BUCLD 34

November 6-8, 2009

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Keynote Address

"Developing Fluency in Understanding: How it Matters"
Anne Fernald, Stanford University

Plenary Address

"Innate Syntax - Still the Best Hypothesis"
Virginia Valian, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center

Lunch Symposium

“Recent Advances in the Study of Production and Comprehension: Implications for Language Acquisition Research"
John Trueswell, University of Pennsylvania
Mike Tanenhaus, University of Rochester
Kay Bock, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Society for Language Development Annual Symposium - Thursday, November 5, 2009

Interactions Between Early Cognitive Development and Language Acquisition

Laura Schulz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Where Piaget Meets Vygotsky: Exploration and Inference in a Social Context"

Renee Baillargeon, University of Illinois
"Natural Pedagogy: Infants are Prepared to Learn from Others"

Gergely Csibra, Central European University, Budapest
"How 'Daxes' and 'Blickets' Support Infants' Causal Reasoning"

See the SLD website for more information.

About BUCLD

The Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) was started in 1976 by students in the Applied Psycholinguistics Program. Last year the 33rd annual BUCLD took place on October 31-November 2, 2008. The Conference, which has become one of the best known conferences on language development in the world, is now run by students in the Program in Applied Linguistics, under the guidance of a faculty adviser. The Conference involves year-round planning and draws over 500 people from all over the U.S. and around the world. It includes presentations in such areas as theoretical approaches to language acquisition, cross-cultural language development, second language development, language disorders, and literacy development. Each year, close to 500 abstracts are submitted to the conference, from which about 87 papers and 66 posters are chosen for presentation. Internationally renowned researchers also give keynote and plenary addresses, as well as a lunch symposium on a topic of current interest. The Conference is funded largely by the money taken in each year at the Conference, including registration fees. In addition, the Conferences in 2007 through 2011 are supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. BCS 0548399 and the National Institutes of Health under Grant No. R13 HD42130-01.

Organizing Committee for BUCLD 2009

Lauren Keil, Co-organizer
Kate Iserman, Co-organizer
Katie Franich, Co-organizer
Jane Chandlee, Co-organizer
Shanley Allen, Faculty Advisor
Cathy O'Connor, Faculty Advisor
Leher Singh, Faculty Advisor

Announcements

Congratulations to this year's winners of the Jean Berko Gleason Student Presentation Award!

Tilbe Goksun
Temple University
The “where” of events: How do English- and Japanese-reared infants discriminate grounds in dynamic events?

Dimitrios Skordos
University of Delaware

BUCLD 33 Proceedings online supplement is now available (click here!)