9th Biannual Conference of Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA)
Dates
May 18 to 20, 2007
Venue
University of Iowa, Iowa, US
Theme
The Fundamental Difference Hypothesis: Two Decades Later
Organizer
Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA)
Keynote speakers
*Robert Bley-Vroman, linguist, second language acquisition researcher and professor, University of Hawaii, US;
*Laurent Dekydtspotter, associate professor of linguistics, department of second language studies, Indiana University, US;
*Julia Herschensohn, professor and Chair of department of linguistics, University of Washington, US.
Topic area
Any topic in generative second language acquisition
Participants
Linguists and presenters from North America, South America, Europe and Asia.
Background information
Established at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992, Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA) is a biannual international conference. It is devoted to mentalist aspects of second language acquisition, such as the description of nonnative grammars, similarities and differences between first and second language acquisition and sentence processing in nonnative acquisition, etc.
Meetings have been held at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US (twice), City University of New York, US; McGill Univerity, Canada; University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania, US and The University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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