THE 39th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

 

NOVEMBER 7-9, 2014

 

Keynote Speaker: Richard Aslin, University of Rochester

“From sounds to words to grammatical categories: The role of distributional learning”

Plenary Speaker: Katherine Demuth, Macquarie University

“Prosodic effects on the emergence of grammatical morphemes: Evidence from perception and production”

 

Submissions of abstracts for 20-minute talks will be accepted beginning April 1 at:

http://www.bu.edu/bucld/abstracts/abstract-submission/

DEADLINE.  All submissions must be received by 8:00 PM EST, May 15, 2014.

Submissions that present research on any topic in the fields of first and second language acquisition from any theoretical perspectives will be fully considered, including: Artificial Languages, Bilingualism, Cognition & Language, Creoles & Pidgins, Dialects, Discourse and Narrative, Gesture, Hearing Impairment and Deafness, Input & Interaction, Language Disorders, Linguistic Theory, Neurolinguistics, Pragmatics, Pre-linguistic Development, Reading and Literacy, Signed Languages, Sociolinguistics, and Speech Perception & Production.

A suggested format and style for abstracts is available at:

http://www.bu.edu/bucld/abstracts/abstract-format/

 

FURTHER INFORMATION

 

General conference information is available at:

http://www.bu.edu/bucld

 

Questions about abstracts should be sent to langconf@bu.edu

 

Boston University Conference on Language Development

96 Cummington Street, Room 244

Boston, MA 02215

U.S.A.