18.2727, Confs: Language Acquisition/USA

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LINGUIST List: Vol-18-2727. Wed Sep 19 2007. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 18.2727, Confs: Language Acquisition/USA

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Date: 17-Sep-2007
From: Enkeleida Kapia < ekapia at bu.edu >
Subject: Boston University Conference on Language Development

 

	
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Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:00:31
From: Enkeleida Kapia [ekapia at bu.edu]
Subject: Boston University Conference on Language Development
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Boston University Conference on Language Development 
Short Title: BUCLD 

Date: 02-Nov-2007 - 04-Nov-2007 
Location: Boston, MA, USA 
Contact: Enkeleida Kapia 
Contact Email: langconf at bu.edu 
Meeting URL: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition 

Meeting Description: 

BUCLD 32 Online Pre-Registration Announcement 

The 32nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language  Development will be
held at Boston University, November 2-4, 2007.  

Our invited speakers are:

Ellen Bialystok, York University
''Cognitive Effects of Bilingualism Across the Lifespan''
Keynote address, Friday, November 2 at 8:00 pm

William O'Grady, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
''Does Emergentism Have a Chance?''
Plenary address, Saturday, November 3 at 5:45 pm

Katherine Demuth, Brown University 
Anne Fernald, Stanford University
Lee Osterhout, University of Washington
Discussant: Virginia Valian, Hunter College, and CUNY Graduate Center
''The Production and Processing of Grammatical Morphemes'' 
Lunchtime symposium, Saturday, November 3 at 12:15 pm

The Society for Language Development (SLD) will be holding its fourth annual
symposium on ''Generalization in Language Learning'' on Thursday, November 1, 
in conjunction with the BUCLD meeting. 

BUCLD 32 is offering online  pre-registration and on-site registration for this
event.

Speakers: Janet Pierrehumbert of Northwestern University, Josh Tenenbaum of MIT,
Steven Pinker of Harvard University

More information on the SLD symposium can be found at:
http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/sld/symposium.html

The full conference schedule is available at:
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/schedule_temp.html

More information about BUCLD is available at our website:
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD

We look forward to seeing you at BUCLD 32!

Heather Jacob, Harvey Chan, and Enkeleida Kapia
BUCLD 32 Co-organizers






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