Coming to CU ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ: "South Asian Forum on the Acquisition and Processing of Languages (SAFAL) 2025"
With support from the National Science Foundation, SAFAL 2025 will be co-organized by Bhuvana Narasimhan (Linguistics), Al Kim (Psychology & Neuroscience/Institute of Cognitive Science), and (Communicative Sciences and Disorders, NYU).
South Asia constitutes an idealÌýnatural laboratory for psycholinguistic investigation. The region is homeÌýto over 600 languages representing the Indo-European, Dravidian, Sino-Tibetan, and Austroasiatic language families as well as isolates, small families, and several pidgins and creolesÌý(Borin, Saxena, Comrie, & Virk, 2021). The populations speaking SA languages are typically multilingual (Annamalai, 2008) and over two dozen writing systems are represented throughout the region (Asher, 2008). The conference will bring together researchers investigating South Asian languages to exchange ideas on different domains of psycholinguistic inquiry including language acquisition, language processing, multilingualism, andÌýliteracy development.Ìý
In order to allow for the broad participation of international scholars, the meeting will be hosted on Zoom as well as in person at the ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ in Fall 2025. To allow time forÌýinternational scholars to obtain a visa to attend the conference, abstracts will begin to beÌýreviewed on a rolling basis a year in advance,starting in October 2024.Further details can be found at the SAFAL conference website.Ìý
