[parislinguists] 12th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA 12)

[Oana Lungu oanalungu82@yahoo.fr [parislinguists]]

The Laboratoirede Linguistique de Nantes (LLING) is pleased to announce the 12th GenerativeApproaches to Language Acquisition conference (GALA 12) to be held at theUniversity of Nantes, Nantes (France) on September 10-12, 2015.
The conferenceprovides a forum for discussion of recent, high quality research on first andsecond language acquisition, bilingual acquisition, language pathology, the acquisition ofsign language and brain imagingresearch for acquisition and pathology. GALA has been previously held inDurham (1993), Groningen (1995), Edinburgh (1997), Potsdam (1999), Palmela(2001), Utrecht (2003), Siena (2005), Barcelona (2007), Lisbon (2009), Thessaloniki(2011) and, most recently, Oldenburg (2013). 

GALA 2015 will include, in addition to the Mainsession, four Workshops: Workshop 1:Heritage Language Acquisition Native vs.Heritage vs. Second Language Acquisition (co-organized with JanetGrijzenhout, BSL, University of Konstanz) InvitedSpeakers:Elabbas Benmamoun (University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign)Maria Polinsky (Harvard University)  Workshop 2: The Role of Prosody in Early SpeechPerception (Co-organizedwith Judit Gervain, LPP – UMR 8242, CNRS/Paris V) InvitedSpeaker: Marina Nespor (SISSA)  Workshop 3: Acquisition of Causation:Culmination Entailments and Agency(Co-organizedwith Fabienne Martin, University of Stuttgart) InvitedSpeakers: Angeliek van Hout (University of Groningen)Nina Kazanina (University of Bristol) Workshop 4: Segments & Interactions in Phonological Acquisition InvitedSpeaker: Eirini Sanoudaki (Bangor University)  Organizing committee: Jiyoung ChoiHamida DemirdacheNatasa KnezevicOana LunguTyphanie PrinceAli TifritLaurence Voeltzel 
Call for Papers For the Main Session, we invite abstract submissions for30 minute oral presentations (including 10 minutes for discussion) or posters oforiginal, unpublished work on all subfields of generative language acquisition:L1 acquisition, L2 acquisition, bilingualism, heritage language acquisition, languagepathology, sign language, etc.  In addition to the Main Session, there will be fourWorkshops (see here). The submission rules for theWorkshops are the same as those for the Main Session.  Submission guidelines: Abstracts should not exceed one page in letter-size orA4 paper, with one extra page for examples, tables, figures and references, with 1 inch or 2.5 cm margins on allsides and 12 point font size. The abstract should have a clear title and should notreveal the name of the author(s). The abstracts must be uploaded as PDFattachments to the EasyChair site. Submissions are limited to one individualand one joint abstract per author, or two joint abstracts per author.  When you submit your abstract on the EasyChair site,you will be asked to provide a short summary of the abstract. Upon submission,please indicate whether your work should be considered for an oral presentation(Main Session or one of the Workshops) or for a poster (or both). Submittingthe same abstract to both the Main Session and to one of the Workshops is notallowed.  To submit an abstract, please go to thefollowing EasyChair page:  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gala2015  Importantdates: Deadline for submissions: April 1st, 2015, 11:59 PM, CETNotification of acceptance: May 12, 2015Conference dates: September 10-12, 2015  If you have any further questions, please contact usat gala2015 at univ-nantes.fr 
Please visit our conference website: www.gala2015.univ-nantes.fr 

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