The 2nd Workshop for Young Scholars edition of GLOW in Asia took place in Nagoya, Japan on March 13-15th, hosted by the Center for Linguistics at Nanzan University. UConn linguistics was represented at the conference with an invited talk by:

• Daiko Takahashi (PhD 1994, now at Tohoku University). Sluicing in Disguise

… a main session talk by:

• Qiushi Chen. Accidental gaps and agreement in Hokkaido Ainu

… and posters by:

• Ryuta Ono. Wh-scope marking via prosody and partial wh-movement in Japanese
• Hiroaki Saito (PhD 2023, now at Mie University). Attitude shift and the left periphery in Japanese

The 11th International Conference on Formal  (ICFL) was held at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (Baiyushan campus) on November 7-9, 2025. UConn linguistics was represented at the conference with a keynote talk by:

• Željko Bošković. Licensing under sisterhood

… and talks by:

• Ting Xu (PhD 2016, now at Tsinghua University), Li-Chen Zhuang, Mingming Liu and Stella Christie. On the felicity conditions of dou: An experimental study
• Zheng Shen (PhD 2018, now at National University of Singapore) & Beth Chan. Cross-linguistic variation of D-linking amelioration effects.
• Kangzheng Gao (PhD 2024, now at Suzhou City University). Modeling Syntactic Parameter Setting: A Constraint-based Approach

Stefan Kaufmann gave an invited talk titled “When to intervene: Lifetime effects and other conditional mysteries” at the conference Conditional Constructs Across World Languages, held October 29-31 at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO) in Paris, France.

The 50th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD50) is taking place on November 6-9th 2025. UConn linguistics is going to be well represented at the conference, including a symposium led by William Snyder, with Jill de Villiers, Tom Roeper, and Virginia Valian:

• Language acquisition and generative grammar: The past 50 years

… and with talks by:

• Shuyan Wang (PhD 2022, now a post-doc at UConn), Chui Yi Lee, Diane Lillo-Martin, and Deborah Chen Pichler (PhD 2001, now at Gallaudet University). Development of syntax in spoken English by bimodal bilingual deaf children with cochlear implants: Comparison with hearing bilinguals and monolinguals
• Ruthe Foushee, Zena Levan, Jess Breeze, Jenny Lu, Diane Lillo-Martin, and Susan Goldin-Meadow. Communication in the absence of a shared conventional language: Contingent nonverbal behavior scaffolds language development and drives communication with deaf and hearing children
• Clariana Vieira and Elaine Grolla (PhD 2005, now at University of Sao Paolo). Wh-in-situ acquisition in French and in Brazilian Portuguese: Statistical and Prosodic cues
• Linghui Gan, Angelica Llerena and Diane Lillo-Martin.What does bimodal bilingual acquisition look like in deaf children with hearing parents?
• Bonnie Barrett, Kaj Kraus, Shane Blau, Martin Dale-Hench, Deborah Chen Pichler and Diane Lillo-Martin. Implementing a language-specific subscore for more informative ASL syntax assessment for hearing parents and their DHH children
• Ting Xu (PhD 2016, now at Tsinghua University), Li-Chen Chuang, Mingming Liu and Stella Christie. Children’s acquisition of the felicity condition of Mandarin ‘dou’ 

… and posters by:

• Kosta Boskovic (class of 2024, now a PhD candidate in psychology at UC San Diego) and David Barner. Children’s quantification of time: a case study of the comparative “more”
• Irene Canudas Grabolosa, Hanna-Sophia Georgievska Shine, Jesse C. Snedeker, Marie Coppola, and Annemarie Kocab. Agent and Patient Categories in English-Speaking Children and Homesigners
• Ece Eroğlu and Kadir Gökgöz (post-doc 2013-16, now at Bogazici University). A Referential System in Space: Age of Acquisition Effects in TİD Pointing Signs
• Yangyu Sun, Chiara Dal Farra, Aurore Gonzalez, Johannes Hein, Johnson F. Ilori, Tamar Makharoblidze, Chiara Saponaro, Kazuko Yatsushiro (PhD 1999, now at ZAS Berlin), Uli Sauerland and Maria Teresa Guasti. A comparison of children’s relative clause production in Georgian, Italian and Yoruba 
• Yixuan Yan. John knows Mary likes what: Learning attitude verbs by speech acts in a wh-in-situ language 
• Adina Camelia Bleotu, Anton Benz, Deborah Foucault, Lyn Tieu (PhD 2013, now at University of Toronto), and Tom Roeper. Acquiring conditional disjunction: Romanian five-year-olds’ struggle with implicit ‘if not’
• Giulio Ciferri Muramatsu and Zixi Liu. A Snapshot of (Really) Early CP Occurrence: Sentence Final Particles in Child Japanese
• Andre Eliatamby and Lyn Tieu. Children compute more ad-hoc implicatures from “a” than “the”: On the interaction of definiteness and ad-hoc implicatures
• Kaj Kraus, Bonnie Barrett, Shane Blau, Martin Dale-Hench, Mary Cecilia Conte, Diane Lillo-Martin, Elaine Gale, and Deborah Chen Pichler. Relationships between L2 hearing parent and L1 deaf child learning of ASL: Vocabulary and syntax 
• Pravaal Yadav. Children are conservative in their production: A study of long-distance questions in child-Hindi 
• Antonio Codina and Elaine Grolla. The Bare Truth: Bare Nominals Acquisition Challenges for Brazilian Learners of English, French, and Spanish
• Alyssa Vorobey and Lyn Tieu. Information packaging in child language: Comparing asserted to presupposed and implicated information
• Maria Astapova and Lyn Tieu. On children’s acquisition of disjunction in French: A corpus study
• Lyn Tieu and Petra Schulz. Understanding sentences with focus particles using visual alternatives: Children do not ignore “only”

In addition, Yixuan (Pepper) Yan was also awarded the Paula Menyuk Award for top-rated abstracts by student first authors for the second year in a row! Congratulations!

The annual Language Acquisition Workshop of New England (LAWNE) took place on October 25th, hosted by Yale University. Several UConn PhD students presented at the workshop:

• Yitong Luo and Yixuan Yan. Acquiring two disjunctive morphemes in Mandarin-speaking Children: A preliminary study
• Zixi Liu. Are those in-tree-guingly early Mandarin SFPs adult-like?
• Giulio Ciferri Muramatsu. Yet another study on the acquisition of Japanese Disjunction
• Pravaal Yadav. Overuse of Wh-Scope Marking in Child Hindi: An Investigation of Long-Distance Questions 

Ryuta Ono gave a talk, titled “Pseudo-right dislocation in Kansai Japanese“, at the 18th Arizona Linguistics Circle, which took place on October 16-17th.