Gems

[Sudaporn Luksaneeyanawin]

Gem is good, but I agree with Michael that a lot of time what we write down
in diary is very selective,  also in terms of our own perception and memory,
our priorknowledge and memory have a strong influence on what we perceive
and memorize. This is a very complex matter and I hope that people that
develop Gem will take these comments into account and lay out a better well
structured way of doing it,two are suggested by Michael.
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Sudaporn Luksaneeyanawin, Ph.D
Director, Centre for Research in Speech and Language Processing-CRSLP
First Floor, Arts Building 4
Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University
Bangkok 10330, Thailand
Tel: 662 218 4857 (also Fax), 662 218 4856
www.crslp.chula.ac.th


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Tomasello" <tomasello at eva.mpg.de>
To: "info-childes" <info-childes at mail.talkbank.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 3:32 AM
Subject: Gems


> As an erstwhile diary keeper, may I put in a plea for some quality
> control of the gems.  It's been my experience that people's memory for
> the exact formulation of utterances is shockingly poor (and there is
> even psycholinguistic evidence on this).  Granted, an especially
> interesting utterance is more memorable, but I would vote for only
> including in the gem files things that were written down immediately,
> not things remembered from many months or years ago.  At the very least,
> there should be a comment line reporting the lag between utterance and
> recording.
>
> Mike Tomasello
>
>