<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">I just want to add a word of caution - we've been using LENA, and it's</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">great for recording with no observers present. However, you will be forever</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">their "prisoner" - you have to pay around £800 a year for service (which</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">always dates back to January of that year, regardless of when you actually</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">started to pay), or they won't talk to you nor help you when you've got</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">problems, when versions are updated or when the computer on which you have</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">the software dies, and the software for which you paid good money is no</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">longer supported. If you skip a year or two and then renew your service</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">payment, you pay a heavy "fine" for each year for which you didn't pay. We,</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">stupidly, gave free talks and publicity for them in a conference they</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">organised, but their service is never free.</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Just something to keep in mind!</span><div><br></div><div>Tamar Keren-Portnoy</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 11 Oct 2014, at 22:14, Aliyah MORGENSTERN <<a href="mailto:aliyah.morgenstern@gmail.com">aliyah.morgenstern@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Dear Jean-Pierre,<br>Marie-Thérèse Lenormand has used it very successfully. I was going to ask her to help us record children's monologues but haven't had the time to start. But as far as I know, she is the expert in our community.<br><a href="mailto:lenormand@rdebre.inserm.fr">lenormand@rdebre.inserm.fr</a><br>Best,<br>Aliyah<br><br>Le 12 oct. 2014 à 04:18, Jean-Pierre Chevrot a écrit :<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Dear Colleagues,<br>We are considering using the LENA system to record and conduct pre-analysis of the speech of young French-speaking children.<br>We were wondering whether this system works with languages other than English, and in particular with French?<br>Do any of you have experience of this?<br>Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to provide.<br>Jean-Pierre<br><br><br>-- <br>********************************************<br>Jean-Pierre Chevrot<br>Institut Universitaire de France<br>http://iuf.amue.fr/<br>Université Grenoble 3<br>Laboratoire Lidilem - BP 25, 38040, Grenoble cedex<br>France<br>http://lidilem.u-grenoble3.fr/spip.php?article30&var_mode=calcul&mem_id=4<br>Tel (bureau) : 04 76 82 68 13<br>Tel (personnel) : 06 74 61 36 21<br>********************************************<br><br>-- <br>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group.<br>To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.<br>To post to this group, send email to info-childes@googlegroups.com.<br>To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/5439E4EF.90302%40wanadoo.fr.<br>For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.<br></blockquote><br>-- <br>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group.<br>To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to info-childes+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.<br>To post to this group, send email to info-childes@googlegroups.com.<br>To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/CF0CE539-3AE8-4178-AA0E-D9900DC90DF1%40gmail.com.<br>For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.<br></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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