We had such a blast attending the 50th Boston University Conference on Language Development! Our first-year graduate student Idella Smolyar gave a talk looking at how children recruit past linguistic context to infer word meanings across exposures. This work not only highlights children gather clues to learn new word meanings, but is just the start of more work investigating how children learn.

Dr. LaTourrette and Idella also joined their collaborator at Harvard, Victor Gomes, on a poster looking at the development of polyseme learning under uncertainty. The lab also supported USC PhD student in the Language Development Lab, Olesia Bokhanovich, on her poster looking at Toddlers’ Interpretation of Presuppositional Content of Underspecified Nouns.

We were so happy and can’t wait to return to many more BUCLDs!