BUCLD 34: Proceedings of the 34th annual
Boston University Conference on Language Development
edited by Katie Franich, Kate M. Iserman, and Lauren L. Keil
viii + 524 pages (2-volume set)
publication date: April 2010
ISBN 978-1-57473-055-5 paperback, $60.00
ISBN 978-1-57473-155-2 library binding, $125.00
The 34th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development was held November 6-8, 2009, in Boston, MA. The proceedings contain 45 of the papers presented at the conference.
All 3-day registrants for BUCLD 34 will receive the paperback proceedings as part of registration. 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. Many of the posters were published by the conference in an on-line proceedings supplement.
Contents
Volume 1
On the Impact of Frequency in the Acquisition of Variable Word Order
Merete Anderssen and Marit Westergaard 1-10
Specifying the Role of Linguistic Information in Verb Learning
Sudha Arunachalam and Sandra R. Waxman 11-21
Where to Reactivate? L2 Processing of Filler-Gap Dependency
Soondo Baek 22-33
Crosslinguistic Influence on Argument Realization in Japanese-French Bilinguals
Mary-Jane Blais, Yuriko Oshima-Takane, Fred Genesee, and Makiko Hirakawa 34-45
Piecing Together Numerical Language: Children's Use of Default Units in Early Counting and Quantification
Neon Brooks, Amanda Pogue, and David Barner 46-57
Seeing and Saying: The Relation Between Event Apprehension and Utterance Formulation in Children
Ann Bunger, John Trueswell, and Anna Papafragou 58-69
The Role of Parent Gesture in Children's Spatial Language Development
Erica Cartmill, Shannon M. Pruden, Susan C. Levine, and Susan Goldin-Meadow 70-77
On-line Processing of Articles and Clitic Pronouns by Greek Children with SLI
Vicky Chondrogianni, Theodoros Marinis, and Susan Edwards 78-89
That Doesn't Ring a Bed: When Integrating Cues, Children's Errors Reflect More Advanced Cognitive Control
Sarah C. Creel and Melanie A. Tumlin 90-101
Grammatical Gender Categorization in Infants
Marilyn Cyr and Rushen Shi 102-113
Dialect and Narrative Skills in African American Preschoolers
Peter de Villiers, Jill de Villiers, Cora-Lee Picone, Abigail Wilkins, Erica Dinkins, and Frances Burns 114-125
Early Language-Specificity in Turkish Children's Caused Motion Expressions in Speech and Gesture
Reyhan Furman, Asli Özyürek, and Aylin C. Küntay 126-137
Vowel Reduction, Pitch Accent and Scalar Implicatures in Child English
John Grinstead, Jennifer Thorward, Sharon Miriam Ross, and Laurie Maynell 138-149
The Roles of L1 Transfer and Processing Limitations in the L2 Acquisition of French Object Clitic Constructions: Evidence from Chinese- and Spanish-Speaking Learners
Theres Grüter and Martha Crago 150-161
Comprehension of Relative Clauses in L1 Basque
M. Juncal Gutierrez 162-173
L2 Acquisition of Topicality Marking in Bulgarian
Ivan Ivanov 174-184
Universality and Language-Specificity in the Acquisition of Path Vocabulary
Megan Johanson and Anna Papafragou 185-196
From a Superset to a Subset Grammar and the Semantic Compensation Hypothesis: Subject Pronouns and Anaphora Resolution in L2 English
Tiffany Judy and Jason Rothman 197-208
Brain Potentials for Word Segmentation at Seven Months Predict Later Language Development
Caroline Junge, Peter Hagoort, Valesca Kooijman, and Anne Cutler 209-220
Pragmatic Tolerance or a Speaker-Comprehender Asymmetry in the Acquisition of Informativeness?
