BUCLD 34: November 6-8, 2009
Thursday, November 5 (SLD Symposium)
Friday, November 6
Saturday, November 7
Sunday, November 8
Alternates
Posters (Friday)
Posters (Saturday)
BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
NOVEMBER 6-8, 2009
GEORGE SHERMAN UNION, BOSTON UNIVERSITY
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2009
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Society for Language Development Annual Symposium (Metcalf Large) |
1:00 |
Interactions Between Early Cognitive Development and Language
Acquisition |
1:30 |
Laura Schulz |
2:30 |
Gergely Csibra |
3:30 |
Renee Baillargeon |
4:30 |
General Discussion |
5:00 |
RECEPTION (Ziskind Lounge) |
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2009
| 8:00 |
Boston University Student Poster Session (Ziskind Lounge) |
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Session A (Metcalf Small) |
Session B (East Balcony) |
Session C (Conference Auditorium) |
9:00 |
C. Lignos, E. Chan, C. Yang, M. Marcus: Evidence for a morphological acquisition model from development data |
Y. T. Huang, X. Zheng, X. Meng, J. Snedeker: Assignment of grammatical roles in the online processing of Mandarin passive sentences |
J. Berman, S. Graham, C. Chambers: Preschoolers’ appreciation of vocal affect as a cue to a speaker’s intentions |
9:30 |
L. Pearl, S. Goldwater, M. Steyvers: How ideal are we? Incorporating human limitations into Bayesian models of word segmentation |
K. Zombolou, S. Varlokosta, A. Alexiadou, E. Anagnostopoulou: Acquiring anticausatives vs. passives in Greek |
K. Ito, N. Jincho, U. Minai, N. Yamani, R. Mazuka: Use of emphatic pitch prominence for contrast resolution: An eye-tracking study with 6-year old and adult Japanese listeners |
10:00 |
B. Pelucchi, J. Hay, J. Saffran: Learning in reverse |
K. Demuth, F. Moloi, M. Machobane: Three-year-olds’ comprehension, production and generalization of Sesotho passives |
J. Bibyk, K. Ito, L. Wagner, S. Speer: Children can use contrastive stress in online sentence processing |
10:30 |
BREAK (Ziskind Lounge) |
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11:00 |
J. Gervain, I. Berent, J. Werker: The encoding of identity and sequential position in newborns: An optical imaging study |
J. Paradis, T. Sorenson-Duncan: Differentiating between English L2 children with typical and impaired language development |
E. Tynan, A. Stahl, W. Ma, L. Song, L. Rocek, J. Marshall, S. Marshall, R. Golinkoff, K. Hirsh Pasek: The path to language: Infants categorize paths in real-world events |
11:30 |
C. Junge, P. Hagoort, V. Kooijman, A. Cutler: Brain potentials for word segmentation at 7 months predict later language development |
M. Rice, L. Hoffman, K. Wexler: Longitudinal judgments of omitted BE and DO in questions by children with and without SLI to age 15 years: An on-going clinical marker |
D. Skordos, A. Papafragou: Extracting paths and manners: Linguistic and conceptual biases in the acquisition of spatial language |
12:00 |
R. Shi, M. Cyr: Processing of morphological variations in 24-month-old infants |
J. Rispens, E. De Bree: Past tense productivity in Dutch children with SLI: The role of phonology |
M. Johanson, A. Papafragou: Universality and language-specificity in the acquisition of path vocabulary |
12:30 |
BUCLD SPECIAL MEETING: TOAST TO LILA GLEITMAN (Metcalf Small) |
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2:00 |
T. Goksun, K. Hirsh Pasek, M. Imai, H. Konishi, R. Golinkoff: The “where” of events: How do English- and Japanese-reared infants discriminate grounds in dynamic events? |
B. Skarabela, S. Allen: How discourse-pragmatic features work together: Assessing the interaction between newness and joint attention in early argument realization |
P. De Villiers, J. De Villiers, C-L. Picone, A. Wilkins, E. Dinkins, F. Burns: Dialect and narrative skills in African American preschoolers |
2:30 |
A. Geojo, J. Snedeker: English to Greek in 10 easy lessons: Verb learning rapidly reconfigures verb lexicalization biases and their effects on visual attention |
W-Q. Yow: Bilingual children’s integration of multiple cues to understand referential intent |
B. Estigarribia: Genetic, cognitive, and environmental predictors of morphosyntax |
3:00 |
ATTENDED POSTER SESSION I (Terrace Lounge and Ziskind Lounge) |
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4:15 |
