CALL FOR PAPERS: Comparing child L2 and SLI: Crosslinguistic perspectives

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Second Language Research Forum (SLRF) 2008
17-19 October 2008
University of Hawai`i at Manoa

Special panel on "Comparing child L2 and SLI: Crosslinguistic
perspectives"
Call deadline: 15 April 2008

Abstracts are invited for a special panel on "Comparing child L2 and
SLI: Crosslinguistic perspectives" to take place as part of SLRF at
the University of Hawai`i, 17-19 October 2008.

Recent work in a variety of linguistic frameworks has shown remarkable
similarities between children acquiring a nonnative language (L2) and
children diagnosed with Specific Language Impairment (SLI): Similar
grammatical phenomena appear to be vulnerable in both cases. The aim
of this panel is to bring together researchers working on child L2 and
SLI in different languages within a linguistic framework, in order to
address and discuss questions such as the following:

- To what extent are similarities/differences between child L2 and SLI
observed crosslinguistically?

- What domains of the grammar seem to be particularly (in)vulnerable
in child L2 and SLI crosslinguistically?

- Are there aspects of grammatical development that clearly
distinguish child L2 learners from children with SLI?

- To what extent are the vulnerabilities grammatical phenomena and/or
processing phenomena?

- What are the implications of these similarities/differences for
developmental theories of child L2 and SLI, and for linguistic
theorizing more generally?

Individual papers will be allotted 20 minutes (plus time for
discussion).

Submission Instructions:
(NB: Do NOT submit abstracts for this panel through SLRF's online
submission system.)

- Abstracts should be anonymous, clearly titled and no more than 500
words. The text of the abstract should fit on one page, with a second
page for examples, figures/tables and references. (Please include a
word count at the bottom of the page.)

- The title should be no longer than 12 words.

- Each submission must also include a 50-word summary, to be published
in the conference program.

- In a single e-mail message to theres.gruter at umontreal.ca, send the
abstract as a pdf file and the summary as a Microsoft Word or RTF file
by 15 April 2008.

- Title of the paper, author name(s), affiliation(s) and contact
information should be included in the body of the e-mail message.

Notification of acceptance is anticipated to be by mid-May.

For questions and further information regarding this panel, please
contact Theres Grueter (theres.gruter at umontreal.ca). For general
information on SLRF 2008, see the conference website (http://
www.nflrc.hawaii.edu/slrf08/).

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