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BUCLD 20 Proceedings
BUCLD 20: Proceedings of the 20th annual
Boston University Conference on Language Development
edited by Andy Stringfellow, Dalia Cahana-Amitay, Elizabeth Hughes and Andrea Zukowski
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The Proceedings of the 20th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development contain 76 papers from the conference, including the plenary address by Lydia White.
Contents
BUCLD 20: Proceedings of the 20th annual
Boston University Conference on Language Development
edited by Andy Stringfellow, Dalia Cahana-Amitay, Elizabeth Hughes and Andrea Zukowski
Contents | Series info | Previous in series | Next in series | Order form
 | x + 872 pages (2-volume set) publication date: March 1996 ISBN 978-1-57473-012-8 paperback, $60.00 ISBN 978-1-57473-112-5 library binding, $125.00 |
The Proceedings of the 20th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development contain 76 papers from the conference, including the plenary address by Lydia White.
Contents
Volume 1
The Tale of the Ugly Duckling
(or the Coming of Age of Second Language Acquisition Research)
Lydia White 1
An Examination of the Factors Underlying the Facilitative
Effect of Word Phrases on Object Categorization in
Nine-Month-Old Infants
Marie T. Balaban and Sandra R. Waxman 18
Perspective and Agency in the Construal of Narrative Events
Michael Bamberg 30
The Development of On-glides in American English
Jessica A. Barlow 40
Light Verbs in Code-switched Utterances:
Derivational Economy in I-Language or
Incongruence in Production?
Tej K. Bhatia and William C. Ritchie 52
Limited Sentence Generation Accounts for
Early Subject Omissions
Carole T. Boster 63
Root Infinitives in Italian SLI Children
Piero Bottari, Paola Cipriani
and Anna Maria Chilosi 75
The Locative Alternation:
Accounting for Its Acquisition without
Reference to Innate Linking Rules
Ursula Brinkmann 87
Physical Individuation as a Prerequisite for
Children's Symmetrical Readings
Ursula Brinkmann, Kenneth F. Drozd and Irene Kramer 99
Phonological Parameter Setting with the
Triggering Learning Algorithm
Kevin Broihier 111
Verb Movement and Clitic Placement in
French and Spanish as a Second Language
Joyce Bruhn-Garavito and Silvina A. Montrul 123
Hindi-speaking Caregivers' Input: Towards an Integration of
Typological and Language Socialization Approaches
Nancy Budwig and Nandita Chaudhary 135
Syntax, Semantics, and NP-type Nouns
Tracey C. Burns and Nancy N. Soja 146
"De mi padre, su padre": The Syntax of Word Order Transfer and
Person Agreement in Andean L2 Spanish
Jose Camacho and Liliana Sanchez 155
Infants' Use of Rhythmic Cues in Word-level Segmentation
Jane B. Childers and Catharine H. Echols 167
Quantifier Interpretation Errors as
Errors of Distributive Scope
Kenneth F. Drozd 177
Where's the Mature Language? Where's the Native Language?
Lynn Eubank and Sabine Grace 189
The Acquisition of Tense and Temporal Reference
Cheryl Fantuzzi 201
Language and Theory of Mind in Oral Deaf Children
Elaine Gale, Peter de Villiers,
Jill de Villiers and Jenny Pyers 213
The Emergence of Extended Phrase
Structure in Child L2 Acquisition
Lena Gavruseva and Donna Lardiere 225
Child Phonology in Optimality Theory:
Ranking Markedness and Faithfulness Constraints
Amalia E. Gnanadesikan 237
Why Does Vocabulary Spurt?
Beverly A. Goldfield and J. Steven Resnick 249
Controlled PRO and the Acquisition of Greek
Helen Goodluck and Arhonto Terzi 261
Come it Closer: Causative Errors in Child Speech
Jess Gropen, Janita Blaskovich and Gale DeDe 272
Null Aux and the Acquisition of Residual V2
Maria Teresa Guasti and Luigi Rizzi 284
The Acquisition of Irish and the Internal
Structure of VP in Early Child Grammars
Eithne Guilfoyle 296
A Relevance-Theoretic Approach to Older
Children's Use of Discourse Markers
Marie E. Helt and Susan H. Foster-Cohen 308
Functional Categories in Child L2 Acquisition of Irish
Alison Henry and Denise Tangney 318
Syntactic Bootstrapping by Children with SLI:
Implications for a Theory of Specific Language Impairment
Erika Hoff-Ginsberg, Donna J. Kelly and JoAnn Buhr 328
The Pragmatics of Self-Reference in the First Years of Life
Alison Imbens-Bailey and Barbara Alexander Pan 340
A Diary Study on the Acquisition of Middle French:
A Preliminary Report on the Early Language
Acquistion of Louis XIII
David Ingram and Marie-Therese Le Normand 352
They Be Taggin', Don't They?: The Acquisition of Invariant Be
Janice Jackson, Eliane Ramos, Fred Hall, D'Jaris Coles,
Harry Seymour, Mike Dickey, Kimberly Broderick
and Bart Hollebrandse 364
On the Acquisition of the Pronominal System in French and
German
Celia Jakubowicz, Natascha Muller, Ok-Kyung Kang,
Beate Riemer and Catherine Rigaut 374
The Shape of Early Words: A Prosodic Developmental Analysis
Jacqueline S. Johnson and Joanna Salidis 386
On the Acquisition of Word Order in Nominals
Kyle Johnson, Sarah Bateman, Deanna Moore,
Tom Roeper and Jill de Villiers 397
Parameters in the Lexicon, Language Variation,
and Language Development
Alan Juffs 407
Acquisition of Stress: An Investigation of Rhythmic Processes
in English-Speaking Children's Multi-Syllabic Word Productions
M. Kehoe and C. Stoel-Gammon 419
The Case of the Missing Particle: Objective Case Assignment and
Scrambling in the Early Grammar of Japanese
Usha Lakshmanan and Mami Ozeki 431
Volume 2
Object Naming and Category Boundaries
Barbara Landau and Elizabeth Shipley 443
Second Language Acquisition of English Reflexives:
Is There Hope Beyond Transfer?