D. Yurovsky, C. Yu, L. Smith: Statistical speech segmentation and word learning in parallel |
P. Spinner: The detection and assembly of the number feature in L2 Swahili |
J. Franck, S. Millotte: Early word order representation: Novel evidence for old contradictions |
4:45 |
L. Onnis: Language-induced constraints on statistical learning |
Z. Wen, M. Miyao, A. Takeda, W. Chu, Y-J. Shiung, B. Schwartz: Proficiency effects in nonnative processing of number agreement in English |
G. Krajewski, E. Lieven, M. Tomasello: The role of word order and case marking in Polish children’s comprehension of transitives |
5:15 |
S. Wilson, C. Hudson Kam: Learning syntax through statistics: When do transitional probabilities need a boost? |
S. Baek: Where to reactivate? L2 processing of filler-gap dependency |
P. Ibbotson, A. Theakston, E. Lieven, M. Tomasello: Acquiring the transitive construction in English: The role of pronoun frames |
5:45 |
DINNER BREAK |
8:00 |
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Anne Fernald: Developing fluency in understanding: How it matters (Metcalf Large) |
9:15 |
ATTENDED POSTER SESSION I (Terrace Lounge and Ziskind Lounge) |
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2009
8:00 |
NSF/NIH FUNDING SYMPOSIUM: What’s Hot and How to Apply (Conference Auditorium) |
TIME |
Session A (Metcalf Small) |
Session B (East Balcony) |
Session C (Conference Auditorium) |
9:00 |
J. Hartshorne, J. Snedeker: Integration of discourse and semantic structure in children's resolution of ambiguous pronouns |
A. Munn, K. Miller, C. Schmitt: Maximality and domain restriction: Evidence from adjectival modifiers |
D. Matthews, E. Lieven, M. Tomasello: What’s in a manner of speaking? Children’s sensitivity to partner-specific referential precedents. |
9:30 |
K. Clackson, C. Felser, H. Clahsen: Online processing of reflexives and pronouns by children and adults: Evidence from eye movements during listening |
N. Katsos, N. Smith: Pragmatic tolerance and speaker-comprehender asymmetries |
S. Creel, M. Tumlin: That doesn’t ring a bed: When integrating cues, children’s errors reflect more advanced cognitive control |
10:00 |
J. Snedeker, A. Worek, C. Shafto: The role of lexical bias and global plausibility in children’s online parsing: A developmental shift from bottom-up to top-down cues |
A. Zukowski: Focus, polarity, and tag questions: Developmental links |
J. Klinger, C. Bannard, M. Tomasello: How selective are 3-year-olds in imitating novel linguistic material?
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10:30 |
BREAK (Ziskind Lounge) |
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11:00 |
E. Mather, K. Plunkett: Novel labels support 10-month-olds’ attention to novel objects |
M. Sherkina-Lieber: Comprehension of functional morphemes by Labrador Inuttitut receptive bilinguals |
J. Halberda, J. Lidz, J. Merickel, T. Hunter, P. Pietroski: Approximate number representations in the acquisition of "most" |
11:30 |
L. Song, T. Nazzi, S. Moukawane, R. Golinkoff, A. Stahl, W. Ma, K. Hirsh-Pasek: Sleepy vs. sleeping: Preschoolers’ sensitivity to morphological cues for adjectives and verbs in English and French |
S. Perpinan: Optionality of inversion in bilingual native grammars: A case of L1 attrition? |
K. Syrett, R. Schwarzschild: The representation and processing of measure phrases by four-year-olds |
12:15 |
LUNCH SYMPOSIUM: Recent advances in the study of production and comprehension: Implications for language acquisition research (John Trueswell, Mike Tanenhaus, Kay Bock (Metcalf Large)) |
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2:15 |
E. Cartmill, S. Pruden, S. Levine, S. Goldin-Meadow: The role of parent speech and gesture in children’s spatial language and spatial thought |
Y-C. Su: Temporal reference of bare verbs in Mandarin child language |
K. Skoruppa, S. Peperkamp: The acquisition of phonological alternations: 2- to 3-year-old toddlers compensate for native but not for non-native assimilation |
2:45 |
R. Furman, A. Ozyurek, A. K?ntay: Early language-specificity in Turkish children’s caused motion event expressions in speech and gesture |
M. Anderssen, M. Westergaard: Frequency and economy in the acquisition of variable word order |
S. van der Feest, D. Swingley: Language-specific interpretation of vowel duration in 21-month-olds’ word recognition: A cross-linguistic study of phonetic attribution |
