LAVA Lab Presents at BUCLD

LAVA Lab members presented their research findings at the 42nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) on Friday, November 3rd, 2017.

April Bottoms, Zoe Fieldsteel, Erin Spurgeon and Amy Lieberman presented their findings, “Object and event labelling in American Sign Language parent input to young deaf children”.  Click here to the LAVA Lab’s BUCLD poster.

LAVA Lab Post Doctorate Fellow, Deanna Gagne, and colleagues Ann Senghas (Barnard College) and Marie Coppola (University of Connecticut) also presented their research on the social interactions among children in Nicaragua exposed to home sign systems from their deaf parents.  Click here Click here to see Deanna and colleague’s BUCLD poster,  “Peer interaction is necessary for full conventionalization of space in an emerging language:  Evidence from hearing children of Nicaraguan signers”.