Important: Decision letters have now been sent to all applicants.
If you have been offered a place, please confirm your participation using the link provided in your acceptance email by 3 August 2026.
If you have not received a decision email, please check your spam or junk folder. If you still cannot find it, contact us at language1.summerschool.dpss@unipd.it before 3 August 2026 so that we can assist you.
The third edition of the virtual /L+/ summer/winter school on language acquisition aims to promote knowledge about first language acquisition and establish a global network of collaboration with mutually beneficial exchanges for researchers and students. Taking place online across two different time zones, and in person at local hubs in select universities, the school strives to be as inclusive as possible.
The topics for this year’s practical sessions and lectures are:
CONDUCTING FIELD RESEARCH
Focus on naturalistic & observational data: Camilla Scaff (University of Zürich, Switzerland)
Focus on experimental data: Paul Omane (University of Paris, France)
RESEARCH METHODS
Naturalistic & observational data: Jekaterina Mazara (University of Tübingen, Germany)
Experimental data: Eon-Suk Ko (Chosun University, South Korea)
DATA COLLECTION
Running an experiment using Psychopy: Martin Zettersten (University of California, USA)
Questionnaires: Grace Ennim (University of Potsdam, Germany)
DATA PROCESSING
Transcribing language samples: Joseph Coffey (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, France)
Data Preprocessing with RStudio and the tidyverse: Jens Roeser (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
DATA ANALYSIS
Analyzing language transcripts: Shanley Allen (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)
Analysing data using R: Giulia Calignano (University of Padova, Italy)
BEHAVIOURAL AND QUANTITATIVE
Marisa Casillas (University of Chicago, USA);
Katherine Twomey (University of Manchester, UK)
CROSS-LINGUISTIC ACQUISITION
Thierry Nazzi (University of Paris, France)
Sabine Stoll (University of Zürich, Switzerland)
MULTIMODALITY
Aylin Küntay (Koç University, Turkey)
Beyza Sümer (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
ATYPICAL DEVELOPMENT
Sudha Arunachalam (New York University, USA)
DEVELOPING ASSESSMENT TOOLS
Frenette Southwood (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
MULTILINGUALISM
Vicky Chondrogianni (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Virginia Marchman (Stanford University, USA)
For each day of the school, we will have one practical session of 2 hours per time zone:
1. Asia/Africa/Europe-friendly
2. Africa/Europe/The Americas-friendly
There will also be activities for networking and exchanging about academic career development - stay tuned!
Registration is now closed.