We recently interviewed Dr. Rebecca Defina, a DECRA research fellow at the University of Melbourne, School of Languages and Linguistics, who received a commendation for IASCL's 2024 Early Career Award. Check out the interview here: youtu.be/dSXVf-IiHyA?...

Interview with Dr. Rebecca Defina

IASCL Media Coordinator Dr. Katie Von Holzen interviewed Dr. Rebecca Defina, a DECRA research fellow at the University of Melbourne, School of Languages and Linguistics. They talked about fieldwork,…

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Many of us will return to the classroom soon. Hear what Dr. Megan Gross has to say to students enrolled in a language acquisition course: youtu.be/bQRrpAswqDA?...

Interview with Dr. Megan Gross

IASCL Media Coordinator Dr. Katie Von Holzen interviewed Dr. Megan Gross, an Associate Professor in the department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at the University of Massachusetts…

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On September 9th, Alexandra Vella and team will present "An in-progress look at the Maltese Acquisition Sketch”. Zoom link and more info, times, and how to join here: acquisition-sketch.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/support/semi...

The latest Child Language Bulletin from the IASCL is now available! Read up on the latest updates in our association, upcoming conferences (including #IASCL2027!!!), and new resources available to child language researchers. Enjoy! www.childlanguage.org/latestbulletin

We recently interviewed Dr. Megan Gross, an Associate Professor in the department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who received a commendation for IASCL's 2024 Early Career Award. Check out the interview here: youtu.be/bQRrpAswqDA?...

Interview with Dr. Megan Gross

IASCL Media Coordinator Dr. Katie Von Holzen interviewed Dr. Megan Gross, an Associate Professor in the department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at the University of Massachusetts…

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Annick De Houwer, immediate past president of IASCL, first encountered the association at the 1987 Congress in Lund. Hear how she describes it in our interview: youtu.be/9UmLxkds5wM?...

Interview with Dr. Annick De Houwer

IASCL Media Coordinator Dr. Katie Von Holzen interviewed Dr. Annick De Houwer, Emeritus Professor at the University of Erfurt in Germany and the immediate past President of the Association. They…

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In our Interview series, we asked Elena Lieven about the establishment of the IASCL's Roger Brown Award, conferred every three years to outstanding researchers and leaders in the field of child language. Who will the award go to next? Be there at #IASCL2027 and find out! youtu.be/sXwfJLnwJsM?...

Interview with Dr. Elena Lieven

IASCL Media Coordinator Dr. Katie Von Holzen interviewed Dr. Elena Lieven, Emeritus Professor at the University of Manchester. They talked about how she came to study psychology and language…

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With Phon 4, researchers can look forward to a revolution: inter-operability between Phon, CLAN and Praat. Yvan Rose, Gregory Hedlund, and Brian MacWhinney describe this, plus PhonBank integration and new datasets in the latest Child Language Bulletin: www.childlanguage.org/latestbulletin

Janet Bang announces the addition of 2 new CHILDES Corpora in the latest issue of the Child Language Bulletin (www.childlanguage.org/latestbulletin), both looking at families speaking English or Spanish in daylong recordings. Check it out!

Editors of the Trends in Language Acquisition Research (TiLAR) series, Shanley Allen &Evan Kidd, have two new volumes to announce (benjamins.com/catalog/tilar): - Usage-based Perspectives on Language and Language Acquisition: In honour of Heiki Behrens - Acquisition of Korean: The state of the art

On August 12th, Asifa Sultana and team will present "An in-progress look at the Bangla Acquisition Sketch”. Zoom link and more info, times, and how to join here: acquisition-sketch.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/support/semi...

Final call to send your contributions to the IASCL's Child Language Bulletin by August 8th! Send your conference reports, calls, CHILDES corpora, book/thesis announcements, surveys, or anything you think other child language researchers might find interesting to editor.iascl.clbulletin@gmail.com.

