The Importance of Being Cited

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Info-CHILDES,

    We have just concluded an fully enjoyable 5 days of child language meetings in Amsterdam.  All went very smoothly, thanks to impeccable conference organizing and great weather.  However, it came to my attention that we may need a reminder regarding the importance of citing sources in conference presentations (and of course publications) that use data from the CHILDES database.  For example, if one is presenting results based on, for example, the Miller and Leo corpora in the German segment of the database, it is not enough to simply cite CHILDES as the source. It is important to also cite the specific corpora and their contributors.  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

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