Dear Prospective BUCLD 37 Attendee,
We would like to remind you that the deadline to pre-register for BUCLD 37 is Tuesday, October 23, 2012. By pre-registering not only will you receive a reduced rate for the conference, but you will also be able to check-in at the registration desk quickly and proceed to the various exciting talks without waiting in line. Regular full-price registration will continue to be available online from Wednesday, October 24 through Tuesday, October 30. To register, please visit the following website: http://www.bu.edu/bucld/conference-info/registration/
For general information on the conference including the full schedule, please visit: http://www.bu.edu/bucld
You can also register for the Society for Language Development Symposium “Neuroplasticity and language” on Thursday November 1, 1-4pm through our website. The SLD would also like to announce a new student award. Please see their website for more information: http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/sld/symposium.html
We look forward to seeing you at BUCLD 37!
We would like to remind you that the deadline for abstract submissions for the 37th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development is May 15, 2012 at 8pm EST.
You may submit your abstract online at:
http://www.bu.edu/bucld/abstracts/abstract-submission/
A suggested format and style for abstracts is available 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, including: Bilingualism,
Cognition & Language, Creoles & Pidgins, Dialects, Discourse and Narrative, Gesture,
Hearing Impairment and Deafness, Input & Interaction, Language Disorders, Linguistic
Theory, Neurolinguistics, Pragmatics, Pre-linguistic Development, Reading and Literacy,
Signed Languages, Sociolinguistics, and Speech Perception & Production.
Thank you.
BUCLD Organizers
THE 37th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
NOVEMBER 2-4, 2012
Keynote Speaker:
Ray Jackendoff, Tufts University
Plenary Speaker:
Patricia Kuhl, University of Washington
Lunch Symposium:
"Language delay - does it matter?"
Yonata Levy, Hadassah-Hebrew University (organizer)
Submissions that present research on any topic in the fields of first and second language
acquisition from any theoretical perspectives will be fully considered, including: Bilingualism,
Cognition & Language, Creoles & Pidgins, Dialects, Discourse and Narrative, Gesture,
Hearing Impairment and Deafness, Input & Interaction, Language Disorders, Linguistic
Theory, Neurolinguistics, Pragmatics, Pre-linguistic Development, Reading and Literacy,
Signed Languages, Sociolinguistics, and Speech Perception & Production.
A suggested format and style for abstracts is available at:
http://www.bu.edu/bucld/abstracts/abstract-format/
We are now accepting abstracts. You may submit yours online at:
http://www.bu.edu/bucld/abstracts/abstract-submission/
DEADLINE: All submissions must be received by 8:00 PM EST, May 15, 2012.
FURTHER INFORMATION
General conference information is available at:
http://www.bu.edu/bucld
Boston University Conference on Language Development
96 Cummington Street, Room 244
Boston, MA 02215
U.S.A.
Telephone: (617) 353-3085
Questions about abstracts should be sent to abstract(a)bu.edu
--
Master's Student, Applied Linguistics
BUCLD 37, Coorganizer, Abstracts/Reviews Chair
Boston University
Dear Prospective BUCLD 36 Attendee,
We would like to remind you that the deadline to pre-register for BUCLD 36 is Wednesday, October 26, 2011. By pre-registering not only will you receive a reduced rate for the conference, but you will also be able to check-in at the registration desk quickly and proceed to the various exciting talks without waiting in line. Regular full-price registration will continue to be available online from Thursday, October 27 through Tuesday, November 1. To register, please visit the following website:
http://www.bu.edu/bucld/conference-info/registration/
For general information on the conference including the full schedule, please visit:
http://bu.edu/bucld
We look forward to seeing you at BUCLD 36!
Sincerely,
Alia Biller, Esther Chung, and Amelia Kimball,
BUCLD 36 Co-organizers
We are pleased to announce that pre-registration for BUCLD 36 is now available at:
http://www.bu.edu/bucld/conference-info/registration/
The 36th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development will be held at Boston University, on November 4 to November 6. Our invited speakers are:
Keynote Speaker:
Sandra Waxman, Northwestern University
“What’s in a word? Links between linguistic and conceptual organization in infants and young children”
Plenary Speaker:
Cornelia Hamann, University of Oldenburg
“Bilingual development and language assessment”
Lunch Symposium:
“Morphology in second language acquisition and processing”
Harald Clahsen, University of Essex/University of Potsdam
Holger Hopp, University of Mannheim
Donna Lardiere, Georgetown University
Silvina Montrul, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The full conference schedule is available at:
http://www.bu.edu/bucld/conference-info/schedule/
The Society for Language Development will hold their Annual Symposium on November 3. Please check their webpage for the most current information at:
http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/sld/symposium.html
REMINDER TO STUDENT PRESENTERS:
The Paula Menyuk Student Travel Award 2011 will be given to about 20 student presenters (Bachelor, Master’s or PhD). The award entails the reimbursement of travel costs of up to $300. For detailed requirements and more information please see our website and fill out our application (http://www.bu.edu/bucld/travel-hotel/travel-award/) The deadline for receiving applications is October 7, 2011.
