This past weekend, several researchers from UIUC presented their work at the 49th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. The Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) is one of the largest student-run linguistics conferences in the world. BUCLD is an internationally recognized meeting of researchers in language acquisition and development, including first and second language acquisition, language disorders, bilingualism, and literacy development. BUCLD promotes the progress of science by providing a major venue for the dissemination of scholarly findings, the initiation and development of collaborations, and for professional networking.
UIUC’s very own Dr. Silvina Montrul gave the plenary address, titled “A Lifespan Perspective on Heritage Language Development.” This presentation showcased her recent work regarding heritage language learners, and her work's implications for heritage speakers, bilingualism and society, and for the language and cognitive sciences.
Another exemplar of UIUC research was Dr. Tania Ionin’s presentation “Plurality in L2-English production”, coauthored by Linguistics PhD students Amy Atiles and Chae-Eun Lee, and UIUC Linguistics PhD alumna Dr. Mien-Jen Wu.
Additionally, UIUC Linguistics PhD alumna Dr. Aylin Coşkun Kunduz presented her poster with advisor Silvina Montrul: “Inflectional morphology in Turkish heritage speakers and Turkish-American returnees”
Congratulations to all of these UIUC Linguistics researchers!
