LINGUIST List 26.4376
Tue Oct 06 2015
Calls: Lang Acq/USA
Editor for this issue: Ashley Parker <ashleylinguistlist.org>
Date: 06-Oct-2015
From: Tania Ionin <tionin
illinois.edu>
Subject: The 7th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition - North America
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Short Title: GALANA-7
Date: 08-Sep-2016 - 10-Sep-2016
Location: Urbana, IL, USA
Contact Person: Tania Ionin
Meeting Email: tionin
illinois.edu
Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
Call Deadline: 10-Feb-2016
Meeting Description:
Please save the date! The 7th biennial conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition - North America (GALANA 7) will take place at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on September 8-10, 2016.
The GALANA conference features theoretically informed research on all types of language acquisition scenarios, including (but not limited to) monolingual first language acquisition, bilingual/multilingual first language acquisition, second language acquisition by children as well as adults, third language acquisition, acquisition of signed as well as spoken languages, language disorders, language acquisition in the presence of cognitive impairment and autism, and the development of pidgins and creoles. GALANA-7 will include a special session on ''Input Variation and Language Acquisition.''
The invited speakers for the main session are Cynthia Fisher (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Roumyana Slabakova (University of Southampton), and Virginia Valian (Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center).
The invited speakers for the special session on Input Variation and Language Acquisition are Karen Miller (Pennsylvania State University) and Janna Oetting (Louisiana State University).
Call for Papers:
For the general session, abstracts are invited for original, unpublished generative research in all acquisition subfields: L1 acquisition, L2 acquisition, bilingualism, creoles and pidgins, and language disorders. Abstracts are also invited for a special session on Input Variation and Language Acquisition.
Guidelines and instructions about abstract submission will be available in November.
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