Call for Papers: Language Acquisition/ International Journal of Bilingualism

From http://linguistlist.org/issues/23/23-3727.html

Abstracts are invited for the annual thematic issue of the International Journal of Bilingualism (IJB) to be published in March 2015. The topic of the proposed thematic issue is ''Cross-linguistic aspects in child L2 acquisition'' and intends to bring together contributions from researchers examining the acquisition of interface and syntax-only phenomena in child L2 learners from a cross-linguistic perspective and/or by using different methodologies (production, off-line/on-line comprehension).

This thematic issue will seek to comprise articles investigating how target language (TL) properties influence child L2 acquisition, whether acquisition of different kinds of interface conditions influences transfer differently, how the acquisition pattern can be mediated by external factors such as age of onset (AoO), length of exposure (LoE) to the L2 and quality of input, and how transfer can interact with TL properties to give rise to different acquisition patterns cross-linguistically. Finally, by comparing different modalities such as production, off-line and on-line comprehension, the issue will address possible (a)symmetries between production and comprehension, and it will investigate the nature of the potential production problems in L2 children with different AoO and LoE.

Call deadline: October 15, 2012

See the full call for papers at http://linguistlist.org/issues/23/23-3727.html