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

Next week, researchers will meet in Malta Aug 24-28 for the 33rd World Congress of the International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorder (IALP). Looks to be an exciting program paired with a beautiful location! ialpmalta2025.org

Recently, our Media Coordinator sat down w/ Dr. Annick De Houwer, Emeritus Prof. at the Uni. of Erfurt in Germany & immediate past President of the IASCL to talk about her research, work as HaBilNet Director, & IASCL's role in supporting early career researchers

When we sat down to talk with Dr. Celia Rosemberg, she told us about the challenges of fieldwork in child language research. Listen for yourself here: youtu.be/6ZlfJ_lmw1c?...

Do you know of any video-, podcast-, or written interviews with child language researchers? The IASCL collects such interviews, whether from our own YouTube channel, past Bulletin issues, or external interviews www.childlanguage.org/interviews. Send your suggestions to [email protected]

Did you know that the IASCL maintains a list of videos of children talking? Want to use more real-world examples in your next child language course or have your own go-to videos that other #childlanguage researchers would benefit from? Then check it out: www.childlanguage.org/resources-fo...

The Acquisition Sketch Project is on summer break (returning with new session in September!). But did you know that you can view all of their seminars online? Check it out! acquisition-sketch.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/support/semi...

Last call for contributions to the IASCL Child Language Bulletin! Send your book/thesis announcements, workshop/conference advertisements or other interesting pieces of information for #childlanguage researchers to editor Angel Chan by Aug 4th ([email protected]).

New Ways of Analysing Variation is next week at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). This conference aims to celebrate the linguistic diversity & constant evolution of the languages of the multilingual-multicultural Asia Pacific contexts. Check out how here: www.ntu.edu.sg/nie/new-ways...

Next week, researchers will travel to UCL's Centre for Inclusive Education for the London International Conference on Inclusive Education. Read more about the conference and check out the program here: www.licie.co.uk

July 31st is the next LangVIEW seminar, "The Acquisition of questions in Tashlhiyt Berber: Behavioral and Corpus Studies " with Imane Bou-Saboun at 6:00 PM IST / 2:30 PM CEST / 8:00 AM EDT. Join here: hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/66768218904

Attend, in person or online, the 1st Global TALES Symposium: Advancing global knowledge in personal narratives to bridge the research-to-practice gap in speech-language pathology. It will take place Sept 11-12th in Edmonton, Canada. Registration is free, more here: sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/...

A year ago (+1 day) at #IASCL2024 we learned who the winners of the Roger Brown Awards were! We recently sat down with both of them and asked them what winning the award meant to them. Have a listen: Fred Genesee: youtu.be/g2cBy5XgYTA?... Elena Lieven: youtu.be/sXwfJLnwJsM?...

Don't forget to submit your contributions to the IASCL Child Language Bulletin! Send your book/thesis announcements, workshop/conference advertisements or other interesting pieces of information for #childlanguage researchers to editor Angel Chan by Aug 4th ([email protected]).

RESCHEDULED for July 17th, "Segmental Acoustics of Tashlhiyt Berber’s Infant-Directed Speech: How do Caregivers Modify Vowels and Consonants in a Complex Phonological System" with Abdellah Elouatiq at 6:00 PM IST / 2:30 PM CEST / 8:00 AM EDT. Join here: hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/62482000502

Dr. Elena Lieven was one of the recipients of the IASCL's 2024 Roger Brown Award, which honors outstanding #childlanguage researchers. It was established in 2011 as Elena herself was president of the IASCL! We recently asked her what it means to win it: youtu.be/sXwfJLnwJsM?...

The Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS) will meet on July 12th to 13th for their 26th Annual International Conference at Ehime University, in Matsuyama City, Japan. Take a last minute look at the conference overview here: jslsconference.jpn.org/jsls2025/en/...

July 10th is the next LangVIEW seminar, "Segmental Acoustics of Tashlhiyt Berber’s Infant-Directed Speech: How do Caregivers Modify Vowels and Consonants in a Complex Phonological System" with Abdellah Elouatiq at 6:00 PM IST / 2:30 PM CEST / 8:00 AM EDT. Join here: hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/62482000502

We recently sat down to talk with Dr. Elena Lieven, winner of the 2024 IASCL Roger Brown Award. In our interview, she reflects on the progress made in the #childlanguage field has made over the past decades. Check it out! youtu.be/sXwfJLnwJsM?...

Have a book/thesis to announce? A workshop/conference you'd like to advertise or write about? Something else interesting for #childlanguage researchers? Publish it in the IASCL Child Language Bulletin! Send your contribution to editor Angel Chan by Aug 4th ([email protected] ).

Many #childlanguage conferences this week: - WIMLA: National Uni. of Mexico www.iifilologicas.unam.mx/WIMLA-2025 - MEDAL: Uni. of Birmingham, UK medal.ut.ee/event/medal-... - ICPLA: Uni. of Patras, Greece logoth.upatras.gr/en/icpla2025/ - PaPE: Palma, Mallorca, Spain agenda.uib.es/120122/detai...

When we sat down to talk with Dr. Fred Genesee, winner of the 2024 IASCL Roger Brown Award, we realized that it had been 50th years since the completion of his dissertation. We talked about how far the field has come in that time: youtu.be/g2cBy5XgYTA?...

