AIMS AND SCOPE

The Conference provides a forum to disseminate research and to become acquainted with new research developments in the domain of language acquisition. A.E.A.L. is pleased to invite you to participate in this conference with proposal for posters, individual papers or symposia on any topic in the areas of Language Acquisition. (For details see Information for authors).

 

Abstracts in the following areas are welcomed:

• Early language acquisition, including speech perception, preverbal communication, phonological, morphological, syntactic, lexical-semantic or pragmatic development in monolingual, bilingual or multilingual children, in first, second or foreign language acquisition.
• Later language acquisition (beyond age 5), includind spoken, written or signed discourse, reading and writing; figurative uses of language, phonological, morphological, syntactic, lexical-semantic or pragmatic development in monolingual, bilingual or multilingual children, in first, second or foreign language acquistion.
• Language acquisiton in atypical population, language disorders and/or disorders in spoken, written or signed communication.
• Tools for studying language, including contributions that highlight methodological issues such as sampling, data analysis, innovative statistical techniques, intervention studies.
• Perspectives on language acquisition, including contributions discussing epistemological basis of language research, explicative models of development, cross linguistic perspectives.
  

 

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract submission deadline	15 February 2010
Notification of acceptance	15 April 2010
Early registration deadline	30 May 2010
Publication of conference program	30 June 2010
Late registration deadline	2 September 2010
Tutorials	7 September 2010
Conference	8-10 September 2010
Early versions of full texts for publication of selected papers	10 November de 2010