ELA2012
Third conference on early language acquisition

Lyon, France, 2012, December 5-7

Deadline Extended for abstract submission until April 1st, 2012

The third ELA conference will be held on Dec. 5-7, 2012, in Lyon, France. The main theme of the conference is early language acquisition with a focus on the role of input, in both normal and atypical development.

The conference will encompass research on the following topics:

• Language development before the age of 3: phonetics, phonology, lexicon, morphosyntax
• Input and language acquisition
• Spoken production and gestures
• Crosslinguistic comparisons
• Typical and atypical language development

The conference will consist of plenary lectures, paper sessions and poster sessions. The languages of the conference will be French and English. Selected conference papers, after a blind-review procedure, will be published in a journal or in an edited book.

Keynote Speakers

We are very pleased to announce the following keynote speakers:

• Elena Lieven, Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
• Steven Gillis, Department of Linguistics, University of Antwerp, Netherlands
• Stephanie Stokes, Department of communication disorders, University of Canterbury, New-Zealand
• Stéphanie Barbu, Laboratoire d’éthologie animale et humaine, Université Rennes 1, France

A talk in honor of Michael Siegal, will be given by Luca Surian, Department of Cognitive Sciences and Education and Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Italy

Scientific Committee

• Ranka Bijeljac-Babic, University of Poitiers, France
• Dorthe Bleses, University of Odense, Denmark
• Marc Bornstein, NIH, USA
• Mélanie Canault, University of Lyon, France
• Jean-Pierre Chevrot, University Grenoble 3, France
• Anne Christophe, ENS Paris, France
• Eve Clark, Stanford University, USA
• Jean-Marc Colletta, University of Grenoble, France
• Barbara Davis, University of Texas at Austin, USA
• Annick De Houwer, University of Erfurt, Deutschland
• Christelle Dodane, University Paul Valéry, France
• Paula Fikkert, Radboud University, The Netherlands
• Roberta Golinkoff, University of Delaware, USA
• Sybille Gonzalez, University of Lyon, France
• Harriet Jisa, University of Lyon, France
• Kovacevic, Melita, University of Zagreb, Croatia
• Aylin Küntay, University Koç , Turkey
• Florence Labrell, University of Reims, France
• Bernard Lété, University of Lyon, France
• Karine Martel, University of Caen, France
• Danielle Matthews, University of Sheffield, UK
• Alyah Morgenstern, University Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, France
• Bhuvana Narasimhan, University of Colorado, USA
• Thierry Nazzi, University of Paris-Descartes, France
• Miguel Pereira, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
• Yvan Rose, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
• Caroline Rossi, University of Lyon, France
• Anne Salazar-Orvig, University of Paris La Sorbonne, France
• Alessandra Sansavini, University of Bologna, Italia
• Elin Thordardottir, University McGILL, Canada
• Anne Vilain, University of Stendhal, France
• Pascal Zesiger, University of Genève, Switzerland

Organizing committee

• Mehmet-Ali Akinci (DDL)
• Nathalie Bedoin (DDL)
• Linda Brendlin (DDL)
• Florence Chenu (DDL)
• Christophe Coupé (DDL)
• Christophe dos Santos (Université de Tours)
• Frédérique Gayraud (DDL)
• Harriet Jisa (DDL)
• Sophie Kern (Responsable) (DDL)
• Egidio Marsico (DDL)
• Audrey Mazur Palandre (ICAR)
• Khadija Mhafoud (DDL)
• Sophie Rimbaud (DDL)
• Darine Saidi (DDL)
• Faustine Sanchez (DDL)

Important dates

Abstract submission: March, 1st, 2012 Extended to April, 1st, 2012
Notification of acceptance: June, 20th, 2012