26.1470, Calls: General Ling; Lang Acquisition, Neuroling; Psycholing/France

Tue Mar 17 23:47:39 UTC 2015

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Subject: 26.1470, Calls: General Ling; Lang Acquisition, Neuroling; Psycholing/France

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Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 19:47:11
From: Oana Lungu [oanalungu82 at yahoo.fr]
Subject: 12th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition Conference

Full Title: 12th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition Conference 
Short Title: GALA 2015 

Date: 10-Sep-2015 - 12-Sep-2015
Location: Nantes, France 
Contact Person: Hamida Demirdache
Meeting Email: gala2015 at univ-nantes.fr
Web Site: http://www.gala2015.univ-nantes.fr 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2015 

Meeting Description:

The Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes (LLING) is pleased to announce the 12th 
Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition conference (GALA 12) to be held at the 
University of Nantes, Nantes (France) on September 10-12, 2015.

GALA 2015 will include, in addition to the Main session, four Workshops:

Workshop 1:

Heritage Language Acquisition
Native vs. Heritage vs. Second Language Acquisition
(co-organized with Janet Grijzenhout, BSL, University of Konstanz)

Invited Speakers:

Elabbas Benmamoun (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Maria Polinsky (Harvard University)

Workshop 2:

The Role of Prosody in Early Speech Perception
(Co-organized with Judit Gervain, LPP - UMR 8242, CNRS/Paris V)

Invited Speaker:

Marina Nespor (SISSA)

Workshop 3:

Acquisition of Causation: Culmination Entailments and Agency
(Co-organized with Fabienne Martin, University of Stuttgart)

Invited Speakers:

Angeliek van Hout (University of Groningen)
Nina Kazanina (University of Bristol)

Workshop 4:

Segments & Interactions in Phonological Acquisition

Invited Speaker:

Eirini Sanoudaki (Bangor University)

GALA 12 Organizers:

Jiyoung Choi
Hamida Demirdache
Natasa Knezevic
Oana Lungu
Typhanie Prince
Ali Tifrit
Laurence Voeltzel

For further information, please email us at: gala2015 at univ-nantes.fr

2nd Call for Papers: 

We invite abstract submissions for 30 minute oral presentations (including 10 minutes for 
discussion) or posters of original, unpublished work on all subfields of generative 
language acquisition: L1 acquisition, L2 acquisition, bilingualism, heritage language 
acquisition, language pathology, sign language, etc. 

Abstracts should not exceed one page in letter-size or A4 paper, with one extra page for 
examples, tables, figures and references, with 1 inch or 2.5 cm margins on all sides and 12 
point font size. The abstract should have a clear title and should not reveal the name of the 
author(s). The abstracts must be uploaded as PDF attachments to the EasyChair site. 
Submissions are limited to one individual and one joint abstract per author, or two joint 
abstracts per author. 

When you submit your abstract on the EasyChair site, you will be asked to provide a short 
summary of the abstract. Upon submission, please indicate whether your work should be 
considered for an oral presentation (Main Session or one of the Workshops) or for a poster 
(or both). Submitting the same abstract to both the Main Session and to one of the 
Workshops is not allowed.

To submit an abstract, please go to the following EasyChair page:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gala2015

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