3:15 |
ATTENDED POSTER SESSION II (Terrace Lounge and Ziskind Lounge) |
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4:30 |
M. Cyr, R. Shi: Grammatical gender categorization in 17-month-old infants |
T. Kupisch, C. Pierantozzi: Interpreting definite plural NPs: A cross-sectional study of German-Italian bilingual children |
R. Mugitani, K. Ishizuka, T. Kondo, S. Amano: Acquisition of durational control of vocalic and consonantal intervals in speech production
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5:00 |
G. Legendre, L. Goyet, I. Barriere, S. Kresh, T. Nazzi: Sensitivity to irregular French subject-verb agreement at 18 months: Evidence from the Head Turn Preference Procedure |
T. Ionin, S. Montrul, J-H. Kim, V. Philippov: Singular generics in L2 English |
R. Currie-Rubin, J. Thomson: Vowel perception and spelling of children with dyslexia
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5:45 |
PLENARY ADDRESS: Virginia Valian: Innate syntax - Still the best hypothesis (Metcalf Large) |
7:00 |
ATTENDED POSTER SESSION II (Terrace Lounge and Ziskind Lounge) |
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2009
TIME |
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9:00 |
J. Trueswell, A. Bunger, A. Papafragou: Seeing and saying: The relation between event apprehension and utterance formulation in children |
M. Limbach, D. Adone: First language acquisition of recursive possessives in English |
N. Brooks, A. Pogue, D. Barner: Piecing together numerical language: Children's use of default units in early counting and quantification |
9:30 |
R. Scott, C. Fisher: 2.5-year-olds use cross-situational information to learn verbs under referential uncertainty |
M. J. Gutierrez: Acquiring relatives in L1 Basque |
M. Coppola, E. Spaepen, S. Goldin-Meadow: Communicating about number without a language model: The robustness of the plural |
10:00 |
A. Smith, K. Smith, R. Blythe: When and how do humans use cross-situational learning? |
M. Westergaard, K. Bentzen: Word order and finiteness in English and Norwegian child language: Parameters vs. micro-cues |
A. Shusterman, D. Gibson, B. Finder: Acquiring first number words: The developmental trajectory of children’s meanings for “two” |
10:30 |
BREAK (Ziskind Lounge) |
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11:00 |
N. Mani: Phono-semantic priming in the infant lexicon |
Y. Zhao, B. MacWhinney: Competing cues: A corpus-based study of the English tense-aspect acquisition |
V. Chondrogianni, T. Marinis, S. Edwards: On-line processing of articles and clitics by Greek children with SLI |
11:30 |
S. Arunachalam, S. Waxman: Specifying the role of linguistic information in verb learning
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T. Grueter, M. Crago: The roles of L1 transfer and processing limitations in the L2 acquisition of French object clitic constructions: Evidence from Chinese- and Spanish-speaking learners |
M. Green, A. Owen: The role of lexical frequency, telicity, and phonological factors on regular past tense production in children with SLI and their typically developing peers |
12:00 |
C. Kidd, K. White, R. Aslin: Children's use of disfluencies for pragmatic inference in language comprehension |
I. Ivanov: L2 acquisition of topicality marking in Bulgarian |
N. Petrucelli, E. Bavin, L. Bretherton: Working memory in children with specific language impairment and resolved late talkers |
12:30 |
K. MacKenzie, S. Graham, S. Curtin: Do 12-month-old infants privilege words in an associative learning task? |
C. Wright: The role of working memory in the process of second language acquisition |
N. Rakhlin, S. Kornilov, J. Reich, M. Babyonyshev, E. Grigorenko: What SLI children reveal about the relationship between syntactic development and Theory of Mind |
ALTERNATES
A. Austin, E. Newport: How low can you go: Low frequency inconsistent input in child and adult learners
M. Frank, N. Goodman, A. Fernald, J. Tenenbaum: Using discourse and social information to infer speakers’ referential intentions
J. Grinstead, J. Thorward, L. Maynell: Vowel reduction, pitch accent and scalar implicatures in child English
D. Stringer, B. Burghardt, H-K. Seo, Y.-T. Wang: Second language acquisition of spatial modifiers
Y. Gertner, M. Connor, C. Fisher, D. Roth: Modeling early sentence interpretation with shallow representations of syntactic
