vii + 443 pages (2-volume set)
publication date: September 2015
ISBN 978-1-57473-056-2 paperback, $64.00
ISBN 978-1-57473-156-9 library binding, $140.00
The proceedings contain papers from the 39th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, held November 7-9, 2014. The proceedings include a write-up of the poster symposium "Linguistics for Everyone."
All 3-day registrants for BUCLD 39 receive the paperback proceedings as part of registration.
The posters from the conference are not included in the printed proceedings. Many of the posters will be available in an on-line proceedings supplement from BU.
Contents
Volume 1
Left-Right Language and Perspective Taking in Tseltal Mayan Children
Linda Abarbanell and Peggy Li 1-13
On the Relation between Implicit and Explicit Measures of Child Language Development: Evidence from Relative Clause Processing in 4-Year-Olds and Adults
Flavia Adani and Tom Fritzsche 14-26
The Role of Varied Input in the Divergent Outcomes of Heritage Language Acquisition
Abdulkafi Albirini 27-39
More Vowels Are Not Always Better: Australian English and Peruvian Spanish Learners' Comparable Perception of Dutch Vowels
Samra Alispahic, Paola Escudero, and Karen E. Mulak 40-51
Perceptual Characteristics of Spontaneous Speech in Autism: Are We Discriminating Listeners?
Mary V. Andrianopoulos, Elena Zaretsky, Carlene McGuigan, and Rachel Warshaw 52-61
On the Nature of the Substantive Bias
Dinah Baer-Henney, Frank Kügler, and Ruben van de Vijver 62-74
A Child Specific Compensatory Mechanism in the Acquisition of English /s/
Hye-Young Bang, Meghan Clayards, and Heather Goad 75-87
Explaining Children's Wh-In Situ Questions: Against Economy
Misha Becker and Megan Gotowski 88-100
Accessing Morphosyntactic Information in L1 and L2 Word Recognition: A Masked Priming Study
Sina Bosch and Harald Clahsen 101-112
18-Month-Olds Compensate for a Phonological Alternation
Adam J. Chong and Megha Sundara 113-126
Revisiting the Epistemic Gap: Evidence for a Grammatical Source
Ailís Cournane 127-140
A Mechanism for Linguistic Relativity in Child Memory
Marc Ettlinger and Jennifer A. Lanter 141-151
Potential Phonological Markers for SLI in Bilingual Children
Sandrine Ferré, Christophe dos Santos, and Laetitia de Almeida 152-164
Tracking Reference in Space: How L2 Learners Use ASL Referring Expressions
Anne Therese Frederiksen and Rachel I. Mayberry 165-177
Pointing and Eye-Gaze in Bimodal Bilingual Language Development
Kadir Gökgöz, Ronice Quadros, Janine Oliveira, and Diane Lillo-Martin 178-190
Picking Up after Sloppy Children: What Pronouns Reveal about Children's Analysis of English Comparative Constructions
Vera Gor and Kristen Syrett 191-203
Question-Answer (In)Congruence in the Acquisition of Only
Martin Hackl, Ayaka Sugawara, and Ken Wexler 204-217
The Impact of Pronoun Type and Grammatical Skills on Children's Processing of Object Relative Clauses
Yair Haendler, Reinhold Kliegl, and Flavia Adani 218-230
Volume 2
Cognitive Limitations Impose Advantageous Constraints on Word Segmentation
Kasia Hitczenko and Gaja Jarosz 231-243
How Early Do Children Understand Different Types of Iconicity in Gesture?
Leslie E. Hodges, Seyda Özçaliskan, and Rebecca A. Williamson 244-253
The Linguistic and the Learner Default May Converge in Some Null-Subject Languages
Maialen Iraola Azpiroz 254-265
On-line Comprehension of Russian Case Cues in Monolingual Russian and Bilingual Russian-Dutch and Russian-Hebrew Children
Bibi Janssen, Natalia Meir, Anne Baker, and Sharon Armon-Lotem 266-278
Acquisition of the Korean Reflexive Pronouns in Intra-sentential Binding and Extra-sentential Binding
Kum-Jeong Joo, Kamil Ud Deen, and William O'Grady 279-288
How Dutch Children Preferably Interpret Elk and How English Children Preferably Understand Every
Margreet van Koert, Aafke Hulk, Olaf Koeneman, and Fred Weerman 289-300
Does Negative Feedback Have an Effect on Language Acquisition?
Elena Kulinich, Phaedra Royle, and Daniel Valois 301-310
Real-Time Processing of Classifier Information by L2 Speakers of Chinese
Elaine Lau and Theres Grüter 311-323
Abstract Representation of Feature Agreement across Grammatical Categories in Infants
Andréane Melançon and Rushen Shi 324-336
The Linguistic Proximity Model: The Case of Verb-Second Revisited
Roksolana Mykhaylyk, Natalia Mitrofanova, Yulia Rodina, and Marit Westergaard 337-349
False Belief Reasoning and the Acquisition of Relativization and Scrambling in Russian Children
Mari Ovsepyan and Usha Lakshmanan 350-360
Statistical Aggregation and Hypothesis Testing Mechanisms Interact during Word Learning
Alexa R. Romberg and Chen Yu 361-373
Infants Are Sensitive to Asynchronous Audiovisual Speech
Kathleen Shaw and Heather Bortfeld 374-384
Acquisition of the New Impersonal Construction in Icelandic
Sigríður Sigurjónsdóttir 385-397
Mapping Properties to Individuals in Language Acquisition
Kristen Syrett 398-410
Acoustic Correlates of Information Structure in Adult and Child Speech
Jill C. Thorson and James L. Morgan 411-423
Searching for Absolute and Relative Readings of Superlatives: A Second Experiment
Lyn Tieu and Zheng Shen 424-436
Linguistics for Everyone: Engaging a Broader Public for the Scientific Study of Language
Barbara Zurer Pearson, Jeffrey Lidz, Cecile McKee, Elizabeth A. McCullough, Leslie C. Moore, Colin Phillips, Shari R. Speer, Laura Wagner, and Elly Zimmer 437-443
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