More information about BUCLD, including information about accommodations in the area, is available at our website:
http://www.bu.edu/bucld
We look forward to seeing you at BUCLD 36!
Sincerely,
Alia Biller, Esther Chung, and Amelia Kimball,
BUCLD 36 Co-organizers
_______________________________________________
THE 36th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY
CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
Abstract submissions are open until May 15.
NOVEMBER 4-6, 2011
Keynote Speaker:
Sandra Waxman, Northwestern University
"What's in a word? Links between linguistic and conceptual
organization in infants and
young children"
Plenary Speaker:
Cornelia Hamann, University of Oldenburg
"Bilingual development and language assessment"
Lunch Symposium: "Morphology in second language acquisition and processing"
Harald Clahsen, University of Essex/University of Potsdam
Holger Hopp, University of Mannheim
Donna Lardiere, Georgetown University
Silvina Montrul (organizer), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Submissions that present research on any topic in the fields of first
and second
language acquisition from any theoretical perspective will be fully
considered. Eligible
topics include: Bilingualism, Cognition and Language, Creoles and
Pidgins,Dialects,
Discourse and Narrative, Gesture, Hearing Impairment and Deafness, Input and
Interaction, Language Disorders, Linguistic Theory, Neurolinguistics,
Pragmatics,Pre-linguistic Development, Reading and Literacy, Signed
Languages,
Sociolinguistics, and Speech Perception and Production.
A suggested format and style for abstracts is available at:
http://www.bu.edu/bucld/abstracts/abstract-format/
We have begun accepting abstract submissions.
Please check http://www.bu.edu/bucld/ for a link to the submission
form and any
important updates.
DEADLINE: All submissions must be received by 8:00 PM EDT, May 15, 2011.
FURTHER INFORMATION
General conference information is available at:
http://www.bu.edu/bucld/
Boston University Conference on Language Development
96 Cummington Street, Room 244
Boston, MA 02215
U.S.A.
Questions about abstracts should be sent to abstract(a)bu.edu
--
BUCLD 35 Organizing Committee
THE 36th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY
CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
Abstract submissions are now open
NOVEMBER 4-6, 2011
Keynote Speaker:
Sandra Waxman, Northwestern University
"What's in a word? Links between linguistic and conceptual organization
in infants and
young children"
Plenary Speaker:
Cornelia Hamann, University of Oldenburg
"Bilingual development and language assessment"
Lunch Symposium: "Morphology in second language acquisition and processing"
Harald Clahsen, University of Essex/University of Potsdam
Holger Hopp, University of Mannheim
Donna Lardiere, Georgetown University
Silvina Montrul (organizer), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Submissions that present research on any topic in the fields of first
and second language acquisition from any theoretical perspective will
be fully considered. Eligible topics include: Bilingualism, Cognition
and Language, Creoles and Pidgins,Dialects, Discourse and Narrative,
Gesture, Hearing Impairment and Deafness, Input and Interaction,
Language Disorders, Linguistic Theory, Neurolinguistics,
Pragmatics,Pre-linguistic Development, Reading and Literacy, Signed
Languages, Sociolinguistics, and Speech Perception and Production.
A suggested format and style for abstracts is available at:
http://www.bu.edu/bucld/abstracts/abstract-format/
We have begun accepting abstract submissions.
Please check http://www.bu.edu/bucld/ for a link to the submission form
and any important updates.
DEADLINE: All submissions must be received by 8:00 PM EDT, May 15, 2011.
FURTHER INFORMATION
General conference information is available at:
http://www.bu.edu/bucld/
Boston University Conference on Language Development
96 Cummington Street, Room 244
Boston, MA 02215
U.S.A.
Questions about abstracts should be sent to abstract(a)bu.edu
THE 36th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY
CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
NOVEMBER 4-6, 2011
Keynote Speaker:
Sandra Waxman, Northwestern University
"What's in a word? Links between linguistic and conceptual organization
in infants and young children"
Plenary Speaker:
Cornelia Hamann, University of Oldenburg
"Bilingual development and language assessment"
Lunch Symposium: "Morphology in second language acquisition and processing"
Harald Clahsen, University of Essex/University of Potsdam
Holger Hopp, University of Mannheim
Donna Lardiere, Georgetown University
Silvina Montrul (organizer), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Submissions that present research on any topic in the fields of first
and second language acquisition from any theoretical perspective will
be fully considered. Eligible topics include: Bilingualism, Cognition
and Language, Creoles and Pidgins, Dialects, Discourse and Narrative,
Gesture, Hearing Impairment and Deafness, Input and Interaction,
Language Disorders, Linguistic Theory, Neurolinguistics, Pragmatics,
Pre-linguistic Development, Reading and Literacy, Signed Languages,
Sociolinguistics, and Speech Perception and Production.
