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 The 19th Annual

 Boston University Conference on Language Development

 November 4, 5 and 6, 1994

 Keynote Speaker: Andrew Radford, University of Essex
 Plenary Speaker: Jill de Villiers, Smith College

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 FIRST AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

All topics in the field of language acquisition will be fully considered,
including:

 Bilingualism Literacy
 Cognition & Language Narrative
 Creoles & Pidgins Neurolinguistics
 Discourse Pragmatics
 Exceptional Language Pre-linguistic Development
 Input & Interaction Signed Languages
 Language Disorders Sociolinguistics
 Lexicon Speech Perception & Production
 Linguistic Theory (Syntax, Semantics, Phonology, Morphology)

Abstracts submitted must represent original, unpublished research.
We regret that we are unable to accept more than TWO submissions
per author. (This includes abstracts with multiple authors.)
Presentations will be 20 minutes long, plus 10 minutes for questions.

PLEASE SUBMIT:

 1) six copies of an anonymous, clearly titled 450-word
 summary for review

 2) one 3 x 5 card stating:

 i) Title, ii) Topic area, iii) audiovisual requests, and
 iv) for EACH author:

 a) Full name & affiliation d) Summer address & phone
 b) Current address & phone e) Summer e-mail address
 c) E-mail address f) Fax number

Please include a self-addressed, stamped postcard for acknowledgment
of receipt. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent by
late July. Pre-registration materials and preliminary schedule will
be available in late August 1994. Note: All conference papers will be
selected on the basis of abstracts submitted. Although each abstract
will be evaluated individually, we will attempt to honor requests to
schedule accepted papers together in group sessions.

If your paper is accepted, you will be asked to submit a 150-word
abstract for inclusion in the conference program book. Requests for
these program abstracts will be sent with acceptance letters. Program
abstracts must be submitted on diskette or by e-mail.

 DEADLINE: All submissions must be RECEIVED by May 15, 1994.

Send abstract submissions to:

 Boston University Telephone: (617) 353-3085
 Conference on Language Development Fax: (617) 353-6218
 138 Mountfort Street E-mail: langconflouis-xiv.bu.edu OR
 Boston, MA 02215 U.S.A. infolouis-xiv.bu.edu (automated reply)
 (WE ARE NOT ABLE TO ACCEPT ABSTRACTS
 SUBMISSIONS BY FAX OR E-MAIL.)

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THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS INTERDISCIPLINARY
CONFERENCE ON FRENCH STUDIES

March 3-5, 1995

Sponsored by:

GRADUATE STUDENTS OF FRENCH
THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

And the Departments of: Comparative Literature, Philosophy, History,
Sociology, Linguistics, Art History, Music, Center for African Studies,
Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, and the Unit for Cinema Studies

Please submit three copies of 1-2 page proposals or abstracts on any aspect
of French and Francophone culture, civilization, language, and literature.
Especially welcome are papers and panels exploring the relations between
French and other fields of study: comparative literature, literary theory,
history, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, music, the visual arts. For
anonymous review, please include a 3x5 index card stating name, address,
telephone number, e-mail address if available, and the title of paper or
panel. Your name should not appear on the abstract or proposal.

Submissions should be addressed to:

Conference organizers
Department of French
707 South Mathews Avenue
Urbana, Illinois 61801

For inquiries, call James Madden (217) 352-6714, or send e-mail to Wail
Hassan (whassanuxa.cso.uiuc.edu).

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: MAY 30, 1994