LINGUIST List 11.1351

Sun Jun 18 2000

FYI: Online Resource Guide, Funding/Cogn Ling

Editor for this issue: Lydia Grebenyova <lydialinguistlist.org>

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  • Donna Christian, ERIC Digest - Online Resource Guide
  • Colleen Seifert, Funding - Cogn Ling/ Dept. of Defense

    Message 1: ERIC Digest - Online Resource Guide

     Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 16:42:38 -0400
    From: Donna Christian <Donnacal.org>
    Subject: ERIC Digest - Online Resource Guide


    The ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics is interested in making information about linguistics interesting and accessible to teachers, students, administrators, policy makers, and journalists. Two new publications that they are working on are an update of an ERIC Digest on "What is Linguistics?" and an online resource guide on Linguistics. The current (old) Digest on Linguistics is at http://www.cal.org/ericcll/digest/cal00001.html . It could serve as the start to the new one.

    Each of ERIC/CLL's Resource Guides Online gives a brief overview of the topic with annotated links to publications, Web sites, listservs, and conferences. To get a clearer idea of what these guides look like, you can look at those published so far at http://www.cal.org/ericcll/faqs/rgos . The most recent and most exhaustive are on Teaching Spanish to Spanish Speakers ( http://www.cal.org/ericcll/faqs/rgos/sns.html ) and Two-Way (Dual) Immersion ( http://www.cal.org/ericcll/faqs/rgos/2way.html ). The SNS guide includes articles and books not available on the Web; we don't generally list print-only resources unless information about them may be found on the Web.

    Are there individuals (listserv members or their colleagues/students) who would be interested in writing (in the case of the Digest) or developing (the online resource guide) one or both of these? The person who did it would, of course, be the author.

    Please contact Kathleen Marcos, kathleencal.org, if you or someone you know is interested.

    Donna Christian, President Center for Applied Linguistics



    Message 2: Funding - Cogn Ling/ Dept. of Defense

     Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 18:30:58 -0400
    From: Colleen Seifert <seifertumich.edu>
    Subject: Funding - Cogn Ling/ Dept. of Defense


    Dept. of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative

    This Multidisciplinary Research Program supports university teams whose research efforts intersect more than one traditional science and engineering discipline. Topics include Automated Skills in Cognitive Readiness (#14), Optimizing Cognitive Readiness Under Combat Conditions (#8) and Human Activity Recognition From a Network of Vision Sensors (#35), Statistical Machine Translation (#37). The awards will be for a base period of three years, with two additional years possible, and at a funding level commensurate with the fields and breadth of research included in the details of each specific proposal. For the FY2001 MURI competition, it is anticipated that awards will range from half a million to about a million dollars per year. More information on the 2001 competition (13 July 2000 deadline) can be found at:

    www.onr.navy.mil/sci_tech/special/muri2001