The first call for General Approaches to Language Acquisition Conference (GALA 15) is out.
GALA 15
Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition Conference
WHEN September 15-17, 2022
WHERE Goethe University Frankfurt
HOMEPAGE: https://www.galafrankfurt2022.com
We are pleased to announce the 15th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition conference (GALA 15) to be held at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, on September 15-17, 2022.
ABOUT GALA
GALA is a biennial conference that brings together researchers from across Europe and overseas, providing a forum for discussion of recent, high-quality research on first and second language acquisition, bi/multilingual acquisition, heritage language acquisition, language pathology and language impairment, acquisition of sign language and brain imaging research for acquisition and pathology.
The growing body of research in these areas testifies to how language acquisition studies are central for our understanding of human language and how it develops in the brain, and offers novel insights to theoretical studies, as well as hints for practical outcomes for diagnosis, intervention and rehabilitation in the case of developmental language disorders.
Previous editions of GALA were held in Durham (1993), Groningen (1995), Edinburgh (1997), Potsdam (1999), Palmela (2001), Utrecht (2003), Siena (2005), Barcelona (2007), Lisbon (2009), Thessaloniki (2011), Oldenburg (2013), Nantes (2015), Palma de Mallorca (2017), and, most recently Milan (2019).
CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Cristina Flores
Universidade do Minho, Braga
Naama Friedmann
Tel Aviv University
Ana T. Pérez-Leroux
University of Toronto
Jacopo Romoli
University of Bergen
INFORMATION ABOUT SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS
We invite abstract submissions for 30-minute oral presentations (20 minutes for the presentation and 10 minutes for discussion) or posters of original, unpublished work on all subfields of generative language acquisition, including, but not limited to: L1 and L2 acquisition, heritage language acquisition, language pathology, language impairment, sign language.
At most one single-authored and one joint abstract (or two joint abstracts) per author will be considered. The language of the conference will be English.
Abstract Submission opens: January 31, 2022
Abstract Submission closes: March 15, 2022
Notification of acceptance: May 1, 2022
Abstract submission will be handled via EasyChair. Submission details will follow in the second call in December.
CONFERENCE VENUE
The conference will take place at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, on Campus Westend (Norbert Wollheim-Platz 1, 60323 Frankfurt am Main). More details about the venue can be found here: https://www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/en.
The conference is organized by language acquisition colleagues in the Faculty of Modern Languages. Together with other linguists, they are part of the DFG Graduate School of Nominal Modification. More details can be found here: https://www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/48023390/Modern_Languages
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Petra Schulz Esther Rinke Valentina Cristante
Angela Grimm
Sol Lago
Rabea Lemmer
Gabriel Martínez Vera
Cecilia Poletto
Jacopo Torregrossa
Merle Weicker