A suggested format and style for abstracts is available at:
http://www.bu.edu/bucld/abstracts/abstract-format/
We will begin accepting abstract submissions on April 15, 2011.
Please check http://www.bu.edu/bucld/ for a link to the submission form
and any important updates.
DEADLINE: All submissions must be received by 8:00 PM EDT, May 15, 2011.
FURTHER INFORMATION
General conference information is available at:
http://www.bu.edu/bucld/
Boston University Conference on Language Development
96 Cummington Street, Room 244
Boston, MA 02215
U.S.A.
Questions about abstracts should be sent to abstract(a)bu.edu
Dear Prospective BUCLD 35 Attendee,
We would like to remind you that the deadline to pre-register for BUCLD
35 is Saturday, October 23, 2010. By pre-registering not only will you
receive a reduced rate for the conference, but you will also be able to
check-in at the registration desk quickly and proceed to the various
exciting talks without waiting in line. To pre-register, please visit
the following website:
https://www.bu.edu/phpbin/bucld/
For general information on the conference including the full schedule,
please visit:
http://bu.edu/bucld
Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions or comments. We
hope to see you at BUCLD 35!
Sincerely,
Nick Danis, Kate Mesh, and Hyunsuk Sung
BUCLD 35 Co-Organizers
We are pleased to announce that pre-registration for BUCLD 35 is now
available at:
http://www.bu.edu/bucld/conference-info/registration/
The 35th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development
will be held at Boston University, November 5 to November 7. Our
invited speakers are:
Keynote Speaker:
Rachel Mayberry, University of California at San Diego
“Nurture and biology in language acquisition: What the hands say”
Plenary Speaker:
William Snyder, University of Connecticut
“Children’s grammatical conservatism: Implications for syntactic theory”
Lunch Symposium:
“The acquisition of number words: Integrating formal and
developmental perspectives”
Susan Carey, Harvard University
Justin Halberda, Johns Hopkins University
Jeff Lidz, University of Maryland
Julien Musolino, Rutgers University
The full BUCLD 35 schedule can be found at the end of the body of
this email.
The Society for Language Development will hold their Annual Symposium
on the same weekend as the BUCLD. Please note that this year’s SLD
Symposium will be held on the Sunday immediately following the BUCLD,
not the Thursday prior as it has been in past years. Please check
their webpage for the most current information.
“Cognition and Language”
Speakers: Noam Chomsky (MIT) and Randy Gallistel (Rutgers)
Sunday, November 7
2:30 PM – 6:00 PM
George Sherman Union, Boston University
More information on the SLD symposium can be found at:
http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/sld/symposium.html
The full conference schedule is available at:
http://www.bu.edu/bucld/conference-info/schedule/
REMINDER TO STUDENT PRESENTERS:
The Paula Menyuk Student Travel Award 2010 will be given to about 20
student presenters (Bachelor, Master’s or PhD). The award entails
the reimbursement of travel costs of up to $300. For detailed
requirements and more information please see our website and fill out
our application (http://www.bu.edu/bucld/travel-hotel/travel-award/)
The deadline for receiving applications has been extended to October
4, 2010.
More information about BUCLD, including information about
accommodations in the area, is available at our website:
http://www.bu.edu/bucld
We look forward to seeing you at BUCLD 35!
Sincerely,
Nick Danis, Kate Mesh, Hyunsuk Sung
BUCLD 35 Co-organizers
FULL SCHEDULE:
Column 1 = Session A (Metcalf Small)
Column 2 = Session B (East Balcony)
Column 3 = Session C (Conference Auditorium)
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2010
Session A (Metcalf Small) Session B (East Balcony) Session C
(Conference Auditorium)
9:00 E. Conwell, T. O’Donnell, J. Snedecker: Stored chunks and
generalized representations: The case of the English dative
alternation P. Fikkert, A. Chen: The role of word-stress and
intonation for word recognition in Dutch 14- and 24-month-olds T.
