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Ping,<br><br>
Thanks for your efforts. I agree that BILING meets the needs you
articulated for the info-biling listserv. It has about 760 subscribers at
the moment, and interests roughly correspond with the range associated
with the International Symposium on Bilingualism. The listserv was
started in 1997, so it has a pretty good history at this point. For those
interested in signing up, please visit the following URL and enter your
name and email address in the web form, then click "Join
BILING":<br><br>
<a href="http://lists.asu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=biling&A=1" eudora="autourl">http://lists.asu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=biling&A=1<br><br>
</a>Very best,<br>
Jeff<br><br>
<br>
At 08:09 AM 5/19/2005, Ping Li wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Dear Colleagues, <br><br>
Many thanks for Annick's points, which are well taken. Thanks also to
Ginny Gathercole who pointed out that Jeff MacSwan already maintains such
a bilingualism list, which I wasn't aware of ("BILING: Forum for
Discussion of Research on Bilingualism and Bilingual Education"
<BILING@ASU.EDU>). Given these considerations, I will take down the
info-biling mailing list, and apologize to those who have already signed
on. <br><br>
With best wishes, <br><br>
Ping <br><br>
<br><br>
On May 19, 2005, at 3:23 AM, Annick De Houwer wrote: <br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Dear colleagues, <br><br>
It is true that not all L1 researchers will be interested in issues
<br>
pertaining to bilingualism. Nor will all L1 researchers be interested in
all <br>
the topics that come up under 'L1 research'. <br>
I have for a long time been carrying out research on L1 acquisition -
<br>
except, as it so happens, mainly in children with 2 L1's. In my writings
I <br>
have been stressing the point that many issues in L1 research can be more
<br>
successfully approached by taking the methodological decision to study
<br>
children learning 2 L1's from birth (see also my upcoming contribution to
<br>
the Elsevier Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, where I spell out
the <br>
areas of research in monolingual L1 research that could particularly
benefit <br>
from insights gained into 'double L1' acquisition). When I first started
out <br>
doing research on bilingual first language acquisition, I was one of the
<br>
very few that were also trained in child language acquisition research in
<br>
general (i.e., in monolingual circumstances). I am convinced that my
<br>
training in developmental psycholinguistics, in combination with my
training <br>
in sociolinguistics and contact linguistics, have both been equally
<br>
important as backgrounds to my research. Whereas in the early 1980's work
in <br>
'double L1' acquisition was rare at conferences devoted to child language
<br>
acquisition, this is no longer the case. IASCL conferences as well as BU
<br>
conferences regularly have a large portion of presentations relating to
2x <br>
L1 acquisition. I strongly believe in the necessary cross-linking of
<br>
research into how both monolingually and bilingually raised children
develop <br>
their language skills. In addition, I am sure we can learn from processes
of <br>
later L2 acquisition as well (at the next IASCL meeting, for instance,
there <br>
is going to be a panel with, amongst others, Jürgen Meisel and Lydia
White, <br>
relating to just this topic). <br>
I would find it a great pity if the chances for cross-over are limited by
<br>
dividing up communication channels. Outside the professional meetings we
go <br>
to, info-childes has been just the kind of perfect forum, I believe, for
<br>
this kind of much needed cross-over information. Personally, I find the
<br>
volume of the forum quite manageable (unlike another list server I
briefly <br>
subscribed to (on bilingualism), with more than 70 postings a week!), and
it <br>
is easy for anyone to delete postings they find less central to their
<br>
concerns. <br>
It would be a pity if once again, work on bilingual children is commented
on <br>
and discussed along the edges of the mainstream of child language
research. <br><br>
Very best regards, <br><br>
Annick De Houwer <br>
University of Antwerp <br>
Belgium <br><br>
<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">From: Ping Li
<pli@richmond.edu> <br>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 17:49:28 -0400 <br>
To: info-childes@mail.talkbank.org <br>
Subject: info-biling mailing list <br><br>
Dear Colleagues, <br><br>
In light of the recent emails on L2 or bilingualism on this list, I
<br>
have created a new mailing list called info-biling analogous to <br>
info-childes. I believe that there are many colleagues on this list who
<br>
are mainly interested in L1 issues, and thus it would be unfair to them
<br>
to have to see or delete unnecessary emails. <br><br>
Information about the info-biling mailing list is available at <br>
<a href="http://lists.richmond.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-biling">http://lists.richmond.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-biling</a>
<br>
and it should take you 1 minute to subscribe to the list from there. <br><br>
Some simple descriptions and ground rules are attached below. <br><br>
Best wishes, <br><br>
Ping Li <br><br>
<br>
The info-biling mailing list is created to enhance the rapid exchange <br>
of information among researchers in bilingualism and second language <br>
acquisition. The listserv works similarly as the info-childes mailing <br>
list (maintained by Brian MacWhinney at CMU) with which many <br>
acquisition researchers are familiar. There are also some differences <br>
between the two. The general rules and the user privileges are: <br><br>
Users are encouraged to post inquries about or discussions on a <br>
research question in L2 or bilingualism; <br>
Users are encouraged to request information about references for a <br>
specific research project on L2 or bilingualism; <br>
Users are encouraged to announce conferences and job descriptions <br>
related to L2 and bilingualism; <br>
Users are allowed to announce their significant publications in <br>
academic journals and books or other scientific outlets; <br>
Users are allowed to post table of contents from their edited volumes <br>
or journals; <br>
Users will have access to a public database that contains APA-style <br>
references in bilingualism research (under construction). <br><br>
In order to block email spams or viruses, only subscribed users can <br>
post messages to the mailing list, and no attachments are allowed on <br>
the list. <br><br>
<br><br>
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Ping Li, Ph.D. <br>
Associate Professor <br>
Graduate Program Coordinator <br>
Department of Psychology <br>
University of Richmond <br>
Richmond, VA 23173, USA <br>
Email: pli@richmond.edu <br>
<a href="http://www.richmond.edu/~pli/">http://www.richmond.edu/~pli/</a> <br>
<a href="http://cogsci.richmond.edu/" eudora="autourl">http://cogsci.richmond.edu/</a> <br><br>
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition: <br>
<a href="http://cogsci.richmond.edu/bilingualism/bilingualism.html">http://cogsci.richmond.edu/bilingualism/bilingualism.html</a> <br>
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Ping Li, Ph.D. <br>
Associate Professor <br>
Graduate Program Coordinator <br>
Department of Psychology <br>
University of Richmond <br>
Richmond, VA 23173, USA <br>
Email: pli@richmond.edu <br>
<a href="http://www.richmond.edu/~pli/">http://www.richmond.edu/~pli/</a> <br>
<a href="http://cogsci.richmond.edu/" eudora="autourl">http://cogsci.richmond.edu/</a> <br><br>
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition: <br>
<a href="http://cogsci.richmond.edu/bilingualism/bilingualism.html">http://cogsci.richmond.edu/bilingualism/bilingualism.html</a> <br>
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