From mcfrank at stanford.edu Wed Jul 2 22:52:11 2014 From: mcfrank at stanford.edu (Michael C Frank) Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 15:52:11 -0700 Subject: Wordbank: A CDI data aggregation project Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, On behalf of the MacArthur-Bates CDI Board, I'm pleased to tell you about a new data-aggregation and data-sharing project that we call Wordbank. Wordbank is a free and open database containing the full, item-level responses for MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (CDI), a parent-report instrument for measuring children's early vocabulary. The Wordbank site already exists, although its current functionality is extremely limited. Please feel free to explore! We hope that by pooling detailed word-learning data across labs, we can create a database of unprecedented size that will lead to new insights about the shape of vocabulary development in early childhood. I am writing to ask whether you would consider contributing your CDI form data to Wordbank. 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This volume aims to bring that literature together in a digestible format. It provides a series of succinct review chapters on 19 key topics ranging from preverbal skills right up to irony and argumentative discourse. Each chapter equips the reader with an overview of current theories, key empirical findings and questions for new research. This valuable resource will be of interest to scholars of psychology, linguistics, speech therapy, and cognitive science. Best wishes, Caro Caroline Rowland Professor of Developmental Psychology Institute of Psychology Health and Society Eleanor Rathbone Building University of Liverpool LIVERPOOL L69 7ZA Tel: +44 151 794 2942 Fax: +44 151 794 2945 Email: crowland at liverpool.ac.uk Personal website: http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~crowland/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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Teaching duties will include contributing to the provision of statistics, research methodology, and laboratory classes to year one and two undergraduates, in addition to a number of designated administrative roles. Please contact one of the language research group if you are interested in applying and wish to specialise in language acquisition research. Prof Julian Pine Julian.pine at liv.ac.uk Prof Caroline Rowland crowland at liv.ac.uk Dr Ben Ambridge ben.ambridge at liv.ac.uk Dr Franklin Chang fchang at liv.ac.uk More details can be found here: http://www.liv.ac.uk/working/jobvacancies/currentvacancies/academic/a-586103/ Caroline Rowland Professor of Developmental Psychology Institute of Psychology Health and Society Eleanor Rathbone Building University of Liverpool LIVERPOOL L69 7ZA Tel: +44 151 794 2942 Fax: +44 151 794 2945 Email: crowland at liverpool.ac.uk Personal website: http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~crowland/ -- 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/3FF1F1F25A83534BB89EE788E44BC70BC3218193%40CHEXMBX1.livad.liv.ac.uk. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From crowland at liverpool.ac.uk Mon Jul 14 12:53:00 2014 From: crowland at liverpool.ac.uk (Rowland, Caroline) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 12:53:00 +0000 Subject: Two new Research Assistant posts associated with ESRC LuCiD Centre (Manchester) Message-ID: APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING The University of Manchester are advertising two new fixed-term 24-month full-time post to work on a research project entitled Early communicative interaction and vocabulary development in three Manchester communities as part of the new ESRC-funded LuCiD Centre. The posts are for a Cantonese-English bilingual speaker https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=8168 And a Bengali-English bilingual speaker https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=8138 Best wishes, Caro Caroline Rowland Professor of Developmental Psychology Institute of Psychology Health and Society Eleanor Rathbone Building University of Liverpool LIVERPOOL L69 7ZA Tel: +44 151 794 2942 Fax: +44 151 794 2945 Email: crowland at liverpool.ac.uk Personal website: http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~crowland/ -- 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/3FF1F1F25A83534BB89EE788E44BC70BC32193E1%40CHEXMBX1.livad.liv.ac.uk. 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In this case it would be Max Miller for the Simone corpus and Heike Behrens for the Leo corpus. I realize that the time for presentations at conferences is short, but this type of acknowledgment takes only a few seconds and it is important to the contributors. Think in terms of Oscar Wilde and the Importance of Being Cited and maybe this will be easier to remember to do. Best regards, -- Brian MacWhinney -- 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/1158568E-995A-4BD7-ABAB-3EC463EC4012%40cmu.edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. From vvvstudents at gmail.com Tue Jul 22 20:43:40 2014 From: vvvstudents at gmail.com (Virginia Valian) Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 16:43:40 -0400 Subject: information on CHILDES corpora Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, For research we at LARC - which is to say, Stephanie Friedman, a student from Smith College who served as an intern at LARC - compiled the attached spreadsheet of child corpora. The compilation is intended to help investigators identify CHILDES corpora that contain longitudinal data for English-speaking children between the ages of 1;6 and 3;6 and comparable data for adult speakers. Please read the first tab for information about the material in the spreadsheet. There is a total of 7 tables. Please let me know if you spot errors in any of the information. Sincerely, VVV -- Virginia Valian Distinguished Professor, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center Psychology, Linguistics, Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, Co-Director, Hunter College Gender Equity Project Director, Language Acquisition Research Center email: vvvstudents at gmail.com http://maxweber.hunter.cuny.edu/psych/faculty/valian/valian.htm http://littlelinguist.hunter.cuny.edu/ http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/genderequity/ http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/gendertutorial/ -- 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/CAKkumJY%2B4gJZvjFed85Q%3Dbj6OcLTewpM7ak15184wLqWxJwK-A%40mail.gmail.com. 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Enjoy the summer-- Annick Annick De Houwer, University of Erfurt and European Research Network for Bilingual Studies, www.erbis.org On Tuesday, July 22, 2014 10:43:45 PM UTC+2, vvvst... at gmail.com wrote: > > Dear Colleagues, > > For research we at LARC - which is to say, Stephanie Friedman, a > student from Smith College who served as an intern at LARC - compiled > the attached spreadsheet of child corpora. The compilation is > intended to help investigators identify CHILDES corpora that contain > longitudinal data for English-speaking children between the ages of > 1;6 and 3;6 and comparable data for adult speakers. > > Please read the first tab for information about the material in the > spreadsheet. There is a total of 7 tables. > > Please let me know if you spot errors in any of the information. > > Sincerely, > > VVV > > -- > Virginia Valian > Distinguished Professor, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center > Psychology, Linguistics, Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, > Co-Director, Hunter College Gender Equity Project > Director, Language Acquisition Research Center > email: vvvst... at gmail.com > > http://maxweber.hunter.cuny.edu/psych/faculty/valian/valian.htm > http://littlelinguist.hunter.cuny.edu/ > http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/genderequity/ > http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/gendertutorial/ > -- 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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To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/e53c9ff5-316b-450b-9636-cff519975241%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. From adriana.weisleder at gmail.com Thu Jul 24 15:08:04 2014 From: adriana.weisleder at gmail.com (Adriana Weisleder) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 11:08:04 -0400 Subject: Bilingual Project Assistant Position at NYU School of Medicine Message-ID: *Full-time Project Assistant Position* *The Bellevue Project for Early Language, Literacy, and Education Success (BELLE)* *New York University School of Medicine* We are seeking a Spanish-English bilingual project assistant to work on behavioral research projects in the Department of Pediatrics at New York University School of Medicine. We are examining parenting interventions designed to improve child development outcomes in at-risk populations in the context of a randomized controlled trial at Bellevue Hospital Center and in the context of a clinical program at Woodhull Medical Center. The candidate will be responsible for assisting in multiple project tasks, and will work with a multidisciplinary team of pediatricians, psychologists, social workers, and other child development professionals. *Specific Tasks:* · Recruit research participants and obtain informed consent · Conduct interviews with parents about a range of topics, including screens for depression and questions about their child’s development and behaviors · Perform developmental assessments of toddler and preschool children’s cognitive and language development, as well as self-regulation · Meet with families to discuss parenting issues · Videotape and transcribe parents and children interacting together · Translate research-related documents · Code videotapes (using micro-analytic coding techniques) · Maintain databases and perform data entry · Schedule and track visits with families · Provide general support related to research tasks such as manuscript writing and grant preparation · Conduct literature reviews · Assist with coordination of volunteers including scheduling · Provide general administrative support for team members, including assisting with purchasing of supplies, scheduling, making copies, etc. · Provide support for Institutional Review Board and documentation *Requirements: * · Fluency in both English and Spanish · 2+ years research experience · Bachelor’s Degree in psychology, human/child development, or related field · Previous experience with and continued interest in working with children and families · The ideal candidate will demonstrate enthusiasm for working with families and can flexibly adjust to project demands This is a full time position with benefits. A verbal 1- to 2-year commitment is required. