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THE 36th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY
CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
NOVEMBER 4-6, 2011
Keynote Speaker:
Sandra Waxman, Northwestern University
“What’s in a word? Links between linguistic and conceptual organization in infants and young children”
Plenary Speaker:
Cornelia Hamann, University of Oldenburg
“Bilingual development and language assessment”
Lunch Symposium: “Morphology in second language acquisition and processing”
Harald Clahsen, University of Essex/University of Potsdam
Holger Hopp, University of Mannheim
Donna Lardiere, Georgetown University
Silvina Montrul (organizer), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
BUCLD attendees may also be interested in attending the SLD symposium, on the afternoon preceding the BUCLD, and also to be held on the Boston University campus.
SOCIETY FOR LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT SYMPOSIUM
NOVEMBER 3, 2011
1-5 PM (Reception to follow 5-6 PM)
Symposium title: “Connections between written language and spoken language”
Speakers:
Charles Perfetti, University of Pittsburgh, “Reading: Universals and writing system constraints”
Rebecca Treiman, Washington University, “Learning to read and write an alphabet”
Mark Seidenberg, University of Wisconsin, “The deep interdependence of reading and spoken language”
BUCLD 35 Proceedings online supplement is now available (click here!)
The BUCLD is supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0548399 and
the National Institutes of Health under Grant No. R13 HD042130. Any opinions, findings, and
conclusions or recommendations expressed in the materials arising from the conference are those
of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or
the National Institutes of Health.