THE 40th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
NOVEMBER 13-15, 2015
Join us for a special 40th anniversary meeting of the Boston University Conference on Language Development!
Lila Gleitman (University of Pennsylvania), the keynote speaker of the very first BUCLD meeting, will reprise her role this year. We will also have a celebratory session looking back to where we've come from and where we're going as a field.
Any past presenters or attendees with photos from previous BUCLD events are encouraged to share them with the organizing committee at langconf(a)bu.edu.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Submissions of abstracts for 20-minute talks and posters will be accepted beginning April 1 at:
http://www.bu.edu/bucld/abstracts/abstract-submission/
DEADLINE. All abstract submissions must be received by 8:00 PM EST, May 15, 2015.
Abstracts must be limited to 500 words, with one extra page for examples, figures, tables, and references. 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 but not limited to: 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<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(a)bu.edu<mailto:langconf@bu.edu>.
Boston University Conference on Language Development
96 Cummington Street, Room 244
Boston, MA 02215
U.S.A.
