one million mark

[Jean Berko Gleason]

Annick is (as ever) right.  Brian should receive some recognition that 
goes beyond our heartfelt thanks.  He should receive an official award, 
prize, something, that will have lasting value and that will indicate to 
the world that he has made a great contribution to our field.  I think 
APA has a variety of similar awards that he could be a candidate for , 
but probably most of the members of info-childes are not APA members.  
Here's one possibility:

How about if we encourage IASCL to establish an award for outstanding 
contributions to the field of language acquisition.  We name it the 
Brian MacWhinney Award and Brian is the first recipient and gets the 
prize (medal, plaque, cheque, box of chocolates, whatever) at the 
Montreal meeting.  The IASCL will be asked to have a committee that 
thereafter will receive and evaluate nominations, and every 3 years 
thereafter some other deserving soul will receive the IASCL Brian 
MacWhinney Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Language 
Acquisition.

Something like that.   Don't all volunteer at once.    Since it is 
discussion and not planning I'm not trying to hide anything from Brian.


jean

Jean Berko Gleason, Professor Emerita
Department of Psychology
Boston University

http://www.bu.edu/psych/faculty/gleason/



Annick De Houwer wrote:
> I want to add to all the congratulations! A monumental and great job,
> Brian, for which you deserve gratitude and recognition. CHILDES
> members, how can we make sure Brian's work gets LASTING gratitude and
> recognition?
>
> Annick
>
> Annick De Houwer, PhD
> Chair for Language Acquisition and Language Teaching
> Director of the Language Center
> University of Erfurt, Germany
>
> http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachlehr-und-lernforschung/personen/de-houwer/
> http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachenzentrum/personen/
>
> please refer to http://www.multilingualmatters.com for the two books
> on early bilingualism I published last year
>
> Postal address:
> Frau Prof. Dr. A. De Houwer
> Sprachwissenschaft (Anglistik)
> Universität Erfurt
> Nordhäuser Str. 63
> D-99089 Erfurt
> Germany
>
> tel. +49-361-737-4331 (secretary: -2700 or -4320)
> fax +49-361-737-4329
>
> On Apr 21, 5:44 pm, Rosa Montes <rosa.mon... at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Congratulations Brian! The list and site are wonderful resources for
>> researchers and they are especially appreciated in places where access
>> to other resources is limited.
>>
>> Thank you for all your efforts and your unflagging enthusiasm,
>>
>> Rosa
>>
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>>
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>> Fax:  +52 (222) 229-55-00, Ext.5631
>>
>> Email- rosa.mon... at gmail.com, rosa.mon... at viep.buap.mx
>>
>> On Mar 29, 11:42 am, Brian MacWhinney <m... at cmu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Dear Info-CHILDES,
>>>       
>>>     I was happy to notice this morning that the number of "hits" to the CHILDES home page since 2003 passed the one million mark sometime this last weekend.  In this age of trillion dollar deficits and terabyte drives, a million may seem a small number.  However, for a small academic discipline, it is not bad at all.  Also, I have noticed that the number of hits to the web page seems to be an accelerating function, which is another nice signal.
>>>       
>>> Best regards,
>>>       
>>> -- Brian MacWhinney
>>>       
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