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43rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development

November 2-4, 2018

 

Invited speakers:

Keynote speaker: Ann Senghas (Barnard College)

Plenary speaker: Johanne Paradis (University of Alberta)

Student workshop speaker: Christina Bergmann (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)

 

Thursday evening student workshop (6:30pm): “How to integrate open science into language acquisition research”

 

Saturday symposium: “A developmental, individual-differences perspective on processing of and learning from accented speech”

 

• Rochelle Newman (University of Maryland): “Toddlers’ accommodation of accent: Acoustic and experiential factors”

• Margarita Kaushanskaya (University of Wisconsin – Madison): “Effects of bilingualism on children’s processing of accented speech”

• Melissa Baese-Berk (University of Oregon): “Individual differences in perception of non-native speech”

 

Sunday symposium: “Addressing the putative ‘word gap’: Approaches to early language interventions”

• Roberta M. Golinkoff (University of Delaware) & Kathy Hirsh-Pasek (Temple University): “Helping children learn language: Why bother?”

• Meredith L. Rowe (Harvard University Graduate School of Education): “Pointing to success: A home-based intervention for parents of infants”

• Rebecca M. Alper (Temple University): “The Duet Project: A community-based home-visiting partnership”

• Rachel R. Romeo (Boston Children’s Hospital & Massachusetts Institute of Technology): “The FACT Project: A school-based program for elementary-age families”

 

Visit the conference website at http://www.bu.edu/bucld/