27.3397, Calls: Language Acquisitiion/Canada

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LINGUIST List: Vol-27-3397. Fri Aug 26 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.3397, Calls: Language Acquisitiion/Canada

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Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 10:26:51
From: Fangfang Li [fangfang.li at uleth.ca]
Subject: The 1st Annual Conference on Child Language Acquisition Research in Alberta

Full Title: The 1st Annual Conference on Child Language Acquisition Research in Alberta 
Short Title: CLARA 

Date: 24-Nov-2016 - 26-Nov-2016
Location: Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada 
Contact Person: Fangfang Li
Meeting Email: clara2016 at uleth.ca

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition 

Call Deadline: 16-Oct-2016 

Meeting Description:

The University of Lethbridge is proud to host the 1st Annual Conference on
Child Language Acquisition in Alberta (CLARA) on November 24-26, 2016. This
inaugural conference will serve to enhance the existing research network in
Alberta in the area of child language acquisition, as well as to promote an
extended research exchange and collaboration on a national and international
scale.

One unique feature of our conference is its strong community focus. To engage
with the community, we will offer a combination of interactive formats,
including keynote addresses, “lightning talks”, workshops, roundtable
discussions, and a poster session. “Lightning talks” is to take place on the
Friday evening, November 25, featuring a series of concise talks aiming to
deliver important messages to the general public. Each speaker will have 5
minutes of 10 auto-advanced slides to keep the level of interest up.  The
round table session consists of invited speakers with research expertise
covering theoretical, pedagogical, and clinical aspects of children’s first
and second language acquisition. The lightning talks and poster sessions are
open to submissions from all scholars and practitioners, and students are
emphatically invited to submit proposals. 

After the conference, the information we gather from the keynote lectures,
lightning talks, roundtable discussion, poster session and workshops will be
distributed among the community members, such as school teachers, parents, and
clinicians, through pamphlets and/or a Facebook page. The conference is funded
by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Counsel, the University of
Lethbridge, and the Hotchkiss Speaker fund.

Chair: Fangfang Li (Psychology), Email: fangfang.li at uleth.ca 
Co-chairs: Robbin Gibb (Neuroscience), Claudia Gonzalez (Kinesiology), Inge
Genee (Modern Languages), and Noella Piquette (Education). 
External co-chair: Karen Pollock (Communication Sciences and Disorders,
University of Alberta)

Conference contact email: clara2016 at uleth.ca

Call for Papers:

We now invite submissions for lightning talks and posters on all areas of
child language acquisition, including but not limited to:

- First and second language acquisition and education in phonetic,
phonological, lexical, syntactic, and pragmatic levels
- Assessment of reading and writing skills in first, second, or multilingual
environment
- The impact of new media on child language acquisition
- Language development in children from minority populations such as FNMI,
immigrants and refugees
- Language acquisition in clinical populations such as children with speech
and/or language disorders, dyslexia, and children with cochlear implants, etc
- Second language learning taking place in a school setting such as immersion
and foreign language classes
- The neurological, psychological, and physiological underpinnings of language
acquisition
- Cross-linguistic and cross-cultural comparison of children’s language
development profiles

(Graduate) students are especially encouraged to submit. Student poster awards
up to $300 will be available for competition. 

Abstract submission:

Abstract should be submitted electronically at
http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/ClaraOne2016.  Abstract should not exceed 300
words, excluding title and references. Please indicate whether you are a
student or not at the end of the abstract. All students will be automatically
considered for the poster award competition. 

Important Dates:

Deadline: Sunday, October 16, 2016
Notification of acceptance: Friday, October 21, 2016

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