LINGUIST List 22.3538 Fri Sep 09 2011 Calls: Language Acq/ Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio (Jrnl) Editor for this issue: Brent Miller <brentlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Giusy Gallo , Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio Message 1: Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio Date: 07-Sep-2011 From: Giusy Gallo <segreteria.riflgmail.com> Subject: Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition Call Deadline: 02-Nov-2011 Language acquisition is one of the best examples of the necessity of a multidisciplinary approach to the study of human language as it is represented by cognitive sciences. Social, cognitive and motor skills accompanying the development of linguistic systems and the development of a particular language by children cannot be considered independent from one another. The reflection on the development of linguistic categories in the child first grammar raises important issues which can be summarized as follows: a. Do children grammars differ from adult grammar models? If they do, in what do they differ? b. What the evolution of such grammars into adult grammars consists of? c. What is present, in the child's mind, when the acquisition process begins? d. Which mechanisms are used in the course of the acquisition process ? e. What type of input drives the learning system from the initial phases to the more advanced ones? f. Do children rest on the gradual knowledge of social conventions or do they engage in a structural sophisticated analysis? g. Is it reasonable to assume that different processes are in place during acquisition (Bloom, 1994), for vocabulary, syntax, morphology, and that they are somehow related to each other? The review on language acquisition will focus on the most general questions as well as on the following topics: - Language and cognition - Language and theories of mind - Ontogenesis and phylogenesis - Acquisition of linguistic systems and subsystems - Language acquisition and sign language - Language acquisition and language disorders - Experimental methodologies for data elicitation and analysis - Language acquisition and linguistic theories - Second language acquisition - Bilingual acquisition Please, read full call for papers: http://www.rifl.unical.it/index.php/component/content/article/111-call-for- papers-numero-4-dicembre-2011-acquisizione-del-linguaggio.html The manuscripts should have a theoretical rather than an experimental focus. Papers from the following areas are accepted: philosophy of language, semiotics, and history of philosophy, anthropology, sociology and social sciences, psychology, neuroscience. Submissions may be in Italian, English, French, German, Spanish and Russian. All submissions must be prepared for blind review. The author's name, the institutional affiliation and the title's paper must be placed in a separate file. Papers must be sent as Microsoft Word file (.doc or .rtf) to: segreteria.riflgmail.com Instructions for authors: Max length: 40000 characters (including spaces) for articles (including the references) and reviews; 20000 characters (including spaces) for interviews; 10000 characters (including spaces) for specific paper review. Submission deadline: November 2, 2011 Notification of acceptance: December 1, 2011 Final version: December 21, 2011 Issue publication: December 2011 For further informations: info.riflgmail.com Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 09-Sep-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.