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...

IASCL is collecting a list of national associations dedicated to child language research. If you know of such an association, please send us an email ([email protected]) with a link to the digital presence of the association &/or the name and contact information of the person(s) responsible.

In the latest Child Lang. Bulletin, we introduced IASCL's Repository of Research Papers on Underrepresented Languages, a resource designed for easy access and sharing of research on the acquisition of children learning underrepresented languages. Read more here: www.childlanguage.org/underreprese...

"To understand bilingualism, you have to start at the beginning" said Dr. Annick De Houwer in our recent interview. Check it out to learn more about her own "beginnings" to studying bilingual language acquisition: youtu.be/9UmLxkds5wM?...

Next week, the Acquisition Sketch Project is back! On October 8th, Rebecca Defina will present "An in-progress look at the Pitjantjatjara Acquisition Sketch”. More info, times, and how to join here: acquisition-sketch.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/support/semi...

Next week, researchers will gather at the Uni of Tartu (Estonia) for the MEDAL conference. It marks the end of a project focusing on diversity and innovation in empirical linguistics & on enhancing early-career language researchers' skills and international connections. medal.ut.ee/event/final-...

Don't forget to send in your abstracts by October 1st for: - Meeting on Language in Autism (MoLA) 2026 (molautism.org) - The 18th Meeting of Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (gasla18.mmll.cam.ac.uk)

On Thursday, researchers will head to Flagstaff, USA for the 2025 Second Language Research Forum, hosted by Northern Arizona University. SLRF will feature plenary speakers Dr. Douglas Biber and Dr. Masatoshi Sato. Read more about the program here: sites.google.com/nau.edu/slrf...

Dr. Elena Lieven had some interesting experiences both inside and outside of science which shaped her understanding of the role of input in language learning. She shared them with us in an interview: youtu.be/sXwfJLnwJsM?...

Dr. Rowena Garcia feels a lot of gratitude for being able to conduct research in the Philipines and in Tagalog, telling us about it in our interview last year. What does it mean to you to be able to conduct child language research? youtu.be/XPfkguSLL9Q?...

LangVIEW is launching their next set of seminars. The first is Sept. 19th 4PM UTC / 9:30 PM IST / 6PM CET/ 12PM EST with Kanupriya Kale (UC Boulder) presenting "Overgeneralization errors in the acquisition of causative verbs by Marathi children". Join here: u-tokyo-ac-jp.zoom.us/j/8507482933...

Dr. Fred Genesee was one of the recipients of the IASCL's 2024 Roger Brown Award, a highly prestigious award which honors outstanding researchers & leaders in the field of child language. In our interview, we asked him what it means to win the IASCL's Roger Brown Award: youtu.be/g2cBy5XgYTA?...

Next week, the Child Language Symposium takes place at the University of Reading (UK) between Sept. 8 and 10. There will be all kinds of milestone celebrations, including 50 years of SLT and 60 years of Linguistics at the University of Reading. Enjoy! research.reading.ac.uk/cls2025/

Among other topics, Vol. 45, Issue 2 includes a letter from our president, introduces a new child language research repository, & as usual an overview of all the upcoming child language conferences. Many thanks to our editor, Dr. Angel Chan! Take a look today! www.childlanguage.org/latestbulletin

Next week, Sevilla, Spain will host 2 conferences: the XI Conference of the Association for the Study of Language Acquisition (AEAL) & the III Conference of the Spanish-speaking Association for the Study of Specific Language Disorders (CHITEL). Read the program here: eventos.us.es/go/aealchite...

Submissions for the South Asian Forum on the Acquisition and Processing of Language (SAFAL) are due this Sunday, August 31st. SAFAL will take place between 17-19 November 2025 at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Read more here: live-ucbdev-safal2025.pantheonsite.io