Child Language Seminar 2007: Final Call for Papers - submission deadline: 1 March

[Theodoros Marinis]

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Final Call for Papers - 30th Anniversary of the Child Language Seminar
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Child Language Seminar
18-20 July 2007
University of Reading, England

Submission deadline is 1 March 2007

We are pleased to announce that in 2007 the Child 
Language Seminar will take place from 18-20 July 
2007 at the University of Reading. It will be 
hosted by the School of Psychology & Clinical 
Language Sciences and is being organised by Theo 
Marinis & Vesna Stojanovik (Department of 
Clinical Language Sciences), Carmel Houston-Price 
& Graham Schafer (Department of Psychology), and 
Brian Richards (Institute of Education).

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NEW INFORMATION - Keynote presentations
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To mark the 30th Anniversary of the CLS, this 
year we have added a half-day (18 July) with two 
thematic sessions, while keeping the remaining 
two days (19-20 July) open to all avenues of 
research on child language development. The 
thematic sessions will be on topics related to 
the keynote presentations. The exact topics of 
the thematic sessions will be decided on the 
basis of the abstracts we will receive.

Keynote presentations:

Anne Baker & Jan de Jong: The nature of bilingual Specific Language Impairment
Department of Language and Literature
Universiteit van Amsterdam

Dorothy Bishop: Unraveling causal links between 
deficits in children with language disorders
Department of Experimental Psychology
University of Oxford

Philip Dale: What genetics can offer the study of 
language acquisition 
 and what it can’t
Department of Speech & Hearing Sciences
The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Catherine Snow: Teaching all-purpose academic 
vocabulary to middle-grade students: Wielding a subtle school-reform lever
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Harvard University

More information about the conference may be found at:

http://www.reading.ac.uk/cls/cls2007.html

Details for submission of abstracts may be found at:

<http://www.reading.ac.uk/cls/abstract.html>http://www.reading.ac.uk/cls/abstract.html

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