BUCLD 30 Lunch Symposium

[BUCLD]

The Boston University Conference on Language Development is pleased to
announce the topic of the lunch symposium for BUCLD 30 (November 4-6 at
Boston University):

"Statistical Learning in Language Development: What is it, What is its
Potential, and What are its Limitations?"

The symposium speakers will be Jeff Elman (University of California at
San Diego), LouAnn Gerken (University of Arizona) and Mark Johnson
(Brown University).

The conference will also include a keynote address by Janet Werker
("Speech Perception and Language Acquisition: Comparing Monolingual and
Bilingual Infants") and a plenary talk by Harald Clahsen ("Grammatical
Processing in First and Second Language Learners").

Further information is available on the BUCLD website (
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD ).  The call for papers
(deadline May 15) can be found at <
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/callforpapers.htm >.