Who's doing developmental pragmatics?

[Bhuvana Narasimhan]

Dear Gerlind (and Info-CHILDES),

Creating a mailing list of people interested in developmental 
pragmatics (and semantics) is indeed
a good way to promote an exchange of ideas.

Fyi, we have recently initiated a new project on "Information structure 
in language acquisition" at the
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics which examines how children 
and adults learn
correspondences between discourse-pragmatic notions (topic-comment, 
given-new) and linguistic
devices such as intonation, word order or discourse particles in 
different languages. More information
can be found on our website 
(http://www.mpi.nl/research/projects/informationstructure/).

Best wishes,
Christine Dimroth, Bhuvana Narasimhan


On Oct 12, 2007, at 9:29 AM, Gerlind Hauser wrote:

> Dear Info-CHILDES,
>
> as Brian MacWhinney said: it's time to get back to the central task: 
> So, I am looking for the people out there doing developmental 
> pragmatics as one important aspect of language acquisition. It seems 
> that there are not so many working on this topic nowadays and I 
> thought a bit of networking might be a good idea to see how we could 
> better exchange our ideas and strengthen the field a bit.
> Please let me know any ideas. Maybe we could start by creating a 
> mailing list of the people interested in this topic.
>
> Thanks and have a nice day!
>
> Gerlind
>
>