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BUCLD 23: Proceedings of the 23rd annual
Boston University Conference on Language Development

edited by Annabel Greenhill, Heather Littlefield, and Cheryl Tano

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Front cover image   x + 775 pages (2-volume set)
publication date: March 1999

ISBN 1-57473-042-8 paperback, $50.00
ISBN 1-57473-142-4 library binding, $96.00

 


The Proceedings of the 23rd annual Boston University Conference on Language Development contain 68 papers from the November 1998 conference, including the keynote address by Peter Jusczyk.



Contents
Volume One

Word Segmentation Abilities and 
Their Contribution to Language Acquisition
    Peter Jusczyk       1-19

The Role of Classifiers in Predicting 
English Literacy among Deaf Adults
    Michelle Anthony       20-31

The Role of the Clitic-Full Pronoun Distinction 
in the Acquisition of Pronominal Coreference
    Sergio Baauw       32-43

An Argument for Adjuncts: 
Evidence from a Phonologically Disordered System
    Jessica A. Barlow       44-55

On the Relationship between Root Infinitives 
and Imperatives in Early Child Russian
    Eva Bar-Shalom and William Snyder       56-67

Abstract Features in L2 Competence: Be-Prefixation in German
    Maria-Luise Beck and Lynn Eubank       68-79

Syntactic and Metric Constraints 
on Children's Function Morphemes
    Misha Becker       80-92

Acquisition of Binding in Arabic
    Naomi Bolotin       93-102

Disentangling Multiple Sources 
of Stress in Infant-Directed Speech
    Heather Bortfeld and James Morgan       103-111

Adult SLA of Se Constructions in Spanish: 
Evidence against Pattern Learning
    Joyce L.S. Bruhn de Garavito       112-119

Aspect and Its Temporal Interpretation 
during the Optional Infinitive Stage in Russian
    Dina Brun, Sergey Avrutin, and Maria Babyonyshev       120-131

Perspectives on Pragmatic Socialization
    Judith Becker Bryant       132-137

Bilingual Children's Repairs of Communication Breakdowns
    Liane Comeau, Morton J. Mendelson, and Fred Genesee       138-149

Neurobiological Mechanisms of Language Acquisition 
in Sturge Weber Syndrome
    Stella de Bode and Susan Curtiss       150-161

Semantics, Pragmatics and Second Language Acquisition: 
The Case of Combien Extractions
    Laurent Dekydtspotter, Rex A. Sprouse, 
    Kimberly A. Swanson, and Rachel Thyre       162-171

Variation and Emerging Faithfulness 
in Phonological Acquisition
    Daniel A. Dinnsen and Laura W. McGarrity       172-183

Weak Quantification, Plausible Dissent, and the 
Development of Children's Pragmatic Competence
    Kenneth F. Drozd and Erik van Loosbroek       184-195

Learning and the Representation of Complex Onsets
    Judith A. Gierut and Annette Hust Champion       196-203

Cognitive Prerequisites for Modal Verb Acquisition
    Joanna Gonsalves and Rachel Joffe Falmagne       204-215

When an Island Is Not an Island: 
Long-Distance Questions in Singapore Malay
    Gabriella Hermon and Norhaida Aman       216-227

The Second Language Acquisition 
of Spanish Word Order for Unaccusative Verbs
    Tammy Jandrey Hertel and Ana Teresa Perez-Leroux       228-239

The Eventivity Constraint and Modal Reference Effects 
in Root Infinitives
    Teun Hoekstra and Nina Hyams       240-252

Past Time Reference in Chinese Children's Speech
    Chiung-chih Huang       253-264

Creolization: Could Adults Really Have Done It All?
    Carla L. Hudson and Elissa L. Newport       265-276

Word Learning without Aid from Syntax: How Do 
Japanese Children Learn Proper Nouns and Common Nouns?
    Mutsumi Imai and Etsuko Haryu       277-288

Inflection and Past Tense Morphology in French SLI
    Celia Jakubowicz, Lea Nash, and Marlies van der Velde       289-300

Age Differences in Second Language Acquisition: 
The Dominant Language Switch and Maintenance Hypothesis
    Gisela Jia and Doris Aaronson       301-312

Non-Finite Root Clauses in Swedish Child Language
    Gunlog Josefsson       313-324

A Look at Interlanguage Development: The Case of Acquiring 
Topic-Prominence by English L2 Learners of Korean
    Euen Hyuk (Sarah) Jung       325-336

Cross-Linguistic Differences 
in Children's Syntax for Locative Verbs
    Meesook Kim, Barbara Landau, and Colin Phillips       337-348

Optionality in English Non-Native Grammars: 
Differences between L1 and L2 Acquisition
    Elaine C. Klein and Monica Casco       349-360

