NIH Grant Competing Continuation

[Tom Roeper]

Dear Brian---

I cannot put down all the references, but let me give you this to quote:

Childes has become the lifeblood of acquisition research, and often the
centerpiece of undergraduate education.  I do searches on it several
times a week (or sometimes several time a day).  There is no question
that it deserves further support.

Tom


On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Brian MacWhinney <macw at cmu.edu> wrote:

> 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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-- 
Tom Roeper
Dept of Lingiustics
UMass South College
Amherst, Mass. 01003 ISA
413 256 0390

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