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Important BUCLD Announcements
by Language Development, BU Conference on 21 May '20

21 May '20

Dear BUCLD Community, First and foremost, we would like to say thank you for all of your timely feedback on our Virtual Conference Survey. As you may have seen on our website or one of our social media platforms, we have decided to hold BUCLD 45 online this year. We have yet to finalize all of the details, but we are aware of the concerns that surround an online conference, and we are hoping to address these concerns to the best of our abilities. We would also like to thank our invited speakers for their flexibility during this time. Dr. Adele Goldberg will be giving our Plenary address and Dr. Michael Frank will be hosting the student workshop. Dr. Reiko Mazuka will join us at BUCLD 46 in 2021. In addition to moving to an online space, we have extended the abstract submission deadline to 8:00pm EST, June 1st. We hope this extension will encourage more abstract submissions, especially since there are no longer travel requirements. If you have already submitted an abstract, you can revise your submission until the new deadline. This extension means that reviewer deadlines are also pushed back. Further information on reviewer deadlines will be sent directly to reviewers. We have switched to a new abstract submission site called START. In order to submit an abstract, you will need to create an account if you do not have one already. To submit your abstract to BUCLD 45 click here<https://www.softconf.com/l/bucld45/>. We also have an exciting opportunity outside of BUCLD. The BU Linguistics Department is seeking nominations for Emerging Scholars in Linguistics, including the area of language acquisition. Please see below. Thank you all for your patience and flexibility during this challenging time. We wish you and your families a healthy and safe summer! Best, The BUCLD 45 Organizing Committee -------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Scholars in Linguistics at Boston University Call for Nominations, 2020-2021 The Department of Linguistics<http://ling.bu.edu/> at Boston University<http://bu.edu/> invites (self-)nominations of junior scholars from underrepresented minority (URM) groups for a new speaker series<https://bit.ly/emerging-scholars-at-bu> to be held in the academic year 2020-21. (Note: by junior scholars, we mean advanced doctoral students, postdoctoral fellows, and early-career faculty, and by URM, we mean racial/ethnic groups historically underrepresented in the academy -- people of Black/African American, Native American/Alaska Native, Latinx, and/or Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander descent.) This speaker series will bring emerging scholars in linguistics to Boston University to share their work with our department and the broader academic community. We are particularly interested in scholars working on topics in the area of language acquisition and/or language variation and change. Invited scholars will be guests of the Department of Linguistics for two days, to include individual and small-group meetings with faculty and students as well as a public research colloquium. All travel and accommodation expenses and a modest honorarium will be covered by Boston University. What to submit: 1. a brief description of the scholar and their work, interests, goals, and/or contribution to making the academy a more inclusive environment (does not have to be long; a few sentences will suffice), and 2. a current CV (or link to such). ***SELF-NOMINATIONS ARE VERY WELCOME AND WILL BE FULLY CONSIDERED.*** How and when to submit: by email to Prof. Charles Chang<http://ling.bu.edu/people/chang>, Chair of the Emerging Scholars organizing committee, at cc(a)bu.edu<mailto:cc@bu.edu> before July 1, 2020. Nominees will be notified of an invitation on or before August 31, 2020. Questions may be addressed to Prof. Chang (cc(a)bu.edu<mailto:cc@bu.edu>, +1-617-353-8718<tel:+1-617-353-8718>) or to the rest of the organizing committee: Profs. Kate Lindsey<http://ling.bu.edu/people/lindsey> and Danny Erker<http://ling.bu.edu/people/erker>.

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BUCLD 45 Virtual Conference Survey
by Language Development, BU Conference on 23 Apr '20

23 Apr '20

Dear BUCLD Community, Due to the current pandemic, the Organizing Committee would like to hear your thoughts on the possibility of a virtual conference this year. If you could complete the survey by April 30th (one week from today), we would truly appreciate it. Survey: http://www.bu.edu/bucld/bucld-45-virtual-conference-survey/ We look forward to hearing from you, The BUCLD 45 Organizing Committee

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CFP - BUCLD 45
by Language Development, BU Conference on 25 Feb '20

