LINGUIST List 17.2649

Mon Sep 18 2006

Confs: General Ling/USA

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Directory         1.    BUCLD 31, Boston University Conference on Language Development 31


Message 1: Boston University Conference on Language Development 31
Date: 14-Sep-2006
From: BUCLD 31 <langconfbu.edu>
Subject: Boston University Conference on Language Development 31



Boston University Conference on Language Development 31 Short Title: BUCLD 31


Date: 03-Nov-2006 - 05-Nov-2006 Location: Boston, MA, USA Contact: Boston University BUCLD Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Meeting Description:

BUCLD 31 - November 3-5, 2006 - Boston University

web: www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/e-mail: langconfbu.edu

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that pre-registration for BUCLD 31 is now available at: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/prereg.htm

The 31st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development will be held at Boston University, November 3-5, 2006. Our invited speakers are:

Roberta Golinkoff, University of Delaware Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Temple University ''Breaking the Language Barrier: The View from the Radical Middle.'' Keynote address, Friday, November 3 at 8:00 pm

Jürgen M. Meisel, University of Hamburg & University of Calgary ''Multiple First Language Acquisition: A Case for Autonomous Syntactic Development in the Simultaneous Acquisition of More Than One Language.'' Plenary address, Saturday, November 4 at 5:45 pm

Mabel Rice, University of Kansas Helen Tager-Flusberg, Boston University Simon Fisher, University of Oxford Discussant: Gary Marcus, New York University ''Future Directions in Search of Genes that Influence Language: Phenotypes, Molecules, Brains, and Growth.'' Lunchtime symposium, Saturday, November 4 at 12:00 pm

The Society for Language Development (SLD) will be holding its third annual symposium on ''Learning Verbs'' on Thursday, November 2, in conjunction with the BUCLD meeting. BUCLD 31 is offering online pre-registration and on-site registration for this event.

Speakers: Lila Gleitman, Cynthia Fisher,Adele Goldberg, and Dedre Gentner. More information on the SLD symposium can be found at: http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/sld/symposium.html

BUCLD and SLD pre-registration information is available at: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/prereg.htm

The full conference schedule is available at: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/schedule.htm

More information about BUCLD is available at our website: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD

We look forward to seeing you at BUCLD 31.

Sincerely, Heather Caunt-Nulton, Samantha Kulatilake, I-hao Woo BUCLD 31 Co-organizers