We are pleased to announce that pre-registration for BUCLD 36 is now available at:

http://www.bu.edu/bucld/conference-info/registration/

 

The 36th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development will be held at Boston University, on November 4 to November 6. Our invited speakers are:

 

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, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

The full conference schedule is available at:

http://www.bu.edu/bucld/conference-info/schedule/

 

The Society for Language Development will hold their Annual Symposium on November 3.  Please check their webpage for the most current information at:

http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/sld/symposium.html

 

REMINDER TO STUDENT PRESENTERS:

 

The Paula Menyuk Student Travel Award 2011 will be given to about 20 student presenters (Bachelor, Master’s or PhD).  The award entails the reimbursement of travel costs of up to $300. For detailed requirements and more information please see our website and fill out our application (http://www.bu.edu/bucld/travel-hotel/travel-award/). The deadline for receiving applications is October 7, 2011.

 

More information about BUCLD, including information about accommodations in the area, is available at our website:

http://www.bu.edu/bucld

 

We look forward to seeing you at BUCLD 36!

 

Sincerely,

Alia Biller, Esther Chung, and Amelia Kimball,

BUCLD 36 Co-organizers