25 Feb '20

THE 45th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT NOVEMBER 5-8, 2020 Keynote Speaker: Reiko Mazuka (RIKEN Center for Brain Science) Plenary Speaker: Adele Goldberg (Princeton University) We will be accepting two kinds of submissions: symposium proposals (due April 1; see below) and abstracts for 20-minute talks or posters (beginning April 1, due May 1). --- CALL FOR SYMPOSIUM PROPOSALS We are currently soliciting 1000-word proposals for a 90-minute symposium at the Boston University Conference on Language Development on any topic likely to be of broad interest to the conference attendees. Proposals should include a list of the participants, topics, and format, and should name at least one organizer. Send submissions to langconf(a)bu.edu<mailto:langconf@bu.edu> with "Symposium proposal" in the subject line. DEADLINE: All symposium proposal submissions must be received by April 1, 2020. Symposium decisions will be made by June. --- CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Submissions of 500-word abstracts for 20-minute talks and posters will be accepted beginning April 1, 2020 at: http://www.bu.edu/bucld/abstracts/abstract-submission/ DEADLINE: All abstract submissions must be received by 8:00 PM EST, May 1, 2020. Please note this is an earlier deadline than in previous years. Submissions that present research on any topic in the fields of first, second, and additional language acquisition from any theoretical perspectives will be fully considered. Abstracts must be limited to 500 words, with up to one extra page for examples, figures, tables, and references (for a total length of no more than two pages). A suggested format and style for abstracts is available at: http://www.bu.edu/bucld/abstracts/abstract-format/ --- FURTHER INFORMATION General conference information is available at: http://www.bu.edu/bucld We encourage submissions from scholars in countries affected by the new travel restrictions. We will arrange remote presentation for accepted abstracts by scholars who are unable to attend for this reason. Questions? Email us at: langconf(a)bu.edu<mailto:langconf@bu.edu>. Thank you, BUCLD 2020 Organizing Committee Boston University Conference on Language Development 96 Cummington Mall, Room 246 Boston, MA 02215 U.S.A.

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New Opportunities at BUCLD 44!
by Language Development, BU Conference on 18 Sep '19

18 Sep '19

Hello BUCLD Community! With BUCLD 44 only a month and a half away, the BUCLD Organizational Committee would like to reach out regarding a few new opportunities related to BUCLD this year. First, we would like to note that several new hotels have set aside blocks of rooms this year for BUCLD attendees to reserve at a discounted rate. The full list of hotels that are providing discounts is available at http://www.bu.edu/bucld/travel-hotel/. Reserve your discounted rooms soon, as many of these discounted rates must be reserved before the end of this month! Secondly, we are excited to announce that this year BUCLD will be hosting a Pop-Up Mentoring Program (PUMP)! PUMP is launched by a subset of the LSA's Committee on the Status of Women in Linguistics (COSWL), that travels around from conference to conference, giving anyone who is interested a chance to have a brief meeting with a mentor outside of their official support system. Mentors and mentees are paired by a COSWL-designated PUMP coordinator based on shared interests for a one-time, no strings attached mentoring session. Why participate in Pop-up Mentoring? Mentees report that it has been extremely valuable to meet someone outside of their department to whom they can pose questions they feel they cannot discuss with their official mentors. Mentors report how enriching it has been to learn a broader context in which to examine the field and their own official mentees’ experiences. For more information on Pop-up Mentoring see https://www.bu.edu/bucld/conference-info/pop-up-mentoring-program/. If you have any questions about the upcoming event, please feel free to reach out to us at langconf(a)bu.edu<mailto:langconf@bu.edu>. We look forward to seeing you in November! The BUCLD 44 Organizational Committee

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BUCLD 44 abstract submission is live.
by Language Development, BU Conference on 13 Apr '19

13 Apr '19

THE 44th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT NOVEMBER 7-10, 2019 Keynote Speaker: Cynthia Fisher (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Plenary Speaker: Jan Edwards (University of Maryland) We will be accepting two kinds of submissions: symposium proposals and abstracts for 20-minute talks or posters (see below for deadlines). CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Submissions of 500-word abstracts for 20-minute talks and posters will be accepted beginning April 1, 2019 at: http://www.bu.edu/bucld/abstracts/abstract-submission/ DEADLINE: All abstract submissions must be received by 8:00 PM EST, May 1, 2019. Please note this is an earlier deadline than in previous years. Submissions that present research on any topic in the fields of first and second language acquisition from any theoretical perspectives will be fully considered. Abstracts must be limited to 500 words, with one extra page for examples, figures, tables, and references. A suggested format and style for abstracts is available at: http://www.bu.edu/bucld/abstracts/abstract-format/ --- FURTHER INFORMATION General conference information is available at: http://www.bu.edu/bucld We encourage submissions from scholars in countries affected by the new travel restrictions. We will arrange remote presentation for accepted abstracts by scholars who are unable to attend for this reason. Questions? Email us at: langconf(a)bu.edu<mailto:langconf@bu.edu>. Thank you, BUCLD 2019 Organizing Committee Boston University Conference on Language Development 96 Cummington Street, Room 246 Boston, MA 02215 U.S.A.

