LINGUIST List 17.2992

Thu Oct 12 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: 11-Oct-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 Colleague, We would like to friendly remind you that the deadline for pre-registering for BUCLD 31 is on October 20 (Please disregard this message if you have already registered). The pre-registration information is 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 Thursday, November 2, in conjunction with the BUCLD meeting. BUCLD 31 is offering a pre-registration option for this event. Onsite registration will also be available.

The Symposium will be on ''Learning Verbs.'' 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

The 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