BUCLD 32: Proceedings of the 32nd annual
Boston University Conference on Language Development
edited by Harvey Chan, Heather Jacob, and Enkeleida Kapia
viii + 609 pages (2-volume set)
publication date: April 2008
ISBN 978-1-57473-084-5 paperback, $60.00
ISBN 978-1-57473-184-2 library binding, $125.00
The 32nd annual Boston University Conference on Language Development was held November 2-4, 2007, in Boston, MA. The proceedings contain 51 of the papers presented at the conference, including the keynote paper by Ellen Bialystok and the plenary paper by William O'Grady.
For the first time, all 3-day registrants for BUCLD 32 are receiving the paperback proceedings. The cost of the proceedings for students is generously covered by grants from the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health.
The posters from the conference are not included in the printed proceedings, but many have been published by the conference in an on-line proceedings supplement.
Contents
Volume 1
Cognitive Effects of Bilingualism across the Lifespan
Ellen Bialystok 1-15
Does Emergentism Have a Chance?
William O'Grady 16-35
Modeling Doubly Marked Lags with a Split Additive Model
Adam Albright, Giorgio Magri, and Jennifer Michaels 36-47
Explicit Instruction vs. Linguistic Competence in Adult L2-Acquisition
Alyona Belikova 48-59
Metrical Stress in Comprehension and Production of Dutch Children at Risk of Dyslexia
Elise de Bree, Petra van Alphen,
Paula Fikkert, and Frank Wijnen 60-71
Syntax and the Lexicon in Early Omission of Spanish Clitics
Anny P. Castilla, Ana T. Pérez-Leroux,
and Alice Eriks-Brophy 72-83
Intermediate Traces and Anaphora Resolution in the Processing of English as a Second Language
Laurent Dekydtspotter, Bora Kim, Hyun-jin Kim,
Yi-Ting Wang, Hye-Kyung Kim, and Jong Kun Lee 84-95
Optionality in L2 Grammars: The Acquisition of SV/VS Constrast in Spanish
Laura Domínguez and María J. Arche 96-107
The Changing Shape of Prepositional Meanings
Michele I. Feist 108-119
The Role of the Input in a Connectionist Model of the Accessibility Hierarchy in Development
Hartmut Fitz and Franklin Chang 120-131
Influence of Prosody on the Production of Determiners and Adjectives in Two-year-old Children's Sentences
Roseline Fréchette and Marie Labelle 132-142
Distinguishing between the Present and the Past: Against a Critical Period for Tense in L2 Acquisition
Alison Gabriele, Junko Maekawa,
Lindsay Ignatowsi, and Erik Christensen 143-154
Acquiring Rhythm: A Comparison of L1 and L2 Speakers of Canadian English and Japanese
Izabelle Grenon and Laurence White 155-166
The Acquisition of Noun Class Marking in Xhosa: Early Sensitivity to Form and Function
Sandile Gxilishe, Claire Denton-Spalding,
and Peter A. de Villiers 167-176
Exaggerated Prosody in Infant-Directed Speech? Intonational Phonological Analysis of Japanese Infant-Directed Speech
Yosuke Igarashi and Reiko Mazuka 177-188
L1 Acquisition of Bulgarian Object Clitics: Unique Checking Constraint or Failure to Mark Referentiality
Ivan Ivanov 189-200
There is Hope for Japanese Learners of English: The Case of Telicity
Keiko Kaku, Juana M. Liceras, and Nina Kazanina 201-212
Age-of-Acquisition Effects in the Development of a Bilingual Advantage for Word Learning
Margarita Kaushanskaya and Viorica Marian 213-224
The Processing Role of the Article Choice Parameter: Evidence from L2 Learners of English
Kyoungsook Kim and Usha Lakshmanan 225-238
Requestive Speech Leads to Referential Clarity in Turkish Preschool Children
Aylin C. Küntay, Sevda A. Bahtiyar,
Hande Sungur, and Özlem Özdamar 239-250
Cross-linguistic Influence from Stronger to Weaker Language in Unbalanced Bilingual Development
Tanja Kupisch 251-262
Graded Sensitivity to Mispronunciations of Vocalic Features in Early Words
Nivedita Mani and Kim Plunkett 263-274
English-Speaking Children's Early Passives: Evidence from Syntactic Priming
Katherine Messenger, Holly Branigan,
Janet McLean, and Antonella Sorace 275-286
Maximal Trouble in Free Relatives
Nadya Modyanova and Ken Wexler 287-298
Incomplete Acquisition in Spanish Heritage Speakers: Chronological Age or Interfaces Vulnerability?
