It started with a trip cut short by storm Éowyn and ends in the beautifully autumnal #Connemara #Gaeltacht. 8 months & 180 test sessions later, data collection is finished.
Now on to the analyses - how do #Irish - #English #bilingual children process their languages? Watch this space.
#Gaeilge

Earlier this week, I had the wonderful opportunity to present our research on #CLI and between-language #priming in Irish-English #bilingual children at the Centre for Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism @uniofgalway.bsky.social. Thank you all, míle buíochas!
#Gaeilge #LanguageAcquisition

In the final keynote of #ISB15, Robert Hartsuiker @roberthartsuiker.bsky.social is re-examining a question at the heart of #psycholinguistic research on #bilingual language processing: Is bilingual lexical access really language non-selective?

Let's find out.
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The final afternoon symposium is starting now at #ISB15: very much looking forward to four insightful talks on the role of #typological distance on #bilingual language processing.

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The afternoon session on #immersioneducation in #minority languages at #ISB15 is starting with a talk by Aisling Ní Dhiorbháin & Pádraig Ó Duibhir on promoting the benefits of #Irish immersion education to families with linguistically & culturally #diverse backgrounds.
#Gaeilge #Multilingualism

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
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Keynote by Professor Elizabeth D. Peña on assessing #DLD in #bilingual children and busting myths:
Bilinguals score in the normative mean in at least one language. There is no "bilingual delay" & bilinguals with DLD are not double delayed.
Look at #individualdifferences, not group averages.
#ISB15

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

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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.
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I had a great time today presenting our research on the role of language dominance in #priming of ungrammatical structures in #Irish - #English #bilingual children at #ISB15.
Thank you very much to everyone who attended and for all your great questions and feedback.
Eskerrik asko! Míle buíochas!

Laura Bosch is starting off Day 2 @isbilingualism.bsky.social with her keynote on early #bilingualism:
The diversity in bilingual #language #acquisition is a challenge. But it gives us rich insights into the many linguistic and environmental factors influencing language learning in children.
#ISB15

Fantastic to see talks on #Gaeilge 🇮🇪 at #ISB15: Verena Platzgummer @verenaplatzgummer.bsky.social, Cassie Smith-Christmas @cassiesmithxmas.bsky.social ‬& Paul Finn are presenting their research on how #multilingual families in the Munster #Gaeltacht are raising their children with #Irish.

Excited to see @sharonneke.bsky.social sharing her insights from the #Kletskoppen Child Language Festival on engaging children from diverse backgrounds with #languagescience at #ISB15.

Very happy to be back in Ireland an excited to start our study on #bilingual language development in primary school aged children.
#Gaeilge #English