ix + 833 pages (2-volume set)
publication date: May 2017
ISBN 978-1-57473-076-0 paperback, $84.00
ISBN 978-1-57473-176-7 library binding, $160.00
This two-volume set contains talks and posters from the 41st annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, held November 4-6, 2016.
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Volume 1
A Note from the Proceedings Co-editors
Maria LaMendola and Jennifer Scott
ix (complete pdf)
Bilingual Arabic-German and Turkish-German Children with and without Specific Language Impairment: Comparing Performance in Sentence and Nonword Repetition Tasks
Lina Abed Ibrahim and Cornelia Hamann
1-17 (complete pdf)
Contextual Factors in Children's Calculation of Telicity
Curt Anderson
18-31 (complete pdf)
Modeling Phonetic Category Learning from Natural Acoustic Data
Stephanie Antetomaso, Kouki Miyazawa, Naomi Feldman, Micha Elsner, Kasia Hitczenko, and Reiko Mazuka
32-45 (complete pdf)
Factivity and At-Issueness in the Acquisition of forget and remember
Athulya Aravind and Martin Hackl
46-59 (complete pdf)
Now You Hear It, Now You Don't: Number Mismatch in the Comprehension of Relative Clauses in French
Anamaria Bentea and Stephanie Durrleman
60-73 (complete pdf)
Cross-linguistic Influence in Adult Second Language Learners: Dutch Quantitative Pronoun Constructions
Sanne Berends, Jeannette Schaeffer, and Petra Sleeman
74-87 (complete pdf)
What's a Foo? Toddlers Are Not Tolerant of Other Children's Mispronunciations
Dana E. Bernier and Katherine S. White
88-100 (complete pdf)
Lexical and Syntactic Effects on Auxiliary Selection: Evidence from Child French
Veronica Boyce, Athulya Aravind, and Martin Hackl
101-113 (complete pdf)
Modeling the Semantic Networks of School-Age Children with Specific Language Impairment and Their Typical Peers
Patricia J. Brooks, Josita Maouene, Kevin Sailor,
and Liat Seiger-Gardner
114-127 (complete pdf)
Statistical Learning of Multiple Structures by 8-Month-Old Infants
Federica Bulgarelli, Viridiana Benitez, Jenny Saffran, Krista Byers-Heinlein, and Daniel J. Weiss
128-139 (complete pdf)
Intervention Effects in Korean: Experimental L1 Evidence
Jiyoung Choi and Hamida Demirdache
140-153 (complete pdf)
Acquisition and Processing of Mass Nouns in L2-English by L2 Learners from Generalized Classifier Languages: Evidence for the Role of Atomicity
Sea Hee Choi and Tania Ionin
154-167 (complete pdf)
Personal Pronouns and Verb Person Inflections: Relations with Linguistic Development and Social Understanding
Anna Chromá and Filip Smolík
168-178 (complete pdf)
The Role of Language Experience in Nonword Repetition Tasks in Young Bilingual Spanish-English Speaking Children
Cynthia Core, Shreya Chaturvedi, and Diego Martinez-Nadramia
179-185 (complete pdf)
Semantic Redistribution of Copulas ser and estar in Catalan/Spanish Bilingual Children
Alejandro Cuza and Pedro Guijarro Fuentes
186-198 (complete pdf)
Lexical Access in Monolingual and Bilingual Vocabulary Development
Stephanie DeAnda, Kristi Hendrickson, Pascal Zesiger, Diane Poulin-Dubois, and Margaret Friend
199-207 (complete pdf)
ERP Correlates of Cyclic Computations: Anaphora in Native and L2 French
Laurent Dekydtspotter, Charlene Gilbert, Kate Miller, Mike Iverson, Tania Leal, and Isaiah Innis
208-221 (complete pdf)
Handshape Preferences for Objects and Predicates in Central Taurus Sign Language
Rabia Ergin and Diane Brentari
222-235 (complete pdf)
Early Knowledge of Relative Clause Islands and Island Repair
Michael Fetters and Jeffrey Lidz
236-249 (complete pdf)
Top-Down Learning in the Acquisition of Pronouns
Hannah Forsythe
250-262 (complete pdf)
V-Stranding VP-Ellipsis in Child Japanese
Yoshiki Fujiwara
263-272 (complete pdf)
