28.4631, Calls: Language Acquisition/UK

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-4631. Mon Nov 06 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.4631, Calls: Language Acquisition/UK

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Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 10:30:35
From: Ludovica Serratrice [l.serratrice at reading.ac.uk]
Subject: Child Language Symposium

 
Full Title: Child Language Symposium 
Short Title: CLS 

Date: 25-Jun-2018 - 26-Jun-2018
Location: Reading, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Ludovica Serratrice
Meeting Email: l.serratrice at reading.ac.uk
Web Site: http://www.reading.ac.uk/celm/events/cls2018/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition 

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2018 

Meeting Description:

The Child Language Symposium is a UK-based conference on any aspect of typical
and atypical language and literacy development.

The conference theme is “Multilingualism and literacy in typical and atypical
development”. The four keynote speakers are:

Kate Cain (Lancaster University)
Erika Hoff (Florida Atlantic University)
Caroline Rowland (Max Planck for Psycholinguistics – Nijmegen)
Charles Yang (University of Pennsylvania)


Call for Papers:

The Child Language Symposium 2018 - CLS2018 - will be hosted by the Centre for
Literacy and Multilingualism - University of Reading - on Monday 25 June and
Tuesday 26 June 2018.

We welcome submissions in any area of language development (Artificial
Languages, Bilingualism/Multilingualism, Cognition & Language, Discourse and
Narrative, Gesture, Hearing Impairment and Deafness, Input & Interaction,
Developmental Language Disorders, Neurolinguistics, Pragmatics, Pre-linguistic
Development, Reading and Literacy, Signed Languages, Speech Perception &
Production), and in particular any papers that specifically address the
conference theme.

Abstract submission is now open and closes on Monday 15 January 2018. Please
log in via Easy Chair to submit your proposal: 

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cls2018

Types of presentations: 

1) paper
2) poster
3) colloquium, with thematically related papers, discussion and audience
participation.

Length of abstracts: paper or poster (450 words max - excluding references and
title of paper; colloquium (max. 650 words, excluding references and including
titles of papers but no mention of presenters by name. If a colloquium
proposal is accepted, an abstract will be requested for each paper, max 300
words).

Length of presentations in the conference

Paper: 20 min. and 10 min. for discussion and change of rooms

Colloquium: 90 or 180 min.

Poster size: A1, max, landscape or portrait.

Presenter policy

Each participant can appear as the first author of one presentation only. A
colloquium convener can also present at the colloquium or elsewhere in the
programme.

The proposals for all presentations will be evaluated anonymously by at least
two reviewers. The criteria include the quality of the content and the clarity
of the abstract, and the contribution to the field. Papers on any aspects of
literacy and multilingualism will receive special consideration.

For any queries, please email l.serratrice at reading.ac.uk




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