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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 13:10:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Applied Linguistics Program <linguist at bu.edu>
Subject: Boston University Conference on Language Development
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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 13:10:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Applied Linguistics Program <linguist at bu.edu>
Subject: Boston University Conference on Language Development
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25th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE
ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
November 3, 4 and 5, 2000
Boston University is pleased to announce the 25th Annual Boston
University Conference on Language Development. This announcement
includes the preliminary conference program and electronic registration
materials. These materials and general and travel information are
available on our web page at
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/conference.html
Please feel free to contact the Conference Office at (617) 353-3085, or
e-mail at langconf at louis-xiv.bu.edu if you have any questions.
Please note that hotel prices continue to rise. We have secured a few
blocks of rooms at conference rates, and have found a travel agent and
consolidator who can help you find the lowest prices. Their names and
numbers are included on the web page.
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PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Keynote: Lois Bloom, Teachers College, Columbia University.
Friday, November 3rd, 8:00 PM
Plenary: Nina Hyams, UCLA.
Saturday, November 4th, 5:00 PM.
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Session A 9:00-12:30, Friday
Dekydtspotter, L.; Sprouse, R.; Gibson, E. - The interpretation of two
kinds of relative clauses in English-French interlanguage
Slabakova, R. - Viewpoint aspect in Bulgarian-English interlanguage
Yoo, M.; Kayama, Y.; Mazzotta, M.; White, L. - Case drop and specificity
in L2 Korean and Japanese
Haznedar, B. - Functional categories in child L2 acquisition
Whong-Barr, M.; Schwartz, B. - Morphological transfer effects in child
L2 acquisition of English double-object datives
Prevost, P. - Morphological variability in child SLA: An account
integrating Truncation and Missing Inflection
Session B 9:00-12:30, Friday
Steele, J. - Phonetic cues to phonological acquisition: Evidence from
L2 syllabification
Carter, A. - A phonetic-phonological analysis of syllable omissions:
Striking comparisons between children with normally developing language
and SLI
Pepinsky, T.; Demuth, K.; Roark, B. - The prosodic characteristics and
distribution of filler syllables
Fisher, C.; Church, B. - Learning to identify spoken words
Swingley, D. - On the origins of infants' lexical parsing preferences
Gomez, R.; Gerken, L.; Maye, J. - Frequently occurring elements can act
as anchors in linguistic input
Session C 9:00-12:30, Friday
Jimenez Castro, M. - Early morphological development in Spanish-speaking
children
Batman-Ratyosyan, N.; Stromswold, K. - Early bare stems in an
agglutinative language
Pye, C. - The early expression of finiteness in Kiche Maya
Guerriero, A.; Cooper, A.; Oshima-Takane, Y.; Kuriyama, Y. - A
discourse-pragmatic explanation for argument realization and omission in
English and Japanese children's speech
Wieselman Schulman, B.; Goldin-Meadow, S. - Discourse structure in a
gestural communication system: The robustness of ergativity
Song, H. - Young children's use of discourse cues in language comprehension
Session A: 2:00- 5:30, Friday
Cole, P.; Gil, D.; Hermon, G.; Tadmor, U. - The acquisition of in-situ
WH-questions and WH-indefinites in Jakarta Indonesian
Sano, T.; Endo, M.; Yamakoshi, K. - Developmental issues in the
acquisition of Japanese unaccusatives and passives
van Atteveldt, W.; van der Meer, M.; Coopmans, P.; Philip, W. -
Subject-object asymmetry in child comprehension of WH expressions
Avrutin, S.; Brun, D. - The expression of specificity in a language
without determiners: Evidence from child Russian
Thrift, E.; Hyams, N. - The role of aspect in licensing object drop
Baauw, S. - Expletive determiners in child Dutch and Spanish
Session B: 2:00- 5:30
Snedeker, J.; Li, P. - Word-to-word mapping in Mandarin and English: A
crosslinguistic comparison of the situational concomitants of word use
Yoshida, H.; Smith, L. - The structure of early noun vocabularies depends
on the language being learned
Lee, S.; Davis, B. - Acoustical salience of nouns and verbs in Korean
infant-directed speech
Sandhofer, C. - Structure in parents' input: Effects of categorization
versus comparison
Xu, F.; Tenenbaum, J. - Word learning as Bayesian inference: The case of
nested categories
Liu, J.; Golinkoff, R.; Goroff, J.; Carpenter, Q. - Two toys say more than
two pictures: Young childrens' novel word extension at the superordinate
level
Session C: 2:00- 5:30
Paradis, J.; Genesee, F.; Crago, M.; Rice, M. - Dual language impairment:
Evidence from French-English bilingual children with SLI
Deevy, P.; Miller, C. - A tool for characterizing grammatical morphology
development
Jakubowicz, C.; De Jesus, S.; Durand, C.; Monpiou, S.; Rigaut, C.; van
de Velde, M. - Computational complexity over time: The development of
functional categories in French-speaking children
Miller, C. - False belief and sentence complements in children with SLI
Stojanovik, V.; Perkins, M.; Howard, S. - The language/cognition
interface: Lessons from Williams Syndrome and SLI
de Bode, S.; Curtiss, S. - Language outcomes of 42 hemispherectomies:
If neither side nor age at insult matters, then what does?
