17.2992, Confs: General Ling/USA

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Subject: 17.2992, Confs: General Ling/USA

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Date: 11-Oct-2006
From: BUCLD 31 < langconf at bu.edu >
Subject: Boston University Conference on Language Development 31 

	
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Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:09:12
From: BUCLD 31 < langconf at bu.edu >
Subject: Boston University Conference on Language Development 31 
 



Boston University Conference on Language Development 31 
Short Title: BUCLD 31 

Date: 03-Nov-2006 - 05-Nov-2006 
Location: Boston, MA, USA 
Contact: Boston University BUCLD 
Contact Email: langconf at bu.edu 
Meeting URL: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

BUCLD 31 - November 3-5, 2006 - Boston University

web: www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/
e-mail: langconf at bu.edu 

Dear Colleague,
We would like to friendly remind you that the deadline for pre-registering for BUCLD 31 is on October 20 (Please disregard this message if you have already registered). The pre-registration information is available at: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/prereg.htm

The 31st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development will be held at Boston University, November 3-5, 2006. Our invited speakers are:
 
Roberta Golinkoff, University of Delaware
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Temple University
''Breaking the Language Barrier: The View from the Radical Middle.''
Keynote address, Friday, November 3 at 8:00 pm
 
Jürgen M. Meisel, University of Hamburg & University of Calgary
''Multiple First Language Acquisition: A Case for Autonomous Syntactic Development in the Simultaneous Acquisition of More Than One Language.''
Plenary address, Saturday, November 4 at 5:45 pm
 
Mabel Rice, University of Kansas
Helen Tager-Flusberg, Boston University
Simon Fisher, University of Oxford
Discussant: Gary Marcus, New York University
''Future Directions in Search of Genes that Influence Language:
Phenotypes, Molecules, Brains, and Growth.''
Lunchtime symposium, Saturday, November 4 at 12:00 pm
 
The Society for Language Development (SLD) will be holding its third annual symposium on Thursday, November 2, in conjunction with the BUCLD meeting. BUCLD 31 is offering a pre-registration option for this event. Onsite registration will also be available. 
 
The Symposium will be on ''Learning Verbs.'' 
Speakers: Lila Gleitman, Cynthia Fisher,Adele Goldberg, and Dedre Gentner.
 
More information on the SLD symposium can be found at:
http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/sld/symposium.html
 
The pre-registration information is available at:
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/prereg.htm
 
The full conference schedule is available at:
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/schedule.htm
 
More information about BUCLD is available at our website:
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD
 
We look forward to seeing you at BUCLD 31.
 
Sincerely,
Heather Caunt-Nulton, Samantha Kulatilake, I-hao Woo
BUCLD 31 Co-Organizers





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