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BUCLD 31
November 3-5, 2006
Boston University
George Sherman Union, 775 Commonwealth Ave.
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INVITED
SPEAKERS
Keynote Speakers:
Roberta Golinkoff, University of Delaware
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Temple University
"Breaking the Language Barrier: The View from the Radical Middle"
Plenary Speaker:
Jürgen M. Meisel,
University of Hamburg & University of Calgary
“Multiple First Language Acquisition:
A Case for Autonomous Syntactic Development in the Simultaneous Acquisition
of More Than One Language”
Lunch Symposium:
“Future Directions in Search of Genes that Influence Language:
Phenotypes, Molecules, Brains, and Growth”
Mabel Rice, University of Kansas
Helen Tager-Flusberg, Boston University
Simon Fisher, University of Oxford
Discussant: Gary Marcus, New York University
THURSDAY,
NOVEMBER 2, 2006
SLD Symposium
The Society for Language Development will be holding its third annual symposium on Thursday, November 2 from 1 pm to 5 pm in Boston
University's George Sherman Union (775 Commonwealth Ave), in conjunction with the BUCLD meeting
November 4-6. The Symposium will be on Verb Learning. More information on the SLD symposium is available at the SLD
website.
Speakers:
Introduction and framing the problem of verb learning
Lila Gleitman, University of Pennsylvania
Verb learning and the early development of sentence comprehension
Cynthia Fisher, University of Illinois
Nonsense verbs and meaningful constructions: fast mapping in construction learning
Adele Goldberg, Princeton University
The role of analogical processes in verb learning
Dedre Gentner, Northwestern University
Reception to follow the symposium
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER
3, 2006
TIME |
A: Metcalf Small |
B: East Balcony |
C: Conference Auditorium |
9:00 |
R. Pulverman, C. Chan, C. Jie, T. Tardif, X. Meng: Motion event processing in a verb-savvy population: Chinese infants' attention to Manner and Path |
M. Tryzna: Root infinitives in early child Polish: The interpretive and syntactic properties |
F. Wilson: Integration of morphosyntactic and semantic information in L2 sentence processing. |
9:30 |
M. Maguire: Getting more action: Fewer exemplars facilitate children's verb extensions |
D. Rus: The acquisition of tense and agreement in early grammars and early root nonfinites (in child Slovenian) revisited |
A. Fultz: Prosody in lexical and syntactic disambiguation in English-French Interlanguage |
10:00 |
A. Papafragou, S. Selimis: Lexical and structural cues for acquiring motion verbs cross-linguistically |
D. Freudenthall, J. Pine, J. Aguado-Orea, F. Gobet: Modelling the cross-linguistic patterning of finiteness marking in early English, Dutch, German and Spanish using MOSAIC |
L. Dekydtspotter, C. Renaud: On intermediate traces in English-French interlanguage grammar and processing |
10:30 |
BREAK (Ziskind Lounge) |
TIME |
A: Metcalf Small |
B: East Balcony |
C: Conference Auditorium |
11:00 |
M. Frank, V. Mansinghka, E. Gibson, J. Tenenbaum: Word segmentation as word learning: Integrating stress and meaning into probabilistic models of word learning |
F. Berger, A. Mueller, B. Höehle, J. Weissenborn: German 4-year-olds' comprehension of sentences containing the focus particle ‘auch’ ('also'): Evidence from eye-tracking |
S. Yang, B. Lust: Cross-linguistic differences in cognitive effects due to bilingualism: Experimental study of lexicon and executive attention in 3 typologically distinct language groups |
11:30 |
S. Goldwater, T. Griffiths, M. Johnson: Distributional cues to word boundaries: Context Is important |
Y. T. Huang, J. Snedeker: Children’s understanding of ‘some’: Exploring comprehension of semantic and pragmatic interpretations |
D. K. Oller, L. Jarmulowicz, E. Hoff, T. Gibson: First language vocabulary suppression in early bilinguals during language immersion |
12:00 |
Y. Lin: Weak representational bias and the discovery of linguistic categories from speech signals |
J. Viau, J. Lidz, J. Musolino: Priming of abstract logical representations in 4-year-olds |
V. Gathercole, E. Thomas, M. Deuchar, E. Williams: Bilingual first language development: Dominant language takeover threatened minority language take-up |
12:30 |
BUCLD Business Meeting (Conference Auditorium) |
TIME |
A: Metcalf Small |
B: East Balcony |
C: Conference Auditorium |
2:00 |
J. Gervain, J. Mehler: Neonates’ discrimination of structured vs. unstructured linguistic input: An Optical Topography study |
