Invited keynote and plenary speakers of BUCLD

Year Speaker Affiliation
1976 Lila Gleitman University of Pennsylvania
1977 Roger Brown Harvard University
1978 Thomas Bever University of Rochester
1979 Victoria Fromkin University of California at Los Angeles
1980 Norman Geschwind Harvard University
1981 Jerome Bruner Harvard University
1982 David Premack University of Pennsylvania
1983 John Gumperz University of California at Berkeley
1984 Elinor Ochs University of California at Los Angeles
1985 Daniel I. Slobin University of California at Berkeley
1986 Noam Chomsky Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1987 Susan Ervin-Tripp University of California at Berkeley
1988 Melissa Bowerman Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
1989 William Labov University of Pennsylvania
James Gee Boston University
1990 Ursula Bellugi The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Jane Grimshaw Brandeis University
1991 Steven Pinker Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Neil Smith University College London
1992 George Miller Princeton University
Jean Aitchison University of Oxford
Kenneth Hale Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1994 (Jan) (none – meeting held jointly with Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting)
1994 (Nov) Andrew Radford University of Essex
Jill DeVilliers Smith College
1995 Lila Gleitman University of Pennsylvania
Lydia White McGill University
1996 Eve Clark Stanford University
1997 Annette Karmiloff-Smith University College London
Luigi Rizzi University of Geneva
1998 Peter Jusczyk Johns Hopkins University
Jane Grimshaw Rutgers University
1999 Elissa Newport University of Rochester
Stephen Crain University of Maryland
2000 Lois Bloom Columbia University
Nina Hyams University of California at Los Angeles
2001 Susan Carey New York University
Daniel Dinnsen Indiana University
2002 Susan Goldin-Meadow University of Chicago
Bonnie Schwartz University of Hawai’i
2003 Janet Dean Fodor City University of New York
Mabel Rice University of Kansas
2004 Elizabeth Spelke Harvard University
Ken Wexler Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2005 Janet Werker University of British Columbia
Harald Clahsen University of Essex
2006 Roberta Michnick Golinkoff University of Delaware
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek Temple University
Jürgen Meisel University of Hamburg & University of Calgary
2007 Ellen Bialystok York University
William O’Grady University of Hawai’i
2008 Barbara Landau Johns Hopkins University
Tom Roeper University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2009 Anne Fernald Stanford University
Virginia Valian Hunter College & City University of New York Graduate Center
2010 Rachel Mayberry University of California at San Diego
William Snyder University of Connecticut
2011 Sandra Waxman Northwestern University
Cornelia Hamann University of Oldenburg
2012 Ray Jackendoff Tufts University
Patricia Kuhl University of Washington
2013 Elena Lieven Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology & University of Manchester
2014 Richard Aslin University of Rochester
Katherine Demuth Macquarie University
2015 Lila Gleitman University of Pennsylvania
Plenary roundtable, 40 Years of BUCLD: Looking Back and Looking Forward, moderated by Roberta Golinkoff (University of Delaware) & Kathy Hirsh-Pasek (Temple University) and featuring:
Jean Berko Gleason Boston University
Eve Clark Stanford University
Elissa Newport Georgetown University
Ken Wexler Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2016 Maria Polinsky University of Maryland
Angela Friederici Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
2017 Jenny Saffran University of Wisconsin at Madison
Núria Sebastián Gallés Universitat Pompeu Fabra
2018 Ann Senghas Barnard College
Johanne Paradis University of Alberta
2019 Cynthia Fisher University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan Edwards University of Maryland
2020 Adele Goldberg Princeton University
2021 Reiko Mazuka RIKEN Center for Brain Science & Duke University
Anne Christophe École Normale Supérieure – PSL University
2022 Jeffrey Lidz University of Maryland
Letitia Naigles University of Connecticut
2023 Catherine Tamis-LeMonda New York University
Kamil Deen University of Hawaii