (for Inuktitut), and a (general-purpose) syllable-based MLU count in Phon. I would be happy to work with you towards both objectives. This also raises the question of converting your data into the Phon format, something that shouldn't pose any serious problem either given our advances on this front over the last year. > > A morpheme-based one would require the utterances to be morphologically analyzed first. We did this for Cree a few years ago. Attached is a screen shot illustrating this. Please feel free to contact me separately to discuss the specifics. > > Best regards, > Yvan > > > > On 2013-09-09, at 22:12, Nan Bernstein Ratner wrote: > >> OK, then, pragmatic issues satisfied, Shelley Brundage and I tried this a while back for English and came up with a conversion factor of about 1.5 for American English speaking kids? speech from about 3-8 (JFD, 1989). But you are asking about norms? Because you seem to have identified that the conversion is closer to 1:1 for Inuktitut. This seems to be a question Phon users might be able to compute for longitudinal samples in the database. I guess Brian could say whether any dataset in TalkBank is pre-syllabified. If so, one could theoretically do this on archival data. >> >> Best regards to all, >> Nan >> >> From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shanley Allen >> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 6:04 PM >> To: info-childes at googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: MLU in syllables? >> >> No, it's a good question. I wouldn't try this for English, but it makes sense for Inuktitut because Inuktitut is written with a syllabic script. So anyone who writes Inuktitut (98% literacy rate!) is forced to think in syllables, and native speakers of Inuktitut who are assisting in the assessment can easily transcribe the child's speech in syllabics and then simply count the number of characters in each utterance. Those same native speakers would have a very hard time dividing Inuktitut into morphemes to calculate a traditional MLU. And assessing MLU in words (as is done for Irish, for example) is uninformative for Inuktitut because it is polysynthetic and has rampant argument ellipsis so all the interesting linguistic development at early ages happens in the morphology. >> Shanley. >> >> >> On Sep 9, 2013, at 11:48 PM, Nan Bernstein Ratner wrote: >> >> >> This may seem like a stupid question, but do pediatricians know what a syllable is? My spouse, who is a doctor, probably would prefer something based on a literate unit, like words. I am afraid to ask what he thinks about counting syllables in any language, but I will go home tonight and ask. >> Nan Bernstein Ratner >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shanley Allen >> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 5:25 PM >> To: info-childes at googlegroups.com >> Subject: MLU in syllables? >> >> I'm wondering if anyone has tried to calculate MLU in syllables for any language, or knows of any study like this. I'm working with an SLP colleague to devise tests that would be suitable for assessing language delay in Inuktitut. The target user group is pediatricians who don't know Inuktitut well enough to do a morphological analysis, but want to use measures that are appropriate for the language. This idea seems a little crazy, but our preliminary results show that MLU in syllables correlates very highly with MLU in morphemes in Inuktitut data, so it might just work. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Shanley Allen. >> >> Shanley Allen >> Professor, Psycholinguistics and Language Development >> Dept. of Social Sciences, University of Kaiserslautern >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/A653E233-5C6B-42A5-A541-36C9DEC53680%40bu.edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shanley at bu.edu Tue Sep 10 22:34:28 2013 From: shanley at bu.edu (Shanley Allen) Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 00:34:28 +0200 Subject: MLU in syllables? In-Reply-To: <78F7051232E584458D81A07B6C78AF7D20EC7C@OITMX1008.AD.UMD.EDU> Message-ID: Hi Nan, We haven't identified anything yet - just looked at a few transcripts so far with promising results, but very preliminary. So far it looks like Inuktitut morphemes are on average 2 syllables long. I'm not asking about norms. I assume there are no norms available for Inuktitut. And I also assume that the relationship between syllables and morphemes would work different for each language. So norms for other languages would probably not be relevant for Inuktitut. At this point, I just would like to know if anyone else has tried to assess MLU by syllable, to learn from what they have already done. Thanks so much for the reference - it will be very helpful. Best, Shanley. On Sep 10, 2013, at 2:42 AM, Nan Bernstein Ratner wrote: > OK, then, pragmatic issues satisfied, Shelley Brundage and I tried this a while back for English and came up with a conversion factor of about 1.5 for American English speaking kids? speech from about 3-8 (JFD, 1989). But you are asking about norms? Because you seem to have identified that the conversion is closer to 1:1 for Inuktitut. This seems to be a question Phon users might be able to compute for longitudinal samples in the database. I guess Brian could say whether any dataset in TalkBank is pre-syllabified. If so, one could theoretically do this on archival data. > > Best regards to all, > Nan > > From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shanley Allen > Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 6:04 PM > To: info-childes at googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: