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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT
size=3>****************************************************************<BR>28TH
ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT<BR>October 31,
November 1 and 2,
2003<BR>****************************************************************<BR><BR>Boston
University is pleased to announce the schedule for the 28th<BR>Annual Boston
University Conference on Language Development. This<BR>schedule, along with
registration materials and general and travel<BR>information, is also available
on our web page at:<BR><BR></FONT><A
href="http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/"><FONT
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size=3>Please feel free to contact the Conference Office at (617)
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questions.<BR><BR>****************************************************************<BR><BR>CONFERENCE
SCHEDULE<BR><BR>****************************************************************<BR><BR>FRIDAY,
OCTOBER 31<BR><BR>9:00<BR>C. FENNELL, J. WERKER: Applying speech perception to
word learning at<BR>14 months: The effects of word knowledge and
familiarity<BR>J. RISPENS, P. BEEN: Morphosyntax and literacy in children
with<BR>developmental dyslexia and SLI<BR>Y. SU: Chinese children's
ziji<BR><BR>9:30<BR>H. STORKEL, J. YOUNG: Homonymy in the developing mental
lexicon<BR>C. WILSENACH, F. WIJNEN: Perceptual sensitivity to
morphosyntactic<BR>agreement in language learners: A longitudinal investigation
of Dutch<BR>children at risk for developing dyslexia<BR>P. COOPMANS, M. KRUL, E.
PLANTING, I. VLASVELD, A. VAN ZOELEN:<BR>Dissolving a Dutch delay in the
acquisition of syntactic and<BR>logophoric reflexives<BR><BR>10:00<BR>C. KIRK,
A. SEIDL Production and perception of unstressed initial<BR>syllables:
Implications for lexical representations<BR>S. EBBELS, H. VAN DER LELY, J.
DOCKRELL: Phonological and<BR>morphosyntactic abilities in SLI children: Is
there a causal<BR>relationship?<BR>S. ZUCKERMAN, I. VLASVELD: Reference to a
'guise' in child
language<BR><BR>****************************************************************<BR>10:30
POSTER SESSION I
Attended<BR>****************************************************************<BR><BR>11:00<BR>S.
HOCKEMA: Word segmentation using phonetic transition probabilities<BR>C.
MARSHALL, H. VAN DER LELY: The status of derivational morphology:<BR>Evidence
from children with grammatical-specific language impairment<BR>J. BARLOW:
Variation in cluster production patterns by<BR>Spanish-speaking
children<BR><BR>11:30<BR>S. THOMPSON, E. NEWPORT: Statistical learning of
syntax: The role of<BR>transitional probability<BR>C. JAKUBOWICZ, L. ROULET: Do
Frenchspeaking children with SLI present<BR>a selective deficit on tense?<BR>N.
PAN, W. SNYDER: Acquisition of /s/-initial clusters: A
parametric<BR>approach<BR><BR>12:00<BR>R. GOMEZ, J. LANY, K. CHAPMAN:
Dynamically guided learning<BR>V. SHAFER, R. SCHWARTZ, K. KESSLER: ERP indices
of phonological<BR>processing in children with SLI<BR>M.-H. COTÉ, J.-P. CHEVROT:
The acquisition of
French<BR>liaison<BR><BR>****************************************************************<BR>12:45
LUNCH MEETING: BUCLD Business
Meeting<BR>****************************************************************<BR><BR>2:00<BR>L.
BORODITSKY, M. RAMSCAR, W. HAM: How learning a language can change<BR>the way
you think: The case of temporal language in English and<BR>Indonesian<BR>S.
BERK: Acquisition of verb agreement under delayed first language<BR>input<BR>J.
VAN KAMPEN: The rise of the standard EPP in the acquisition of<BR>non-pro-drop
languages<BR><BR>2:30<BR>L. SHAPIRO: Child directed speech and the enculturation
of<BR>interpersonal understanding in the United States and Japan<BR>G. MORGAN,
I. BARRIÈRE, B. WOLL: The independent acquisition of<BR>verb agreement and
classifiers in British Sign Language<BR>T. GORO: On the distribution of
toinfinitives in early child English<BR><BR>3:00<BR>E. GOLDVARG-STEINGOLD, K.
SHUTTS, E. SPELKE: Young children's<BR>extensions of novel adjectives across
solid objects and substances<BR>R. MAYBERRY, G. WATERS, C. CHAMBERLAIN, H.
