BUCLD 33

October 31 - November 2, 2008

Keynote Speaker:
Barbara Landau, Johns Hopkins University
"Spatial Language and Spatial Cognition: Origins, Development, and Interaction"

Plenary Speaker:
Tom Roeper, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
"From Input to Mind: How acquisition work captures the heart of linguistic theory
and the soul of practical application "

Lunch Symposium:
“Brain Mechanisms of Language Development: The promise and pitfalls of neuroimaging”
Dick Aslin, University of Rochester
Debra Mills, Emory University
Colin Phillips, University of Maryland
Helen Tager-Flusberg, Boston University

BUCLD is proud to host the Symposium on Language Development (SLD) on October 30th, 2008. This year's symposium is titled:

"Slow mapping, fast mapping: children's word learning 30 years after Carey & Bartlett (1978)"

The following speakers will presents talks at the symposium:

Susan Carey, Harvard University
Linda Smith, Indiana University
Susan Gelman, University of Michigan

Please visit the SLD website for more information.

About BUCLD:

The Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) was started in 1976 by students in the Applied Psycholinguistics Program. Last year the 32nd annual BUCLD took place on November 2-4, 2007. The Conference, which has become one of the best known conferences on language development in the world, is now run by students in the Program in Applied Linguistics, under the guidance of a faculty adviser. The Conference involves year-round planning and draws over 500 people from all over the U.S. and around the world. It includes presentations in such areas as theoretical approaches to language acquisition, cross-cultural language development, second language development, language disorders, and literacy development. Each year, close to 500 abstracts are submitted to the conference, from which about 87 papers and 66 posters are chosen for presentation. Internationally renowned researchers also give keynote and plenary addresses, as well as a lunch symposium on a topic of current interest. The Conference is funded largely by the money taken in each year at the Conference, including registration fees. In addition, the Conferences in 2007 through 2011 are supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. BCS 0548399 and the National Institutes of Health under Grant No. R13 HD42130-01.

Organizing Committee for BUCLD 2008

Marion Rheiner , Co-organizer
Sandy Lord, Co-organizer
Michelle Franchini, Co-organizer
Jane Chandlee, Co-organizer
Shanley Allen, Faculty Advisor
Cathy O'Connor, Faculty Advisor
Leher Singh, Faculty Advisor

BUCLD is partially funded by grants from the National Science Foundation (BCS 0548399) and the National Institutes for Health (R13 HD042130).