CFP: Boston University Conference on Language Development

[Harold Schiffman]

 Forwarded From:  edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu


Call for Papers


THE 34th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT



NOVEMBER 6-8, 2009

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,  Reading and Literacy, Signed Languages,
Sociolinguistics, and Speech Perception & Production.



ABSTRACTS

Abstracts must represent original, unpublished research.

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.

Detailed information regarding abstract format, content, and
evaluation criteria can be found at our website:
<http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/> TBA


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Abstracts must be submitted using the form available at the conference
website: TBA

The submission period will begin on April 1st.

This year we are enacting a new author policy: Although each author
may submit as many abstracts as desired, we will accept for
presentation a maximum of 1 first authored paper/poster.  There is no
limit on the number of additional acceptances of papers/posters in any
other authorship status.


DEADLINE

All submissions must be received by 8:00 PM EST, May 15, 2009.  There
will be no exceptions.



JEAN BERKO GLEASON AWARD

BUCLD is proud to introduce the Jean Berko Gleason Award for the best
student papers.  In honor of Jean Berko Gleason, Professor Emerita of
Psychology at Boston University, three awards will be given at the
Plenary address on Saturday night. All students who are first and
presenting authors on a paper will be considered for the award.



FURTHER INFORMATION

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

Boston University Conference on Language Development
96 Cummington Street, Room 244
Boston, MA 02215

U.S.A.
Telephone: (617) 353-3085

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 Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone:  (215) 898-7475
Fax:  (215) 573-2138

Email:  haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/

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