CLUNL

GALA 16 – 16th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition Conference

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We are pleased to announce the 16th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition conference (GALA 16) to be held at the NOVA University Lisbon – School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH), Portugal, on September 12-14, 2024.

GALA is a biennial conference that brings together researchers from across Europe and overseas, providing a forum for discussion of recent, high-quality research on first and second language acquisition, bi/multilingual acquisition, heritage language acquisition, language pathology and language impairment, acquisition of sign language and brain imaging research for acquisition and pathology.

The growing body of research in these areas testifies how language acquisition studies are central for our understanding of human language and how it develops in the brain, and offers novel insights to theoretical studies, as well as hints for practical outcomes for diagnosis, intervention and rehabilitation in the case of developmental language disorders.

 

Keynote Speakers

• Philippe Prévost (Université de Tours)
• Ana Lúcia Santos (Universidade de Lisboa)
• Roumyana Slabakova (University of Southampton and Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

 

Website: https://galalisbon2024.fcsh.unl.pt/

 

Organization

Steering Committee
Maria Lobo
Ana Madeira
Alexandra Fiéis
João Costa
Joana Teixeira
Aida Cardoso

Organizing Committee
Antónia Estrela
Ana Castro
Joana Batalha

Student Volunteers
Bruna Bragança
Catarina Rosa
Joana Miguel
João de Matos
João Dinis Fernandes
Ronan Pereira
Stéphanie Vaz
Xinyi Li
Yolanda Xavier

Secretariat
Inês Felício (CLUNL)