LINGUIST List 25.2179
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May 17 2014
Calls: Language
Acquisition/Portugal
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Date: 16-May-2014
From: João Costa
<jcosta
fcsh.unl.pt>
Subject: Going Romance
Workshop #3: Crosslinguistic Microvariation in
Language Acquisition
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Full Title: Going Romance Workshop #3:
Crosslinguistic Microvariation in Language
Acquisition
Date: 06-Dec-2014 - 06-Dec-2014
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Contact Person: João Costa
Meeting Email:
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Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
Call Deadline: 21-Jul-2014
Meeting Description:
Workshop #3: Crosslinguistic microvariation in
language acquisition
Organized by João Costa, Alexandra Fiéis and
Maria Lobo (Project “Crosspopulation and
Crosslinguistic Approaches to Dependencies)
The literature on language acquisition from the
last two decades has shown that children set
parameters very early and are sensitive to
crosslinguistic differences from very early on.
The evidence mostly focuses on major syntactic
differences, such as the availability of null
subjects, V-to-I, I-to-C or directionality. The
acquisition of microvariation, however, has not
been studied. It remains to be shown whether
children are sensitive to minor crosslinguistic
differences, and whether such differences are
acquired as early as major parametric
contrasts.
Call for Papers:
Submission Details:
Abstracts are invited for 25 minute
presentations plus 10 minutes for
discussion.
Abstracts should be anonymous, written in
English, and no longer than two pages,
including references and examples, with margins
of at least 1 inch (2.5 cm), in 12-point Times
New Roman, single spaced.
The anonymous abstracts should be sent as
e-mail attachments both in PDF and Word format.
Join separately a Word file containing: title,
author’s name and address, affiliation and
email address. Also indicate if an abstract
submitted for the main session could as well be
considered for one of the workshops or
vice-versa.
Authors may submit two abstracts if one of them
is for the main session and the other for one
of the workshops. Otherwise, submissions are
limited to a maximum of one individual and one
joint abstract per author.
Abstract submissions to the workshop #3
(Crosslinguistic microvariation in language
acquisition) should be sent to jcosta
fcsh.unl.pt
Important Dates:
July 21, 2014: Abstract submission deadline
September 20, 2014: Notification of
acceptance
December 4-6, 2014: Conference and
workshops
Local Organizing Committee:
João Costa
Ana Maria Martins
Maria Lobo
Ernestina Carrilho
Alexandra Fiéis
Sandra Pereira
Page Updated: 17-May-2014