Boston University Conference on Language Development call for papers

[Allen, Shanley]

CALL FOR PAPERS

THE 35th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
NOVEMBER 5-7, 2010

Keynote Speaker:
Rachel Mayberry, University of California at San Diego
"Nurture and biology in language acquisition:  What the hands say"

Plenary Speaker:
William Snyder, University of Connecticut
"Children's grammatical conservatism: Implications for syntactic
theory"

Lunch Symposium:
"The acquisition of number words: Integrating formal and developmental
perspectives"
Susan Carey, Harvard University
Justin Halberda, Johns Hopkins University
Jeff Lidz, University of Maryland
Julien Musolino, Rutgers University

Submissions that 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.

A suggested format and style for abstracts is available at:
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/BUCLD/template.html

We will begin accepting abstract submissions on April 15. Please check
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/BUCLD for a link to the submission form
and any important updates.

DEADLINE: All submissions must be received by 8:00 PM EST, May 15,
2010.

FURTHER INFORMATION

General conference information is available at:
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/BUCLD/

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

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

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