BUCLD 49: Proceedings of the 49th annual
Boston University Conference on Language Development
edited by Aditya Yedetore, Rebecca Dufie Bonney, and Yuanyuan Zhang
ix + 785 pages (2-volume set)
publication date: 2025
ISBN 978-1-57473-037-1 paperback, $116.00
This two-volume set will include presentations from the 49th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, held November 2024.
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. You can search the entire proceedings here using Google.
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Volume 1
Preface
Aditya Yedetore, Rebecca Dufie Bonney, and Yuanyuan Zhang
ix (complete pdf)
Sign Language Acquisition Is a Human Right
Diane Lillo-Martin
1-18 (complete pdf)
Developmental Trajectories of German as a Spoken Language in Typical and Hard of Hearing Children with Forced Displacement Background: A Longitudinal Pilot Study
Lina Abed Ibrahim, Solveig Chilla, and Barbara Hänel-Faulhaber
19-34 (complete pdf)
The Heritage Advantage in Phonological Perception Is Not a Universal Phenomenon
Matthew Ajibade
35-47 (complete pdf)
I Wish I Was Blue! The Development of (Un)attainable Desires in Child Greek
Irini Amanaki and Vina Tsakali
48-61 (complete pdf)
Examining Passives and Relative Clauses in High-Functioning Autism: Interactions with Vocabulary and Working Memory Abilities
Maria Andreou, Konstantina Sonia Antoniou, Theodoros Marinis, and Eleni Peristeri
62-73 (complete pdf)
Receptive Language Development in Children Born to Mothers with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
Jennifer Barbosa, Lauren C. Shuffrey, William P. Fifer, and Laura Lakusta
74-86 (complete pdf)
Children's Derivation of Scalar Inference from or-Sentences: Evidence from Varying the Degree of Relevance
Maumita Bhaumik
87-100 (complete pdf)
Not Nothing: The Significance of Timing Differences in the Acquisition of Afrikaans and Dutch geen ('no')
Theresa Biberauer and Marie-Louise van Heukelum
101-114 (complete pdf)
The Influence of Discourse Context on Children's Use of Conversational Devices
Cynthia Boo and Letitia Naigles
115-128 (complete pdf)
On Another Topic, How Do Acquisition Orders Vary? The Left-Periphery and Topicalization in Bilingual and Monolingual Acquisition
Núria Bosch and Theresa Biberauer
129-144 (complete pdf)
Reciprocal Longitudinal Effects of Vocabulary Knowledge on Emotion Regulation in Low-Income Children from the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project
Elizabeth S. Che, Julia R. Moses, Nic Zapparrata, and Patricia J. Brooks
145-158 (complete pdf)
Clitics as Prerequisites for Spanish DOM
Penelope Daniel
159-170 (complete pdf)
Complex Morphology in Romani Can Resolve the Ambiguity of Multiple Possessives
Jill de Villiers, Huseyin Kyuchuk, and Tyler Poisson
171-184 (complete pdf)
Presenting the Tool for Assessing Intergenerational Transmission (TITA) Within Endangered Language Communities
Kamil Deen, Anupama Reddy, Anna Belew, Peter Chong, Keiko Hata, Kavon Hooshiar, Ryan Henke, Grant Muagututi'a, Anongnard Nusartlert, Jennifer Sou, and Sarah Uno
185-198 (complete pdf)
Automatic Detection of the Visual Gaze Components of Joint Attention in Naturalistic, Observational Data
