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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">THE 39th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">NOVEMBER 7-9, 2014</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 13pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Keynote Speaker: Richard Aslin, University of Rochester</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 13pt"><i><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">“From sounds to words to grammatical categories: The role of distributional learning”</span></i><i><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 13pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Plenary Speaker: Katherine Demuth, Macquarie University</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><i><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">“Prosodic effects on the emergence of grammatical morphemes: Evidence from perception and production”</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Submissions of abstracts for 20-minute talks are now being accepted at:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><a href="http://www.bu.edu/bucld/abstracts/abstract-submission/" target="_blank"><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: none; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: rgb(0,34,145)">http://www.bu.edu/bucld/abstracts/abstract-submission/</span></a><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">DEADLINE. All submissions must be received by 8:00 PM EST, May 15, 2014.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Submissions that present research on any topic in the fields of first and second language acquisition from any theoretical perspectives will be fully considered, including: Artificial
Languages, Bilingualism, Cognition & Language, Creoles & Pidgins, Dialects, Discourse and Narrative, Gesture, Hearing Impairment and Deafness, Input & Interaction, Language Disorders, Linguistic Theory, Neurolinguistics, Pragmatics, Pre-linguistic Development,
Reading and Literacy, Signed Languages, Sociolinguistics, and Speech Perception & Production.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">A suggested format and style for abstracts is available at:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><a href="http://www.bu.edu/bucld/abstracts/abstract-format/" target="_blank"><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: none; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: rgb(0,34,145)">http://www.bu.edu/bucld/abstracts/abstract-format/</span></a><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">FURTHER INFORMATION</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">General conference information is available at:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><a href="http://www.bu.edu/bucld" target="_blank"><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: none; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: rgb(0,34,145)">http://www.bu.edu/bucld</span></a><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Questions about abstracts should be sent to </span><a href="mailto:abstract@bu.edu" target="_blank"><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: none; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: rgb(0,34,145)">langconf@bu.edu</span></a><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Boston University Conference on Language Development</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">96 Cummington Street, Room 244</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Boston, MA 02215</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">U.S.A.</span></p>
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