BUCLD 31 Pre-Registration Reminder

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Dear Colleague,
We would like to friendly remind you that the deadline for pre- 
registering for BUCLD 31 is on October 20 (Please disregard this  
message if you have already registered). The pre-registration  
information is 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 Thursday, November 2, in conjunction with the  
BUCLD meeting. BUCLD 31 is offering a pre-registration option for  
this event. Onsite registration will also be available.

The Symposium will be on "Learning Verbs."
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

The 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