Infant Studies On Language Development in Europe | ISOLDE
The 4th Summer School ISOLDE will take place from 14 to 18 of June 2021 exclusively online.
About ISOLDE
ISOLDE is an international summer school for Infant Studies On Language Development in Europe. It is organised biannually by the Language Acquisition Group at the Department of Linguistics of the University of Potsdam.
ISOLDE is specifically aimed at bringing together students and early stage researchers who work in language acquisition research in Europe to increase exchange and collaboration between young researchers.
ISOLDE will take place entirely online (but live!) in the daytime at Central European Summer Time (= UTC+2). We hope to be able to create an interactive experience even though only in virtual space.
Curriculum
There will be six courses during the week, a poster session and one afternoon reserved for some fun activities.
- Titia Benders (Macquarie U): How phonetics can inform infant studies: Infant-directed speech (IDS) & perceptual cues [6 hrs]
- Matt Hilton (U Potsdam): Executive functions and language development [3 hrs]
- Liquan Liu (U Oslo): Bilingualism in infancy [6 hrs]
- Carolyn Quam (Portland State U): Variability and flexibility in word learning [6 hrs]
- Claudia Männel (MPI Leipzig/Charité Berlin): ERPs in language acquisition [method course, 3 hrs]
- Alan Langus/Tom Fritzsche (U Potsdam): Pupillometry [method course, 3 hrs]
More details about the programme: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/isolde/programme
Timeframe
14 - 18 June 2021
Location
exclusively online
Language
English
Target group
students and early stage researchers
Fee
Participation at ISOLDE is free of charge
Poster presentation
All participants are encouraged to present their own work (planned or completed) as a poster.
If you would like to do that submit a short poster abstract as separate file (preferably 1 page as PDF file) with your registration.
ISOLDE Team 2021
Annika Unger
Antonia Götz
Barbara Höhle
Marc Hullebus
Monica Vanoncini
Natalie Boll-Avetisyan
Tom Fritzsche
I really enjoyed this time for many reasons.
First, ISOLDE had a very welcoming atmosphere that made studying comfortable and productive. The organizers helped the participants and the instructors to get to know each other in an informal way and to exchange ideas.
Second, the scientific program was very diverse. It included lectures, hands-on sessions and lab-tours. Lab tours helped to learn how real data are collected. They were a perfect illustration of the saying “A picture is worth a thousand words”.
ISOLDE helped me to establish collaborations with the best specialists in language development. I used the knowledge from ISOLDE to start developing the infant line of language research in Moscow. I really hope that my colleagues and I will have the opportunity to enjoy future ISOLDEs.
PhD
„The organizers provided a lot of social activities, including a poster session, informal get-togethers, social dinner, and a walk tour to enjoy Potsdam in summer. All these made ISOLDE unique and unforgettable.“
For further information please visit the homepage of ISOLDE 2021 or the Facebook site
For any questions regarding this summer school please contact the organising team under isolde2021uuni-potsdampde