Full Title: Child Language Symposium 2025
Short Title: CLS2025

Date: 08-Sep-2025 - 10-Sep-2025
Location: Reading, United Kingdom
Contact Person: Vesna Stojanovik
Meeting Email: [email protected]

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

Call Deadline: 28-Feb-2025

Final Call for Papers:

Child Language Symposium 2025 –
https://research.reading.ac.uk/cls2025/conference-information/call-for-papers/
Abstract submissions: https://easychair.org/cfp/CLS2025

The University of Reading is pleased to host the 2025 edition of the Child Language Symposium on Monday 8th September (all day), Tuesday 9th September (all day) and Wednesday 10th September (half a day, with 1pm finish) 2025. The Symposium coincides with the University of Reading celebrating 50 years of speech and language therapy and 60 years of Linguistics and we have planned an exciting programme of celebrations which will happen in the afternoon/early evening of Wednesday 10th September and for which
conference delegates will be welcome to attend.

Important dates:
- Abstract submission opens – 8th January 2025
- Abstract submission closes - 28th February 2025
https://easychair.org/cfp/CLS2025
- Decisions on abstract submissions – end of March/early April 2025
- Registration opens in April 2025

Submission Guidelines

We welcome submissions in any area of language development (Artificial Languages, Bilingualism/Multilingualism, Cognition & Language, Discourse and Narrative, Gesture, Hearing Impairment and Deafness, Input & Interaction, Developmental Language Difficulties, Neurolinguistics, Pragmatics, Pre-linguistic Development, Reading and Literacy, Sign Languages, Speech Perception & Production, Speech & Language Intervention.

We welcome several types of presentations: 1) individual papers, 2) posters,
3) workshops/symposia with thematically related papers and 4) lightning
talks (5 min presentations).

Length of abstracts

Paper or poster presentations including lightning talks(250 words max - excluding references and title of paper and any figures or tables;
Workshops/symposia should include 3-4 papers which are related thematically and an introduction showing how the papers are related and what the theme covers; (the introduction should be maximum 200 words excluding references, and there should be abstracts for each individual paper, each 250 words excluding references).

Length of presentations in the conference

Individual papers: 20 min. and 10 min. for discussion and change of rooms
Workshop/symposium: 90 mins in duration.
Lightning talks: 5 mins each

Poster format:
Poster size: A0 or A1, portrait.

Organising Committee

Vesna Stojanovik https://www.reading.ac.uk/pcls/staff/vesna-stojanovik
Ludovica Serratrice https://www.reading.ac.uk/Psychology/About/staff/l-serratrice.aspx
Holly Joseph https://www.reading.ac.uk/education/about/staff/h-joseph.aspx
Jane Setter https://www.reading.ac.uk/elal/our-research/research-stories/professor-jane-setter
Ian Cunnings https://www.reading.ac.uk/pcls/staff/ian-cunnings
Sylvia Jaworska https://www.reading.ac.uk/elal/staff/dr-sylvia-jaworska
Emma Pagnamenta https://www.reading.ac.uk/pcls/staff/emma-pagnamenta
George Pontikas https://www.reading.ac.uk/pcls/staff
Allie Biddle https://www.reading.ac.uk/pcls/staff/allie-biddle
Fraibet Avelado https://www.reading.ac.uk/elal/staff/dr-fraibet-aveledo
Carmel Houston-Price https://www.reading.ac.uk/pcls/staff/carmel-houston-price

Invited Speakers

Prof Chloe Marshall https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/14497-chloe-marshall/about
Prof Jacopo Torregrossa https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/57191097/Prof__Dr__Jacopo_Torregrossa
Prof Cristina McKean https://www.education.ox.ac.uk/person/cristina-mckean/
Prof Catherine Davies https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/languages/staff/699/professor-catherine-davies
Rowena Garcia https://rgarcia.owlstown.net/

Venue

The conference will be held at the Palmer Building, University of Reading
https://www.reading.ac.uk/

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to [email protected]