Recent Conference Presentations

2023

S. Maitra & L. Perkins. (2023). “Filtering input for learning constrained grammatical variability: The case of Spanish word order.” Oral presentation at the 6th meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL 2023), Amherst.

L. Perkins & T. Hunter. (2023). “Noise-tolerant learning as selection among deterministic grammatical hypotheses.” Poster presentation at the 6th meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL 2023), Amherst.

V. Mateu, L. Perkins, & N. Hyams. (2023). “Learning unaccusativity: Evidence for split intransitivity in child Spanish.” Poster presentation at the 97th Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting (LSA 2023), Denver/Online.

Khlystova, E. & Sundara, M. (2023). “The lexical representation of coda /t/ by 14-month-olds.” 185th Meeting of the Acoustic Society of America, Sydney

Solá-Llonch, E. & Sundara, M. (2023). “Infants’ initial sensitivity to vowel harmony is experience independent.” Oral presentation at 48th Boston University Conference on Language Development[BUCLD 48].

Sundara, M. & Johnson, M. (2023). “Discovering inflectional and derivational suffixes in infancy.” Poster presentation at 48th Boston University Conference on Language Development[BUCLD 48].

 

2022

L. Perkins, & T. Hunter. (2022). “Word order acquisition from immature representations: A model for noise-tolerant learning of deterministic grammars.” Poster presentation at the 47th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 47), Boston.

Sundara, M. (2022). “Infants bootstrap grammatical categories from morphological suffixes.” Oral presentation at 47th Boston University Conference on Language Development[BUCLD 47].

Katsuda, H., & Sundara, M. (2022). “Infants’ developing sensitivity to vowel phonotactic constraints in English.” Poster presentation at the 47th Boston University Conference on Language Development[BUCLD 47].

Sundara, M. (2022). “Infant acquisition: From sound categories, through morphology and word class, to phonemes.” Invited talk at LabPhon 18.

Jo, J., Breiss, C., & Sundara, M. (2022). “Verb segmentation in infancy as a predictor of language outcomes in 3-year-olds.” Oral presentation at the Biennial Meeting of the International Congress of Infant Studies, Ottawa.

Katsuda, H., & Sundara, M. (2022). “5-month-olds are not (yet) sensitive to vowel phonotactic constraints in English.” Poster presentation at the Biennial Meeting of the International Congress of Infant Studies, Ottawa.

Narkar, J., Khlystova, E., Aly, A.M., Kim, J. Y., & Sundara, M. (2022). “Evaluating the learnability of vowel categories from infant-directed speech.” Poster Presentation at the 182nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Denver, CO.

Narkar, J., & Sundara, M. (2022). “The four-way voicing distinction in Bengali infant-directed speech.” Poster presentation at the 182nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Denver, CO.

Sundara, M. (2022). “When and how do babies learn the morphological suffixes of English?” Lectures in Language and Linguistics, California State University, Bakersfield.

2021

M. Hirzel, L. Perkins, & J. Lidz. (2021). “19 month-olds parse wh-questions incrementally.” 45th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 45), Boston/Online.

L. Perkins & J. Lidz. “Non-Local Syntactic Dependencies in Infancy: Wh-Question
Representations Develop Between 14- and 18-Months.” Symposium on “Beyond Categories: Infant Syntax Above the Word Level” (L. Perkins, chair, & J. Lidz, discussant), 2021 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Minneapolis/Online.

L. Perkins, Y. Ying, A. Williams, & J. Lidz. (2021). “Object wh-questions with unknown verbs are transitive for 20-month-olds.” 46th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 46), Boston/Online.

Khlystova, E., Chong, A.J., & Sundara, M. (2021). “Quantifying phonetic variation: A large-scale corpus analysis of coronals segments in English infant-directed speech.” Poster presentation at the 181st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Seattle, WA (Abstract in JASA) .

Khlystova, E., Chong, A.J., & Sundara, M. (2021). “Phonetic variation in coronals in English infant-directed speech: A large-scale corpus analysis.” Poster presentation at the 46th Boston University Conference on Language Development [BUCLD 46]. November 2021. 

2020

M. Hirzel, L. Perkins, & J. Lidz (2020). “19 month-olds represent and incrementally parse filler-gap dependencies.” 33rd Annual CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference, Amherst/Online.

Sundara, M., & Breiss, C. (2020). “Infants are sensitive to phonotactic patterns in their native language at 5-months.” Oral Presentation at the 45th Boston University Conference on Language Development [BUCLD 45]. November 2020.

Suyuan, L., Faytak, M. & Sundara, M. (2020). “Production and perception of the coda nasals in Shanghai Mandarin.” Labphon17, Vancouver, BC

Sundara, M., & Breiss, C. (2020). “5-month-olds are sensitive to phonotactic patterns in their native language.” Labphon17, Vancouver, BC

Sundara, M., & Breiss, C. (2020). “5-month-olds are sensitive to native language phonotactics.” International Congress of Infant Studies, Glasgow, Scotland.

2019

Steffman, J., & Sundara, M. (2019). “Biphone probability and neighborhood density effects on phonetic categorization.” Poster at the 178th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, CA.

