7.601, Calls: GALA 97 (Lg Acq), ESCOL 96

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Subject: 7.601, Calls: GALA 97 (Lg Acq), ESCOL 96

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Date:  Tue, 23 Apr 1996 16:04:31 BST
From:  heycock at ling.ed.ac.uk (Caroline Heycock)
Subject:  1st call for papers: GALA 97 (Language Acquisition)

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Date:  Tue, 23 Apr 1996 19:43:47 -0300
From:  MOTA at admin1.csd.unbsj.ca ("VIRGINIA MOTAPANYANE")
Subject:        escol 96 & workshop on romanian

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Date:  Tue, 23 Apr 1996 16:04:31 BST
From:  heycock at ling.ed.ac.uk (Caroline Heycock)
Subject:  1st call for papers: GALA 97 (Language Acquisition)

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                   First call for papers/posters

                       GALA '97 in Edinburgh
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			International Conference
				   on
      Language Acquisition: Knowledge Representation and Processing
			       GALA '97

			  4th - 6th April 1997
			 University of Edinburgh

		       ---- Plenary speakers ----
			    Melissa Bowerman
			       Nina Hyams
			     Peter Jusczyk
			     Steven Pinker
			     Andrew Radford
			   Bonnie D. Schwartz
			     Paul Smolensky

This, the third of the GALA conferences on Language Acquisition, will
be held at the University of Edinburgh in 1997. Building on the
success of its predecessors (Groningen 1995, Durham 1993), this
conference aims to encourage a spirit of dialogue between
linguistically-oriented and psychologically-oriented researchers.

Abstracts of 20-minute papers, or posters, are invited on any aspect of
first or second language acquisition including:

				     syntax
				     phonetics and phonology
				     morphology
				     semantics
				     cognitive modelling
				     psycholinguistics

Send (a) three anonymous, hard-copy, one-page abstracts, (b) one
camera-ready copy with name and affiliation, (c) a separate sheet with
your postal address, telephone and fax numbers, and email address to:

			GALA '97
			HCRC, University of Edinburgh 	
			2 Buccleuch Place
			Edinburgh EH8 9LW
			Scotland

State your preference for an oral or a poster presentation.
No email or fax submissions will be accepted.
Deadline for receipt of abstracts: 15th October, 1996.
Notification of acceptance will be sent in December, 1996.
Papers and posters will be eligible for publication in a reviewed volume.

Address for email correspondence: gala97 at ling.ed.ac.uk
For further information, and for the preferred form of the abstracts, see:
http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/gala/

(N.B. GALA '97 is adjacent to the Linguistics Association of Great
Britain (LAGB) annual conference, also in Edinburgh, April 7th-9th,
1997. See http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/LAGB )

Organisers: Antonella Sorace (Applied Linguistics), Caroline Heycock
(Linguistics), Richard Shillcock (Cognitive Science).

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Date:  Tue, 23 Apr 1996 19:43:47 -0300
From:  MOTA at admin1.csd.unbsj.ca ("VIRGINIA MOTAPANYANE")
Subject:        escol 96 & workshop on romanian

CALL  FOR  PAPERS

Eastern States Conference on Linguistics (ESCOL '96)

Place:    University of New Brunswick
          Saint John, New Brunswick

Date:          August 31 - September 2, 1996

Invited speakers:
          Mark Baker (McGill University)
          Donka Farkas (University of California at Santa Cruz)
          Brian Joseph (Ohio State University)
          Keren Rice (University of Toronto)

Conference theme:
          Current Issues in the Semantics of Noun Phrases

Deadline for submitting abstracts:
          May 15, 1996

Abstracts of 20 minutes papers in all areas of formal linguistics
are solicited. Please indicate "theme" at the beginning of your
abstract if applicable.
Submit 10 copies of an anonymous 500 word abstract along with a 3x5
card. An additional page may contain examples and references. The
card should contain the following information: title of the paper,
name of author(s), address/affiliation, phone number, e-mail
address.

Send the abstracts to the following address:
     Virginia Motapanyane
     Humanities and Languages
     P.O.Box 5050
     University of New Brunswick
     Saint John, NB
     Canada E2L 4L5

Information on registration and housing will be available in June.
For information, contact mota at unbsj.ca , phone (506) 648-5645, fax
(506) 648-5611.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

WORKSHOP ON COMPARATIVE ISSUES IN ROMANIAN SYNTAX

Place: University of New Brunswick - Saint John
Date : 30 August 1996
 (the workshop precedes ESCOL 96, to be held at the same location)

Papers approaching Romanian syntax from a comparative perspective
are solicited. Send abstracts (1 page, including name and
affiliation) through e-mail or snail-mail to:

Virginia Motapanyane
University of New Brunswick
P.O.Box 5050
Saint John, NB
Canada E2L 4L5
mota at unbsj.ca

Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 1996
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