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Final Call for Papers - 30th Anniversary of the Child Language
Seminar<br>
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Child Language Seminar<br>
18-20 July 2007<br>
University of Reading, England<br><br>
Submission deadline is 1 March 2007<br>
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We are pleased to announce that in 2007 the Child Language Seminar will
take place from 18-20 July 2007 at the University of Reading. It will be
hosted by the School of Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences and
is being organised by Theo Marinis & Vesna Stojanovik (Department of
Clinical Language Sciences), Carmel Houston-Price & Graham Schafer
(Department of Psychology), and Brian Richards (Institute of
Education).<br>
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<b>NEW INFORMATION - Keynote presentations<br>
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To mark the 30th Anniversary of the CLS, this year <b>we have added a
half-day (18 July) with two thematic sessions</b>, while keeping the
remaining two days (19-20 July) open to all avenues of<b> </b>research on
child language development. The thematic sessions will be <b>on topics
related to the keynote presentations</b>. The exact topics of the
thematic sessions will be decided on the basis of the abstracts we will
receive.<br><br>
<b>Keynote presentations: <br><br>
Anne Baker & Jan de Jong: <i>The nature of bilingual Specific
Language Impairment<br>
</i></b>Department of Language and Literature<br>
Universiteit van Amsterdam<br><br>
<b>Dorothy Bishop: <i>Unraveling causal links between deficits in
children with language disorders<br>
</i></b>Department of Experimental Psychology<br>
University of Oxford<br><br>
<b>Philip Dale: <i>What genetics can offer the study of language
acquisition … and what it can’t<br>
</i></b>Department of Speech & Hearing Sciences<br>
The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque<br><br>
<b>Catherine Snow: <i>Teaching all-purpose academic vocabulary to
middle-grade students: Wielding a subtle school-reform lever<br>
</i></b>Harvard Graduate School of Education<br>
Harvard University<br>
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More information about the conference may be found at:<br>
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<b><a href="http://www.reading.ac.uk/cls/cls2007.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.reading.ac.uk/cls/cls2007.html<br>
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Details for submission of abstracts<b> </b>may be found at:<br>
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<a href="http://www.reading.ac.uk/cls/abstract.html">
http://www.reading.ac.uk/cls/abstract.html</a><br><br>
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