6 months ago, the 50th Boston Uni Conference on Lang Dev took place. 400 researchers from around the world took part, which included a keynote from Dr. Jean Berko Gleason. Read Amy Lieberman's report of the conference in the latest Child Language Bulletin: www.childlanguage.org/latestbulletin

On May 13/14, Abdellah Elouatiq will present "An in-progress look at the Berber Acquisition Sketch” at 9 am May 13 (Mexico City), 5 pm May 13 (Berlin), and 1 am May 14 (Melbourne): anu.zoom.us/j/8637217415...

St. John's University (Queens, NY, USA) will host the BRIDGES Bilingualism Symposium next week from May 7 to 8th, with the goal of bringing together (or bridging, get it?!) research and application in the area of individual differences in bilingualism (www.bridgessymposium.org)

Bilingualism researchers will meet next week in Milan, Italy, for the Bilingualism Matters Symposium 2026 (www.bilingualism-matters.org/events/bilin...). This year, it also features the Bimodal Bilingualism Special Session!

Great conferences coming up next week for IASCL members! - Intl. Society for Autism Research (INSAR) 2026 (www.autism-insar.org/page/2026Ann...) - 4th Intl. Conf. "Prominence in Language" (sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/veranstaltun...) - Conf. about Bilingualism & DLD (BiSLI; bislizagreb2026.wordpress.com)

In the latest Child Language Bulletin (www.childlanguage.org/latestbulletin) your Media Coordinator describes her dive into the past of IASCL, reconstructing lists of Executive Committee members and sourcing all Child Language Bulletins since 1989. They really were a treat to read though!

On Apr 8, Rowena Garcia will present "An in-progress look at the Manila Tagalog Acquisition Sketch” at 1 am (Mexico City), 9 am (Berlin), and 5 pm (Melbourne): anu.zoom.us/j/8637217415...

The latest Child Language Bulletin announces the Exec. Committee members who will work on Congress Site Selection, the Early Career, Roger Brown, & Travel Awards, Nominating & Appointing new officers, & supporting Underrepresented Languages. Read more: www.childlanguage.org/latestbulletin

In the latest of the IASCL's Child Language Bulletin, IASCL Pres. Shanley Allen highlights how IASCL is working to contribute to the infrastructure for research on underrepresented languages & plans for the 2027 IASCL Congress in Sao Paolo, Brazil. Read more: www.childlanguage.org/latestbulletin

What are the meaningful differences in the way children acquire language? Submit an abstract to the Many Paths to Language Conference (due May 14th) and be a part of the conversation! www.mpi.nl/events/many-...

On March 11/12, Maria Bardaji will present "An in-progress look at the Totoli Acquisition Sketch” at 10 am March. 11 (Mexico City), 5 pm March. 11 (Berlin), 3 am March. 12 (Melbourne): anu.zoom.us/j/8637217415...

We recently asked for members to send us professional associations around the world which are dedicated to child language. After sorting through the many responses, we've started an initial list on our website to provide as a resource for researchers: www.childlanguage.org/resources-fo...

You can catch Dr. Juanita Bloomfield's LangVIEW presentation "Calling All Parents: Boosting Early Environments in the Developing World" on 26th February, Thursday, 2pm UYT/5 pm UTC/ 6pm CET/ (*27th February 2am JST). Join: keio-univ.zoom.us/j/8563443402...

Our Media Coordinator recently interviewed Dr. Megan Gross, an Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Dr. Gross was a recipient of a commendation for the IASCL Early Career Award. View the interview here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQRr...

The journal "Language Development Research" is now an official journal of the IASCL! LDR's intended audience is all researchers and professionals with an interest in language development and related fields. Read more on our website: www.childlanguage.org/ldr

On Feb 10/11, Louward Allen Zubiri will present "An in-progress look at the Bikol Acquisition Sketch” at 4 pm Tuesday Feb. 10 (Mexico City), 11 pm Feb. 10 (Berlin), 9 am Wednesday Feb. 11 (Melbourne): anu.zoom.us/j/8637217415...

