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<P class=EC_MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Dear Info-CHILDES</SPAN></P>
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<P class=EC_MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">I am a student in Japan looking for a grad school to do my Ph.D.<SPAN> </SPAN>I have been working on the acquisition of the Japanese topic particle from a discourse/pragmatic perspective.<SPAN> </SPAN>Since, as Gerlind mentioned, it is not easy to find people doing developmental pragmatics as their main research topic, I would appreciate it very much if any of you could give me tips or pointers for where (which grad school?) I might find people to share such ideas and interests with. Thank you.</SPAN></P>
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Chigusa KURUMADA<BR>
<A href="mailto:c_kurumada@hotmail.com">c_kurumada@hotmail.com</A><BR>
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Department of Language and Information Sciences,<BR>
University of Tokyo<BR>
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<BR>> CC: INFO-CHILDES@mail.talkbank.org<BR>> From: Bhuvana.Narasimhan@mpi.nl<BR>> Subject: Re: Who's doing developmental pragmatics?<BR>> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:39:55 +0200<BR>> To: hauser@eva.mpg.de<BR>> <BR>> Dear Gerlind (and Info-CHILDES),<BR>> <BR>> Creating a mailing list of people interested in developmental <BR>> pragmatics (and semantics) is indeed<BR>> a good way to promote an exchange of ideas.<BR>> <BR>> Fyi, we have recently initiated a new project on "Information structure <BR>> in language acquisition" at the<BR>> Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics which examines how children <BR>> and adults learn<BR>> correspondences between discourse-pragmatic notions (topic-comment, <BR>> given-new) and linguistic<BR>> devices such as intonation, word order or discourse particles in <BR>> different languages. More information<BR>> can be found on our website <BR>> (http://www.mpi.nl/research/projects/inform
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