Call for papers: 6th International Conference on Language Acquisition, Barcelona, September 8-10, 2010

[aurora.bel at upf.edu]

Dear Info-CHILDES members,

The  6th International Conference on Language Acquisition will take
place from 8-10 September  2010 at the University of Barcelona (Spain)
under the auspicies of AEAL (Asociación para el Estudio de la
Adquisición del Lenguaje, ‘Association for the Study of Language
Acquisition’). The Conference provides a forum to disseminate
research  and to become acquainted with new research developments in
the domain of language acquisition. AEAL is pleased to invite you to
participate in this conference with proposal for posters, individual
papers or symposia on any topic in the areas of Language Acquisition.

The conference is organized by the GRERLI Research Group at the
University of Barcelona and the ALLENCAM Research Group at the Pompeu
Fabra University.

Submissions will consist of an abstract no more than 500 words in
length of original, unpublished research. Abstracts should be
submitted using the online submission system. Detailed information
regarding abstract format, content, and evaluation criteria can be
found at http://stel.ub.edu/cial2010 after October 26.

Abstracts in the following areas are welcomed:
--Early language acquisition, including speech perception, preverbal
communication, phonological, morphological, syntactic, lexical-
semantic or pragmatic development in monolingual, bilingual or
multilingual children, in first, second or foreign language
acquisition.
--Later language acquisition (beyond age 5), including spoken, written
or signed discourse, reading and writing; figurative uses of language,
phonological, morphological, syntactic, lexical-semantic or pragmatic
development in monolingual, bilingual or multilingual children, in
first, second or foreign language acquisition.
--Language acquisition in atypical population, language disorders and /
or disorders in spoken, written or signed communication.
--Tools for studying language, including contributions that highlight
methodological issues such as sampling, data analysis, innovative
statistical techniques, intervention studies.
--Perspectives on Language acquisition, including contributions
discussing epistemological basis of language research, explicative
models of development, cross linguistic perspectives.

Important dates:
--Abstract submission deadline: February 15, 2010
--Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2010
--Payment by at least one of the presenters: May 30, 2010
--Publication of Congress Program: July 15, 2010
--Tutorials: September 7, 2010
--Conference: September 8-10, 2010

The conference organizers,

Liliana Tolchinsky (ltolchinsky at ub.edu)
Aurora Bel (aurora.bel at upf.edu)

Conference website: http://stel.ub.edu/cial2010

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