LINGUIST List 26.112
Fri Jan 09 2015
Calls: Romance, Language Acquisition/Italy
Editor for this issue: Anna White <awhitelinguistlist.org>
Date: 22-Dec-2014
From: Chiara Branchini <chiara.branchini
unive.it>
Subject: The Romance Turn VII
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Short Title: TRT7
Date: 01-Oct-2015 - 03-Oct-2015
Location: Venice, Italy
Contact Person: Chiara Branchini
Meeting Email:
< click here to access email > Web Site:
https://sites.google.com/a/unive.it/trt7/
Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
Language Family(ies): Romance
Call Deadline: 15-Mar-2015
Meeting Description:
The Romance Turn conferences bring together researchers from across Europe and overseas with the aim of communicating results and developing further research in the acquisition of Romance languages, compared to the acquisition of other languages. Language acquisition studies both in children and adult learners are central to building our understanding of human language and how it develops in the brain. The field has witnessed a continuous growth during the past three decades. Over this period, empirical evidence provided by research conducted on the acquisition of Romance languages such as French, Italian, Catalan, Spanish, Romanian and Portuguese has become increasingly productive. The linguistic properties of Romance languages (i.e., syntactic, semantic, morphological and phonological features) make these languages excellent testing-grounds for both well-known and alternative theories of language acquisition.
Call for Papers:
Papers are invited for oral and poster presentations in the area of the acquisition of Romance languages. All topics in the fields of (typical and impaired) first, second, and bilingual language acquisition from a generative perspective will be considered, with a special focus on syntax and phonology. Presentations will be 30 minutes long, followed by 15 minutes for discussion, and will be in English.
Authors are invited to send one copy of an abstract in English for review. Abstracts must be at most one page long on an A4 or letter-size sheet (8'''1/2 by 11''') with one-inch margins and typed in at least 12-point font. An optional second page is permitted for data and references. Abstracts must be anonymous.
Abstracts should be submitted via e-mail as a PDF attachment to the following address:
TRT7
unive.it
Please name your pdf file with the first author's surname (e.g., Saussure.pdf), use 'RT7Abstract' in the Subject header and include the information in (1) - (7), which should constitute the body of the message.
1. Name(s) of author(s)
2. Title of talk
3. Language acquisition context (L1, L2, etc...) and targeted language(s)
4. Affiliation(s)
5. Email address(es)
6. Fax number of first author
7. Postal address of first author
Please also indicate whether you'd like your abstract to be considered for oral or poster presentation, or either. Authors may submit up to two abstracts, one individual and one joint (or two joint).
Deadline for receipt of abstracts: March 15, 2015. Authors will be notified of acceptance by May 1, 2015.
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