HUANG: Word recognition by<BR>deaf children who use sign language: If not
phonological encoding,<BR>then what?<BR>C. SCHÜTZE: Why nonfinite be is not
omitted while finite be is<BR><BR>4:00<BR>M. COPPOLA, E. NEWPORT: The emergence
of the grammatical category of<BR>Subject in home sign: Evidence from
family-based gesture systems in<BR>Nicaragua<BR>S. WRIGHT: Innovations with un-
prefixation<BR>D. LARDIERE: Knowledge of definiteness despite variable
article<BR>omission in second language acquisition: The role of
transfer<BR><BR>4:30<BR>S. íZÇALIKAN, S. GOLDIN-MEADOW: When mothers do<BR>not
lead their children by the hand<BR>J. ZAPF: Frequency in the input and
children's mastery of the regular<BR>English plural<BR>J.-H. KIM, S. MONTRUL:
Binding interpretations in Korean heritage<BR>speakers<BR><BR>5:00<BR>A.
HAMMOND: Developmental exploration of non English sequences found<BR>in created
gesture systems<BR>M. RAMSCAR: When - and why - might children say ''mice
eater''?<BR>E. ZWANZIGER, S. ALLEN, F. GENESEE: Investigating
crosslinguistic<BR>influence in child bilinguals: Sentential subject omission in
speakers<BR>of Inuktitut and
English<BR><BR>****************************************************************<BR>8:00
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Janet Dean Fodor - Evaluating models of<BR>parameter
setting<BR>****************************************************************<BR>****************************************************************<BR>9:15
POSTER SESSION I
Attended<BR>****************************************************************<BR><BR>SATURDAY,
NOVEMBER
1<BR><BR>****************************************************************<BR>8:00
NSF/NIH FUNDING SYMPOSIUM: What's hot and how to
apply<BR>****************************************************************<BR><BR>9:00<BR>S.
YUAN, P. LI, H. HUANG, J. SNEDEKER: Cross-cultural differences in<BR>the input
to early word learning: Word-to-world mapping in Mandarin<BR>and English<BR>M.
RING, H. CLAHSEN: A-chains in children with developmental disorders<BR>T.
SUZUKI, N. YOSHINAGA: Linearity or hierarchy in the child grammar:<BR>Data from
quantifier floating in Japanese<BR><BR>9:30<BR>R. PULVERMAN, R. GOLINKOFF:
Starting out on the right path:<BR>Seven-month-olds'attention to potential verb
referents in<BR>nonlinguistic events<BR>T. GRÜTER: Teasing apart L2 and SLI:
Will comprehension make<BR>the difference?<BR>A. GUALMINI, S. CRAIN: Operator
conditioning<BR><BR>10:00<BR>S. PRUDEN, K. HIRSH-PASEK, M. MAGUIRE,M. MEYER:
Foundations of verb<BR>learning: Infants categorize path and manner in motion
events<BR>S. CRONEL-OHAYON, C. HAMANN: The elicited production of questions
in<BR>French children with SLI : Merge not Move!<BR>J. GRINSTEAD:
Overgeneralization and expletive
negation<BR><BR>****************************************************************<BR>10:30
POSTER SESSION II
Attended<BR>****************************************************************<BR><BR>11:00<BR>T.
MINTZ: Morphological segmentation in 15-month-old infants<BR>D. COLES-WHITE, J.
DEVILLIERS, T.ROEPER: Emergence of barriers to<BR>wh-movement, negative concord
and quantification<BR>S. SOLT, Y. PUGACH, E. KLEIN, K. ADAMS, T. STOYNESHKA, T.
ROSE: L2<BR>perception and production of the English regular past: Evidence
of<BR>phonological effects<BR><BR>11:30<BR>R. ZANGL, A. FERNALD: Sensitivity to
function morphemes in on-line<BR>sentence processing: Developmental changes from
18 to 36 months<BR>J. LIDZ, E. MCMAHON, K. SYRETT, J. VIAU, F. ANGGORO:
Quantifier<BR>raising in 4-year-olds<BR>W. BAKER, P. TROFIMOVICH, M. MACK:
Learning second-language<BR>intonation: Are children better than
adults?<BR><BR>****************************************************************<BR>12:15
LUNCH SYMPOSIUM: What can language development tell us about<BR>linguistic
relativitly? L. Gleitman, J. Lucy, A. Papafragou,<BR>L. Boroditsky, R.
Jackendoff
(moderator)<BR>****************************************************************<BR><BR>2:15<BR>B.
