29.710, Calls: Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theories/USA

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Subject: 29.710, Calls: Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theories/USA

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Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 18:31:36
From: Nozomi Tanaka [tanakan at indiana.edu]
Subject: 8th biennial conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition - North America

 
Full Title: 8th biennial conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition - North America 
Short Title: GALANA-8 

Date: 27-Sep-2018 - 30-Sep-2018
Location: Bloomington, IN, USA 
Contact Person: GALANA-8 Organizing Committee
Meeting Email: galana8 at indiana.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition; Linguistic Theories 

Call Deadline: 21-Mar-2018 

Meeting Description:

The 8th biennial conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition -
North America (GALANA-8) will take place at Indiana University in Bloomington,
Indiana, on September 28-30, 2018. 

The GALANA conference features theoretically informed research on all types of
language acquisition scenarios, including (but not limited to) monolingual
first language acquisition, bilingual/multilingual first language acquisition,
second language acquisition by children as well as adults, third language
acquisition, acquisition of signed as well as spoken languages, language
disorders, language acquisition in the presence of cognitive impairment and
autism, the development of pidgins and creoles, and language attrition.
GALANA-8 will be preceded by a special workshop, ''Attrition in Individuals
and Communities'' on Thursday, September 27.

The invited speakers for the main session are Charles Reiss (Concordia
University), Lydia White (McGill University), and Charles Yang (University of
Pennsylvania). 

The invited speakers for the special workshop on ''Attrition in Individuals
and Communities'' will include Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig (Indiana University),
Barbara Köpke (University of Toulouse), Silvina Montrul (University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Kevin Rottet (Indiana University), Monika
Schmid (University of Essex), and David Stringer (Indiana University).


Call for Papers:

GALANA-8 invites abstracts for the main session (oral & poster presentations)
as well as the special workshop ''Attrition in Individuals and Communities''
(poster presentations only).

For the main session, abstracts are invited for original, unpublished
generative research in all acquisition subfields: L1 acquisition
(monolingual), L1 acquisition (bilingual/multilingual), L2 acquisition
(children), L2 acquisition (adults), L3 acquisition, acquisition of signed
languages, language disorders, acquisition in the presence of cognitive
impairment and autism, the development of pidgins and creoles, and language
attrition. Please indicate in the submission system if you want to be
considered for an oral presentation, a poster presentation, or both.

Abstracts for poster presentations are also invited for the special workshop
''Attrition in Individuals and Communities'' on September 27. Please indicate
in the submission system that you would like to be considered for the
workshop. Posters accepted for the workshop are also invited to present during
the GALANA-8 main session. The workshop will make explicit the link between
the phenomena of attrition and language acquisition and will bring together
the two communities most directly. Attrition and acquisition are most often
treated separately at conferences and in research, even if there is partial
overlap in the individuals conducting the research. The workshop will
highlight the fact that language input and use is often not a linear process
such as when a child leaves the minority language for school or an erstwhile
language learner is assigned to a post in which language skills must be
rekindled. 

Submission guidelines:

Abstracts must be limited to 500 words (with an optional second page for
examples, figures and references). 
Abstracts must be correctly prepared for double-blind peer review.
Submissions are limited to one single-authored and one co-authored papers. 
Abstract should be submitted at http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/galana8

More information is available at the conference website:
http://www.indiana.edu/~galana8
Questions should be directed to the conference e-mail: galana8 at indiana.edu




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