Bilingual Acquisition Conference in Hong Kong 11-12 Dec 2008: Pre liminary Program and Extended Early-Bird Registration Deadline

[Angel Chan (LIN)]

Dear colleagues,

 

We're pleased to announce that the preliminary program of our conference on
"Bilingual Acquisition in Early Childhood", which will be held at the
Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) from Dec 11-12 2008, is now up on our
conference website:

 

http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/lin/conference/baec/

 

This conference aims to draw together researchers interested in the
linguistic development of children exposed to two or more languages in
childhood. The conference features (i) 4 keynote speeches by Johanne Paradis
(University of Alberta), William O'Grady (University of Hawai'i), Yasuhiro
Shirai (University of Pittsburgh) and Brian MacWhinney (Carnegie Mellon
University); (ii) a special workshop on "Methods for automatic computational
analysis of data on bilingual acquisition" organized by Brian MacWhinney
(Carnegie Mellon University); (iii) a special panel on "Childhood
multilingualism: international perspectives" which features five talks given
by Johanne Paradis, Annick De Houwer, Shyamala Chengappa, Madalena
Cruz-Ferreira, Bee Chin Ng and Virginia Yip, who will share their expertise
and perspectives on issues related to how children become bilingual and
multilingual in different parts of the world including Canada, Europe,
India, Singapore and Hong Kong; and (iv) 29 talks on various topics by
researchers from different parts of the world.

 

The early-bird registration deadline is also extended to Nov 10 2008. We
hope to see you at the conference!

 

Greetings from Hong Kong,

Angel Chan

Conference Organizing Committee

 

Angel Chan

Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre Manager

HYPERLINK "http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/lin/cbrc/"Childhood Bilingualism Research
Centre

Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages

The Chinese University of Hong Kong 

Mobile: (852) 9132 8401 

Tel: (852) 2609 7019 

Fax: (852) 2603 7755 

Homepage: HYPERLINK "http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/lin/people/angelchan/"
\nhttp://www.cuhk.edu.hk/lin/people/angelchan/

 


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