The deadline to submit proposals is September 1, 2002.

The 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism invites proposals for presentations on any aspect of research on bilingualism. In the past, topics have included grammatical development in bilingual children, sociolinguistic and grammatical studies of codeswitching, bilingual speech processing, language impairments in bilinguals, sociolinguistic studies of bilingual communities and migration, child/adult second language acquisition, language policy and ideology, language shift, language attrition/forgetting, and bilingualism in school settings.

Proposals regarding original, previously unpublished research on bilingualism are invited in three formats: Colloquia, individual papers, and posters.

Proposals for colloquia. Colloquia are collections of paper presentations which relate to a narrowly defined topic of interest, and are offered in either 2-hour or 3-hour time blocks. Proposals for colloquia are limited to 700 words, and should include brief summaries of each of the papers to be included, along with individual paper titles and individual authors' names, professional affiliations, and email addresses. Sufficient detail should be provided to allow peer reviewers to judge the scientific merit of the proposal. A chair for the session must also be identified. It is the responsibility of the person submitting a proposal for a colloquium to secure the permission and cooperation of all participants before the proposal is submitted. Proposals for colloquia must indicate whether a 2-hour or 3-hour time block is requested. Typically, each paper presentation within a colloquium should be scheduled for 30 minutes, including time for discussion.

Proposals for individual papers or posters. Please submit an abstract of no more than 700 words. The abstract should include enough detail to allow reviewers to judge the scientific merits of the proposal. Abstracts for paper/poster presentations will be double-blind peer-reviewed. Authors will be asked to specify a format (paper presentation or poster session) at the time the work is submitted.

If you do not want to submit your proposal online, you may mail it to us instead. To do so, please complete and submit the Proposal Submission Cover Sheet along with a printed abstract and disk no later than September 1, 2002 (postmarked). You may obtain a copy of the Proposal Submission Cover Sheet by clicking HERE. (Adobe Acrobat Free Reader is required to view this form; to download a copy, click HERE.) Or request a copy of the form by contacting us at isb4@asu.edu or (480) 727-6877, or write to 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Arizona State University, PO Box 870211, Tempe, AZ 85287-0211, USA.

Proceedings. Accepted papers will be included in the Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism (Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press), to be distributed on CD ROM to conference attendees and libraries in summer, 2003. All registered attendees will receive a copy of the proceedings.

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