Multidisciplinary Approaches to Child and Adult Language Acquisition

4-5^th October, 2018

Jointly hosted by

the Center for Language Acquisition and the Center for Language Science

The Pennsylvania State University

 

We are pleased to announce a symposium on Multidisciplinary Approaches to Child and Adult Language Acquisition, jointly hosted by the Center for Language Acquisition and the Center for Language Science at The Pennsylvania State University. We have invited six international speakers to highlight this theme with us from a variety of perspectives, including theoretical foundations, first and second language acquisition, bilingualism, cognition, psycholinguistics, and instructed/classroom-based learning.

The symposium will take place from 9am to 6:30pm on Friday, October 5, 2018 at the Nittany Lion Inn at University Park campus.

 

Invited speakers

Adele Goldberg, Princeton University, USA

Kim McDonough, Concordia University, Canada

Leah Roberts, University of York, UK

Natasha Tokowicz, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Sharon Unsworth, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

Nina Vyatkina, University of Kansas, USA

 

Key dates

1st July 2018: abstract submission deadline
August 2018: notification of acceptance
1st July 2018: registration starts
4-5 October 2018: symposium