SARNECKA, V-G. KAMENSKAYA, T. OGURA, Y. YAMANA, J.-B. YUDOVINA:<BR>Language as
lens: Morphological cues guide children's attention to<BR>number<BR>R. THORNTON:
Why continuity<BR>M. COLLINS: The quality of input: ESL preschoolers' English
vocabulary<BR>acquisition from storybook reading<BR><BR>2:45<BR>P. LI, M. LE
CORRE, R. SHUI, G. JIA: A crosslinguistic study of the<BR>role of
singular-plural in number word learning<BR>C. SOARES: Computational complexity
and the acquisition of the CP<BR>domain<BR>Y. UCHIKOSHI: Narrative development
in bilingual kindergarteners<BR><BR>3:15<BR>K. STROMSWOLD, E. SHEFFIELD: Third
trimester auditory stimulation<BR>selectively enhances language
development<BR>W. SNYDER, T. ROEPER: Learnability and recursion across
categories<BR>I. ARTEAGOITIA, E. HOWARD: The English spelling development
of<BR>Spanish/English bilingual children: Cross-linguistic
and<BR>intra-linguistic factors<BR><BR>4:15<BR>H. CLAHSEN, A. HAHNE, J. MUELLER:
Second language learners' processing<BR>of inflected words: Behavioral and ERP
evidence for storage and<BR>decomposition<BR>H. SONG, C. FISHER: The development
of preschoolers' sensitivity to<BR>discourse cues in on-line pronoun
interpretation<BR>J. STITES, C. KIRK, K. DEMUTH: Markedness vs. frequency
effects in<BR>coda acquisition<BR><BR>4:45<BR>K. KESSLER, G. MARTOHARDJONO, V.
SHAFER: ERP correlates of age and<BR>proficiency effects on L2 processing of
syntactic and inflectional<BR>information<BR>B. SKARABELA, S. ALLEN: The context
of non-affixal arguments in child<BR>Inuktitut: The role of joint
attention<BR>M. KEHOE, G. HILAIRE: The structure of branching onsets and
rising<BR>diphthongs: Evidence from
acquisition<BR><BR>****************************************************************<BR>5:30
PLENARY ADDRESS: Mabel Rice - Language growth of children with<BR>SLI and
unaffected children: Timing mechanisms and
linguistic<BR>distinctions<BR>****************************************************************<BR><BR>****************************************************************<BR>6:45
POSTER SESSION II
Attended<BR>****************************************************************<BR><BR>SUNDAY,
NOVEMBER 2<BR><BR>9:00<BR>A. KOVACS: Implications of early bilingualism in
theory of mind<BR>development<BR>M. NAKAJIMA, T. SANO: Early acquisition of
nominative-genitive<BR>conversion in Japanese<BR>S. OUTCALT, L. DEKYDTSPOTTER:
The resolution of scope ambiguity in<BR>English-French sentence
interpretation<BR><BR>9:30<BR>T. MATSUI, Y. MURAKAMI, T. YAMAMOTO, P. MCCAGG:
Japanese preschoolers'<BR>early understanding of (un)certainty: A cultural
perspective on the<BR>role of language in development of theory of mind<BR>B.
ZURER PEARSON: The role of optional vs. obligatory cues in the<BR>acquisition of
passive in two dialects of English and in language<BR>impairment<BR>T. IONIN, H.
KO, K. WEXLER: A definite pattern of L2-English article<BR>use: The role of
specificity<BR><BR>10:00<BR>P. SCHULZ, A. MEISSNER: Understanding theory of mind
and<BR>complementation: The linguistic determinism hypothesis revisited<BR>B.
NARASIMHAN: Agent case-marking in Hindi child language<BR>Y. MIYAMOTO, K. OKADA:
Topicalization and wh-movement in the grammar<BR>of Japanese EFL
learners<BR><BR>11:00<BR>E. THIESSEN, J. SAFFRAN: Infants' acquisition of
stress-based word<BR>segmentation strategies<BR>P. GORDON: The origins of
argument structure in infant event<BR>representations<BR>E. GAVRUSEVA: On the
asymmetry in the development of copula and<BR>auxiliary be in child L2
English<BR><BR>11:30<BR>S. CURTIN, J. WERKER: Patterns of new word-object
associations<BR>J. LEE, J. NELSON, L. NAIGLES: Syntactic bootstrapping: A
viable<BR>strategy for Mandarin verb learners<BR>S. UNSWORTH: Child L1, child L2
and adult L2 acquisition: Differences<BR>and similarities<BR><BR>12:00<BR>K.
