BUCLD 35 Call for Papers

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CALL FOR PAPERS

THE 35th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
NOVEMBER 5-7, 2010

Keynote Speaker:
Rachel Mayberry, University of California at San Diego
"Nurture and biology in language acquisition:  What the hands say"

Plenary Speaker:
William Snyder, University of Connecticut
"Children's grammatical conservatism: Implications for syntactic theory"

Lunch Symposium:
"The acquisition of number words: Integrating formal and developmental 
perspectives"
Susan Carey, Harvard University
Justin Halberda, Johns Hopkins University
Jeff Lidz, University of Maryland
Julien Musolino, Rutgers University

Submissions that 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.

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

We will begin accepting abstract submissions on April 15. Please check 
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/BUCLD for a link to the submission form 
and any important updates.

DEADLINE: All submissions must be received by 8:00 PM EST, May 15, 2010.

FURTHER INFORMATION

General conference information is available at:
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/BUCLD/

Boston University Conference on Language Development
96 Cummington Street, Room 244
Boston, MA 02215
U.S.A.
Telephone: (617) 353-3085

Questions about abstracts should be sent to abstract at bu.edu