9.256, Calls: Child language, Applied linguistics, GASLA 98
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Subject: 9.256, Calls: Child language, Applied linguistics, GASLA 98
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Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 16:45:23 +0000
From: M.Perkins at sheffield.ac.uk (Mick Perkins)
Subject: Child Language Seminar
2)
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 14:06:09 -0500 (EST)
From: Jersy Kowal <jkowal at chass.utoronto.ca>
Subject: Applied Spanish Linguistics
3)
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 16:09:49 -0500 (EST)
From: GASLA 98 <gasla at verb.linguist.pitt.edu>
Subject: Generative Approaches to SLA IV
-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 16:45:23 +0000
From: M.Perkins at sheffield.ac.uk (Mick Perkins)
Subject: Child Language Seminar
CHILD LANGUAGE SEMINAR
1998
4-6 September 1998
SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
The 1998 Child Language Seminar will be hosted by the Department of Human
Communication Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK. Proposals are invited
for papers of 30 minutes duration and for posters (which we would
particularly like to encourage) on issues related to first language
acquisition and language disorders in children.
*KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
LARRY LEONARD (Purdue University, USA)
JOHN LOCKE (University of Sheffield, UK)
*CONFERENCE LOCATION
The conference will be held at Halifax Hall at the University of Sheffield.
Halifax Hall is centred around a Sheffield steel baron's house, dating back
to 1830 and set in extensive grounds just a few minutes' drive from the
Peak District National Park. Modem facilities are available in delegates'
rooms.
*DISCUSSION PANEL ON SLI
One special feature this year will be a discussion panel on the afternoon
of Saturday 5 September which will address the significance of research
into Specific Language Impairment (SLI) for our understanding of normal
language acquisition. Panel members will include:
Prof. Larry Leonard (Purdue University) (author of Children with Specific
Language Impairments MIT Press, 1998)
Prof. Gina Conti-Ramsden (Manchester University)
Dr. Heather van der Lely (Birkbeck College, London)
*PUBLICATION OF PROCEEDINGS
Selected papers and posters will be published in the conference proceedings.
*HOW TO SUBMIT ABSTRACTS
Abstracts should be up to 250 words in length (excluding references) and
may be submitted preferably by e-mail or e-mail attachment, or by mail or
Fax. If you submit hard copy, please also send a copy on disk (all formats
acceptable but indicate on the disk label which format and WP program you
have used). Submissions should be received by 1 May 1998. At the top of the
abstract please include Name(s) of Author(s), Institutional Affiliation,
Full Address, E-Mail Address, Telephone and Fax Numbers, Paper or Poster,
Equipment Requirements. Please leave several lines between this information
and the title and body of the abstract so that the header information can
be removed for anonymous review. We will inform you by 15 June whether your
abstract has been accepted.
*SEND YOUR ABSTRACT TO:
Mrs Pat Millington
CLS Secretary
Department of Human Communication Sciences
University of Sheffield
Sheffield S10 2TA
UK
e-mail: p.millington at sheffield.ac.uk
Fax: (+44) (0)114-279-9473
Tel: (+44) (0)114-222-2402
*CONFERENCE WEBSITE
Programme details and other relevant information will be continually
updated and posted on our conference website:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/R-Z/spsu/conf.html
*FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
THE CONFERENCE SECRETARY:
Pat Millington (details above) or:
THE CONFERENCE ORGANISERS:
Mick Perkins
e-mail: m.perkins at sheffield.ac.uk
Tel: (+44) (0)114-222-2408
Fax: (+44) (0)114-273-0547
Sara Howard
e-mail: s.howard at sheffield.ac.uk
Tel: (+44) (0)114-222-2448
Fax: (+44) (0)114-273-0547
-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 14:06:09 -0500 (EST)
From: Jersy Kowal <jkowal at chass.utoronto.ca>
Subject: Applied Spanish Linguistics
Asociacion Canadiense de Hispanistas
XXXIV Congreso
Universidad de Ottawa
27-28-29 y 30 de mayo de 1998
PROPUESTAS DE PONENCIA
SESION ESPECIAL
"Las nuevas tecnologias y la ensenaza del espanol"
Esta sesion abarcar\225 diversos aspectos de la ensenanza del espanol con
nuevas tecnologias. Se examinar\225 las varias posibilidades que ofrecen hoy
los programas de computadora, CDRoms, multimedia y el internet para la
ensenanza del idioma espanol. Se invita a los participantes de compatir
con los especialistas de idioma las experciencias en la creacion de los
documentos did\225cticos para el internet. La sesion se terminar\225 con la
discusion sobra la posible colaboracion interuniversitaria en la
preparacion y el desarrollo de un curso de espanol para la urdimbre
mundial (word wide web). Enviar resumen a:
Jerzy Kowal
Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON M5S 1A1
Tel: (416) 944-3964
Fax: (416) 971-2061
email: jkowal at chass.utoronto.ca
-------------------------------- Message 3 -------------------------------
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 16:09:49 -0500 (EST)
From: GASLA 98 <gasla at verb.linguist.pitt.edu>
Subject: Generative Approaches to SLA IV
CALL FOR PAPERS
University of Pittsburgh Department of Linguistics
and
Carnegie Mellon University Department of Modern Languages
The Fourth International Conference on:
GENERATIVE APPROACHES TO SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION:
GASLA IV
September 25-26-27, 1998
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Confirmed Invited speakers:
\165 Lydia White, McGill University
\165 Usha Laksmanan, Southern Illinois University
\165 Peter Gordon, University of Pittsburgh
Unpublished papers in generative approaches to SLA are welcome,
including interdisciplinary links with:
Second language sentence/input processing
Neuroimaging and second language acquisition
Links between language change, language contact, and SLA
Links between generative approaches to SLA and social/cognitive
factors affecting SLA
Please send 5 copies of an anonymous abstract (single-spaced, 2 pages
maximum including examples and references) and a 3 x 5 index card with
name(s) of author(s), title of paper, affiliation, phone number, and
e-mail address to:
GASLA IV
2816 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA
NO E-Mail SUBMISSIONS, PLEASE
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: May 31, 1998
Deadline for Pre-Registration: September 5, 1998
GASLA IV
September 25-27th 1998
hosted by
The University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University
http://verb.linguist.pitt.edu/~gasla/
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