K.-S. Park, U. Lakshmanan: The L2 acquisition of the unaccusative-unergative distinction in English resultatives |
G. Szenkovits, F. Ramus, E. Dupoux: Developmental dyslexia : Testing the phonological output pathway |
2:30 |
X-N. Cao-Kam: Statistical induction in the acquisition of auxiliary-inversion |
M. Umeda: Interpretation of Wh-indefinites by English-speaking learners of Japanese |
D. Wehner, S. Ahlfors, M. Mody: Semantic context effects during auditory perception in good and poor reading children |
3:00 |
J. Berant, Y. Gross, M. Mussel, B. Sandbank, E. Ruppin, S. Edelman: Boosting unsupervised grammar induction by splitting complex sentences on function words |
C.-K. Shan, B. Yuan: Is gradience of mapping between semantics and syntax possible in L2 acquisition? |
S. Fish, R. Hoffmeister, R. McVey, L. Clinton: Bilingualism in two modalities: The relationship between L1 vocabulary in ASL and L2 reading abilities in English in Deaf children |
3:30 |
ATTENDED POSTER SESSION I (Terrace Lounge)
|
TIME |
A: Metcalf Small |
B: East Balcony |
C: Conference Auditorium |
4:15 |
H.-J. Song, A. Konopka, T. Ratitamkul, N. Wai: Syntactic priming of phrasal verb syntax in 2.5-year-old children |
G. Legendre, T. Nazzi, I. Barriere, J. Culbertson, M. Lopez-Gonzalez, E. Gussine, E. Zakourian: Acquiring subject-verb agreement in French: Evidence for early syntactic representations from comprehension |
L. de Beuzeville: The role of visual and linguistic representation in the acquisition of depicting verbs in Auslan (Australian Sign Language) |
4:45 |
R. Nappa, J. Trueswell, L. Gleitman: Effects of attention and intention on sentence parsing |
S. Gxilishe, P. de Villiers, J. de Villiers: Acquisition of tense in Xhosa: The long and the short of it. |
R. Müeller de Quadros, D. Lillo Martin: Gesture and the acquisition of verb agreement in sign languages |
5:15 |
N. Jincho, R. Mazuka, G. Feng, N. Yamane: Children and adults show different timelines for on-line integration of prosodic cues during comprehension of syntactically ambiguous sentences: Eye-movement data from Japanese children and adults |
K. Deen: Abstract case in Swahili |
O. Demir, W. C. So: What’s hidden in the hands? How children use gesture to convey arguments in a motion event |
5:45 |
DINNER BREAK |
8:00 |
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Roberta Golinkoff and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek: Breaking the Language Barrier: The View from the Radical Middle (Metcalf Large) |
9:15 |
ATTENDED POSTER SESSION I (Terrace Lounge) |
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4. 2006
8:00 |
NSF/NIH FUNDING SYMPOSIUM: What’s NEW about applying for grants on Language? (Metcalf Large) |
TIME |
A: Metcalf Small |
B: East Balcony |
C: Conference Auditorium |
9:00 |
K. Corrigall, M. Rhemtulla, D. G. Hall: Young children's use of lexical-category-to-meaning links as tools to individuate objects |
C. Lew-Williams, A. Fernald: Learning to listen ahead in Spanish: First language learners are more efficient than second language learners in online sentence processing |
A. Theakston, C. Rowland: The development of the auxiliary category in three-year-old children learning English |
9:30 |
T. Mintz: Toddlers' sensitivity to the presuppositions of ‘one’ and ‘thing’ |
C. McCarthy: Underspecified inflection in comprehension: Evidence from L2 Spanish |
V. Valian, S. Solt, J. Stewart: Abstract categories vs. limited-scope formulae: The case of children's determiners |
10:00 |
P. Gordon, A. Rodman: Functional quantification of object mass nouns in children and adults |
R. Silva, H. Clahsen: Morphological processing in a second language: Evidence from masked priming experiments |
N. Chang: Learning from Understanding: A model of comprehension-based construction learning |
10:30 |
BREAK (Ziskind Lounge) |
TIME |
A: Metcalf Small |
B: East Balcony |
C: Conference Auditorium |
11:00 |
L. Singh, S. Nestor: Concurrent and predictive validity of infant word segmentation tasks |
J. Paradis, E. Nicoladis, M. Crago: French-English bilingual children's acquisition of the past tense |
Y. Gertner, C. Fisher: Predicted errors in children’s sentence comprehension |
11:30 |
A. Fernald, V. Marchman, N. Hurtado, R. Zangl: Online speech processing efficiency is related both to early vocabulary growth and to later language accomplishments |
L. Cornips, S. Brouwer, A. Hulk: Differences between comprehension and production: The mapping of neuter gender in Dutch |
