THE 39th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT NOVEMBER 7-9, 2014 Keynote Speaker: Richard Aslin, University of Rochester “From sounds to words to grammatical categories: The role of distributional learning” Plenary Speaker: Katherine Demuth, Macquarie University “Prosodic effects on the emergence of grammatical morphemes: Evidence from perception and production” Submissions of abstracts for 20-minute are now being accepted at: http://www.bu.edu/bucld/abstracts/abstract-submission/ DEADLINE. All submissions must be received by 8:00 PM EST, May 15, 2014. 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: Artificial Languages, 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/ FURTHER INFORMATION General conference information is available at: http://www.bu.edu/bucld Questions about abstracts should be sent to langconf@bu.edu Boston University Conference on Language Development 96 Cummington Street, Room 244 Boston, MA 02215 U.S.A.