Inaugural Conference of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition - North America

国家科学基金会将支持将于2004年12月17日至20日在夏威夷大学马诺阿举行的北美语言习得生成方法首届会议。加拉纳会议被认为是设在欧洲的语言习得生成方法会议(GALA)的北美姊妹会议，该会议自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，它将为越来越多的生成性习得研究提供一个出口。Galana的一个主要目标是将语言习得各个子领域的生成性研究人员聚集在一起，包括第一语言习得、第二语言习得、双语习得、克里奥尔语和皮钦语研究以及无序的语言发展。这次会议的显著特点包括：(I)来自美国和国外的知名学者的特邀演讲，更具体地说，两次全体演讲和一次半天的辅导；(Ii)两次专题会议，一次是关于语气/体的习得，另一次是关于儿童第二语言习得；(Iii)三次海报会议，其中一次是为研究生保留的。GALANA的更广泛影响发生在几个层面：首先，我们正在发起一个将使研究人员在未来多年受益的会议。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，包括那些来自代表性不足的少数群体的研究人员。此外，会议将通过促进两个共同发起的系(语言学和第二语言研究)之间的交叉，为两个系的本科生和研究生提供大量的智力和专业机会，并激发太平洋岛民学习他们自己的语言的兴趣，对夏威夷大学的语言学学术基础设施产生重大影响。最后，作为一个巡回会议，Galana将鼓励美国生成研究中心之间的合作，从而加强语言学中生成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.