(Fwd) Ecology ...

[Chris Sinha]

Dear Colleague,

An international research workshop on
	ECOLOGY OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
is being held at the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
from 11 to 15 January.

This workshop re-examines certain assumptions implicit in
much language acquisition research to date, such as the primacy
of the one-speaker-one-hearer interaction; a static interpretation
of 'context' and participant roles; and the presupposition of
a monolingual/monocultural social matrix. From 8 January the
programme will be posted on the workshop web site:

             http://www.hum.uva.nl/~ecolang

Provision has been made for remote partial participation in the
workshop. Remote participants will be able to:
  - read the abstracts of the formal presentations and the
    input notes for the round table discussions;
  - contribute (by e-mail) comments, queries and suggestions
    relating to both the presentations and the round table discussions;
  - read selected contributions from other remote participants
    posted on a virtual notice board;
With the necessary technical provisions (i.e. a 'real audio client', and
standard sound hardware), remote participants will also be able to
access a continuous real-time audio output of the workshop proceedings.
A suitable real audio client program can be downloaded from the
workshop web site, with instructions.  For remote participants who are
also have a real audio server, it should be possible to join in the
discussion at certain scheduled times.

If you would like to register as a remote participant, please send an
e-mail inquiry (with "remote participation" in the subject line) stating
your full name, affiliation and research interests to:

	            	ecolang at hum.uva.nl

Sincerely,
Jet van Dam, Jonathan Leather
Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam
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