<div dir="ltr">Dear Brian,<br><br>Sorry for being late on this one -- I had hoped to send this to you before my trip to China but wasn't able to do so. I hope the enclosed letter will still be useful.<br><br>Thanks,<br>
<br>Ping<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Brian MacWhinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:macw@cmu.edu" target="_blank">macw@cmu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Dear Info-CHILDES,<div><br><div> I would like to thank all of you who submitted letters of support for the NIH CHILDES renewal proposal. We received 144 letters stretching providing 292 pages of documentation of the use of CHILDES programs and data. This was the strongest set of letters for any of the CHILDES proposals over the last 28 years, and it is great testimony to the value of the community data in CHILDES and the health of the field of child language.</div>
<div> </div><div>In the course of writing the proposal, I found that Google provides a great method for tracking the use of CHILDES data. If one just goes to <a href="http://scholar.google.com" target="_blank">scholar.google.com</a> and searches for "Brian MacWhinney" and then looks up the four core papers documenting the system (which people were asked to cite), you can find all of the literature that used CHILDES. Using this method, I learned the following. </div>
<div><span style="text-indent:0.5in"><br></span></div><div><span style="text-indent:0.5in">Since 1987, the productivity of the project
in terms of articles published in a given year has increased each year.</span><span style="text-indent:0.5in"> </span><span style="text-indent:0.5in">There are now well over 6000 articles based
in whole or part on the use of CHILDES data. One </span><span style="text-indent:0.5in">can find 863 citations
of MacWhinney and Snow </span><span style="text-indent:0.5in">(</span><a href="#141d1c5026f558be__ENREF_36" title="MacWhinney, 1985 #4639" style="text-indent:0.5in"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">1985</span></a><span style="text-indent:0.5in">)</span><span style="text-indent:0.5in">, 473</span><span style="text-indent:0.5in">
</span><span style="text-indent:0.5in">citations of MacWhinney and Snow </span><span style="text-indent:0.5in">(</span><a href="#141d1c5026f558be__ENREF_37" title="MacWhinney, 1990 #4610" style="text-indent:0.5in"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">1990</span></a><span style="text-indent:0.5in">)</span><span style="text-indent:0.5in">, 1427 citations of </span><span style="text-indent:0.5in">MacWhinney </span><span style="text-indent:0.5in">(</span><a href="#141d1c5026f558be__ENREF_29" title="MacWhinney, 1991 #4566" style="text-indent:0.5in"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">1991</span></a><span style="text-indent:0.5in">)</span><span style="text-indent:0.5in"> and 2259 citations of </span><span style="text-indent:0.5in">MacWhinney </span><span style="text-indent:0.5in">(</span><a href="#141d1c5026f558be__ENREF_30" title="MacWhinney, 2000 #9098" style="text-indent:0.5in"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">2000</span></a><span style="text-indent:0.5in">)</span><span style="text-indent:0.5in">.</span><span style="text-indent:0.5in"> Because Google
does not thoroughly index non-English publications, this total of 5022 citations
is missing many of the publications in other languages that use CHILDES.</span><span style="text-indent:0.5in"> </span><span style="text-indent:0.5in">A more accurate count would be close to 6500.</span><span style="text-indent:0.5in"> </span><span style="text-indent:0.5in">A graph of the number of articles published
each year (non-cumulative) shows a continual straight-line slope of increasing
productivity with a few dozen articles published each year during the early
years and 250-300 published per year in recent years.</span></div><div><span style="text-indent:0.5in"><br></span></div><div><span style="text-indent:0.5in">I have finished writing the proposal. If you are curious about what we hope to do in the next five years, you can download the proposal from <a href="http://talkbank.org/3strategy.pdf" target="_blank">http://talkbank.org/3strategy.pdf</a> And once the United States of America gets a government again, I may even be able to submit the proposal!</span></div>
<div><span style="text-indent:0.5in"><br></span></div><div><span style="text-indent:0.5in">Best,</span></div><div><span style="text-indent:0.5in"><br></span></div><div><span style="text-indent:0.5in">-- Brian MacWhinney</span></div>
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