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BUCLD 50: Proceedings of the 50th annual
Boston University Conference on Language Development

edited by Romi Hill, Xinhan Jiang, Danutham Worapipat, and Aditya Yedetore
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Front cover image   xi + 918 pages (2-volume set)
publication date: 2026

ISBN 978-1-57473-047-0 paperback, $124.00 (shipping August 2026)

 


This two-volume set will include 70 presentations from the 50th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, held November 2025.

The entire proceedings is also available directly from this page with open access. The pdf file for each paper is identical to the printed edition.



Contents

Volume 1

Preface
    Romi Hill, Xinhan Jiang, Danutham Worapipat, and Aditya Yedetore
    xi (complete pdf)

Hi, Thanks, and Goodbye: From the Wug Test to AI
    Jean Berko Gleason
    1-14 (complete pdf)

Constraints on Wh-Movement: Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar
    Jill de Villiers
    15-27 (complete pdf)

Abstract Innate Interfaces Are the Heart of Universal Grammar and Guide Acquisition
    Tom Roeper
    28-40 (complete pdf)

Parameters
    William Snyder
    41-46 (complete pdf)

Good and Bad Arguments For and Against Linguistic Nativism
    Virginia Valian
    47-52 (complete pdf)

Bilingual Bimodal Hard-of-Hearing Children with a Forced Displacement Background in Germany: A Pilot Study on Morphosyntactic Developmental Trajectories of German Spoken Language and German Sign Language
    Lina Abed Ibrahim, Solveig Chilla, Anne Wienholz, and Barbara Hänel-Faulhaber
    53-70 (complete pdf)

Neural Correlates of Scrambling in First and Second Language Processing: An ERP Challenge to the Shallow Structure Hypothesis
    Jae Hyun Ahn and Laurent Dekydtspotter
    71-85 (complete pdf)

Japanese-Speaking Children's Interpretation of Comparatives with a Non-Numeral Scalar Quantifier: Sukosi ooi 'a few more'
    Tomoe Arii and Takuya Goro
    86-94 (complete pdf)

Moving Beyond Forced-Choice: A Fresh Perspective on Children's Disjunction Comprehension
    Maumita Bhaumik and Masoud Jasbi
    95-108 (complete pdf)

Acquiring Conditional Disjunction: Romanian Five-Year-Olds Struggle with Implicit Conditionals
    Adina Camelia Bleotu, Deborah Foucault, Anton Benz, Lyn Tieu, and Tom Roeper
    109-122 (complete pdf)

Children Selectively Drop Expletive Subjects: The Role of Referentiality, Topicality and Argumenthood
    Núria Bosch and Theresa Biberauer
    123-136 (complete pdf)

Allemaal Trouble in the Acquisition of Dutch Quantifiers
    Bram Buijkx and Andrea Gualmini
    137-150 (complete pdf)

L3 Spanish Effects in L2 Acquisition of English Causative Psych Verbs
    Vatcharit Chantajinda
    151-164 (complete pdf)

From um to Words: The Role of Disfluency Interactions in Shaping Early Language Development
    Yue Chen
    165-178 (complete pdf)

A Snapshot of (Really) Early CP Occurrence: Sentence Final Particles in Child Japanese
    Giulio Ciferri Muramatsu and Zixi Liu
    179-191 (complete pdf)

The Bare Truth: Bare Nominals Acquisition Challenges for Brazilian Learners of English, French, and Spanish
    Antonio Codina Bobia and Elaine Grolla
    192-205 (complete pdf)

Children Compute More Ad-Hoc Implicatures from a than the: On the Interaction of Definiteness and Ad-Hoc Implicatures
    André Eliatamby and Lyn Tieu
    206-219 (complete pdf)

Linking Vocabulary Knowledge with Theory of Mind and Online Social Reasoning in Adults
    Mikaela Elliott, Patricia J. Brooks, C. Donnan Gravelle, and Arshia Lodhi
    220-233 (complete pdf)

Tolerance Principle and Small Language Model Learning
    Adam E. Friedman, Stevan Harnad, and Rushen Shi
    234-247 (complete pdf)

What Does Bimodal Bilingual Vocabulary Acquisition Look Like in Deaf Children with Hearing Parents?
    Linghui Eva Gan, Angelica Llerena, Diane Lillo-Martin, and Deborah Chen Pichler
    248-257 (complete pdf)

In Control or Not? Acquisition of Non-Finite Adjunct Clauses in Romanian vs. English
    Juliana Gerard, Adina Camelia Bleotu, and Dana McDaniel
    258-270 (complete pdf)