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. If you are interested, please submit a CV and cover letter to Adriana Weisleder, PhD (adriana.weisleder at nyumc.org). Please write “BELLE Project Assistant” in the subject line and indicate your level of Spanish fluency in your cover letter. -- 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/CAJBmoXL7bSpmrPCLFPzdjcc3Jd8Gc_epL3NHYKGbn-vf8Dpc2Q%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We hope that this information about the growing size of the field may be useful when you are making requests for support of any sort, whether through funding agencies or within your institution. Best wishes, VVV -- Virginia Valian Distinguished Professor, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center Psychology, Linguistics, Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, Co-Director, Hunter College Gender Equity Project Director, Language Acquisition Research Center email: vvvstudents at gmail.com http://maxweber.hunter.cuny.edu/psych/faculty/valian/valian.htm http://littlelinguist.hunter.cuny.edu/ http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/genderequity/ http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/gendertutorial/ -- 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/CAKkumJb-Dd358hvMad0ZNKe6HnvK4kNaOy57LB2sbM-URy_57g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. From vvvstudents at gmail.com Thu Jul 24 17:32:12 2014 From: vvvstudents at gmail.com (Virginia Valian) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 13:32:12 -0400 Subject: # of IASCL papers and contributors - with attachment Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, For real this time! Thanks to Eve Clark for pointing out the lack of attachment in the previous email. Brian Macwhinney and I and our teams have compiled information on the number of presentations and presenters at IASCL conferences from 1981 to 2014. As you will see, there are (too) many columns that are missing information. If you can provide any of the missing information, please do let me know so we can update this. The 1981 conference in Vancouver had 122 abstracts. The 2014 conference in Amsterdam had 574. The field has indeed increased! We hope that this information about the growing size of the field may be useful when you are making requests for support of any sort, whether through funding agencies or within your institution. Best wishes, VVV -- Virginia Valian Distinguished Professor, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center Psychology, Linguistics, Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, Co-Director, Hunter College Gender Equity Project Director, Language Acquisition Research Center email: vvvstudents at gmail.com http://maxweber.hunter.cuny.edu/psych/faculty/valian/valian.htm http://littlelinguist.hunter.cuny.edu/ http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/genderequity/ http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/gendertutorial/ -- 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/CAKkumJaoO_JcCS48F-i3FDQkMNAjGSkVHjMkfKtEJ7_a88tHRw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: IASCL presentations 24 VII 14.xlsx Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet Size: 16682 bytes Desc: not available URL: From macw at cmu.edu Thu Jul 24 20:43:27 2014 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:43:27 -0400 Subject: # of IASCL papers and contributors In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Virginia (and Ludovica), Many thanks for posting this additional summary. Perhaps we should add that the programs from which these numbers were extracted can be found at http://www.iascl.org/programmes.html. For most of the more recent meetings, these programs contain and lot of information, including abstracts. Perhaps Ludovica can ask the IASCL web people to add your sheet to those links too. I know that Zita Réger and Csaba Pléh were organizers at Budapest and that both Vancouver and Budapest were hosted in University facilities, if you want to fill in some of those blanks. If anyone ever finds any information about the earlier meetings in London and Japan, that would be great. For the meeting in San Sebastian, we produced a CD-ROM with all the papers. I could send you a copy of that CD-ROM and I think others have copies too. Perhaps we could even post those papers on the IASCL web site. We should also make sure that the materials from the meeting last week in Amsterdam get added to the others at http://www.iascl.org/programmes.html Best regards, -- Brian MacWhinney On Jul 24, 2014, at 12:17 PM, Virginia Valian wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > Brian Macwhinney and I and our teams have compiled information on the > number of presentations and presenters at IASCL conferences from 1981 > to 2014. As you will see, there are (too) many columns that are > missing information. If you can provide any of the missing > information, please do let me know so we can update this. > > The 1981 conference in Vancouver had 122 abstracts. The 2014 > conference in Amsterdam had 574. The field has indeed increased! > > We hope that this information about the growing size of the field may > be useful when you are making requests for support of any sort, > whether through funding agencies or within your institution. > > Best wishes, > > VVV > > -- > Virginia Valian > Distinguished Professor, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center > Psychology, Linguistics, Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, > Co-Director, Hunter College Gender Equity Project > Director, Language Acquisition Research Center > email: vvvstudents at gmail.com > > http://maxweber.hunter.cuny.edu/psych/faculty/valian/valian.htm > http://littlelinguist.hunter.cuny.edu/ > http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/genderequity/ > http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/gendertutorial/ > > -- > 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/CAKkumJb-Dd358hvMad0ZNKe6HnvK4kNaOy57LB2sbM-URy_57g%40mail.gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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/0FB76468-8584-4C49-8911-334590728DAC%40cmu.edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. From natalieboave at gmail.com Fri Jul 25 12:52:36 2014 From: natalieboave at gmail.com (Natalie Boll-Avetisyan) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 14:52:36 +0200 Subject: DGfS workshop: Universal biases on phonological acquisition and processing Message-ID: Dear all, we are pleased to announce that there will be a workshop ('AG 7') on "Universal biases on phonological acquisition and processing" at the next DGfS conference, which will take place in Leipzig, Germany (date: March 4-6, 2015). We will be able to accept 14 papers for oral presentations. Deadline for abstract submission: August 31st. For more detail, see below. Best, Dinah Baer-Henney & Natalie Boll-Avetisyan *DGfS Workshop: Universal biases on phonological acquisition and processing* This workshop ('Arbeitsgruppe') will be held at the 37th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS) in Leipzig, Germany (March 4-6, 2015). DGfS website: http://conference.uni-leipzig.de/dgfs2015/index.php?id=7 Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/site/bollavetisyan/workshop-universal-biases/call *Call for Papers * Typological research indicates that many languages share specific patterns regarding their phoneme inventories, syllable structures, phonotactics and prosodic systems. A recurrent topic in acquisition research is the question of whether typologically well-attested patterns reflect universal biases on phonological acquisition and/or speech processing. This workshop aims at discussing the nature of these biases and to what extent they influence phonological acquisition and processing of L1 and L2 in children and adults. There seems to be a strong consensus among researchers that phonological acquisition is guided by universal biases. Yet, the specific nature of these biases is unclear: are they functional or analytical, domain-general or domain-specific? What is it that makes some patterns, often called natural patterns, more easily accessible and learnable than others: Are they are innate or are they triggered by experience with language? In addition, it is debated whether there are time limits on the operating periods of biases (possibly reflecting difficulties in L2 phonological acquisition, i.e., a critical period), or whether they also influence L2 phonological acquisition. If they influence the L2, what happens when the L1 phonological system is in conflict with the L2? In addition, the question arises to what extent universal biases might be at work even during speech processing after acquisition is completed. These classical questions have recently received new attention and benefit from the revival of artificial