BUCLD now accepting submissions

[Leher Singh]

NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS - CALL FOR PAPERS

THE 34th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
NOVEMBER 6-8, 2009

Keynote Address
“Developing Fluency in Understanding: How it matters”
Anne Fernald, Stanford University

Plenary Address
“Innate Syntax - Still the Best Hypothesis”
Virginia Valian, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center

Lunch Symposium
“Recent Advances in the Study of Production and Comprehension:
Implications for Language Acquisition Research”
John Trueswell, University of Pennsylvania
Mike Tanenhaus, University of Rochester
Kay Bock, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Submissions which present research on any topic in the fields of first
and second language acquisition from any theoretical perspectives will
be fully considered, including Bilingualism, Cognition & Language,
Creoles & Pidgins, Dialects, Discourse and Narrative, Gesture, Hearing
Impairment and Deafness, Input & Interaction, Language Disorders,
Linguistic Theory, Neurolinguistics, Pragmatics, Pre-linguistic
Development,  Reading and Literacy, Signed Languages,
Sociolinguistics, and Speech Perception & Production.

ABSTRACTS

•	Abstracts must represent original, unpublished research.
•	Abstracts should be anonymous, clearly titled and no more than 500
words in length. Please note the word count at the bottom of the
abstract.
•	Detailed information regarding abstract format, content, and
evaluation criteria can be found at our website:
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

•	Abstracts may now be submitted using the form available at the
conference website:
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/abstract.htm
•	This year we are enacting a new author policy: Although each author
may submit as many abstracts as desired, we will accept for
presentation a maximum of 1 first authored paper/poster.  There is no
limit on the number of additional acceptances of papers/posters in any
other authorship status.

DEADLINE

•	All submissions must be received by 8:00 PM EST, May 15, 2009.
There will be no exceptions.

JEAN BERKO GLEASON AWARD

BUCLD is proud to introduce the Jean Berko Gleason Award for the best student
papers.  In honor of Jean Berko Gleason, Professor Emerita of Psychology at
Boston University, three awards will be given at the Plenary address
on Saturday night.
All students who are first and presenting authors on a paper will be
considered for the
award.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Questions about abstracts should be sent to abstract at bu.edu

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

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