During her tenure, IASCL president Shanley Allen wants to focus on highlighting work on increasing diversity in languages covered in acquisition research. Is this something you do in your own work? Tell us about it in a blog post! Details for submission here: www.childlanguage.org/blog/do-you-...

Next week researchers will gather in Chania, Greece for the International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (ISMBS) 2025 as well as Paris, France, for the Global “Long-form Recordings from A to Z” Summer School, and the Long-form (aka Daylong) Recordings (LFR) Interdisciplinary Summit.

This week, researchers will be heading to Rome, Italy for the Multiple Approaches to Psycholinguistics 2025 meeting (sites.google.com/view/map2025... ) and to Adelaide, Australia for Speech Pathology Australia 2025 (www.speechpathologyaustralia.org.au/Public/Publi...). Happy conferencing to all!

Our media coordinator recently had the pleasure of sitting down with Dr. Elena Lieven, Emeritus Professor at the University of Manchester and one of the recipients of the IASCL's 2024 Roger Brown Award. Watch the interview here: youtu.be/sXwfJLnwJsM

Next week, the Acquisition Sketch Project will discuss how to write the Community Report for an Acquisition Sketch Project. Join them June 10/11! Meeting details and time zone conversions can be found here: acquisition-sketch.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/support/semi...

2 exciting weeks in Donostia / San Sebastian, Spain! The Workshop on Infant Language Development (WILD) & the 3rd Colloquium of the Harmonious Bilingualism Network (HaBilNet3) June 4-6 and the International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB15) June 9-13. What will you be presenting?

May 29th ist the next LangVIEW seminar, "Processing Acquisition Data in the Age of AI: The Possibilities and the Challenges" with R. Kuman & R. K. Narayanan at 6:00 PM IST / 2:30 PM CEST / 8:00 AM EDT. Join here: hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/69541145833 Abstract and mailing list: lnkd.in/eGXhRCAm

Next week, researchers will head to Budapest (Hungary) for the 46th International Child Phonology Conference (ICPC2025; icpc2025.elte.hu) and México City (Mexico) for the Colloquium on the Acquisition and Socialization of Meso-South American Indigenous Languages. We hope for productive meetings!

In our interview with Dr. Rowena Garcia, the winner of the inaugural 2024 IASCL Early Career Award, we talked about how we can use scientific knowledge to tackle the lack of diversity in language acquisition research. Check it out here: youtu.be/XPfkguSLL9Q?...

Next week, researchers will be heading to the University of Bologna (Italy) for the 15th Communication & Language Acquisition Studies in Typical & Atypical Populations Conference (CLASTA). Attendees will be treated to keynotes from Marc H. Bornstein, Cesare Cornold, & Carina Lüke. www.clasta.org/en/

On May 15th Parul Bhardwaj & Sakshi Bhatia (Uni. Delhi) present the next LangVIEW seminar, "Acquiring Hindi-Urdu Causatives" at 18:00 IST / 14:30 CEST / 8:00 AM EDT. Link: hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/66954584749 View the abstract and join the LangView mailing list here: groups.google.com/g/langview/c...

Excited to share work by Aki Tapionkaski and Sanna Tapionkaski presenting a new framework for understanding phonological deficits in speech, language and reading disorders. ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/8...

The beginning of June is a great time for language acquisition researchers to be in San Sebastian, Spain. If you're not presenting anything, there is still time to register and make plans for WILD (www.bcbl.eu/events/wild/...) and ISB (www.bcbl.eu/events/isb15...).

Next week, the Acquisition Sketch Project will discuss gesture in both child language and child-directed language. Join them May 13/14! Meeting details and time zone conversions can be found here: acquisition-sketch.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/support/semi...

This year, BUCLD turns 50! Submissions for talks and posters for the Boston University Conference on Language Development are open. Join them in November for a special celebration, including a keynote presentation by Dr. Jean Berko Gleason! www.bu.edu/bucld/calls/...

In our interview with Dr. Celia Rosemberg, she told us how she forms & maintains relationships with the populations she studies, including the Qom & Daviaxaiqui communities & the low SES, marginalized populations in "villas de emergencia" in Buenos Aires, Argentina. youtu.be/6ZlfJ_lmw1c?...

Two new theses were announced in the latest issue of the Child Language Bulletin (www.childlanguage.org/latestbulletin): - Multi-modal communication in early parent-child interactions (Ebru Pınar) - The harmonious bilingual development in 5-year-old Franco-Russian children (Ekaterina Tiulkova)

Researchers of autism will gather in Seattle, USA between April 30th and May 3rd for the Annual Meeting of the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR 2025). We wish our colleagues a productive meeting! More information here: www.autism-insar.org/page/2025Ann...

Lourdes de León and Pedro Mateo Pedro have edited a special issue of First Language on the topic of ‘The Acquisition of Mesoamerican Languages’, covering Mayan languages and one emerging sign language. Read more in the latest Child Language Bulletin: www.childlanguage.org/latestbulletin

🚨4-5 new postdoc positions in language & cognition🚨 😇 One postdoc will work specifically with Eon-Suk Ko and I on the ManyBabies-AtHome project, focusing on infant word recognition in global, remote settings using collaborative, open science practices [https://shorturl.at/5l3tW]. @manybabies.org