BUCLD 33: Proceedings of the 33rd annual
Boston University Conference on Language Development
edited by Jane Chandlee, Michelle Franchini, Sandy Lord, and Gudrun-Marion Rheiner
x + 657 pages (2-volume set)
publication date: April 2009
ISBN 978-1-57473-094-4 paperback, $60.00
ISBN 978-1-57473-194-1 library binding, $125.00
The 33rd annual Boston University Conference on Language Development was held October 31 to November 2, 2008, in Boston, MA. The proceedings contain 51 of the papers presented at the conference, including the keynote paper by Barbara Landau and the plenary paper by Tom Roeper.
All 3-day registrants for BUCLD 33 received the paperback proceedings as part of registration. The cost of the proceedings for students is generously covered by grants from the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health.
The posters from the conference are not included in the printed proceedings. Many of the posters have been published by the conference in an on-line proceedings supplement.
Contents
Volume 1
Spatial Language, Spatial Cognition: Origins, Development, Interaction
Barbara Landau 1-23
The Minimalist Microscope: How and Where Interface Principles Guide Acquisition
Tom Roeper 24-48
Spatial Frames of Reference and Perspective Taking in Tseltal Maya
Linda Abarbanell and Peggy Li 49-60
The Role of Categorical Proximity for Referent Identification in a Preferential Looking Task
Natalia Arias-Trejo 61-72
Schwa Syllables Facilitate Word Segmentation for 9-month-old German-learning Infants
Sonja Bartels, Isabelle Darcy, and Barbara Höhle 73-84
Structural Biases in Phonology: Infant and Adult Evidence from Artificial Language Learning
Elika Bergelson and William J. Idsardi 85-96
ELL Vocabulary Acquisition: More Evidence from Quality Input during Storybook Reading
Molly F. Collins 97-108
Sesotho Passives: The Long and Short of It
Jean Crawford 109-120
Acquisition of Relevance Implicatures in Typically-Developing Children and Children with Autism
Peter A. de Villiers, Jill G. de Villiers, D'Jaris Coles-White, and Laura Carpenter 121-132
Accessibility and Topicality in Children's Use of Word Order
Christine Dimroth and Bhuvana Narasimhan 133-138
Lighten Up: The Acquisition of Light Verb Constructions in Persian
Neiloufar Family 139-150
Weighted Constraints and Faithfulness Cumulativity in Phonological Acquisition
Ashley Farris-Trimble 151-162
Expanding Locative Case Marking beyond Spatial Contexts in Child Hungarian
Ashley Fidler and Anna Babarczy 163-174
Can We Predict When Dying Will Be Difficult? Progressive Achievements in L2 English
Alison Gabriele, Junko Maekawa, and José Alemán Bañón 175-186
Syntactic Frames and Morphological Cues in the Acquisition of Adjectives in Child English and Child Russian
Elena Gavruseva 187-198
Processing Figures and Grounds in Dynamic and Static Events
Tilbe Göksun, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, and Roberta M. Golinkoff 199-210
Finiteness and Subject-Auxiliary Inversion in Child English
John Grinstead, Valissa Warren, Cara Ricci, and Sarah Sanderson 211-222
Acquiring (Hebrew) Compositional Telicity: When Is It Ever Complete?
Aviya Hacohen 223-232
Maternal Challenges in Mother-Child Reminiscence
Julia M. Hayden 233-244
Children's Restrictions on the Meanings of Novel Determiners: An Investigation of Conservativity
Tim Hunter and Anastasia Conroy 245-255
Cross-Linguistic Biases in the Semantics and Acquisition of Spatial Language
Megan Johanson, Stathis Selimis, and Anna Papafragou 256-265
Eye Movements during the Processing of Ambiguous Sentences with a Focus Particle 'Only'
Soyoung Kim 266-277
Native-Like Attainment of the Lexicon-Syntax Interface in the L2: Converging Evidence from Different Methodologies
Tihana Kraš 278-289
Fluency in Using Morphosyntactic Cues to Establish Reference: How Do Native and Non-Native Speakers Differ?
Casey Lew-Williams and Anne Fernald 290-301
Two in One: Evidence for Imperatives as the Analogue to RIs from ASL and LSB
Diane Lillo-Martin and Ronice Müller de Quadros 302-312
L2 Syntax Meets Information Structure: Word Order at the Interfaces
Cristóbal Lozano and Amaya Mendikoetxea 313-324
Does Meaning Specificity Affect Verb Learning and Extension?
