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 herehttps://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 Linguisticshttp://ling.bu.edu/ at Boston Universityhttp://bu.edu/ invites (self-)nominations of junior scholars from underrepresented minority (URM) groups for a new speaker serieshttps://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 Changhttp://ling.bu.edu/people/chang, Chair of the Emerging Scholars organizing committee, at cc@bu.edumailto: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@bu.edumailto:cc@bu.edu, +1-617-353-8718tel:+1-617-353-8718) or to the rest of the organizing committee: Profs. Kate Lindseyhttp://ling.bu.edu/people/lindsey and Danny Erkerhttp://ling.bu.edu/people/erker.