{"id":8974,"date":"2016-11-07T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T10:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=8974"},"modified":"2016-11-07T06:58:35","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T10:58:35","slug":"mit-linguists-bucld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2016\/11\/07\/mit-linguists-bucld\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT linguists @ BUCLD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bucld\"><b>41th BU Conference on Language Development<\/b><\/a> took place this past weekend at Boston University. The following MIT students and faculty gave talks or presented posters:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Veronica Boyce<\/b> (undergrad), <b><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/aaravind\/www\/about.html\">Athulya Aravind<\/a><\/b> (4th year grad student), and <b><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/hackl\/www\/\">Martin Hackl<\/a><\/b> (faculty): <em>Lexical and syntactic effects on auxiliary selection: Evidence from Child French<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Athulya Aravind<\/strong> and <strong>Martin Hackl<\/strong>: <em>Factivity and At-Issueness in the Acquisition of Forget and Remember<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Jill de Villiers, Amy Pace, Madeline Klein, <strong>Athulya Aravind<\/strong>, Roberta Golinkoff, Kathy Hirsch-Pasek and Mary Wilson: <em>Fast mapping word meanings across trials: young children forget all but their first guess<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Valentine Hacquard<\/strong> (PhD &#8216;06), Rachel Dudley, <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.mit.edu\/user\/cjbaron\/\"><strong>Christopher Baron<\/strong><\/a> (1st year grad student), and Jeffrey Lidz: <em>Factivity is acquired gradually over the preschool years<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Several alumni and current visitors also presented their work:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kazuko Yatsushiro, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zas.gwz-berlin.de\/mitarbeiter_sauerland.html\"><strong>Uli Sauerland<\/strong><\/a> (PhD &#8216;98),\u00a0Artemis Alexiadou: <em>The Unmarkedness of Plural: Crosslinguistic Data<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Uli Sauerland<\/strong>, Kazuko Yatsushiro: <em>Conjunctive Disjunctions in Child Language: A New Account <\/em>[poster]<em><br clear='none'\/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Jeffrey Lidz, Rachel Dudley, and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ling.umd.edu\/~hacquard\/\">Valentine Hacquard<\/a><\/strong> (PhD &#8216;06) : <em>Children use syntax of complements to determine meanings of novel attitude verbs <\/em><\/li>\n<li>Jeffrey Klassen, Annie Tremblay, <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/linguistics\/people\/faculty\/wagner\">Michael Wagner<\/a><\/b> (PhD &#8216;05), and Heather Goad: <em>Prominence Shifts in Second Language English and Spanish: Learning versus Unlearning<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Kathryn Schuyler, <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ling.upenn.edu\/~ycharles\/\">Charles Yang<\/a><\/b> (PhD &#8216;00 CS), and Elissa Newport: <em>Children form productive rules when it is more computationally efficient to do so<\/em><\/li>\n<li><b><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/ayakasug\/www\/\">Ayaka Sugawara<\/a><\/b> (PhD &#8216;16): <em>Japanese L2 learners of English are sensitive to QUD and prosodic inference<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Emma Nguyen, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.uconn.edu\/snyder\/\">William Snyder<\/a><\/strong> (PhD &#8216;95): <em>The (Non)-Effects of Pragmatics on Children\u0092s Passives<\/em> [poster]<\/li>\n<li>van Hout, Angeliek, Mar\u00eda Arche, <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/hamidademirdache\/home\"><strong>Hamida Demirdache<\/strong><\/a> (PhD &#8216;91), Isabel Garc\u00eda del Real, Ainara Garc\u00eda Sanz, Anna Gavarr\u00f3, Luc\u00eda Gomez Marzo, Saar Hommes, Nina Kazanina, Jinhong Liu, Oana Lungu, Fabienne Martin, Iris M. Strangmann: <em>Agent Control and the Acquisition of Event Culmination in Basque, Dutch, English, Spanish and Mandarin<\/em> [poster]<\/li>\n<li>Jiyoung Choi, <strong>Hamida Demirdache<\/strong>: <em>Intervention Effects in Korean: Experimental L1 Evidence<br clear='none'\/>\n<\/em>[poster]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 41th BU Conference on Language Development took place this past weekend at Boston University. The following MIT students and faculty gave talks or presented posters: Veronica Boyce (undergrad), Athulya Aravind (4th year grad student), and Martin Hackl (faculty): Lexical and syntactic effects on auxiliary selection: Evidence from Child French Athulya Aravind and Martin Hackl: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8974"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9019,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8974\/revisions\/9019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}