language paradigms, which enable us to investigate language acquisition and processing likewise. The goal of the workshop is to discuss effects of biases on L1 and early L2 phonological acquisition and their relation to age of acquisition from theoretical and empirical perspective. We aim to contribute to the current debate by assembling new insights to get a more concrete comprehension of the nature of universal biases. We invite contributions investigating monolingual and bilingual (L2) infant, child and adult phonological acquisition of segmental and suprasegmental structures in natural and artificial language learning. Contributions that may build a bridge between empirical findings and linguistic theory are particularly welcome. *Keynote speakers* Sharon Peperkamp (CNRS, Institut d'Etudes de la Cognition, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris) Elliott Moreton (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) *Abstract submission guidelines* Abstracts should be submitted for 30-minute slots (including discussion). Format: 1 page (TimesNewRoman, 12pt, 1 inch margins, including references and figures etc.). Please submit two pdf files containing your abstract via email (to: nboll at uni-potsdam.de): one file should include name(s) of author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), title of talk; another one should be anonymous. Abstracts and presentations must be in English. Your name should occur in the file name. *Important dates* Abstract deadline: 31 August, 2014 Notification of abstract acceptance: mid September, 2014 Conference dates: 4-6 March, 2015 Looking forward to your participation! *Organizing Committee * Dinah Baer-Henney (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, University of Potsdam) Natalie Boll-Avetisyan (University of Potsdam) -- Natalie Boll-Avetisyan, PhD University of Potsdam, Germany https://sites.google.com/site/bollavetisyan/ -- 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/CA%2Bh%2BQ5ZnpWn2xER8M1LnupuLNNLxhsvqJSVjB1qp-ezvc-geCg%40mail.gmail.com. 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Please share with me any of your own efforts or efforts by those outside our field who may have completed projects, books, videos and so on related to these topics that you have found valuable. Future work might get sophisticated, we can hope, in adapting materials and projects to the current language skills of child participants. Among my own modest work in this area is a paperback and eBook versions of the book, "Children, Pelicans, & Planets: Bobcat Magic" (Available through epubbud.com and Amazon.com). A brief sense of the nature of this book can be gleaned from the note below. All the best, Keith Nelson *Children, Pelicans, Planets: Bobcat Magic *by Keith E. Nelson keithnelsonart at gmail.com Super Impact Images Press Surprise, delight, and amazement may await you as a reader of these chapters. In addition it is anticipated that in multiple ways these stories of Nature exploration and the beautiful photos of Nature will create some restlessness in many readers, some itches toward actions that increase their own contacts with nature and the quantity and quality of their children's participation with nature. Of course, you and different readers will enter the book with different frames of experience and will carry from it varied kinds and degrees of new awareness. Each of you will absorb the many reflections offered in these excursions into nature and will go beyond them to their own. Among the likely impacts of *Children, Pelicans, and Planets: Bobcat Magic* on readers and in turn on their friends and children are these-- · Setting aside more time to enter nature · Heightened attention to details in a wide range of contexts · New awareness of the potential for the seemingly familiar to surprise, reorient, and touch us · Feeling the threads of how nurturing the planet resonates with nurturing our children On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Virginia Valian wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > Brian Macwhinney and I and our teams have compiled information on the > number of presentations and presenters at IASCL conferences from 1981 > to 2014. As you will see, there are (too) many columns that are > missing information. If you can provide any of the missing > information, please do let me know so we can update this. > > The 1981 conference in Vancouver had 122 abstracts. The 2014 > conference in Amsterdam had 574. The field has indeed increased! > > We hope that this information about the growing size of the field may > be useful when you are making requests for support of any sort, > whether through funding agencies or within your institution. > > Best wishes, > > VVV > > -- > Virginia Valian > Distinguished Professor, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center > Psychology, Linguistics, Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, > Co-Director, Hunter College Gender Equity Project > Director, Language Acquisition Research Center > email: vvvstudents at gmail.com > > http://maxweber.hunter.cuny.edu/psych/faculty/valian/valian.htm > http://littlelinguist.hunter.cuny.edu/ > http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/genderequity/ > http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/gendertutorial/ > > -- > 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/CAKkumJb-Dd358hvMad0ZNKe6HnvK4kNaOy57LB2sbM-URy_57g%40mail.gmail.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Keith Nelson Faculty Senator Professor of Psychology Penn State University 118 Moore Building Reno University Park, PA 16802 keithnelsonart at gmail.com 814 863 1747 And what is mind and how is it recognized ? 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The compilation is > intended to help investigators identify CHILDES corpora that contain > longitudinal data for English-speaking children between the ages of > 1;6 and 3;6 and comparable data for adult speakers. > > Please read the first tab for information about the material in the > spreadsheet. There is a total of 7 tables. > > Please let me know if you spot errors in any of the information. > > Sincerely, > > VVV > > -- > Virginia Valian > Distinguished Professor, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center > Psychology, Linguistics, Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, > Co-Director, Hunter College Gender Equity Project > Director, Language Acquisition Research Center > email: vvvstudents at gmail.com > > http://maxweber.hunter.cuny.edu/psych/faculty/valian/valian.htm > http://littlelinguist.hunter.cuny.edu/ > http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/genderequity/ > http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/gendertutorial/ > > > > -- 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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Many of you know that I have long been interested in basic science translations to more effective language interventions. A more recent, partly related interest is in communications and interventions that may help children develop awareness and knowledge of Nature and to develop attitudes and actions that may help preserve and improve the Natural Environment. Please share with me any of your own efforts or efforts by those outside our field who may have completed projects, books, videos and so on related to these topics that you have found valuable. Future work might get sophisticated, we can hope, in adapting materials and projects to the current language skills of child participants. Among my own modest work in this area is a paperback and eBook versions of the book, "Children, Pelicans, & Planets: Bobcat Magic" (Available through epubbud.com and Amazon.com). A brief sense of the nature of this book can be gleaned from the note below. All the best, Keith Nelson *Children, Pelicans, Planets: Bobcat Magic *by Keith E. Nelson keithnelsonart at gmail.com Super Impact Images Press Surprise, delight, and amazement may await you as a reader of these chapters. In addition it is anticipated that in multiple ways these stories of Nature exploration and the beautiful photos of Nature will create some restlessness in many readers, some itches toward actions that increase their own contacts with nature and the quantity and quality of their children's participation with nature. Of course, you and different readers will enter the book with different frames of experience and will carry from it varied kinds and degrees of new awareness. Each of you will absorb the many reflections offered in these excursions into nature and will go beyond them to their own. Among the likely impacts of *Children, Pelicans, and Planets: Bobcat Magic* on readers and in turn on their friends and children are these-- · Setting aside more time to enter nature · Heightened attention to details in a wide range of contexts · New awareness of the potential for the seemingly familiar to surprise, reorient, and touch us · Feeling the threads of how nurturing the planet resonates with nurturing our children On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Virginia Valian wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > Brian Macwhinney and I and our teams have compiled information on the > number of presentations and presenters at IASCL conferences from 1981 > to 2014. As you will see, there are (too) many columns that are > missing information. If you can provide any of the missing > information, please do let me know so we can update this. > > The 1981 conference in Vancouver had 122 abstracts. The 2014 > conference in Amsterdam had 574. The field has indeed increased! > > We hope that this information about the growing size of the field may > be useful when you are making requests for support of any sort, > whether through funding agencies or within your institution. > > Best wishes, > > VVV > > -- > Virginia Valian > Distinguished Professor, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center > Psychology, Linguistics, Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, > Co-Director, Hunter College Gender Equity Project > Director, Language Acquisition Research Center > email: vvvstudents at gmail.com > > http://maxweber.hunter.cuny.edu/psych/faculty/valian/valian.htm > http://littlelinguist.hunter.cuny.edu/ > http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/genderequity/ > http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/gendertutorial/ > > -- > 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/CAKkumJb-Dd358hvMad0ZNKe6HnvK4kNaOy57LB2sbM-URy_57g%40mail.gmail.