Syntactic Cues to Word Meaning: 
Initial Expectations and the Development of Flexibility 
    Raquel Stote Klibanoff and Sandra Waxman       361-372

Volume 2

The Role of L1 and of Teaching in the Acquisition 
of English Sounds by Francophones 
    Darlene LaCharite and Philippe Prevost       373-385

Suppletive Agreement in Second Language Acquisition
    Donna Lardiere       386-396

Gender Assignment to German Nonsense Nouns: What Does 
the Native Speaker Know That the Non-Native Speaker Doesn't? 
    Glenn S. Levine       397-406

Prosodic Constraints on the Emergence 
of Grammatical Morphemes: Crosslinguistic 
Evidence from Germanic and Romance Languages 
    Conxita Lleo and Katherine Demuth       407-418

Incomplete L1 Acquisition: The Morphosyntax of Kaspar Hauser 
    Mark L. Louden       419-430

The Acquisition of Sequence of Tense in Japanese 
    Ayumi Matsuo and Bart Hollebrandse       431-442

Case-Dropping and Unaccusatives in Japanese Acquisition 
    Edson T. Miyamoto, Kenneth Wexler, 
    Takako Aikawa, and Shigeru Miyagawa       443-452

Compounds and Complex Predicates: 
Japanese Evidence for a "Global" Parameter 
    Nobohiro Miyoshi       453-461

The L2 Acquisition of Agentive Verbs 
of Directed Motion in English 
    Silvina Montrul       462-473

Comparatives and Superlatives: Lexical before Functional
    Deanna Moore       474-481

Object Omissions in Bilingual Children: 
Evidence for Crosslinguistic Influence
    Natascha Mueller, Aafke Hulk, and Celia Jakubowicz       482-494

What Every Child Doesn't Know 
    Julien Musolino       495-506

The Acquisition of Formal and Informal Language 
by Japanese Preschool Children 
    Keiko Nakamura       507-518

Five-Month-Old Infants' Discrimination of Languages 
    Thierry Nazzi and Peter W. Jusczyk       519-528

Innateness and the Acquisition 
of Grammatical Aspect via Lexical Aspect 
    Mari Broman Olsen and Amy Weinberg       529-540

Learning How to Search For the Frog: Expression 
of Manner of Motion in English, Spanish, and Turkish 
    Seyda Ozcaliskan and Dan I. Slobin       541-552

A Feature Checking Approach to Null Arguments in SLA 
    Hyeson Park       553-564

Narrative Development without Submersion in a Native Language 
    Sarah B. van Deusen Phillips, 
    Susan Goldin-Meadow, and Peggy Miller       565-574

Finiteness and Variability in SLA: 
More Evidence for Missing Surface Inflection
    Philippe Prevost and Lydia White       575-586

Developmental Observations on the Auxiliary Do 
and the Optional Infinitive Hypothesis 
    Tetsuya Sano       587-598

Definiteness and Children's Interpretation 
of the Locative Anaphor There 
    Robin J. Schafer       599-610

The Acquisition of Verb Placement in Swiss German 
    Manuela Schoenenberger       611-622

Two for One: Learning to Count Visitors Differently from Persons 
    Dean Sharpe       623-629

Root Infinitives and Null Subjects in Early Icelandic 
    Sigridur Sigurjonsdottir       630-641

The Complex-Predicate / N-N Compounding Connection 
in L2 Acquisition 
    Roumyana Slabakova       642-653

The Successes and Failures of Word-to-World Mapping 
    Jesse Snedeker, Lila Gleitman, and Michael Brent       654-665

Initial States, End-States, 
and Residual Optionality in L2 Acquisition 
    Antonella Sorace       666-674

Children's Use of Syntactic, Pragmatic, and 
Semantic Information in Learning Proper Names 
    Cristina M. Sorrentino       675-686

Stages in the Development of Grammatical Space 
    Esthela Trevino and Antoinette Hawayek       687-696

Evidence for Early Convergence from 
Child Catalan and Child Russian Imperatives
    Veronique van Gelderen, John Grinstead, and Teun Hoekstra       697-707

Acquiring Tense in Form and Meaning
    Laura Wagner       708-719

The Acquisition of Wh-Questions: Wh-Drop in Child Swedish, 
Dutch, German, English, French, Spanish and Japanese
    Kyoko Yamakoshi       720-731

Subject-Object Asymmetries and 
Children's Left Branch Violations
    Maki Yamane, Deborah Chen Pichler, and William Snyder       732-740

The Acquisition of Nouns and Verbs in Young Japanese 
Children: Why Do Verbal Nouns Emerge Early?
    Yoshie Yamashita       741-752

Preliterate Children's Syllabification of Intervocalic Consonants
    Tania S. Zamuner and Diane K. Ohala       753-763

Targeting Complex Structure in French Questions
    Bernadette Plunkett       764-775

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