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Programme

Dec 11, 2008 (Thu)

• Opening
  • Venue: Cho Yiu Conference Hall, Main Campus, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

• Special Workshop: Methods for Automatic Computational Analysis of Data on Bilingual Acquisition
  
  • Speaker: Brian MacWhinney
  • Date and Time: TBA
  • Venue: TBA

Registration

Full attendance registration fees include attendance on the two days,
lunches, and morning and afternoon refreshments on 11-12 Dec. Day rates
are also available and include attendance at all sessions, lunch,
and morning and afternoon refreshments on the day of your choice. Each
participant will receive a copy of the programme upon arrival.

• Full attendance (11 and 12 Dec)
  • On or before October 31:
    • HK$500 (US$64)
    • Student: HK$250 (US$32)
  • After October 31:
    • HK$700 (US$90)
    • Student: HK350 (US$45)
• Day attendance (11 or 12 Dec)
  • On or before October 31:
    • HK$500 (US$64)
    • Student: HK$125 (US$16)
  • After October 31:
    • HK$350 (US$45)
    • Student: HK175 (US$23)

The conference dinner will be held at the Royal Park Hotel on the evening of 12 Dec. The dinner costs HKD 300 (US$39) per person. A tentative menu can be found here. Since we have to confirm with the hotel the number of tables we need by early November, please register for the conference dinner latest by October 31.

Download the registration form

Accomodation

• Regal Riverside Hotel provides discount hotel rates for Conference participants.
  • hotel reservation form
• Other hotels:
  • For information about other hotels that offer reasonable rates, please visit the following websites:
  • Royal Park Hotel
    • 8 Pak Hok Ting Street, Shatin, Hong Kong
  • Harbour Plaza Metropolis
    • 7 Metropolis Drive, Hunghom, Kowloon, Hong Kong
  • Horizon Suite Hotel
    • 29 On Chun Street, Ma On Shan, Shatin, Hong Kong
      

Transportation

• Campus map of the Chinese University of Hong Kong: print version .
  


• Transportation between the Airport and Regal Riverside Hotel
  • Regal Riverside Hotel
    34-36 Tai Chung Kiu Road, Shatin, Hong Kong
    Phone: (852) 2649 7878
    Fax: (852) 2637 4748
  • By Airbus A41: Take Airbus A41 at the airport and get off at the Regal Riverside Hotel Bus Stop (or vice versa) (HK$20, duration: 50 mins).
  • By taxi : Take the taxi in the color of green (fares around HK$380, duration: 45 mins).
    
  
  
• Transportation from Regal Riverside Hotel to The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  
  • By bus 86K or 89X and MTR train : Take bus outside the hotel and get off at Shatin Central Bus Stop (around HK$4.4 - HK$4.9, duration: 13 mins). Then take the MTR train at the Shatin Station to the University Station (HK$4, duration: 7 mins).
  • By taxi : Take the taxi in the color of red and get off at the conference builiding, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (fares around HK$60, duration: 15 mins).
  
  
• Transportation from MTR University (CUHK) station to the conference buildings
  • Under construction

Call For Papers

An international conference on Bilingual Acquisition in Early Childhood will be held at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) from 11-12 December 2008. The conference is organized by the newly established Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre at CUHK.

The conference aims to draw together researchers interested in the linguistic development of children exposed to two or more languages in childhood. In many parts of the world including Asia, there has been a growing awareness of the significance of raising bilingual children and investigating their language development. We hope to invite papers which address childhood bilingualism involving any combination of languages, especially with an East Asian language. The processes and pathways of development in bilingual children are often more complex than those in monolingual children. We explore the impact of the multitude of factors that contribute to the complexities in bilingual acquisition including properties of the dual input, balance of input, and affinities or contrasts between the language pairs being acquired. Contributions from any theoretical framework are welcome.

We hope to promote the study of childhood bilingualism in diverse environments and communities, providing a forum for the exchange of views between researchers working with bilingual children and contributing to a better understanding of language acquisition and childhood bilingualism.

Our Keynote Speakers:

• Brian MacWhinney (Carnegie Mellon University)
  
  • Language Learning in Childhood and Adulthood: How different are they?
• William O’Grady (University of Hawai’i)
  • Scope in Two Languages
• Johanne Paradis (University of Alberta)
  • Are Bilingual Children Slower to Acquire Language than Monolingual Children?
• Yasuhiro Shirai (University of Pittsburgh)
  • The Acquisition of Tense-Aspect Marking by Cantonese-English Bilingual Children

We invite proposals for paper presentations on relevant topics including (but not restricted to) the following:

• Bilingual acquisition of East Asian languages
• Bilingual acquisition in special populations
• Bilingual first language acquisition
• Child second language acquisition
• Cross-linguistic influence in bilingual development
• Input studies in bilingual acquisition

Organizing Committee:

• Angel Chan (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
• Stephen Matthews (University of Hong Kong)
• Virginia Yip (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Chair of Committee)

Paper Presentation:

Each author may submit one proposal as the first author and another as co-author. Each paper presentation will be 30 minutes in length (20 minutes for presentation, followed by a 10-minute question & answer period). The language of presentation may be English, Cantonese or Mandarin.

• Deadline for submission of abstract: June 15, 2008

Please send your submissions for paper presentations to the following email address, in the following manner:

• To: cbrc@cuhk.edu.hk
• Subject: paper submission

Please send the following information in the main text of your email and your abstract as an attachment no later than 15 June 2008.

• 1. title of paper
• 2. name(s) of author(s)
• 3. affiliations of author(s)
• 4. mailing address for contact person
• 5. email address(es) of author(s)
• 6. telephone number for contact person
• 7. keywords (about 5 words)

Title and Abstract:

Please do not include any information in your abstract which may reveal your identity, as the review process will be conducted anonymously.

(a) Format

• 1. Number of pages

  paper: maximum 2 pages A4 or letter-size paper (including title, tables, figures, & references)

• 2. Paper size: A4 or letter-size
• 3. Margins:

  In the case of A4, Top and Bottom: 30mm, Left and Right: 25mm

  In the case of letter-size, all margins: 1 inch

• 4. Font: Times New Roman (or a similar font)
• 5. Font size: 12 point for text, 10 point for references
• 6. Length of abstract & line spacing: single-space, 500 words maximum

(b) Please save the file as a pdf file, text file, or Word file under your last name (e.g., chan.pdf).

Notification of acceptance will be made by the middle of July 2008.

Please send all inquiries regarding the 2008 conference to: cbrc@cuhk.edu.hk