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International Symposium on Bilingualism @isbilingualism.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

We are excited to share that the Call for ISB 16 symposia is now open. You can submit a symposia abstract by June 30th, 2026. More details available at conferences.usask.ca/isb16/call-f... and app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/82055... Individual paper submissions will open on July 2, 2026.

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Call for proposal - 16th International Symposium on Bilingualism

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International Symposium on Bilingualism @isbilingualism.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

We are hosting the ISB16 in Saskatoon, Canada, June 14-18, 2027. You can also host ISB17 in 2029. Here is the guideline document for submitting your proposal for ISB17. conferences.usask.ca/isb16/docume...

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International Symposium on Bilingualism @isbilingualism.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Excited to attend the ISB16 conference in Saskatoon, Canada? You can also host the next conference (ISB17 in 2029). Here is the guideline document for submitting a proposal for hosting ISB17. conferences.usask.ca/isb16/docume...

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International Symposium on Bilingualism @isbilingualism.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

We’re now handing #ISB15 over to the next team! It’s been a pleasure hosting such a wonderful symposium and meeting all of you. Stay tuned for updates about the next one! ✨

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PAMLab at CityU @pamlab.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Our own @jupitararay.bsky.social had a poster w/ Prof @cbchang.bsky.social at last week’s #ISB15 @isbilingualism.bsky.social! Missed it? View “Phonetic accommodation in Hindi-English and Telugu-English early sequential bilinguals”: jupitararay.github.io/img/isb15pos... @bulinguistics.bsky.social 🐦🐦

Scatterplot of /l/ tokens in Ray & Chang (2025), by word position, task, and group

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Matilde Ellen Simonetti @matildellen.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Just attended @isbilingualism.bsky.social in San Sebastián with my supervisor @troembke.bsky.social. I presented my meta-analysis on bilingual advantage in word learning there. Great talks and interesting people. Grateful for the experience! #Bilingualism #LanguageLearning #Psycholinguistics

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Louise Shepperd @lshepperd.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Grateful for such an inspiring week at my first @isbilingualism.bsky.social. Lots to digest as we reluctantly leave the beautiful San Sebastian! Here are my slides with preliminary findings on the effect of trauma on word learning in Ukrainian refugee children in the Netherlands ➡️ osf.io/qsdtk

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Reinaldo Cabrera Pérez @reycabreraperez.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Kaixo from Donostia! Honored to present at the (#ISB15) in San Sebastián, Spain. A meaningful way to conclude year 2 of my PhD studies. Many thanks to the organizing committee and the @bcbl.bsky.social —Eskerrik asko! Hurrengoan arte! 🌍📚🧠 @habla-lab.bsky.social @isbilingualism.bsky.social

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Reinaldo Cabrera Pérez @reycabreraperez.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

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Valentina Borghesani @vborghesani.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

What happens when you put experts in multilingualism, genetics, neuroimaging, & animal cognition in the same @isbilingualism.bsky.social panel? @nargolestani.bsky.social and I, supported by @nccrlanguage.bsky.social, took on the challenge and...learned a lot while having a blast!

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Irene Balboni @irenebalboni.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Just landed in Geneva after an incredible and dense week at @isbilingualism.bsky.social in San Sebastian! It was a pleasure to spend the week discussing bilingualism, multilingualism, reading and more with some of the most brilliant people in the field!

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Multilingual Mission Possible @bgorms.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Myth busting language delay in bilinguals!

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Pia Lane @pialane.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

ISB15 was a great experience, as always. Many interesting lectures, catching up with wonderful colleagues and got positive feedback on my plenary. Happy!

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International Symposium on Bilingualism @isbilingualism.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

#ISB15 is officially over! 😢 Special thanks to @antjestoehr.bsky.social, Leire and Oihana for the amazing work they’ve done organising this conference, it wouldn’t have been possible without them ❤️ Safe travels and many thanks to all attendees! And… see you in Saskatoon! #ISB16

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International Symposium on Bilingualism @isbilingualism.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Our very last keynote is here — but our brains are still switched on! 🧠 Prof. Robert Hartsuiker @roberthartsuiker.bsky.social (Ghent University) asks, is bilingual lexical access really language non-selective? A mind-twisting finale to our conference journey! #ISB15

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International Symposium on Bilingualism @isbilingualism.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Wrapping up! Today we had our last poster session of the conference… but it was still packed and buzzing! 📣 #ISB15

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International Symposium on Bilingualism @isbilingualism.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

🗣️ Starting the final day of the conference with Prof. Pia Lane (University of Oslo) with a keynote on language revitalisation after historical trauma, a thought-provoking talk on resilience, identity, and linguistic futures 🌱 #ISB15

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Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) @bcbl.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

🔙 Vecinos/as de #Donostia disfrutaron ayer del congreso @isbilingualism.bsky.social en el evento #EuskaraMunduanZehar. 🗣 Itxaso Rodríguez-Ordóñez y Ander Beristain compartieron en el Victoria Eugenia el trabajo vinculado al #euskera que llevan a cabo en las Universidades de California y San Luis.

