BUCLD 36: Proceedings of the 36th annual
Boston University Conference on Language Development
edited by Alia K. Biller, Esther Y. Chung, and Amelia E. Kimball
ix + 697 pages (2-volume set)
publication date: April 2012
ISBN 978-1-57473-075-3 paperback, $60.00
ISBN 978-1-57473-175-0 library binding, $125.00
The 36th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development was held November 4-6, 2011, in Boston, MA. The proceedings contains 55 of the papers from the conference, including the plenary address by Cornelia Hamann.
All 3-day registrants for BUCLD 36 receive 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 are available in an on-line proceedings supplement from BU.
Contents
Volume 1
Bilingual Development and Language Assessment
Cornelia Hamann 1-28
Prosodic Boundaries and Null Arguments in L2 Korean
Hyunah Ahn 29-41
Prosodic Influence in Bilingual Phonological Development: Evidence from a Portuguese-French First Language Learner
Letícia Almeida, Yvan Rose, and M. João Freitas 42-52
How Do Sequential Bilingual Children Perform on Nonword Repetition Tasks?
Sharon Armon-Lotem and Shula Chiat 53-62
Can Adverbs Call Attention to Manner of Motion for 2-Year-Olds Learning Verbs?
Sudha Arunachalam, Kristen Syrett, and Sandra R. Waxman 63-73
Performance Factors Trump Representational Deficits: Perception and Production of English Inflections by L1 Mandarin Speakers
Timothy E. Bonner and Gita Martohardjono 74-86
Experience and Processing of Relative Clauses in German
Silke Brandt, Sanjo Nitschke, and Evan Kidd 87-100
Information Packaging for Causative Events: Implications for Crosslinguistic Production and Attention
Ann Bunger, John C. Trueswell, and Anna Papafragou 101-113
Impaired Inflectional Morphology in Children with Developmental Dyslexia: Converging Evidence from Behavioral and Electrophysiological Measures
Chiara Cantiani, Maria Teresa Guasti, Paolo Perego, and Maria Luisa Lorusso 114-125
Generalizing without Encoding Specifics: Infants Infer Phonotactic Patterns on Sound Classes
Alejandrina Cristia and Sharon Peperkamp 126-138
Statistical Learning Constrained by Syntactic Biases in an Artificial Language Learning Task
Jennifer Culbertson, Paul Smolensky, and Géraldine Legendre 139-151
Tense and Truth in Children's Question Answering
Jill de Villiers, Tom Roeper, Ellen Harrington, and Elizabeth Gadilauskas 152-163
Generating Inflected Word Forms in Real Time: Evaluating the Role of Age, Frequency, and Working Memory
Elisabeth Fleischhauer and Harald Clahsen 164-176
Word and Sound Processing in Bilingual Preschoolers
Melinda Fricke 177-189
Pitch First, Stress Next? Prosodic Effects on Word Learning in an Intonation Language
Sónia Frota, Joseph Butler, Susana Correia, Cátia Severino, and Marina Vigário 190-201
Phonological Feature Constraints on the Acquisition of Phonological Dependencies
Nayeli Gonzalez-Gomez and Thierry Nazzi 202-212
Interpreting Object Clitics in Real Time: Eye-Tracking Evidence from 4-Year-Old and Adult Speakers of Spanish
Theres Grüter, Nereyda Hurtado, and Anne Fernald 213-225
The On-line Integration of Inflection in L2 Processing: Predictive Processing of German Gender
Holger Hopp 226-245
Factors Affecting Talker Recognition in Preschoolers and Adults
Sofia R. Jiménez and Sarah C. Creel 246-257
The Acquisition of Quantification across Languages: Some Predictions
Napoleon Katsos, Maria-José Ezeizabarrena, Anna Gavarró, Jelena Kuvac Kraljevic, Gordana Hrzica, Kleanthes Grohmann,
Athina Skordi, Kristine Jensen de López, Lone Sundahl, Angeliek van Hout, Bart Hollebrandse, Jessica Overweg, Myrthe
Faber, Margreet van Koert, Chris Cummins, Nafsika Smith, Maigi Vija, Sirli Parm, Sari Kunnari, Tiffany Morisseau, Manana
Rusieshvili, Kazuko Yatsushiro, Anja Hubert, Spyridoula Varlokosta, Katerina Konstantzou, Shira Farby, Maria Teresa Guasti,
Mirta Vernice, Ingrida Balciuniene, Jurate Ruzaite, Helen Grech, Daniela Gatt, Arve Asbjørnsen, Janne von Koss Torkildsen,
Ewa Haman, Aneta Miekisz, Natalia Gagarina, Julia Puzanova, Darinka Andjelkovic, Maja Savic, Smiljana Jošic, Daniela
Slancová, Svetlana Kapalková, Tania Barberán Recalde, Duygu Özge, Saima Hassan, Heather van der Lely, Uli Sauerland,
and Ira Noveck 258-268
Raising Is Birds, Control Is Penguins: Solving the Learnability Paradox
Susannah Kirby 269-280
Verb Islands in Child and Adult Language
Alix Kowalski and Charles Yang 281-289
Modeling Morphological Competence in a Second Language: A Feature-Based Approach