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Keith Nelson Faculty Senator Professor of Psychology Penn State University 118 Moore Building Reno University Park, PA 16802 keithnelsonart at gmail.com 814 863 1747 And what is mind and how is it recognized ? It is clearly drawn in Sumi ink, the sound of breezes drifting through pine. --Ikkyu Sojun Japanese Zen Master 1394-1481 -- 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/CAJpT6315F3KJWV0swKkBvkKL46oxNVsxLjgpXhS%3D8G1Z%3Duv-Mw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From suzipow at alumni.neu.edu Tue Jul 29 13:14:16 2014 From: suzipow at alumni.neu.edu (Susan M. Powers) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 06:14:16 -0700 Subject: Looking for Data for Research Study Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, I am working as a consultant for an Israeli start-up called Linguistech Solutions (http://www.lnts.com/). They are, in their own words "embarking on a research project on children's speech recognition." Here is their description: "The research is being conducted by the Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology and Linguistech Solutions Ltd. As part of the research process, it is necessary to create a large database of children's voice recordings." I informed them that a large database of children's voice recordings (aka The CHILDES Database) already exists. They are looking for data from native US English speaking children ages 7 - 12. They want just child speech so I thought some of the data in the /Narrative or /Frogs corpora might fit the bill, but I cannot locate the audio files that are needed to train their recognition engine. Does anyone know if the recordings (.wav or .mp3) from an appropriate corpus are still available (perhaps archived somewhere)? I'd like to help them to obtain data that was collected for studies of language acquisition. They were unaware of the existence of CHILDES; it would be a shame for them to have to "re-invent the wheel" if some recordings are indeed available. Thanks in advance for your help and/or advice, Susan -- 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/d9dfb2b3-4b8a-49bd-ad4e-bf1b7d462f16%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From macw at cmu.edu Tue Jul 29 15:20:13 2014 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 08:20:13 -0700 Subject: Looking for Data for Research Study In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Susan, CHILDES focuses more on recordings from younger children. I think that Maxine Eskenazi's KIDSPEECH database which is available through the LDC includes older children and might be appropriate for this. There is also a huge national database of standard spoken forms collected from all 48 states back in the 1970s on reel-to-reel archived at the University of West Virginia. -- Brian On Jul 29, 2014, at 6:14 AM, Susan M. Powers wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > I am working as a consultant for an Israeli start-up called Linguistech > Solutions (http://www.lnts.com/). They are, in their own words > "embarking on a research project on children's speech recognition." > > Here is their description: > "The research is being conducted by the Technion -- Israel Institute > of Technology and Linguistech Solutions Ltd. As part of the research > process, it is necessary to create a large database of children's > voice recordings." > > I informed them that a large database of children's voice recordings > (aka The CHILDES Database) already exists. They are looking for data > from native US English speaking children ages 7 - 12. They want just > child speech so I thought some of the data in the /Narrative or /Frogs > corpora might fit the bill, but I cannot locate the audio files that are > needed to train their recognition engine. Does anyone know if the > recordings (.wav or .mp3) from an appropriate corpus are still available > (perhaps archived somewhere)? > > I'd like to help them to obtain data that was collected for studies of > language acquisition. They were unaware of the existence of CHILDES; > it would be a shame for them to have to "re-invent the wheel" if some > recordings are indeed available. > > Thanks in advance for your help and/or advice, > > Susan > > -- > 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/d9dfb2b3-4b8a-49bd-ad4e-bf1b7d462f16%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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/627B07F8-9E4B-41B4-971C-A5277AD81AE6%40cmu.edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From suzipow at alumni.neu.edu Tue Jul 29 17:20:01 2014 From: suzipow at alumni.neu.edu (Susan M. Powers) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 10:20:01 -0700 Subject: Looking for Data for Research Study In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Thank you so much Brian. I checked into the corpus and it looks perfect for their project. Best, Susan On Tuesday, July 29, 2014 9:14:16 AM UTC-4, Susan M. Powers wrote: > > Dear Colleagues, > > I am working as a consultant for an Israeli start-up called Linguistech > Solutions (http://www.lnts.com/). They are, in their own words > "embarking on a research project on children's speech recognition." > > Here is their description: > "The research is being conducted by the Technion -- Israel Institute > of Technology and Linguistech Solutions Ltd. As part of the research > process, it is necessary to create a large database of children's > voice recordings." > > I informed them that a large database of children's voice recordings > (aka The CHILDES Database) already exists. They are looking for data > from native US English speaking children ages 7 - 12. They want just > child speech so I thought some of the data in the /Narrative or /Frogs > corpora might fit the bill, but I cannot locate the audio files that are > needed to train their recognition engine. Does anyone know if the > recordings (.wav or .mp3) from an appropriate corpus are still available > (perhaps archived somewhere)? > > I'd like to help them to obtain data that was collected for studies of > language acquisition. 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URL: From macw at cmu.edu Wed Jul 30 22:02:31 2014 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 15:02:31 -0700 Subject: position at NICHD Message-ID: On Jul 30, 2014, at 10:43 AM, Freund, Lisa (NIH/NICHD) [E] > wrote: Dear Colleague: The Child Development and Behavior Branch is in the process of recruiting a Program Officer for theLanguage, Bilingualism, and Biliteracy Program at NICHD. Please distribute the position description below to individuals who might be interested in applying for this position. The window to apply is very short, between 8/4 - 8/8/14. Information on how to apply will be available 8/4/14 on the NICHD employment website: http://www.nichd.nih.gov/about/jobs/Pages/index.aspx . Questions about the position can be directed to me at lisa.freund at nih.gov. Thank you for your assistance. We have been waiting for quite a while to receive approval to recruit for this position and the branch is excited about bringing in a new member to our team. Sincerely, Lisa Lisa Freund, Ph.D. Branch Chief, Child Development and Behavior Branch NICHD Email: Lisa.Freund at nih.gov Phone: 301-435-6879 Position Recruitment: Health Scientist Administrator (GS-14) , Language, Bilingualism, and Biliteracy Program in the Child Development and Behavior Branch (CDBB) of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). The incumbent for this position serves as a Program Officer with responsibility for providing scientific leadership and guidance to the planning, development, implementation and evaluation of assigned bio-behavioral research to the Language, Bilingualism and Biliteracy Program in the CDBB. Responsibilities include stimulating, planning, advising, directing and evaluation program activities for a portfolio of research projects and other grants/awards, cooperative agreements, and/or contracts. Using a developmental framework, s/he will identify and formulate program needs to achieve an integrated and responsive effort in the assigned area. Using specialized training and experience and knowledge of current advances and developments in the field of typical development including bilingual language development, provides leadership and technical expertise, identifies opportunities and problem areas, research gaps and facilitates new research efforts. The incumbent will also formulate and present new basic, translational and applied language, bilingual language, and biliteracy development research concepts, projects and initiatives to appropriate advisory groups and formulate and develop Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs) to achieve objectives. This position involves responsibility for administration of a federal grants program of basic and applied research that requires a professional scientific background. The incumbent must have a Ph.D. with training, experience, and interest in typical language development and/or bilingual language development, which is usually followed by relevant post-doctoral research. Familiarity with the grant making process through either submission of research grant applications or from managing a research grant portfolio is a plus but not required. Interested applicants wishing more information, please contact Dr. Lisa Freund atlisa.freund at nih.gov before 8/7/14. Additional information about how to apply for this position will be posted 8/4/14 on the NICHD employment website: http://www.nichd.nih.gov/about/jobs/Pages/index.aspx . -- 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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We hope that by pooling detailed word-learning data across labs, we can create a database of unprecedented size that will lead to new insights about the shape of vocabulary development in early childhood. I am writing to ask whether you would consider contributing your CDI form data to Wordbank. We will help you upload these data or even (funding permitting) help arrange and pay for you to ship your paper survey forms to us. More information is available in the attached (IRB-approved) letter. If you use CDI forms and would consider contributing data to this resource, please help us by filling out a very short form for potential contributors. Data from this form will be very useful in securing the funding necessary to expand Wordbank. In addition, if you know of others who might consider contributing but are not on these lists, I would be very grateful if you forwarded this message. Thank you very much, Michael C. 