THE 36th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT 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 will begin accepting abstract submissions on April 15, 2011. 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@bu.edu