Call for Papers - Special Issue of First Language

[edy veneziano]

INVITATION
to submit papers for a special issue of FIRST LANGUAGE
  on conversation and language development
Deadline for Submission : June 30th 2006.



Call for papers for a Special Issue of First Language
Conversation in language development and use

Guest editor: Edy Veneziano, Université Paris 5 - CNRS

Conversation is almost unanimously recognized as the privileged site of 
language
acquisition. In conversation, children have to draw deeply on their 
communicative
and language resources and both to use and to extend their formal and 
pragmatic
competencies.

This Special Issue addresses the nature, effects and development of 
exchanges
unfolding among children and their co-conversationalists. Papers 
presenting empirical
work on tangible effects of conversation on the acquisition and/or use 
of early as well
as later language are of focal interest to this Special Issue.

Topics include (but are not restricted to):
• The role of conversational exchanges in early language acquisition 
and/or use
(lexical, syntactic, morphological and pragmatic knowledge)
• The implications of conversational scaffolding for later developments 
(morphosyntactic,
narrative and argumentative skills)
• Effects of acquiring and using conversational skills, including 
conversational repairs,
explanations, justifications and argumentation
• Learning to adjust one's speech to the interlocutor: style, topic, 
means
• Individual differences
• Conversational skills in children with language impairments and other 
disorders

Deadline for submissions: 30 June 2006

Submissions and enquiries should be addressed to:
Edy Veneziano, Université Descartes Paris 5 - CNRS,
46 rue St Jacques, 75005 Paris, France
email: edy.veneziano at univ-paris5.fr
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