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This volume aims to bring that literature together in a digestible format. It provides a series of succinct review chapters on 19 key topics ranging from preverbal skills right up to irony and argumentative discourse. Each chapter equips the reader with an overview of current theories, key empirical findings and questions for new research. This valuable resource will be of interest to scholars of psychology, linguistics, speech therapy, and cognitive science. Best wishes, Caro Caroline Rowland Professor of Developmental Psychology Institute of Psychology Health and Society Eleanor Rathbone Building University of Liverpool LIVERPOOL L69 7ZA Tel: +44 151 794 2942 Fax: +44 151 794 2945 Email: crowland at liverpool.ac.uk Personal website: http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~crowland/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group. 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Teaching duties will include contributing to the provision of statistics, research methodology, and laboratory classes to year one and two undergraduates, in addition to a number of designated administrative roles. Please contact one of the language research group if you are interested in applying and wish to specialise in language acquisition research. Prof Julian Pine Julian.pine at liv.ac.uk Prof Caroline Rowland crowland at liv.ac.uk Dr Ben Ambridge ben.ambridge at liv.ac.uk Dr Franklin Chang fchang at liv.ac.uk More details can be found here: http://www.liv.ac.uk/working/jobvacancies/currentvacancies/academic/a-586103/ Caroline Rowland Professor of Developmental Psychology Institute of Psychology Health and Society Eleanor Rathbone Building University of Liverpool LIVERPOOL L69 7ZA Tel: +44 151 794 2942 Fax: +44 151 794 2945 Email: crowland at liverpool.ac.uk Personal website: http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~crowland/ -- 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/3FF1F1F25A83534BB89EE788E44BC70BC3218193%40CHEXMBX1.livad.liv.ac.uk. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From crowland at liverpool.ac.uk Mon Jul 14 12:53:00 2014 From: crowland at liverpool.ac.uk (Rowland, Caroline) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 12:53:00 +0000 Subject: Two new Research Assistant posts associated with ESRC LuCiD Centre (Manchester) Message-ID: APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING The University of Manchester are advertising two new fixed-term 24-month full-time post to work on a research project entitled Early communicative interaction and vocabulary development in three Manchester communities as part of the new ESRC-funded LuCiD Centre. The posts are for a Cantonese-English bilingual speaker https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=8168 And a Bengali-English bilingual speaker https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=8138 Best wishes, Caro Caroline Rowland Professor of Developmental Psychology Institute of Psychology Health and Society Eleanor Rathbone Building University of Liverpool LIVERPOOL L69 7ZA Tel: +44 151 794 2942 Fax: +44 151 794 2945 Email: crowland at liverpool.ac.uk Personal website: http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~crowland/ -- 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/3FF1F1F25A83534BB89EE788E44BC70BC32193E1%40CHEXMBX1.livad.liv.ac.uk. 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In this case it would be Max Miller for the Simone corpus and Heike Behrens for the Leo corpus. I realize that the time for presentations at conferences is short, but this type of acknowledgment takes only a few seconds and it is important to the contributors. Think in terms of Oscar Wilde and the Importance of Being Cited and maybe this will be easier to remember to do. Best regards, -- Brian MacWhinney -- 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/1158568E-995A-4BD7-ABAB-3EC463EC4012%40cmu.edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. From vvvstudents at gmail.com Tue Jul 22 20:43:40 2014 From: vvvstudents at gmail.com (Virginia Valian) Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 16:43:40 -0400 Subject: information on CHILDES corpora Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, For research we at LARC - which is to say, Stephanie Friedman, a student from Smith College who served as an intern at LARC - compiled the attached spreadsheet of child corpora. The compilation is intended to help investigators identify CHILDES corpora that contain longitudinal data for English-speaking children between the ages of 1;6 and 3;6 and comparable data for adult speakers. Please read the first tab for information about the material in the spreadsheet. There is a total of 7 tables. Please let me know if you spot errors in any of the information. Sincerely, VVV -- Virginia Valian Distinguished Professor, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center Psychology, Linguistics, Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, Co-Director, Hunter College Gender Equity Project Director, Language Acquisition Research Center email: vvvstudents at gmail.com http://maxweber.hunter.cuny.edu/psych/faculty/valian/valian.htm http://littlelinguist.hunter.cuny.edu/ http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/genderequity/ http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/gendertutorial/ -- 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/CAKkumJY%2B4gJZvjFed85Q%3Dbj6OcLTewpM7ak15184wLqWxJwK-A%40mail.gmail.com. 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Enjoy the summer-- Annick Annick De Houwer, University of Erfurt and European Research Network for Bilingual Studies, www.erbis.org On Tuesday, July 22, 2014 10:43:45 PM UTC+2, vvvst... at gmail.com wrote: > > Dear Colleagues, > > For research we at LARC - which is to say, Stephanie Friedman, a > student from Smith College who served as an intern at LARC - compiled > the attached spreadsheet of child corpora. The compilation is > intended to help investigators identify CHILDES corpora that contain > longitudinal data for English-speaking children between the ages of > 1;6 and 3;6 and comparable data for adult speakers. > > Please read the first tab for information about the material in the > spreadsheet. There is a total of 7 tables. > > Please let me know if you spot errors in any of the information. > > Sincerely, > > VVV > > -- > Virginia Valian > Distinguished Professor, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center > Psychology, Linguistics, Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, > Co-Director, Hunter College Gender Equity Project > Director, Language Acquisition Research Center > email: vvvst... at gmail.com > > http://maxweber.hunter.cuny.edu/psych/faculty/valian/valian.htm > http://littlelinguist.hunter.cuny.edu/ > http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/genderequity/ > http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/gendertutorial/ > -- 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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We are examining parenting interventions designed to improve child development outcomes in at-risk populations in the context of a randomized controlled trial at Bellevue Hospital Center and in the context of a clinical program at Woodhull Medical Center. The candidate will be responsible for assisting in multiple project tasks, and will work with a multidisciplinary team of pediatricians, psychologists, social workers, and other child development professionals. *Specific Tasks:* ? Recruit research participants and obtain informed consent ? Conduct interviews with parents about a range of topics, including screens for depression and questions about their child?s development and behaviors ? Perform developmental assessments of toddler and preschool children?s cognitive and language development, as well as self-regulation ? Meet with families to discuss parenting issues ? Videotape and transcribe parents and children interacting together ? Translate research-related documents ? Code videotapes (using micro-analytic coding techniques) ? Maintain databases and perform data entry ? Schedule and track visits with families ? Provide general support related to research tasks such as manuscript writing and grant preparation ? Conduct literature reviews ? Assist with coordination of volunteers including scheduling ? Provide general administrative support for team members, including assisting with purchasing of supplies, scheduling, making copies, etc. ? Provide support for Institutional Review Board and documentation *Requirements: * ? Fluency in both English and Spanish ? 