Youtube

[Susan Foster-Cohen]

Dear All:

O.K., well I don't want to get myself or anyone else in trouble, so here are descriptions of some things I have been happy to find:

1) There is a set of four videos of Neil Smith working with Christopher. Seriously cool stuff.

2) There is a Simpsons cartoon in which Millhouse talks about his learning of Italian. It raises the issue of the affective dimension of second language acquisition.

3) There is a lovely clip of a boy called Ernie (Ernie Goo Goo) in which a child obligingly demonstrates several phonological processes.

4) There is an excellent chunk out of a Nova programme with the inimitable Robert Krolwich explaining mirror neurons. Possibly too long to show in class, but I gave my students the link, and asked them to watch it for homework.  Allows one to bring in new stuff about innate human sociability and motor theories of speech perception.

5) There is a charming wee trilingual who speaks Greek then Italian then German.  You could hear my monolingual NZ students gasp as he switches. 

6) There is a wee girl whose mother is trying to elicit metalinguistic capacities from an infant who is clearly learning to speak both Mandarin and English, but who is not yet ready to translate. "What's your name in Mandarin?"

7) And there is a wonderful parody of the pompous linguist played by Stpehen Fry and Hugh Laurie in which he gets it remarkably right, including a wonderful 'betcha never heard this sentence before' sentence.

There are other bits and bobs I've found, too, but it seems you'll just have to go fishing for yourselves. With the ones above, I think I've given you enough key words to help you find them all. 

Cheers,

Susan


-----Original Message-----
From: info-childes at mail.talkbank.org on behalf of Frank Binder
Sent: Wed 8/15/2007 7:53 PM
To: Susan Foster-Cohen
Cc: info-childes at mail.talkbank.org; Petra Jahn
Subject: Re: Youtube
 
"prohibited - but not under all circumstances" =o)


Dear Susan, Dear all,

my sincere apologies if I may interrupt some joyful sessions, but I feel
it is important to let you know that

youtube's Terms of Use (http://youtube.com/t/terms) specifically
prohibit any downloading (and probably editing) of videos (or other user
submissions). Presumably (and besides other reasons) this is to protect 
their users, esp. those who submit videos there, from being used (or 
viewed) "improperly". I think, as scientists working with data provided 
by other people, we can respect that.

Now, their videos might still be used, afaik. They seem to offer an
"Embeddable player" which should allow to play videos from youtube.
However, I could not find information on whether this works within
anything else than "other websites". Did anyone ask them?

Best, and least troublesome (?), may be to let youtube know, exactly
which videos you would like to use in which contexts and for which
purpose, and ask for written consent to do so. Does anyone have
experience in that direction?


This has been an issue at our institute as well. Thanks to our IT-admin, 
who informed us about youtube's terms of use some months ago =o)

Best, Frank




Susan Foster-Cohen wrote:

>  
> Hi, all.
> 
> Just wanted to say that I've been delighted at the hugely useful little 
> clips I've found on Youtube for my undergraduate language acquisition 
> course. If others have not thought of looking there, they may be 
> surprised at what is on offer. And they can be easily downloaded by 
> using one of the 'download from Youtube' programmes freely available on 
> the web.
> 
> If people want me to suggest some clips, I'll be happy to share the 
> links for the ones I'm using at the moment.  However, if you just search 
> 'child language' or 'language acquisition' you'll find them.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Susan Foster-Cohen
> 
> 
> 
> 
>