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BUCLD 44 Call for Symposium Proposals
by Megan Brown 10 Mar '19

10 Mar '19

THE 44th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT NOVEMBER 7-10, 2019 Keynote Speaker: Cynthia Fisher (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Plenary Speaker: Jan Edwards (University of Maryland) Student Workshop Speaker: Sudha Arunachalam (New York University) We will be accepting two kinds of submissions: symposium proposals and abstracts for 20-minute talks or posters (see below for deadlines). --- CALL FOR SYMPOSIUM PROPOSALS We are currently soliciting 1000-word proposals for 90-minute symposia for the Boston University Conference on Language Development on any topic likely to be of broad interest to the conference attendees. Proposals should include a list of the participants, topics, and format, and should name at least one organizer. Send submissions to langconf(a)bu.edu <mailto:langconf@bu.edu> with "Symposium proposal" in the subject line. DEADLINE: All symposium proposal submissions must be received by April 1, 2019. Decisions on symposia will be made by June. --- CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Submissions of 500-word abstracts for 20-minute talks and posters will be accepted beginning April 1, 2019 at: http://www.bu.edu/bucld/abstracts/abstract-submission/ <http://www.bu.edu/bucld/abstracts/abstract-submission/> DEADLINE: All abstract submissions must be received by 8:00 PM EST, May 1, 2019. Please note this is an earlier deadline than in previous years. Submissions that present research on any topic in the fields of first and second language acquisition from any theoretical perspectives will be fully considered. Abstracts must be limited to 500 words, with one extra page for examples, figures, tables, and references. A suggested format and style for abstracts is available at: http://www.bu.edu/bucld/abstracts/abstract-format/ <http://www.bu.edu/bucld/abstracts/abstract-format/> --- FURTHER INFORMATION General conference information is available at: http://www.bu.edu/bucld <http://www.bu.edu/bucld> We encourage submissions from scholars in countries affected by the new travel restrictions. We will arrange remote presentation for accepted abstracts by scholars who are unable to attend for this reason. Questions? Email us at: langconf(a)bu.edu <mailto:langconf@bu.edu>. Thank you, BUCLD 2019 Organizing Committee Boston University Conference on Language Development 96 Cummington Mall, Room 246 Boston, MA 02215 U.S.A. Megan Brown Co-Organizer and Travel Chair, BUCLD 44 mbrown14(a)bu.edu

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BUCLD 44 Call for Proposals and Papers
by Language Development, BU Conference on 08 Feb '19

08 Feb '19

THE 44th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT NOVEMBER 7-10, 2019 Keynote Speaker: Cynthia Fisher (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Plenary Speaker: Jan Edwards (University of Maryland) We will be accepting two kinds of submissions: symposium proposals and abstracts for 20-minute talks or posters (see below for deadlines). --- CALL FOR SYMPOSIUM PROPOSALS We are also currently soliciting 1000-word proposals for 90-minute symposia for the Boston University Conference on Language Development on any topic likely to be of broad interest to the conference attendees. Proposals should include a list of the participants, topics, and format, and should name at least one organizer. Send submissions to langconf(a)bu.edu<mailto:langconf@bu.edu> with "Symposium proposal" in the subject line. DEADLINE: All symposium proposal submissions must be received by April 1, 2019. Decisions on symposia will be made by June. --- CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Submissions of 500-word abstracts for 20-minute talks and posters will be accepted beginning April 1, 2019 at: http://www.bu.edu/bucld/abstracts/abstract-submission/ DEADLINE: All abstract submissions must be received by 8:00 PM EST, May 1, 2019. Please note this is an earlier deadline than in previous years. Submissions that present research on any topic in the fields of first and second language acquisition from any theoretical perspectives will be fully considered. Abstracts must be limited to 500 words, with one extra page for examples, figures, tables, and references. A suggested format and style for abstracts is available at: http://www.bu.edu/bucld/abstracts/abstract-format/ --- FURTHER INFORMATION General conference information is available at: http://www.bu.edu/bucld We encourage submissions from scholars in countries affected by the new travel restrictions. We will arrange remote presentation for accepted abstracts by scholars who are unable to attend for this reason. Questions? Email us at: langconf(a)bu.edu<mailto:langconf@bu.edu>. Thank you, BUCLD 2019 Organizing Committee Boston University Conference on Language Development 96 Cummington Street, Room 246 Boston, MA 02215 U.S.A.

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registration announcement
by Language Development, BU Conference on 12 Oct '18

12 Oct '18

We are pleased to announce that Pre-registration for BUCLD 43 has officially opened!!! You may find the registration form here<http://www.bu.edu/bucld/conference-info/registration/online/>. This year we were delayed in launching registration due to changes in the way that Boston University processes payments. We appreciate your patience and apologize for any inconvenience that this may have caused. Please note that Pre-registration closes on October 23rd, so that we can finalize our event orders. The options for regular priced options (starting October 24th) are (1) full conference, (2) one-day, and (3) single event registration. Information on pricing may be found here<http://www.bu.edu/bucld/conference-info/registration/>. We hope to see you there! The BUCLD Organizing Committee

