LINGUIST List 28.4631
Mon Nov 06 2017
Calls: Language Acquisition/UK
Editor for this issue: Kenneth Steimel <kenlinguistlist.org>
Date: 02-Nov-2017
From: Ludovica Serratrice <l.serratrice
reading.ac.uk>
Subject: Child Language Symposium
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Short Title: CLS
Date: 25-Jun-2018 - 26-Jun-2018
Location: Reading, United Kingdom
Contact Person: Ludovica Serratrice
Meeting Email:
< click here to access email > Web Site:
http://www.reading.ac.uk/celm/events/cls2018/
Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2018
Meeting Description:
The Child Language Symposium is a UK-based conference on any aspect of typical and atypical language and literacy development.
The conference theme is “Multilingualism and literacy in typical and atypical development”. The four keynote speakers are:
Kate Cain (Lancaster University)
Erika Hoff (Florida Atlantic University)
Caroline Rowland (Max Planck for Psycholinguistics – Nijmegen)
Charles Yang (University of Pennsylvania)
Call for Papers:
The Child Language Symposium 2018 - CLS2018 - will be hosted by the Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism - University of Reading - on Monday 25 June and Tuesday 26 June 2018.
We welcome submissions in any area of language development (Artificial Languages, Bilingualism/Multilingualism, Cognition & Language, Discourse and Narrative, Gesture, Hearing Impairment and Deafness, Input & Interaction, Developmental Language Disorders, Neurolinguistics, Pragmatics, Pre-linguistic Development, Reading and Literacy, Signed Languages, Speech Perception & Production), and in particular any papers that specifically address the conference theme.
Abstract submission is now open and closes on Monday 15 January 2018. Please log in via Easy Chair to submit your proposal:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cls2018 Types of presentations:
1) paper
2) poster
3) colloquium, with thematically related papers, discussion and audience participation.
Length of abstracts: paper or poster (450 words max - excluding references and title of paper; colloquium (max. 650 words, excluding references and including titles of papers but no mention of presenters by name. If a colloquium proposal is accepted, an abstract will be requested for each paper, max 300 words).
Length of presentations in the conference
Paper: 20 min. and 10 min. for discussion and change of rooms
Colloquium: 90 or 180 min.
Poster size: A1, max, landscape or portrait.
Presenter policy
Each participant can appear as the first author of one presentation only. A colloquium convener can also present at the colloquium or elsewhere in the programme.
The proposals for all presentations will be evaluated anonymously by at least two reviewers. The criteria include the quality of the content and the clarity of the abstract, and the contribution to the field. Papers on any aspects of literacy and multilingualism will receive special consideration.
For any queries, please email l.serratrice
reading.ac.uk
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