BUCLD 31: Call for Papers - Deadline May 15

[BUCLD]

CALL FOR PAPERS

THE 31st ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
NOVEMBER 3-5, 2006

Keynote Speakers:
Roberta Golinkoff, University of Delaware
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Temple University
"Breaking the Language Barrier: The View from the Radical Middle"

Plenary Speaker:
Jurgen M. Meisel, University of Hamburg & University of Calgary
"Multiple First Language Acquisition:
A Case for Autonomous Syntactic Development in the Simultaneous Acquisition of
More Than One Language"

Lunch Symposium:
"Future Directions in Search of Genes that Influence Language:
Phenotypes, Molecules, Brains, and Growth"
Mabel Rice, University of Kansas
Helen Tager-Flusberg, Boston University
Simon Fisher, University of Oxford
Discussant: Gary Marcus, New York University


All topics in the fields of first and second language acquisition from all
theoretical perspectives will be fully considered.

All submissions must be received by 8:00 PM EST, May 15, 2006.

For further information regarding the conference, please visit the BUCLD 
website:
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/

BUCLD is partially funded by grants from the National Science Foundation (BCS-
0130353) and the National Institutes for Health (R13 HD042130).


Boston University Conference on Language Development
96 Cummington Street, Room 244
Boston, MA 02215
U.S.A.
Telephone: (617) 353-3085
e-mail: langconf at bu.edu