Ionin, S. Montrul, H. Santos: Transfer in L2 and L3 acquisition of
generic interpretation
9:30 D. Yurovsky, D. Fricker, C. Yu, L. Smith: Building and using
partial knowledge in statistical word learning M. Babineau, R. Shi:
Processing of French liaisons in 24-month-old infants N. Modyanova,
A. Perovic, C. Hirsch, K. Wexler: What drives children’s development
of definite determiners
10:00 K. Smith, E. Wonnacott: Elimination of unpredictable linguistic
variation through iterated learning A. Mata, A. Santos: Intonation of
early answers to confirmation-seeking questions in spontaneous speech
N. Vasic, E. Blom: Production and processing of determiners in
Turkish-Dutch child L2 learners
10:30 BREAK (Ziskind Lounge)
Session A (Metcalf Small) Session B (East Balcony) Session C
(Conference Auditorium)
11:00 C. Lukyanenko, C. Fisher: Where are the cookies? 3-year-olds
use number-marked verbs to anticipate noun-number in online sentence
interpretation J. Pine, B. Ambridge, C. Rowland: Semantic verb
classes and the retreat from overgeneralization error N. Rakhlin, S.
Kornilov, M. Babyonyshev, J. Reich, E. Grigorenko: Comprehension of
center-embedded and right-branching relative clauses by Russian-
speaking children with language impairment
11:30 A. Omaki, I. Davidson White, T. Goro, J. Lidz, C. Phillips:
Using verb information to escape from kindergarten-paths in English
and Japanese wh-questions C. Noble, A. Theakston, E. Lieven:
Comprehension of intransitive argument structure: the first-noun-as-
agent bias M. Blossom, M. Rice: Early usage patterns of DO in
multiple functions in children with and without Specific Language
Impairment
12:00 Z. Qi, S. Yuan, C. Fisher: Where does verb bias come from?
Experience with particular verbs affects online sentence processing
N. Kazanina, S. Baker, B. Hood, H. Seddon: When throwing is not
catching: children’s understanding of intentionality of transfer
verbs H. Clahsen, S. Chilla, M. Rothweiler: Subject verb agreement in
Specific Language Impairment: A study of monolingual and bilingual
German-speaking children
12:30 LUNCH BREAK / BUCLD BUSINESS MEETING (Conference Auditorium)
Session A (Metcalf Small) Session B (East Balcony) Session C
(Conference Auditorium)
2:00 C. Lew-Williams, B. Pelucchi, J. Saffran: Isolated words enhance
statistical learning by 9-month-old infants J. Renn: Patterns of
style in the language of African American children and adolescents V.
Chondrogianni, T. Marinis, S. Edwards: (A)symmetries in the
production and on-line comprehension of articles and clitics by
Turkish-Greek L2 children: Same or different from monolingual Greek
children with SLI?
2:30 C. Shafto, C. Conway, S. Field, D. Houston: Visual sequence
learning in infancy: A domain-general predictor of vocabulary ability
K. Miller: When input matters, and when it don’t: Acquisition of
variable input by English-speaking children S. Manika, S. Varlokosta,
K. Wexler: Greek-speaking children with Specific Language Impairment
(SLI) do not omit clitics
3:00 ATTENDED POSTER SESSION II (Terrace Lounge and Ziskind Lounge)
Session A (Metcalf Small) Session B (East Balcony) Session C
(Conference Auditorium)
4:15 L. Liu, R. Kager: Is statistical learning affected by perceptual
reorganization? Dutch infants’ sensitivity to lexical tone
discrimination T. Grüter, C. Lew-Williams, A. Fernald: Grammatical
gender in L2: Where is the problem? D. Hunsicker, S. Goldin-Meadow:
Creating hierarchical structure: Do noun phrases appear in homesign?
4:45 A. Cristia, A. Seidl: Infants’ processing of prosody predicts
toddlers’ grammatical vocabulary A. Melançon, R. Shi: Online
comprehension of newly acquired nouns and abstract knowledge of
grammatical gender A. Lieberman, M. Hatrak, R. Mayberry: The
development of eye gaze control for linguistic input in deaf children
5:15 R. Mazuka, Y. Sogabe: Phonemic discrimination at word-initial,
word-medial, and word-final positions with and without lexical pitch-
accent in Japanese I. Barriere, L. Goyet, T. Nazzi, S. Kresh, G.