R. Scott, C. Fisher: Combining syntactic frames and semantic roles to acquire verbs |
TIME |
A: Metcalf Small |
B: East Balcony |
C: Conference Auditorium |
2:15 |
A. Nadig, S. Ozonoff, L. Singh, G. Young, S. Rogers: Do 6-month-old infants at risk for autism display an infant-directed speech preference? |
H. Demirdache, M. Oiry: On the felicity conditions for long-distance questions in L1 acquisition |
K. Demuth, E. McCullough, M. Adamo: The prosodic (re)organization of determiners |
2:45 |
L. Swensen, L. Naigles, D. Fein: Maternal input affects the language of children with autism |
T. Heizmann: Children's acquisition of exhaustivity in clefts |
H. Goad, L. White: Prosodic transfer and determiners in Turkish-English interlanguage |
3:15 |
S. Vagh, B. Pan: Noun frequency and noun diversity in maternal talk to toddlers: A longitudinal study of low-income families |
C. Léger: Understanding of factivity under negation: An asymmetry between two types of factive predicates |
M. Akita: Global foreign accent and classroom input in L2 perception and production |
3:45 |
ATTENDED POSTER SESSION II (Terrace Lounge) |
TIME |
A: Metcalf Small |
B: East Balcony |
C: Conference Auditorium |
4:30 |
D. Barner, J. Snedeker: The integration of compositional semantics and statistics in adjective acquisition |
J. Musolino, B. Landau, G. Chunyo: Syntax in Williams syndrome: It's not impaired or deviant |
D. Stringer: Motion events in L2 acquisition: A lexicalist account |
5:00 |
A. Austin, E. Newport, E. Wonnacott: Predictable versus unpredictable variation: Regularization in adult and child learners |
S. Varlokosta, V. Joffe: Inter- and intra-linguistic modularity: Evidence from Williams syndrome |
A. Brown: Development of a mature L1: Impact of exposure to an L2 |
5:45 |
PLENARY ADDRESS: Jürgen Meisel: Multiple First Language Acquisition: A Case for Autonomous Syntactic Development in the Simultaneous Acquisition of More Than One Language (Metcalf Large) |
7:00 |
ATTENDED POSTER SESSION II (Terrace Lounge) |
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER
5, 2006
TIME |
A: Metcalf Small |
B: East Balcony |
C: Conference Auditorium |
9:00 |
T. Zamuner: Phonotactic probabilities and prosodic position in speech perception and production |
J. Lee: The role of joint attention in verb learning |
R. Okabe: Bi-clausal? Mono-clausal?: The acquisition of Japanese causatives |
9:30 |
M. Molnar, K. Mattock, L. Polka, D. Burnham, S. Rvachew: Perceptual reorganization for tone: Investigating infants' tone discrimination |
O. Gurcanli, M. Nakipoglu, A. Özyürek: Shared information and argument omission in Turkish |
K. Sugisaki: The configurationality parameter in the Minimalist Program: A view from child Japanese |
10:00 |
E. Tenenbaum, J. Morgan: Racing to segment? Top-down versus bottom-up in infant word recognition |
S. Mishina-Mori: Argument representation in Japanese/English simultaneous bilinguals: Is there a transfer? |
K. Kapetangianni: Do early grammars interface with discourse/pragmatics? The evidence from Greek |
10:30 |
BREAK (Ziskind Lounge) |
TIME |
A: Metcalf Small |
B: East Balcony |
C: Conference Auditorium |
11:00 |
S. Curtin, C. Fennell, P. Escudero: Infants’ recognition of vowel contrasts in a word learning task |
D. Matthews, E. Lieven, M. Tomasello: How young children learn to use pragmatically appropriate referring expressions. |
E. Thordardottir: Effects of language and task demands on the manifestation of SLI: A comparison of Icelandic and English-speaking children |
11:30 |
C. Fennell, S. Waxman, A. Weisleder: With referential cues infants successfully use phonetic detail in word learning |
K. S. Shin: Discourse prominence in Korean children’s on-line processing of nominal reference |
C. Hamann, L. Tuller, H. Delage, C. Henry, C. Monjauze: (Un)successful subordination in French-speaking children and adolescents with SLI |
12:00 |
K. Chambers, K. Onishi, Y. Wu, J. Lomibao: Nonwords and words mingle |
C. Zaller, J. Lawrence, E. Daigle: Discourse anaphora and referent choice in second language writing development |
A. Hestvik, R. Schwartz, L. Tornyova: Gap-filling and sentence comprehension in children with SLI |
12:30 |
R. Mugitani, T. Kobayashi, S. Amano: Perception and lexical acquisition of Japanese pitch accent in infants |
K. Yoshioka: Tracking of animate referents in speech and gesture in L2 narrative by Dutch learners of Japanese |
H. van der Lely, E. Fontenau: ERP signatures in language-impaired children reveal a developmentally domain-specific neural correlate for syntactic dependencies |
