A Supplement to the Proceedings of the 34th
Boston University Conference on Language Development
Edited by Jane Chandlee, Katie Franich, Kate Iserman, and Lauren Keil
April 2010

Almost Means 'Less Than': Preschoolers' Comprehension of Scalar Adverbs
Patricia Amaral
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Effects of Bimodal Production on Multi-Cyclicity in Early ASL and Libras
Deborah Chen Pilcher, Ronice Müller de Quadros, and Diane Lillo-Martin
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Morpheme Segmentation from Distributional Information
Sara Finley and Elissa L. Newport
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Patterns of Object and Action Naming in Cypriot Greek Children with SLI and WFDs
Maria Kambanaros and Kleanthes K. Grohmann
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The Mechanism Underlying the Learning of Rules and Exceptions in 14-month-old Infants
Elena Koulaguina and Rushen Shi
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Prosodic Cues in Brazilian Portuguese Second Language Learners
Cristina Name and Carolina Silva
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A Theoretical Account for the 'Erroneous' Genitive Subjects in Child Japanese and Specification of Tense
Naoko Sawada, Keiko Murasugi and Chisato Fuji
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Not all Dependencies are Impaired in Syntactic-SLI: Binding in Children with a Deficit in Wh-movement
Rama Novogrodsky and Naama Friedmann
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Production of Relative Clauses in Monolingual Turkish Children
Duygu Özge, Theodoros Marinis, and Deniz Zeyrek
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Infant Speech Processing Abilities and Later Syntactic Skills in Preschool
Anna Synnestvedt, Rochelle Newman and Nan Bernstein Ratner
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The Acquisition of NPI any in English: A Case Study
Lyn Shan Tieu
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From Linear Sequences to Abstract Structures: Distributional Information in Infant-direct Speech
Hao Wang and Toben H. Mintz
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Letter Knowledge, Invented Spelling and Sensitivity to the Sublexical Units at the Beginning of the Kindergarten Year
Elena Zaretsky, Cynthia Core an dAlyssa Currier
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