CALL FOR PAPERS - 28th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

[Linnea Micciulla]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
THE 28th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
OCTOBER 31, NOVEMBER 1 & 2, 2003

Keynote Speaker: Janet Dean Fodor, City University of New York
Plenary Speaker: Mabel Rice, University of Kansas

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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
Discourse
Exceptional Language
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.


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NEW THIS YEAR

Posters: BUCLD is soliciting abstracts for posters as well as papers.
Please indicate at the time of submission whether you would like your
proposal to be considered for a poster, a paper, or both.

Electronic submission: To facilitate the abstract submission process,
abstracts will be submitted using the form available as of April 1 at the
conference website.

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ABSTRACT FORMAT AND CONTENT

All abstracts must be submitted as PDF documents. Free services/software
for creating PDF documents are available from several sources, including:

http://www.adobe.com/ (free trial: five free documents)
http://www.pdf995.com/ (downloadable software with advertising)

The abstract should be anonymous, clearly titled and no more than 450
words in length. Abstracts longer than 450 words will be rejected without
being evaluated. Please note the word count at the bottom of the abstract.

Abstracts submitted must represent original, unpublished research.

An excellent example of format and style for abstracts is available on the
LSA website at http://www.lsadc.org/web2/dec02bulletin/model.html.


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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

All abstracts must be submitted via the conference website,
http://www.bu.edu/LINGUISTICS/APPLIED/conference.html. Specific
instructions for abstract submission will be available on this website
after April 1, 2003. Abstracts will be accepted between April 1 and May
15.

Contact information for EACH author must be submitted along with the
abstract.

At the time of submission you will be asked whether you would like your
proposal 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 submitter: (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.

DEADLINE: All submissions must be received by 8:00 PM EST, May 15, 2003.
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.

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ABSTRACT SELECTION

Each abstract is blind reviewed by 5 reviewers from a panel of more than
80 international scholars.

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, 2003.

All authors who present at the conference will be invited to contribute
their papers to the Proceedings volumes. Those papers will be due in
January, 2004.

If your paper is accepted, you will need to submit a 150-word abstract
including title, author(s)and affiliation(s). This abstract will be in
the conference handbook. Guidelines will be provided along with
notification of acceptance.

Note: 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.

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FURTHER INFORMATION

Information regarding the conference may be accessed at
http://www.bu.edu/LINGUISTICS/APPLIED/conference.html

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