Non-Adjacent Dependencies and Abstract Grammatical Representation in One-Year-Old Infants
    Audrey-Anne Gilbert, Manuel Español-Echevarría, and Rushen Shi
    271-282 (complete pdf)

Subcategorizing Adjectives with Multiple Frames
    Megan Gotowski and Kaitlyn Harrigan
    283-293 (complete pdf)

The Emergence and Maintenance of Bilingualism Among the Old Order Amish
    Theres Grüter, Tobias Frick, Mark L. Louden, Leonie Strickler, and Guido Seiler
    294-308 (complete pdf)

Hierarchical Bias: Domain-General or Language-Specific?
    Kaitlyn Harrigan, Sadhwi Srinivas, Aidan Burnham, and Nicholas Voivoda
    309-322 (complete pdf)

Acquisition of Socio-Phonetic Variation: A Case Study of Coda /ɾ/ Variation in Dominican Spanish-Speaking Children and Their Caregivers
    Emily Herman, Karen Miller, and Matthew T. Carlson
    323-332 (complete pdf)

The Role of Working Memory in Japanese-Speaking Children's Comprehension of Active and Passive Sentences
    Megumi Ishikawa and Hiromichi Hagihara
    333-346 (complete pdf)

Corpus-Based Population-Level Estimates of Onset Age-of-Acquisition for English Function Words
    Masoud Jasbi, Aaron Pilapil, and Debbie Odufuwa
    347-361 (complete pdf)

Temporal Orientation Is a Robust Cue to Attitude Class in Child-Directed Speech
    Alice Jesus, Elizabeth Swanson, Jeffrey Lidz, and Valentine Hacquard
    362-375 (complete pdf)

Children's Understanding of Factivity in Hungarian
    Anna Kispál, Ágnes Melinda Kovács, and Rachel Dudley
    376-389 (complete pdf)

Neural Mechanisms of Adult Bilingual Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution
    Noelani Kong-Johnson and Kamil Ud Deen
    390-403 (complete pdf)

L1 Influence on the Distinction Between Definite and Demonstrative Descriptions in L2 English
    Keisuke Kume
    404-416 (complete pdf)

Investigating the Impact of Contextual Information on L2 Garden Path Sentence Comprehension
    Jiaxing Lin
    417-425 (complete pdf)

L2 English Speakers Process Non-Binary Pronouns as Efficiently as Native English Speakers
    Runchen Liu
    426-438 (complete pdf)

The Impact of Caregiver Prompt Type on Pragmatic Responses in Children with ASD
    Zifei Liu
    439-452 (complete pdf)

Children Face Ambiguous Input Early On: A Cross-Linguistic Corpus Analysis of Homophones
    Youtao Lu and Yukie Nagai
    453-466 (complete pdf)

Volume 2

Children's Understanding of Necessity Modals: Evidence from French
    Oana Lungu, Anouk Dieuleveut, Valentine Hacquard, and Ailís Cournane
    467-478 (complete pdf)

What Modulates Toddlers' Use of Familiar Words in Resolving Novel Noun Reference? A Preferential Looking Study
    Lean Luo, Xiaolu Yang, Stella Christie, and Rushen Shi
    479-491 (complete pdf)

The Development of Pluperfect: Evidence from Greek
    Marina Mastrokosta and Vina Tsakali
    492-505 (complete pdf)

Ellipsis in Contact: VPE and Sluicing in Spanish Heritage Speakers
    Erin Mauffray, Victoria Mateu, and Rodrigo Ranero
    506-519 (complete pdf)

Children's Acquisition of Argument-Head Tone Sandhi in Seenku (Mande, Burkina Faso)
    Laura McPherson
    520-532 (complete pdf)

English vs. Mandarin Wh-Question Comprehension in Toddlers: Influence of Movement Type and Distance Effect
    Chaowei Nie, Yi (Esther) Su, Stephanie Durrleman, and Letitia Naigles
    533-543 (complete pdf)

"Subject-Only" Is Not Always Difficult for Children: Evidence from Unaccusative Constructions in Japanese
    Akari Ohba, Wataru Sugiura, and Hiroyuki Shimada
    544-559 (complete pdf)

Rethinking Interface Vulnerability in L2 Acquisition
    Chika Okada
    560-571 (complete pdf)

The Effect of L1 and L2 on Acquiring the Scope of Disjunction and Negation in L3 Japanese
    Tokiko Okuma
    572-585 (complete pdf)

Anti-Locality in L2 Syntax: Universal Constraints vs. L1 Transfer: Evidence from Japanese Learners of English
    Yuichi Ono, Kasumi Takahashi, and Reina Mogushi
    586-599 (complete pdf)