MLU in syllables? > > No, it's a good question. I wouldn't try this for English, but it makes sense for Inuktitut because Inuktitut is written with a syllabic script. So anyone who writes Inuktitut (98% literacy rate!) is forced to think in syllables, and native speakers of Inuktitut who are assisting in the assessment can easily transcribe the child's speech in syllabics and then simply count the number of characters in each utterance. Those same native speakers would have a very hard time dividing Inuktitut into morphemes to calculate a traditional MLU. And assessing MLU in words (as is done for Irish, for example) is uninformative for Inuktitut because it is polysynthetic and has rampant argument ellipsis so all the interesting linguistic development at early ages happens in the morphology. > Shanley. > > > On Sep 9, 2013, at 11:48 PM, Nan Bernstein Ratner wrote: > > > This may seem like a stupid question, but do pediatricians know what a syllable is? My spouse, who is a doctor, probably would prefer something based on a literate unit, like words. I am afraid to ask what he thinks about counting syllables in any language, but I will go home tonight and ask. > Nan Bernstein Ratner > > -----Original Message----- > From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shanley Allen > Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 5:25 PM > To: info-childes at googlegroups.com > Subject: MLU in syllables? > > I'm wondering if anyone has tried to calculate MLU in syllables for any language, or knows of any study like this. I'm working with an SLP colleague to devise tests that would be suitable for assessing language delay in Inuktitut. The target user group is pediatricians who don't know Inuktitut well enough to do a morphological analysis, but want to use measures that are appropriate for the language. This idea seems a little crazy, but our preliminary results show that MLU in syllables correlates very highly with MLU in morphemes in Inuktitut data, so it might just work. > > Thanks in advance, > Shanley Allen. > > Shanley Allen > Professor, Psycholinguistics and Language Development > Dept. of Social Sciences, University of Kaiserslautern > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/C03CD66F-9575-4E4F-B28F-4A0D7BD22E2F%40bu.edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brunilda at gmail.com Tue Sep 10 23:49:46 2013 From: brunilda at gmail.com (Bruno Estigarribia) Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 19:49:46 -0400 Subject: MLU in syllables? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Actually, you don't even need a good correlation. All you need is to identify a function relating mlu in syllables to mlum that has a good enough fit. Then you can always predict with a certain degree of accuracy mlum from mlus. Bruno Estigarribia UNC Chapel Hill Hi Yvan and all, Thanks for your response and willingness to consider implementing something like this in Phon. You're right that morpheme-based MLU makes most sense for Inuktitut, and I've already done that for my own child language corpus. But, as you point out, this involves first analyzing utterances morphologically - not a trivial task given the morphological complexity of Inuktitut. This would be fine for people with training in Inuktitut linguistics. But the people doing the language assessments are typically pediatricians or SLPs who speak little Inuktitut and rely on parental report, or native speaker medical assistants who do not have the requisite linguistic training (and anyway wouldn't have the time for morphological analysis). Thus, we need another solution. Determining the number of syllables in an utterance is very doable for native speakers with no linguistic training, because Inuktitut is written in syllabic characters. So my plan is to calculate both the MLU in morphemes and the MLU in syllables on the data I already have, to see whether there is a high enough correlation between them. If the correlation is high enough, then it would be reasonable to use MLU in syllables as an indicator of linguistic ability for Inuktitut. The data I have for now are already analyzed morphologically and I've calculated MLUs using CLAN. We've also figured out a way to do syllable counts that's workable for now. But if this idea works out and the correlation is high enough, we may well want to test it on more data that isn't coded. And then I'll definitely be in touch! My request to info-childes was more to figure out if anyone has done something like calculating MLU in syllables before. If so, we could benefit from their experience and not reinvent the wheel. In this regard, thanks to Nan and Sarita for the references - very helpful. Best, Shanley. On Sep 10, 2013, at 1:11 PM, Yvan Rose wrote: Dear Shanley, everyone, MLU counts by syllables would potentially work for Inuktitut. However, I wonder whether a morpheme count wouldn't work even better, closer to the original spirit of MLUs, as the syllable count would elude anything meaning-related. Building on Nan's suggestion, I confirm that we could easily rig both a syllabification algorithm (for Inuktitut), and a (general-purpose) syllable-based MLU count in Phon. I would be happy to work with you towards both objectives. This also raises the question of converting your data into the Phon format, something that shouldn't pose any serious problem either given our advances on this front over the last year. A morpheme-based one would require the utterances to be morphologically analyzed first. We did this for Cree a few years ago. Attached is a screen shot illustrating this. Please feel free to contact me separately to discuss the specifics. Best regards, Yvan On 2013-09-09, at 22:12, Nan Bernstein Ratner wrote: OK, then, pragmatic issues satisfied, Shelley Brundage and I tried this a while back for English and came up with a conversion factor of about 1.5 for American English speaking kids? speech from about 3-8 (JFD, 1989). But you are asking about norms? Because you seem to have identified that the conversion is closer to 1:1 for Inuktitut. This seems to be a question Phon users might be able to compute for longitudinal samples in the database. I guess Brian could say whether any dataset in TalkBank is pre-syllabified. If so, one could theoretically do this on archival data.