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The 24th Annual
      Boston University Conference on Language Development
                        Call for Papers

                November 5, 6 and 7, 1999

Keynote Speaker:  Elissa Newport, University of Rochester
Plenary Speaker:  Stephen Crain, University of Maryland

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        FIRST AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

All topics in the field of language acquisition will be fully considered,
including:

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

Abstracts submitted must represent original, unpublished research.
Presentations will be 20 minutes long, plus 10 minutes for questions.

Please submit:

        1) ten copies of an anonymous, clearly titled 450-word summary
            for review. Include word count at the bottom of the page.

        2) one copy of a 150-word abstract for use in the conference
            program book if your abstract is accepted. If your paper is
            accepted, this abstract will be scanned into the conference
            handbook.  No changes in title or authors will be possible
            after acceptance. Include word count at the bottom of the
            page.

        3) for EACH author, one copy of the information form printed
            at the bottom of this sheet.

Please include email address or a self-addressed, stamped postcard for
acknowledgment of receipt. Notice of acceptance or rejection will be
sent to the first author by early August.  Pre-registration materials
and preliminary schedule will be available in late August, 1999.

All authors who present papers at the conference will be invited to
contribute their papers to the Proceedings Volumes. Those papers will
be due in January, 2000.

Note:  All conference papers will be selected on the basis of abstracts
submitted. Although each abstract will be evaluated individually, we
will attempt to honor requests to schedule accepted papers together
in group sessions.

DEADLINE: All submissions must be received by May 14, 1999.