9th Bucharest Colloquium of Language Acquisition
Short Title: BUCLA 9
Theme: Language acquisition and learning

Date: 14-Nov-2025 - 15-Nov-2025
Location: Buhcarest, Romania
Meeting URL: https://lls.unibuc.ro/conferinte/bucharest-colloquium-of-language-acquisition-9/

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics

Submission Deadline: 15-Sep-2025

The Center for the Study of Language Development and Linguistic Communication, University of Bucharest, has the pleasure to organize the 9th Bucharest Colloquium of Language Acquisition on November 14 – 15 2025, in hybrid format (on-site and online).
BUCLA’s central theme revolves around experimental research on language acquisition and learning. The colloquium creates an opportunity for researchers and doctoral candidates to present their work on various topics that encompass monolingual, bilingual and heritage language acquisition, language attrition as well as L2 and L3 learning.

Keynote speakers:
Martine Coene – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
F. Nihan Ketrez – Istanbul Bilgi University

In addition to the main session, the colloquium also hosts the workshop:
- Pronouns in acquisition

Workshop keynote speaker:
Jacopo Torregrossa - Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main

The workshop is organized by Adina Camelia Bleotu and Ioana Stoicescu, University of Bucharest

Abstract submission

We invite one-page abstract submissions (TNR 12, single-spaced, 1-inch margins), with an additional page for examples, figures and references, for 30 minute oral presentations (20 minutes for the presentation, 10 minutes for discussions). Abstracts must be in English and they should be anonymous. Author’s name and affiliation and e-mail for correspondence should be included. Please specify if your abstract is intended for the main session or for the workshop and if you plan on participating in person or online.

Abstracts should be sent to: [email protected]

Important dates
Deadline for submissions: September 15 2025
Notification of acceptance: October 1 2025