BUCLD Abstract Deadline May 15th

[BUCLD]

CALL FOR PAPERS
Final Reminder - Abstracts Due May 15th

THE 31st ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
NOVEMBER 3-5, 2006

Keynote Speakers:
Roberta Golinkoff, University of Delaware
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Temple University
"Breaking the Language Barrier: The View from the Radical Middle"

Plenary Speaker:
Jurgen M. Meisel, University of Hamburg & University of Calgary
"Multiple First Language Acquisition:
A Case for Autonomous Syntactic Development in the Simultaneous 
Acquisition of
More Than One Language"

Lunch Symposium:
"Future Directions in Search of Genes that Influence Language:
Phenotypes, Molecules, Brains, and Growth"
Mabel Rice, University of Kansas
Helen Tager-Flusberg, Boston University
Simon Fisher, University of Oxford
Discussant: Gary Marcus, New York University

All topics in the fields of first and second language acquisition from 
all
theoretical perspectives will be fully considered, including:

* Bilingualism
* Cognition & Language
* Creoles & Pidgins
* Dialects
* Discourse
* Exceptional Language
* Gesture
* Hearing Impairment and Deafness
* Input & Interaction
* Language Disorders
* Linguistic Theory (Syntax, Semantics, Phonology, Morphology, Lexicon)
* Literacy & Narrative
* Neurolinguistics
* Pragmatics
* Pre-linguistic Development
* Signed Languages
* Sociolinguistics
* Speech Perception & Production
Presentations will be 20 minutes long followed by a 10 minute question 
period.
Posters will be on display for a full day with two attended sessions 
during
the day.

ABSTRACT FORMAT AND CONTENT

Abstracts submitted must represent original, unpublished research.
Abstracts should be anonymous, clearly titled and no more than 450 
words in
length. They should also fit on one page, with an optional second page 
for
references or figures if required. Abstracts longer than 450 words will 
be
rejected without being evaluated. Please note the word count at the 
bottom of
the abstract. Note that words counts need not include the abstract 
title or
the list of references.

A suggested format and style for abstracts is available at:
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/template.html

An excellent example of how to formulate the content of the abstract 
can be
found on the LSA website at:
http://www.lsadc.org/info/dec02bulletin/model.html

The criteria used by the reviewers to evaluate abstracts can be found 
at:
  http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/reviewprocess.html#rate


All abstracts must be submitted as PDF documents. Specific instructions 
for
how to create PDF documents are available at:
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/pdfinfo.html.
If you encounter a problem creating a PDF file, please contact us for 
further
assistance.
Please use the first author's last name as the file name (eg. 
Smith.pdf). No
author information should appear anywhere in the contents of the PDF 
file
itself.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Electronic submission: To facilitate the abstract submission process,
abstracts will be submitted using the form available at the conference 
website
at http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/abstract.htm.
Specific instructions for abstract submission are available on this 
website.
Abstracts will be accepted between March 15 and May 15.
Contact information for each author must be submitted via webform. No 
author
information should appear anywhere in the abstract PDF.
At the time of submission you will be asked whether you would like your
abstract to be considered for a poster, a paper, or both.
Although each author may submit as many abstracts as desired, we will 
accept
for presentation by each author: (a) a maximum of 1 first authored
paper/poster, and (b) a maximum of 2 papers/posters in any authorship 
status.
Note that no changes in authorship (including deleting an author or 
changing
author order) will be possible after the review process is completed or 
for
publication in the conference proceedings.

DEADLINE

All submissions must be received by 8:00 PM EST, May 15, 2006.
Late abstracts will not be considered, whatever the reason for the 
delay.
We regret that we cannot accept abstract submissions by fax or email.
Submissions via surface mail will only be accepted in special 
circumstances,
on a case by case basis. Please contact us well in advance of the 
submission
deadline (May 15, 2006) to make these arrangements.

ABSTRACT SELECTION

Each abstract is blind reviewed by 5 reviewers from a panel of 
approximately
100 international scholars. Further information about the review 
process is
available  at 
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/reviewprocess.html.
Acknowledgment of receipt of the abstract will be sent by email as soon 
as
possible after receipt. Notice of acceptance or rejection will be sent 
to
first authors only, in early August, by email. Pre-registration 
materials and
preliminary schedule will be available in late August, 2006.
If your abstract is accepted, you will need to submit a 150-word 
abstract
including title, author(s) and affiliation(s) for inclusion in the 
conference
handbook. Guidelines will be provided along with notification of 
acceptance.
Abstracts accepted as papers will be invited for publication in the 
BUCLD
Proceedings. Abstracts accepted as posters will be invited for 
publication
online only, but not in the printed version.
All conference papers will be selected on the basis of abstracts 
submitted.
Although each abstract will be evaluated individually, we will attempt 
to
honor requests to schedule accepted papers together in group sessions. 
No
schedule changes will be possible once the schedule is set. Scheduling
requests for religious reasons only must be made before the review 
process is
complete (i.e. at the time of submission). A space is provided on the 
abstract
submission webform to specify such requests.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Information regarding the conference may be accessed on the BUCLD 
website:
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/
Boston University Conference on Language Development
96 Cummington Street, Room 244
Boston, MA 02215
U.S.A.
Telephone: (617) 353-3085
e-mail: langconf at bu.edu


BUCLD is partially funded by grants from the National Science 
Foundation (BCS-
0130353) and the National Institutes for Health (R13 HD042130).