Evaluating Neural Language Models as a Cognitive Model of Human Second Language Acquisition by Comparing the Developmental Trajectory Between Human and Model Learning
    Rin Otokawa, Tomoki Miyamoto, and Akira Utsumi
    600-612 (complete pdf)

You Can't Not Learn: Exploring the Acquisition of Negative Concord in L2 Spanish Learners
    Elena Pagliarini, Jin Yan, and Anna Gavarró
    613-625 (complete pdf)

Children Use an Agent's Goals to Determine Event Culmination
    Madison D. Paron and Anna Papafragou
    626-639 (complete pdf)

Bareness in Wh-Operators and Syntactic Intervention: Evidence from Sluicing in Child Italian
    Elena Pettenon and Emanuela Sanfelici
    640-653 (complete pdf)

Child Comprehension of Marathi Gapped Relative Clauses
    Anupama Reddy and Kamil Deen
    654-667 (complete pdf)

Second Language Speech Assimilation in an Optimal Transport Framework
    Joselyn Rodriguez, Patrick Shafto, and Naomi H. Feldman
    668-681 (complete pdf)

Variable Subject Pronoun Expression in Dominican Spanish: A Case Study of Child Directed Speech and Adult Directed Speech
    Romi Román and Karen Miller
    682-694 (complete pdf)

Negative Concord in L2-Russian
    Eleanor Sand and Tania Ionin
    695-708 (complete pdf)

Countering the Input-Driven Semantic Subset Principle Account of Disjunction Under Negation
    Tetsuya Sano, Akari Ohba, and Kamil Deen
    709-723 (complete pdf)

Pronoun Interpretation in Bilingual Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Evidence from 400 Autistic and Neurotypical Children
    Atty Schouwenaars, Petra Hendriks, Franziska Baumeister, Ehsan Solaimani, Elisabet Vila Borrellas, Pauline Wolfer, and Stephanie Durrleman
    724-735 (complete pdf)

Adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory into Azerbaijani: Words and Sentences
    Sabina Sharifova and Patricia J. Brooks
    736-749 (complete pdf)

Passive Voice Is Still Difficult to Acquire: Korean Monolingual Children's Comprehension of Suffixal Passive Construction Through Webcam Eye-Tracking
    Gyu-Ho Shin and Seongmin Mun
    750-763 (complete pdf)

Novel Word Learning in Second Grade Predicts Later Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension
    Supraja Srikumar, Anna Ehrhorn, Taylor Bryant, Dawna Duff, and Suzanne Adlof
    764-774 (complete pdf)

Syntax First: Re-Examination of Clefts in Child Japanese
    Wataru Sugiura and Kamil Deen
    775-787 (complete pdf)

Syntactic or Overloading? Adverbial Effects on the Processing of that-Trace Structures in L1 and L2 Grammars
    Kasumi Takahashi and Yuichi Ono
    788-799 (complete pdf)

Understanding Sentences with Focus Particles Using Visual Alternatives: Children Do Not Ignore only
    Lyn Tieu and Petra Schulz
    800-813 (complete pdf)

Tracking the Role of Prosody in Sentence Processing: Evidence from Children Speaking English as an Additional Language (EAL)
    Chara Triantafyllidou, Margreet Vogelzang, and Ianthi Maria Tsimpli
    814-827 (complete pdf)

The Role of UG and the Unergative/Unaccusative Asymmetry in Interlanguage Grammar
    Hirokazu Tsutsumi, Takayuki Kimura, and Takaaki Hirokawa
    828-838 (complete pdf)

To Be In-Situ or Ex-Situ? The Morphosyntax of WH-Questions in Brazilian Portuguese and French Acquisition
    Clariana Vieira and Elaine Grolla
    839-852 (complete pdf)

Development of Syntax in Spoken English by Bimodal Bilingual Deaf Children: Comparison with Hearing Bilinguals and Monolinguals
    Shuyan Wang, Margaret Chui Yi Lee, Diane Lillo-Martin, and Deborah Chen Pichler
    853-863 (complete pdf)

The Role of Negation Position in German: Developmental Patterns in Children's Comprehension
    Merle Weicker and Petra Schulz
    864-877 (complete pdf)

Effect of Indefiniteness on Mandarin-Speaking Children's Comprehension of the Double-Object Construction
    Yulun Wu, Xiaolu Yang, and Stella Christie
    878-890 (complete pdf)

Children's Acquisition of the Felicity Condition of Mandarin dou
    Ting Xu, Mingming Liu, Li-Chen Chuang, and Stella Christie
    891-904 (complete pdf)

John knows Mary Likes what: Learning Attitude Verbs by Speech Acts in a Wh-in-Situ Language
    Yixuan Yan
    905-918 (complete pdf)



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