Date:  Fri, 2 Feb 1996 14:41:37 GMT0BST

From:  Gillian Cavagan <NGC3%AIRPORT[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]NEWCASTLE.AC.UK>

Subject: Conference



INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

ON

BILINGUALISM



at



University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK



10-12 April 1997



fostering new interdisciplinary links



KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Peter Auer (Hamburg)

Pieter Muysken (Amsterdam)

Michel Paradis (Montreal)

Shana Poplack (Ottawa)



CALL FOR PAPERS

Submissions are invited, for oral or poster presentations, on any

aspect of bilingualism. Papers which are based on empirical research

and which seek to forge new links between established fields (e.g.

linguistics, sociology, psychology, neurology, education, speech &

language pathology) or to develop new sub-fields are particularly

welcome.



All submissions will be peer-reviewed, anonymously, by members of the

organising committee and selected on the grounds of originality,

clarity, significance of findings and conclusions, and contributions

to under-developed and/or new interdisciplinary areas of

bilingualism.



The deadline for submissions is 30 September 1996. Notices of

acceptance will be sent out in November, together with full

conference programme, travel details and tourist information.



HOW TO SUBMIT

Each submission should include:



- a cover sheet containing (i) the author(s) name(s); (ii) address

(including telephone number, e-mail and fax, if available); (iii)

affiliation; (iv) the title of the presentation; (v) the category of

the submission (20 minutes oral presentation at parallel session or

poster presentation); and (vi) equipments required for presentation.



-Four camera-ready copies of a one-page abstract. Only hard-copies

are considered.



ABSTRACTS SHOULD BE SENT TO:



Gillian Cavagan

for the Organising Committee, ISB

Department of Speech

King George VI Building

University of Newcastle

Newcastle upon Tyne

NE1 7RU  GB

Telephone: +44 (0)191 222 7385

Fax: +44 (0)191 222 6518

E-Mail: Gillian.Cavagan[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]newcastle.ac.uk



SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Jim Ackers, Karen Corrigan, Barbara Dodd, Li Wei (Co-Chair), Nick

Miller (Co-Chair), Lesley Milroy, Philip Shaw, David Westgate.