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: 8:00 PM LOIS BLOOM - Teachers College, Columbia University
RECEPTION: 9:30 PM
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Session A: 9:30- 12:30, Saturday
Shi, E. - Partial constraint hypothesis: Acquisition of L2 psych verbs in
English
White, L.; Valenzuela, E.; Kozlowska-Macgregor, M.; Leung, Y.; Ben Ayed,
H. - The status of abstract features in interlanguage: Gender and number
in L2 Spanish
Montrul, S. - L1 influence with overt/non-overt morphology in the L2
acquisition of argument structure: Evidence from English and Turkish
causative verbs
Morrisette, M.; Gierut, J. - Variables governing diffusion in
phonological acquisition
Lebeaux, D. - Phonological bootstrapping: Syntactic form, prosodic form,
and telegraphic speech
Session B: 9:30- 12:30, Saturday
Lidz, J.; Musolino, J. - C-command matters
Kazanina, N.; Phillips, C. - Coreference in child Russian: Distinguishing
syntactic and discourse constraints
Chierchia, G.; Crain, S.; Guasti, M.; Gualmini, A.; Meroni, L. - The
acquisition of disjunction: Evidence for a grammatical view of
conversational implicatures
MacWhinney, B. - New developments in CHILDES
Ganger, J.; Brent, M. - Re-examining the vocabulary spurt and its
implications: Is there really a sudden change in cognitive development?
Session C: 9:30- 12:30, Saturday
Singh, L.; Bortfeld, H.; Rathbun, K.; Morgan, J. - Effects of slowed
speech on infant word recognition
van de Weijer, J.; Johnson, E. - Word segmentation by 7.5-month-olds:
Why three words do not equal one
Curtin, S.; Mintz, T.; Byrd, D. - Coarticulatory cues enhance infants'
recognition of syllable sequences in speech
Musolino, J. - Universal quantification and the competence/performance
distinction
Su, Y. - Scope and specificity in child language
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LUNCHTIME SYMPOSIUM:
25 Years of the Boston University Conference on Language Development
Speakers: Margaret Thomas, Boston College
Paula Menyuk, Boston University
Peggy McArdle, NICHD
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Session A: 2:00 -4:30,Saturday
Felling, S. - The role of age in L1 transfer: Are adult and child SLA
comparable?
Birdsong, D.; Flege, J. - Regular-irregular dissociations in L2
acquisition of English morphology
Kappa, I. - Alignment and consonant harmony: Evidence from Greek
Goad, H. - Assimilation phenomena and initial constraint ranking in early
grammars
Session B: 2:00-4:30, Saturday
Zimmermann, K. Phonological diversity is not a possible cue for
identifying the default inflection pattern
Aveledo, F. - The development of regular and irregular verb inflection in
Spanish child language
Lidz, J.; Gleitman, H.; Gleitman, L. - Morphological causativity and the
robustness of syntactic bootstrapping
Naigles, L.; Bavin, E. - Generalizing novel verbs to different structures:
Evidence for the early distinction of verbs and frames
Session C: 2:00-4:30, Saturday
Papafragou, A.; Massey, C.; Gleitman, L. - Motion events in language and
cognition
Hohenstein, J.; Naigles, L. - Preferential looking reveals
language-specific event similarity by Spanish- and English-speaking
children
Genesee, F.; Comeau, L.; Baynton, L.; - Parental bilingual code-mixing:
Does it really make a difference?
