one million mark
Keith Nelson
k1n at psu.edu
Sat Apr 24 16:13:06 UTC 2010
I FOURTH IT ! Great idea. Keith
At 10:06 AM -0400 4/24/10, Nan Ratner wrote:
>I third it; I think Jean has made the point very eloquently. I know my
>entire academic life has been changed for the better by what Brian has
>done for the field.
>Nan
>
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>>>> Annick De Houwer <annickej at yahoo.com> 4/24/2010 9:51 AM >>>
>I second Jean's proposal.
>
>Annick
>
>On Apr 24, 9:03 am, Aliyah MORGENSTERN <aliyah.morgenst... at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>> That's a terrific idea!
>> maybe the IASCL board members could all give their opinion.
>> Best,
>> Aliyah MORGENSTERN
>>
>> Professeur de linguistique
>> Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3
>> Institut du Monde Anglophone
>> 5 rue de l'Ecole de Médecine
>> 75006 Paris
>>
>> Le 24 avr. 10 à 06:15, Jean Berko Gleason a écrit :
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > 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-hou...
>> >>http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachenzentrum/personen/
>>
>> >> please refer tohttp://www.multilingualmatters.comfor 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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>> >>> 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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