27.3933, Calls: Language Acquisition/Spain

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Subject: 27.3933, Calls: Language Acquisition/Spain

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Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2016 15:51:41
From: Cristina Suarez-Gomez [cristina.suarez at uib.es]
Subject: Acquisition of Subject-Verb Agreement

 
Full Title: Acquisition of Subject-Verb Agreement 

Date: 07-Sep-2017 - 09-Sep-2017
Location: Palma (Balearic Islands), Spain 
Contact Person: Géraldine Legendre
Meeting Email: legendre at jhu.edu
Web Site: http://www.uibcongres.org/GALA13/paginas/pagina_421_2.en.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition 

Call Deadline: 13-Feb-2017 

Meeting Description:

Subject-Verb (SV) agreement is a fundamental and cross-linguistically frequent
morpho-syntactic relation, which has been shown to pose significant challenges
to both normally developing children (e.g. in comprehension, Johnson, de
Villiers, & Seymour, 2005; Pérez-Leroux, 2005) and language-impaired children
(e.g. Clahsen et al, 1997; Dromi et al., 1999; Rispens & Been, 2007).
Difficulty with SV agreement has in fact been claimed to be a marker of SLI,
e.g. in German (Eisenbeiss, Bartke and Clahsen, 2005/2006). There also exists
experimental evidence that argues against generalizing across languages, on
the basis of early acquisition of French SV agreement in normally developing
children (Legendre et al., 2010, 2014) and in SLI children (Rice et al.,
1997). These discrepancies bear on broader theoretical debates, in particular
whether the system of knowledge underlying SV agreement is (im)mature or
(un)impaired, depending on the population considered, and/or whether
perceptual and processing factors are primarily responsible for the variety of
empirical observations.


Call for Papers:

The workshop invites submissions on studies addressing these and other
questions related to SV agreement and language acquisition theory more
broadly, by enlarging the cross-linguistic comparison, opening the discussion
to the full range of morpho-syntactic features, targeting a variety of
language acquisition contexts, and incorporating both grammar and processing
perspectives.

Prospective authors are invited to submit abstracts in any of the topics
listed above. Abstracts should not exceed one page in letter-size or A4 paper,
with one extra page for examples, tables, figures and references, with 1-inch
or 2.5 cm margins on all sides and 12 point font-size. The abstract should
have a clear title and should not reveal the name of the author(s).
Submissions are limited to one individual and one joint abstract per author,
or two joint abstracts per author.

When you submit your abstract on the GALA conference website
(http://www.uibcongres.org/GALA13/presentacion/index.en.html), you will be
asked to provide a short summary (150 words max.) of the abstract which will
be added to the book of abstracts. Upon submission, please indicate whether
your work should be considered for an oral presentation (either the Main
Session or one of the Workshops) or for a poster (or both). Submitting the
same abstract to both the Main Session and to one of the Workshops is not
allowed.




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