Reminder: Deadline for BUCLD Submissions - Friday May 15

[Leher Singh]

CALL FOR PAPERS

THE 34th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
NOVEMBER 6-8, 2009

*Keynote Address*

“Developing Fluency in Understanding: How it matters”
Anne Fernald, Stanford University

*Plenary Address*

“Innate Syntax - Still the Best Hypothesis”
Virginia Valian, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center



*Lunch Symposium*

“Recent Advances in the Study of Production and Comprehension: Implications
for Language Acquisition Research”

John Trueswell, University of Pennsylvania

Mike Tanenhaus, University of Rochester

Kay Bock, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


Submissions which present research on any topic in the fields of first and
second language acquisition from any theoretical perspectives will be fully
considered, including Bilingualism, Cognition & Language, Creoles & Pidgins,
Dialects, Discourse and Narrative, Gesture, Hearing Impairment and Deafness,
Input & Interaction, Language Disorders, Linguistic Theory,
Neurolinguistics, Pragmatics, Pre-linguistic Development,  Reading and
Literacy, Signed Languages, Sociolinguistics, and Speech Perception &
Production.



ABSTRACTS



·        Abstracts must represent original, unpublished research.

·        Abstracts should be anonymous, clearly titled and no more than 500
words in length. Please note the word count at the bottom of the abstract.

·        Detailed information regarding abstract format, content, and
evaluation criteria can be found at our website:
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS



·        Abstracts must be submitted using the form available at the
conference website:
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/abstract.htm

·        This year we are enacting a *new author policy: *Although each
author may submit as many abstracts as desired, we will accept for
presentation a maximum of 1 first authored paper/poster.  There is no limit
on the number of additional acceptances of papers/posters in any other
authorship status.


DEADLINE

 ·        All submissions must be received by *8:00 PM EST, May 15,
2009*.  There
will be no exceptions.



JEAN BERKO GLEASON AWARD



BUCLD is proud to introduce the Jean Berko Gleason Award for the best
student

papers.  In honor of Jean Berko Gleason, Professor Emerita of Psychology at

Boston University, three awards will be given at the Plenary address on
Saturday night.

All students who are first and presenting authors on a paper will be
considered for the

award.



FURTHER INFORMATION



Questions about abstracts should be sent to abstract at bu.edu<abstracts at bu.edu>



Boston University Conference on Language Development
96 Cummington Street, Room 244
Boston, MA 02215
U.S.A.
Telephone: (617) 353-3085

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