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On April 9th and 10th, Maria Lobo and Ana Castro, researchers from the LiFE – Formal and Experimental Linguistics group, were in Rethymno (Crete, Greece) to take part in a meeting of the European project Y-JustLang – Justice to Youth Language Needs (COST Action CA22139).

The meeting program includes a Training School dedicated to language development in adolescence – Language development in adolescence. Late acquisition, multigrammars and impairments -, working group meetings and a Management Committee meeting.

Among the training sessions, Maria Lobo‘s session focused on linguistic measures for assessing syntactic complexity – an essential tool for analyzing linguistic performance and one that can contribute to understanding the communicative barriers faced by many young people in contact with justice systems.

The Y-JustLang project brings together researchers, professionals and decision-makers from more than 30 countries, with the aim of making visible the invisible linguistic disadvantage of young people in judicial contexts.

The overall aim of the project is to help make justice truly accessible to all young people, regardless of their linguistic ability.

Further information: https://youthjusticelanguage.org and https://www.linkedin.com/company/youth-justice-language