Weiyi Ma and Wilkey Wong 325-332
Volume 2
Acquisition of Split-Ergativity in Kurmanji Kurdish
Laura Mahalingappa 333-342
Generalisation of Word-Object Associations: A Modelling Account
Julien Mayor 343-354
Semantic Factors in Young Children's Comprehension and Production of Passives
Katherine Messenger, Holly Branigan, Janet McLean, and Antonella Sorace 355-366
The Role of Faces in Segmentation: Visual Integration in a Statistical Learning Task
Aaron D. Mitchel and Daniel J. Weiss 367-378
The Delay of Italian Past Participle Agreement
Vincenzo Moscati and Roberta Tedeschi 379-390
The Nature of Childhood Language Memory: Korean Adoptees Learning Korean as Adults
Janet S. Oh, Terry Kit-fong Au, and Sun-Ah Jun 391-397
On the Semantic Properties of Implicit Objects in Young Children's Elicited Production
A.T. Pérez-Leroux, Mihaela Pirvulescu, and Yves Roberge 398-409
Child Spanish Comprehension of Verbal Tense Morphology
Teresa Pratt, Dan McCurley, John Grinstead, and Laura Wagner 410-419
ERP Correlates of Syntactic Focus Structure Processing: Evidence from L1 and L2 French
Robert V. Reichle 420-431
Induction of Phonotactics from Word-types and Word-tokens
Peter T. Richtsmeier, LouAnn Gerken, and Diane Ohala 432-443
Noun-raising and Adjectival Interpretative Reflexes in the L2 Spanish of Germanic and Italian Learners
Jason Rothman, Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, Michael Iverson, and Tiffany Judy 444-455
Segmental and Prosodic Aspects in the Acquisition of Elision in Brazilian Portuguese
Raquel S. Santos 456-467
Carving up Referential Space: A Priming Account of Pronoun Use in Italian
Ludovica Serratrice 468-479
Mechanisms of Segmentation and Morphological Learning in Infants
Rushen Shi and Alexandra Marquis 480-491
Factors Contributing to Infants' Vocabulary Size at 19 and 25 Months
Jae Yung Song 492-503
The Developmental Profile of Editing and Repair Strategies in Narrative Structure: A Cross-sectional Study of Primary School Children
Lesley Stirling, Graham Barrington, Susan Douglas, and Kerrie Delves 504-515
Statistical Learning of Hierarchical Phrase Structure in 18-Month-Old Infants
Eri Takahashi 516-527
Snapshots of Grammaticalization: Differential Electrophysiological Responses to Grammatical Anomalies with Increasing L2 Exposure
Darren Tanner, Lee Osterhout, and Julia Herschensohn 528-539
On vs. Above: Lexical Semantics and Syntactic Factors Affecting Spatial Acquisition
Arhonto Terzi and Vina Tsakali 540-551
Discriminating Linguistic Analyses with Child Data: The Case of Noun-drop in French
Daniel Valois, Phaedra Royle, and Nicolas Bourguignon 552-562
From Group Results to Individual Patterns in Pronoun Comprehension
Jacolien van Rij, Petra Hendriks, Jennifer Spenader, and Hedderik van Rijn 563-574
Acquisition of Relevance Implicatures and Modularity
Anna Verbuk 575-586
Phonological Development: Typical Children vs. Late Talkers
Marilyn M. Vihman, Tamar Keren-Portnoy, Rory A. DePaolis, and Ghada Khattab 587-598
Manners and Goals in Pre-Linguistic Thought: The Origins of Aspectual Construal
Laura Wagner 599-610
Real-time Processing of Postnominal Adjectives by Latino Children Learning Spanish as a First Language
Adriana Weisleder and Anne Fernald 611-621
Restrictions on Definiteness in L2 English
Lydia White, Alyona Belikova, Paul Hagstrom, Tanja Kupisch, and Öner Özçelik 622-633
Antecedent Preferences for Anaphoric Demonstratives in L2 German
Frances Wilson, Antonella Sorace, and Frank Keller 634-645
Understanding a Speaker's Communicative Intent: Bilingual Children's Heightened Sensitivity to Referential Gestures
W. Quin Yow and Ellen M. Markman 646-657
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