CHAMBERS, K. ONISHI, C. FISHER: Going beyond the input: Extending<BR>newly
learned phonotactic regularities<BR>A. BUNGER, J. LIDZ: Syntactic bootstrapping
and the internal structure<BR>of causative events<BR>S. VAN BOXTEL, T.
BONGAERTS, P.-A. COPPEN: The critical period<BR>hypothesis for syntax in SLA and
the role of the first language<BR><BR>12:30<BR>M. CHRISTIANSEN, F. REALI, P.
MONAGHAN, N. CHATER: Language<BR>acquisition through multiple-cue integration:
Differential<BR>contributions of phonological and distributional cues<BR>K.
CASSIDY, A. PAPAFRAGOU, L. GLEITMAN: Observational and syntactic<BR>support for
the acquisition of mental verbs<BR>H. GOAD, L. WHITE: (Non)native-like ultimate
attainment: The influence<BR>of L1 prosodic structure on L2
morphology<BR><BR>****************************************************************<BR><BR>POSTER
SESSION I Friday, October 31<BR>Posters will be on display from 9:00 AM to 10:00
PM<BR><BR>D. BIRDSONG Comprehensive nativelikeness in late L2A<BR>M. CABRERA,
M.-L. ZUBIZARRETA Top-down vs. bottom-up transfer:<BR>Overgeneralized causatives
in L2 English and L2 Spanish<BR>D. CHAMBLESS Asymmetries in cluster acquisition
in word initial<BR>vs. medial position<BR>C. DYE, C. FOLEY, M. BLUME, B. LUST
Syntax first: Mismatches between<BR>morphology and syntax in first language
acquisition elucidate<BR>linguistic theory<BR>A. FUSE, L. MCDONOUGH Task
pragmatics and the lexicon: A<BR>re-examination of the role of language in
cognition<BR>J. GIERUT, H. STORKEL, M. MORRISETTE Children's representations:
What<BR>they know and how they know it<BR>J. GILKERSON Perception of natural and
unnatural phonemic categories:<BR>Evidence for innate knowledge<BR>M. HARA
Optionality as 'demarking' in an advanced L2-state<BR>M.-H. IMMORDINO-YANG A
tale of two cases: Affective prosody after<BR>right and left
hemispherectomy<BR>G. JIA, Y. SHIRAI The acquisition of English tense-aspect
morphology<BR>by native Mandarin speakers: A longitudinal study<BR>E. KLEIN, I.
STOYNESHKA, K. ADAMS Y. PUGACH, S. SOLT The interaction<BR>of lexical aspect and
phonological salience on regular past tense<BR>affixation in L2 English<BR>M.
MEYER, S. LEONARD, K. HIRSH-PASEK, M. IMAI, E. HARYU Making a<BR>convincing
argument: A crosslinguistic comparison of noun and verb<BR>learning in Japanese
and English<BR>J. MUSOLINO, A. GUALMINI The scope of partitivity in child
language<BR>T. NICOL, B. LANDAU, P. RESNIK Discovering the invisible:
Children's<BR>acquisition of the implicit object construction<BR>K. PENCE, M.
WINN More verbs to come: The developing focus on verbs in<BR>parents' speech to
infants<BR>F. REALI, M. CHRISTIANSEN Reappraising poverty of stimulus argument:
A<BR>corpus analysis approach<BR>P. ROYLE, E. THORDARDOTTIR The acquisition of
the French inflection:<BR>The influence of age, verb vocabulary size, and
MLU<BR>C. SCHMITT, C. HOLTHEUER, K. MILLER Acquisition of copulas ser
and<BR>estar in Spanish: Learning lexico-semantics, syntax and discourse<BR>N.
SETHURAMAN Influence of parental input on learning argument<BR>structure
constructions<BR>L. SINGH, K. WHITE The specificity of early lexical
representations:<BR>Differential encoding of affect, amplitude, and absolute
pitch<BR>J. SNEDEKER, J. GEREN, I. MARTIN I'd do it all again: Early
language<BR>acquisition in internationally-adopted children<BR>G. TESAN To be or
not to be - an affix: Inflectional development in<BR>child language<BR>K.
THORPE, A. FERNALD How 2-year-olds process prenominal adjectives
in<BR>continuous
speech<BR><BR>****************************************************************<BR>POSTER
SESSION II Saturday, November 1<BR>Posters will be on display from 9:00 AM to
7:30 PM<BR><BR>H. DEACON What young children know about more: 18- to
20-month-old<BR>infants' perception of the plural morpheme<BR>S. EISENBEISS, A.
