UConn will be represented at this year’s Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 51), held November 5-8, 2026, with the following:

Talks:

• Impact of acquisition context on morphology and syntax in an emerging language
  Deanna Gagne, Ann Senghas, Celeste Flores, and Marie Coppola
• Bimodal code-blending: Developmental patterns of deaf and hard-of-hearing children from hearing families
  Chui Yi Lee and Diane Lillo-Martin
• Multiple assessments of spoken English development among deaf and hard-of-hearing children acquiring both sign and speech
  Shuyan Wang and Diane Lillo-Martin
• Specifying the Passive target: what meta-analytic latent-trait modeling reveals about children’s developing knowledge of English Passives
  Siena Christensen, Lisa Pearl, Frankie Boren, Jacob Davalos and Emma Nguyen

Posters:

• Do manner and path exist outside language? Evidence from a non-linguistic task in adults, children and LSN signers
  Irene Canudas Grabolosa, Vandita Gupta, Marie Coppola, Jesse C. Snedeker, and Annemarie Kocab
• The puzzle of the “impossible” voice ambiguity
  Shangyan Pan
• When ‘yes’ means ‘no’: A universal polarity-default of answering system in child Mandarin
  Yixuan Yan
• Beyond emergence: Acquiring pragmatic and syntactic generalizations of a Mandarin sentence-final particle
  Zixi Liu
• Spoken English consonant development by bimodal bilingual deaf/ hard-of-hearing children
  Diane Lillo-Martin, Precious-Janae Romain, Kayla Vernon, and Isabella Blasi
• Real-time Processing of Scalar Implicatures by Second Language Learners
  Shaohua Fang, Shuyan Wang, and Diane Lillo-Martin
• Children override the gestural models they see to create a linguistic system
  Jess Breeze, Jenny Lu, Zena Levan, Marianni Cruz-Velez, Diane Lillo-Martin, and Susan Goldin-Meadow (Remote Presentation)

UConn will represented at the 57th annual meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS 57), hosted by the City University of New York Graduate Center Linguistics Program on October 16-18, with the following:

talk:

• Scope rigidity as superiority: Zulu evidence by, talk by Vicki Carstens

posters:

• Optionality in Serbo-Croatian ordinal-superlative constructions, poster by Eli Herbst
• Object shift in nominalized structures: A new type of ECM, poster by Ryuta Ono
• Let’s work and see if try is see: Varieties and (de)composition of try in Mandarin see-as-try constructions, poster by Qi Wu

UConn was represented at the 19th Conference on Syntax, Phonology and Language Analysis (SinFonIJA 19), hosted by the Department for Slavic Studies of the University of Graz, Austria, with a poster on Head raising in limited structures by Ryuta Ono.