ALTERNATES
1. S. Rasinger: Revisiting the Critical Period: Age of onset and length of exposure?
2. R. Slabakova: Scalar implicatures in L2 acquisition
3. M. Babyonyshev, L. Hart, E. Grigorenko, J. Reich: Discourse-based movement operations in Russian-speaking children with SLI
4. E. Kallestinova: Child acquisition of unaccusativity: Evidence from the Russian locative inversion construction
5. L. Jeschull: Children’s comprehension of completive and inceptive particle verbs
6. E. Conwell, J. Morgan: Resolving grammatical category ambiguity in acquisition
7. L. Gonnerman: Children’s recognition of novel derived words
8. C. Dawson, L. Gerken: 4-month-olds discover algebraic patterns in music that 7.5-month-olds do not
9. Z. Wen: Online processing of subject-verb agreement in English by first and second language speakers
POSTERS
POSTER SESSION I - Friday, November 3, 3:30-4:15 pm and 9:15-10:00 pm
1. G. Bencini, V. Valian: Abstract sentence representations in 3-year-olds: Evidence from language comprehension and production
2. J. Childers, J. Paik: Korean- and English-speaking children use comparison in verb learning
3. L. Wagner: Transitivity guides children’s telicity interpretations with novel verbs
4. E. Kallestinova: Child acquisition of unaccusativity: Evidence from the Russian locative inversion construction
5. A. Verbuk: Acquisition of scalar implicatures: When some of the crayons will do the job
6. M. Sommers, J. Barcroft: Acoustic variability and learning new word forms
7. R. Slabakova: Scalar implicatures in L2 acquisition
8. M. Arroyo, S. Levine, S. Goldin-Meadow: What counts as effective input for language learning?
9. T. Ratitamkul, A. Goldberg: Argument structure can be inferred from discourse
10. O. Ozturk, A. Papafragou: Evidentiality and theory of mind
11. J. Mortimer, S. Rvachew: Finite verb morphology and case marking errors in children with speech sound disorders
12. L. Gonnerman: Children’s recognition of novel derived words
13. C. Chan, A. Brandone, T. Tardif: Actions in objects: How Mandarin- and English-speaking mothers differ in their talk to 22-month-olds about identical pictures
14. A. Perovic, N. Modyanova, E. Hanson, L Rappaport, K. Wexler: Investigations of grammar in autism: Knowledge of passives and binding
15. Y.-S. Kim. J. Kang: Phonological awareness for Korean-English bilingual children
16. C. Dawson, L. Gerken: 4-month-olds discover algebraic patterns in music that 7.5-month-olds do not
17. H. Littlefield: Are prepositions 'lexical' or 'functional' elements? Evidence from the acquisition of English prepositions
18. L. Song, R. Golinkoff, R. Seston, W. Ma: Action stations: Verb learning rests on constructing categories of action
19. M. Soderstrom: Twenty-two-month-olds discriminate fluent from disfluent adult-directed speech based on prosodic characteristics
