Annual Review of Language Acquisition: EXTENDED DEADLINE

[Frank Wijnen]

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CALL FOR PAPERS

John Benjamins Publishing Company announces the start of a new yearly
publication

THE ANNUAL REVIEW OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
		
Editors
Lynn Santelmann, Portland State University
Maaike Verrips, Utrecht University
Frank Wijnen, Utrecht University


The Annual Review will be devoted to research in the domain of first
language acquisition, i.e., the process of acquiring command of a first
language. It will focus on research which has been reported in recently
defended PhD theses. The major share of contributions to the yearbook will
consist of 20-25 page (approximately) edited summaries of, or excerpts
from, dissertations addressing issues in first language acquisition. These
papers should be written by the original author of the dissertation,
conform to the format of a journal article, and thus be comprehensible
without reference to the source text.

The Annual Review will publish reports of original research pertaining to
various approaches to first language acquisition, be it experimental,
observational, computational, clinical or theoretical, provided that the
work is of high quality. The Annual Review also welcomes studies in which
first language acquisition is compared to L2 acquisition, as well as
studies on language acquisition under abnormal conditions. In all of the
areas covered, the Annual Review of Language Acquisition will be dedicated
to creative and groundbreaking research.

The yearbook, in its printed form, will be supplemented by an attractive
website. The website will give access to electronic copies the printed
papers, but, more importantly, it will present background materials such as
a resume of the author, excerpts of audio or video materials related to the
reported research, tips for further reading, and links to relevant websites.

Any student who has a dissertation completed in 1999 is invited to submit
a manuscript based on this work. In order to be eligible for publication,
the manuscript should be of outstanding quality. Particularly,
contributions are sought which excel with regard to the integration of
behavioral data and (psycho)linguistic theorizing. More specifically, the
Annual Review sollicits papers which 
· develop new theoretical ideas to account for a set of facts;
· open up a new empirical domain, e.g. explore a relatively unknown
  language, or apply a new or unknown experimental approach.
· report findings that are considered important for pertinent debates in
the field.

Next to these research reports, which will be subject to peer-review, each
issue of the Annual Review will contain one critical review of the
state-of-the-art in a subdomain of first language acquisition research.
This paper will be commissioned by the editors.

The extended deadline for submissions to the 1999 issue: April 15, 2000
Address for correspondence:		Editors of ARLA
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The editorial board of the Annual Review of Language Acquisition consists of:

Peter Culicover (The Ohio State University)
Katherine Demuth (Brown University)
Jeff Elman (UCSD)
LouAnn Gerken (University of Arizona)
Marco Haverkort (University Groningen)
Jack Hoeksema (Univerity of Groningen)
Angeliek van Hout (Utrecht University)
Nina Hyams (UCLA)
Clara C. Levelt (Free University Amsterdam)
Laurence B. Leonard (Purdue University)
Natascha Mueller (University of Hamburg)
Johanne Paradis (University of Alberta)
William Philip (Utrecht University)
Susan Powers (University of  Potsdam)
Thomas Roeper (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Petra Schulz (University of Konstanz)
Ann Senghas (Columbia University)
William B. Snyder (University of Connecticut)
Karin Stromswold (Rutgers University)
Jill de Villiers (Smith College)


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