The photo shows a primary school building in the center left. The sky above is bright blue with a few white clouds and there is a green lawn in front of the school. In the background on the right is a small hill. The picture was taken from a distance. In the front right of the picture is a black hand luggage bag. It stands on a paved way that leads up to the school building.

It started with a trip cut short by storm Éowyn and ends in the beautifully autumnal #Connemara #Gaeltacht. 8 months & 180 test sessions later, data collection is finished.
Now on to the analyses - how do #Irish - #English #bilingual children process their languages? Watch this space.
#Gaeilge

Earlier this week, I had the wonderful opportunity to present our research on #CLI and between-language #priming in Irish-English #bilingual children at the Centre for Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism @uniofgalway.bsky.social. Thank you all, míle buíochas!
#Gaeilge #LanguageAcquisition

How Does Speaking A Free Word Order Language Influence Sentence Planning and Production? Evidence From Pitjantjatjara (Pama‐Nyungan, Australia) Sentence production is a stage-like process of mapping a conceptual representation to the linear speech signal via grammatical rules. While the typological diversity of languages is vast and thus mus...

How does speaking a free word order language influence sentence planning and production? Evidence from Pitjantjatjara (Pama‐Nyungan, Australia). New paper by Evan Kidd & al. with Gabriela Garrido Rodríguez
doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70087

I am excited to share the abstract video to our study on Joint Attention in Signing Caregiver-Child Dyads!
youtu.be/M8EUU1_p4so

Constructing language: a framework for explaining acquisition Explaining how children build a language system is a central goal of research in language acquisition, with broad implications for language evolution, adult language processing, and artificial intelli...

Children are incredible language learning machines. But how do they do it? Our latest paper, just published in TICS, synthesizes decades of evidence to propose four components that must be built into any theory of how children learn language. 1/
www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @mpi-nl.bsky.social

Donders Cube Award for Sharon Unsworth during Donders Day | Radboud University As part of the Donders Sessions, this year’s annual poster session was expanded into a full-day event featuring engaging talks and poster presentations. Sharon Unsworth was awarded the Donders Cube fo...

🎉 #Donders #Cube Award for Sharon Unsworth 🎉 for her outstanding commitment to the #Kletskoppen #Festival.

🏆 Poster prizes went to:

• Danielle Houwing (MPI)
• Marco Gandolfo (DCC)
• Chinmaya Mishra (MPI)
• Zehra Kazmi (DCN)
• Umut Can ALTIN (DCC)

www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...

#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

In the final keynote of #ISB15, Robert Hartsuiker @roberthartsuiker.bsky.social is re-examining a question at the heart of #psycholinguistic research on #bilingual language processing: Is bilingual lexical access really language non-selective?

Let's find out.
@isbilingualism.bsky.social

The final afternoon symposium is starting now at #ISB15: very much looking forward to four insightful talks on the role of #typological distance on #bilingual language processing.

@isbilingualism.bsky.social

🗣️ 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

The afternoon session on #immersioneducation in #minority languages at #ISB15 is starting with a talk by Aisling Ní Dhiorbháin & Pádraig Ó Duibhir on promoting the benefits of #Irish immersion education to families with linguistically & culturally #diverse backgrounds.
#Gaeilge #Multilingualism

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

#ISB15
@isbilingualism.bsky.social

Keynote by Professor Elizabeth D. Peña on assessing #DLD in #bilingual children and busting myths:
Bilinguals score in the normative mean in at least one language. There is no "bilingual delay" & bilinguals with DLD are not double delayed.
Look at #individualdifferences, not group averages.
#ISB15

Following up with today’s last keynote talk from Prof. Emerita Jasone Cenoz (University of the Basque Country) on multilingualism, minority languages and translanguaging. Inspiring reflections on linguistic diversity and education! 💭 #Translanguaging #ISB15