Legendre: The representation of subject-verb agreement in French-
learning toddlers: New evidence from the comprehension of an
infrequent pattern of pseudoverbs M. Kuntze, C. Goodman, N. Berlove,
S. Fish: A language with polycomponential vocabulary: Issues of
linguistic typology and the analysis of ASL vocabulary development
5:45 DINNER BREAK
8:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Rachel Mayberry, University of California at
San Diego
“Nurture and biology in language acquisition: What the hands
say” (Metcalf Large)
9:15 ATTENDED POSTER SESSION I (Terrace Lounge and Ziskind Lounge)
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2010
8:00 NSF/NIH FUNDING SYMPOSIUM: What’s Hot and How to Apply
(Conference Auditorium)
TIME Session A (Metcalf Small) Session B (East Balcony) Session C
(Conference Auditorium)
9:00 H. Wang, B. Höhle, N. Ketrez, A. Kuntay, T. Mintz: Cross-
linguistic distributional analyses with frequent frames: The cases of
German and Turkish B. Pearson, T. Roeper, M. Grace: Quantifier
spreading is not distributive T. Xu: Children’s 2Aux negative
questions: Parameter-setting or the lexicon?
9:30 S. Yuan, C. Fisher, P. Kandhadai, A. Fernald: You can stipe the
pig and nerk the fork: Learning to use verbs to predict nouns K.
Syrett, J. Musolino: Children’s collective and distributive
interpretations of pluralities with number M. Hara: Subject RC-over-
object RC advantages in L2 Processing of Japanese
10:00 S. Arunachalam, E. Escovar, M. Hansen, S. Waxman: Verb learning
from syntax alone at 21 months R. Montalto, A. van Hout, P. Hendriks:
Acquiring the ordering of Italian near-synonymous quantifiers J.
Lidz, A. Gagliardi: Morphosyntactic cues impact filler-gap dependency
resolution in 20- and 30-month-olds
10:30 BREAK (Ziskind Lounge)
Session A (Metcalf Small) Session B (East Balcony) Session C
(Conference Auditorium)
11:00 P. Brosseau-Liard, D. Hall: Explaining the disambiguation
effect in lexical development: New evidence favoring constraints over
social-pragmatic knowledge G. Ouellette: Oral vocabulary and reading
skills: A serious relationship or just good friends? J. Choe: What
seems to be real may be illusory: Acquisition of raising with an
experiencer
11:30 A. Fernald, N. Hurtado, R. Bion, V. Marchman: Zip code as a
predictor of toddlers’ use of the mutual exclusivity strategy O.
Demir, L. Applebaum, S. Levine, K. Petty, S. Goldin-Meadow: The story
behind parent-child book-reading interactions: Relations to later
language and reading outcomes E. Lau: Complete uniformity: Early
acquisition of the passive in Cantonese
12:15 LUNCH SYMPOSIUM: The acquisition of number words: Integrating
formal and developmental perspectives
(Speakers: Susan Carey, Justin Halberda, Jeffrey Lidz, Julian Musolino)
Session A (Metcalf Small) Session B (East Balcony) Session C
(Conference Auditorium)
2:15 L. Song, R. Golinkoff, A. Stahl, K. Hirsh-Pasek: When seeing is
not enough: 19- to 21-month-olds rely on labels to categorize
intransitive human actions K. Gor, A. Lukyanchenko: Perceptual
correlates of L1 phonological representations in Russian-English
heritage speakers L. Grohe, A. Müller, P. Schulz: How children “copy”
long-distance structures: The production of complex wh-questions in
German
2:45 M. Johanson, A. Papafragou: Effects of labels on children’s
category boundaries Y. Yu, V. Shafer: Electrophysiological indices of
six-month-olds’ sensitivity to English vowels: Language experience
and gender effect J. Chen, Y. Shirai: The acquisition of relative
clauses in child Mandarin
3:15 ATTENDED POSTER SESSION II (Terrace Lounge and Ziskind Lounge)
Session A (Metcalf Small) Session B (East Balcony) Session C
(Conference Auditorium)
4:30 J. Hartshorne, R. Nappa, J. Snedecker: Ambiguous pronoun
processing development: Probably not U-shaped A. van Hout, N.
Gagarina, W. Dressler, and 25 more authors: Learning to understand
aspect across languages N. Feldman, E. Myers, K. White, T. Griffiths,
J. Morgan: Infants and adults use word-level statistics in phonetic
category acquisition
5:00 C. Schulze, S. Grassmann, M. Tomasello: Relevance inferences in
3-year-olds L. Domínguez, M. Arche, F. Myles: Testing the predictions
of the Feature-Assembly Hypothesis: Evidence from the acquisition of
Spanish aspect morphology D. Swingley, C. Slaton: Word-forms can help
learners form phonetic categories
5:45 PLENARY ADDRESS: William Snyder, University of Connecticut
“Children’s grammatical conservatism: Implications for syntactic
theory” (Metcalf Large)
7:00 ATTENDED POSTER SESSION II (Terrace Lounge and Ziskind Lounge)
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2010
TIME Session A (Metcalf Small) Session B (East Balcony) Session C
(Conference Auditorium)
9:00 L. Serratrice, A. Hesketh, R. Ashworth, L. Lodovica: The use of
indirect speech clauses in a narrative context: A priming study L.
