36.1712, Calls: South Asian Forum for the Acquisition and Processing of Language 2025 (USA)

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Subject: 36.1712, Calls: South Asian Forum for the Acquisition and Processing of Language 2025 (USA)

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Date: 30-May-2025
From: Bhuvana Narasimhan [safal.boulder.2025 at gmail.com]
Subject: South Asian Forum for the Acquisition and Processing of Language 2025


Full Title: South Asian Forum for the Acquisition and Processing of
Language 2025
Short Title: 2025 SAFAL conference

Date: 17-Nov-2025 - 19-Nov-2025
Location: Boulder CO, USA
Contact Person: Bhuvana Narasimhan
Meeting Email: safal.boulder.2025 at gmail.com
Web Site: https://live-ucbdev-safal2025.pantheonsite.io/

Linguistic Field(s): Clinical Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Language
Acquisition; Psycholinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Language Family(ies): Austro-Asiatic; Dravidian; Indo-European;
Sino-Tibetan

Call Deadline: 31-Aug-2025

Meeting Description:
The sixth edition of the South Asian Forum on the Acquisition and
Processing of Language (SAFAL) 2025 will be held at the University of
Colorado Boulder between 17-19 November 2025. We are advertising the
2025 SAFAL conference well in advance due to lengthy visa processing
times for international scholars. Abstracts will be reviewed on a
rolling basis until 31 August 2025. Further details can be found at
the SAFAL conference website:
https://www.colorado.edu/conference/safal2025/
South Asia constitutes an ideal natural laboratory for
psycholinguistic investigation. The region is home to over 600
languages representing the Indo-European, Dravidian, Sino-Tibetan, and
Austroasiatic language families as well as isolates, small families,
and several pidgins and creoles (Borin, Saxena, Comrie, & Virk, 2021).
The populations speaking SA languages are typically multilingual
(Annamalai, 2008) and about two dozen writing systems are represented
throughout the region (Asher, 2008). The SAFAL conference will bring
together researchers investigating South Asian languages to exchange
ideas on different domains of psycholinguistic inquiry including
language acquisition, language processing, multilingualism, and
literacy development.
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 University of Colorado Boulder between 17-19 November 2025. There
are no conference registration fees and a limited number of $250
travel bursaries are available for students whose abstracts are
accepted as talks for in-person presentation.
Funded by the National Science Foundation
Conference organizers:
Sudha Arunachalam, New York University
Albert Kim, University of Colorado Boulder
Bhuvana Narasimhan, University of Colorado Boulder
Call for Papers:
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.
Please submit the abstract as a single PDF file at the EasyAbs site on
Linguistlist: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/SAFAL-2025/
Abstracts will be reviewed on a rolling basis until 31 August 2025.
Please allow at least 2 weeks for notification of a decision on your
abstract.



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