Brian---<br> the meeting I think it was 1978 that occurred in Tokyo was so sparsely attended I think they considered cancelling it.<br>If you track that one down, you will get a big spread in current and former numbers.<br>
<br>Tom Roeper<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Virginia Valian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vvvstudents@gmail.com" target="_blank">vvvstudents@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Dear Colleagues,<div><br></div><div>Brian MacWhinney and I are collaborating on a project we hope you will help us with. We would like to post on the IASCL site the statistics on the numbers of contributors and attendees since the first meeting in 1975. We believe that we would see an enormous increase over the years. Data of this sort could be very useful for funding requests, especially for international collaborations, since they would document the widespread interest and value of work in child language.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Some of you were organizers, some contributors, some attendees. Each of you may have different information to convey. Brian and I will attempt to collate and organize the information so that it will be useful. Perhaps you have a program from one of the previous meetings. If you could mail us a copy or scan a copy, we will undertake to scan any programs we receive and return the originals to their owners and perform the tabulations listed below as well as others that you may suggest.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Even if all you know is that the meeting you attended did not have concurrent sessions and met in a room that held no more than N people, that would be helpful. We have no way of knowing whether we will be flooded with information or will receive almost none. At present, we're hoping for the former more than the latter!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Here is the information we are particularly interested in:</div><div>number of talks</div><div>number of posters</div><div>number of registered participants</div><div>number of faculty, post-docs, independent researchers, students</div>
<div>number of countries represented</div><div>number of languages reported on in a talk or poster</div><div>number of symposia</div><div>number of symposia with more than one country represented</div><div>invited addresses (with stats on country represented and sex)</div>
<div>organizers</div><div>location of meeting (e.g., a university, a convention center)</div><div><br></div><div>If there is other information you think it would be useful to track, please let us know.</div><div><br></div>
<div>Please also correct, if necessary, the information we have at present on dates, locations, and primary organizers of previous conferences. We are sorry if we have failed to include organizers or credited the wrong people!</div>
<div><br></div><div>1975 - London</div><div>1978 - Tokyo (Fred Peng)</div><div>1981 - Vancouver (John Gilbert)</div><div>1984 - Austin (Anne VanKleeck)</div><div>1987 - Lund </div><div>1990 - Budapest (Zita Reger)</div><div>
1993 - Trieste (Maria Silvia Barbieri)</div><div>1996 - Istanbul (Ayhan Aksu)</div><div>1999 - San Sebastian/Donostia (Jasone Cenoz)</div><div>2002 - Madison (Jon Miller)</div><div>2005 - Berlin</div><div>2008 - Edinburgh (Sorace)</div>
<div>2011 - Montreal (Henri Cohen)</div><div>2014 - Amsterdam</div><div>2017 - Lyon</div><div><span style="font-size:medium;font-family:monospace"> </span></div><div><div>Sincerely,</div>
<div><br></div><div>Virginia Valian</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br>Virginia Valian<br>Distinguished Professor<br>Department of Psychology, Hunter College<br>PhD Programs in Linguistics, Psychology, and Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, CUNY Grad Center<br>
<a href="mailto:vvvstudents@gmail.com" target="_blank">vvvstudents@gmail.com</a><br>
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