Sign language acquisition at TISLR

[G.Morgan]

Dear colleagues, I am trying to get together a workshop on
'Cross-linguistic comparisons of sign language acquisition' for the
Amsterdam TISLR July 23rd - July 27th 2000.  This is a continuation of the
symposium organised by Nini Hoiting and Dan Slobin in San Sebastian, Spain,
in July this year.  Dan Slobin has agreed to be a potential discussant for
the TISLR meeting. To allow for good comparative discussion, I would like
to limit the focus of the papers to child sign language elicited using the
'frog story' narrative stimulus material.  This is still very wide as there
is a lot of different topics available for presentation within this focused
area.  The timetable for preparation would be:

Abstracts of no more than 250 words to Gary Morgan by OCTOBER 3rd 1999

Submission of workshop abstract to TISLR organisers on or before NOVEMBER
1st 1999.

Notification of acceptance or rejection by TISLR December 1999

Draft papers for discussion by group by MAY 1st 2000

Please be in touch if you are interested in contributing.  We are limited I
think to 4 presentations within the workshop time so selection of abstracts
will depend on cohesiveness across the group.

I look forward to hearing from you all soon

Gary




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Gary Morgan
Dept of Linguistics, UCL, London
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