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<p><a href="https://publish.illinois.edu/galana2016/">https://publish.illinois.edu/galana2016/</a></p>
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<p>Welcome to GALANA 2016!<br>
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<p>The 7th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America Conference will be held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from September 8-10, 2016.</p>
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<p>The conference aims to bring together a range of researchers from around the world, with a focus on linguistic and psycholinguistic aspects of first language acquisition, second language acquisition, and bilingualism.</p>
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<p>Abstract Guidelines and Submission<br>
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<p>For the general session, abstracts are invited for original, unpublished generative research in all acquisition subfields: L1 acquisition, L2 acquisition, L3 acquisition, bilingualism, multilingualism, creoles and pidgins, and language disorders.
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<p>Abstracts are also invited for a special session on Input Variation and Language Acquisition. Understanding how children use input to help form a grammar is central to an adequate theory of language acquisition. Broad differences in input based on dialect
variation have been used as a fixed effect in explaining differences in children’s grammars. Between-child differences within homogeneous samples of families, similar in socio-economic statuses, speaking the same dialect have also provided insight. The special
session Input Variation and Language Acquisition asks how these two approaches relate to one another; specifically how language variety as a fixed effect relates to the random effects of between-child variation within a language variety. The papers presented
in this special session will advance theories of grammatical acquisition and applications in the field of child language disorders.</p>
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<p><strong>The deadline for submitting abstracts is February 10, 2016.<br>
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