CLS2025: Child Language Symposium 2025 University of Reading Reading, UK, September 8-9, 2025 |
| Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cls2025 |
| Abstract registration deadline | February 28, 2025 |
| Submission deadline | February 28, 2025 |
| Early bird registration | April 16, 2025 |
| Registration deadline | May 5, 2025 |
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. We have planned an exciting programme of celebrations in the afternoon/early evening of Wednesday 10th September which conference delegates are welcome to attend.
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, poster, lightning talk (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 (maximum 200 words excluding references, and abstracts for each individual paper each 250 words excluding references).
Length of conference presentations
Individual papers: 20 minutes and 10 minutes for discussion and change of rooms
Lightning talks: 5 minutes
Workshop/symposium: 90 minutes in duration.
Poster format
Poster size: A0 or A1, portrait.
Important dates
Abstract submission opens 6th January 2025
Abstract submission closes 28th February 2025
Decisions on abstract submissions – end of March/early April 2025
Registration opens in April 2025
Committees
Organizing committee
Invited Speakers
Dr Rowena Garcia
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 cls2025@reading.ac.uk