Call for papers: Spanish FLA & SLA (topics include bilingualism) -- DEADELINE FOR ABSTRACTS 1 MAY 2001

[Scott McGinnis]

Date:  Mon, 11 Dec 2000 14:06:51 -0600
From:  Silvina Montrul <montrul at staff.uiuc.edu>
Subject:  Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese and Hispanic Ling
Symposium


4th Conference on the
Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese
as First and Second Languages
together with the
5th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium

October 11, 12, 13 and 14, 2001
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Invited Speakers
José Igancio Hualde, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Susana López-Ornat, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Conxita Lleó, Universität Hamburg
Diane Musumeci, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Carmen Silva-Corvalán, University of Southern California
Juan Uriagereka, University of Maryland
Lydia White, McGill University

For the Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese All
topics in the field of first, second, bilingual and impaired
acquisition of Spanish, Portuguese or other Iberian languages
(Catalan, Gallego, Basque, etc.) will be fully considered.

For the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium

All topics in Hispanic Linguistics from different theoretical
perspectives will be fully considered.

Submission Guidelines for the two Conferences

1.      Authors can submit two abstracts-one individual and one joint.
These can be for one conference each or both for the same conference.

2.      Five (5) copies of an anonymous, clearly titled one-page
abstract
(single-spaced with 1 inch margin throughout, Times New Roman, 12 point
font)
for review. There can be an additional page for references.

3.      One (1) copy of the same abstract with name and institutional
affiliation to include in the conference program.

4.      For EACH author, an index card with the following information:
conference, title of paper, area or research, name, academic
affiliation,
current/summer address, phone and fax number, e-mail, and audiovisual
requests.


Abstracts submitted must represent original research. Presentations will
be
minutes long, plus 10 minutes for questions. All authors who present
papers at
the conference will be invited to contribute their papers to a refereed
volume
of selected papers.

Deadline:  All submissions must be received by May 1, 2001.
Send submissions to:  Silvina Montrul (for the Acquisition conference)
and
Francisco Ordóñez (for the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium), University
of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Spanish, Italian and
Portuguese,
4080 Foreign Languages Building, MC-176, 707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL
61801, USA.  e-mail: montrul at uiuc.edu and fordonez at uiuc.edu.

See our website http://www.sip.uiuc.edu/conf2001 for more details on
topics
and other updates

Silvina Montrul
Assistant Professor of Spanish, Linguistics, and SLATE
Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4080 Foreign Languages Building, MC-176
707 S. Mathews Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801
USA

Phone: (217) 244-4090
Fax: (217) 244-8430
e-mail: montrul at uiuc.edu