Inaugural Conference of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition - North America

美国国家科学基金会将支持于2004年12月17日至20日在夏威夷大学马诺阿分校召开的北美语言习得生成方法首届会议（GALANA）。GALANA会议被认为是基于欧洲的会议的北美姐妹，生成语言习得方法（GALA）自1993年成立以来每两年举行一次。GALANA和GALA都是巡回会议，今后将每年轮流举行。GALANA将补充其他现有的基础广泛和专门的语言习得会议，它将为不断增长的生成性习得研究机构提供一个出口。GALANA的一个主要目标是汇集语言习得所有子领域的生成研究人员，包括第一语言习得、第二语言习得、双语语言习得、克里奥尔语和洋泾浜语研究以及无序语言发展。会议旨在吸引和激发广泛参与的显著特点包括：(i)邀请来自美国和国外的杰出学者发表演讲，更具体地说，两次全体会议演讲和一次半天的辅导；（ii）两次专题会议，一次是关于情绪/情绪的习得，另一次是关于儿童第二语言的习得；（iii）三次海报会议，其中一次为研究生保留。GALANA的广泛影响体现在几个层面：首先，我们正在发起一个会议，这将使研究人员在未来许多年受益。第二，GALANA将通过向大约15名研究生提供择优旅行奖学金，促进初级研究人员的参与，包括来自代表性不足的少数民族的研究人员。此外，这次会议将对夏威夷大学语言学奖学金的基础设施产生重大影响，促进两个共同主办部门（语言学和第二语言研究）之间的交叉，为两个部门的本科生和研究生提供大量的智力和专业机会，并激发太平洋岛民对学习自己语言的兴趣。最后，作为一个巡回会议，GALANA将鼓励美国的生成性研究中心之间的合作，从而加强语言学生成性习得研究的基础设施。

The National Science Foundation will support the inaugural conference of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition - North America (GALANA), to be convened at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa on 17-20 December 2004. The GALANA meeting is conceived as the North-American sister to the Europe-based conference, Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA), which has been held biennially since its inception in 1993. GALANA and GALA, both roving conferences, will henceforth alternate from year to year.GALANA will complement other existing broad-based and specialized language acquisition conferences, and it will provide an outlet for the growing body of generative acquisition research. A major aim of GALANA is to bring together generative researchers in all subfields of language acquisition, including first language acquisition, second language acquisition, bilingual language acquisition, creole and pidgin studies, and disordered language development. Notable features of the conference designed to entice and excite wide participation include: (i) invited presentations by distinguished scholars from both the U.S. and abroad, more specifically, two plenary addresses and one half-day tutorial; (ii) two special thematic sessions, one on the acquisition of Mood/Aspect and the other on child second language acquisition; (iii) three poster sessions, one of themreserved for graduate students.GALANA's broader impact occurs at several levels: First, we are initiating a conference that will benefit researchers for many years to come. Second, GALANA will promote the participation of beginning researchers, including those from under-represented minorities, by offering merit-based travel fellowships to approximately 15 graduate students. In addition, the conference will have a major impact on the infrastructure of linguistics scholarship at the University of Hawai`i by fostering cross-over between the two co-sponsoring departments (Linguistics; Second Language Studies), providing undergraduate and graduate students in both departments with numerous intellectual and professional opportunities, and spurring Pacific Islanders' interest in the study of the acquisition of their own languages. Finally, as a roving conference, GALANA will encourage collaboration among centers of generative studies in the U.S., thus strengthening the infrastructure of generative acquisition research in linguistics.