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benjamins.com>NEW ANNUAL REVIEW IN FIRST LANGUAGE ACQUISITION CALL FOR PAPERS John Benjamins Publishing Company is launching a new yearly publication: The Annual Review of Language Acquisition The Annual Review will be devoted to research in the domain of first language acquisition, i.e., the process of acquiring command of a first language. It will focus on research that has been reported in recently defended PhD theses. The major share of contributions to the yearbook will consist of 20-25 page (approximately) edited summaries of, or excerpts from, dissertations addressing issues in first language acquisition. These papers should be written by the original author of the dissertation, conform to the format of a journal article, and thus be comprehensible without reference to the source text. The Annual Review will publish reports of original research pertaining to various approaches to first language acquisition, be it experimental, observational, computational, clinical or theoretical, provided that the work is of high quality. The Annual Review also welcomes studies in which first language acquisition is compared to L2 acquisition, as well as studies on language acquisition under abnormal conditions. In all of the areas covered, the Annual Review of Language Acquisition will be dedicated to creative and groundbreaking research. The yearbook, in its printed form, will be supplemented by an attractive website. The website will provide access to electronic copies the printed papers, but, more importantly, it will present background materials such as a resume of the author, excerpts of audio or video materials related to the reported research, tips for further reading, and links to relevant websites. Any student who has a dissertation completed in 1999 is invited to submit a manuscript based on this work. In order to be eligible for publication, the manuscript should be of outstanding quality. Particularly, contributions are sought which excel with regard to the integration of behavioral data and (psycho) linguistic theorizing. More specifically, the Annual Review sollicits papers which * develop new theoretical ideas to account for a set of facts; * open up a new empirical domain, e.g. explore a relatively unknown language, or apply a new or unknown experimental approach. * report findings that are considered important for pertinent debates in the field. Next to these research reports, which will be subject to peer-review, each issue of the Annual Review will contain one critical review of the state-of-the-art in a subdomain of first language acquisition research. This paper will be commissioned by the editors. The Annual Review of Language Acquisition Editors Lynn Santelmann (Portland State University) Maaike Verrips, (Utrecht University) Frank Wijnen, (Utrecht University) Editorial Board Peter Culicover (The Ohio State University) Katherine Demuth (Brown University) Jeff Elman (UCSD) LouAnn Gerken (University of Arizona) Marco Haverkort (University Groningen) Jack Hoeksema (Univerity of Groningen) Angeliek van Hout (Utrecht University) Nina Hyams (UCLA) Clara C. Levelt (Free University Amsterdam) Laurence B. Leonard (Purdue University) Natascha Mueller (University of Hamburg) Johanne Paradis (University of Alberta) William Philip (Utrecht University) Susan Powers (University of Potsdam) Thomas Roeper (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Petra Schulz (University of Konstanz) Ann Senghas (Columbia University) William B. Snyder (University of Connecticut) Karin Stromswold (Rutgers University) Jill de Villiers (Smith College) The managing editor at John Benjamins is: Kees Vaes (kees.vaesMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
socrates.berkeley.edu>FIRST CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS LEXICAL AND CONSTRUCTIONAL EXPLANATIONS IN CONSTRAINT-BASED GRAMMARS 21 July 2000 The University of California at Berkeley as part of the BERKELEY FORMAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE 2000 URL: http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~bfg2000/ Proposal submission receipt deadline: 15 February 2000 Submissions should be sent to the electronic address listed below PURPOSE "Lexical and Constructional Explanations in Constraint-Based Grammars" is the theme of a number of common workshops to be held as a part of the Berkeley Formal Grammar Conference 2000 at the University of California, Berkeley from July 19-23 2000. The Berkeley event will also consist of: LFG2000, July 19-20, URL: http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/lfg2000/ HPSG-2000, July 22-23, URL: http://hpsg.stanford.edu/hpsg2000 We welcome submissions of proposals for workshops that are of common interest to the LFG, HPSG, and Construction Grammar communities and are likely to further interactions between the three. Workhops talks should be on a coherent topic that can be expected to generate opposing views and discussion with the broader audience. Workshop papers should be distributed in advance among participants and participants should refer to each other's approaches. Each workshop can accommodate introductory remarks framing the issues and three to four 30-minute talks. Proposals should contain: 1. Title of the proposed workshop. 2. Short statement explaining its relevance to the LFG and HPSG conferences. 3. List of preliminary participants to be invited, OR: statement of intent to organize such a workshop with a preliminary CFP. (Potential workshop organizers should note that the conference cannot provide any financial support to workhop participants.) TIMETABLE Deadline for receipt of workshop proposals: 15 February 2000 Acceptances sent out: 31 March 2000 Conference: 21 July 2000 ORGANIZERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES Send workshop proposals to the local conference organizers 1. either electronically (preferred, ASCII only): bfg2000Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue