Just a reminder that Jason Merchant from the University of Chicago will be giving a talk this Friday at UIC in 1750 University Hall. Join us at 2pm for his talk entitled, “There’s less to words than meets the eye”. The abstract is posted on the UICTiL website (check the links on the left hand side of this page).
The spring schedule for UICTiL has been posted on the website (see the link to the left on this page). It is also reproduced here.
Stay tuned for reminders for upcoming talks!
| February 20 | Jason Merchant (U of C) | TBA | |
| March 6 (2 – 3 PM) | Kara Morgan-Short and Mandy Faretta (UIC) | TBA | |
| March 13 | Shahrzad Mahootian (North Eastern Illinois) | TBA | |
| March 20 | Karlos Arregi (U of C) | TBA | |
| April 3 (2 – 3 PM) | Fernando Ramallo (Universidade de Vigo) | TBA | |
| April 10 | Dennis Ott (Harvard) | TBA | |
| April 24 | Kleanthes Grohmann (University of Cyprus) |
The submission date for the UIC Bilingualism Forum has been changed to February 9th.
2009 UIC BILINGUALISM FORUM
The University of Illinois at Chicago, April 30 & May 1, 2009
http://uic.edu/depts/ling/BilingualismForum/BilingualismForm.html
The UIC Bilingualism Forum is dedicated to research in any area related to
bilingualism: Theoretical Linguistics, Codeswitching, SLA,
Psycholinguistics, Language Policies, Sociolinguistics, Neurolinguistics,
Cognitive Sciences, etc. Student presentations are especially encouraged.
Presentations will be 20 minutes each with 10 minutes for discussion.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline for submission: 02/09/2009
Acceptance response in February 2009
The UIC department of Spanish French Italian and Portuguese is hosting a Bilinguilism Forum in the spring. The call for abstracts went out earlier this month for the forum which is to be held on April 30th & May 1st at the Institute for the Humanities located in Stevenson Hall.
The Bilinguilism Forum will consist of three sections–Theoretical Bilingualism, Heritage Learner/Sociolingusitic Study, and Second Language Acquisition–with keynote speakers as yet to be officially announced. The deadline for abstract submission is January 31st.
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