Bucharest Colloquium of Language Acquisition 8

8^th Bucharest Colloquium of Language Acquisition
Second call for papers   

The Center for the Study of Language Development and Linguistic Communication, University of Bucharest is pleased to announce its 8^th Bucharest Colloquium of Language Acquisition, which will be held on November 16 – 18, 2023, in hybrid format (face-to-face and online).

Keynote speaker
Petra Schulz – Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main

The colloquium provides a forum for recent research on language acquisition and language learning. It is primarily intended as a venue for researchers and doctoral students to present ongoing work on any topic relevant to L1 and 2L1 acquisition, L2 and L3 learning, as well to child heritage languages.  The main goal is to bring forward recent theoretical and experimental work on the acquisition of Romanian. Work on the acquisition of other languages is also welcome.

In addition to the main session, this year the colloquium will host two workshops.

Logical Operators: Theory and Acquisition
organized by Adina Camelia Bleotu, University of Bucharest

Corpus-based and experimental research in SLA. The state-of-the-art and future directions
organized by Carmen Mîrzea Vasile, University of Bucharest

Abstract submission

We invite one-page abstract submissions (TNR 12, single-spaced, 1-inch margins), with an additional page for examples, figures and references, for 30 minute oral presentations (20 minutes for the presentation and 10 minutes for discussions). Abstracts must be in English and they should be anonymous. Author’s name, affiliation and e-mail for correspondence should be included in the accompanying email. Please specify if your abstract is intended for the main session or for one of the workshops and whether you are planning to participate in person or online.

Abstracts should be sent to: bucla8@lls.unibuc.ro. Authors may submit up to two first-authored abstracts.

Important dates
Deadline for submissions:     31 July 2023
Notification of acceptance:   15 September 2023

Venue
Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest
7-13 Pitar Moș Str., Sector 3, Bucharest

Conference fee

For face-to-face participants
Students: 50 RON/10 euro
Faculty: 150 RON/30 euro

For online participants
Students: –
Faculty: 75 RON/15 euro
Bank account details will be provided to participants after notification of acceptance.

Publication
All authors who present in the colloquium will be invited to submit their paper for a volume of selected contributions.

Organizing committee
Larisa Avram, University of Bucharest
Adina Camelia Bleotu, University of Bucharest
Carmen Mîrzea Vasile, University of Bucharest
Anca Sevcenco, University of Bucharest
Veronica Tomescu, University of Bucharest

Additional information
For questions related to the main session, please get in touch with Larisa Avram at larisa.avram@lls.unibuc.ro
For further information related to the workshop on logical operators, please get in touch with Adina Camelia Bleotu at adina.bleotu@lls.unibuc.ro
For further information related to the workshop on corpus-based and experimental research in SLA, please get in touch with Carmen Mîrzea Vasile at carmen.vasile@unibuc.ro