Miranda Dickerman, Anshul Gupta, Samy Tafasca, Xiaocheng Zhang, Jean-Marc Odobez, and Sabine Stoll
199-212 (complete pdf)
Lexical Tone Sensitivity in Blind, Non-Tone Language Speakers
Nancy Eng, Stanley Chen, Zarina Rakhmanova, and Lauren Levy
213-224 (complete pdf)
Acquisition of Particle Drop in Japanese: A Preliminary Study
Yoshiki Fujiwara
225-238 (complete pdf)
Conjunction Meets Negation in Contexts That Cancel Polarity Sensitivity: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese
Na Gao, Peng Zhou, and Stephen Crain
239-254 (complete pdf)
Variable Clitic Placement by Grammatical Person: Support for Sequential Pathways of Acquisition
Emily Herman
255-268 (complete pdf)
Chinese L2 Learners' Interpretation of Telicity in German
Lea Hessler-Reusch, Ting Xu, and Xiaolu Yang
269-282 (complete pdf)
Discovering Phonological Representations: The Case of French Liaison
Annika Heuser
283-296 (complete pdf)
Object Animacy as a Cue for Learning Mental Verbs Without Propositional Complements
Erin Humphreys and Misha Becker
297-307 (complete pdf)
Variation in the Realization of Word-Final Codas in Loanwords: Evidence from Child Greek
Ioanna Kappa and Eirini Ploumidi
308-321 (complete pdf)
The Role of Processing Time and Accuracy in Children's Accent-Related Biases
Ajna Kertesz and Catharine Echols
322-335 (complete pdf)
Preferred Word Formation Strategies in L2 English
F. Nihan Ketrez
336-344 (complete pdf)
'Strong' Weak-Island Effects in Interlanguage: Arguments from D-Linking
Takayuki Kimura
345-358 (complete pdf)
Unaccusativity in Japanese: Evidence from L2 Grammar
Takayuki Kimura and Takaaki Hirokawa
359-369 (complete pdf)
(All) Pronouns Are Difficult, but Not Delayed
Nevena Klobučar, Raffaella Folli, Christina Sevdali, and Juliana Gerard
370-381 (complete pdf)
Does Variability in the Presentation Schedule Impact Minimal Pair Word Learning? Assessing the Interleaving Effect in 14- and 17-Month-Old Infants
Melina L. Knabe, Tom Fritzsche, Alan Langus, Marc Hullebus, Adamantios Gafos, and Barbara Höhle
382-396 (complete pdf)
Volume 2
Tense Morphology Can Guide Real-Time Interpretation of Novel Verbs in Young Children
Leticia Schiavon Kolberg, Mayara de Sa Pinto, Giulio Massari, Clara Dargent, Anne Caroline Fievet, and Alex de Carvalho
397-409 (complete pdf)
The Development of German Children's Production of Polite Linguistic Forms from Age 12 Months to 8 Years
Elizabeth Kolln and Jennie Pyers
410-422 (complete pdf)
Children's Acquisition of Circumstantial Modals: Do They Know Where Necessity Can Come From?
Chui Yi Lee and Angelica Hill
423-434 (complete pdf)
Children Can Use Distributional Cues to Acquire Recursive Structures
Daoxin Li and Kathryn D. Schuler
435-448 (complete pdf)
Mandarin-Speaking Infants' Early Sensitivity to Truth-Functional Negation
Yanting Li, Xiaolu Yang, Stella Christie, and Rushen Shi
449-463 (complete pdf)
The Grammatical Root of Learning Bias: Evidence from Mandarin-Learning Toddlers' Early Word Order Sensitivity
Lean Luo, Xiaolu Yang, Stella Christie, and Rushen Shi
464-477 (complete pdf)
Elided Questions in Child Spanish: Where Do Prepositions Go?