Pozzan, G. Bencini, E. Quirk, N. Eng, V. Valian: The acquisition of
English main and embedded questions in child and adult SLA: An
elicited production study G. Jarosz: The roles of phonotactics and
frequency in the learning of alternations
9:30 I. Arnon: From chunk to segment: U-shaped patterns in the effect
of frames on children’s word production R. Slabakova, G. Campos, T.
Leal Mendez, P. Kempchinsky, J. Rothman: Pragmatic features at the L2
syntax-discourse interface I. Berent, K. Harder, T. Lennertz:
Phonological universals in early childhood: Evidence from sonority
restrictions
10:00 M. Kirjavainen, A. Theakston: Infinitival-to omission errors in
child language M. Iverson, J. Rothman: When L2 syntax is target-like
and target-deviant at the same time: L1 preemption again! N. Boll-
Avetisyan: Probabilistic phonotactics and syllable structure in L2
lexical acquisition
10:30 BREAK (Ziskind Lounge)
Session A (Metcalf Small) Session B (East Balcony) Session C
(Conference Auditorium)
11:00 L. Schneidman, S. Goldin-Meadow: Child-directed speech and
vocabulary acquisition in a Mayan village M. Sutton, C. Lukyanenko,
J. Lidz: The onset of Principle C at 30 months: The role of
vocabulary, syntactic development, and processing efficiency H.
Engemann: The expression of motion events in bilingual first language
acquisition: Evidence for typological constraints in English and French
11:30 M. Carlson, M. Sonderegger, M. Bane: Global properties of the
phonological network in child-directed speech K. Clackson, H.
Clahsen: Online processing of cataphoric pronouns by children and
adults: Evidence from eye movements during listening S. Shayan, O.
Ozturk, M. Bowerman, A. Majid: Development of cross-modal Mappings of
pitch to thickness.
12:00 A. Pinkham, T. Kaeffer, S. Neuman: Representational demand
positively influences kindergartners’ language development E. Kim, S.
Montrul, J. Yoon: The on-line processing of binding principles A and
B in L2 acquisition: Evidence from eye tracking P. Li: Another turn
on the acquisition of spatial frames of reference terms
12:30 E. Bergelson, D. Swingley: Mother’s education predicts spoken
word recognition in 6-16-mo.-old infants Y. Wang: The L2 processing
of anaphora resolution under movement S. Lee-Ellis, S. Hoerner, J.
Lidz: Initial parsing bias in the perception of spatial relations by
bilinguals
SOCIETY FOR LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT 7th ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM (Metcalf Large)
Cognition and Language
2:30 Introductory Remarks
3:00 Noam Chomsky (MIT)
4:00 Break
4:15 Charles R. Gallistel (Rutgers University)
5:15 General Discussion
6:00 RECEPTION (Metcalf Small)
ALTERNATES
N. Ferjan Ramirez, A. Lieberman, R. Mayberry: The first words
acquired by adolescent first-language learners: When late looks early
A. Kerkhoff, E. de Bree, E. van Baal, F. Wijnen: Implicit learning
and dyslexia: non-adjacent dependency learning in infants with a
familial risk of dyslexia
C. Jackson, M. O’Brien, C. Gardner: Prosodic cues to syntactic
disambiguation in second language German
A. Mitchel, M. Christiansen, D. Weiss: Cross-modal effects in
statistical learning: Evidence from the McGurk illusion
N. Dijkstra, P. Fikkert: Universal constraints on the discrimination
of Place of Articulation? Asymmetries in the discrimination of ‘paan’
and ‘taan’ by 6-month-old Dutch infants
C. Brojde, E. Colunga: Bilingual and monolingual children attend to
object properties differently in a word learning task
S. Unsworth, I. Tsimpli: Bilingual acquisition of Greek voice
morphology and Dutch gender: what do they have in common?
A. Theakston: Differences in children’s and adults’ choice of
referring expressions as a function of sentence role, accessibility,
and ambiguity.
