IASCL award

[Anat Ninio]

I second Edy's proposals -- what a wonderful idea to honor Roger Brown!  
I also join her in proposing both Brian and Catherine as the first 
awardees.  CHILDES is wonderful and deserves to be singled out as an 
outstanding contribution to the study of child language.  The choice of 
future awardees will be much more difficult, I suspect.  Maybe we should 
think of a Web-utilizing, universal voting process open to members of IASCL?

Anat



edy veneziano wrote:
> I find the idea of having an IASCL award (or several, finances 
> permitting) great. Equally great is  the of having Brian and 
> Catherine, as the initators of CHILDES,  the first awardees.
> As to the name of the award, several options can be considered.
>
> A neutral possibility would be to call it
> The IASCL award for Outstanding contributions to LA
>
> Other possibilities would have a name attached.
>  If we go back to the founding fathers/mothers, one name that comes 
> immediately to my mind is that of Roger Brown
> and a possibility would be to call it
> the IASCL Roger Brown award
>
> Best to all
> Edy
>
>
> On 24 avr. 10, at 06:15, Jean Berko Gleason wrote:
>>
>> 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
>

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