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csli.Stanford.EDU>FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Please note that the deadline for submitting abstracts for the HPSG-2000 conference is almost upon us. All abstracts must be received either via email or hard copy on or before 15 February 2000 Please see below for details. HPSG-2000 7th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar University of California, Berkeley 22-23 July 2000 The 7th International Conference on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar will be held on Saturday and Sunday, July 22-23, 2000, as part of the Berkeley Formal Grammar Conference 2000 at the University of California, Berkeley, The event will consist of LFG2000 (July 19-20), HPSG-2000 (July 22-23), and a common day of workshops on July 21, entitled "Lexical and Constructional Explanations in Constraint-Based Grammar", offering a valuable opportunity for interaction among researchers of these two frameworks. Abstracts for HPSG-2000 are solicited for 20-minute presentations (followed by 10 minutes of discussion) which address linguistic, foundational, or computational issues relating to the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Authors are particularly encouraged to submit papers which will be accessible to researchers and students working in both HPSG and LFG. SUBMISSION DETAILS We invite E-MAIL submissions of abstracts for 20-minute papers, to consist of two parts 1) a separate information page in plain text format, containing - author name(s) - affiliation(s) - e-mail and postal address(es) - title of paper 2) an extended abstract of not more than 5 (five) pages, including all figures and references. Abstracts may be either in plain ASCII or in (unix-compatible encoded) PostScript, PDF, or DVI format. Abstracts should be sent to hpsg2000Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
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