GALANA—UCONN 2008

Abstract Submission Guidelines

The special theme of GALANA—UCONN 2008 will address the relationship between theories of language acquisition, on the one hand, and theories of grammatical variation across languages. Submissions, however, do not need to be connected to the special theme. We welcome abstracts on original research in any area of first- or second-language acquisition.

Length:  500 words (plus 1 extra page for examples, figures, trees, references, etc.).  12-point font size and 1-inch margins.

Deadline for submission of abstracts:  Tuesday, April 1st, 2008.
Abstracts will be accepted beginning on March 1st, 2008. A confirmation email will follow within 48 hours of receipt of your abstract. If you do not receive an email confirmation, please contact us at galana2008@uconn.edu.

Talks will be 20 minutes + 10 minutes for discussion.
You will be informed by noon on May 15th, 2008, as to whether your paper or poster has been accepted.

The abstract should include a title but be fully anonymous: no names or affiliations.

Please include the word count at the bottom of the abstract.

Submission limit: no more than 2 submissions per person, only one as primary author.

Abstracts for GALANA3 should be in PDF format. If possible, please submit abstracts directly to our online database, at the following url: http://www.dean.clas.uconn.edu/pasha/ . Alternately, abstracts may also be submitted as email attachments, in PDF format, to galana2008@uconn.edu .

Please also send an email to galana2008@uconn.edu that includes the following information:

Author name(s)
Author affiliation(s)
Contact information for 1st author (address, email, and phone)
Status: student/faculty member/other
  If eligible, whether you are applying for a student travel fellowship.
Preference for paper or poster.
  If your paper is not accepted for oral presentation, please indicate if you are willing to present it as a poster.

Please indicate whether your abstract involves:
            L1 acquisition
            L2 acquisition
            Bilingualism
            Language Disorders
            Language Acquisition and Cross-Linguistic Variation
            Other

and whether it involves:
            Phonetics
            Phonology
            Morphology
            Syntax
            Semantics
            Other

Also, please list 3 keywords/phrases that best describe the content of your abstract.