{"id":153,"date":"2011-11-04T01:48:32","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T05:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx518f11\/?p=153"},"modified":"2012-04-14T01:19:03","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T05:19:03","slug":"bucld-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx518f11\/2011\/11\/04\/bucld-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"BUCLD focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I promised this a while ago, but here are a few selected talks from this weekend&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bucld\" target=\"_blank\">BUCLD<\/a> 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&#8217;ve picked out ones that I think at least you&#8217;ll have heard something about the basic topic.  No guarantees, though.  It doesn&#8217;t appear that there are any talks directly about the acquisition of focus.<\/p>\n<p>I may come back and annotate these a little bit more.  For the moment, I&#8217;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&#8217;re in.<\/p>\n<p>Friday<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>B 9:00 Tense and Truth in Children&#8217;s Question Answering<\/li>\n<li>A 2:00 Perception and weighting of prosodic boundary cues in eith-month-old German infants<\/li>\n<li>!B 2:00 The role of islands in processing English as a second language<\/li>\n<li>C 5:15 6&ndash;9 year olds use prosody to resolve temporary syntactic closure ambiguity<\/li>\n<li>Poster: Lexical alternatives improve 5-year-olds&#8217; ability to compute scalar implicatures<\/li>\n<li>Poster: Seven-month-old English learners can discriminate declaratives and interrogatives<\/li>\n<li>Poster: Ad-hoc scalar implicature in adults and children<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Saturday<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>B 9:30 L1-Korean L2er&#8217;s sensitivity to Givenness in the English dative alternation<\/li>\n<li>!C 11:00 Bilingual language synthesis: Evidence from wh-questions in bimodal bilinguals<\/li>\n<li>C 2:15 Conversational implicature in 3- to 8-year-old children<\/li>\n<li>C 2:45 Semantic and pragmatic meaning of the existential quantifier <em>some<\/em> in second language acquisition<\/li>\n<li>Poster: Conjunction, disjunction and negation in second language acquisition: A study of L2 English and Japanese<\/li>\n<li>Poster: Acquisition of discourse constraints on the use of Japanese null pronouns<\/li>\n<li>Poster: Interpretation of scope ambiguity by Korean-speaking learners of English: the case of numerically quantified NPs and negation<\/li>\n<li>Poster: The role of prosody in thematic role disambiguation in L2 Korean<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sunday<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>B 9:30 Let&#8217;s disambiguate sentences <em>together<\/em>: What children know about the semantics of <em>together<\/em>, and where pragmatics steps in<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I promised this a while ago, but here are a few selected talks from this weekend&#8217;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&#8217;ve picked out ones that I think at least you&#8217;ll have heard &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx518f11\/2011\/11\/04\/bucld-focus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;BUCLD focus&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx518f11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx518f11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx518f11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx518f11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx518f11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx518f11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx518f11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx518f11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx518f11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx518f11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}