International Symposium on Bilingualism

We’re now handing #ISB15 over to the next team! It’s been a pleasure hosting such a wonderful symposium and meeting all of you. Stay tuned for updates about the next one! ✨

Scatterplot of /l/ tokens in Ray & Chang (2025), by word position, task, and group

Our own @jupitararay.bsky.social had a poster w/ Prof @cbchang.bsky.social at last week’s #ISB15 @isbilingualism.bsky.social! Missed it? View “Phonetic accommodation in Hindi-English and Telugu-English early sequential bilinguals”: jupitararay.github.io/img/isb15pos...

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Just attended @isbilingualism.bsky.social
in San Sebastián with my supervisor @troembke.bsky.social.
I presented my meta-analysis on bilingual advantage in word learning there.
Great talks and interesting people. Grateful for the experience!
#Bilingualism #LanguageLearning #Psycholinguistics

We hope you had an amazing time! 😊

We loved having you here! 😊

We’re happy to see it! 😊

Grateful for such an inspiring week at my first @isbilingualism.bsky.social. Lots to digest as we reluctantly leave the beautiful San Sebastian!

Here are my slides with preliminary findings on the effect of trauma on word learning in Ukrainian refugee children in the Netherlands ➡️ osf.io/qsdtk

Kaixo from Donostia! Honored to present at the (#ISB15) in San Sebastián, Spain. A meaningful way to conclude year 2 of my PhD studies.
Many thanks to the organizing committee and the @bcbl.bsky.social —Eskerrik asko!
Hurrengoan arte! 🌍📚🧠
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What happens when you put experts in multilingualism, genetics, neuroimaging, & animal cognition in the same @isbilingualism.bsky.social panel? @nargolestani.bsky.social and I, supported by @nccrlanguage.bsky.social, took on the challenge and...learned a lot while having a blast!

Just landed in Geneva after an incredible and dense week at @isbilingualism.bsky.social in San Sebastian!
It was a pleasure to spend the week discussing bilingualism, multilingualism, reading and more with some of the most brilliant people in the field!

Myth busting language delay in bilinguals!

ISB15 was a great experience, as always. Many interesting lectures, catching up with wonderful colleagues and got positive feedback on my plenary. Happy!

#ISB15 is officially over! 😢 Special thanks to @antjestoehr.bsky.social, Leire and Oihana for the amazing work they’ve done organising this conference, it wouldn’t have been possible without them ❤️ Safe travels and many thanks to all attendees! And… see you in Saskatoon! #ISB16

Our very last keynote is here — but our brains are still switched on! 🧠 Prof. Robert Hartsuiker @roberthartsuiker.bsky.social (Ghent University) asks, is bilingual lexical access really language non-selective? A mind-twisting finale to our conference journey! #ISB15

Wrapping up! Today we had our last poster session of the conference… but it was still packed and buzzing! 📣 #ISB15

🗣️ Starting the final day of the conference with Prof. Pia Lane (University of Oslo) with a keynote on language revitalisation after historical trauma, a thought-provoking talk on resilience, identity, and linguistic futures 🌱 #ISB15

🔙 Vecinos/as de #Donostia disfrutaron ayer del congreso @isbilingualism.bsky.social en el evento #EuskaraMunduanZehar.

🗣 Itxaso Rodríguez-Ordóñez y Ander Beristain compartieron en el Victoria Eugenia el trabajo vinculado al #euskera que llevan a cabo en las Universidades de California y San Luis.

Then we enjoyed a pintxo-style dinner on the Aquarium terrace, with amazing sunset views! 🌅 Glasses were empty, vibes were lively, conversations flowing – the perfect end to a full day of talks 😌 #ISB15

We first got a tour around San Sebastián’s Aquarium 🐟 Saw all sorts of marine species and also fun brain coral 🧠🪸 All while cheering with some cava! 🥂 #ISB15

Want to see what we were up to after today’s conference sessions? 🤭 Follow the thread! 🧵 #ISB15

#ISB15 has been beautiful, invigorating, manic, thought provoking.

I’ll be sharing some snippets of talks and quotes on my multilingual Insta profile (mainly in Finnish) when I sit down and gather my thoughts and notes back home!

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Today @isbilingualism.bsky.social: A double session on Decolonizing #FLP
🔍Insights on #multilingualism #identity across global contexts
📷Our paper: Decolonizing Family Language Policy: The call for Investigating Multilingual Dynamics in new Contexts
🔥With a sharp discussion by Cassie Smith-Christmas

‪At @isbilingualism.bsky.social‬? Join us tomorrow, 11:35 in the auditorium: @nargolestani.bsky.social and I, supported by @nccrlanguage.bsky.social have assembled a stellar lineup to discuss: "The bi-literate brain: behavioral, neural, and genetic insights into recent evolutionary adaptations."

Great time presenting our poster at @isbilingualism.bsky.social on L1 Russian and L1 English speakers acquiring L2 Spanish grammatical gender. More in this here: benjamins.com/catalog/resl...

A fantastic start to Day 4 at #ISB15!

Elizabeth Peña delivered an insightful #keynote this morning on developmental language disorder in bilingual contexts. 🧠🗣️

My favourite things about #ISB15 so far:

1. research of various disciplines
2. meeting wonderful people from different continents
3. location right next to the sea enabling pensamientos creativos y descanso
4. deep/fun/research-led discussions over pintxos

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The symposium on the brilliant #Q-BEx parental questionnaire on language #dominance in #bilingual children is starting now, presented by
Ludovica Serratrice @ludoserratrice.bsky.social
Sharon Unsworth @sharonneke.bsky.social
Cécile De Cat @ceciletje.bsky.social

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Today’s poster session is packed! 📣 Come and practice your listening-in-noise skills while engaging with fantastic research conducted by our attendees with amazing sea views 🌊 #ISB15