Child Language Research Form 2002

[Brian MacWhinney]

The next STANFORD CHILD LANGUAGE RESEARCH FORUM will take place on:

          April 12-14, 2002 (Friday-Sunday)

TOPIC: SPACE IN LANGUAGE - LOCATION, MOTION, PATH, AND MANNER

       How are these notions packaged?  What is easy vs. hard to acquire?
       What is the major order of acquisition by language type?  Are there
       differences between intransitive and caused motion?  Differences
       in comprehension and production?  Differences between oral and
       signed languages?  What range of spatial terms can be extended
       to time?  To other domains?  What crosslinguistic comparisons
       are available?  What interdisciplinary studies of language and
       spatial concepts?

The Organizing Committee for the Stanford Child Language Research Forum
has made several changes.  The current plan is to meet every couple of
years, instead of annually, and we decided to choose a specific topic
for each meeting, and therefore solicit papers and posters on that
topic only (but construed broadly).  Space in Language is the topic
for 2002.

Abstracts are DUE on or before January 1, 2002; submitters will be
informed of all decisions by February 15, 2002.

Format for abstracts: please submit 2 copies x one page half- or double-
spaced; do not include the author's name since abstracts are reviewed
anonymously.  Attach a separate 3x5 card with (a) author's name,
(b) affiliation and address, (c) email, (d) abstract-title.

Send abstracts to: CLRF-2002 Organizing Committee
                   Department of Linguistics
                   Margaret Jacks Hall
                   Stanford University
                   Stanford, CA 94305-2150, USA

Check the CLRF website for information about registration, hotels,
and any further announcements about the meeting,
                www-csli.stanford.edu/~clrf

P.S.  This URL is also bookmarked on the child language sites list on the
CHILDES pages