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Directory         1.     Edy Veneziano , Variation in First and Second Language Acquisition: Comparative Perspectives Message 1: Variation in First and Second Language Acquisition: Comparative Perspectives Date: 22-Nov-2010 From: Edy Veneziano <edy.venezianoparisdescartes.fr> Subject: Variation in First and Second Language Acquisition: Comparative Perspectives E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Variation in First and Second Language Acquisition: Comparative Perspectives Date: 07-Jun-2011 - 09-Jun-2011 Location: Paris, France Contact Person: Maya Hickmann Meeting Email: Maya.hickmannsfl.cnrs.fr Web Site: http://adyloc2011.sfl.cnrs.fr Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2011 Meeting Description: Variation can take many forms: variations among individuals, variations during development, and/or variations across languages or language families at comparable ages or in comparable learning situations. The conference has two main goals. The first one is to examine all types of variations during language acquisition in order to show their implications for our understanding of the acquisition process and their use in various contexts. Variation phenomena will be examined mainly for the acquisition of oral or signed languages, and in its disorders, in relation to other communicative dimensions (for example, context, interaction, co-verbal gestures). The second aim of the conference will be to stress the usefulness of comparative approaches in the study of variations for language acquisition. Such perspectives include various types of comparisons, which are sometimes combined, among different languages (including within a typological perspective), different types of acquisition (first and second language acquisition, by the child or by the adult, early or late bilingualism?), as well as different populations (autism, aphasia, SLI?) whose atypical acquisition paths can shed light on the development of more typical children and adult learners. The study of variation in a comparative perspective can address many questions debated in language-related research in the cognitive sciences: the relative weight of constraints from cognitive and linguistic systems, the impact of specific properties of source and/or target languages, endogenous processes underlying the acquisition path of particular learners, the existence of a critical period for language acquisition. Applied research will also be discussed, particularly in teaching contexts (teaching first and second languages) and in clinical contexts (helping patients with disorders in oral language). Keynote Speakers: Clark, Eve (Stanford, USA) Lieven, Elena (Manchester, UK & Leipzig, Germany) MacWhinney, Brian (Carnegie Mellon, USA) Slobin, Dan (Berkeley, USA) Tager Flusberg, Helen (Boston, USA) Von Stutterheim, Christiane (Heidelberg, Germany) Other Speakers: Bardel, Camilla Hickmann, Maya Rose, Yvan Bassano, Dominique Jisa, Harriet Salazar Orvig, Anne Bernicot, Josie Kern, Sophie Sanz, Gema Champagne, Maud Morgenstern, Aliyah Van Geert, Paul Choi, Soonja Nir-Sagiv, Bracha Veneziano, Edy Choi, Jinnam Noyau, Colette Véronique, Daniel Christophe, Anne Özyürek, Asli Vihman, Marylin Dardier, Virginie Pizzuto, Elena Volker, Olga Démonet, Jean-François Rast, Rebekah Watorek, Marzena Garcia-Debanc, Claudine Reilly, Judy Wauquier, Sophie Organizing Committee: Hickmann, Maya, CNRS & Université de St Denis Paris 8, France Jisa, Harriet, Université Lumière Lyon 2, France Veneziano, Edy, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France Morgenstern, Aliyah, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, France Scientific Committee: Duvignau, Karine; Hickmann, Maya; Jisa, Harriet; Lacheret, Anne; Morgenstern, Aliyah; Parisse, Christophe; Rose, Yvan; Veneziano, Edy; Wauquier, Sophie. Languages: French and English. Call for Posters: There will be two poster sessions, one on 7 June (day 1) and another on 8 June (day 2). Proposals are invited on any topic of this conference. Submission Deadline: 15 January 2011. Languages: French or English. Abstract maximal length: 300 words The abstract should include the aim of the study, the methodology, results and some discussion. The review process will be entirely anonymous: Name(s) and personal information (affiliation, address for correspondence and email) of author(s) should figure on a separate page. Submissions have to be sent to: adyloc2011sfl.cnrs.fr Notification of acceptance will be sent by 15 March 2011. 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