BUCLD focus

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I promised this a while ago, but here are a few selected talks from this weekend’s BUCLD that might contain some recognizable terminology. This list is not exhaustive, though. Most of these talks and posters will have some aspects that are unfamiliar, but I’ve picked out ones that I think at least you’ll have heard something about the basic topic. No guarantees, though. It doesn’t appear that there are any talks directly about the acquisition of focus.

I may come back and annotate these a little bit more. For the moment, I’ll just post these as they are. This was kind of a rush job so I could at least post something, sorry. I will also try to come back and verify the rooms that they’re in.

Friday

  • B 9:00 Tense and Truth in Children’s Question Answering
  • A 2:00 Perception and weighting of prosodic boundary cues in eith-month-old German infants
  • !B 2:00 The role of islands in processing English as a second language
  • C 5:15 6–9 year olds use prosody to resolve temporary syntactic closure ambiguity
  • Poster: Lexical alternatives improve 5-year-olds’ ability to compute scalar implicatures
  • Poster: Seven-month-old English learners can discriminate declaratives and interrogatives
  • Poster: Ad-hoc scalar implicature in adults and children

Saturday

  • B 9:30 L1-Korean L2er’s sensitivity to Givenness in the English dative alternation
  • !C 11:00 Bilingual language synthesis: Evidence from wh-questions in bimodal bilinguals
  • C 2:15 Conversational implicature in 3- to 8-year-old children
  • C 2:45 Semantic and pragmatic meaning of the existential quantifier some in second language acquisition
  • Poster: Conjunction, disjunction and negation in second language acquisition: A study of L2 English and Japanese
  • Poster: Acquisition of discourse constraints on the use of Japanese null pronouns
  • Poster: Interpretation of scope ambiguity by Korean-speaking learners of English: the case of numerically quantified NPs and negation
  • Poster: The role of prosody in thematic role disambiguation in L2 Korean

Sunday

  • B 9:30 Let’s disambiguate sentences together: What children know about the semantics of together, and where pragmatics steps in