Sundara, M. & Mateu, V.E. (2019). “Dual language input facilitates English learning infants’ word segmentation abilities.” Oral Presentation at the 12th meeting of the International Symposium on Bilingualism, Edmonton, Alberta. 

2018

Lin, I., Chong, A.J., Sundara, M. (2018). “The extent of variation in the production of coronals in English infant-directed speech.” Poster at LabPhon 16, Lisbon, Portugal. June, 2018.

Mateu, Victoria E. & Nina Hyams. (2018). “The structure of silence: A look at children’s comprehension of sluicing.” Talk presented at the 49th NorthEast Linguistic Society [NELS 49], Ithaca, NY. October, 2018.

Mateu, V. & Hyams, N. (2018). “Intervention and animacy effects in the acquisition of sluicing.” Talk presented at the 43rd Boston University Conference on Language Development [BUCLD 43]. Boston, MA. November 2018.

Sundara, M. & Mayer, C. (2018) “Modeling developmental changes in infants’ discrimination of English vowels.” Poster presented at the 43rd Boston University Conference on Language Development [BUCLD 43]. Boston, MA. November 2018.

Sundara, M., Mayer, C., (2018). “Modeling developmental changes in infants’ discrimination of English vowels.” Poster presentation at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Philadelphia, PA. June-July, 2018.

2017

Chong, A.J. ​(2017). “Derived-environment effects and learning: an experimental study.” Talk given at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America [LSA 2017]. Austin, TX, January 2017. [slides]

Mateu, V. E., Hyams, N. & Winans, L. (2017). “Intervention effects in early grammar: Evidence from sluicing.” Talk presented at the 42nd Boston University Conference on Language Development [BUCLD 42]. Boston, MA. November 2017.

Mateu, V.E., Hyams, N. & Winans, L. (2017). “Where ellipsis meets A’-movement: Sluicing in early grammar.” Talk presented at the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition 13 [GALA 13]. Palma de Mallorca, Spain. September 2017.

Mateu, V. E. (2017). “Processing similarities and grammatical differences in the acquisition of raising and control.” Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America 2017 Annual Meeting [LSA 2017]. Austin, TX. January 2017.

Sundara, M., Mayer, C., (2017). “Does the developing lexicon constrain infants’ discrimination of English vowels?” Poster at the 174th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New Orleans, LA. December, 2017.

2016

Aly, A., Jacobson, S., Sundara, M. (2016). “Levels of prominence in Spanish infant-directed speech.” Poster at the 5th Joint Meeting Acoustical Society of America and Acoustical Society of Japan. Honolulu, HI. November-December 2016.

Sundara, M., Molnar, M., & Frota, S. (2016). “English learning infants’ perception of boundary tones.” Poster at the 5th Joint Meeting Acoustical Society of America and Acoustical Society of Japan. Honolulu, HI. November-December 2016.

Mateu, V. E. (2016). “What cross-linguistic acquisition differences can tell us about invisible syntax: The case of Spanish ‘parecer’.” Talk presented at the 41st Boston University Conference on Language Development [BUCLD 41]. Boston, MA. November 2016.

Mateu, V. E. & Hyams, N. (2016). “On the learnability of implicit arguments.” Talk presented at the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition: North America 7 [GALANA 7]. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL. September 2016.

Sundara, M., Molnar, M., & Frota, S. (2016). “The perception of boundary tones in infancy across languages.” Oral presentation at the International Conference on Infant Studies. New Orleans, LA. May, 2016.

Chong, A.J. (2016). “Learning consequences of derived-environment effects.” Talk given at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America [LSA 2016], Washington, DC. January 2016. [slides]

Mateu, V. E. (2016). “Intervention Effects in Subject-to-Subject Raising: Evidence from Spanish-speaking children.” Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America [LSA 2016]. Washington D.C. January 2016.

2015

Mateu, Victoria E. (2015). “The delay of subject-to-subject raising with seem and subject control with promise: Is a unified account possible?” Poster presented at the 40th Boston University Conference on Language Development [BUCLD 40]. Boston, MA. November 2015.

Kim, Y.J., & Sundara, M. (2015). “Walk is in walks but not walked: 6-mo-olds processing of inflected forms.” Presented at the American International Morphology Meeting 3. Amherst, MA. October, 2015.

Sundara, Megha & Victoria E. Mateu. (2015). “Cross-linguistic transfer of word segmentation abilities in bilingual infants.” Poster presented at the Workshop on Infant Language Development [WILD]. Stockholm, Sweden. June 2015.

Sundara, M., Molnar, M., & Frota, S. (2015). “When infants get the question: The development of boundary tone perception.” Poster presented at the Workshop on Infant Language Development [WILD]. Stockholm, Sweden. June 2015.

White, J., Kim, Y., Chong, A.J., & Sundara, M. (2015). “Phonetic similarity as a bias in infant phonological learning.” Workshop on Universal biases on phonological acquisition and processing Annual Meeting of the German Society of Linguistics (Deutschen Gesellschaft fr Sprachwissenschaft), University of Liepzig, Germany. March, 2015.

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