2+ years research experience ? Bachelor?s Degree in psychology, human/child development, or related field ? Previous experience with and continued interest in working with children and families ? The ideal candidate will demonstrate enthusiasm for working with families and can flexibly adjust to project demands This is a full time position with benefits. 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We hope that this information about the growing size of the field may be useful when you are making requests for support of any sort, whether through funding agencies or within your institution. Best wishes, VVV -- Virginia Valian Distinguished Professor, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center Psychology, Linguistics, Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, Co-Director, Hunter College Gender Equity Project Director, Language Acquisition Research Center email: vvvstudents at gmail.com http://maxweber.hunter.cuny.edu/psych/faculty/valian/valian.htm http://littlelinguist.hunter.cuny.edu/ http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/genderequity/ http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/gendertutorial/ -- 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/CAKkumJb-Dd358hvMad0ZNKe6HnvK4kNaOy57LB2sbM-URy_57g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. From vvvstudents at gmail.com Thu Jul 24 17:32:12 2014 From: vvvstudents at gmail.com (Virginia Valian) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 13:32:12 -0400 Subject: # of IASCL papers and contributors - with attachment Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, For real this time! Thanks to Eve Clark for pointing out the lack of attachment in the previous email. Brian Macwhinney and I and our teams have compiled information on the number of presentations and presenters at IASCL conferences from 1981 to 2014. As you will see, there are (too) many columns that are missing information. If you can provide any of the missing information, please do let me know so we can update this. The 1981 conference in Vancouver had 122 abstracts. The 2014 conference in Amsterdam had 574. The field has indeed increased! We hope that this information about the growing size of the field may be useful when you are making requests for support of any sort, whether through funding agencies or within your institution. Best wishes, VVV -- Virginia Valian Distinguished Professor, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center Psychology, Linguistics, Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, Co-Director, Hunter College Gender Equity Project Director, Language Acquisition Research Center email: vvvstudents at gmail.com http://maxweber.hunter.cuny.edu/psych/faculty/valian/valian.htm http://littlelinguist.hunter.cuny.edu/ http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/genderequity/ http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/gendertutorial/ -- 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/CAKkumJaoO_JcCS48F-i3FDQkMNAjGSkVHjMkfKtEJ7_a88tHRw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: IASCL presentations 24 VII 14.xlsx Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet Size: 16682 bytes Desc: not available URL: From macw at cmu.edu Thu Jul 24 20:43:27 2014 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:43:27 -0400 Subject: # of IASCL papers and contributors In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Virginia (and Ludovica), Many thanks for posting this additional summary. Perhaps we should add that the programs from which these numbers were extracted can be found at http://www.iascl.org/programmes.html. For most of the more recent meetings, these programs contain and lot of information, including abstracts. Perhaps Ludovica can ask the IASCL web people to add your sheet to those links too. I know that Zita R?ger and Csaba Pl?h were organizers at Budapest and that both Vancouver and Budapest were hosted in University facilities, if you want to fill in some of those blanks. If anyone ever finds any information about the earlier meetings in London and Japan, that would be great. For the meeting in San Sebastian, we produced a CD-ROM with all the papers. I could send you a copy of that CD-ROM and I think others have copies too. Perhaps we could even post those papers on the IASCL web site. We should also make sure that the materials from the meeting last week in Amsterdam get added to the others at http://www.iascl.org/programmes.html Best regards, -- Brian MacWhinney On Jul 24, 2014, at 12:17 PM, Virginia Valian wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > Brian Macwhinney and I and our teams have compiled information on the > number of presentations and presenters at IASCL conferences from 1981 > to 2014. As you will see, there are (too) many columns that are > missing information. If you can provide any of the missing > information, please do let me know so we can update this. > > The 1981 conference in Vancouver had 122 abstracts. The 2014 > conference in Amsterdam had 574. The field has indeed increased! > > We hope that this information about the growing size of the field may > be useful when you are making requests for support of any sort, > whether through funding agencies or within your institution. > > Best wishes, > > VVV > > -- > Virginia Valian > Distinguished Professor, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center > Psychology, Linguistics, Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, > Co-Director, Hunter College Gender Equity Project > Director, Language Acquisition Research Center > email: vvvstudents at gmail.com > > http://maxweber.hunter.cuny.edu/psych/faculty/valian/valian.htm > http://littlelinguist.hunter.cuny.edu/ > http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/genderequity/ > http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/gendertutorial/ > > -- > 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/CAKkumJb-Dd358hvMad0ZNKe6HnvK4kNaOy57LB2sbM-URy_57g%40mail.gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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/0FB76468-8584-4C49-8911-334590728DAC%40cmu.edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. From natalieboave at gmail.com Fri Jul 25 12:52:36 2014 From: natalieboave at gmail.com (Natalie Boll-Avetisyan) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 14:52:36 +0200 Subject: DGfS workshop: Universal biases on phonological acquisition and processing Message-ID: Dear all, we are pleased to announce that there will be a workshop ('AG 7') on "Universal biases on phonological acquisition and processing" at the next DGfS conference, which will take place in Leipzig, Germany (date: March 4-6, 2015). We will be able to accept 14 papers for oral presentations. Deadline for abstract submission: August 31st. For more detail, see below. Best, Dinah Baer-Henney & Natalie Boll-Avetisyan *DGfS Workshop: Universal biases on phonological acquisition and processing* This workshop ('Arbeitsgruppe') will be held at the 37th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS) in Leipzig, Germany (March 4-6, 2015). DGfS website: http://conference.uni-leipzig.de/dgfs2015/index.php?id=7 Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/site/bollavetisyan/workshop-universal-biases/call *Call for Papers * Typological research indicates that many languages share specific patterns regarding their phoneme inventories, syllable structures, phonotactics and prosodic systems. A recurrent topic in acquisition research is the question of whether typologically well-attested patterns reflect universal biases on phonological acquisition and/or speech processing. This workshop aims at discussing the nature of these biases and to what extent they influence phonological acquisition and processing of L1 and L2 in children and adults. There seems to be a strong consensus among researchers that phonological acquisition is guided by universal biases. Yet, the specific nature of these biases is unclear: are they functional or analytical, domain-general or domain-specific? What is it that makes some patterns, often called natural patterns, more easily accessible and learnable than others: Are they are innate or are they triggered by experience with language? In addition, it is debated whether there are time limits on the operating periods of biases (possibly reflecting difficulties in L2 phonological acquisition, i.e., a critical period), or whether they also influence L2 phonological acquisition. If they influence the L2, what happens when the L1 phonological system is in conflict with the L2? In addition, the question arises to what extent universal biases might be at work even during speech processing after acquisition is completed. These classical questions have recently received new attention and benefit from the revival of artificial language paradigms, which enable us to investigate language acquisition and processing likewise. The goal of the workshop is to discuss effects of biases on L1 and early L2 phonological acquisition and their relation to age of acquisition from theoretical and empirical perspective. We aim to contribute to the current debate by assembling new insights to get a more concrete comprehension of the nature of universal biases. We invite contributions investigating monolingual and bilingual (L2) infant, child and adult phonological acquisition of segmental and suprasegmental structures in natural and artificial language learning. Contributions that may build a bridge between empirical findings and linguistic theory are particularly welcome. *Keynote speakers* Sharon Peperkamp (CNRS, Institut d'Etudes de la Cognition, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris) Elliott Moreton (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) *Abstract submission guidelines* Abstracts should be submitted for 30-minute slots (including discussion). Format: 1 page (TimesNewRoman, 12pt, 1 inch margins, including references and figures etc.). Please submit two pdf files containing your abstract via email (to: nboll at uni-potsdam.de): one file should include name(s) of author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), title of talk; another one should be anonymous. Abstracts and presentations must be in English. Your name should occur in the file name. *Important dates* Abstract deadline: 31 August, 2014 Notification of abstract acceptance: mid September, 2014 Conference dates: 4-6 March, 2015 Looking forward to your participation! *Organizing Committee * Dinah Baer-Henney (Heinrich Heine University D?sseldorf, University of Potsdam) Natalie Boll-Avetisyan (University of Potsdam) -- Natalie Boll-Avetisyan, PhD University of Potsdam, Germany https://sites.google.com/site/bollavetisyan/ -- 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/CA%2Bh%2BQ5ZnpWn2xER8M1LnupuLNNLxhsvqJSVjB1qp-ezvc-geCg%40mail.gmail.com. 