ix + 847 pages (2-volume set)
publication date: May 2018
ISBN 978-1-57473-086-9 paperback, $84.00
ISBN 978-1-57473-186-6 library binding, $160.00
This two-volume set includes talks and posters from the 42nd annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, held November 3-5, 2017.
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
Preface
Anne B. Bertolini and Maxwell J. Kaplan
ix (complete pdf)
Identifying Specific Language Impairment (SLI) across Different Bilingual Populations: German Sentence Repetition Task (SRT)
Lina Abed Ibrahim, Cornelia Hamann, and David Öwerdieck
1-14 (complete pdf)
The Impact of Childhood Bilingualism and Bi-dialectalism on Pragmatic Interpretation and Processing
Kyriakos Antoniou, Alma Veenstra, Mikhail Kissine, and Napoleon Katsos
15-28 (complete pdf)
Children's Acquisition of Nouns That Denote Events
Sudha Arunachalam and Angela Xiaoxue He
29-44 (complete pdf)
The Acquisition of Stress-Clash Resolution Strategies in Greek
Angeliki Athanasopoulou
45-57 (complete pdf)
Little Lexical Learners: Quantitatively Assessing the Development of Adjective Ordering Preferences
Galia Bar-Sever, Rachael Lee, Gregory Scontras, and Lisa Pearl
58-71 (complete pdf)
More Relativization Asymmetries: Children Find Locative and Benefactive Clauses Difficult
Ivan Paul Bondoc, William O'Grady, Kamil Ud Deen, Nozomi Tanaka, Ellyn Cassey Chua, Angela Claudine De Leon, and Joshua Arvin Siscar
72-85 (complete pdf)
Sustained Attention in Infancy Impacts Vocabulary Acquisition in Low-Income Toddlers
Patricia J. Brooks, Rachel M. Flynn, and Teresa M. Ober
86-99 (complete pdf)
Explaining Cross-linguistic Differences in Article Omission through an Acquisition Model
Andrea Ceolin
100-113 (complete pdf)
LEXTALE_CH: A Quick, Character-Based Proficiency Test for Mandarin Chinese
I Lei Chan and Charles B. Chang
114-130 (complete pdf)
Information Structure and Ordering Preferences in Child and Adult Speech in English
Jidong Chen and Bhuvana Narasimhan
131-139 (complete pdf)
Effects of Early Language Deprivation: Mapping between Brain and Behavioral Outcomes
Qi Cheng, Eric Halgren, and Rachel Mayberry
140-152 (complete pdf)
Distinguishing Questions and Statements Using Sentence-Initial Prosodic Cues
Cindy Chiang, Susan Geffen, and Toben H. Mintz
153-158 (complete pdf)
Prediction at the Discourse Level in L2 English Speakers: An Eye-Tracking Study
Carla Contemori and Paola E. Dussias
159-171 (complete pdf)
Some and All in Bilinguals: Priming and Linguistic Effects
Carla Contemori, Francesca Foppolo, and Daniele Panizza
172-185 (complete pdf)
Language-Specific Sources of Acoustic Stability in Phonological Development
Margaret Cychosz and Susan E. Kalt
186-199 (complete pdf)
Repetition Brings Success: Revealing Knowledge of the Passive Voice
Kamil Ud Deen, Ivan Bondoc, Amber Camp, Sharon Estioca, Haerim Hwang, Gyu-Ho Shin, Maho Takahashi, Fred Zenker, and Jing Crystal Zhong
200-213 (complete pdf)
An ERP Investigation of Domain-Specificity: Clause-Edge Recursion in Native and Nonnative French
Laurent Dekydtspotter, Kate Miller, Charlene Gilbert, Mike Iverson, Kyle Swanson, Tania Leal, and Isaiah Innis
214-227 (complete pdf)
For Toddlers, Like Adults, Vowel Mispronunciations Are Readily Detected but Do Little to Impede Lexical Access
Lauren Franklin and James L. Morgan
228-237 (complete pdf)
Understanding the Causes of Inaccurate Self-Assessments: Extraversion's Role
Caitlin Gaffney
238-251 (complete pdf)
