2nd CALL FOR PAPERS - ELDD 2006

[Kelley Sacco]

Latsis Colloquium of the University of Geneva: Early Language Development
and Disorders

(http://www.unige.ch/fapse/PSY/LATSIS/
<http://www.unige.ch/fapse/PSY/LATSIS/> )

 

 

ANNOUNCEMENT

Geneva, Switzerland, January 26-28, 2006

 

 

PLENARY SPEAKERS:

 

Anne Christophe (CNRS, Paris, France)

Stephen Crain (Macquarie University, Australia)

Debra Mills (Emory University, Georgia, USA)

Kim Oller (University of Memphis, Tennessee, USA)

Kim Plunkett (Oxford University, England)

Ken Wexler (MIT, Massachusetts, USA)

 

 

LANGUAGE:

 

Official conference language is English.

 

 

GENERAL TOPIC:

Language acquisition in typically developing children and children with a
language delay or specific language impairment.

 

The general goal of the colloquium is to promote research on early language
acquisition using an interdisciplinary approach combining linguistics,
psycholinguistics, and neuroscience. This theme will be tackled at the
phonological, lexical, semantic and syntactic levels. More specifically, the
colloquium will cover the following topics:
* Theoreticalperspectives in language acquisition
* Genetic/environmentalcontributions to language acquisition
* Brainstructure and functions involved in language processing in infants
andchildren 
* Languagedelays and impairments
 

A secondary aim of the colloquium is to promote the careers of junior
scientists (students/graduate students/post-docs/fellows) working in the
subject area by providing them with the opportunity to present their work as
a short talk or poster alongside established researchers. A limited number
of scholarships are available.

 

 

DEADLINES:

September 30, 2005: Talk and poster submissions (open to all researchers in
the field) (Notification of acceptance by October 30, 2005)

November 15, 2005: General registration for the conference (100 CHF
students/post-docs/fellows, 150 CHF general)

 

Individuals interested in presenting should submit the following on the
conference website: http://www.unige.ch/fapse/PSY/LATSIS/
<http://www.unige.ch/fapse/PSY/LATSIS/>

1)   An abstract of a poster or talk (250 words maximum)

2)   Title of the presentation and list of authors (presenting author should
be underlined)

3)   3 keywords

4)   Complete name, address, email, and affiliation of presenting party

 

Selected talks and posters will be published in a special issue of a
peer-reviewed scientific journal.

 

A limited number of scholarships (up to 400 CHF, 275 €) will be available to
students and junior researchers (post-docs/fellows) whose talk or poster has
been accepted for presentation at the conference. To apply, please send a CV
to the following email address along with the title of your submitted
abstract, as well as a letter explaining your interest in a scholarship.

 

Please email scholarship submissions and all other questions to:
colloquelatsis at pse.unige.ch <mailto:colloquelatsis at pse.unige.ch>

 

 

Organizers:

Bronwyn Glaser

Uli Frauenfelder

Luigi Rizzi

Pascal Zesiger

 

Local Committee:

Stephan Eliez

Julie Franck

Cornelia Hamann

Ur Shlonsky

 

Scientific Committee:

Adriana Belletti

Anne Christophe

Núria Sebastián Gallés

Teresa Guasti

Pierre Hallé

Marie-Thérèse Le Normand

Sophie Kern

Steve Majerus

Kim Plunkett

Marie-Anne Schelstraete

Jürgen Weissenborn