LangVIEW organises seminars that take place online in which we invite presentations featuring research on underrepresented language communities. We very much welcome completed as well as in-progress projects, contributions from researchers of various career stages and backgrounds including community-led research, and reports on theories, toolkits or study designs that did not "work" in a specific language community and how aspects can be adapted. This means, you can present your work at any stage, get feedback from the audience on your ideas/design/analyses or pick their brains as to where to publish. We are very open in terms of format (classic presentation, shared slots, group presentations, round tables, etc.) - if you are interested in presenting, just get in touch!
Seminars are currently organised by Irena Lovčević (University of Tokyo) and Aniruddha Walke (Krea University).
Upcoming seminars:
Past seminars:
2026
Juanita Bloomfield (University of Montevideo): "Calling All Parents: Boosting early environments in the developing world"
Youtao Lu (University of Tokyo): "Children face ambiguous input early on: A cross-linguistic corpus analysis of homophones"
2025
Sara Montazeri (University of Manitoba): "Linguistic environment of Persion-learning infants in Iran"
Eylem Altuntas (Western Sydney University): "Developmental trajectories of phonological abstraction in the first year"
Imane Bou-Saboun (University of Maryland): "The acquisition of questions in Tashlhiyt Berber: Behavioral and corpus studies"
Abdellah Elouatiq (Radboud University Nijmegen): "Segmental acoustics of Tashlhiyt Berber's infant-directed speech: How do caregivers modify vowels and consonants in a complex phonological system"
Ritesh Kumar & R. Karthick Narayanan (Council for Diversity & Innovation and Unreal Tece LLP): "Processing acquisition data in the age of AI: The possibilities and the challenges"
2024
Divya Swaminathan & Reny Raju (the LiL' Lab, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences): "Caregiver speech and gesture input & language development - Micro-analysis of linguistic input to infants between 6-12 months from two different studies from India"
Julie Brittain (Memorial University of Newfoundland) & Ryan Henke (University of Wisconsin-Madison): "What child-directed speech can reveal about obviation: A case study of Northern East Cree demonstratives?"
Migdalia I. Padilla Colón (Universidad Nacional de Córoba) & Andrea Taverna (CONICET): "Shared-agency and early socialization: Evidence from a cross cultural perspective"
Pia Simper-Allen (Stockholm University): "“Cut and Break”-descriptions in Swedish Sign Language. Children’s and adults’ depicting verb constructions"
Lina Hou (University of California, Santa Barbara) & Laura Horton (University of Wisconsin-Madison): "Becoming a participant: Child language socialization in two indigneous mesoamerican communities"
Melvatha R Chee (University of New Mexico) and collaborators: "Documenting adult-child interactions for Diné Language revitalization"
Anwar Alkhudidi (Umm Al-Qura University): "Children’s development of the Arabic emphatic consonants: An acoustic investigation"
2023
Joe Blythe: "Are you my mother? Learning to discern who's who within a universal kindship system"
Sudhin Karuppali: "Early language input in the context of multilingualism: Perspectives from an Indian speech language pathologist"
Gianmatteo Farabolini: "How to assess early bilingual language development? From a web-based parent-report survey for bilingual Italian- speaking children to bilingual vocabulary measures"
Heidi Baumgartner & Katie Von Holzen: "Open discussion: Collaboration between LangVIEW and ManyBabies (Introduction about ManyBabies, & Introduction about ManyBabies-AtHome)"
Jun Ho Chai: "How Caregivers' Speech Patterns Enhance Word Segmentation: A Computational Modeling Approach with a Korean Corpus"
Paul Okyre Omane: "Language input in infancy: Insights from multilingual exposure in Ghana"
Jasper Sim, Katerina Chladkova, & Sung Joo Lim: "Influence of bilingualism or caregiver input? Variation in VOT in simultaneous bilingual preschoolers in Singapore; Newborns' processing of native speech sounds; Evidence for preserved phonetic sensitivity to lexicaltones in Chinese international adoptees"