Congress Topics

  • Cognition and language
  • General language
  • Input factors
  • Non verbal communication
  • Typical L1 acquisition
  • Bilingual/multilingual development
  • Language and social world
  • L2 child language acquisition
  • Infants
  • Toddlers
  • Preschoolers
  • School-age children
  • Adolescence
  • Speech perception
  • Comprehension
  • School-age language development
  • Literacy and language
  • Cultural and social factors
  • Sign language
  • New methods in language research
  • Individual differences in language development
  • Child-directed speech/language
  • Social cognition and language development
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Phonetics
  • Phonology
  • Morphology
  • Syntax
  • Semantics
  • Pragmatics
  • Acquisition of lexicon
  • Prosody
  • Narrative
  • Discourse
  • Developmental language disorder, SLI
  • Autistic spectrum disorders
  • Reading disorders and child language
  • Other neurodevelopmental conditions
  • Deafness, cochlear implants, sensory impairments
  • Language assessment
  • Neurobiology in typical and/or atypical language
  • Genetics
  • Evolution of language
  • Preferential looking/eyetracking
  • Child language corpora 
  • Standardized testing of language development