NIH Grant Competing Continuation

[Alcock, Katie]

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" <macw at cmu.edu> 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.
>
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