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The Department of General Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam is proud to present the second issue in the series Amsterdam Series in Child Language Development. The series aims to be a platform for working papers in every area of linguistic development in children. It should provide a fast route to distribution for Dutch research in this area. The first issue of ASCLD appeared in March 1993. It is a collection of papers on the acquisition of Dutch, edited by Maaike Verrips and Frank Wijnen. It contains papers on the acquisition of Dutch phonology, on the development of lexical organisation, and on the acquisition of argument structure. The second issue (June 1994) contains four papers with original research on the linguistic development of children acquiring Sign Language of the Netherlands. A fifth paper clarifies the most basic issues concerning deafness in the Netherlands, sign languages and their acquisition for readers who are not familiar with these topics. The introduction by Prof. dr. A.E. Mills sketches the relevance of the study of sign language development for the study of language (development) in general. This collection of papers is expressly aimed both at readers with an interest in language development in general and at specialists in the field of the acquisition of sign languages. ASCLD 2 - LANGUAGE ACQUISITION WITH NON-NATIVE INPUT. THE ACQUISITION OF SLN. Anne Mills (UvA) The study of sign languages and language acquisition Heleen Bos (UvA) Prelingual deafness, sign language and language acquisition Anne Mills, Beppie van den Bogaerde and Jane Coerts (UvA) Language input, interaction and the acquisition of Sign Language of the Netherlands Harrie Knoors (Rudolf Mees Institute) Increasing morphological complexity as a strategy: The SLN of non-native signing children Inge Kepppels and Sonja Jansma (UvA) Immediately preceding language input: direct imitation or selective use? Connie Fortgens and Harry Knoors (Rudolf Mees Institute) Distinguishing between Sign Language of the Netherlands and Sign Supported Dutch The volume was edited by Beppie van den Bogaerde, Harry Knoors and Maaike Verrips ASCLD 2 (publikatie nr 62) costs Dfl. 20,-- and can be ordered from abroad in the following ways. Please make sure you choose the right mode of payment and specify the required item(s). (A) Send an international money order to the amount of the price in Dutch guilders to: Vakgroep Algemene Taalwetenschap, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Spuistraat 210, 1012 VT Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Or: (B) If you have a postal account (Europe), transfer the same amount to (postal) account no. 5032250 of: Vakgroep Algemene Taalwetenschap etc. (see (A)) (Postbank N.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (C)Send an International Money Order or an EURO Cheque written out in Dutch guilders to Vakgroep Algemene Taalwetenschap, Spuistraat 210, 1012 VT Amsterdam. ATTENTION: OTHER cheques or money orders are acceptable ONLY if fl 15,- (fifteen guilders) is added to cover the extra bank charges. (D) You can also pay by American Express Card or VISA-card. Send your creditcardnumber and the expiring date. Please specify the required items.Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
=================================== N e w s f r o m t h e I P P E =================================== 18 July 1994 ================== Summer renovations ================== The International Philosophical Preprint Exchange staff is taking advantage of the slow summer season to implement some big changes for the coming academic year. In October, the IPPE will be opening a World Wide Web (Mosaic) server, making possible hypertext links between documents on the system. In October we will also be renovating our Gopher support, in order to provide more friendlier and more informative menus (Gopher techies may be interested to know that we will be running our own Gopher server, rather than using Gopher as a front-end to our ftp server). The current ftp and mail-server based access to the IPPE will remain available, although there may be some reorganization to accomodate the new Web and Gopher services. (Please see the end of this message for access information.) ============================ More journals coming on line ============================ By September several more journals will join the roster of those journals and book series making their abstracts and tables of contents available on the IPPE. We have plenty of space to accomodate yet more journals, series, and conferences, and we encourage the staffs of these organizations to contact us. ================================== IPPE well represented at workshops ==================================Several members of the IPPE staff were among the most prominent participants in the workshop on philosophy and electronic communications at the Canadian Philosophical Association conference held this past June in Calgary. Present were Carolyn Burke (administrator), Richard Reiner (coordinator), and Istvan Berkeley, who was also one of the organizers of the workshop. Richard Reiner and George Gale of the IPPE staff will also be participating in the round-table on computer mediated communication at the joint PSA/SSSS/HSA conference to be held in New Orleans in October. ====================================================== Submission rates fluctuate, but readership stays high ====================================================== The end of the academic year saw a steep climb in the rate of preprint submissions to the IPPE. As we move into the summer season, however, submissions have slowed to a trickle. Usage rates, on the other hand, have remained relatively constant at approximately one hundred accesses per day (this does not include usage of the dozens of mirror sites through which the IPPE collection, in association with Project Gutenberg, is available). Anyone with a good explanation of these apparently contradictory phenomena is invited to communicate with the IPPE staff. ================ IPPE Usage Study ================ A study of the effects on academic communication due to emerging technologies such as the IPPE is being conducted by Charles Schwartz, Social Sciences Bibliographer at the Fondren Library, Rice University, in conjunction with IPPE administrator Carolyn L Burke. We hope to better understand the emerging changes in the structure of communication within the philosophical community. Results of this study will be made available in the new year. Accessing the International Philosophical Preprint Exchange: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ By gopher: "gopher apa.oxy.edu" or "gopher kasey.umkc.edu". By ftp: "ftp Phil-Preprints.L.Chiba-U.ac.jp", or "ftp mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu". By email: "mail phil-preprints-serviceMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issuePhil-Preprints.L.Chiba-U.ac.jp". By www: "http://csmaclab-www.uchicago.edu/philosophyProject/philos.html" To place a paper or comment on the IPPE: see pub/submissions/README. If you have questions: send mail to <cburke
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