Nov. 17, 2025 - Nov. 19, 2025
https://live-ucbdev-safal2025.pantheonsite.io/
The sixth edition of the South Asian Forum on the Acquisition and Processing of Language (SAFAL) will be held between 17-19 November 2025 at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
The conference will continue to provide a platform for the exchange of research on sentence processing, computational modelling, corpus-based psycholinguistics, neurobiology of language, and child language acquisition, among others, in the context of the subcontinent's linguistic landscape. The conference will be held in hybrid modality, allowing remote participation for registered conference attendees who are unable to attend in person.
Submission instructions:
We invite abstracts for 15-minute talks (+5 minutes for questions) and poster presentations in the following areas:
• first language acquisition and multilingualism
• language production
• language comprehension
• language-cognition interactions
• literacy development and written language processing
• language disorders
• corpus-based and computational psycholinguistics
• neurobiology of language
and all other areas of psycholinguistics in the context of the subcontinent’s linguistic landscape.
The maximum length for the abstract is 3 pages. This includes example sentences, figures, and bibliography. The abstracts must be anonymized. Please ensure that there is a 2.5 cm margin on all sides, that the text is single-spaced, and that you use a 12-point Times New Roman font. IPA symbols may be used as necessary.
Please specify explicitly if your submission is intended to be a talk or a poster. Abstracts that are accepted as talks can be presented online if you are unable to travel to Boulder. All poster presentations are virtual.
In order to allow for lengthy visa processing times for scholars from South Asia, abstracts will be reviewed on a rolling basis starting 2 October 2024 and extending until 31 August 2025. Please allow at least 2 weeks for notification of a decision on your abstract.
Submissions open: Oct. 2, 2024 - Aug. 31, 2025
Abstract review period: Oct. 2, 2024 - Sept. 30, 2025