NEW SOUNDS 2010 Sixth International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech

1-3 May, 2010
Poznań, Poland

email: newsounds@ifa.amu.edu.pl
http://ifa.amu.edu.pl/newsounds/

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

We are happy to announce that the Sixth International Symposium on the
Acquisition of Second Language Speech New Sounds 2010 will take place
on 1-3 May 2010 in Poznań, Poland. The Symposium will be organised by
the School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań.

Following the unanimous decision taken by the participants of the
New Sounds 2007 conference held in Florianópolis, Brazil, we intend
to continue the tradition of the symposiums on the acquisition of
foreign language speech, organized originally by Allan James and
Jonathan Leather, at regular 3-year intervals.

The conference will cover a variety of themes related to the acquisition
of a foreign language phonology, including among others:

-    speech perception and speech production
-    theories of acquisition of L2 phonology
-    phonetics and phonology in SLA
-    acquisition of second language phonotactics
-    multilingualism and the acquisition of third language phonology
-    the application of new technologies
-    neuro- and psycholinguistic aspects of phonological acquisition.

SUBMISSIONS

Proposals of papers and posters related to the acquisition of second
language speech are invited. The deadline for abstract submission is
1st December 2009. Abstracts should not exceed 500 words (excluding
references)
and will be reviewed anonymously. Detailed abstract submission guidelines
will be available on our website shortly.

Full papers are expected to be submitted prior to the conference by
15th March 2010 (the required style sheet will be available online in
due course). Each paper will be assigned a 30-minute slot, including
10 minutes for discussion. The language of the conference is English.
The conference proceedings will be edited on a CD and included in the
conference package. Selected papers will be published later as an edited
collection in a volume issued by Peter Lang.

The submissions will be reviewed by our International Advisory Board:

Catherine Best (University of Western Sydney)
Ocke-Schwen Bohn (Aarhus University)
Juli Cebrián (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)
James Flege (University of Alabama at Birmingham, Professor Emeritus)
Maria Luisa Garcia Lecumberri (University of the Basque Country)
Ulrike Gut (Augsburg University)
Valerie Hazan (University College London)
Paul Iverson (University College London)
Allan James (University of Klagenfurt)
Roy Major (Arizona State University)
Ineke Mennen (University of Bangor)
Thorsten Piske (Pädagogische Hochschule Schwäbisch Gmünd)
Linda Shockey (University of Reading)
Rajendra Singh (University of Montreal)
Ewa Waniek-Klimczak (University of Łódz)
Steven H. Weinberger (George Mason University)
Martha Young-Scholten (Newcastle University)

Invited plenary speakers are:

James Flege (University of Alabama at Birmingham, Professor Emeritus)
Allan James (University of Klagenfurt)
Martha Young-Scholten (Newcastle University)

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline for all abstracts  1 December 2009
Notification of acceptance            15 January 2010
Submission deadline for full papers   15 March 2010
Early registration                    before 15 March 2010

REGISTRATION

Conference fee

Early registration (before 15 March 2010):
Regular fee: 180 Euro
Student fee: 80  Euro
Late registration (after 15 March 2010)
Regular fee: 200 Euro
Student fee: 100  Euro