BUCLD 31 Pre-Registration Announcement

bucld langconf at bu.edu
Mon Sep 4 17:31:29 UTC 2006


Dear Colleague,

We are pleased to announce that pre-registration for BUCLD 31 is now  
available at:
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/prereg.htm

The 31st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development  
will be held at Boston University, November 3-5, 2006. Our invited  
speakers are:

Roberta Golinkoff, University of Delaware
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Temple University
"Breaking the Language Barrier: The View from the Radical Middle."
Keynote address, Friday, November 3 at 8:00 pm

Jürgen M. Meisel, University of Hamburg & University of Calgary
"Multiple First Language Acquisition: A Case for Autonomous Syntactic  
Development in the Simultaneous Acquisition of More Than One Language.”
Plenary address, Saturday, November 4 at 5:45 pm

Mabel Rice, University of Kansas
Helen Tager-Flusberg, Boston University
Simon Fisher, University of Oxford
Discussant: Gary Marcus, New York University
“Future Directions in Search of Genes that Influence Language:
Phenotypes, Molecules, Brains, and Growth.”
Lunchtime symposium, Saturday, November 4 at 12:00 pm

The Society for Language Development (SLD) will be holding its third  
annual symposium on “Learning Verbs” on Thursday, November 2, in  
conjunction with the BUCLD meeting. BUCLD 31 is offering online pre- 
registration and on-site registration for this event.

Speakers: Lila Gleitman, Cynthia Fisher,Adele Goldberg, and Dedre  
Gentner.
More information on the SLD symposium can be found at:
http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/sld/symposium.html

BUCLD and SLD pre-registration information is available at:
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/prereg.htm

The full conference schedule is available at:
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/schedule.htm

More information about BUCLD is available at our website:
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD

We look forward to seeing you at BUCLD 31.

Sincerely,
Heather Caunt-Nulton, Samantha Kulatilake, I-hao Woo
BUCLD 31 Co-organizers



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