Monthly Archives: February 2012

02.16.12
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CHILDES lab is live

Ok, the CHILDES lab is now online and I think it is ready to do.

With respect to what happened in class, with the searches not working, I don’t really know. I tried it again at home and it seemed to be working. Maybe I was just failing to see a typo or something. But I think the command examples that you have in the lab exercise should work, let me know if you have trouble.

The lab can be done just fine without installing anything on your own machine, you can do it all with a web browser that has the ability to copy and paste the results into a file. So, in principle, I think you could actually do this on an iPhone, although I wouldn’t recommend it.

02.12.12
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You may want to bring your laptop

By the way, since I’m going to demo some of the things you can do with CHILDES in class on Tuesday and/or Thursday, you might find it useful/interesting to bring a laptop or iPad or other modern internet-enabled device, so you can follow along. Not required, of course, but it will probably be more interesting and “stick” better if you’ve actually done it yourself.

The main link to the CHILDES transcript browser, which is what we’re going to mainly use, is this: http://bit.ly/childes. You can try it out on the device of your choice. It appears to work fine on my iPad and iPhone, though it’s a bit hard to deal with on an iPhone-sized screen.

02.12.12
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Schedule, website updated

Ok, I have now had a chance to at least take a preliminary pass at bringing the web site up to date. The readings page and the schedule page are now in sync, and good up to about a week in the future.

I’ve made a few changes to the organization of the later part of the semester, so let me just mention the differences:

  • I have reduced the number of presentation days from three to two. We should be able to fit five 15-minute presentations in a single class meeting, so the last day of classes now has five, and the penultimate day of classes has four. The remaining time on the penultimate day is for course evaluations.
  • I have moved the project proposal back a bit, so it is not due until the Thursday after spring break (March 22), and I have shortened the time devoted to the CHILDES project a bit, putting one more homework assignment in between the CHILDES lab and the start of work on the final project.

That’s it, I think, other than a bit of shuffling. I wanted to move the project proposal a little bit later, just so we’d have a little bit more chance to see some potential topic areas before you need to choose something to pursue. And the time that was allotted to the CHILDES lab was actually excessive before.