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Please share with me any of your own efforts or efforts by those outside our field who may have completed projects, books, videos and so on related to these topics that you have found valuable. Future work might get sophisticated, we can hope, in adapting materials and projects to the current language skills of child participants. Among my own modest work in this area is a paperback and eBook versions of the book, "Children, Pelicans, & Planets: Bobcat Magic" (Available through epubbud.com and Amazon.com). A brief sense of the nature of this book can be gleaned from the note below. All the best, Keith Nelson *Children, Pelicans, Planets: Bobcat Magic *by Keith E. Nelson keithnelsonart at gmail.com Super Impact Images Press Surprise, delight, and amazement may await you as a reader of these chapters. In addition it is anticipated that in multiple ways these stories of Nature exploration and the beautiful photos of Nature will create some restlessness in many readers, some itches toward actions that increase their own contacts with nature and the quantity and quality of their children's participation with nature. Of course, you and different readers will enter the book with different frames of experience and will carry from it varied kinds and degrees of new awareness. Each of you will absorb the many reflections offered in these excursions into nature and will go beyond them to their own. Among the likely impacts of *Children, Pelicans, and Planets: Bobcat Magic* on readers and in turn on their friends and children are these-- ? Setting aside more time to enter nature ? Heightened attention to details in a wide range of contexts ? New awareness of the potential for the seemingly familiar to surprise, reorient, and touch us ? Feeling the threads of how nurturing the planet resonates with nurturing our children On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Virginia Valian wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > Brian Macwhinney and I and our teams have compiled information on the > number of presentations and presenters at IASCL conferences from 1981 > to 2014. As you will see, there are (too) many columns that are > missing information. If you can provide any of the missing > information, please do let me know so we can update this. > > The 1981 conference in Vancouver had 122 abstracts. The 2014 > conference in Amsterdam had 574. The field has indeed increased! > > We hope that this information about the growing size of the field may > be useful when you are making requests for support of any sort, > whether through funding agencies or within your institution. > > Best wishes, > > VVV > > -- > Virginia Valian > Distinguished Professor, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center > Psychology, Linguistics, Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, > Co-Director, Hunter College Gender Equity Project > Director, Language Acquisition Research Center > email: vvvstudents at gmail.com > > http://maxweber.hunter.cuny.edu/psych/faculty/valian/valian.htm > http://littlelinguist.hunter.cuny.edu/ > http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/genderequity/ > http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/gendertutorial/ > > -- > 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/CAKkumJb-Dd358hvMad0ZNKe6HnvK4kNaOy57LB2sbM-URy_57g%40mail.gmail.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Keith Nelson Faculty Senator Professor of Psychology Penn State University 118 Moore Building Reno University Park, PA 16802 keithnelsonart at gmail.com 814 863 1747 And what is mind and how is it recognized ? 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The compilation is > intended to help investigators identify CHILDES corpora that contain > longitudinal data for English-speaking children between the ages of > 1;6 and 3;6 and comparable data for adult speakers. > > Please read the first tab for information about the material in the > spreadsheet. There is a total of 7 tables. > > Please let me know if you spot errors in any of the information. > > Sincerely, > > VVV > > -- > Virginia Valian > Distinguished Professor, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center > Psychology, Linguistics, Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, > Co-Director, Hunter College Gender Equity Project > Director, Language Acquisition Research Center > email: vvvstudents at gmail.com > > http://maxweber.hunter.cuny.edu/psych/faculty/valian/valian.htm > http://littlelinguist.hunter.cuny.edu/ > http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/genderequity/ > http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/gendertutorial/ > > > > -- 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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Many of you know that I have long been interested in basic science translations to more effective language interventions. A more recent, partly related interest is in communications and interventions that may help children develop awareness and knowledge of Nature and to develop attitudes and actions that may help preserve and improve the Natural Environment. Please share with me any of your own efforts or efforts by those outside our field who may have completed projects, books, videos and so on related to these topics that you have found valuable. Future work might get sophisticated, we can hope, in adapting materials and projects to the current language skills of child participants. Among my own modest work in this area is a paperback and eBook versions of the book, "Children, Pelicans, & Planets: Bobcat Magic" (Available through epubbud.com and Amazon.com). A brief sense of the nature of this book can be gleaned from the note below. All the best, Keith Nelson *Children, Pelicans, Planets: Bobcat Magic *by Keith E. Nelson keithnelsonart at gmail.com Super Impact Images Press Surprise, delight, and amazement may await you as a reader of these chapters. In addition it is anticipated that in multiple ways these stories of Nature exploration and the beautiful photos of Nature will create some restlessness in many readers, some itches toward actions that increase their own contacts with nature and the quantity and quality of their children's participation with nature. Of course, you and different readers will enter the book with different frames of experience and will carry from it varied kinds and degrees of new awareness. Each of you will absorb the many reflections offered in these excursions into nature and will go beyond them to their own. Among the likely impacts of *Children, Pelicans, and Planets: Bobcat Magic* on readers and in turn on their friends and children are these-- ? Setting aside more time to enter nature ? Heightened attention to details in a wide range of contexts ? New awareness of the potential for the seemingly familiar to surprise, reorient, and touch us ? Feeling the threads of how nurturing the planet resonates with nurturing our children On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Virginia Valian wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > Brian Macwhinney and I and our teams have compiled information on the > number of presentations and presenters at IASCL conferences from 1981 > to 2014. As you will see, there are (too) many columns that are > missing information. If you can provide any of the missing > information, please do let me know so we can update this. > > The 1981 conference in Vancouver had 122 abstracts. The 2014 > conference in Amsterdam had 574. The field has indeed increased! > > We hope that this information about the growing size of the field may > be useful when you are making requests for support of any sort, > whether through funding agencies or within your institution. > > Best wishes, > > VVV > > -- > Virginia Valian > Distinguished Professor, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center > Psychology, Linguistics, Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, > Co-Director, Hunter College Gender Equity Project > Director, Language Acquisition Research Center > email: vvvstudents at gmail.com > > http://maxweber.hunter.cuny.edu/psych/faculty/valian/valian.htm > http://littlelinguist.hunter.cuny.edu/ > http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/genderequity/ > http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/gendertutorial/ > > -- > 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/CAKkumJb-Dd358hvMad0ZNKe6HnvK4kNaOy57LB2sbM-URy_57g%40mail.gmail.