Donna Lardiere and Sun Hee Hwang 290-301
Bilingual Language Synthesis: Evidence from WH-Questions in Bimodal Bilinguals
Diane Lillo-Martin, Helen Koulidobrova, Ronice Müller de Quadros, and Deborah Chen Pichler 302-314
Examining the Nature of Variability in Gender and Number Agreement in Native and Non-native Spanish
Beatriz López Prego and Alison Gabriele 315-327
Developmental Differences in Object-Noun and Action-Verb Identification: An ERP Study
Mandy J. Maguire, Diane A. Ogiela, Grant Magnon, B. Delarosa, and Lynda Sides 328-338
Volume 2
Sociolinguistic Variation in Brown's Sarah Corpus
Karen Miller 339-348
Semantic and Pragmatic Meaning of the Existential Quantifier some in Second Language Acquisition
Utako Minai and Naoko Takami 349-360
The Use of Facial Cues for Speech Segmentation
Aaron D. Mitchel and Daniel J. Weiss 361-373
'Experiencing' a Slight Delay: Intervening Arguments and the Acquisition of Subject-to-Subject Raising
Robyn Orfitelli 374-386
The Acquisition of Distributivity in Pluralities
Elena Pagliarini, Gaetano Fiorin, and Jakub Dotlacil 387-399
Distributional Learning of L2 Phonological Categories by Listeners with Different Language Backgrounds
Bozena Pajak and Roger Levy 400-413
L1-Korean L2ers' Sensitivity to Givenness in the English Dative Alternation
Kyae-Sung Park and Bonnie D. Schwartz 414-426
Semantic Bootstrapping and the Role of Meta-cognition
Neil Parr and Richard Breheny 427-436
Applying the Interface Hypothesis to Heritage Speaker Acquisition: Evidence from Spanish Mood
Diego Pascual y Cabo, Anne Lingwall, and Jason Rothman 437-448
The Acquisition of NP Recursion in English-Speaking Children
Ana T. Pérez-Leroux, Susana Bejar, Diane Massam, and Anny Castilla-Earls 449-460
Clitic Production across Tasks in Young French-Speaking Children
Mihaela Pirvulescu, Ana T. Pérez-Leroux, Yves Roberge, and Nelleke Strik 461-473
Context, Mutual Exclusivity, and the Challenge of Multiple Mappings in Word Learning
Tim Poepsel, Chip Gerfen, and Daniel J. Weiss 474-486
What's in a Rise? Effects of Language Experience on Interpretation of Lexical Tone
Carolyn Quam and Sarah C. Creel 487-499
The Devil in the Details: Underspecification in Infants' and Adults' Lexical Representations
Jie Ren and James L. Morgan 500-511
An Investigation of the Role of Gender in the Resolution of Pronouns in L2 French
Claire Renaud 512-524
Abstract CP/IP Configuration in Child Japanese
Tetsuya Sano 525-535
Mayan and U.S. Caregivers Simplify Speech to Children
Laura Shneidman and Susan Goldin-Meadow 536-544
How Children Learn Different Spatial Metaphors for Time
Lauren Jamieson Stites and Seyda Özçaliskan 545-554
A Constraint on Argument Ellipsis in Child Japanese
Koji Sugisaki 555-567
Development of Locative Expressions by Turkish Deaf and Hearing Children: Are There Modality Effects?
Beyza Sümer, Inge Zwitserlood, Pamela Perniss, and Asli Özyürek 568-580
Parsing for Principle C at 30 Months
Megan Sutton, Michael Fetters, and Jeffrey Lidz 581-593
Electrophysiological Markers of Interference and Structural Facilitation in Native and Nonnative Agreement Processing
Darren Tanner, Janet Nicol, Julia Herschensohn, and Lee Osterhout 594-606
Crosslinguistic Differences in Autistic Children's Comprehension of Pronouns: English vs. Greek
Arhonto Terzi, Theodoros Marinis, Konstantinos Francis, and Angeliki Kotsopoulou 607-619
Development of Parsing Abilities Interacts with Grammar Learning: Evidence from Tagalog and Kannada
John C. Trueswell, Daniel Kaufman, Alon Hafri, and Jeffrey Lidz 620-632
Testing for Crosslinguistic Influence and Exposure Effects in the Bilingual Acquisition of Specific Indefinite Objects
Sharon Unsworth 633-645
Processing of Gender in Turkish-Dutch and Turkish-Greek Child L2 Learners
Nada Vasic, Vasiliki Chondrogianni, Theodoros Marinis, and Elma Blom 646-659
Voice More, Front Less: On the Development of Knowledge of Voicing and Vowel Alternations in German Nouns by 5 Year-Olds, 7 Year-Olds and Adults
Ruben van de Vijver and Dinah Baer-Henney 660-672
Task Demands and 'Depth' of L2 Processing of Subject-Verb Number Agreement
Zhijun Wen and Bonnie D. Schwartz 673-685
Electrophysiological Correlates of Picture-Word Processing in Three-to-Seven Year Old Non-verbal Children with Autism
Yan H. Yu, Naseem Choudhury, Chiara Cantiani, Valerie L. Shafer, Michelle MacRoy-Higgins, Richard G. Schwartz, and April A. Benasich 686-697
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