MATSUO External and internal possession: A<BR>comparative study of German and
Japanese child language<BR>M. ENDO Developmental issues on the interpretation of
focus particles<BR>by Japanese children<BR>J. FRANCK , S. CRONEL-OHAYON, L.
CHILLIER, U. FRAUENFELDER, L. RIZZI<BR>Normal and pathological development of
subject-verb agreement in<BR>French<BR>R. HATTORI Why do children say ''did you
went''?: The role of<BR>do-support<BR>R. HERMAN, N. GROVE, G. MORGAN, H.
SUTHERLAND, B. WOLL The development<BR>and use of a narrative skills test in
British Sign Language<BR>T. HÜTTNER, H. DRENHAUS, R. VAN DE VIJVER, J.
WEISSENBORN The<BR>acquisition of the German focus particle auch/too:
Comprehension does<BR>not always precede production<BR>E. KRIKHAAR Patterns in
comprehension of verb morphology in Dutch:<BR>Evidence from syntactic
bootstrapping experiments<BR>K. MATSUOKA Addressing the
syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface: The<BR>acquisition of the Japanese
additive particle mo<BR>K. MURASUGI, T. HASHIMOTO, S. KATO On the acquisition of
causatives in<BR>Japanese<BR>I. MUTSUMI, E. HARYU, H. OKADA The role of argument
structure and<BR>object familiarity in Japanese children's verb learning<BR>E.
OH, M.-L. ZUBIZARRETA Do restricted L1 structures emerge in the<BR>interlanguage
grammar?<BR>O. OLBISHEVSKA Against the Aspect First Hypothesis<BR>L.
PALTIEL-GEDALYOVICH, J. SCHAEFFER A semantic-pragmatic-cognitive<BR>interface in
first language acquisition: Evidence from Hebrew<BR>coordination.<BR>A.
PEREZ-LEROUX, A. MUNN, C. SCHMITT, M. DEIRISH Learning definite<BR>determiners:
Genericity and definiteness in English and Spanish<BR>A. REVITHIADOU, M.
TZAKOSTA Alternative grammars in acquisition:<BR>Markedness- vs.
faithfulness-oriented learning<BR>E. RUIGENDIJK, S. BAAUW, S. AVRUTIN, N. VASIC
The production of SE-<BR>and SELF-anaphors in Dutch child language<BR>M.
SCHMITZ, L. SANTELMANN, B. HíHLE The acquisition of<BR>discontinuous verbal
dependencies by German 19-month-olds:<BR>Implications for cross-linguistic
language processing<BR>K. SZENDROI Acquisition evidence for a unified view of
focal ambiguity<BR>and stress<BR>J. TRAN, K. DEEN Aspect marking and modality in
child Vietnamese<BR>K. YAMAKOSHI Children's understanding of the universal
quantifier<BR>WH+mo in Japanese<BR>N. YUSA, K. FUKUCHI Japanese learners of
English are easy to confuse l<BR>and r: Experiencer-raising in second language
acquisition<BR>****************************************************************<BR><BR>ALTERNATE
PAPERS<BR><BR>In the event of a cancellation in the conference program, a
substitute<BR>selection will be made from the following alternate
papers:<BR><BR>D. BIRDSONG Comprehensive nativelikeness in late L2A<BR>D.
CHAMBLESS Asymmetries in cluster acquisition in word initial<BR>vs. medial
position<BR>K. DEEN Object agreement and specificity in Nairobi Swahili<BR>S.
EISENBEISS, A. MATSUO External and internal possession: A<BR>comparative study
of German and Japanese child language<BR>M. ENDO Developmental issues on the
interpretation of focus particles<BR>by Japanese children<BR>M.
ESPAçOL-ECHEVARRÍA, P. PRÉVOST The acquisition<BR>of morphology does not trigger
the acquisition of underlying syntactic<BR>properties in SLA: Evidence from the
L2 acquisition of number<BR>specification on Spanish quantifiers<BR>E. OH, M.-L.
ZUBIZARRETA Do restricted L1 structures emerge in the<BR>interlanguage
grammar?<BR>M. SCHMITZ, L. SANTELMANN, B. HíHLE The acquisition
of<BR>discontinuous verbal dependencies by German 19-month-olds:<BR>Implications
for cross-linguistic language processing</FONT></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>