Call for Papers: Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition - North America 6

[Rachel Dudley]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Abstract submissions are welcomed for the 6th bi­annual conference on 
Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition ­ North America (GALANA 6). 
GALANA 6 will take place on the University of Maryland campus in College 
Park, MD on February 19­21, 2015. This conference aims to provide an outlet 
for cutting edge work on language acquisition, relating results in first 
and second language acquisition to detailed hypotheses about developing 
grammatical representations, the mechanisms by which these representations 
are acquired, and the information processing mechanisms through which these 
representations are engaged in real time language use by first and second 
language learners. Invited speakers include Liliana Sanchez (Rutgers) and 
Antonella Sorace (Edinburgh, Bilingualism Matters). For the general 
session, abstracts are invited for original, unpublished generative 
research in all acquisition subfields: L1 acquisition, L2 acquisition, 
bilingualism, creoles and pidgins, and language disorders.

In addition to the general session, there will be a special session 
entitled “Learning in generative grammar: 50 years since the Evaluation 
Metric”. It has been 50 years since the publication of Aspects of the 
Theory of Syntax, which first introduced the idea of an evaluation metric 
as a way for learners to choose between alternative grammars that were 
compatible with their exposure. In the intervening years, conceptions of 
Universal Grammar (UG) have changed, and our understanding of children's 
grammatical knowledge at various ages has similarly advanced, but theories 
of how children use UG to interpret the data and how they use the data to 
select a grammar from UG have not been at center stage. In recent years, 
however, there has been a steady increase in work returning to this 
question, asking how different models (including rule learning, parameter 
setting, constraint ranking) of UG might help learners to use the input 
effectively to acquire a grammatical system. Invited speakers for this 
special session include Janet Fodor (CUNY Graduate Center), Lisa Pearl (UC 
Irvine), Bruce Tesar (Rutgers), and Charles Yang (UPenn). We also invite 
abstracts submissions for several additional talks that address the 
question of how a given grammatical formalism or set of grammatical 
principles helps to solve particular learnability problems in linguistics.

Abstract submissions should be anonymous and should be uploaded as .pdf 
attachments to the EasyChair site (not typed into the text box). 
Submissions should fit on one page with 1” margins and 12­point font, with 
an extra page allowed for examples, tables, figures and references.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Submissions due: October 6th, 2014 at 5pm Eastern Standard Time 
Notifications by: November 21, 2014

IMPORTANT WEBSITES:
GALANA 6: https://sites.google.com/site/2015galana/ EasyChair: 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=galana6
GALANA 6 Organizing Committee
galana2015organizers at gmail.com



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Sincerely,
Rachel Dudley
PhD Candidate, Department of Linguistics
University of Maryland
On behalf of the GALANA 6 Organizing Committee 

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