The 50th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) took place November 6-9, 2025. The following current and former members of our department presented:
- Laurel Perkins (faculty): “Wh-dependency representations at 15 and 18 months: Evidence from subject and object wh-questions” (with Jeff Lidz)
- Dhanya Charan (alum), Victoria Mateu (alum), and Megha Sundara (faculty): “Resyllabification as a form of onset repair by English-learning children: A look at production and comprehension”
- Connor Mayer (alum), Canaan Breiss (alum), and Megha Sundara: “Can prosodic units support phonotactic learning? A computational evaluation against infant behavior” (with Will Chih-Chao Chang)
- Megha Sundara and Hironori Katsuda (alum): “When transitional probability cues are unreliable, even 5-month-olds rely on phonotactics to segment words” (with Ferhat Karaman)
- Victoria Mateu: “Ellipsis in contact: VPE and sluicing in Spanish heritage speakers” (with Erin R. Mauffray and Rodrigo Ranero)
- Jinyoung Jo (alum): “Age-related changes in sound symbolism and word learning in Korean infants” (with Eon-Suk Ko, Jun Ho Chai, and Margarethe McDonald)
- Laura McPherson (alum): “Children’s acquisition of argument-head tone sandhi in Seenku (Mande, Burkina Faso)”
- John Grinstead (alum): “The Lexicon and Scalar Implicatures in Child Imbabura Kichwa” (with Santiago David Gualapuro Gualapuro)
- John Grinstead: “What lies beneath? Linguistic and cognitive non-linguistic abilities and subject personal pronoun constraints in child Spanish” (with Pedro Antonio Ortiz Ramírez, and Guadalupe Michell Zuñiga Espinosa)
- Misha Becker (alum): “The linguistic distribution of adjectives calls attention to variable object properties: The case of acquiring adjectives of emotion v. color, shape, and size” (with Kristen Syrett)
- Kamil Deen: “Syntax first: re-examination of clefts in child Japanese” (with Wataru Sugiura)
- Kamil Deen: “Bilingual adult neural processing of syntactically ambiguous sentences” (with Claire Noelani Kong-Johnson, V. Andrew Stenger, and Jonas Vibell)
- Kamil Deen: “Child Comprehension of Marathi Gapped Relative Clauses” (with Anupama Reddy)
- Kamil Deen: “Reconstruction of Null Arguments through Verbal Agreement” (with Anupama Reddy)
- Tetsuya Sano (alum) and Kamil Deen: “Countering the input-driven Semantic Subset Principle account of disjunction under negation” (with Akari Ohba)
- Jason Rothman (alum): “Individual differences across domains: The processing of Mandarin pronouns in Mandarin-English heritage speakers” (with Jiuzhou Hao and Vincent DeLuca)