LINGUIST List 22.3741 Sun Sep 25 2011 Confs: Language Acquisition/USA Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.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.     Richard Aslin , Society for Language Development Message 1: Society for Language Development Date: 23-Sep-2011 From: Richard Aslin <aslincvs.rochester.edu> Subject: Society for Language Development E-mail this message to a friend Society for Language Development Short Title: SLD Date: 03-Nov-2011 - 03-Nov-2011 Location: Boston, MA, USA Contact: Richard Aslin Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/sld/symposium.html Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition Meeting Description: The Society for Language Development announces its annual symposium to be held in Boston on November 3, 2011. Connections between written language and spoken language Thursday, November 3, 2011, 1:00-5:00 pm George Sherman Union Boston University Invited Speakers: Reading: Universals and writing system constraints, Charles Perfetti (University of Pittsburgh) Learning to read and write an alphabet, Rebecca Treiman (Washington University) The deep interdependence of reading and spoken language, Mark Seidenberg (University of Wisconsin) Reception to follow the symposium, 5:00-6:00 pm To Register for the SLD symposium AND the Boston University Child Language Development (BUCLD) conference, which follows the SLD symposium on November 4-6, please visit this website: https://www.bu.edu/phpbin/bucld/ To Register for the SLD symposium ONLY, visit this website: http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/sld/symposium.html Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 25-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.