Dawn MacLaughlin 453
Narrative Competency Outcomes of Specific Expressive
Language Impairment at Ages Six, Seven, and Eight
Joan E. Manhardt, Inge M. Hansen
and Leslie A. Rescorla 465
Children's Oblique Relatives
Dana McDaniel and Cecile McKee 472
Multiple Level Naming Abilities of
Children with Word-finding Deficits
Karla K. McGregor and Sandra R. Waxman 483
L2 Rigidity: The Scope Principle in Adult L2 Grammar
Yoichi Miyamoto and Maki Yamane 494
The Second Language Acquisition of Dative Case:
From Absolute L1 Influence to Optionality
Silvina A. Montrul 506
Bilingual Communication Strategies and Language Dominance
Elena Nicoladis and Fred Genesee 518
Phonological Differentiation in a Bilingual Child:
Hildegaard Revisited
Johanne Paradis 528
Truncation without Templates in Child Phonology
Joe Pater and Johanne Paradis 540
Learning "Home": The Acquisition of Inherent
Binding and Economy of Representation
Ana Perez-Leroux and Thomas Roeper 552
The Event Quantificational Account of Symmetrical
Interpretation and a Denial of Implausible Infelicity
William Philip 564
The Double Dutch Delay of Principle B Effect
William Philip and Peter Coopmans 576
Root Infinitives are Finite
Colin Phillips 588
Quantification, Arbitrariness of Structure,
and the Count-Mass Noun Distinction
Sandeep Prasada 600
Tense Over Time: The Persistence of Optional
Infinitives in English in Children with SLI
Mabel Rice and Ken Wexler 610
The Neg-Criterion in Second Language Acquisition:
Evidence for a Dissociation between Function and Syntax
Daniel Robertson 622
The Development of Language from Non-native Linguistic Input
Danielle S. Ross and Elissa L. Newport 634
L1 and L2 Sensitivity to Semantic
Constraints on Argument Structure
Mark Sawyer 646
Why Do Swiss-German Children Like Verb Movement So Much?
Manuela Schonenberger 658
Subject Case Licensing and English Root Infinitives
Carson T. Schutze and Ken Wexler 670
Child Language and Optimality Theory:
The Case of Consonant Harmony
Susan Diane Scott 682
The Acquisition of Negation Interpretation Rules
Dean Sharpe, Laurel Eakin, Marie-Helene Cote,
Guy Lacroix and John Macnamara 694
Venezuelan Children's Preliterate Narrative Development:
A Multidimensional Approach
Martha Shiro 706
Pronoun Resolution Across Clauses:
Acquisition Evidence for the Structure of the Coreference
Processor
Ron Smyth and Siu-mei Cheung 718
The Acquisitional Role of the Syntax-Morphology Interface:
Morphological Compounds and Syntactic Complex Predicates
William Snyder 728
The Genetic Basis of Language Acquisition
Karin Stromswold 736
Bilingual Memory Representation in Korean-English
and Spanish-English Bilinguals
Hyekyung Sung and Amato M. Padilla 748
Prosody, Functors, and Word Recognition in Young Children
Daniel Swingley, Anne Fernald,
Gerald W. McRoberts and John P. Pinto 760
Variable Vowel Epenthesis in Korean-accented English
Jin-young Tak 768
Clitic Doubling in Early Spanish
Vicenc Torrens and Kenneth Wexler 780
Empirical Evidence for the Modularity of
Language from Grammatical SLI Children
Heather K. J. van der Lely 792
The Computation and Representation of Past-tense Morphology in
Specifically Language Impaired and Normally Developing Children
Heather K. J. van der Lely and Michael Ullman 804
Root Infinitives without Infinitives
Spyridoula Varlokosta, Anne Vainikka
and Bernhard Rohrbacher 816
Mechanisms of Fast Mapping in Preschool Children
Krista M. Wilkinson and Susan A. Stanford 828
On Language Deficits and Modality in Children with
Down Syndrome: A Case Study
Bencie Woll and Nicola Grove 837
Acquisition of Japanese Numeral Classifiers
Kasumi Yamamoto and Frank Keil 849
Responding to Compliments: A Contrastive Study on the English
Pragmatics of Advanced Chinese Speakers of English
Yi Yuan 861