GALA 2007 Barcelona

[MariaTeresa Guasti]

Call for papers

GALA (Generative Approaches to Language 
Acquisition) 2007 will be held in Barcelona, 
hosted by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 
between the 6th and the 8th of September, 2007. 
Information is available at http://www.gala2007.uab.es/

Invited speakers:
Adriana Belletti (Università degli Studi di Siena)
Naama Friedmann (Tel Aviv University)
Marina Nespor (Università di Ferrara)
Josef Perner (Universität Salzburg)
Ken Wexler (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

We invite submissions on first and second 
language acquisition, bilingual acquisition, 
language pathology, the acquisition of sign 
language, and brain imaging research for 
acquisition and pathology. Besides the main 
session, two workshops will be held on 
‘Subordination in language development’ 
(organised by Uli Sauerland and Bart 
Hollebrandse) and ‘Phonological development: the 
emergence of segments and the syllable’ (organised by Pilar Prieto).

Talks for the main session and the workshops will 
be 20 minutes long, followed by 10 minutes 
discussion. At most one single-authored and one 
joint abstract (or two joint abstracts) per 
author will be considered. There will be two 
poster sessions. Please indicate in your 
submission whether you want your abstract to be 
considered for the main session, a workshop, for 
oral presentation, poster, or both. Submissions 
should be sent to 
<mailto:cg.gala2007 at uab.es>cg.gala2007 at uab.es, by a unique contact author.

Abstract guidelines
Abstracts should be at most two pages, with only 
figures and references in the second. 12 point 
Helvetica, single-spaced, should be used, with 
2cm margins. An anonymous abstract and an 
abstract with authors’ name/s and affiliation 
should be send by email as Word or pdf 
attachments (if special symbols are used, pdf 
format is required). The abstract with name and 
affiliation should be as follows:



Title (bold, left justified)


Author’s name/s (left justified)
Affiliation (left justified)

Abstract

Deadline for receipt of abstracts: March 15th, 2007.
Notification of acceptance: May 1st, 2007.



Prof.ssa Maria Teresa Guasti Ph.D.
Professor of Linguistics
Università di Milano Bicocca
Diprtimento di Psicologia
Via dell'Innovazione 10
20126 Milano

fax: 0264483788 
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