NIH Grant Competing Continuation

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Info-CHILDES,

The NICHD grant for CHILDES is up for renewal this year and we are busy soliciting letters documenting its usage over the last five years.  So, if you, your colleagues, or your students have been making use of CHILDES or the CLAN program, could you please ask send us a letter documenting your usage?  

Letters should include citations for articles, conference presentations, talks, teaching activities, or student papers based on the use of CHILDES programs or data. We will then include these citations in the CHILDES-BIB that is on the web, as well as in the proposal.   Also, they should mention any new features that you would like to see included in the programs and the database.

The proposal is due November 1, but I must finalize the text well before then.  This means that we need to receive letters by October 1 at the latest. Sooner would be even better.   There is no need to send the letter in paper form; email is fine.  
 
You can just email your letter to Margie Forbes at forbesmm at cmu.edu.  Margie will acknowledge each email, as she receives it. If you would like to make sure that we don't send you multiple requests for a letter, please just send a note right now to Margie telling her when you will be sending a letter.

Please note, there is no usage fee for the CHILDES programs or database. Being able to submit a good set of support letters that document usage is really the best way to guarantee continued funding.

Many thanks for your support for the continuation of this important component of the scientific infrastructure for the study of child language development.  
 
Best regards,

-- Brian MacWhinney, Professor of Psychology, CMU

P.S.    The new proposal will focus on:
·     continued expansion of the database,
·     tighter linkage to PHON and Praat for phonological analysis,
·     fuller support for systems using the database for automatic grammar and lexicon extraction,
·     more support for coding gesture,
·     expansion of the new KidEVAL methods for aligning individual children to a comparison database,
·     more complete web-based search and analysis programs,
·     completion of automatic computation of IPSyn,
·     Monte Carlo methods for IRT testing of items in IPSyn, DSS, and KidEVAL
·     extension of automatic morphosyntactic analysis to more languages using standard formats,
·     support for quantitative analysis using Conversation Analysis (CA) coding,
·     computer-assisted methods for increasingly rapid first-pass transcription, and
·     extended interoperability with other major computer programs.

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