**** Best regards to all,**** Nan**** *From:* info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Shanley Allen *Sent:* Monday, September 09, 2013 6:04 PM *To:* info-childes at googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: MLU in syllables?**** ** ** No, it's a good question. I wouldn't try this for English, but it makes sense for Inuktitut because Inuktitut is written with a syllabic script. So anyone who writes Inuktitut (98% literacy rate!) is forced to think in syllables, and native speakers of Inuktitut who are assisting in the assessment can easily transcribe the child's speech in syllabics and then simply count the number of characters in each utterance. Those same native speakers would have a very hard time dividing Inuktitut into morphemes to calculate a traditional MLU. And assessing MLU in words (as is done for Irish, for example) is uninformative for Inuktitut because it is polysynthetic and has rampant argument ellipsis so all the interesting linguistic development at early ages happens in the morphology.**** Shanley.**** ** ** ** ** On Sep 9, 2013, at 11:48 PM, Nan Bernstein Ratner wrote:**** **** This may seem like a stupid question, but do pediatricians know what a syllable is? My spouse, who is a doctor, probably would prefer something based on a literate unit, like words. I am afraid to ask what he thinks about counting syllables in any language, but I will go home tonight and ask. Nan Bernstein Ratner -----Original Message----- From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shanley Allen Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 5:25 PM To: info-childes at googlegroups.com Subject: MLU in syllables? I'm wondering if anyone has tried to calculate MLU in syllables for any language, or knows of any study like this. I'm working with an SLP colleague to devise tests that would be suitable for assessing language delay in Inuktitut. The target user group is pediatricians who don't know Inuktitut well enough to do a morphological analysis, but want to use measures that are appropriate for the language. This idea seems a little crazy, but our preliminary results show that MLU in syllables correlates very highly with MLU in morphemes in Inuktitut data, so it might just work. Thanks in advance, Shanley Allen.**** Shanley Allen Professor, Psycholinguistics and Language Development Dept. of Social Sciences, University of Kaiserslautern**** -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. 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Evidence-based treatment, Assistant/Associate (Dr. Tracy Love, Search Chair)[image: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/images/cleardot.gif] We are seeking a person with expertise in treatment research with language impaired child and/or adult populations. Additional areas of expertise or focus may include cognitive neuroscience of language, neurogenic language and cognitive disorders, developmental language disorders. Details for both positions can be found on our website ( http://slhs.sdsu.edu/open-positions/) Sincerely, Tracy Love and Ignatius Nip *School of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences* San Diego State University 5500 Campanile Drive Mail Code 1518 San Diego, California 92182-1518 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. 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They are also expected to contribute to the interdisciplinary group of cognitive scientists at the University of Pennsylvania, which includes faculty, post-docs and students in Psychology, Linguistics, Computer Science and related disciplines. The lab is located at the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, where many of these interdisciplinary activities take place. QUALIFICATIONS: One does not have to be a U.S. Citizen to apply. A Ph.D. in Psychology, Linguistics, Cognitive Science or a related field is required. Research experience within this area is expected and familiarity with eye tracking methods is beneficial but not required. TO APPLY: Candidates should send a CV, samples of written work and three letters of recommendation to: John Trueswell at Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 3720 Walnut Street, Solomon Lab Bldg., Philadelphia, PA, 19104-6241 U.S.A. Materials and letters can instead be sent to trueswel at psych.upenn.edu. 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This is a position for a sign language linguist who will be involved in collecting, organizing, and analyzing data from village and deaf community sign languages, within the context of the project?s research program. The successful candidate will have a PhD in linguistics (by February 2014) with an emphasis on sign language; strong sign language skills and an ability to communicate across sign languages from different cultures; good interpersonal skills; and strong English writing ability. The position is full-time for 3 years with a possibility of extension. The project will start in February 2014, pending final contractual agreement. *PhD POSITION*. This is a position for a sign language linguistics student who will be involved in collecting, organizing, and analyzing data from village and deaf community sign languages, within the context of the project?s research program. 