Discrimination and Generalization of Emotional Prosody in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Naomi L. Gaggi, Patricia J. Brooks, and Bertram O. Ploog
252-265 (complete pdf)
Before and After the Acquisition of Adjunct Control
Juliana Gerard and Jeffrey Lidz
266-279 (complete pdf)
Irony Comprehension and Theory of Mind in Young Deaf Signers
Beatrice Giustolisi, Lara Mantovan, and Francesca Panzeri
280-288 (complete pdf)
A Performance Account for Medial Wh-Questions in Child English
Elaine Grolla and Jeffrey Lidz
289-302 (complete pdf)
L2 Listeners Rely on the Semantics of Classifiers to Predict
Theres Grüter, Elaine Lau, and Wenyi Ling
303-316 (complete pdf)
The cup on the table is green: Children's Comprehension of Embedded PPs
Erin Hall and Ana T. Pérez-Leroux
317-330 (complete pdf)
Infant-Directed Speech Is Not Always Slower: Cross-linguistic Evidence from Dutch and Mandarin Chinese
Mengru Han, Nivja H. de Jong, and René Kager
331-344 (complete pdf)
What Inferences Do Mandarin-Speaking Children Make in Negative Sentences?
Haiquan Huang, Rosalind Thornton, and Stephen Crain
345-358 (complete pdf)
Learning Attitude Verb Meanings in a Morphosyntactically-Poor Language
Nick Huang, Chia-Hsuan Liao, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz
359-373 (complete pdf)
English and Spanish Speakers' Interpretations of L2 Chinese Double Object Constructions
Yuhsin Huang and Boping Yuan
374-390 (complete pdf)
Modeling Representational Constraints in Word Segmentation
Jordan Kodner
391-399 (complete pdf)
The Acquisition of French Ambiguous Embedded Structures Introduced by ce que
Ingrid Konrad, Yair Haendler, and Caterina Donati
400-412 (complete pdf)
Are Children's Overly Distributive Interpretations and Spreading Errors Related?
Anna de Koster, Jennifer Spenader, and Petra Hendriks
413-426 (complete pdf)
Volume 2
Interactions between Number and Definiteness: Vietnamese Children's Comprehension of Definite Noun Phrases
Ni-La Lê, Hannah Forsythe, and Cristina Schmitt
427-440 (complete pdf)
Children's Knowledge of Domain Restriction: The Case of dōu ('all') in Mandarin Chinese
Margaret Lei
441-450 (complete pdf)
Children's Knowledge of Conventional Implicatures: Evidence from the Mandarin lian...dou Construction
Pengfei Li
451-464 (complete pdf)
The Perception of Discontinuous Dependencies by 18-Month-Olds: On the Process of Acquiring Verbal Passives
João Claudio de Lima Júnior and Letícia Maria Sicuro Corrêa
465-478 (complete pdf)
Children's and Adults' Processing of Variable Agreement Patterns: Agreement Neutralization in English
Cynthia Lukyanenko and Karen Miller
479-492 (complete pdf)
Comprehension of Relative Clauses vs. Control Structures in SLI and ASD Children
Alexandrina Martins, Ana Lúcia Santos, and Inês Duarte
493-506 (complete pdf)
The Relationship between Sensitivity to Morphosyntactic Violations and Morphosyntactic Anticipation in L2 Comprehension
Crystal Marull and Michele Goldin
507-517 (complete pdf)
Phrasal Prosody and Syntactic Knowledge in Infants below Two Years of Age
Sarah Massicotte-Laforge and Rushen Shi
518-531 (complete pdf)
Intervention Effects in Early Grammar: Evidence from Sluicing
Victoria E. Mateu, Nina Hyams, and Lauren Winans
532-545 (complete pdf)
Cross-linguistic Influence in the Use of Referring Expressions in School-Age Japanese-English Bilinguals
Satomi Mishina-Mori, Yuki Nagai, and Yuri Jody Yujobo
546-557 (complete pdf)