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International Symposium on Bilingualism @isbilingualism.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Want to see what we were up to after today’s conference sessions? 🤭 Follow the thread! 🧵 #ISB15

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Kaisa Pankakoski, PhD @kaisapan.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

#ISB15 has been beautiful, invigorating, manic, thought provoking. I’ll be sharing some snippets of talks and quotes on my multilingual Insta profile (mainly in Finnish) when I sit down and gather my thoughts and notes back home! www.instagram.com/monikieliset... @isbilingualism.bsky.social

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Anastassia Zabrodskaja @azabrodskaja.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Today @isbilingualism.bsky.social: A double session on Decolonizing #FLP 🔍Insights on #multilingualism #identity across global contexts 📷Our paper: Decolonizing Family Language Policy: The call for Investigating Multilingual Dynamics in new Contexts 🔥With a sharp discussion by Cassie Smith-Christmas

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Valentina Borghesani @vborghesani.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

‪At @isbilingualism.bsky.social‬? Join us tomorrow, 11:35 in the auditorium: @nargolestani.bsky.social and I, supported by @nccrlanguage.bsky.social have assembled a stellar lineup to discuss: "The bi-literate brain: behavioral, neural, and genetic insights into recent evolutionary adaptations."

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Tamara Gómez Carrero @tagomezcarrero.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Great time presenting our poster at @isbilingualism.bsky.social on L1 Russian and L1 English speakers acquiring L2 Spanish grammatical gender. More in this here: benjamins.com/catalog/resl...

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International Symposium on Bilingualism @isbilingualism.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

A fantastic start to Day 4 at #ISB15! Elizabeth Peña delivered an insightful #keynote this morning on developmental language disorder in bilingual contexts. 🧠🗣️

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Kaisa Pankakoski, PhD @kaisapan.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

My favourite things about #ISB15 so far: 1. research of various disciplines 2. meeting wonderful people from different continents 3. location right next to the sea enabling pensamientos creativos y descanso 4. deep/fun/research-led discussions over pintxos @isbilingualism.bsky.social

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clarakunst.bsky.social @clarakunst.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

The symposium on the brilliant #Q-BEx parental questionnaire on language #dominance in #bilingual children is starting now, presented by Ludovica Serratrice @ludoserratrice.bsky.social Sharon Unsworth @sharonneke.bsky.social Cécile De Cat @ceciletje.bsky.social #ISB15 @isbilingualism.bsky.social

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International Symposium on Bilingualism @isbilingualism.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Today’s poster session is packed! 📣 Come and practice your listening-in-noise skills while engaging with fantastic research conducted by our attendees with amazing sea views 🌊 #ISB15

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International Symposium on Bilingualism @isbilingualism.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Following up with today’s last keynote talk from Prof. Emerita Jasone Cenoz (University of the Basque Country) on multilingualism, minority languages and translanguaging. Inspiring reflections on linguistic diversity and education! 💭 #Translanguaging #ISB15

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clarakunst.bsky.social @clarakunst.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Looking forward to the second priming session at #ISB15 starting now with a talk on the fascinating connection between #CLI and #priming as potential #psycholinguistic mechanisms of contact-induced #languagechange. @isbilingualism.bsky.social

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clarakunst.bsky.social @clarakunst.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Rowena Garcia is presenting research at #ISB15 showing that #crosslinguistic #priming occurs across #typologically unrelated languages & without overlap of constituent order. The degree of overlap modulated the magnitude of the effect. #Tagalog #Indonesian #English @isbilingualism.bsky.social

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International Symposium on Bilingualism @isbilingualism.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

We changed our picture, but it’s still us! On Monday morning, the facade of Kursaal had our #ISB15 logo

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International Symposium on Bilingualism @isbilingualism.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Our afternoon talks start with the keynote of Marie Jacobs (ULB & Ghent Univ) presenting on multilingual complexities in the asylum context, a powerful take on language, disparity & asylum practices 🌍 #ISB15 #Multilingualism #Asylum

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International Symposium on Bilingualism @isbilingualism.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

🗣️ Today we kicked off with the keynote talk of Professor Rajend Mesthrie, from the University of Cape Town, telling us about language creativity in southern Africa! #ISB15

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Anastassia Zabrodskaja @azabrodskaja.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

🌟 We presented our paper today at #ISB15 — what an incredible moment! Huge congrats to Dr. Dinara Tlepbergen on her first symposium presentation! 👏 So proud to be her supervisor. 💕 Thanks to everyone who came to support us!🙏 #ProudSupervisor @isbilingualism.bsky.social