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A creative person is sought who has very strong expressive and receptive skills in a sign language, as well as some background in theatre. Preference will be given to candidates with a master?s degree in linguistics, cognitive psychology, or a related discipline. If your sign language is not Israeli Sign Language, then an ability to communicate well across sign languages is important. Good English writing skills are also required. The position is for 3 years with a possibility of extension. The project will start in February 2014, pending final contractual agreement. Applications should be sent by email to wendy.sandler at gmail.com, including a cover letter and short research statement, CV, 2-5 publications or links to them, and names and email addresses for three letters of reference. Any questions can be sent to the same email. Deadline: October 5, 2013. 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Our interdisciplinary program, the only program of its kind in California, provides training in normal (spoken and signed) language, language disorders, multilingualism, and in the neural bases of language learning, use, and loss. It is designed to educate a new generation of scientists who are interested in applying state-of-the-art research skills to the study of communicative disorders. We are very proud of our program, students and faculty. Our doctoral program ranked fourth on the Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index rankings compiled by Academic Analytics and released by *The Chronicle of Higher Education *in 2007. The National Research Council (NRC) ranked our doctoral program among the top ten in the nation in their most recent rankings (2010). The majority of our graduates hold faculty positions in universities or research scientist positions in labs here in the US and abroad. *GOALS:* 1. To provide doctoral training in the study of language and communicative behavior with an interdisciplinary focus that integrates state-of-the-art knowledge from the fields of communicative disorders, cognitive sciences, neurosciences, psychology and linguistics represented by the expertise of core faculty from SDSU and UCSD. 2. To prepare professionals, educated in the interface between behavioral and cognitive neuroscience methodologies, who will provide critical leadership in research and health services. 3. To prepare Ph.D.-level scientists in the field of language and communicative disorders to serve as faculty in university programs and scientists in a variety of settings to carry out much-needed research on the processes of language development, disorders, assessment and intervention. 4. To prepare researchers to carry out much-needed research in communicative behavior and disorders in bilingualism. *ASHA CLINICAL CERTIFICATION:* Although this is a research Ph.D. program, SLHS offers a separate graduate program in SLP. It may be possible to complete a CFY or obtain academic and clinical training concurrently with doctoral studies. However, access to clinical training is not automatic nor is it guaranteed. *RESOURCES AND SUPPORT:* In fall 2008 our program at SDSU moved into a new clinical, research, and academic building with state-of-the-art Speech-Language and Audiology clinics, wonderful high-tech labs, and great new instructional facilities. These resources, combined with the outstanding facilities at UCSD, provide doctoral students with the best possible training environment. Several different funding sources are used to support doctoral students including program scholarships, Graduate assistantships, in-state and out-of-state fee support, and faculty grants. 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The Institute is a multidisciplinary unit with representation from the departments of Psychology & Neuroscience,Computer Science, Education, Philosophy, Linguistics, Architecture & Planning, and Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences. We seek applicants with a strong research program in human computational neuroscience and neuroimaging that interfaces with one or more of the main research themes of the Institute: Higher Level Cognition; Language Processing; Training and Education (seeics.colorado.edu). The following attributes will be prioritized, and the strongest applicants will show all three: 1) research incorporating human neuroimaging, 2) the use of state-of-the-art computational approaches to address issues in cognitive science, 3) a strong capacity for and commitment to interdisciplinary research. The ideal candidate will be able to teach courses both in his or her speciality as well as courses in Cognitive Science more generally. 