Children Ages 3-5 Years Use Language to Identify Talkers
Reina Mizrahi and Sarah C. Creel
558-571 (complete pdf)
Lexical and Syntactic Influences on Children's Acquisition of Verb Argument Structure: Comparing Typical Children and Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Letitia R. Naigles and Julie Piskin
572-585 (complete pdf)
Developmental Changes in Spatial Semantic Categories in English
Bhuvana Narasimhan, Norielle Adricula, Jayne Williamson-Lee, Caroline Good, and Lukas Goetz-Weiss
586-597 (complete pdf)
It's Hard to Extend: A Unified Account of Raising-Past-Experiencers and Passives in Child English
Emma Nguyen and William Snyder
598-604 (complete pdf)
The Structure of Sluicing and the Availability of Strict and Sloppy Readings in Child Japanese
Akari Ohba, Hiroyuki Shimada, and Kyoko Yamakoshi
605-617 (complete pdf)
Cross-linguistic Structural Priming in Heritage Spanish Speakers: The Effects of Exposure to English on the Processing of Preposition Stranding in Spanish
Ian Phillips
618-631 (complete pdf)
Second-Order False Beliefs and Recursive Complements in Children with ASD
Irina Polyanskaya, Torben Braüner, and Patrick Blackburn
632-643 (complete pdf)
Impermeability of L1 Syntax: Spanish Variable Clitic Placement in Bilingual Children
Pablo E. Requena and Melisa Dracos
644-658 (complete pdf)
Learning Allophones: What Input Is Necessary?
Caitlin Richter
659-672 (complete pdf)
Simple Sentences Aren't All the Same: Variation in Input and Acquisition
Matthew Rispoli, Pamela Hadley, and Hannah Simmons
673-686 (complete pdf)
The Acquisition of Parametric Variation in Count Noun Modification Using Numerals: Comparing Japanese and English
Tetsuya Sano
687-693 (complete pdf)
A Longitudinal Comparison of Object Clitic Production in the Spontaneous Language of L2 Children and Children with SLI
Maureen Scheidnes
694-707 (complete pdf)
Assessing Truth and Speaker Knowledge When Utterances Are Not Maximally True
Laura Simon-Pearson and Kristen Syrett
708-721 (complete pdf)
Acquisition of Adjectival Agreement in German: Sensitivity to Grammar is Reflected in 3-Year-Olds' Pupil Dilation
Assunta Süss, Petra Hendriks, Tom Fritzsche, and Barbara Höhle
722-735 (complete pdf)
SES Differences in the Communicative Functions of Variation Sets
Shira Tal and Inbal Arnon
736-749 (complete pdf)
Investigating Relative Clause Island Effects in Native and Nonnative Adult Speakers of Japanese
Nozomi Tanaka and Bonnie D. Schwartz
750-763 (complete pdf)
Elicited Production of Past Tense Affirmative and Negative Sentences in Young Children
Rosalind Thornton, Elena D'Onofrio, and Kelly Rombough
764-776 (complete pdf)
Negative Questions in Children with Specific Language Impairment
Rosalind Thornton, Kelly Rombough, Jasmine Martin, and Linda Orton
777-789 (complete pdf)
Is clean the Same as not dirty? On the Understanding of Absolute Gradable Adjectives
Merle Weicker and Petra Schulz
790-802 (complete pdf)
L1 Influence on L2 English Telicity Judgments
Mien-Jen Wu
803-813 (complete pdf)
A Filled Gap Stage in German Relative Clause Acquisition
Kazuko Yatsushiro and Uli Sauerland
814-827 (complete pdf)
The Person Asymmetry in Agreement in "Wh-phrase BE...?" Questions in English
Rong Yin
828-835 (complete pdf)
The Impact of Argument-Omitted Sentences in Learning Japanese Direct Object Case-Markers
Akiko Zhao, Yingyi Luo, and Hiromu Sakai
836-847 (complete pdf)
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