May 22, 2014

The language trajectories of Australia’s young multilingual children

The Murdoch Childrens Research Centre in Melbourne hosted a 2-day Child Language Research Conference titled Discoveries and New Directions. Sue Roulstone, James Law, and Cate Taylor were invited speakers and Sarah Verdon, my PhD student presented the following paper based on data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children:
Verdon, S., & McLeod, S. The language trajectories of Australia’s young multilingual children.
Thursday concluded with a fun debate to discuss whether "specific" should remain in specific language disorders.
Sarah Verdon presenting her paper
Suzanne Hopf, James Law, and Sarah Verdon