IBBY残疾儿童读物文献中心的发展历程、理念及其贡献

残疾儿童读物文献中心(Documentation Center on Books for Young People with Disabilities,以下简称文献中心)在推动全球残疾儿童阅读中具有重要的影响。文章从酝酿起步阶段、艰辛探索阶段、艰难推进阶段以及稳定探索阶段四个阶段详细梳理了文献中心的发展历程。总结了文献中心的主要理念:图书能够促进残疾儿童能力的发展与集体融合;选择适宜图书的标准以及残疾儿童阅读的推广需要多方参与;并介绍了文献中心的主要成就与贡献;开创了专为残疾儿童选书的先河;引发对残疾儿童阅读的广泛关注,以及培养了创作与推广残疾儿童阅读的骨干力量。研究文献中心,它不仅填补了国内相关研究的空白,而且对于提升残疾儿童阅读的数量与质量有重要的推动作用。

准备着,2006年IBBY北京大会

据悉，2006国际儿童读物联盟（IBBY）第30届世界大会，将于2006年9月20日--24日，在中国北京召开。前不久，国家新闻出版总署署长、IBBY北京大会名誉主席石宗源，在天津津利华酒店，会见了TIBBY主席彼特·施耐克先生及其一行，表示中国政府、中国人民高度重视和大力支持本次大会，并预祝大会圆满成功（见上图）。当日晚，“中国北京2006IBBY（国际儿童读物联盟）第30届世界大会”第4次新闻发布会，

让阅读为孩子成长增添快乐

4月6日，2006国际儿童读物联盟（IBBY）第30届世界大会第六次新闻发布会暨“我们的文学——儿童论坛”启动仪式，在北京市东城区史家小学分校图书馆举行。

The Strong Continuity Hypothesis: Evidence from Arabic-speaking children data

This paper examines the acquisition of subject-verb agreement inflections in the natural speech corpus of two mono-lingual children speaking Yemeni Ibbi Arabic(YIA)between 2 and 3 years old.The two children are Ibrahim and Wala(between the age of 2;1 and 2;10)with Mean Lenghth of Utterance(MLU)range of 2.72 to 3.23 for Ibrahim and 2.9 to 3.27 for Wala.YIA,as a variety of Arabic,has rich and complex morphological system with a fusional type.Verbs are inflected with tense and agreement.Each verbal inflection is marked for person,number,and gender agreement.However,this paper attempts to explore how agreement forms are acquired by YIA-speaking children and examines when YIA children distinguish between first,second,and third person agreement,singular and plural,masculine and feminine agreement forms.The paper argues that agreement inflections(person,number,gender)are available to children early,thereby supporting the Strong Continuity Hypothesis(Lust,1999).Moreover,the results give evidence to Wexler’s Hypothesis(1998),Very Early Knowledge of Inflection(VEKI),which says that children know the grammatical and phonological properties of inflections in a language in the earliest stages when they enter the two-word stage.Similarly,this study tests Hoekstra and Hyams’(1995)Early Morpho-syntactic Convergence(EMC)which proposed that children acquire the specifics of inflections of the target language at an early stage.

The Acquisition Phenomenon of Null and Overt Subjects in the Early Speech of Arabic-Speaking Children

This paper examines the early acquisition of null subjects and overt subjects and how they are distributed and realized in the early speech of Arabic dialect-speaking children.①The study accounts for the phenomenon of subjects by examining a longitudinal corpus of two children,Wala and Ibraheem,who were around two years old,speaking Yemeni Ibbi Arabic(YIA)dialect.The production and elicited production data collection methods were used in the study to collect the corpus during five months.The results of the study showed that null-subjects appear with a high proportion compared to the overt subjects.It was found that null subjects and overt subjects in the speech of Ibraheem and Wala had a similar distribution in the imperfective and the perfective,of which 86-87%are null subjects and 12-14%are overt subjects.The paper examined the widespread linguistic phenomenon of Null Subject Parameter acquisition,(Rizzi,1982;Hyams,1986,1989)that is emergence of null subjects in line with overt subjects.The paper supports Hyam’s(1982)argument on the acquisition of Null Subject Parameter where we can find children acquire null subjects early around 2 years of age.In contrast to non-null subject languages(like English),Null Subject Languages(NSLs)like Arabic happen to have null subjects appear more frequently and this is due to the rich inflectional morphology of NSLs.