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IDEALAB is a joint PhD organised by the Universities of Potsdam (Germany), Groningen (Netherlands), Newcastle (UK), Trento (Italy). This collaboration means that we can provide expert supervision across a large range of subjects/areas and access to a range of experimental methods. We welcome applications from students with a Research Master?s in a relevant area to do research on any area of experimental or applied linguistics and brain. Possible areas of research include acquired or developmental language disorders, functional brain imaging of language, and experimental phonetics. There are typically 8 or more studentships available a year for students from the EU and other countries with funding from the EU Erasmus MundusProgram. These provide generous living allowances; waiver of all fees; and a generous travel allowance. All students have to spend at least 6 months at at least two different European partners. Further details are given on the program website (http://em-idealab.com). We are seeking applications from students who will complete an appropriate Research Master?s by August 2014. Completed applications for September 2014 entry are due by 15th November 2013. Helena Trompelt University of Potsdam Department of Linguistics Karl-Liebknecht-Stra?e 24-25 14476 Potsdam Tel. +49 331 977-2747 Fax +49 331 977-2095 info at em-idealab.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/CAGLQsKfxCmjrR2CvOei97CLN9OD8iZAbYKaceY_unQtib3H_7w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Its scope covers a wide range of areas including phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, lexicon, pragmatics, second language acquisition, bilingualism, Japanese language education, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) technology, and language production. The 8th ICPLJ is particularly intended to bring together researchers on the cutting edge of Japanese linguistics and to offer a forum in which their research results can be presented in a form that is useful to those desiring practical applications in the fields of teaching Japanese as a second/foreign language. CALL FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS Deadline for abstracts: Sunday, November 24, 2013(Japan time) CONTACT E-mail : icplj8 at ninjal.ac.jp Kumiko Sakoda (NINJAL) & Masahiko Minami (SF State/NINJAL) Co-organizers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Oral presenters have the option to submit papers to the special issue of the Journal of Japanese Linguistics (JJL) in English. Note that since papers submitted for publication will be fully refereed through a peer review process, the invitation does not guarantee the publication of a submitted paper. The number of papers to be selected may be limited to seven or eight, or even less. The publication decision is based on the referees? reports. For further information, please contact Dr. Masahiko Minami, JJL Editor-in-Chief: mminami at sfsu.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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This collaboration means that we can provide expert supervision across a large range of subjects/areas and access to a range of experimental methods. We welcome applications from students with a Research Master?s in a relevant area to do research on any area of experimental or applied linguistics and brain. Possible areas of research include acquired or developmental language disorders, functional brain imaging of language, and experimental phonetics. There are typically 8 or more studentships available a year for students from the EU and other countries with funding from the EU Erasmus MundusProgram. These provide generous living allowances; waiver of all fees; and a generous travel allowance. All students have to spend at least 6 months at at least two different European partners. Further details are given on the program website (http://em-idealab.com). We are seeking applications from students who will complete an appropriate Research Master?s by August 2014. 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Minimum qualifications are: doctoral degree in speech, language and hearing sciences, communication disorders and sciences, neuroscience, cognitive science, psychology, linguistics and related fields and a track record of publications in peer-reviewed journals. Two-three years of teaching experience is preferred. The successful candidate will be expected to have an active and independent research program and to provide evidence of success in extra-mural research funding. Candidates are expected to maintain their vigorous research program and have enthusiasm for undergraduate and graduate teaching. The successful candidate will be expected to teach and mentor students in the department?s clinical Master?s SLP program and in the undergraduate and Ph.D. programs. Salary and start-up are highly competitive and commensurate with experience. International candidates are welcome to apply. More information can be found at: slhs.colorado.edu. The SLHS department includes highly ranked, CAA accredited clinical graduate programs in SLP and Audiology and offers B.A., M.A., AuD, and Ph.D. degrees. The successful candidate will benefit from SLHS?s thriving and dynamic ties with other offerings on the Boulder campus such as the Institute of Cognitive Science, the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, the Intermountain Neuroimaging Consortium, the Institute of Behavioral Genetics, the Department of Linguistics, and offerings on the Anschutz campus of the University of Colorado at Denver Medical School such as the JFK partners Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND) program, the Autism Treatment Network, and the Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome. All applicants must submit a curriculum vitae listing research accomplishments & teaching experiences and provide copies of 3 representative publications. Applicants must also provide contact information for least three references. We will pursue references when the candidate makes the short-list, with the candidate?s permission. Applications are accepted electronically at http://www.jobsatcu.com/postings/71453 For questions, contact search committee chair Anu Sharma at anu.sharma at colorado.edu or (303) 492-5089. We will begin reviewing applications December 2, 2013 and will continue to review applications until the position is filled. The University of Colorado is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/0A09631E-A429-4814-BEAD-BA70BF749DD1%40gmail.com. 