stats on IASCL meetings

Tue Oct 2 21:09:47 UTC 2012

It might be good if folks wrote directly to Virginia or Brian?
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From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Magdalena Smoczynska
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 4:24 PM
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Subject: Re: stats on IASCL meetings

Brian,
maybe I have the program of the London 1975 meeting. I have to check.
Among those who attended it were: Paul Fletcher, Gordon Wells, Melissa Bowerman, Dan Slobin, David Crystal, Maria Przetacznikowa (from Poland), Robin Campbell - I think I will recall the name of the organizer (I saw her quite recently).
I think the person organizing the Lund meeting was Ragnhild Sodebergh.
Magdalena Smoczynska
On 2 October 2012 21:43, Tom Roeper <roeper at linguist.umass.edu<mailto:roeper at linguist.umass.edu>> wrote:
Brian---
  the meeting I think it was 1978 that occurred in Tokyo was so sparsely attended I think they considered cancelling it.
If you track that one down, you will get a big spread in current and former numbers.

Tom Roeper

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Virginia Valian <vvvstudents at gmail.com<mailto:vvvstudents at gmail.com>> wrote:
Dear Colleagues,

Brian MacWhinney and I are collaborating on a project we hope you will help us with.  We would like to post on the IASCL site the statistics on the numbers of contributors and attendees since the first meeting in 1975.  We believe that we would see an enormous increase over the years.  Data of this sort could be very useful for funding requests, especially for international collaborations, since they would document the widespread interest and value of work in child language.

Some of you were organizers, some contributors, some attendees.  Each of you may have different information to convey.  Brian and I will attempt to collate and organize the information so that it will be useful.  Perhaps you have a program from one of the previous meetings.  If you could mail us a copy or scan a copy, we will undertake to scan any programs we receive and return the originals to their owners and perform the tabulations listed below as well as others that you may suggest.

Even if all you know is that the meeting you attended did not have concurrent sessions and met in a room that held no more than N people, that would be helpful.  We have no way of knowing whether we will be flooded with information or will receive almost none.  At present, we're hoping for the former more than the latter!

Here is the information we are particularly interested in:
number of talks
number of posters
number of registered participants
number of faculty, post-docs, independent researchers, students
number of countries represented
number of languages reported on in a talk or poster
number of symposia
number of symposia with more than one country represented
invited addresses (with stats on country represented and sex)
organizers
location of meeting (e.g., a university, a convention center)

If there is other information you think it would be useful to track, please let us know.

Please also correct, if necessary, the information we have at present on dates, locations, and primary organizers of previous conferences. We are sorry if we have failed to include organizers or credited the wrong people!

1975 - London
1978 - Tokyo (Fred Peng)
1981 - Vancouver (John Gilbert)
1984 - Austin (Anne VanKleeck)
1987 - Lund
1990 - Budapest (Zita Reger)
1993 - Trieste (Maria Silvia Barbieri)
1996 - Istanbul (Ayhan Aksu)
1999 - San Sebastian/Donostia (Jasone Cenoz)
2002 - Madison (Jon Miller)
2005 - Berlin
2008 - Edinburgh (Sorace)
2011 - Montreal (Henri Cohen)
2014 - Amsterdam
2017 - Lyon

Sincerely,

Virginia Valian

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