Call for Papers: Xth Intern. Congress for the Study of Child Lang.

[Natalia Gagarina]

Call for Papers

Xth International Congress for the Study of Child Language
July 25-29, 2005
Berlin

Meeting URL: http://www.ctw-congress.de/iascl/
Meeting Email: mail at ctw-congress.de

Special Emphasis Topic:
Crosslinguistic and Intercultural Aspects of Unimpaired and Impaired
Language Acquisition: A Window on Universal and Language Particular
Learning Mechanisms

Specific Topic Areas within the Special Emphasis Topic:
• Methods of crosslinguistic and intercultural research in language
development
• Conceptual and lexical development
• Bootstrapping mechanisms
• Models of learning
• Interaction between morphosyntactic and lexical development
• The neurocognitive basis of language learning
• Genetic aspects of language acquisition
• Language acquisition in children with genetic syndromes
• Origins of specific language disorders
• Bilingual acquisition
• Similarities and differences between the acquisition of sign language
and spoken language
• The acquisition of Pidgins and Creoles

Deadline: November 15, 2004

Participants are invited to submit abstracts for oral or poster
presentations or organization of a symposium until November 15, 2004.

Abstracts for papers and poster should provide basic information about
he leading question, the data, the methods, and the results of the
presentation. The abstracts are limited to 500 words.

Abstracts for symposia should briefly describe the question and specific
aim of the symposium, list name, affiliation of the contributors and
should include a brief abstract of each contribution. The symposium
abstracts should not exceed 1200 words.

For presentation by each submitter a maximum of 1 first authored
paper/poster and a maximum of 2 papers/posters in any other autorship
status will be accepted.

If you intend to submit an abstract (English Language), please
exclusively use the internet abstract form
(http://www.ctw-congress.de/iascl/papers.html).

Abstracts submitted by fax, mail or e-mail are not accepted.