Napoleon Katsos and Nafsika Smith 221-232
Children's Comprehension and Production of Marked Stress
Sanne J. M. Kuijper and Frederike C. Groothoff 233-244
Interpreting Definite Plural Subjects: A Comparison of German and Italian Monolingual and Bilingual Children
Tanja Kupisch and Cristina Pierantozzi 245-256
Volume 2
Sensitivity to Irregular French Subject-Verb Agreement at 18 Months: Evidence from the Head Turn Preference Procedure
Géraldine Legendre, Louise Goyet, Isabelle Barrière, Sarah Kresh, and Thierry Nazzi 257-268
Evidence for a Morphological Acquisition Model from Development Data
Constantine Lignos, Erwin Chan, Charles Yang, and Mitchell P. Marcus 269-280
Language Acquisition of Recursive Possessives in English
Maxi Limbach and Dany Adone 281-290
When Cup Primes Dog: Phono-semantic Links in the Toddler Lexicon
Nivedita Mani 291-302
Novel Labels Support Ten-Month-Olds' Attention to Novel Objects
Emily Mather and Kim Plunkett 303-314
How Ideal Are We? Incorporating Human Limitations into Bayesian Models of Word Segmentation
Lisa Pearl, Sharon Goldwater, and Mark Steyvers 315-326
Past Tense Productivity in Dutch Children with SLI: The Role of Phonology
Judith Rispens and Elise de Bree 327-338
The Acquisition of Metrical Opacity: A Longitudinal Case Study from Northern East Cree
Yvan Rose, Julie Brittain, Carrie Dyck, and Erin Swain 339-350
Comprehension of Functional Morphemes by Labrador Inuttitut Receptive Bilinguals
Marina Sherkina-Lieber 351-362
Processing of Morphological Variations in Toddlers
Rushen Shi and Marilyn Cyr 363-374
Acquiring First Number Words: The Developmental Trajectory of Children's Meanings for "Two"
Anna Shusterman, Dominic J. Gibson, and Barry Finder 375-384
How Newness and Joint Attention Work Together in Child Inuktitut: Assessing Discourse-Pragmatic Models of Early Argument Realization
Barbora Skarabela and Shanley E. M. Allen 385-396
Extracting Paths and Manners: Linguistic and Conceptual Biases in the Acquisition of Spatial Language
Dimitrios Skordos and Anna Papafragou 397-408
Sleepy vs. Sleeping: Preschoolers' Sensitivity to Morphological Cues for Adjectives and Verbs in English and French
Lulu Song, Thierry Nazzi, Sanaa Moukawane, Roberta M. Golinkoff, Aimee Stahl, Weiyi Ma, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, and Meaghan Connell 409-420
The Representation and Processing of Measure Phrases by Four-Year-Olds
Kristen Syrett 421-432
On the Analysis of Lexical Subjects in Caribbean and Mainland Spanish: Evidence from L1 Acquisition
Julio Villa-García, William Snyder, and José Riqueros-Morante 433-444
Proficiency Effects and Distance Effects in Nonnative Processing of English Number Agreement
Zhijun Wen, Mari Miyao, Aya Takeda, Wei Chu, and Bonnie D. Schwartz 445-456
Word Order and Finiteness in the Acquisition of English and Norwegian Wh-questions
Marit Westergaard and Kristine Bentzen 457-467
Variation, Asymmetry and Working Memory in the Process of Second Language Acquisition
Clare Wright 468-479
Bilingual Children's Integration of Multiple Cues to Understand a Speaker's Referential Intent
W. Quin Yow and Ellen M. Markman 480-490
Statistical Speech Segmentation and Word Learning in Parallel
Daniel Yurovsky, Chen Yu, and Linda B. Smith 491-502
Competing Cues: A Corpus-based Study of the English Tense-Aspect in Second Language Acquisition
Yun Zhao and Brian MacWhinney 503-514
Acquiring Anticausatives vs. Passives in Greek
Katerina Zombolou, Spyridoula Varlokosta, Artemis Alexiadou, and Elena Anagnostopoulou 515-524
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