L2 Acquisition of High Vowel Deletion in Québec French
Guilherme D. Garcia, Heather Goad, and Natália Brambatti Guzzo
273-282 (complete pdf)
English Article Use in Bimodal Bilingual Children with Cochlear Implants: Effects of Language Transfer and Early Language Exposure
Corina Goodwin, Kathryn Davidson, and Diane Lillo-Martin
283-295 (complete pdf)
Second Language Learners' Greater Difficulty with Structural Processing Routines over Case Morphology in Processing Japanese Relative Clause Sentences
Masahiro Hara
296-308 (complete pdf)
Discrimination of Vowel-Harmonic vs Vowel-Disharmonic Words by Monolingual Turkish Infants in the First Year of Life
Annette Hohenberger, Utku Kaya, and Aslı Altan
309-322 (complete pdf)
Agent Control and the Acquisition of Event Culmination in Basque, Dutch, English, Spanish, and Mandarin
Angeliek van Hout, María J. Arche, Hamida Demirdache, Isabel García del Real, Ainara García Sanz, Anna Gavarró, Lucía Gómez Marzo, Saar Hommes, Nina Kazanina, Jinhong Liu, Oana Lungu, Fabienne Martin, and Iris M. Strangmann
323-332 (complete pdf)
The Bottleneck Hypothesis in L2 Acquisition: A Study of L1 Norwegian Speakers' Knowledge of Syntax and Morphology in L2 English
Isabel Nadine Jensen, Roumyana Slabakova, and Marit Westergaard
333-346 (complete pdf)
Bilingual Proficiency Influences the Relationship between Code-Switching and Task-Switching in 8-Year-Old English-Chinese Singaporean Children
Carissa Kang and Barbara Lust
347-356 (complete pdf)
Learning a Subtractive Morphological System: Statistics and Representations
Vsevolod Kapatsinski
357-372 (complete pdf)
Children's Understanding of Distributivity and Adjectives of Comparison
Anna de Koster, Jakub Dotlačil, and Jennifer Spenader
373-386 (complete pdf)
Information Structure in Child English: Contrastive Topicalization and the Dative Alternation
Renato Lacerda
387-400 (complete pdf)
Evidence for a Broad Notion of Source in Child Language
Laura Lakusta, Malathi Thothathiri, Deanna Mendez, and Marija Marinkovic
401-410 (complete pdf)
Volume 2
A Conceptual Account of Children's Difficulties Extending Adjectives across Basic-Level Kinds
Alexander LaTourrette and Sandra Waxman
411-423 (complete pdf)
Early Knowledge of the Interaction between Aspect and Quantification: Evidence from Child Cantonese
Margaret Ka-yan Lei and Thomas Hun-tak Lee
424-435 (complete pdf)
A Reduced Sensitivity to Tones in Young Tone Learners' Word Recognition
Weiyi Ma, Liqun Gao, and Peng Zhou
436-442 (complete pdf)
The Production of Clitic Left Dislocations by Italian-Speaking Children and the Role of Intervention
Claudia Manetti and Adriana Belletti
443-451 (complete pdf)
Cross-linguistic Influence in Bilingual Processing: An ERP Study
Gita Martohardjono, Ian Phillips, Christen N. Madsen II, and Richard G. Schwartz
452-465 (complete pdf)
Second Language Processing Efficiency: Experience and Cognitive Effects on L2 Morphosyntactic Integration and Anticipation
Crystal Marull
466-480 (complete pdf)
What Crosslinguistic Acquisition Differences Can Tell Us about Invisible Syntax: The Case of Spanish parecer
Victoria E. Mateu
481-494 (complete pdf)
Delay or Deviance: Old Question – New Evidence from Bilingual Children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI)
Natalia Meir and Sharon Armon-Lotem
495-508 (complete pdf)
Syntactic Prediction in L2 Comprehension: Evidence from Japanese Adverbials
Sanako Mitsugi
509-521 (complete pdf)
The (Non-)Effects of Pragmatics on Children's Passives
Emma Nguyen and William Snyder
522-531 (complete pdf)
Article Distribution in English/American Sign Language (ASL) Whispered Code-Blended Speech
Vanessa Petroj
532-545 (complete pdf)
