[EDLING:1836] Conference on Language Development: Boston University

[Francis M Hult]

> Dear Colleague,
> We are pleased to announce that pre-registration for BUCLD 31 is now
> available at:
> http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/prereg.htm
> 
> The 31st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development will be
> held at Boston University, November 3-5, 2006. Our invited speakers are:
> 
> Roberta Golinkoff, University of Delaware Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Temple
> University "Breaking the Language Barrier: The View from the Radical
> Middle."
> Keynote address, Friday, November 3 at 8:00 pm
> 
> Jürgen 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."
> Plenary address, Saturday, November 4 at 5:45 pm
> 
> Mabel Rice, University of Kansas
> Helen Tager-Flusberg, Boston University
> Simon Fisher, University of Oxford
> Discussant: Gary Marcus, New York University "Future Directions in Search of
> Genes that Influence Language:
> Phenotypes, Molecules, Brains, and Growth."
> Lunchtime symposium, Saturday, November 4 at 12:00 pm
> 
> The Society for Language Development (SLD) will be holding its third annual
> symposium on "Learning Verbs" on Thursday, November 2, in conjunction with
> the BUCLD meeting. BUCLD 31 is offering online pre-registration and on-site
> registration for this event.
> 
> Speakers: Lila Gleitman, Cynthia Fisher,Adele Goldberg, and Dedre Gentner.
> More information on the SLD symposium can be found at:
> http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/sld/symposium.html
> 
> BUCLD and SLD pre-registration information is available at:
> http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/prereg.htm
> 
> The full conference schedule is available at:
> http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/schedule.htm
> 
> More information about BUCLD is available at our website:
> http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD
> 
> We look forward to seeing you at BUCLD 31.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Heather Caunt-Nulton, Samantha Kulatilake, I-hao Woo BUCLD 31 Co-organizers