Call for papers: Acquisition of Spanish (and other languages)--DEADLINE 1 MAY

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4th Conference on the
Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese
as First and Second Languages
together with the
5th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium

October 11, 12, 13 and 14, 2001
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Invited Speakers
Jos=E9 Igancio Hualde, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Susana L=F3pez-Ornat, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Conxita Lle=F3, Universit=E4t Hamburg
Diane Musumeci, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Carmen Silva-Corval=E1n, University of Southern California
Juan Uriagereka, University of Maryland
Lydia White, McGill University

For the Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese All
topics in the field of first, second, bilingual and impaired
acquisition of Spanish, Portuguese or other Iberian languages
(Catalan, Gallego, Basque, etc.) will be fully considered.

For the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium
All topics in Hispanic Linguistics from different theoretical perspectives
will be fully considered.
Submission Guidelines for the two Conferences
1.      Authors can submit two abstracts-one individual and one joint.
These can
be for one conference each or both for the same conference.
2.      Five (5) copies of an anonymous, clearly titled one-page abstract
(single-spaced with 1 inch margin throughout, Times New Roman, 12 point font)
for review. There can be an additional page for references.
3.      One (1) copy of the same abstract with name and institutional
affiliation to include in the conference program.
4.      For EACH author, an index card with the following information:
conference, title of paper, area or research, name, academic affiliation,
current/summer address, phone and fax number, e-mail, and audiovisual
requests.


Abstracts submitted must represent original research. Presentations will be
minutes long, plus 10 minutes for questions. All authors who present papers at
the conference will be invited to contribute their papers to a refereed
volume of selected papers.

Deadline:  All submissions must be received by May 1, 2001.
Send submissions to:  Silvina Montrul (for the Acquisition conference) and
Francisco Ord=F3=F1ez (for the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium), University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese,
4080 Foreign Languages Building, MC-176, 707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL
61801, USA.  e-mail: montrul at uiuc.edu and fordonez at uiuc.edu.
See our website http://www.sip.uiuc.edu/conf2001 for more details on topics
and other updates

Silvina Montrul
Assistant Professor of Spanish, Linguistics, and SLATE
Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4080 Foreign Languages Building, MC-176
707 S. Mathews Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801
USA

Phone: (217) 244-4090
Fax: (217) 244-8430
e-mail: montrul at uiuc.edu