Date: 02-Apr-2010
From: Kate Iserman <langconf bu.edu>
Subject: 35th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development
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Full Title: 35th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development
Short Title: BUCLD
Date: 05-Nov-2010 - 07-Nov-2010
Location: Boston, MA, USA
Contact Person: BUCLD Student Co-Organizers
Meeting Email: langconfbu.edu
Web Site: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/BUCLD/
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Linguistic
Theories; Sociolinguistics
Call Deadline: 15-May-2010
Meeting Description:
The 35th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development
November 5-7, 2010
The Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) was started in
1976 by students in the Applied Psycholinguistics Program. Last year the 33rd
annual BUCLD took place on October 31-November 2, 2008.
The Conference, which has become one of the best known conferences on language
development in the world, is now run by students in the Program in Applied
Linguistics, under the guidance of a faculty adviser.
The Conference involves year-round planning and draws over 500 people from all
over the U.S. and around the world. It includes presentations in such areas as
theoretical approaches to language acquisition, cross-cultural language
development, second language development, language disorders, and literacy
development.
Each year, close to 500 abstracts are submitted to the conference, from which
about 87 papers and 66 posters are chosen for presentation. Internationally
renowned researchers also give keynote and plenary addresses, as well as a lunch
symposium on a topic of current interest.
The Conference is funded largely by the money taken in each year at the
Conference, including registration fees. In addition, the Conferences in
2007 through 2011 are supported in part by the National Science Foundation under
Grant No. BCS 0548399 and the National Institutes of Health under Grant No. R13
HD42130-01.
Call for Papers
The 35th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development
November 5-7, 2010
Keynote Speaker:
Rachel Mayberry, University of California at San Diego
"Nurture and biology in language acquisition: What the hands say"
Plenary Speaker:
William Snyder, University of Connecticut
"Children's grammatical conservatism: Implications for syntactic theory"
Lunch Symposium:
"The acquisition of number words: Integrating formal and developmental perspectives"
Susan Carey, Harvard University
Justin Halberda, Johns Hopkins University
Jeff Lidz, University of Maryland
Julien Musolino, Rutgers University
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: 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/linguistics/BUCLD/template.html
We will begin accepting abstract submissions on April 15. Please check
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/BUCLD for a link to the submission form and any
important updates.
Deadline: All submissions must be received by 8:00 PM EST, May 15, 2010.
Further Information
General conference information is available at:
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/BUCLD/
Boston University Conference on Language Development
96 Cummington Street, Room 244
Boston, MA 02215
U.S.A.
Telephone: (617) 353-3085
Questions about abstracts should be sent to abstractbu.edu
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