Structure
J. Villa-Garcia, W. Snyder, J. Riqueros-Morante: Microvariation in the acquisition of Caribbean/non-Caribbean Spanish subjects:
novel support for a [Spec, TP]-analysis in Caribbean dialects and for a CP-account in non-Caribbean ones
T. Judy, J. Rothman: A bidirectional study of L2 pronominal subjects and why the directionality of L1/L2 pairings matters
S. Kuijper, F. Groothoof: Children’s comprehension and production of marked stress
Y. Rose, J. Brittain, C. Dyck, E. Swain: The acquisition of metrical opacity: A longitudinal case study from Northern East Cree
M-J. Blais, Y. Oshima-Takane, F. Genesee, M. Hirakawa: Crosslinguistic influence on argument realization in Japanese-French
bilinguals
POSTERS
Session I, Room A – Terrace Lounge (Friday, November 6, 3:00-4:15 pm, 9:15-10:00 pm)
P. Amaral: Almost means 'less than': Preschoolers' comprehension of scalar adverbs
M.-J. Blais, Y. Oshima-Takane, F. Genesee, M. Hirakawa: Crosslinguistic influence on argument realization in Japanese-French bilinguals
K. Byers-Heinlein: Characterizing bilingual input: A self-report measure of language mixing by bilingual parents
N. Chang: Getting more for less: Cross-domain parsimony for grammar learning
D. Chen Pichler, R. Quadros, D. Lillo-Martin: Effects of bimodal production on multi-cyclicity in early ASL
N. Conrad, N. Harris, J. Williams: Individual differences in children’s literacy development: The contribution of orthographic knowledge
I. Darcy, L. Dekydtspotter, R. Sprouse, J. Scott, J. Glover, M. McGuire, C. Kaden: The contours of lexico-phonological dissociation in English-French interlanguage
A. Delcenserie, F. Genesee: Language acquisition of school-aged internationally adopted children from China
B. Dillon, E. Dunbar, W. Idsardi: Seeing through the surface: A model for direct acquisition of phoneme categories
S. Finley, E. Newport: Morpheme segmentation from distributional information
M. Frank, N. Goodman, A. Fernald, J. Tenenbaum: Using discourse and social information to infer speakers’ referential intentions
K. Gauthier, F. Genesee: The role of maternal input and interactional strategies in the early lexical development of internationally-adopted children
Y. Gertner, M. Connor, C. Fisher, D. Roth: Modeling early sentence interpretation with shallow representations of syntactic structure
J. Gierut, M. Morrisette: Wisdom comes with age: Effects of age-of-word-acquisition on phonological learning
J. Grinstead, J. Thorward, L. Mavnell: Vowel reduction, pitch accent and scalar implicatures in child English
Session I, Room B – Ziskind Lounge (Friday, November 6, 3:00-4:15 pm, 9:15-10:00 pm)
T. Judy, J. Rothman: A bidirectional study of L2 pronominal subject and why the directionality of L1/L2 pairings matters
E. Ko, M. Soderstrom, J. Morgan: Development of infants’ perceptual sensitivity to the vowel length effect
E. Koulaguina, R. Shi: The mechanism underlying the learning of rules and exceptions in 14-month-old infants
S. Lee-Ellis, W. Idsardi, C. Phillips: Distinguishing effects of early exposure and language dominance on perceptual sensitivity in
Korean heritage learners
J. Lidz, R. Baier: Predictive parsing impedes word learning in 19-month-olds
A. Gagliardi, J. Lidz, M. Polinsky: The acquisition of noun classes in Tsez: Computational and experimental results
M. Lieberman: Self-correction and the acquisition of liquid contrasts in L2 English
D. McCurley, T. Pratt, J. Grinstead: Root infinitive interpretations in child Spanish-speakers with and without SLI
R. Mierzeiewski, L. Singh, J. Liederman, J. Barnes: Consequences of early experience for language acquisition
S. Montrul: Morphological errors in L2 learners and heritage language learners: Missing surface inflection or simply experience?
M. O’Donnell, N. Ellis: 'Nomi Nomi how does your network grow?' Applying methods from network science to the study language acquisition
T. O’Donnell, N. Goodman, J. Snedeker, J. Tenenbaum: Computation and reuse in language learning
R. Reichle: Working memory load and processing of contrastive focus in L2 French
L. Rissman, G. Legendre, B. Landau: Abstract auxiliary BE representation in two-year-old children: Evidence from syntactic priming
Y. Rose, J. Brittain, C. Dyck, E. Swain: The acquisition of metrical opacity: A longitudinal case study from Northern East Cree