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There are no limits on the number of first or non-first authorships of oral papers and no limits on non-first authorships of posters" > > Kind regards on behalf of the IASCL 2014 organizing committee, > > --Frank Wijnen. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/f966f541-fd36-4ff4-8f8c-b9523eeb617f%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. 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Barbara Pearson's number of 20 or 25 percent input is often cited as necessary to be bilingual, but she only claimed that children with less input than that were reluctant to use the language--not that they didn't know anything. We find that children with only 20 percent input do start to learn vocabulary, but continuing progress may not be sustainable--nobody really knows. Just to make life difficult, I would add that if you are classifying the children you should do it on what they know--bilingual or trilingual input does not guarantee bilingual or trilingual development. Erika Hoff On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Leher Singh wrote: > Dear all, > > I am trying to differentiate participants in terms of being bilingual with > some 3rd language exposure and trilingualism. Unfortunately, the data I > have are confined to percent breakdown of exposure to each language. Could > anyone point me to references as to what kind of language input a child > would have to have to each language at a minimum to be considered > trilingual? Suggestions or criteria currently adopted by others would be > appreciated! > > Best wishes, > Leher > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Info-CHILDES" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/CAFLtzDcJbx%2BfbQvsoEr3i9Mq3zUa_HVSHNix3ap6XurSgMZ7EA%40mail.gmail.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Erika Hoff, Professor Department of Psychology Florida Atlantic University 3200 College Ave. Davie, FL 33314 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. 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Best wishes, Caroline Rossi (and the PREMS team) http://www.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/projets/prems/index.asp?Action=Edit&Langue=EN&Page=Presentation -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/7063abd0-c7a8-4d2a-b981-0ff86184888c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bpearson at research.umass.edu Wed Sep 25 14:56:32 2013 From: bpearson at research.umass.edu (Barbara Z. Pearson) Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:56:32 +0000 Subject: trilingualism In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Leher, I just looked at some interesting, more recent, work looking at criteria for amounts of exposure (although not necessarily minimal amounts) by Ann Fernald's lab, and I recently cited Hoff et al. (2012), Gathercole (2002), Thordardottir (2006), Pe?a et al. (many), and Barre?a et al. (2008) on this question. How old are your participants?! None of these studies touch the very unresolved issue of what levels of functional use and fluency count as speaking a language at a given time in a person's life. For a rule of thumb, I thought Janet Werker for many years used 30% as a minimum for inclusion in her studies. That, at least, has the practical advantage that one could divide 100% by three and still come out with a reasonable number. We're very interested in what you decide, and as Erika suggests, how you decide to calculate it. Cheers, Barbara Pearson On Sep 25, 2013, at 9:02 AM, Erika Hoff wrote: Good luck. Barbara Pearson's number of 20 or 25 percent input is often cited as necessary to be bilingual, but she only claimed that children with less input than that were reluctant to use the language--not that they didn't know anything. We find that children with only 20 percent input do start to learn vocabulary, but continuing progress may not be sustainable--nobody really knows. Just to make life difficult, I would add that if you are classifying the children you should do it on what they know--bilingual or trilingual input does not guarantee bilingual or trilingual development. Erika Hoff On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Leher Singh > wrote: Dear all, I am trying to differentiate participants in terms of being bilingual with some 3rd language exposure and trilingualism. Unfortunately, the data I have are confined to percent breakdown of exposure to each language. Could anyone point me to references as to what kind of language input a child would have to have to each language at a minimum to be considered trilingual? Suggestions or criteria currently adopted by others would be appreciated! Best wishes, Leher -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to info-childes at googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/CAFLtzDcJbx%2BfbQvsoEr3i9Mq3zUa_HVSHNix3ap6XurSgMZ7EA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Erika Hoff, Professor Department of Psychology Florida Atlantic University 3200 College Ave. Davie, FL 33314 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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From editor.iascl.clbulletin at gmail.com Thu Sep 26 06:05:36 2013 From: