Conference: GALANA 2016 - Input Variation and Language Acquisition

语言是人类的一种独特属性。儿童能够获得一种、两种或多种语言，这取决于他们接受的输入;在美国和世界各地，许多人在一生中不断学习新的语言。语言学家在语言习得方面的工作是由生成语言学理论指导的，他们研究语言如何在人类头脑中表现出来，这些心理表征如何被儿童获得，双语或第二语言学习者的不同语言如何相互影响，以及语言习得如何在存在发展障碍的情况下进行。第七届语言习得生成方法北美会议将于9月8日至10日在美国伊利诺伊大学香槟分校举行，会议期间，与会者将讨论语言习得的生成方法、语言习得的基本理论、语言习得的发展、语言习得的发展以及语言障碍的诊断和治疗等问题。2016年，汇集了从生成角度研究语言习得的研究人员和初级学者。会议将讨论第一和第二语言习得如何进行的核心问题，并将举行一次特别会议，重点讨论输入变化的作用。特别会议将研究语言习得如何受到个别儿童和家庭以及方言之间语言输入差异的影响。说不标准方言的儿童有被误认为有语言障碍的风险，对输入中方言变异的理论研究在识别语言障碍方面具有很强的实用价值。会议将邀请五位在第一语言和第二语言习得语法现象方面具有专业知识的著名研究人员进行演讲，两位特别会议发言人还将讨论语言障碍和方言变异。会议鼓励广泛参与：所有五位受邀演讲者都是女性，会议为研究生和博士后学者演讲者提供旅行奖励。会议论文选编将编入会议记录册出版。

Language is a unique property of human beings. Children are capable of acquiring one, two, or multiple languages, depending on the input that they receive; in the U.S. and around the world, many people continue to learn new languages throughout their lives. Linguists whose work on language acquisition is guided by generative linguistic theory examine how languages are represented in the human mind, how these mental representations are acquired by children, how the different languages of a bilingual or a second language learner influence each other, and how language acquisition proceeds in the presence of developmental disabilities. In addition to advancing our understanding of how the human mind works and how learning proceeds, research on language acquisition has practical implications for such fields as literacy development, foreign language instruction, and the identification and treatment of language disorders.The 7th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition--North America conference, to be held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on September 8-10, 2016, brings together established researchers and junior scholars who work on language acquisition from the generative prospective. The conference will address core questions on how first and second language acquisition proceeds, and will feature a special session focusing on the role of input variation. The special session will examine how language acquisition is affected by differences in language input across individual children and families, as well as across dialects. Children who speak non-standard dialects are at risk for being misidentified as having a language disorder, and theoretically informed study of dialectal variation in the input has strong practical value in identifying language disorders. The conference will feature five invited talks by prominent researchers with expertise in first and second language acquisition of grammatical phenomena, and, in the case of the two special session speakers, language disorders and dialectal variation. The conference encourages broad participation: all five invited speakers are women, and the conference provides travel awards to graduate student and post-doctoral scholar presenters. Selected papers from the conference will be published in a proceedings volume.