Victoria Mateu and Nina Hyams
478-491 (complete pdf)
Immunity to Agreement Attraction and Limitation of Cognitive Resources in Non-Native Language Comprehension
Itsuki Minemi, Takayuki Kimura, Takaaki Hirokawa, Yu Tamura, and Junya Fukuta
492-505 (complete pdf)
Getting the Message Across: Acoustic Realization of Information in Maternal Child-Directed Speech
Bhuvana Narasimhan, Rebecca Scarborough, Allison Hilger, Kanupriya Kale, Justin Bai, Chloe Circenis, Tessa Moskoff, Zohar Naaman, and Conner Moses
506-518 (complete pdf)
The Role of Frequency in the Acquisition of Word-Initial Branching Onsets in Catalan
Duna Ninyerola, Anna Gavarró, and Eulàlia Bonet
519-532 (complete pdf)
L2 Acquisition of Japanese Negated Disjunction and Conjunction by L1 English and L1 Mandarin Speakers
Tokiko Okuma
533-547 (complete pdf)
Can Someone Really Fall in Despair? Facilitating Children's Processing of Metaphors Through Theory of Mind Training
Fatma Nur Öztürk-Saçkan and Duygu Sarısoy
548-560 (complete pdf)
28-Month-Olds Use Inferred Thematic Relations to Bootstrap Intransitive Verb Meanings
Laurel Perkins, Victoria Mateu, and Nina Hyams
561-574 (complete pdf)
Intervention Effects in the Acquisition of Italian Sluicing: The Role of Number Mismatch
Elena Pettenon, Emanuela Sanfelici, and Victoria Mateu
575-589 (complete pdf)
Metathesis as a Means of Satisfying Grammatical Preferences in Developing Phonologies
Eirini Ploumidi
590-599 (complete pdf)
Contexts of Language Learning: Predicting Child Language by Interactive Speech in 9 Languages
Olivier Rüst, Marco Baroni, and Sabine Stoll
600-613 (complete pdf)
Does Grammatical Gender Influence Implicit Gender Attitudes? Evidence from Sequential Bi/Multilingual Speakers from Afghanistan
Muhammad Ali Shahidy and Usha Lakshmanan
614-627 (complete pdf)
Role of Contextual Cues in Preschoolers' Comprehension of Mandarin Relative Clauses
Jiawei Shi and Peng Zhou
628-635 (complete pdf)
Children's Difficulty Comprehending but Is Linked to Revision
Elizabeth Swanson, Ana Antonio, and Alex de Carvalho
636-649 (complete pdf)
Agentivity and Unaccusativity in L2 English Acquisition
Yu Tazaki and Satoshi Hattori
650-663 (complete pdf)
The Role of Context in the Comprehension of Metaphors: A Visual World Paradigm Study with Turkish Preschool Children
Işın Tekin and Duygu Sarısoy
664-676 (complete pdf)
Knowledge of Morphological Case in Adult Heritage Western Armenian
Annika Topelian and Acrisio Pires
677-690 (complete pdf)
Highlighting the Presupposition Trigger Helps: Evidence from Mandarin-Acquiring Children's Interpretation of Presuppositional you 'again'
Ting Xu, Lyn Tieu, and Stella Christie
691-703 (complete pdf)
Acquisition of Negated Disjunction: Evidence from L1 Spanish L2 Mandarin Learners
Jin Yan, Anna Gavarró, and Elena Pagliarini
704-717 (complete pdf)
Interfaces in Ambiguity Resolution of Wh-Elements by L1-Russian L2-Chinese Speakers: A Case Study of na-Construction "which-Construction"
Xin Yan and Shanshan Yan
718-731 (complete pdf)
Do Children Know That AltQs Are Not PolQs? Evidence from Child Mandarin
Yixuan Yan and Yitong Luo
732-745 (complete pdf)
4- and 5-Year-Olds Integrate Verb Knowledge with Situation Models in Online Reference Resolution
Yukun Yu, Amanda Rose Yuile, Damian Ishak, and Cynthia Fisher
746-759 (complete pdf)
Project GeLaTO: (Phonetic) Gender Learning and Trust in Others
Diqi Zeng, Benjamin Munson, and Melissa Koenig
760-772 (complete pdf)
Structure Flexibility in Description of Transitive Events Among Native and Late L1 Chinese Sign Language Signers
Yuting Zhang, Hao Lin, and Qi Cheng
773-785 (complete pdf)
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