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<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">CALL FOR PAPERS<br>
<br>
THE 34th ANNUAL BOSTON
UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT<br>
NOVEMBER 6-8, 2009<br>
<br>
<i style="">Keynote Address</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Developing Fluency in Understanding: How it matters”<br>
Anne Fernald, Stanford
University <br>
<br>
<i style="">Plenary Address</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">“Innate Syntax - Still the Best
Hypothesis”</span><br>
Virginia Valian, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate
Center</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><i style="">Lunch Symposium</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Recent Advances in the Study of Production and
Comprehension: Implications for Language Acquisition Research”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">John Trueswell, University
of Pennsylvania</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mike Tanenhaus, University
of Rochester</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kay Bock, University
of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br>
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,<span style=""> </span>Reading and Literacy, Signed Languages,
Sociolinguistics, and Speech Perception & Production.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;">ABSTRACTS</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">¡P<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span>Abstracts must represent original, unpublished
research.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">¡P<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span>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. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">¡P<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span>Detailed information regarding abstract format,
content, and evaluation criteria can be found at our website: <a href="http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/">http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br>
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">¡P<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span>Abstracts must be submitted using the form
available at the conference website: <br>
<a href="http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/abstract.htm" target="_blank">http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/abstract.htm</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">¡P<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span>This year we are enacting a <b style="">new author policy: </b>Although each author may submit as many
abstracts as desired, we will accept for presentation a maximum of 1 first
authored paper/poster.<span style=""> </span>There is no limit
on the number of additional acceptances of papers/posters in any other
authorship status. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br>
DEADLINE<br style="">
<br style="">
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">¡P<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span>All submissions must be received by <b style=""><u>8:00 PM EST, May 15, 2009</u></b>.<span style=""> </span>There will be no exceptions.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="">JEAN BERKO GLEASON AWARD</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;">BUCLD is proud
to introduce the Jean Berko Gleason Award for the best student</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;">papers.<span style=""> </span>In honor of Jean Berko Gleason, Professor
Emerita of Psychology at</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;">Boston University,
three awards will be given at the Plenary address on Saturday night.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;">All students
who are first and presenting authors on a paper will be considered for the</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;">award. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 9pt; text-indent: -9pt;">FURTHER INFORMATION</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="">Questions about abstracts should
be sent to <a href="abstracts@bu.edu">abstract@bu.edu</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Boston University Conference on Language Development<br>
96 Cummington Street,
Room 244<br>
Boston, MA
02215<br>
U.S.A.<br>
Telephone: (617) 353-3085<br style="">
<br style="">
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