It took place in Barcelona on September 2, 3 and 4, 1998.
The organizing committee was:
- Chair: Carmen Triadó (Universitat de Barcelona)
- Ana Teberosky (Universitat de Barcelona)
- Joaquim Arnau (Universitat de Barcelona)
- Magda Rivero (Universitat de Barcelona)
- Marta Gràcia (Universitat de Barcelona)
- Miquel Serra Raventós (Universitat de Barcelona)
The invited speakers were:
- Miguel Pérez Pereira: “Blind children language and the question of autistic traits”
- Julian Marck Pine: “Comparing different models of grammatical development”
- Lily Wong Fillmore: “What constitutes optimal conditions for second language learning?”
- Catherine Snow: “The role of pragmatics in the acquisition of a language ”
The scientific commitee was composed of:
- Honorary chair: Miguel Siguan (Universitat de Barcelona)
- Mª José del Río (Universitat de Barcelona)
- Isabel Solé (Universitat de Barcelona)
- Carmen Muñoz (Universitat de Barcelona)
- Miquel Llobera (Universitat de Barcelona)
- Rosa Solé (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
- Elisabeth Serrat (Universitat de Girona)
- Rosa Ana Clemente (Universitat Jaume I)
- Itziar Idiazabal (Euskal Herriko Unibersitatea)
- Susana López Ornat (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
- Miguel Pérez Pereira (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela).