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THE 36th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY
CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
Abstract submissions are open until May 15.
NOVEMBER 4-6, 2011
Keynote Speaker:
Sandra Waxman, Northwestern University
"What's in a word? Links between linguistic and conceptual
organization in infants and
young children"
Plenary Speaker:
Cornelia Hamann, University of Oldenburg
"Bilingual development and language assessment"
Lunch Symposium: "Morphology in second language acquisition and processing"
Harald Clahsen, University of Essex/University of Potsdam
Holger Hopp, University of Mannheim
Donna Lardiere, Georgetown University
Silvina Montrul (organizer), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Submissions that present research on any topic in the fields of first
and second
language acquisition from any theoretical perspective will be fully
considered. Eligible
topics include: Bilingualism, Cognition and Language, Creoles and
Pidgins,Dialects,
Discourse and Narrative, Gesture, Hearing Impairment and Deafness, Input and
Interaction, Language Disorders, Linguistic Theory, Neurolinguistics,
Pragmatics,Pre-linguistic Development, Reading and Literacy, Signed
Languages,
Sociolinguistics, and Speech Perception and Production.
A suggested format and style for abstracts is available at:
http://www.bu.edu/bucld/abstracts/abstract-format/
We have begun accepting abstract submissions.
Please check http://www.bu.edu/bucld/ for a link to the submission
form and any
important updates.
DEADLINE: All submissions must be received by 8:00 PM EDT, May 15, 2011.
FURTHER INFORMATION
General conference information is available at:
http://www.bu.edu/bucld/
Boston University Conference on Language Development
96 Cummington Street, Room 244
Boston, MA 02215
U.S.A.
Questions about abstracts should be sent to abstract(a)bu.edu
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BUCLD 35 Organizing Committee