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BUCLD 43 Program Announcement
by Language Development, BU Conference on 21 Sep '18

21 Sep '18

The 43rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development will be held November 2-4, 2018. Since 1976, BUCLD has been organized by graduate students in Boston University’s Linguistics Program. With years of student work and the help of faculty advisors, the conference has become one of the largest international gatherings of linguists, psychologists, and other researchers of language acquisition and development. Keynote speaker: Ann Senghas (Barnard College) Plenary speaker: Johanne Paradis (University of Alberta) Student Workshop speaker: Christina Bergmann (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) NEW THIS YEAR!!! The Student Workshop will be held on Thursday November 1st following the Society for Language Development Symposium at 6:30pm, with refreshments available starting at 6:00pm!! Saturday symposium: “A developmental, individual-differences perspective on processing of and learning from accented speech” * Rochelle Newman (University of Maryland): “Toddlers’ accommodation of accent: Acoustic and experiential factors” * Margarita Kaushanskaya (University of Wisconsin – Madison): “Effects of bilingualism on children’s processing of accented speech” * Melissa Baese-Berk (University of Oregon): “Individual differences in perception of non-native speech” Sunday symposium: “Addressing the putative ‘word gap’: Approaches to early language interventions” * Roberta M. Golinkoff (University of Delaware) & Kathy Hirsh-Pasek (Temple University): “Helping children learn language: Why bother?” * Meredith L. Rowe (Harvard University Graduate School of Education): “Pointing to success: A home-based intervention for parents of infants” * Rebecca M. Alper (Temple University): “The Duet Project: A community-based home-visiting partnership” * Rachel R. Romeo (Boston Children’s Hospital & Massachusetts Institute of Technology): “The FACT Project: A school-based program for elementary-age families” Pre-registration will be available by late September. For a full program visit: http://www.bu.edu/bucld/conference-info/schedule/ BUCLD 43 Schedule » Conference on ... - Boston University<http://www.bu.edu/bucld/conference-info/schedule/> www.bu.edu BUCLD 43 Schedule. BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT. NOVEMBER 2-4, 2018 GEORGE SHERMAN UNION, BOSTON UNIVERSITY. Prior BUCLD conference schedules ... For general information please visit our website: http://www.bu.edu/bucld/ Conference on Language Development - Boston University<http://www.bu.edu/bucld/> www.bu.edu Boston University is a leading private research institution with two primary campuses in the heart of Boston and programs around the world. Also, the Society for Language Development Symposium will be held Thursday November 1st from 1-6pm. This year’s topic will be: “Understanding other minds: Insights from animal cognition, human development and language.” For more information please see their website: http://web.sas.upenn.edu/societyforlanguagedevelopment/symposium/ Annual Symposium – Society for Language Development<http://web.sas.upenn.edu/societyforlanguagedevelopment/symposium/> web.sas.upenn.edu 2018 Symposium of the Society for Language Development Understanding other minds: Insights from animal cognition, human development, and language

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BUCLD 43 Symposium and Abstract Submission Reminder
by Language Development, BU Conference on 11 Apr '18

11 Apr '18

THE 43rd ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT NOVEMBER 2-4, 2018 Keynote Speaker: Ann Senghas (Barnard College) Plenary Speaker: Johanne Paradis (University of Alberta) This is a reminder of the approaching deadlines for BUCLD 43: Symposium Proposals: April 15th Individual Paper and Poster Abstracts: May 15th ___ SYMPOSIUM PROPOSALS We are currently soliciting 1000-word proposals for 90-minute symposia for the Boston University Conference on Language Development on any topic likely to be of broad interest to the conference attendees. Proposals should include a list of the participants, topics, and format, and should name at least one organizer. Send submissions to langconf(a)bu.edu<mailto:langconf@bu.edu> with "Symposium proposal" in the subject line. DEADLINE: All symposium proposal submissions must be received by April 15, 2018. Decisions on symposia will be made by June. --- ABSTRACTS Submissions of 500-word abstracts for 20-minute talks and posters are being accepted at: h<http://www.bu.edu/bucld/abstracts/abstract-submission/>ttp://www.bu.edu/bucld/abstracts/abstract-submission/ DEADLINE: All abstract submissions must be received by May 15, 2018. UPDATED guidelines can be found at: http://www.bu.edu/bucld/abstracts/abstract-format/ Submissions that present research on any topic in the fields of first and second language acquisition from any theoretical perspectives will be fully considered. --- FURTHER INFORMATION General conference information is available at: http://www.bu.edu/bucld<http://www.bu.edu/bucld> Questions? Email us at: langconf(a)bu.edu<mailto:langconf@bu.edu>. Thank you, BUCLD 43 Organizing Committee Boston University Conference on Language Development 96 Cummington Mall, Room 246 Boston, MA 02215 U.S.A.

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