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Jeff leads Boston trot of Terrapins

October 30, 2022 Linguistics

Linguistics faculty Jeff Lidz sitting at a meeting and looking skeptically at the camera, with humor.

MD at BU to hear how UG gives us XR vision.

November 3-6, the Boston University Conference on Language Development is once again full of present and past Terrapin talent, led by Jeff Lidz, who presents the keynote address on How Universal Grammar gives us X-ray vision. Contributing this year are Hisao Kurokami from LING and Kathleen Oppenheimer from HESP; recent postdocs Dan Goodhue and Meg Cychosz; PhD alums Yu'an Yang *22, Tyler Knowlton *21, Anouk Dieuleveut *21, Kasia Hitczenko *19, Laurel Perkins *19, Rachel Dudley *17, Juliana Gerard *16, Tim Hunter *10, Robert Fiorentino *06 and Utako Minai *06; Linguistics faculty Jeff Lidz, Valentine Hacquard and Naomi Feldman; HESP faculty Jan Edwards and Yi Ting Huang; former Baggett Fellow Elika Bergelson; and several past visitors, such as Alex de Carvalho, Alice Jesus, Elaine Grolla and Lyn Tieu. 

Keynote

Talks

  • English-acquiring 4-year-olds’ understanding of the interaction between too and focus / Hisao Kurokami, Daniel Goodhue, Valentine Hacquard and Jeffrey Lidz
  • 18-month-olds understand the links between declaratives and assertions, and interrogatives and questions / Daniel Goodhue, Valentine Hacquard and Jeffrey Lidz
  • Je peux, ou je dois? Faudrait savoir! Acquiring modals’ force: Evidence from French /
    Anouk Dieuleveut *21
  • Differentiating universal quantifiers by differentiating their domains / Victor Gomes, Tyler Knowlton *21, Anna Papafragou and John Trueswell
  • The development of canonical proportion continues through 6 years of age / Kasia Hitczenko *19, Elika Bergelson, Marisa Casillas, Heidi Colleran, Meg Cychosz, Pauline Grosjean, Lisa R. Hamrick, Bridgette L. Kelleher, Camila Scaff, Amanda Seidl, Sarah Walker and Alejandrina Cristia
  • The acquisition of adjunct control and working memory / Juliana Gerard *16 and Dana McDaniel
  • Infants’ understanding of the syntax-semantics mapping for the Hungarian inessive locative / Rachel Dudley *17, Ágnes Melinda Kovács and Ernő Téglás
  • Examining the role of markedness in agreement in native and non-native Spanish: A look at coordinate noun phrases / Andrew Collins, Robert Fiorentino *06, José Alemán Bañón and Alison Gabriele

Posters

  • A little pragmatics goes a long way: Modeling the learning of clause type categories / Yu'an Yang *22, Naomi Feldman, Valentine Hacquard and Jeffrey Lidz
  • Assessing how the linguistic input affects children’s mastery of modals / Ailís Cournane, Anouk Dieuleveut *21 and Valentine Hacquard
  • Word order acquisition from immature representations: A model for noise-tolerant learning of deterministic grammars / Laurel Perkins *19 and Tim Hunter *10
  • Non-conservative quantifiers are unlearnable / Tyler Knowlton *21, John Trueswell and Anna Papafragou
  • Individual differences in linguistic knowledge affect sentence comprehension strategies in 5-year-olds / Kathleen Oppenheimer, Jan Edwards and Yi Ting Huang
  • Evaluating referent salience in pronoun processing by native and non-native speakers / Tingting Wang, Utako Minai *06 and Alison Gabriele