BUCLD 34 Call for Papers

[Jane M. Chandlee]

CALL FOR PAPERS

THE 34th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
NOVEMBER 6-8, 2009

Keynote Address
³Developing Fluency in Understanding: How it matters²
Anne Fernald, Stanford University

Plenary Address
³Innate Syntax - Still the Best Hypothesis²
Virginia Valian, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center
 
Lunch Symposium
³Recent Advances in the Study of Production and Comprehension: Implications
for Language Acquisition Research²
John Trueswell, University of Pennsylvania
Mike Tanenhaus, University of Rochester
Kay Bock, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Submissions which present research on any topic in the fields of first and
second language acquisition from any theoretical perspectives will be fully
considered, including Bilingualism, Cognition & Language, Creoles & Pidgins,
Dialects, Discourse and Narrative, Gesture, Hearing Impairment and Deafness,
Input & Interaction, Language Disorders, Linguistic Theory,
Neurolinguistics, Pragmatics, Pre-linguistic Development,  Reading and
Literacy, Signed Languages, Sociolinguistics, and Speech Perception &
Production.
 
ABSTRACTS
 
·      Abstracts must represent original, unpublished research.
·      Abstracts should be anonymous, clearly titled and no more than 500
words in length. Please note the word count at the bottom of the abstract.
·      Detailed information regarding abstract format, content, and
evaluation criteria can be found at our website:
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
 
·      Abstracts must be submitted using the form available at the
conference website:
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/abstract.htm
·      The submission period will begin on April 1st.
·      This year we are enacting a new author policy: Although each author
may submit as many abstracts as desired, we will accept for presentation a
maximum of 1 first authored paper/poster.  There is no limit on the number
of additional acceptances of papers/posters in any other authorship status.

DEADLINE


·      All submissions must be received by 8:00 PM EST, May 15, 2009.  There
will be no exceptions.
 
JEAN BERKO GLEASON AWARD
 
BUCLD is proud to introduce the Jean Berko Gleason Award for the best
student
papers.  In honor of Jean Berko Gleason, Professor Emerita of Psychology at
Boston University, three awards will be given at the Plenary address on
Saturday night.
All students who are first and presenting authors on a paper will be
considered for the
award. 
 
FURTHER INFORMATION
 
Questions about abstracts should be sent to abstract at bu.edu
<abstracts at bu.edu> 
 
Boston University Conference on Language Development
96 Cummington Street, Room 244
Boston, MA 02215
U.S.A.
Telephone: (617) 353-3085