27.468, Calls: Lang Acq/USA

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Subject: 27.468, Calls: Lang Acq/USA

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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 10:30:13
From: Tania Ionin [tionin at illinois.edu]
Subject: The 7th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition - North America

 
Full Title: The 7th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition - North America 
Short Title: GALANA-7 

Date: 08-Sep-2016 - 10-Sep-2016
Location: Urbana, IL, USA 
Contact Person: Tania Ionin
Meeting Email: galana7.2016 at gmail.com
Web Site: https://publish.illinois.edu/galana2016/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition 

Call Deadline: 10-Feb-2016 

Meeting Description:

Please save the date! The 7th biennial conference on Generative Approaches to
Language Acquisition - North America (GALANA 7) will take place at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on 8-10 September 2016. 

The GALANA conference features theoretically informed research on all types of
language acquisition scenarios, including (but not limited to) monolingual
first language acquisition, bilingual/multilingual first language acquisition,
second language acquisition by children as well as adults, third language
acquisition, acquisition of signed as well as spoken languages, language
disorders, language acquisition in the presence of cognitive impairment and
autism, and the development of pidgins and creoles. GALANA-7 will include a
special session on ''Input Variation and Language Acquisition.''

The invited speakers for the main session are Cynthia Fisher (University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Roumyana Slabakova (University of Southampton),
and Virginia Valian (Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center).

The invited speakers for the special session on Input Variation and Language
Acquisition are Karen Miller (Pennsylvania State University) and Janna Oetting
(Louisiana State University).


Final Call for Papers:

GALANA-7 invites abstracts of no more than 500 words (with an optional second
page for examples, figures and references) for double-blind peer review.

The deadline for submitting abstracts is 10 February 2016.

Guidelines and instructions about abstract submission can be found at
https://publish.illinois.edu/galana2016/abstract-guidelines-and-submission/

For the general session, abstracts are invited for original, unpublished
generative research in all acquisition subfields: L1 acquisition, L2
acquisition, L3 acquisition, bilingualism, multilingualism, creoles and
pidgins, and language disorders.

Abstracts are also invited for a special session on Input Variation and
Language Acquisition. Understanding how children use input to help form a
grammar is central to an adequate theory of language acquisition. Broad
differences in input based on dialect variation have been used as a fixed
effect in explaining differences in children’s grammars. Between-child
differences within homogeneous samples of families, similar in socio-economic
statuses, speaking the same dialect have also provided insight. The special
session Input Variation and Language Acquisition asks how these two approaches
relate to one another; specifically how language variety as a fixed effect
relates to the random effects of between-child variation within a language
variety. The papers presented in this special session will advance theories of
grammatical acquisition and applications in the field of child language
disorders.




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