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...
Feel free to blow that trumpet all day! Amazing addition, thank you!
We provide full instructions for how to access and contribute to the library on our website (www.childlanguage.org/underreprese...) and in a YouTube playlist (youtube.com/playlist?lis...).
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: aliyah.morgenstern@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr. 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 (editor.iascl.clbulletin@gmail.com)
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 (editor.iascl.clbulletin@gmail.com) 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!