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Keith Nelson Faculty Senator Professor of Psychology Penn State University 118 Moore Building Reno University Park, PA 16802 keithnelsonart at gmail.com 814 863 1747 And what is mind and how is it recognized ? It is clearly drawn in Sumi ink, the sound of breezes drifting through pine. --Ikkyu Sojun Japanese Zen Master 1394-1481 -- 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/CAJpT6315F3KJWV0swKkBvkKL46oxNVsxLjgpXhS%3D8G1Z%3Duv-Mw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From suzipow at alumni.neu.edu Tue Jul 29 13:14:16 2014 From: suzipow at alumni.neu.edu (Susan M. Powers) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 06:14:16 -0700 Subject: Looking for Data for Research Study Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, I am working as a consultant for an Israeli start-up called Linguistech Solutions (http://www.lnts.com/). They are, in their own words "embarking on a research project on children's speech recognition." Here is their description: "The research is being conducted by the Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology and Linguistech Solutions Ltd. As part of the research process, it is necessary to create a large database of children's voice recordings." I informed them that a large database of children's voice recordings (aka The CHILDES Database) already exists. They are looking for data from native US English speaking children ages 7 - 12. They want just child speech so I thought some of the data in the /Narrative or /Frogs corpora might fit the bill, but I cannot locate the audio files that are needed to train their recognition engine. Does anyone know if the recordings (.wav or .mp3) from an appropriate corpus are still available (perhaps archived somewhere)? I'd like to help them to obtain data that was collected for studies of language acquisition. They were unaware of the existence of CHILDES; it would be a shame for them to have to "re-invent the wheel" if some recordings are indeed available. Thanks in advance for your help and/or advice, Susan -- 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/d9dfb2b3-4b8a-49bd-ad4e-bf1b7d462f16%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From macw at cmu.edu Tue Jul 29 15:20:13 2014 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 08:20:13 -0700 Subject: Looking for Data for Research Study In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Susan, CHILDES focuses more on recordings from younger children. I think that Maxine Eskenazi's KIDSPEECH database which is available through the LDC includes older children and might be appropriate for this. There is also a huge national database of standard spoken forms collected from all 48 states back in the 1970s on reel-to-reel archived at the University of West Virginia. -- Brian On Jul 29, 2014, at 6:14 AM, Susan M. Powers wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > I am working as a consultant for an Israeli start-up called Linguistech > Solutions (http://www.lnts.com/). They are, in their own words > "embarking on a research project on children's speech recognition." > > Here is their description: > "The research is being conducted by the Technion -- Israel Institute > of Technology and Linguistech Solutions Ltd. As part of the research > process, it is necessary to create a large database of children's > voice recordings." > > I informed them that a large database of children's voice recordings > (aka The CHILDES Database) already exists. They are looking for data > from native US English speaking children ages 7 - 12. They want just > child speech so I thought some of the data in the /Narrative or /Frogs > corpora might fit the bill, but I cannot locate the audio files that are > needed to train their recognition engine. Does anyone know if the > recordings (.wav or .mp3) from an appropriate corpus are still available > (perhaps archived somewhere)? > > I'd like to help them to obtain data that was collected for studies of > language acquisition. They were unaware of the existence of CHILDES; > it would be a shame for them to have to "re-invent the wheel" if some > recordings are indeed available. > > Thanks in advance for your help and/or advice, > > Susan > > -- > 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/d9dfb2b3-4b8a-49bd-ad4e-bf1b7d462f16%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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/627B07F8-9E4B-41B4-971C-A5277AD81AE6%40cmu.edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From suzipow at alumni.neu.edu Tue Jul 29 17:20:01 2014 From: suzipow at alumni.neu.edu (Susan M. Powers) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 10:20:01 -0700 Subject: Looking for Data for Research Study In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Thank you so much Brian. I checked into the corpus and it looks perfect for their project. Best, Susan On Tuesday, July 29, 2014 9:14:16 AM UTC-4, Susan M. Powers wrote: > > Dear Colleagues, > > I am working as a consultant for an Israeli start-up called Linguistech > Solutions (http://www.lnts.com/). They are, in their own words > "embarking on a research project on children's speech recognition." > > Here is their description: > "The research is being conducted by the Technion -- Israel Institute > of Technology and Linguistech Solutions Ltd. As part of the research > process, it is necessary to create a large database of children's > voice recordings." > > I informed them that a large database of children's voice recordings > (aka The CHILDES Database) already exists. They are looking for data > from native US English speaking children ages 7 - 12. They want just > child speech so I thought some of the data in the /Narrative or /Frogs > corpora might fit the bill, but I cannot locate the audio files that are > needed to train their recognition engine. Does anyone know if the > recordings (.wav or .mp3) from an appropriate corpus are still available > (perhaps archived somewhere)? > > I'd like to help them to obtain data that was collected for studies of > language acquisition. They were unaware of the existence of CHILDES; > it would be a shame for them to have to "re-invent the wheel" if some > recordings are indeed available. > > Thanks in advance for your help and/or advice, > > Susan > -- 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/2e7c90e3-9644-4ee1-8afb-d0fb941357d0%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From macw at cmu.edu Wed Jul 30 22:02:31 2014 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 15:02:31 -0700 Subject: position at NICHD Message-ID: On Jul 30, 2014, at 10:43 AM, Freund, Lisa (NIH/NICHD) [E] > wrote: Dear Colleague: The Child Development and Behavior Branch is in the process of recruiting a Program Officer for theLanguage, Bilingualism, and Biliteracy Program at NICHD. Please distribute the position description below to individuals who might be interested in applying for this position. The window to apply is very short, between 8/4 - 8/8/14. Information on how to apply will be available 8/4/14 on the NICHD employment website: http://www.nichd.nih.gov/about/jobs/Pages/index.aspx . Questions about the position can be directed to me at lisa.freund at nih.gov. Thank you for your assistance. We have been waiting for quite a while to receive approval to recruit for this position and the branch is excited about bringing in a new member to our team. Sincerely, Lisa Lisa Freund, Ph.D. Branch Chief, Child Development and Behavior Branch NICHD Email: Lisa.Freund at nih.gov Phone: 301-435-6879 Position Recruitment: Health Scientist Administrator (GS-14) , Language, Bilingualism, and Biliteracy Program in the Child Development and Behavior Branch (CDBB) of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). The incumbent for this position serves as a Program Officer with responsibility for providing scientific leadership and guidance to the planning, development, implementation and evaluation of assigned bio-behavioral research to the Language, Bilingualism and Biliteracy Program in the CDBB. Responsibilities include stimulating, planning, advising, directing and evaluation program activities for a portfolio of research projects and other grants/awards, cooperative agreements, and/or contracts. Using a developmental framework, s/he will identify and formulate program needs to achieve an integrated and responsive effort in the assigned area. Using specialized training and experience and knowledge of current advances and developments in the field of typical development including bilingual language development, provides leadership and technical expertise, identifies opportunities and problem areas, research gaps and facilitates new research efforts. The incumbent will also formulate and present new basic, translational and applied language, bilingual language, and biliteracy development research concepts, projects and initiatives to appropriate advisory groups and formulate and develop Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs) to achieve objectives. This position involves responsibility for administration of a federal grants program of basic and applied research that requires a professional scientific background. The incumbent must have a Ph.D. with training, experience, and interest in typical language development and/or bilingual language development, which is usually followed by relevant post-doctoral research. Familiarity with the grant making process through either submission of research grant applications or from managing a research grant portfolio is a plus but not required. Interested applicants wishing more information, please contact Dr. Lisa Freund atlisa.freund at nih.gov before 8/7/14. Additional information about how to apply for this position will be posted 8/4/14 on the NICHD employment website: http://www.nichd.nih.gov/about/jobs/Pages/index.aspx . -- 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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