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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear Gerlind,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Great idea, I'd love to join the group. We have two
projects going on developmental pragmatics-in the first we have followed
two cohorts of Israeli children for three years (combining ethnography with
semi-structured interviews) initially looking at the development
of extended genres, like explanations and narratives, and more recently at
various discourse phenomena in natural peer talk, like speech representation,
pretend play and literate language and the emergence of sociable conversation.
Part of this work is cross-cultural, examining the spread of all genres in the
natural peer talk of young Israeli and American children (with Catherine Snow
and Rebecca Sutherland) (a list of publications from this project can be
provided later on). The second project focuses on the development of
pragmatic competence in Hebrew as as a seond language by young (preschool and
kindergarten) immigrant children in Israel; this too is a longitudinal
study, currently its third year, combining linguistic ethnography,
semi-structured interviews and standard tests.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>best,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Shoshana Blum-Kulka</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Professor Emerita Shoshana Blum-Kulka</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Department of Communication and School of
Education</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hebrew University</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jerusalem, 91905</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Israel</FONT> </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=mfriend@sunstroke.sdsu.edu
href="mailto:mfriend@sunstroke.sdsu.edu">Margaret Friend</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=deak@cogsci.ucsd.edu
href="mailto:deak@cogsci.ucsd.edu">"Gedeon Deák"</A> ; <A title=macw@cmu.edu
href="mailto:macw@cmu.edu">Brian MacWhinney</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A
title=info-childes@mail.talkbank.org
href="mailto:info-childes@mail.talkbank.org">info-childes@mail.talkbank.org</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, October 13, 2007 2:33
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Who's doing developmental
pragmatics?</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Please include me as well! I'm primarily interested in
pragmatic cues in the input. Thanks for a great idea!<BR><BR>Maggie
Friend<BR><BR>At 04:41 PM 10/12/2007, Gedeon Deák wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite">I'd be interested in
participating in the group.<BR>Yes, as Brian says, a google group would be
extremely easy to set up--no moderator needed.<BR>-Gedeon<BR><BR>On
10/12/07, <B>Brian MacWhinney</B> <<A
href="mailto:macw@cmu.edu">macw@cmu.edu</A>> wrote:<BR>
<DL>
<DD>Dear Gerlind, Bhuvana, and Kurumada, <BR><BR>
<DD> How about a new mailing list at <A
href="http://googlegroups.com">googlegroups.com</A>? We could
call<BR>
<DD>it <A
href="mailto:chiprag@googlegroups.com">chiprag@googlegroups.com</A>
. We recently moved info-<BR>
<DD><A
href="mailto:chibolts@mail.talkbank.org">chibolts@mail.talkbank.org</A> to
<A href="mailto:chibolts@googlegroups.com">chibolts@googlegroups.com</A>
and, so far,<BR>
<DD>my opinion of the Google Groups facility is very positive. I
would <BR>
<DD>be willing to set this up, but it would be even better if some
senior<BR>
<DD>figure in Developmental Pragmatics would take this on. Failing
that,<BR>
<DD>an energetic young person with good computer access would serve
fine<BR>
<DD>too. Failing that, I could give it a try.<BR><BR>
<DD>--Brian MacWhinney<BR><BR>
<DD>On Oct 12, 2007, at 3:29 PM, Gerlind Hauser wrote:<BR><BR>
<DD>> Dear Info-CHILDES,<BR>
<DD>><BR>
<DD>> as Brian MacWhinney said: it's time to get back to the central
<BR>
<DD>> task: So, I am looking for the people out there doing
developmental<BR>
<DD>> pragmatics as one important aspect of language acquisition.
It<BR>
<DD>> seems that there are not so many working on this topic nowadays
and <BR>
<DD>> I thought a bit of networking might be a good idea to see how
we<BR>
<DD>> could better exchange our ideas and strengthen the field a
bit.<BR>
<DD>> Please let me know any ideas. Maybe we could start by creating
a<BR>
<DD>> mailing list of the people interested in this topic.<BR>
<DD>><BR>
<DD>> Thanks and have a nice day!<BR>
<DD>><BR>
<DD>> Gerlind<BR>
<DD>><BR>
<DD>><BR>
<DD>><BR><BR><BR></DD></DL><BR><BR><BR>-- <BR><BR>Gedeon O. Deák,
Ph.D.<BR>Department of Cognitive Science<BR>9500 Gilman Dr.<BR>Univ. CA, San
Diego<BR>La Jolla, CA 92093-0515<BR><A
href="http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~deak/cdlab">http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~deak/cdlab</A><BR><BR>ph
(858) 822-3352 <BR>fax (858) 534-1128
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<P></X-SIGSEP>Margaret Friend, Ph.D.<BR>Child Language and Emotion
Lab<BR>Department of Psychology and<BR>SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in
Language and Communicative Disorders<BR>San Diego State University<BR>6363
Alvarado Court, Ste.103<BR>San Diego, CA 92120<BR>619-594-0273
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