editor.iascl.clbulletin at gmail.com (IASCL Child Language Bulletin Editor) Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 23:05:36 -0700 Subject: BUCLD 38 Schedule and Pricing Message-ID: **Message on behalf of the BUCLD 38 conference committee. Apologies for multiple postings** The 38th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development November 1-3, 2013 Keynote Speaker: Elena Lieven, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology / University of Manchester Plenary Speaker: CANCELED: Heather van der Lely, Harvard University Unfortunately, Heather van der Lely's plenary address has been cancelled for health reasons. We regret that we cannot hear her address and wish her the best in recovery. Symposia: Saturday - 'Resolving A Learnability Paradox in the Acquisition of Verb Argument Structure: What have we learned in the last 25 years' Ben Ambridge (University of Liverpool) (organizer) Adele Goldberg (Princeton University) Joshua Hartshorne (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) & Jesse Snedeker (Harvard University) Steven Pinker (Harvard University) Sunday - 'A new approach to language learning: filtering through the processor' Helen Goodluck (University of York) (organizer) Lyn Frazier (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Colin Phillips (University of Maryland, College Park) We would like to remind you that the deadline to pre-register for BUCLD 38 is Tuesday, October 23, 2013. By pre-registering not only will you receive a reduced rate for the conference, but you will also be able to check-in at the registration desk quickly and proceed to the various exciting talks without waiting in line. Regular full-price registration will continue to be available online from Thursday, October 24 through Tuesday, October 29. To register, please visit the following website: http://www.bu.edu/bucld/conference-info/registration/ For general information on the conference including the full schedule, please visit: http://www.bu.edu/bucld Also, you can register for the Society for Language Development Symposium "Mechanisms of Word Learning" on Thursday October 31, 1-6pm through our website. The SLD would also like to announce their student award. Please see their website for more information: http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/sld/symposium.html Additionally, Boston University is currently searching for an Assistant Professor specializing in language acquisition and linguistic theory, and will be conducting interviews at the BUCLD and LSA meetings for applicants in attendance. The application deadline is OCTOBER 1. 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URL: From ajowen at gmail.com Fri Sep 27 18:18:12 2013 From: ajowen at gmail.com (Amanda Owen Van Horne) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 13:18:12 -0500 Subject: University of Iowa Child Language Position - Open Rank Message-ID: Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders Contacts with potential candidates at the American Speech, Language, Hearing Association Convention in Chicago on November 14-16, 2013 Applicants with expertise in the area of Childhood Speech and Language are sought. Expertise in one or more of five target areas is preferred: childhood speech sound disorders, reading and writing disabilities, augmentative and alternative communication systems, autism spectrum disorders, and service delivery to multilingual and culturally diverse populations. A Ph.D. or equivalent in Communication Sciences and Disorders or a related field is required. Postdoctoral experience and/or faculty experience is desired but not required. The successful junior candidate will possess an emerging publication record and strong potential for extramural funding (NIH). A successful mid-career candidate will possess a strong record of publications and extramural funding. Salary is competitive and negotiable, depending upon rank and qualifications. The candidate hired will conduct research, obtain external funding in support of research endeavors, teach undergraduate and graduate courses, advise and direct student theses and dissertations, and engage in professional and collegiate service activities. The University of Iowa offers a rich intellectual environment for scholars in language including a number of established and ongoing interdisciplinary collaborations among communication sciences and disorders, psychology, linguistics and neuroscience groups. The University of Iowa is also home to the DeLTA Center, an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to the study of development and learning. The Iowa City community is a vibrant college town distinguished by recognition as an UNESCO city of literature and by consistently high rankings on quality of life indices (health, safety, education, cost of living). Applicants should apply online at https://jobs.uiowa.edu/ refer to requisition #63305. The applicant should attach a letter describing research and teaching interests, and full curriculum vitae. Three letters of recommendation should be sent to: Karla McGregor, Chair of the Search Committee, CSD, 334b WJSHC, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1012 or emailed to: karla-mcgregor at uiowa.edu. For full consideration, applications must be received by November 8, 2014 but applications are welcome until the position is filled. The Department and the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences are strongly committed to gender and ethnic diversity; the strategic plans of the University and College reflect this commitment. 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