The Fifth Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences

[Hirohide Mori]

Dear Info-CHILDES,

The Fifth Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences
will be held in July 5-6, 2003 at Kobe University Rokkodai Campus,
Centennial Hall (Shindai Kaikan) and Takikawa Memorial Hall.

Plenary Speakers:
  Catherine E. Snow（Harvard Graduate School of Education）
    “Learning Words at Home and at School, in L1 and and L2”
  Masayoshi Shibatani（Rice University）
    “Form and Function in Functional Linguistics”

Invited Symposium:
  Discussant Catherine E. Snow（Harvard Graduate School of Education）
    “What Individuals Learn from Participation in Different Kinds of
    Social Structures: Multiparty Discourse, Peer Discourse"”

Twenty-seven papers and twenty posters will be presented at the conference.

Please visit our conference homepage for further details
 (http://cow.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/jsls/2003/conf-e.htm).


Tamiko Ogura, Conference Chair
Takashi Torigoe, Conference Coordinator
Hirohide Mori, Conference Public Relations Committee