Rowena Garcia is presenting research at #ISB15 showing that #crosslinguistic #priming occurs across #typologically unrelated languages & without overlap of constituent order. The degree of overlap modulated the magnitude of the effect.
#Tagalog #Indonesian #English

@isbilingualism.bsky.social

Looking forward to the second priming session at #ISB15 starting now with a talk on the fascinating connection between #CLI and #priming as potential #psycholinguistic mechanisms of contact-induced #languagechange.
@isbilingualism.bsky.social

Our afternoon talks start with the keynote of Marie Jacobs (ULB & Ghent Univ) presenting on multilingual complexities in the asylum context, a powerful take on language, disparity & asylum practices 🌍 #ISB15 #Multilingualism #Asylum

I had a great time today presenting our research on the role of language dominance in #priming of ungrammatical structures in #Irish - #English #bilingual children at #ISB15.
Thank you very much to everyone who attended and for all your great questions and feedback.
Eskerrik asko! Míle buíochas!

Caregivers Use Joint Attention to Support Sign Language Acquisition in Deaf Children Children's ability to share attention with another social partner (joint attention) plays an important role in language development. However, our understanding of the role of joint attention comes ma....

Caregivers use joint attention to support sign language acquisition in deaf children. New paper by @jennisander.bsky.social , @carorowland.bsky.social & Amy M. Lieberman.
doi.org/10.1111/desc.70034

Laura Bosch is starting off Day 2 @isbilingualism.bsky.social with her keynote on early #bilingualism:
The diversity in bilingual #language #acquisition is a challenge. But it gives us rich insights into the many linguistic and environmental factors influencing language learning in children.
#ISB15

Fantastic to see talks on #Gaeilge 🇮🇪 at #ISB15: Verena Platzgummer @verenaplatzgummer.bsky.social, Cassie Smith-Christmas @cassiesmithxmas.bsky.social ‬& Paul Finn are presenting their research on how #multilingual families in the Munster #Gaeltacht are raising their children with #Irish.

The image shows an auditorium stage with a large screen showing the title of the talk called "engaging children from diverse backgrounds with language science". The speaker Sharon Unsworth is standing at the speaker's podium to the left side of the screen.

Excited to see @sharonneke.bsky.social sharing her insights from the #Kletskoppen Child Language Festival on engaging children from diverse backgrounds with #languagescience at #ISB15.

Janet van Hell just opened with a fascinating keynote on the influence of speaker & listener characteristics on the processing of semantic & syntactic speech errors.
It seems like using opportunities to immerse yourself in non-native speech (like #ISB15) can improve your processing accuracy.

#ISB15 has officially started! Ongi etorri!

Looking forward to 5 inspiring days at the International Symposium on Bilingualism #ISB15 starting tomorrow in San Sebastián.

A great way to kick off my bluesky journey: new publication out in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 🥳
with Susanne Brouwer, @sharonneke.bsky.social & @falkhuettig.bsky.social 👇🏻

On Friday 14 March, we open our doors for an exclusive event as part of the InScience Film Festival. Visitors can join guided tours through our research labs, meet robot Furhat, create DNA bracelets and learn more about the MPI and our work. More info via: www.insciencefestival.nl/en/vertoning...

University of Chicago

Amazing *free* online course on conducting child language research in understudied communities: Expanding Research in Language Development (WERLD). By the incredible Marisa Casillas with a line up of fabulous guest lecturers. chatterlab.uchicago.edu/werld2025/

So I just read this yesterday. Wonderful study that robustly explores the relationship between what language kids hear and what they learn. My take homes 1/

Whale song shows language-like statistical structure Humpback whale song is a culturally transmitted behavior. Human language, which is also culturally transmitted, has statistically coherent parts whose frequency distribution follows a power law. These...

"Methods based on infant speech segmentation, applied to 8 years of humpback recordings, uncovered in whale song the same statistical structure that is a hallmark of human language." Cool new paper by @inbalarnon.bsky.social, @simonkirby.bsky.social, @ellengarland.bsky.social out in @science.org. 🧪