Adult Outcomes of Early Child Second Language (L2) Acquisition: Differential Object Marking in the Child L2 Spanish of Catalan Natives
Eloi Puig-Mayenco, David Miller, and Jason Rothman
546-558 (complete pdf)
Language Activation in Child L2 Learners
Mayra Chantal Ramirez and Catharine H. Echols
559-562 (complete pdf)
Acquisition of Spanish Mood Selection in Complement Clauses
Pablo E. Requena, Melisa Dracos, and Karen Miller
563-575 (complete pdf)
Are Children with High-Functioning Autism Better at Syntax than Typically Developing Children? The Case of Dutch Object Relative Clauses
Jeannette Schaeffer
576-587 (complete pdf)
Ultimate Attainment at the Syntax-Discourse Interface: The Acquisition of Object Movement in Dutch
Liz Smeets
588-601 (complete pdf)
On the Nature of the Syntactic Condition on Ellipsis Sites: A View from Child English
Koji Sugisaki and Hisao Kurokami
602-614 (complete pdf)
Children's Non-isomorphic Interpretation in Japanese Conditionals
Wataru Sugiura and Hiroyuki Shimada
615-625 (complete pdf)
Acquisition of Recursive Possessives and Locatives within DPs in Japanese
Akiko Terunuma, Miwa Isobe, Motoki Nakajima, Reiko Okabe, Shunichiro Inada, Sakumi Inokuma, and Terue Nakato
626-636 (complete pdf)
Object Clitics in the Narratives of High-Functioning Children with Autism
Arhonto Terzi, Anthi Zafeiri, Theodoros Marinis, and Konstantinos Francis
637-650 (complete pdf)
Connecting the Exhaustivity of Clefts and the Homogeneity of Plural Definite Descriptions in Acquisition
Lyn Tieu and Manuel Križ
651-664 (complete pdf)
How Turkish-Speaking Children Interpret Pre-verbal sadece ('only'): The Role of Prosody and Pragmatics
Simge Topaloğlu and Mine Nakipoğlu
665-678 (complete pdf)
Statistical Learning from Accented Speech: A Bilingual Advantage
Angeline Sin-Mei Tsui, Lucy C. Erickson, Erik D. Thiessen, and Christopher T. Fennell
679-690 (complete pdf)
The Effects of Linguistic Context on Visual Attention while Learning Novel Verbs
Matthew J. Valleau and Sudha Arunachalam
691-705 (complete pdf)
The Role of Executive Control in Agreement Attraction in Monolingual and Bilingual Children
Alma Veenstra, Kyriakos Antoniou, Napoleon Katsos, and Mikhail Kissine
706-717 (complete pdf)
Representational Gesture as a Tool for Promoting Verb Learning in Young Children
Elizabeth M. Wakefield, Casey Hall, Karin H. James, and Susan Goldin-Meadow
718-729 (complete pdf)
Phonotactics and Alternations in the Acquisition of Japanese High Vowel Reduction
James Whang and Frans Adriaans
730-743 (complete pdf)
Prosodic Effects on Pronoun Interpretation in Italian
Lydia White, Heather Goad, Jiajia Su, Liz Smeets, Marzieh Mortazavinia, Guilherme D. Garcia, and Natália Brambatti Guzzo
744-752 (complete pdf)
The Unmarkedness of Plural: Crosslinguistic Data
Kazuko Yatsushiro, Uli Sauerland, and Artemis Alexiadou
753-765 (complete pdf)
The Acquisition of Number Agreement in What BE these/those Sentences under a Multidominance Framework
Rong Yin
766-779 (complete pdf)
Effects of Bilingualism on Children's Use of Social Cues in Word Learning
W. Quin Yow, Xiaoqian Li, Sarah Lam, Teodora Gliga, Kok Hian Tan, Lynette Shek, Fabian Yap, Yap Seng Chong, and Birit F. P. Broekman
780-793 (complete pdf)
Cross-linguistic Transfer: The Role of L1 Grammatical Morphology in L2 Reading Comprehension among ELLs from Low SES
Elena Zaretsky
794-805 (complete pdf)
Topicalization from Adjuncts in English vs. Chinese vs. Chinese-English Interlanguage
Fred Zenker and Bonnie D. Schwartz
806-819 (complete pdf)
How Misleading Cues Influence Referential Uncertainty in Statistical Cross-situational Learning
Yayun Zhang and Chen Yu
820-833 (complete pdf)
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