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UVALAL @uvalal.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

This week, the UVALAL is participating in the @isbilingualism.bsky.social ! 🧠🗣️ In this afternoon’s session, @tagomezcarrero.bsky.social has represented the team and has presented the data we’ve collected during our last visits to Gibraltar! 🇬🇮

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Kaisa Pankakoski, PhD @kaisapan.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Conference with a view of the sea; day one of #ISB15 @isbilingualism.bsky.social

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Anastassia Zabrodskaja @azabrodskaja.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Chairing a session, presenting at #ISB15: bilingual learning and linguistic access in diverse educational contexts. The room was what we in Estonian call "puupüsti täis"—packed to the brim! Such a powerful reminder of the value of bringing voices together from around the🌍 @isbilingualism.bsky.social

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International Symposium on Bilingualism @isbilingualism.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Big Announcement 📍 #ISB16 will take place in June 2027 in Saskatoon, Canada 🇨🇦, hosted by the University of Saskatchewan & Veronika Makarova. 🤝 Welcome our new Steering Committee members: 👤 Jason Rothman & Edith Kaan (Consulting) 👤 Vincent DeLuca (Early Career Consulting)

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International Symposium on Bilingualism @isbilingualism.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

We’re kicking off Day 2 with another inspiring keynote, this time by Prof. Emerita Laura Bosch! This thought-provoking talk took us on a tour through different views on early bilingualism and how the field has evolved over the years. Thank you for this fascinating talk, Prof. Bosch!✨

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International Symposium on Bilingualism @isbilingualism.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

✨ We closed Day 1 with an inspiring #keynote from Anthony Pym on the social role of bilinguals in building cross-cultural trust. Thank you all for such an engaging first day! We look forward to seeing you all again tomorrow for more exciting sessions.

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International Symposium on Bilingualism @isbilingualism.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

👏 Huge thanks to Ander Beristain (@aberistain.bsky.social) for a brilliant ECR keynote at #ISB15! His talk on diversifying articulatory phonetics through a bilingual & migrant lens sparked rich discussions and fresh perspectives. 🗣️🌍

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International Symposium on Bilingualism @isbilingualism.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

🖼️ Our first poster session at #ISB15 just wrapped up — and what a fantastic start! ✨ The room was buzzing with ideas, insights, and new connections. A huge thank you to all the presenters for sharing their brilliant work, and to everyone who stopped by to engage! 🧠💬

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International Symposium on Bilingualism @isbilingualism.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Multilingualism Matters @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social is delighted to sponsor this year's ISB and is looking forward to seeing you there! Pop by their stand to chat to Anna and Laura about your book ideas, browse their exciting new titles and get their special conference discount. See you at ISB!

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International Symposium on Bilingualism @isbilingualism.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

✨ Proud to have Americans Against Language Barriers as our #ISB15 Gold Sponsor! They work to break language barriers & empower medical interpreters 🌎🩺 100% online | Internationally recognized Learn more: AALB.org #Medicallnterpreting

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International Symposium on Bilingualism @isbilingualism.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

🌟 What a kickoff! Our first #keynote speaker, Janet van Hell, just delivered a brilliant talk on the neurocognitive signatures of accented speech processing. 🧠🗣️ The room was buzzing with ideas — what an inspiring way to open #ISB15! 🎉 #bilingualism

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International Symposium on Bilingualism @isbilingualism.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

#ISB15 is just around the corner! 🌊☀️ Safe travels to all—and a quick reminder for everyone to bring sunscreen and (maybe) a raincoat. The Basque weather can surprise you 😉🌂🧴 #symposium #bilingualism

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International Symposium on Bilingualism @isbilingualism.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Closing our #keynote series on a high note—meet our eighth and final speaker! 🗣️ Robert Hartsuiker will give the presentation: Is bilingual lexical access really language non-selective? 🗓️ June 13th 17:50 🔗: www.bcbl.eu/events/isb15... #isb15

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International Symposium on Bilingualism @isbilingualism.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Announcing our seventh #keynote speaker—bringing even more depth to our inspiring lineup. 🗣️ Pia Lane (@pialane.bsky.social) will talk about language revitalization after historical trauma: Is language shift inevitable? 🗓️ June 13th 09:00 🔗: www.bcbl.eu/events/isb15... #isb15

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International Symposium on Bilingualism @isbilingualism.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Next up: our sixth #keynote speaker! Another brilliant voice you won’t want to miss. 🗣️ Elizabeth Peña will inspire us with her talk, Unpacking developmental language disorder: assessment in bilingual contexts. 🗓️ June 12th 9:00 🔗: www.bcbl.eu/events/isb15... #isb15

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