ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism in Theory & Practice

30 March to 1 April 2012 - International conference: 'Bilingual and Multilingual Interaction'.

This conference will have four main themes:

• Bilingual grammar
• Bilingual speech
• Bilingual development
• Bilingual education

Keynote Speakers:

• Jasone Cenoz (University of the Basque Country)
• Tony Cline (University College London)
• Virginia Mueller Gathercole (ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism)
• Durk Gorter (IkerBasque Foundation for Science)
• Shana Poplack (University of Ottawa City)
• Winifred Strange, (City University of New York)
• Guillaume Thierry (ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism)
• Janet Werker (University of British Columbia)

The conference is intended to bring together specialists in bilingualism from various areas, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, computational linguistics, corpus linguistics, bilingual and multilingual education, neuroscience (and others).

Call for Papers:

Submission deadline: 1 October 2011

Requirements and Submission Information:

We invite abstracts for talks or posters in any areas addressing bilingualism. Abstracts should be no more than 300 words. As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Preferably each abstract should be submitted as a PDF file, though .doc (up to Word 2003, [i.e. NOT .docx]), .odt (OpenOffice), or .txt (Notepad) can also be used, following the instructions in this link. (http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/bilingualism)

If the number and quality of papers stemming from the conference is high enough, we would like to submit a proposal for a published collection of papers. In that event any papers submitted would be subject to a separate review process.