8.477, Calls: Lang Development, Lang Acq
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Subject: 8.477, Calls: Lang Development, Lang Acq
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Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 08:29:39 -0500
From: Christopher Hall <cthall at bu.edu>
Subject: BU Conference on Language Development
2)
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 11:10:44 -0800
From: Bart Hollebrandse <holleb at oitunix.oit.umass.edu>
Subject: Calls: Language Acquisition (reminder)
-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 08:29:39 -0500
From: Christopher Hall <cthall at bu.edu>
Subject: BU Conference on Language Development
PLEASE DISTRIBUTE
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The 22nd Annual
Boston University Conference on Language Development
Call for Papers
November 7, 8, and 9, 1997
Keynote Speaker: Annette Karmiloff-Smith, University College London
Plenary Speaker: Luigi Rizzi, University of Siena
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FIRST AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
All topics in the field of language acquisition will be fully
considered, including:
Bilingualism Narrative
Cognition & Language Neurolinguistics
Creoles & Pidgins Pragmatics
Discourse Pre-linguistic Development
Exceptional Language Signed Languages
Input & Interaction Sociolinguistics
Language Disorders Speech Perception & Production
Literacy
Linguistic Theory (Syntax, Semantics, Phonology,
Morphology, and Lexicon)
Abstracts submitted must represent original, unpublished research.
Presentations will be 20 minutes long, plus 10 minutes for questions.
PLEASE SUBMIT:
1) six copies of an anonymous, clearly titled 450-word
summary for review;
2) one copy of a 150-word abstract for use in the conference
program book if abstract is accepted. If your paper is
accepted, this abstract will be scanned into the
conference handbook. No changes in title or authors will
be possible after acceptance.
3) for EACH author, one copy of the information form printed
at the bottom of this message.
Please include a self-addressed, stamped postcard for acknowledgment
of receipt. Notice of acceptance or rejection will be sent by late
July. Pre-registration materials and preliminary schedule will be
available in late August, 1997.
All authors who present papers at the conference will be invited to
contribute their papers to the Proceedings Volumes. Those papers will
be due in January, 1998.
Note: All conference papers will be selected on the basis of abstracts
submitted. Although each abstract will be evaluated individually, we
will attempt to honor requests to schedule accepted papers together in
group sessions.
DEADLINE: All submissions must be received by May 19, 1997.
Send submissions to:
Boston University
Conference on Language Development
704 Commonwealth Avenue, Suite 101
Boston, MA 02215 U.S.A.
Telephone: 617-353-3085
E-mail: langconf at louis-xiv.bu.edu
info at louis-xiv.bu.edu (automated-reply info mailer)
(WE REGRET THAT WE CANNOT ACCEPT ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS BY FAX OR E-MAIL.)
Author Information Form (fill one out completely for EACH author)
Title:
Topic area: Audiovisual requests:
Full name: Affiliation:
Current address: Summer address if
different, and dates:
Current e-mail: Summer e-mail:
Current phone number: Summer phone if different:
*To accommodate as many papers as possible, we reserve the right to
limit each submitter to one first authorship and if circumstances
warrant, to limit each submitter to two papers in any authorship
status.
*Please indicate whether, if your paper is not one of the 90 initially
selected for presentation, you would be willing to be considered as an
alternate. (If you indicate that you are willing to be considered,
this does not commit you to accepting alternate status if it should be
offered to you.)
__Yes, consider me as an alternate if necessary
__No, please do not consider me as an alternate
Please indicate how you received the 1997 Call for Papers:
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Please indicate how you wish to receive the 1998 Call for Papers:
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Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 11:10:44 -0800
From: Bart Hollebrandse <holleb at oitunix.oit.umass.edu>
Subject: Calls: Language Acquisition (reminder)
CALL FOR PAPERS
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
New Perspectives on Language Acquisition:
Minimalism and Pragmatics
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
June 2,3 and 4 1997
This conference creates a stage for a discussion on new perspectives
on Minimalism and its relation to other areas in linguistics. The
emphasis of the conference will be on the contribution of acquisition
research to theoretical linguistics.
The conference has the intention to explore the following three
(sub-)fields and their interfaces:
-syntax, for instance issues dealing with Merger Theory, the
exploration of formal features and functional categories, as well as
issues involving complementation.
-pragmatics, for instance on Theory of Mind (mental representations of
the world), binding interfaces.
-semantics, for instance phenemena involving aspect and events.
The relations between the pragmatic, the syntactic and the semantic
components, as well as their internal development is the focus of this
conference. For instance, the opacity of complements plays a major
role in the study of long distance Wh-movement (see work by Roeper and
De Villiers). Other topics that involve these subfields could be
negative polarity (e.g. John denied that anything happened), sequence
of tense constructions (e.g. John said he was happy = John said he is
happy) and various issues in the acquisition of binding.
The conference pays special attention to Afro American English and
SLI. Papers will be selected on quality of the content and according
to the coherence of the conference.
invited speakers: David Lebeaux (N.E.C.), Michelle de Graff (M.I.T.),
Frans Zwarts (University of Groningen)
participants:Angelika Kratzer (UMass), Thomas Roeper (UMass), Jill de
Villiers (Smith College)
Proceedings will be published in a volume of the University of
Massachusetts Occasional Papers (G.L.S.A., Amherst).
Deadline for the submission of abstracts: April 11, 1997.
Notification of acceptance by April 25 1997.
Talks are 20 minutes, 10 minutes discussion. Send 4 hard copies of a
one page abstract to the following address (no e-mail submissions):
New Perspective on Language Acquisition
Linguistics Department
University of Massachusetts
South College
Amherst, MA 01003
Bart Hollebrandse
holleb at linguist.umass.edu
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