2025 was a very successful year for the Global TALES network, including new members, 2 new PhDs, and the first Global TALES network symposium. Read about all of these achievements in the latest Child Language Bulletin: www.childlanguage.org/latestbulletin

Following the vote of the IASCL Executive Board, the IASCL is pleased to announce the 2027-2030 IASCL Officers (www.childlanguage.org/officers#off...). Congratulations to: - President: Aylin Küntay (Turkey) - Vice-President: Mele Taumoepeau (New Zealand) - Treasurer: Gary Morgan (Spain) (2ndTerm)

In a little over a year, we'll see you in Sao Paolo, Brazil for the XVIIth Intl Congress for the Study of Child Language! In the latest Child Language Bulletin, Felipe Venâncio Barbosa (Organizing Committee Chair of IASCL 2027) gives us a first peek at plans (www.childlanguage.org/latestbulletin ).

Congratulations to Brian MacWhinney, IASCL Assistant Secretary, on receiving the Yuen Ren Chao Prize in Language Science (Lifetime Achievement Award). Read more about Brian on our website: www.childlanguage.org/brian-macwhi...

Still looking for your summer read? Look no further than the "First Language Acquisition in Finno-Ugric Languages", part the of TiLAR (Trends in Language Acquisition Research) Language Overviews. Details in the latest Child Language Bulletin: www.childlanguage.org/latestbulletin

The abstract submission portal for #IASCL2027 in São Paolo, Brazil is now open! Submissions are due September 30th, more information on the conference website: iascl2027.fflch.usp.br/call-papers-...

The call is now open for contributions to the IASCL's Child Language Bulletin. Send your conference reports, calls, CHILDES corpora, book/thesis announcements, surveys, or other information that child language researchers might find interesting to editor.iascl.clbulletin@gmail.com by August 8th!

As excitement for IASCL 2027 builds, we are looking even further into 2030. Aliya Morgenstern, Vice President of the IASCL, invites you to reach out to her if you are interested in hosting IASCL 2030. Details in the latest issue of the Child Language Bulletin: www.childlanguage.org/latestbulletin

Eva Huber (An in-progress look at the Batangas Tagalog Acquisition Sketch) & Natalia Gagarina (Using MAIN to add a narrative component to your Sketch) present at the Acquisition Sketch Project Meeting July 8th: Berlin 9 am Melbourne 5 pm LA midnight (end July 7) uni-kl-de.zoom-x.de/j/6872455288...

Child language researchers have a tough choice next week: attend the Child Language Symposium 2026 at the University College London (www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...) or The International Congress of Infant Studies in Panama City (infantstudies.org/2026-panama-...)? Either way, a guaranteed good time!

Ryan Paulů & Katie Von Holzen describe the additions to IASCL's Repository for Child Language Research in Underrepresented Languages in the latest Child Language Bulletin (www.childlanguage.org/latestbulletin). Tutorials are now online & we've already collected 101 papers on 95 different languages!

Next week sees the Speech Pathology Australia Conference (SPA) 2026 on the Gold Coast in Australia from June 25-27 (www.speechpathologyaustralia.org.au/Public/Publi...) and the International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA2026) at the University of Alberta from June 26-29 (icca2026.org).

Next week, the Uni of Reading hosts biling. & L2 researchers for the 6th Intl Symp. on Bilingual & L2 Processing in Adults & Children (ISBPAC; isbpac.info) while Ulster Uni hosts L1 acquisition researchers at the UK Workshop on Generative Lang Acquisition (UK-WGLA; blogs.ulster.ac.uk/language/wgla/)

On June 10, Dorjderem Byambasuren will present "An in-progress look at the Mongolian Tagalog Acquisition Sketch” at 1 am (Mexico City), 9 am (Berlin), and 5 pm (Melbourne): anu.zoom.us/j/8637217415...

The Uni of Torino, Italy will host the 16th CLASTA Conference (Communication and Language Acquisition, Studies in Typical & Atypical populations) on June 5-6, with Italian researchers in the field of communication & lang dev in populations w/typical & atypical dev. www.clasta.org/en/clasta-da...

Next week from May 27-29, researchers examining Slavic languages from a psycholinguistic perspective will meet at the University of Zadar in Croatia for the Psycholinguistics of Slavic Languages (PsychoSlav) Conference. Check out the program here: conference.unizd.hr/psychoslav20...

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...