A. Belikova: Do L2ers adopt the pronoun misanalysis of se? Data from
Russian- and English-speaking L2 learners of French
A. Santos, I. Duarte, A. Pires, J. Rothman: Early inflected
infinitives and late V-to-C movement
T. Hasley: Examining the semantics-pragmatics interface: The
implications of implicatures
R. van de Vijver, D. Baer-Henney: Acquisition of voicing and vowel
alternations in German
POSTERS
Session I, Room A – Terrace Lounge (Friday, November 6, 3:00-4:15 pm,
9:15-10:00 pm)
X. Yang: Young Chinese children’s CP and left periphery: The case of
sentence final particles
A. Weisleder, A. Fernald: Streams of talk: Child-directed speech, but
not overheard speech, predicts infants’ vocabulary and language
processing efficiency
K. Sugisaki: The distinction between case-markers and postpositions
in early child Japanese: New evidence for children’s grammatical
conservatism
N. Ward, M. Sundara, B. Conboy, P. Kuhl: Short-term exposure to a
second language produces language-specific effects in babbling
Y. Kim, M. Sundara: The role of function words in the development of
word segmentation
A. Nadig, S. Ozonoff: Discourse context affects homonym
interpretation similarly for children with high-functioning autism
and typically developing children: an eye-tracking study
P. Cheung, P. Li, D. Barner: Are classifiers necessary for
individuation in Mandarin Chinese?: A study on the acquisition of
units of quantification
S. Kim: The incomplete acquisition of Korean negative polarity items
by heritage Korean speakers: The effects of transfer and age
A. Ferry, S. Hespos, S. Waxman: Tuning the link between words and
categories: Primate vocalizations facilitate object categorization in
3-month-old, but not 12-month-old infants
M. Lippeveld, Y. Oshima-Takane: The dax is daxing the cheese: When do
children acquire class extension rules for denominal verbs?
T. Medina, A. Hafri, J. Trueswell, L. Gleitman: Propose but verify:
Fast mapping meets cross-situational learning
E. Zaretsky, C. Core: Developmental sensitivity to the sublexical
structure of the word: Evidence from a longitudinal study of early
spelling attempts.
E. Nava, J. Tepperman: Modeling second language prosody acquisition:
A dynamic systems theory approach
J. Grinstead, M. Vega-Mendoza, G. Goodall: Subject-verb inversion and
verb finiteness are independent in Spanish
N. Ferjan Ramirez, A. Lieberman, R. Mayberry: The first words
acquired by adolescent first-language learners: When late looks early
C. Jackson, M. O’Brien, C. Gardner: Prosodic cues to syntactic
disambiguation in second language German
Session I, Room B – Ziskind Lounge (Friday, November 6, 3:00-4:15 pm,
9:15-10:00 pm)
T. Kobayashi, Y. Oshima-Takane: Early verb extension in Japanese-
speaking children
Y. Choi, H. Lee, N. Jang, A. Kaufman: Whose report is more certain?:
The development of evidential reasoning
S. Kirby: Move over, control freaks: Syntactic raising as a cognitive
default
G. Van Berkel, A. Fernald, V. Marchman: Word Frequency Influences
Speed of Lexical Access in 2-year-olds
J. Willits, J. Saffran: Adults and Infants Use Meaning to Learn about
Non-Adjacent Structure in Language
H. Koulidobrova: Transfer past the surface: Evidence from null
subjects in the speech of an ASL/English bilingual
L. Jiang, E. Haryu: Young Chinese-speaking children’s understanding
of the correspondence between verb meaning and argument structure
J. Bogdanovs, J. Fletcher, D. Bayliss: What contributes to reading
comprehension? Differences between typically developing children and
children with reading difficulties
J. Hoover, H. Storkel: Neighborhood density and the ruse in SLI
E. Tenenbaum: Typically developing infants attend to the mouth in
conversational interactions
D. Simeone, D. Sobel: Children’s understanding of reliability across
linguistic domains
G. Bencini: Lexical, conceptual, and syntactic influences on
syntactic priming in monolingual and bilingual English speakers
D. McDaniel, C. McKee, M. Garrett: Fluency Markers for children’s
sentence planning: Early and late stage processing
A. White, R. Baier, J. Lidz: When knowledge causes failure: Effects
of subcategorization frequency in novel word learning
I. Eigsti, A. de Marchena, J. Dixon: Conversational gestures in
autism spectrum disorders: A qualitative difference
D. Roberson, O. Ozturk, S. Shayan, A. Majid: Teddy-bear blues: A
comparison of color-matching in Farsi-, Turkish- and English-speaking
three and four-year-olds.
A. Mitchel, M. Christiansen, D. Weiss: Cross-modal effects in
statistical learning: Evidence from the McGurk illusion
C. Brojde, E. Colunga: Bilingual and monolingual children attend to
object properties differently in a word learning task
A. Belikova: Do L2ers adopt the pronoun misanalysis of se? Data from
Russian- and English-speaking L2 learners of French
T. Hasley: Examining the semantics-pragmatics interface: The
implications of implicatures
Session II, Room A – Terrace Lounge (Saturday, November 7, 3:15-4:30
pm, 7:00-7:45 pm)
T. Marinis: Non-word repetition in successive bilingual children:
similar or different pattern from monolingual children with SLI?
