BUCLD 30 - Call for Papers

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CALL FOR PAPERS

THE 30th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

NOVEMBER 4-6, 2005

Keynote Speaker: Janet Werker (University of British Columbia)
"Speech Perception and Language Acquisition: Comparing Monolingual and
Bilingual Infants"

Plenary Speaker: Harald Clahsen (University of Essex)
"Grammatical Processing in First and Second Language Learners"

Lunch Symposium: Jeff Elman (University of California at San Diego),
LouAnn Gerken (University of Arizona) and Mark Johnson (Brown
University)
"Statistical Learning in Language Development: What is it, What is its
Potential, and What are its Limitations?"



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All topics in the fields of first and second language acquisition from
all theoretical perspectives will be fully considered, including:

Bilingualism
Cognition & Language
Creoles & Pidgins
Discourse
Exceptional Language
Input & Interaction
Language Disorders
Linguistic Theory (Syntax, Semantics, Phonology, Morphology, Lexicon)
Literacy & Narrative
Neurolinguistics
Pragmatics
Pre-linguistic Development
Signed Languages
Sociolinguistics
Speech Perception & Production

Presentations will be 20 minutes long followed by a 10-minute question
period. Posters will be on display for a full day with two attended
sessions during the day.

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ABSTRACT FORMAT AND CONTENT

Abstracts submitted must represent original, unpublished research.

Abstracts should be anonymous, clearly titled and no more than 450
words in length. They should also fit on one page, with an optional
second page for references or figures if required. Abstracts longer
than 450 words will be rejected without being evaluated. Please note
the word count at the bottom of the abstract. Note that words counts
need not include the abstract title or the list of references. A
suggested format and style for abstracts is available at the conference
website: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/template.html

All abstracts must be submitted as PDF documents. Specific instructions
for how to create PDF documents are available at the website:
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/pdfinfo.html

If you encounter a problem creating a PDF file, please contact us for
further assistance.

Please use the first author's last name as the file name (eg.
Smith.pdf). No author information should appear anywhere in the
contents of the PDF file itself.

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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Electronic submission: To facilitate the abstract submission process,
abstracts will be submitted using the form available at the conference
website: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/abstract.htm

Specific instructions for abstract submission are available on this
website.

Abstracts will be accepted between March 15 and May 15.

Contact information for each author must be submitted via webform. No
author information should appear anywhere in the abstract PDF.

At the time of submission you will be asked whether you would like your
abstract to be considered for a poster, a paper, or both.

Although each author may submit as many abstracts as desired, we will
accept for presentation by each author: (a) a maximum of 1 first
authored paper/poster, and (b) a maximum of 2 papers/posters in any
authorship status. Note that no changes in authorship (including
deleting an author or changing author order) will be possible after the
review process is completed.

DEADLINE: All submissions must be received by 8:00 PM EST, May 15, 2005.

Late abstracts will not be considered, whatever the reason for the
delay.

We regret that we cannot accept abstract submissions by fax or email.
Submissions via surface mail will only be accepted in special
circumstances, on a case by case basis.

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ABSTRACT SELECTION

Each abstract is blind reviewed by 5 reviewers from a panel of
approximately 80 international scholars. Further information about the
review process is available at:
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/reviewprocess.html

Acknowledgment of receipt of the abstract will be sent by email as soon
as possible after receipt. Notice of acceptance or rejection will be
sent to first authors only, in early August, by email. Pre-registration
materials and preliminary schedule will be available in late August
2005.

If your abstract is accepted, you will need to submit a 150-word
abstract including title, author(s) and affiliation(s) for inclusion in
the conference handbook. Guidelines will be provided along with
notification of acceptance.

Abstracts accepted as papers will be invited for publication in the
BUCLD Proceedings. Abstracts accepted as posters will be invited for
publication online only, but not in the printed version.

All conference papers will be selected on the basis of abstracts
submitted. Although each abstract will be evaluated individually, we
will attempt to honor requests to schedule accepted papers together in
group sessions. No schedule changes will be possible once the schedule
is set. Scheduling requests for religious reasons only must be made
before the review process is complete (i.e. at the time of submission).
A space is provided on the abstract submission webform to specify such
requests.

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FURTHER INFORMATION

Information regarding the conference may be accessed at
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/

Boston University Conference on Language Development
96 Cummington Street, Room 244
Boston, MA 02215
U.S.A.

Telephone: (617) 353-3085
E-mail:

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