Dullaart, J.; Varlokosta, S. - The acquisition of pronominal reference by
Greek-Dutch bilingual children: Evidence for early grammar differentiation
in bilingual first language acquisition
PLENARY ADDRESS: 5:00 NINA HYAMS - UCLA
RECEPTION: 6:30
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Session A: 9:30-1:00, Sunday
Kweon, S. - The acquisition of contraction constraints by adult L2
learners
Slabakova, R.; Montrul, S. - Is nativelike competence possible in second
language acquisition?
Toribio, A. - Verb raising and verbal morphology in Spanish language
attrition
Plunkett, B.; De Cat, C. - Root specifiers and null subjects revisited
Zuckerman, S.; Bastiaanse, R. - Auxiliary and infinitive structures in
child Dutch: Evidence from production and comprehension
Blom, E.; Krikhaar, E.; Wijnen, F. - Nonfinite clauses in Dutch and
English child language: An experimental approach
Session B: 9:30-1:00, Sunday
Markson, L.; Diesendruck, G. - Childrens sensitivity to mutual knowledge
in communication
Birch, S.; Bloom, P. - The familiarity principle and the learning of
proper names
Xu, F. - The effects of language on object concepts in infancy: A
neo-Whorfian perspective
Kelly, S. - Nonverbal indexicality and children's emerging understanding
of advanced pragmatic communication
Pinet, M.; Moissinac, L.; Budwig, N. - Children's use of modal verbs in
the discursive construction of self in peer play and peer narrations
Arnold, J.; Novick, J.; Brown-Schmidt, S.; Eisenband, J.; Trueswell, J. -
Knowing the difference between girls and boys: The use of gender during
on-line pronoun comprehension in young children
Session C: 9:30-1:00, Sunday
Fish, S.; Hoffmeister, R.; Allen, S. - The acquisition of classifier
morphology in ASL by Deaf children: Evidence from descriptions of objects
in specific spatial arrangements
Chen, D. - Evidence for early word order acquisition in a variable word
order language
Baker, S.; Brown, C. - Categorical perception of handshape in ASL
Polka, L.; Colantonio, C.; Sundara, M. - Cross-language perception of
/dh/:Evidence for a new developmental pattern
Maye, J.; Gerken, L. - Learning phonemes: How far can the input take us?
Escudero, P. - Input, L1 and interlanguage strategies in the development
of Spanish speakers' perception of English vowels: spectral and durational
cue weighting
Session A: 2:30-4:00
Rice, M.; Wexler, K. - What she saying? SLI childrens' judgments of
questions
Davies, L.; van der Lely, H. - The use of negative particles in children
with grammatical SLI
Schaeffer, J. - The modularity of grammar and pragmatics: Evidence from SLI
Session B: 2:30-4:00
Matsuo, A.; van der Feest, S. - What Dutch children know about telicity
and tense
Hollebrandse, B.; Delfitto, D.; van Hout, A.; Vroeg-Peixoto, A. - Italian
sequence of tense: Complementation or anaphoricity?
Johnson, B.; Fey, M. - The influence of telicity on children's morpheme
selection and production accuracy
Session C: 2:30-4:00
Prasada, S.; Cummins, M. - Structural constraints on the interpretation
of novel count nouns
Hohle, B.; Weissenborn, J.; Kiefer, D.; Schmitz, M.; Schulz, A. -
Syntactic categorization in 12-17 month-old children: Evidence from
German
Hollich, G.; Jusczyk, P.; Brent, M. - How infants use the words they know
to learn new words
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