S. Schmitt, M. Friend: The home literacy environment as a predictor for toddlers' language development
M. Soderstrom, R. Bach: Turn-taking in infancy: Are mother-infant interactions really ‘conversational’?
N. Stephens, E. Clark: Given before new: Effects of discourse status on child syntactic choices
H. Wang, T. Mintz: From linear sequences to abstract structures: Distributional information in infant-direct speech
E. Zaretsky, C. Core: Letter name knowledge and representation of sublexical units in spelling tasks at the beginning of the
kindergarten year
Session II, Room A – Terrace Lounge (Saturday, November 7, 3:15-4:30 pm, 7:00-7:45 pm)
C. Bannard, M. Tomasello: Word learning is not label-object mapping: Preferential looking does not predict explicit knowledge of words in 2-year-olds
C. Bergmann, M. Paulus, P. Fikkert: Gender and task effects in pronoun interpretation
P. Brusini, G. Dehaene-Lambertz, A. Christophe: An ERP study of syntactic categorization in French-learning 2-year-olds
M. Ellert, L. Roberts, J. J?rvikivi: Exploring the influence of animacy on ambiguous pronoun resolution in the L2 visual world
A. Endesfelder Quick, E. Lieven, M. Tomasello: Mixed NPs in German-English and German-Russian bilingual children
R. Novogrodsky, N. Friedmann: Not all dependencies are impaired in syntactic-SLI: Binding comprehension in children with a deficit in Wh-movement
T. Gr?nloh, E. Lieven, M. Tomasello: German children’s use of prosodic cues in resolving participant roles in transitive constructions
E. Healey, B. Skarabela, M. Ota: Do monolingual and bilingual children differ in their adherence to mutual exclusivity?
N. Jincho, H. Oishi, M. Reiko: Children can access pragmatic contexts immediately during on-line sentence comprehension, but they cannot suppress interfering ones selectively
M. Kambanaros, K. Grohmann: Patterns of object and action naming in Cypriot Greek children with SLI/WFDs
S. Kuijper, F. Groothoff: Children’s comprehension and production of marked stress
W. Lee, H. Song: Do Korean children use case markers when learning the meaning of novel verbs?
T. Lentz, R. Kager: L1 perceptive biases do not stop acquisition of L2 phonotactics
C. Levelt: An experimental approach to coda omissions in early child language
T. Marinis, V. Chondrogianni: Asymmetries between the production and processing of tense morphemes in successive bilingual children
Session II, Room B – Ziskind Lounge (Saturday, November 7, 3:15-4:30 pm, 7:00-7:45 pm)
S. Mohr: The influence of oralism on mouth actions in Irish Sign Language (ISL)
K. Murasugi, T. Nakatani, C. Fuji: The roots of root infinitive analogues: The surrogate verb forms common in adult and child grammars
N. Sawada, K. Murasugi, C. Fuji: A theoretical account for the ‘erroneous’ genitive subjects in child Japanese and the specification of tense>
C. Name, C. Silva: Prosodic cues in Brazilian Portuguese second language learners
T. Nazzi, J. Serres, R. Biieliac-Babic, B. H?hle: Early phonological acquisition: Lexical stress pattern discrimination by monolingual and bilingual French-learning 10-month-olds
D. Ozge, T. Marinis, D. Zevrek: Production of relative clauses in monolingual Turkish children
H. Rabagliati, H. Gelfand, G. Marcus, L. Pylkk?nen: Words’ shifting senses in lexical semantic development
C. Rowland, C. Noble: Knowledge of verb argument structure in early sentence comprehension: Evidence from the dative
Y. Sato, N. Jincho, R. Omori, T. Kondo, R. Mazuka: Brain activation for written word processing in deaf readers
M. Schmitz, M. Friedrich, D. Marinos, A. Friederici, G. Klann-Delius: (How) does emotional prosody influence word learning and memory in children?
T. Shirahata, M. Hisano: Developmental pattern of the interpretation of Japanese focus particle, dake (=only) by L1 children and L2 adults
F. Smol?k, J. Lukavsky: Structural priming of word order in Czech children's comprehension
M. Srinivasan, J. Snedeker: Distinguishing polysemy and ambiguity in the child's mental lexicon
D. Stringer, B. Burghardt, H. Seo, Y. Wang: Second language acquisition of spatial modifiers
A. Synnestvedt, R. Newman, N. Bernstein Ratner: Infant speech processing abilities and later syntactic skills in preschool
E. Tenebaum, D. Sobel, J. Morgan: Sensitivity to information in the face predicts vocabulary size
L. Tieu: On children's acquisition of the NPI licensing condition in English
V. Tompkins: Mother-child autobiographical memory narratives: Influence on children’s story comprehension skills
J. Villa-Garcia, W. Snyder, J. Riqueros-Morante: Microvariation in the acquisition of Caribbean/non-Caribbean Spanish subjects:
Novel support for a [Spec, TP]-analysis in Caribbean dialects and for a CP-account in non- Caribbean ones
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