Second call for papers: Xth IASCL Congress

[Natalia Gagarina]

Second call for papers

Xth International Congress of the
International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL)
July 25- 29, 2005
Berlin

Meeting URL: http://www.ctw-congress.de/iascl/
Meeting Email: mail at ctw-congress.de

The Xth International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL)
is hosted by the Free University in Berlin, in cooperation with the
Humboldt University, the University of Potsdam and the Centre for
General Linguistics, Typology and Universals Research (ZAS).

The special emphasis topic of the meeting is on "Crosslinguistic and
intercultural aspects of unimpaired and impaired language acquisition: A
window on universal and language particular learning mechanisms".

Specific Topic Areas within the Special Emphasis Topic:
• Methods of crosslinguistic and intercultural research in language
development
• Conceptual and lexical development
• Bootstrapping mechanisms
• Models of learning
• Interaction between morphosyntactic and lexical development
• The neurocognitive basis of language learning
• Genetic aspects of language acquisition
• Language acquisition in children with genetic syndromes
• Origins of specific language disorders
• Bilingual acquisition
• Similarities and differences between the acquisition of sign language
and spoken language
• The acquisition of Pidgins and Creoles

Plenary Speakers
Jeffrey Elman, Dept. of Cognitive Science, University of California, San
Diego
Angela Friederici, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
Ray Jackendoff, Linguistics, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.
Elizabeth Spelke, Dept. of Psychology, Harvard University
Joan Bybee, Dept. of Linguistics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Deadline for submission of abstracts: November 15, 2004

Abstracts for papers and poster should provide basic information about
he leading question, the data, the methods, and the results of the
presentation. The abstracts are limited to 500 words.
Abstracts for symposia should briefly describe the question and specific
aim of the symposium, list name, affiliation of the contributors and
should include a brief abstract of each contribution. The symposium
abstracts should not exceed 1200 words.
For presentation by each submitter a maximum of 1 first authored
paper/poster and a maximum of 2 papers/posters in any other autorship
status will be accepted.

If you intend to submit an abstract (English Language), please
exclusively use the internet abstract form
(http://www.ctw-congress.de/iascl/papers.html). Abstracts submitted by
fax, mail or e-mail are not accepted.

Please consider the following dates:

Deadline for submission of abstracts: November 15, 2004
Notification of acceptance: January 20, 2005
Deadline for early registration: March 31, 2005