23.3088, Calls: Language Acquisition/Norway

Tue Jul 17 15:50:07 UTC 2012

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Subject: 23.3088, Calls: Language Acquisition/Norway

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Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:49:20
From: Roksolana Mykhaylyk [roksolana.mykhaylyk at uit.no]
Subject: Workshop: Acquisition at the Interface

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Full Title: Workshop: Acquisition at the Interface 
Short Title: WAI 2012 

Date: 22-Oct-2012 - 23-Oct-2012
Location: Tromsø, Norway 
Contact Person: Roksolana Mykhaylyk
Meeting Email: roksolana.mykhaylyk at uit.no
Web Site: http://castl.uit.no/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=260%3Aworkshop-acquisition-at-the-interface-&catid=281&Itemid=112 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition 

Call Deadline: 01-Aug-2012 

Meeting Description:

The Workshop Acquisition at the Interface will be held in Tromsø, Norway, at the Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics (CASTL), University of Tromsø. The goal of this workshop is to provide an occasion for researchers, who work on acquisition of phenomena pertaining to interfaces (e.g., syntax-pragmatics, syntax-semantics, morphology-phonology, and etc.), to present their recent findings, exchange ideas and address new questions in the field.

Confirmed Invited Speakers:

1. Holger Hopp, University of Mannheim, Germany
2. Aafke Hulk, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands 
3. Jason Rothman, University of Florida, USA & University of Ottawa, Canada
4. Elena Tkachenko, Oslo University College, Norway
5. Ianthi Tsimpli, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece 

2nd Call for Papers: 

Deadline extension: August 1, 2012

Submissions of abstracts are invited with reference to the following issues: 

- How do various language learners acquire linguistic phenomena pertaining to interfaces? 
- Is there a difference between first language acquisition, child bilingual acquisition and adult second language learning of the same phenomena? 
- Which interfaces are more/less vulnerable? 
- What is the difference between intra-linguistic interfaces (e.g., morphology-semantics) and extra-linguistic interfaces (e.g., syntax-pragmatics)? 

Anonymous abstracts should be a maximum of one page in length with an additional page for examples, figures, tables, and references. 

Online Submission Address: 

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wai2012 

Online Submission Instruction: 

- After providing author's information, write a short abstract (two or three sentences). If the text box for abstract is empty, the submission will not proceed. 
- Please attach a PDF version of the full abstract in the 'Upload Paper' item of the form and leave the 'Abstract Only' box unchecked. 
- Key words must be provided one per line without any commas. 

Notification: August 25, 2012 

Financial Support: 

Details regarding financial support will be finalized after presenters are accepted. We anticipate that a small travel subsidy will be available to graduate students and post-docs who receive the highest ratings on submitted abstracts.

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