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Silvia Benavides-Varela & Amanda Saksida (Padua University)

Let's start from the crib: how early perception and memory capacities shape language acquisition in the first months of life 

Natalie Boll-Avetisyan & Paul O. Omane (University of Potsdam)

Comparative psycholinguistic methods for studying infants' development of language-specific phonological knowledge 

Liquan Liu & Jenny Zeng (Western Sydney University)

Tone development in infancy and early childhood. 

Marina Kalashnikova (Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language)

Early predictors of typical and atypical language development 

Titia Benders & Anwar Alkhudidi (University of Amsterdam)

When children say more than adults can hear: Covert contrasts in children’s early speech-sound productions. 

Sarah C. Kucker (Southern Methodist University)

Mechanisms and Timescales Underlying Word Learning 

Nivedita Mani (Universität Göttingen)

Unpacking the how and why of early word learning 

Ramona Kunene Nicolas (University of the Witwatersrand)

Early lexical acquisition in Bantu languages 

Michael C. Frank (Stanford University)

Variability and consistency in children's early language learning: The Wordbank project 

Julien Mayor (University of Oslo)

Learning words as a multilingual child. 

Caroline Rowland (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)

Mechanisms of morphosyntactic development 

Kamil Ud Deen & Akari Ohba (University of Hawaii at Manoa)

Introduction to the generative approach to language acquisition. 

Evan Kidd (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)

Functionalist approaches to the acquisition of morphosyntax 

Irina Sekerina (The City University of New York)

Studying Morphosyntax with Bilingual Children: Topics and Methods. 

Theo Marinis (University of Konstanz)

Morphosyntactic development in children with Developmental Language Disorder 

Anne Fernald (Stanford University)

How verbal interactions with young children nurture early language learning 

Elena Lieven (University of Manchester)

Does talking to children matter? And, if so, how? 

Alejandrina Cristia (CNRS Paris)

Small babies, big data: How data from wearables can help our understanding of early language acquisition 

Suzy Styles & Woon Fei Ting (Nanyang Technological University)

Developing Sensory Worlds: How patterns of linguistic input are related to the emergence of language-specific perception for speech and beyond 

Thea Cameron-Faulkner (University of Manchester)

 The nature of Parent-child interaction: what we (think) we know and what we need to find out