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<span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">THE 44th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT</span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">NOVEMBER 7-10, 2019</span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Keynote Speaker: Cynthia Fisher (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) </span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Plenary Speaker:  Jan Edwards (University of Maryland) </span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">We will be accepting two kinds of submissions: symposium proposals and abstracts for 20-minute talks or posters </span><span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">(see below for deadlines)</span><span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">.</span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">CALL FOR SYMPOSIUM PROPOSALS</span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">We are currently soliciting 1000-word proposals for 90-minute symposia for the Boston University Conference on Language Development on any topic likely to be of broad interest to the conference attendees.</span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Proposals should include a list of the participants, topics, and format, and should name at least one organizer.  Send submissions to <a href="mailto:langconf@bu.edu" class="">langconf@bu.edu</a> with "Symposium
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<span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">DEADLINE: All symposium proposal submissions must be received by <b class="">April 1, 2019</b>. Decisions on symposia will be made by June.</span></div>
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<div class="" style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Submissions of 500-word abstracts for 20-minute talks and posters will be accepted beginning April 1, 2019 at: <a href="http://www.bu.edu/bucld/abstracts/abstract-submission/" class="">http://www.bu.edu/bucld/abstracts/abstract-submission/</a></span></div>
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<div class="" style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">DEADLINE:  All abstract submissions must be received by 8:00 PM EST, <b class="">May 1, 2019</b>.  Please note this is an earlier deadline than in previous
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<div class="" style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Abstracts must be limited to 500 words, with one extra page for examples, figures, tables, and references. A suggested format and style for abstracts
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<span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">General conference information is available at: <a href="http://www.bu.edu/bucld" class="">http://www.bu.edu/bucld</a></span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">We encourage submissions from scholars in countries affected by the new travel restrictions. We will arrange remote presentation for accepted abstracts by scholars who are unable to attend for this reason.</span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Questions? Email us at: <a href="mailto:langconf@bu.edu" class="">langconf@bu.edu</a>.</span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">BUCLD 2019 Organizing Committee</span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Boston University Conference on Language Development</span></div>
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