C. Junge: On-line evidence of early word familiarization in nine-
month-olds
E. Wonnacott, J. Boyd, J. Thomson, A. Goldberg: The acquisition of
novel constructional patterns by five-year-olds and adults
T. Lentz, R. Kager: L1 phonotactics adds spurious segmentation
candidates in L2 speech recognition
T. Bagetti, L. Correa: The early recognition of verb affixes:
evidence from Portuguese
H. Katz, J. Trueswell: Seeing, saying, and remembering: Children’s
understanding of discourse constraints on choice of referential
expressions
H. Goad, L. White, J. Bruhn de Garavito: Prosodic transfer at
different levels of structure: The L2 acquisition of Spanish plurals
L. Tornyova, V. Valian: A hypothesis testing model of question
formation: Evidence from auxiliary omission and inversion
A. Gagliardi, J. Lidz: When Bayes betrays: How linguistic hypotheses
shape learning biases
D. Hufnagle, L. Holt: Development of adult-like speech categorization
in 3- and 5-year olds
E. Leddon, S. Arunachalam, X. Fu, H. Gong, L. Wang, S. Waxman: Noun
and verb learning in English- and Mandarin-acquiring 24-month-olds
L. Naigles, C. Reynolds, A. Kuntay: 2-year-olds’ sensitivity to
pronoun case in English sentence comprehension
M. Khan, J. Snedeker: Spontaneous implicit naming of visual objects
A. Eilam, J. Trueswell: Rapid acquisition of expletive negation in
Modern Hebrew
A. Kerkhoff, E. de Bree, E. van Baal, F. Wijnen: Implicit learning
and dyslexia: non-adjacent dependency learning in infants with a
familial risk of dyslexia
N. Dijkstra, P. Fikkert: Universal constraints on the discrimination
of Place of Articulation? Asymmetries in the discrimination of ‘paan’
and ‘taan’ by 6-month-old Dutch infants
Session II, Room B – Ziskind Lounge (Saturday, November 7, 3:15-4:30
pm, 7:00-7:45 pm)
C. Branchini, C. Benetti, E. Carravieri, F. Arosio: Structure
building and syntactic movement in Italian SLI children
N. Mani: Forming word-word relationships in infancy
F. Chang, T. Kobayashi: Mapping between particles and intentionality
in Japanese preferential looking
G. Cannizzaro, P. Hendriks: When animacy trumps word order: (eye)
tracking a comprehension delay in English-speaking preschoolers
D. Apoussidou: Modeling the acquisition of speech segmentation bottom-
up and top-down
A. Grimm, M. Wojtecka, A. Ritter, P. Schulz: Comprehension of
exhaustive wh-questions in eL2 and L1 learners of German — cross-
linguistically uniform or language-specific acquisition?
M. Iraola Azpiroz, M. Ezeizabarrena Segurola: Anaphora resolution in
the acquisition of Basque
C. Cantiani, M. Lorusso, P. Perego, M. Guasti: ERP correlates of
anomalous morphosyntactic processing in adults and children with
Developmental Dyslexia
S. Hoerner, W. Idsardi, N. Jiang: Highly proficient Spanish-dominant
bilinguals demonstrate sensitivity to difficult English vowel contrasts
J. Rothman, J. Cabrelli Amaro, G. Campos: L3 initial state models on
trial: Subject-to-subject raising across experiencers in L3
Portuguese and Spanish
R. Bion, A. Fernald: Perceptual adaptation to foreign-accented speech
in 18-month-old infants
J. Davidson, I. de la Fuente, R. Foote, S. Montrul: Early language
experience facilitates gender processing in Spanish heritage speakers
A. Seery, V. Vogel-Farley, T. Augenstein, L. Casner, L. Kasparian, H.
Tager-Flusberg, C. Nelson: Atypical electrophysiological
lateralization to speech stimuli in infants at risk for autism
spectrum disorder
M. Hughes, S. Allen: The contribution of grammatical and discourse-
pragmatic effects to the acquisition of referential choice in child
English
C. Coughlin, A. Tremblay: The role of prosodic boundaries in non-
native speech segmentation
A. Delcenserie, F. Genesee, T. Grüter: Acquisition of object clitics
and working memory in internationally-adopted children from China
S. Unsworth, I. Tsimpli: Bilingual acquisition of Greek voice
morphology and Dutch gender: what do they have in common?
A. Theakston: Differences in children’s and adults’ choice of
referring expressions as a function of sentence role, accessibility,
and ambiguity.
A. Santos, I. Duarte, A. Pires, J. Rothman: Early inflected
infinitives and late V-to-C movement
R. van de Vijver, D. Baer-Henney: Acquisition of voicing and vowel
alternations in German
