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THE 34th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
NOVEMBER 6-8, 2009

Keynote Address
“Developing Fluency in Understanding: How it matters”
Anne Fernald, Stanford University

Plenary Address
“Innate Syntax - Still the Best Hypothesis”
Virginia Valian, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center

Lunch Symposium
“Recent Advances in the Study of Production and Comprehension:  
Implications for Language Acquisition Research”
John Trueswell, University of Pennsylvania
Mike Tanenhaus, University of Rochester
Kay Bock, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Submissions which present research on any topic in the fields of  
first and second language acquisition from any theoretical  
perspectives will be fully considered, including 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.

ABSTRACTS

·      Abstracts must represent original, unpublished research.
·      Abstracts should be anonymous, clearly titled and no more than  
500 words in length. Please note the word count at the bottom of the  
abstract.
·      Detailed information regarding abstract format, content, and  
evaluation criteria can be found at our website: http://www.bu.edu/ 
linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

·      Abstracts may now be submitted using the form available at the  
conference website:
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/abstract.htm
·      This year we are enacting a new author policy: Although each  
author may submit as many abstracts as desired, we will accept for  
presentation a maximum of 1 first authored paper/poster.  There is no  
limit on the number of additional acceptances of papers/posters in  
any other authorship status.

DEADLINE

·      All submissions must be received by 8:00 PM EST, May 15,  
2009.  There will be no exceptions.

JEAN BERKO GLEASON AWARD

BUCLD is proud to introduce the Jean Berko Gleason Award for the best  
student
papers.  In honor of Jean Berko Gleason, Professor Emerita of  
Psychology at
Boston University, three awards will be given at the Plenary address  
on Saturday night.
All students who are first and presenting authors on a paper will be  
considered for the
award.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Questions about abstracts should be sent to abstract at bu.edu

Boston University Conference on Language Development
96 Cummington Street, Room 244
Boston, MA 02215
U.S.A.
Telephone: (617) 353-3085