Final Call for Papers: Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition - North America 6

[Rachel Dudley]

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS -- Abstracts due *October 6th, 2014 by 5pm EDT*


Abstract submissions are welcomed for the 6th biannual conference on
Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition - North America (GALANA 6).
GALANA 6 will take place at the University of Maryland campus in College
Park, MD on February 19-21, 2015.  this conference aims to provide an
outlet for cutting edge work on language acquisition, relating results in
first and second language acquisition to detailed hypotheses about
developing grammatical representations, the mechanisms by which these
representations are acquired, and the information processing mechanisms
through which these representations are engaged in real time language use
by first and second language learners. Invited speakers include Liliana
Sanchez (Rutgers) and Antonella Sorace (Edinburgh, Bilingualism Matters).
For the general session, abstracts are invited for original, unpublished
generative research in all acquisition subfields: L1 acquisition, L2
acquisition, bilingualism, creoles and pidgins, and language disorders.

In addition to the general session, there will be a special session
entitled "Learning in generative grammar: 50 years since the Evaluation
Metric". It has been 50 years since the publication of Aspects of the
Theory of Syntax, which first introduced the idea of an evaluation metric
as a way for learners to choose between alternative grammars that were
compatible with their exposure.  In the intervening years, conceptions of
Universal Grammar (UG) have changed, and our understanding of children's
grammatical knowledge at various ages has similarly advanced, but theories
of how children use UG to interpret the data and how they use the data to
select a grammar from UG have not been at center stage. In recent years,
however, there has been a steady increase in work returning to this
question, asking how different models (including rules learning, parameter
setting, constraint ranking) of UG might help learners to use the input
effectively to acquire a grammatical system. Invited speakers for this
special session include Janet Fodor (CUNY Graduate Center), Lisa Pearl (UC
Irvine), Bruce Tesar (Rutgers), and Charles Yang (UPenn). We also invite
abstract submissions for several additional talks that address the question
of how a given grammatical formalism or set of grammatical principles helps
to solve particular learnability problems in linguistics.

Abstract submissions should be anonymous and should be uploaded as .pdf
attachments to the EasyChair site (not typed into the text box).
Submissions should fit on one page with 1" margins and 12-point font, with
an extra page allowed for examples, tables, figures and references.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Submissions due: October 6th, 2014 at 5pm EDT
Notifications by: November 21, 2014

IMPORTANT WEBSITES:
GALANA 6: https://sites.google.com/site/2015galana/
EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=galana6

GALANA 6 Organizing Committee
galana2015organizers at gmail.com



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Sincerely,
Rachel Dudley
PhD Candidate, Department of Linguistics
University of Maryland
On behalf of the GALANA 6 Organizing Committee

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