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TitleTHE 28th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENTTHE 28th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
THE 28th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
OCTOBER 31, NOVEMBER 1 & 2, 2003

Keynote Speaker: Janet Dean Fodor, City University of New York
Plenary Speaker: Mabel Rice, University of Kansas

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All topics in the fields of first and second language acquisition from all theoretical perspectives will be fully considered, including:

Bilingualism
Cognition & Language
Creoles & Pidgins
Discourse
Exceptional Language
Input & Interaction
Language Disorders
Linguistic Theory (Syntax, Semantics, Phonology, Morphology, Lexicon)
Literacy & Narrative
Neurolinguistics
Pragmatics
Pre-linguistic Development
Signed Languages
Sociolinguistics
Speech Perception & Production

Presentations will be 20 minutes long followed by a 10 minute question period. Posters will be on display for a full day with two attended sessions during the day.


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NEW THIS YEAR

Posters: BUCLD is soliciting abstracts for posters as well as papers. Please indicate at the time of submission whether you would like your proposal to be considered for a poster, a paper, or both.

Electronic submission: To facilitate the abstract submission process, abstracts will be submitted using the form available at the conference website.

Proposals accepted as papers will be invited for publication in the BUCLD Proceedings. Proposals accepted as posters will be invited for publication online.

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ABSTRACT FORMAT AND CONTENT

All abstracts must be submitted as PDF documents. Free services/software for creating PDF documents are available from several sources, including:

http://www.adobe.com/ (free trial: five free documents)
http://www.pdf995.com/ (downloadable software with advertising)

The abstract should be anonymous, clearly titled and no more than 450 words in length. Abstracts longer than 450 words will be rejected without being evaluated. Please note the word count at the bottom of the abstract.

Abstracts submitted must represent original, unpublished research.

An excellent example of format and style for abstracts is available on the LSA website at http://www.lsadc.org/web2/dec02bulletin/model.html.


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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

All abstracts must be submitted via the conference website,
http://www.bu.edu/LINGUISTICS/APPLIED/conference.html. Specific instructions for abstract submission are available on this website.
Abstracts will be accepted between April 1 and May 15.

Contact information for each author must be submitted via webform.
No author information should appear anywhere in the abstract PDF.

At the time of submission you will be asked whether you would like your proposal to be considered for a poster, a paper, or both.

Although each author may submit as many abstracts as desired, we will accept for presentation by each submitter: (a) a maximum of 1 first authored paper/poster, and (b) a maximum of 2 papers/posters in any authorship status. Note that no changes in authorship (including deleting
an author or changing author order) will be possible after the review process is completed.

DEADLINE: All submissions must be received by 8:00 PM EST, May 15, 2003.
Late abstracts will not be considered, whatever the reason for the delay.

We regret that we cannot accept abstract submissions by fax or email. Submissions via surface mail will only be accepted in special circumstances, on a case by case basis.

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ABSTRACT SELECTION

Each abstract is blind reviewed by 5 reviewers from a panel of
approximately 80 international scholars.

Acknowledgment of receipt of the abstract will be sent by email as soon as possible after receipt. Notice of acceptance or r
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