Look Who’s Talking
First year Isla Flores-Bayer and her associate Chiyo Nishida held forth on the 24th of October on “Localizing the loss and attrition of the subjunctive through generations: The case of Central Texas adult bilinguals” at the Hispanic Linguistic Symposium 2009.
What’s more, Chigusa Kurumada will be giving a presentation next Thursday with Shoichi Iwasaki (UCLA) about “Negotiating desirability: The acquisition of the uses of ii ‘good’ in mother-child interactions in Japanese” at the 19th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference in Hawai’i.
And if you’re sitting in a car right now you’d better buckle up, because what you’re about to read might throw you out of your seat! Stanford and its alums will be tearing apart the upcoming BUCLD (Boston University Conference on Language Development) Conference with these presentations:
- Bruno Estigarribia
Genetic, cognitive, and environmental predictors of morphosyntax
- Theres Grueter, M. Crago
The roles of L1 transfer and processing limitations in the L2 acquisition of French object clitic constructions: Evidence from Chinese- and Spanish-speaking learners
- Anne Fernald (Psychology)
“Developing Fluency in Understanding: How it Matters” (Keynote Address)
And the posters!
- Nola Stephens, Eve Clark
Given before new: Effects of discourse status on child syntactic choices
- Patricia Amaral
Almost means ‘less than’: Preschoolers’ comprehension of scalar adverbs