20. D. Sternberg: Modeling age effects in bilingual acquisition
21. M. Collins, J. Parish: Electronic books: Boon or bust for interactive reading?
22. Y. Fuerst: Constituent order or order of constituents: The acquisition of Hebrew DPs
23. K. White, C. Kirk: A developmental trajectory for the statistical learning of phonological alternations
24. J. Hu, N. Budwig, K. Ono, H. Zhang: Individual differences in preschoolers’ ability to generalize novel verbs: Evidence from their familiar verb usage
25. E. Cenko, N. Budwig: The acquisition of early verb constructions in Albanian
26. M. Goldwater, J. Brunt, C. Echols: What is the role of language in pre-linguistic infants’ cognition?
27. J.-M. Kim, S. Flynn: Development of second language rhythm: Learning the stress-timed English by syllable-timed Korean speakers
28. M. Babyonyshev, L. Hart, E. Grigorenko, J. Reich: Discourse-based movement operations in Russian-speaking children with SLI
29. E. White, F. Genesee, L. White, E. King, K. Steinhauer: Factors contributing to native-like processing of a late-acquired second language: Evidence from event-related brain potentials
30. V. Varela: How late is late in acquisition? Evidence from a Mexican indigenous language.
31. E. Conwell, J. Morgan: Resolving grammatical category ambiguity in acquisition
32. H. Rabagliati, K. Fernandes, A. Senghas, S. Johnson, G. Marcus: Is rule-learning specific to language or speech?
33. L. Jeschull: Children’s comprehension of completive and inceptive particle verbs
POSTER SESSION II - Saturday, November 4, 3:45-4:30 pm and 7:00-7:45 pm
1. T. Hasegawa: Native-like knowledge without native-like performance in (very) early child L2 acquisition
2. S. Rasinger: Revisiting the Critical Period: Age of onset and length of exposure?
3. B. Ambridge, J. Pine, C. Rowland: The retreat from argument-structure overgeneralization errors: Testing and disentangling the semantic-verb-class and entrenchment hypotheses
4. M. T. Guasti, F. Arosio: Agreement and post-verbal subjects in Italian relative clauses
5. T. Sano: Early acquisition of Copy&Movement in a Japanese OSV sentence
6. A.-M. Tessier: Positional Faith and the theory of intermediate stages in phonological development
7. K. Lecocq, P. Mousty, R. Kolinsky: A comparative study of reading acquisition in French-native children attending a Dutch immersion program and starting to read either in French or in Dutch
8. C. Gu: The acquisition of English double object and prepositional datives in bilingual Cantonese-English children
9. F. Pizzioli, M. Schelstraete: Lexical association in children with specific language impairment
10. S. Seneviratne: From simple to complex causal relations: Pragmatic development of the connective 'so'
11. Z. Wen: Online processing of subject-verb agreement in English by first and second language speakers
12. T. Kobayashi, R. Mugitani, S. Amano: Mapping words to intransitive actions by 14-month-old infants
13. J. Thomson, U. Goswami: Developmental dyslexia and the role of phonological neighbourhood density in new word learning
14. S. Bahtiyar, A. Küntay: Preschool children can assess common ground: Effect of definiteness status of referential terms
15. A. van Hout: Acquisition of aspectual meanings in a language with and without morphological aspect
16. T. Nazzi, G. Iakimova, J. Bertoncini, L. Polka, M. Sundara, S. Girard: The development of word segmentation in infants acquiring different dialects of French
17. L. Serratrice, A. Sorace, F. Filiaci, M. Baldo: Plural noun phrases in late simultaneous bilingualism: A study of English-Italian and Spanish-Italian children
18. B. Hollebrandse: Temporal quantification in child language
19. N. Gagarina, S. Armon-Lotem, O. Gupol: Developmental variation in the acquisition of L1 Russian verb inflection by monolinguals and bilinguals
20. V. Stojanovik, J. Setter, L. van Ewijk: Is intonation impaired in children with Williams syndrome?
21. H. S. Song: L2 Knowledge of Intervention Effect in English-speaking learners of Korean
22. J. Nomura: Japanese postposing as an indicator of emerging discourse pragmatics
23. F. Chenu, H. Jisa: Acquisition of putting event verbs in early French
24. H.-Y. Kwak: Scope interpretations in L2 Korean
25. J. Boyd: Two stages of overgeneralization in English comparative acquisition
26. M. van Heugten, E. Johnson: Dutch-learning 19-month-olds use definite articles to process speech
27. T. Ilic: What does the acquisition of the involuntary state construction in Serbo-Croatian have to tell us about the ability to represent A-Chains in 3-year-olds?
28. C.-H. Chen: The effect of homophone on Mandarin-speaking children's categorization |