International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (ISMBS) 2025

The 5th International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (ISMBS 2025) will take place on 16-19 June 2025 in Chania, Crete, Greece. 

Venue
ISMBS 2025 will be held at the Great Arsenali Conference Center, Chania, Crete.

The 5th International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (ISMBS 2025) will host original research on the acquisition and use of first language, second language, additional language, bilingual/multilingual, and dialectal/multidialectal speech, child and adult, typical and atypical. The Symposium encourages a multidisciplinary exchange of ideas in applied linguistics across phonology, phonetics, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sign language, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, neurolinguistics, educational linguistics, sociolinguistics, speech pathology, and application of new technologies.

Theoretical, experimental, qualitative, observational, computational, and clinical contributions are welcome.

Find the Call for Papers here. We are supported by   

ISMBS last convened in 2022 in hybrid format at the Department of Communicative Disorders, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA.  It has also convened three more times in the past (2019, 2017, 2015) at the Grand Arsenali of the city of Chania on the island of Crete, Greece. The inaugural symposium in 2015 was co-chaired by Elena Babatsouli and Professor Emeritus David Ingram of Arizona State University and the University of British Columbia. 

Social Events
Conference dinner; an excursion to Elafonisi Beach, the best beach in Europe, and to the monastery of Chrysoskalitissa.

We hope that your participation in the symposium will prove stimulating, fruitful, and enjoyably memorable, as in Demosthenes' words, "Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."