Silvina Montrul 299-310
Volume 2
Transfer in the C-Domain: Word Order and Focus in Andean Spanish
Antje Muntendam 311-322
Early Sensitivity to Information Structure in Japanese
Jun Nomura 323-334
An Experimental Study of Children's Comprehension of Null Subjects: Implications for Grammatical/Performance Accounts
Robyn Orfitelli and Nina Hyams 335-346
Rapid Word-Action Mapping in French- and English-Speaking Children
Yuriko Oshima-Takane, Jillian Satin, and Ami Tint 347-359
When and How the Brain Learns to Use Grammatical Morphemes
Lee Osterhout 360-367
The Acquisition of Evidentiality and Source Monitoring
Ozge Ozturk and Anna Papafragou 368-377
Bilingual Children's Acquisition of English Inflection: The Role of Language Dominance and Task Type
Johanne Paradis, Antoine Tremblay, and Martha Crago 378-389
Putting the Emphasis on Unambiguous: The Feasibility of Data Filtering for Learning English Metrical Phonology
Lisa Pearl 390-401
Foundations of Verb Learning: Comparison Helps Infants Abstract Event Components
Shannon M. Pruden, Wendy L. Shallcross,
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, and Roberta M. Golinkoff 402-414
The Hierarchical Acquisition of Second-Language Consonant Sounds in Bilingual Kindergarten Students
Laura B. Raynolds and Joanna Uhry 415-426
Processing Gender in L2 Spanish
Nuria Sagarra and Julia Herschensohn 427-437
Is Exposure Enough? Narrative Development in Internationally Adopted Children
Jillian M. Schuh, Inge-Marie Eigsti, Julia Evans,
Seth Pollak, and Jon Miller 438-449
Prosodic Cues to Noun and Verb Categories in Infant-Directed Speech
Rushen Shi and Annick Moisan 450-461
Twenty-two Month Olds Detect Verb-Noun Exchanges in Fluent Speech: Evidence for Category Preferences for Familiar Content Words
Melanie Soderstrom and James L. Morgan 462-468
Prenatal Glucocorticosteroids Selectively Impair Language Development
Karin Stromswold 469-480
The Structure of Nominals and Binding in Child Thai
Napasri Timyam and Kamil Ud Deen 481-491
Acquisition of English (Primary) Stress by French Canadian L2 Learners: Non-target-like Foot Alignment
Annie Tremblay 492-503
The Processing of Subject and Object Wh-Questions in Children with Specific Language Impairment: An ERP Study
Baila Tropper, Arild Hestvik, Valerie L. Shafer, and Richard G. Schwartz 504-515
Children's Comprehension of the Spanish Existential Determiners unos and algunos
Marissa Vargas-Tokuda, Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach,
and John Grinstead 516-524
A Dynamic Learning Model for Categorizing Words Using Frames
Hao Wang and Toben H. Mintz 525-536
Colliding Cues in Word Segmentation: The Role of Cue Strength and Individual Differences
Daniel J. Weiss, Chip Gerfen, and Aaron Mitchel 537-549
Definiteness Effects in the L2 English of Mandarin and Turkish Speakers
Lydia White 550-561
Statistical Cross-Situational Learning in Adults and Infants
Chen Yu and Linda B. Smith 562-573
Knowing More than One Can Say: The Early Regular Plural
Jennifer A. Zapf and Linda B. Smith 574-585
A Tough Test of the Locality Requirement for Reflexives
Andrea Zukowski, Rebecca McKeown, and Jaiva Larsen 586-597
The Function of Children's Iconic Co-speech Gestures: A Study with French-Japanese Bilinguals and French Monolinguals
Meghan Zvaigzne, Yuriko Oshima-Takane,
Patricia Groleau, Kayo Nakamura, and Fred Genesee 598-609
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