27.2694, Calls: Cognitive Science; General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Language Teaching; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics / Linguistics Vanguard (Jrnl)

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Subject: 27.2694, Calls: Cognitive Science; General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Language Teaching; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics / Linguistics Vanguard (Jrnl)

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Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 09:44:33
From: Bhuvana Narasimhan [narasimb at colorado.edu]
Subject: Cognitive Science; General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Language Teaching; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics / Linguistics Vanguard (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: Linguistics Vanguard 


Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; General Linguistics; Language Acquisition 

Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2016 

Call for Papers: Special Collection in Linguistics Vanguard, Language
Acquisition Area

You are invited to submit a short paper (3000- 4000 words) on the theme of
''Information Structure in First and Second Language Acquisition'' by November
15, 2016. 

The linguistic expression of information structure, i.e., the formal reflexes
of an utterance's discourse integration, has recently received considerable
attention in the study of first as well as second language acquisition. The
primary dimensions of information structure often addressed in the acquisition
literature include 'givenness' (maintained vs. new information) and
'aboutness' (topic vs. comment), as well as emphasis and highlighting (e.g.,
contrastive topic, focus and their interaction with focus sensitive operators
of different types). Some of the core questions that are addressed in this
area include the following: Do first and second language learners adapt their
utterances to their hearer's informational needs from early on? When do
language learners home in on language-specific preferences for information
selection and distribution in stretches of discourse? Can adult L2 learners
ever become native-like in this respect? Do language learners express the same
kinds of information structure relations as adult native speakers using the
same devices?

Submissions, due 15 November 2016, should investigate the acquisition of
different linguistic phenomena (e.g., intonation, scope particles, the form of
referring expressions, word order, etc.) from an information structure
perspective. Linguistics Vanguard is an online, multi-modal journal and
authors are encouraged to include interactive content, such as audio, video,
software, raw data, etc. 

Note: Please include in the cover letter that you wish your paper to be
considered for the ''Special Collection on The acquisition of information
structure'' edited by Christine Dimroth and Bhuvana Narasimhan.

Because the journal is online-only, special collections are ''virtual
collections'' linked by shared keywords. Details about the journal can be
found at http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/lingvan. All authors may post a pdf
on their personal website a year after publication. 

We aim to publish the papers in the collection, along with an introduction, in
early 2017. Questions can be directed to the Area Editors for Language
Acquisition, Christine Dimroth (christine.dimroth at uni-muenster.de) and Bhuvana
Narasimhan (narasimb at colorado.edu).




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