vii + 456 pages (2-volume set)
publication date: December 2016
ISBN 978-1-57473-066-1 paperback, $64.00
ISBN 978-1-57473-166-8 library binding, $140.00
This two-volume set contains talks and alternates from the 40th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, held November 13-15, 2015. The posters from the conference are not included in the proceedings from Cascadilla Press; some are available in an on-line proceedings supplement from BU.
The entire proceedings is also available directly from this page with open access. The pdf file for each paper is identical to the printed edition. You can search the entire proceedings here using Google.
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Volume 1
A Note from the Proceedings Co-editors
Jennifer Scott and Deb Waughtal
vii (complete pdf)
Subject-Object Asymmetries in the Acquisition of Clefts
Athulya Aravind, Eva Freedman, Martin Hackl, and Ken Wexler
1-17 (complete pdf)
Bilingual Children with High Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder: Evidence from Oral Narratives and Non-verbal Executive Function Tasks
Eleni Baldimtsi, Eleni Peristeri, Ianthi Maria Tsimpli, and Ageliki Nicolopoulou
18-31 (complete pdf)
Syntactic Categories Derived from Frequent Frames Benefit Early Language Processing in English and ASL
Galia Bar-Sever and Lisa Pearl
32-46 (complete pdf)
Maternal Overlap Predicts Language Outcomes for Typical and Late-Talking Children
Elizabeth S. Che, Maria F. Alarcon, Francis D. Yannaco, and Patricia J. Brooks
47-60 (complete pdf)
The Role of Caregivers' Tense and Aspectual Distinctions on Children's Later Acquisition
Iris Chin and Letitia R. Naigles
61-74 (complete pdf)
Bootstrapping the Syntactic Bootstrapper
Anne Christophe, Isabelle Dautriche, Alex de Carvalho, and Perrine Brusini
75-88 (complete pdf)
Syntactic Cues Alone in Adjective Learning
Michael Clauss and Jeremy Hartman
89-100 (complete pdf)
Linguistic and Cognitive Factors in Elicited Imitation Tasks: A Study with Mono- and Biliterate Greek-Albanian Bilingual Children
Ifigeneia Dosi, Despina Papadopoulou, and Ianthi Maria Tsimpli
101-115 (complete pdf)
Out of Sight, Not Out of Mind: Unexpressed Features Impact Children's Comprehension of Relative Clauses
Stephanie Durrleman, Anamaria Bentea, and Maria Teresa Guasti
116-129 (complete pdf)
Speech Perception in Children with a Cleft Palate: Preliminary Data
Paula Fikkert and Imme Lammertink
130-142 (complete pdf)
Learning Words amidst Phonemic Variability
Conor Frye and Sarah Creel
143-154 (complete pdf)
Cross-linguistic Patterns in Infant Babbling
Andreea Geambașu, Mariska Scheel, and Clara C. Levelt
155-168 (complete pdf)
Lexical Contributions to Inflectional Variability in L2 Predictive Processing
Holger Hopp
169-183 (complete pdf)
Pragmatic Leads and Null Subjects: When Children Consult Leads and When They Do Not
Vikki Janke
184-202 (complete pdf)
Is Statistical-Learning Ability Related to Real-Time Language Processing?
Jill Lany, Amber Shoaib, Abbie Thompson, and Katharine Graf Estes
203-215 (complete pdf)
When Pragmatics Helps Syntax: An Eye Tracking Study on Scope Ambiguity Resolution in 4- to 5-Year-Old Children
Karoliina Lohiniva and Daniele Panizza
216-228 (complete pdf)
Volume 2
The Role of Number and Gender Features in the Comprehension of Italian Clitic Left Dislocations
Claudia Manetti, Vincenzo Moscati, Luigi Rizzi, and Adriana Belletti
229-240 (complete pdf)
Parental Translation of Child Gesture Helps Bilingual Vocabulary Development
Valery Mateo, Şeyda Özçalışkan, and Erika Hoff
241-252 (complete pdf)
Order and Ordinality: The Acquisition of Cardinals and Ordinals in Dutch
Caitlin Meyer, Sjef Barbiers, and Fred Weerman
253-266 (complete pdf)
Fundamental Word-Learning Skills in Preterm and Full-Term Toddlers Predict Later Language Comprehension
Glenda Molina Onario and James L. Morgan
267-276 (complete pdf)
Implicit and Explicit Processes in Phonotactic Learning
Elliott Moreton and Katya Pertsova
277-290 (complete pdf)
Predictive Use of Case Markers in German Children
Duygu Özge, Jaklin Kornfilt, Katja Münster, Pia Knoeferle, Aylin Küntay, and Jesse Snedeker
291-303 (complete pdf)
Verb Bias and Plausibility in L2 Sentence Processing
Zhiying Qian, Eun-Kyung Lee, Dora Hsin-yi Lu, and Susan Garnsey
304-317 (complete pdf)
Hunting Highs and Lows: Acquiring Prosodic Focus Marking in Swedish and Dutch
Anna Sara H. Romøren and Aoju Chen
318-330 (complete pdf)
Are L2 Learners Pressed for Time? Retrieval of Grammatical Gender Information in L2 Lexical Access
Kailen Shantz and Darren Tanner
331-345 (complete pdf)
Sluicing and Its Identity Conditions in the Acquisition of Japanese
Koji Sugisaki
346-359 (complete pdf)
Viewpoint Preferences in Signing Children's Spatial Descriptions
Beyza Sümer, Pamela Perniss, and Aslı Özyürek
360-374 (complete pdf)
Young Children's Developing Expectations about the Language of Events
Kristen Syrett and Sudha Arunachalam
375-390 (complete pdf)
Cleft Sentences and Reconstruction in Child Language
Rosalind Thornton, Hirohisa Kiguchi, and Elena D'Onofrio
391-402 (complete pdf)
Functions of Evidentials in Turkish Child and Child-Directed Speech in Early Child-Caregiver Interactions
Berna A. Uzundag, Süleyman S. Tasci, Aylin C. Küntay, and Ayhan Aksu-Koç
403-416 (complete pdf)
Cross-linguistic Differences in the Perception of Dorsal and Coronal CV-Combinations: Evidence from English and Dutch
Suzanne V.H. van der Feest, Paula Fikkert, and Barbara L. Davis
417-428 (complete pdf)
Indexicals in Shifty Contexts: Problems for Language Acquisition
Ana Werkmann Horvat, Annie Gagliardi, and E. Matthew Husband
429-442 (complete pdf)
A New Method for Testing Language Comprehension Reveals Better Performance on Passive and Principle B Constructions
Shalom Zuckerman, Manuela Pinto, Elly Koutamanis, and Yoïn van Spijk
443-456 (complete pdf)
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