Second CALL FOR PAPERS
It is our pleasure to invite you to the 16th congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language which will be held on July 15 to 19, 2024 in the wonderful city of Prague, Czech Republic, and announce opening of the submissions.
This 16th edition of the IASCL congress will be held at the Charles University in Prague and organized by the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. We would like to invite you to be a part of this extraordinary event held first time after seven years in person. We are soliciting two types of contributions: symposia and individual presentations (talks or posters). In the tradition of IASCL conferences, symposia of four or five talks will be the primary form of oral contributions, but we will also reserve room for individual oral presentations. You can register and submit your abstracts here: https://abstracts.iascl2024.com/
You can submit any number of abstracts, but maximum of two first-authored contributions will be accepted; contributions in symposia and higher-ranked abstracts will be given preference. Please do not submit more than one first-authored contribution to a symposium. Please note that the Title can be up to 100 characters long.
The IASCL will have a number of travel awards available for scholars in the Global South and for students elsewhere whose abstract has been accepted. So even if right now you are not sure how you would fund your in-person participation in IASCL 2024, please do submit! Details on travel awards will be posted after acceptance letters have been sent out.
For further information about our IASCL 2024 topics or Keynote Speakers please visit www.iascl2024.com.
The topics of the congress include:
- Typical L1 acquisition, bilingual/multilingual development, L2 child language acquisition, language development from prenatal stages to adolescence
- Acquisition of phonology, prosody, morphology, lexicon, syntax, discourse and narrative competence; acquisition of less researched languages
- Speech perception, comprehension, language production in children; children’s literacy and language
- Sign language acquisition and development• Individual differences in language development, input factors, , cultural and social factors in language development, child-directed speech/language, social cognition and language development
- Atypical language development: Developmental language disorder, SLI, autistic spectrum disorders, reading disorders and child language, ther neurodevelopmental conditions
- Deafness, cochlear implants, sensory impairments
- Neurobiology in typical and/or atypical language development, genetics of language development
- Child language corpora, language assessment, standardized testing of language development
IMPORTANT DATES:
- Abstract submission deadline September 30th, 2023
- Decision of submission by December 2023/January 2024
Filip Smolík
Chair of the Organizing Committee
Institute of Psychology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Presentation formats
Please note that the accepted formats include only individual presentations (abstracts for talks or posters) or symposia. The button “Panel discussion” is reserved for special purposes and should not be used.
Guidelines for talk and poster submissions and presentations
Submission
Submissions for individual talks and posters are treated in the same way. Presentations that will be ranked best will be planned as oral presentations, unless the preferred format is marked as Poster presentation.
The abstracts are 300 words maximum with no figures or tables. Please do not include the list of references. If it is absolutely necessary to include the source for a reference, please do so in parentheses in the text.
Note that a maximum of two first-authored presentations will be accepted for each author, whether as individual talks/posters, or within symposia. There is no limit on submissions, the abstract that are ranked best will be selected for presentation. If the submissions include talks in symposia, these will be given preference.
Preliminary presentation guidelines for talks
In the oral sessions, there will be 5 talks in each 2-hour session, so individual talks will be given 18 minutes for presentation, 5 minutes for discussion, and 1 minute for speaker change. To keep the conference on time, we will be strict on the time limits.
Presenters should be present in the room 15 minutes before the beginning of their session to upload the presentations, which should use the powerpoint or pdf format.
Preliminary presentation guidelines for posters
The preferred poster format is portrait in the A0 format, i. e. approximately 90×120 cm. The boards are 95×150 cm, so they should fit somewhat larger posters.
Presenters will be responsible for putting the posters up, the fixation materials will be provided.
Guidelines for symposia
Following IASCL tradition, the majority of the oral presentations will be in the form of symposia. The symposia will include four or five spoken presentations, and can also include a discussant, in which case there should only be four presentations. Symposia are limited to a single 2-hour slot.
Submission
A symposium proposal is submitted by the convenor and must include a max. 300-word abstract for the whole symposium as well as max. 300-word abstracts for each presentation. Note that each presenter (first author) of a symposium must be registered in the submission system in order to submit the whole symposium: the submitter will have to select them from the existing system users (please see the technical submission guidelines for details).
Like for individual presentations, the abstract for the symposia and talks within symposia can have maximum of 300 words with no figures or tables. Please do not include the list of references. If it is absolutely necessary to include the source for a reference, please do so in parentheses in the text.
Note that a maximum of two first-authored presentations will be accepted for each author, whether as individual talks/posters, or within symposia. There is no limit on submissions, the abstract that are ranked best will be selected for presentation. If the submissions include talks in symposia, these will be given preference.
Preliminary presentation guidelines for symposia
The organization and schedule of the symposium is determined by the convenor. Generally, the speakers should be present in the room 15 minutes before the beginning of their session to upload the presentations, which should use the powerpoint or pdf format.