The University College London will host the 2026 Child Language Symposium from July 6 to 7. They invite empirical, theoretical, or methodological work in a wide variety of areas revolving around language acquisition. Submissions are due February 10th. Read more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

The Child Language Bulletin, Vol 46, No 1 is now available! It contains all kinds of IASCL updates, including IASCL 2027 & our Repository for Child Language Research in Underrepresented Languages, as well as CHILDES, conferences, & journal announcements. Enjoy! www.childlanguage.org/latestbulletin

We recently added a list of keynote speeches and presentations by child language scholars. Check it out! www.childlanguage.org/resources-fo...

@TheHelloLab (www.youtube.com/@TheHELLOLab ) presents videos for parents to learn all about language acquisition, from baby talk and bilingualism to the when and how of a baby’s first words. You can find other Resources for Families and Educators on our website: www.childlanguage.org/resources-fo...

Do you conduct research on child learning languages that are under-researched? Add your papers to our repository! www.childlanguage.org/underreprese...

The IASCL recently founded an online library designed for researchers to easily access and share work research on the acquisition of underrepresented languages. Our goal is to build a living archive that supports research often left out of the mainstream 🔽

Final call! The IASCL Nominating & Appointing Committee invites nominations for the IASCL Officer positions of President, Vice President, and Treasurer (term: 2027-2030) by January 25th. Details on how to nominate Officers can be found on the IASCL's website: www.childlanguage.org/officers/#No...

You can catch Dr. Youtao Lu's LangVIEW presentation "Children face ambiguous input early on: A cross-linguistic corpus analysis of homophones" on 22nd January at 8am UTC (3am EST/ 9am CET/1:30pm IST/5pm JST/ 7PM AEDT). Join: u-tokyo-ac-jp.zoom.us/j/8507482933...

On January 13/14th, Celeste Escobar will present "An in-progress look at the Guarani Acquisition Sketch”. Zoom link and more info, times, and how to join here: acquisition-sketch.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/support/semi...

The Child Language Symposium 2026 invites submissions presenting empirical, theoretical, or methodological work in all areas of child language. The Symposium will be hosted at University College London on 6–7 July 2026. Submissions due Feb 10; details here: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

When you attended #IASCL2024, did you think, "my uni would be a great setting for this congress"? Then IASCL VP Aliyah Morgenstern wants to hear from you! Email Aliyah today: [email protected]. More info in the Child Lang Bulletin: www.childlanguage.org/latestbulletin

For Gregorian calendar users, we wish you a happy new year! From your IASCL team, we wish you a healthy and productive 2026!

Don't forget to send in your submissions for the IASCL's Child Language Bulletin by next week, Monday January 5th! Our Editor, Angel Chan, will be delighted to receive them ([email protected])

3 theses were announced in the latest issue of the Child Language Bulletin: - Júlia Florit-Pons (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) - Wei Mao (Concordia University) - Analí R. Taboh (Universidad de Buenos Aire) Read descriptions here (www.childlanguage.org/latestbulletin) & congrats to the newly minted PhDs!

Don't forget! The IASCL Nominating & Appointing Committee seeks nominations for the IASCL Officer positions of President, Vice President, & Treasurer (term: 2027-2030) by Jan. 25th, 2026. Details on how to nominate Officers can be found on the IASCL's website: www.childlanguage.org/officers/#No...

The 2026 application round for the PhD Program Internat. Doctorate for Experimental Approaches to Language And Brain (IDEALAB) is open! Candidates can apply to 8 separate projects, many of which are directly related to child language. Application deadline is Jan 26th, more info here: phd-idealab.com

Dr. Jean Berko Gleason, IASCL President from 1990-93 and Roger Brown Award recipient gave a plenary talk at this year's 50th anniversary session of the Boston University Conference on Language Development. Dr. Berko Gleason has been an IASCL member from the beginning! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC3v...

On December 10th, Nino Tsintsadze, Tinatin Chincharauli, Tamara Kalkhitashvili, and Teona Damenia will present "An in-progress look at the Georgian Acquisition Sketch”. Zoom link: and More info, times, and how to join here: acquisition-sketch.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/support/semi...

Have any news or information that might be relevant to the IASCL community? A report on a conference/workshop or call for a forthcoming conference/workshop? New CHILDES Corpora? Book or thesis announcements?Then send your contribution to our editor ([email protected]) by Jan 5, 2026!

