Full Title: International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech 2025
Short Title: ISMBS 2025

Date: 16-Jun-2025 - 19-Jun-2025
Location: Chania, Crete, Greece
Contact Person: Elena Babatsouli
Meeting Email: [email protected]
Web Site: https://speechandlanguage.louisiana.edu/ismbs

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Clinical Linguistics; General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics

Call Deadline: 27-Jan-2025

Meeting Description:

The 5th International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (ISMBS 2025) will be held on 16-19 June 2025 at the Great Arsenali Conference Center, located at the old Venetian harbor in the town of Chania [xa'ɲa] on the island of Crete, Greece.

The International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (ISMBS) is a biennial conference hosting original research on the acquisition and use of first language, second or additional language, bilingual, and (bi)dialectal speech, child and adult, typical and atypical.

The Symposium encourages a multidisciplinary exchange of ideas across phonology, phonetics, morphology, syntax, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, clinical phonetics and linguistics, speech pathology, neurolinguistics, sign language, educational linguistics, sociolinguistics, and the application of new technologies.

Theoretical, experimental, qualitative, observational, computational, and clinical contributions are welcome.

PLENARY SPEAKERS
Juana Liceras, University of Ottawa, Canada
Viorica Marian, Northwestern University, USA
Sharynne McLeod, Charles Sturt University, Australia

SOCIAL EVENTS
Conference dinner
An excursion to Elafonisi Beach, the best beach in Europe, and to the monastery of Chrysoskalitissa.

PREVIOUS ISMBS
ISMBS last convened in 2022 at the Department of Communicative Disorders, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA. It has previously convened three more times (2019, 2017, 2015) at the Grand Arsenali of the old Venetian harbor in Chania, Crete, Greece.

PUBLICATIONS
Submission of full papers after the symposium is optional for special issue(s) in the Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech.
https://journal.equinoxpub.com/index.php/JMBS/index

INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
https://speechandlanguage.louisiana.edu/ismbs/international-scientific-committee

IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission deadline: 27 January 2025
Date of notification: by 20 February 2025

We hope your participation in the symposium will prove stimulating, fruitful, and enjoyably memorable, as in Demosthenes' words, "Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."

Call for Papers:

https://speechandlanguage.louisiana.edu/ismbs/call-papers

The Symposium hosts a multidisciplinary forum for the exchange of ideas on monolingual and bilingual speech.

Theoretical, experimental, qualitative, observational, computational, and clinical contributions are welcome for oral or poster presentations that may be on:
- speech acquisition and use
- monolingualism
- bilingualism and multilingualism
- child speech development
- adult and child second or additional language (L2, Ln)
- dialectal speech
- typical and atypical speech
- language maintenance, loss, and attrition
- pronunciation learning and teaching
- speech perception and production
- speech recognition and processing
- atypical speech development and communicative disorders
- speech and hearing impairment
- speech remediation

regarding phonology, phonetics, morphology, syntax, clinical phonetics and linguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, neurolinguistics, educational linguistics, sociolinguistics, sign language, speech physiology, methodological advancements, computational advancements, and applications of new technologies.

The language of the Symposium is English. Oral and poster presentations will not be concurrent.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Abstracts should clearly state the research question(s), approach, method, data, and (expected) results. They should be 300 words long (excluding the title, five keywords, and references).
Preference for oral or poster presentation(s) is indicated at the bottom of the abstract.

Use the Abstract Template provided and submit two versions: i) a Word document, ii) an Anonymized pdf.
Abstract Template: https://speechandlanguage.louisiana.edu/sites/speechandlanguage/files/ISMBS%202025%20Abstract%20Template_0.docx

SUBMIT TO
Abstracts should be submitted to [email protected]
by January 27, 2025