Gems

[Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith]

I agree, but the one I sent you on baddles/battles/paddles happened
the other day and I wrote it down right away.  But Mike is absolutely
right. So we need to treat with caution.  I rarely noted things my
daughters said, but as a grandmother (of 7 next week - one more due)
I feel a bit more detatched!
best
Annette

At 8:39 am +0700 5/8/04, Sudaporn Luksaneeyanawin wrote:
>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.
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>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
>>
>>