FIRST LANGUAGE Call for PAPERS REMINDER

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REMINDER -  DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION
30 JUNE 2006


CALL FOR PAPERS:   SPECIAL ISSUE of First Language

Guest Editor:    Edy Veneziano, Université Descartes Paris 5-CNRS

Theme: Conversation in language development and use


Conversation is almost unanimously recognized as the privileged site of 
language acquisition.  In conversation, children are compelled 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.

Topics include (but are not restricted to):

4	The role of conversational exchanges in early language acquisition 
and/or use (lexical, syntactic, morphological and pragmatic knowledge)
4	The implications of conversational scaffolding for later developments 
(morphosyntactic, narrative and argumentative skills)
4	Acquiring and using conversational skills, including conversational 
repairs, explanations, justifications and argumentation
4	Learning to adjust one's  speech to the interlocutor : style, topic, 
means
4	Individual differences
4	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
Equipe Développement et Fonctionnement Cognitifs
Université Descartes Paris 5 - CNRS
46, rue St Jacques, Paris 5ème, France.
email:  edy.veneziano at univ-paris5.fr

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