Language Development Research is now accepting submissions for a special issue on Multimodal Directive-Response Trajectories in Children's Language Socialization w/ Guest Editor: Alan Rumsey (Australian Nat'l Uni). Read more here: ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu & here: www.childlanguage.org/latestbulletin

In the last Child Language Bulletin (www.childlanguage.org/latestbulletin) Annick De Houwer looked back at HaBilNet3, which welcomed over 70 junior & senior participants to Donostia/San Sebastián, Spain to discuss language-related well-being in bilinguals. Sounds like it was a stimulating workshop!

In the Child Language Bulletin www.childlanguage.org/latestbulletin, you can find summaries of new books with the titles: - The Acquisition of Celtic Langs - Comm. Interventions w/ Deaf People - Topics in Clinical Ling. & Edu. Implications - Repeating Nonwords as a Testing Method for Bil. Children

In the latest Child Language Bulletin, our Media Coordinator (moi!) reviews 2025 so far, including the interviews she's conducted with child language researchers & putting together a Zotero library on the acquisition of underrepresented languages. Read more here: www.childlanguage.org/latestbulletin

The IASCL Nominating & Appointing Committee invites IASCL Members to submit nominations for the IASCL Officer positions of President, Vice President, and Treasurer (term: 2027-2030). Details on how to nominate Officers can be found on the IASCL's website: www.childlanguage.org/officers/#No...

The latest Child Language Bulletin (www.childlanguage.org/latestbulletin), Organizing Committee Chair of IASCL 2027, Felipe Venâncio Barbosa, gives us a first glimpse of our next IASCL Congress, which will be held in São Paulo, Brazil. Be sure to bookmark the Congress website! iascl2027.fflch.usp.br

The University of Colorado - Boulder (USA) is hosting the South Asian Forum on the Acquisition and Processing of Language from Nov 17 - 19th. For those interested in getting to know the linguistic landscape in the subcontinent, remote participation is possible! live-ucbdev-safal2025.pantheonsite.io

You can catch Sara Montazeri's LangVIEW presentation "Linguistic Environment of Persian-Learning Infants in Iran" on 13. Nov, 10am EST/3 pm UTC/ 4pm CET/ 8:30pm IST (*14. Nov 1am AEST/ 12am JST). Join: u-tokyo-ac-jp.zoom.us/j/8507482933...

In the Bulletin (www.childlanguage.org/latestbulletin), Pres. Shanley Allen describes IASCL's efforts to increase diversity, including our Library for Child Lang. Research in Underrep. Lang. (www.childlanguage.org/underrepresentedlanguagesrepository) & new TiLAR series (www.childlanguage.org/tilar)

On November 11/12th, Lucy Davidson will present "An in-progress look at the Murrinhpatha Acquisition Sketch”. More info, times, and how to join here: acquisition-sketch.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/support/semi...

Language development researchers will be heading to Boston next week for the 50th annual BUCLD, from Nov 6-9. Featuring Jean Berko Gleason's keynote address & special events to commemorate this anniversary, its shaping up to be an inspiring conference & celebration! Read more here: www.bu.edu/bucld/

Brian MacWhinney penned an update to the CHILDES & HomeBank projects in the latest issue of the IASCL's Child Language Bulletin, highlighting new corpora & the projects' specific aims. Keep up with the exciting changes with CHILDES by reading the latest Bulletin: www.childlanguage.org/latestbulletin

Want to be a part of the historic 50th annual Penn Linguistics Conference, to be held Feb 28 - March 1, 2026? Make sure to submit your abstract by the Nov 1st deadline. Read more here: sites.google.com/sas.upenn.ed...

Editors Shanley Allen & Evan Kidd announce the 1st volume of TiLAR Language Overviews: First Language Acquisition in Finno-Ugric Languages (benjamins.com/catalog/tila...), covering Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, & North Saami. Planned volumes include Korean, Greek, Spanish, Polish, & Czech.

Next week (Oct 22-24), researchers will meet in Paris, France for the 16th International Conference of Linguistic Research and Applications. If you can't make it to Paris, online attendance is free! Read more here: linguistic-society.com/event/lingui...