Child Language Seminar 2007 - 30th Anniversary
The Child Language Seminar 2007 (30th Anniversary) took place from 18-20 July 2007 at the University of Reading. It was hosted by the School of Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences and was organised by Theo Marinis & Vesna Stojanovik (Clinical Language Sciences), Carmel Houston-Price & Graham Schafer (Psychology) and Brian Richards (Institute of Education).
The CLS is an interdisciplinary conference attracting a diverse audience of among others psychologists, linguists and speech and language therapists, and provides a forum for research on first and second language acquisition in typically and atypically developing children. It was first held in 1977, so in 2007 it was the 30th Anniversary of the CLS.
To mark the 30th Anniversary of the CLS, we added a half-day (18 July) with two thematic sessions, while keeping the remaining two days (19-20 July) open to all avenues ofresearch on child language development.
To commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the conference, the proceedings of CLS 2007 has been published on a CD-ROM and on the web-site of the University of Reading.
The University of Reading is one of the top 20 most research-intensive universities in the UK, and has a long tradition of research in language development. The School of Psychology & Clinical Language Science was established in 2005 when the Clinical Linguistics section moved to the School of Psychology. The School is set on one of the most beautiful campuses in the UK, with 320 acres of landscaped grounds surrounded by green open spaces, lakes and wildlife.
Reading is the county town of the Royal County of Berkshire and is located in the heart of the beautiful Thames Valley some 50 kilometres west of London. The city is easily accessible by air (30 minutes to Heathrow airport via frequent bus service to Reading station, and 75 minutes to Gatwick airport through a direct rail connection) and by rail (25 minutes from London Paddington). The M4 motorway provides ready access to London, Wales and the South West and there is an express coach service to London which also stops outside the main gate of the University.
