The 49th meeting of the Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) took place Nov. 8-10, 2024, with several presentations by current and former UCLA linguists:
- Kevin Liang and Megha Sundara: “The influence of phonotactics on morphological decomposition in infancy”
- Laurel Perkins, Victoria Mateu (*16), and Nina Hyams: “28-month-olds use inferred thematic relations to bootstrap intransitive verb meanings”
- Victoria Mateu (*16) and Nina Hyams: “Elided questions in child Spanish: Where do prepositions go?”
- Victoria Mateu (*16), with Elena Pettenon and Emanuela Sanfelici: “Intervention effects in the acquisition of Italian sluicing: the role of Number Mismatch”
- Jeremy Steffman (*20), with Simona Montanari and Robert Mayr: “English vowel perception in Spanish-English bilingual preschoolers: Multiple-talker input is only beneficial for children with high language exposure levels”
- Kamil Deen (*02), with Anna Belew, Peter Chong, Keiko Hata, Kavon Hooshiar, Ryan Henke, Grant Muagututi’a, Anongnard Nusartlert, Anupama Reddy, Jennifer Sou and Sarah Uno: “Presenting the Tool for Assessing Intergenerational Transmission (TITA) within Endangered Language Communities”
- Misha Becker (*00), with Erin Humphreys: “Object animacy as a cue for learning mental verbs without propositional complements”
- Misha Becker (*00), with Kristen Syrett: “Syntactic complementation signals emotion/mental state, but not color or shape, for young children acquiring adjectives”
- Marco Baroni (*00), with Olivier Rüst and Sabine Stoll: “Contexts of language learning in 9 typologically diverse languages: Predicting child language by contingent adult speech”
- Sigríður Sigurjónsdóttir (*92), with Iris Nowenstein: “The memory-language interface beyond a grammar-lexicon divide: No effect of procedural memory in children’s production of case marking”