Final Call for Papers: THE 29th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

[Seungwan Ha]

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CALL FOR PAPERS (Final Call)

THE 29th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON
LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

NOVEMBER 5, 6 & 7, 2004

Keynote Speaker: Elizabeth S. Spelke, Harvard
University
“Language and Core Knowledge”

Plenary Speaker: Ken Wexler, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology
"Beauty and Awe: Language Acquisition as High Science"

Lunch Symposium
“Where does grammar come from? A debate on the nature
of child language acquisition”

Michael Tomasello, Max Planck Institute for
Evolutionary Anthropology
Stephen Crain, University of Maryland – College Park

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All topics in the fields of first and second language
acquisition from all theoretical perspectives will be
fully considered, including:

Bilingualism
Cognition & Language
Creoles & Pidgins
Discourse
Exceptional Language
Input & Interaction
Language Disorders
Linguistic Theory (Syntax, Semantics, Phonology,
Morphology, Lexicon)
Literacy & Narrative
Neurolinguistics
Pragmatics
Pre-linguistic Development
Signed Languages
Sociolinguistics
Speech Perception & Production

Presentations will be 20 minutes long followed by a 10
minute question period. Posters will be on display for
a full day with two attended sessions during the day.
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ABSTRACT FORMAT AND CONTENT

Abstracts submitted must represent original,
unpublished research.

Abstracts should be anonymous, clearly titled and no
more than 450 words in length. They should also fit on
one page, with an optional second page for references
or figures if required. Abstracts longer than 450
words will be rejected without being evaluated. Please
note the word count at the bottom of the abstract.
Note that words counts need not include the abstract
title or the list of references.

A suggested format and style for abstracts is
available at the conference website:
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/template.html

All abstracts must be submitted as PDF documents.
Specific instructions for how to create PDF documents
are available at the website:
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/pdfinfo.html

Free services/software for creating PDF documents are
available from:

http://www.adobe.com
(free trial: five free documents)

If you encounter a problem creating a PDF file, please
contact us for further assistance.

Please use the first author’s last name as the file
name (eg. Smith.pdf). No author information should
appear anywhere in the contents of the PDF file
itself.

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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Electronic submission: To facilitate the abstract
submission process, abstracts will be submitted using
the form available at the conference website:
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/abstract.html

Specific instructions for abstract submission are
available on this website.

Abstracts will be accepted between March 15 and May
15.

Contact information for each author must be submitted
via webform. No author information should appear
anywhere in the abstract PDF.

At the time of submission you will be asked whether
you would like your abstract to be considered for a
poster, a paper, or both.

Although each author may submit as many abstracts as
desired, we will accept for presentation by each
author: (a) a maximum of 1 first authored
paper/poster, and (b) a maximum of 2 papers/posters in
any authorship status. Note that no changes in
authorship (including deleting an author or changing
author order) will be possible after the review
process is completed.

DEADLINE: All submissions must be received by 8:00 PM
EST, May 15, 2004.

Late abstracts will not be considered, whatever the
reason for the delay.

We regret that we cannot accept abstract submissions
by fax or email.

Submissions via surface mail will only be accepted in
special circumstances, on a case by case basis.

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ABSTRACT SELECTION

Each abstract is blind reviewed by 5 reviewers from a
panel of approximately 80 international scholars.
Further information about the review process is
available at:
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/reviewprocess.html

Acknowledgment of receipt of the abstract will be sent
by email as soon as possible after receipt. Notice of
acceptance or rejection will be sent to first authors
only, in early August, by email. Pre-registration
materials and preliminary schedule will be available
in late August, 2004.

If your abstract is accepted, you will need to submit
a 150-word abstract including title, author(s) and
affiliation(s) for inclusion in the conference
handbook. Guidelines will be provided along with
notification of acceptance.

Abstracts accepted as papers will be invited for
publication in the BUCLD Proceedings. Abstracts
accepted as posters will be invited for publication
online only, but not in the printed version.

All conference papers will be selected on the basis of
abstracts submitted. Although each abstract will be
evaluated individually, we will attempt to honor
requests to schedule accepted papers together in group
sessions. No schedule changes will be possible once
the schedule is set. Scheduling requests for religious
reasons only must be made before the review process is
complete (i.e. at the time of submission). A space is
provided on the abstract submission webform to specify
such requests.

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FURTHER INFORMATION

Information regarding the conference may be accessed
at
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD

Boston University Conference on Language Development
96 Cummington Street, Room 244
Boston, MA 02215
U.S.A.

Telephone: (617) 353-3085
Email: langconf at bu.edu
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