Proceedings of Previous Congresses

• eProceedings of the XVth IASCL Congress, Philadelphia, USA, July 2021
  The eProceedings contain a subset of the talks and posters presented at the 2021 conference. They were edited by Virginia G. Gathercole. Congratulations to the authors of the research presented here, for a fine set of eclectic and trailblazing work covering a broad range of sub-disciplines in the field of child language acquisition

Children’s Language series

Volumes in the Children’s Language series, first published by Gardner Press, later by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Psychology Press, and Taylor and Francis; most are now with Routledge. The series was started by Keith Nelson in 1978 and ran until 2001. Here you can find a review of the first volume in what turned out to be a highly influential series in the field. Contributions were mostly based on IASCL conference presentations.  

• Children's Language,Volume 11: Interactional Contributions To Language Development. Edited by Keith E. Nelson & Ayhan Aksu-Koç, 2001.

• Children's Language Volume 10: Developing Narrative and Discourse Competence. Edited by Keith E. Nelson, Ayhan Aksu-Koç, & Carolyn E. Johnson, 2001.

• Children's Language, Volume 9. Edited by Carolyn E. Johnson & John H.V. Gilbert, 1996.

• Children's Language, Volume 8. Edited by Keith E. Nelson & Zita Règer, 1995.

• Children's Language, Volume 7. Edited by Gina Conti-Ramsden & Catherine E. Snow, 1990.

• Children's Language, Volume 6. Edited by Keith E. Nelson & Anne van Kleeck, 1987.

• Children's Language, Volume 5. Edited by Keith E. Nelson, 1985.

• Children's Language, Volume 4. Edited by Keith E. Nelson, 1983. 

Keith E. Nelson also edited Volumes 1 to 3 (Volume 1: 1978; Volume 2: 1980; Volume 3: 1982).

More book volume proceedings

• Research on Child Language Acquisition
  Proceedings of the VIIIth IASCL Congress, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, July 1999. Edited by Margareta Almgren, Andoni Barreñ, María-José Ezeizabarrena, Itziar Idiazabal, and Brian MacWhinney.

• Perspectives On Language Acquisition
  Selected Papers from the VIIth IASCL Congress, Istanbul, Turkey, July 1996. Edited by Ayhan Aksu-Koç, Eser Erguvanli Taylan, A. Sumru Özsoy, and Aylin Küntay.

• Child language — an international perspective: selected papers from the First International Congress for the Study of Child Language.
  Edited by Carolyn E. Johnson & Carol L. Thew. Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1982. Pp. xiv + 604. You can find paper copies of the book in libraries.

• Child language — an international perspective: selected papers from the First International Congress for the Study of Child Language.
  Edited by Philip S. Dale & David Ingram. Baltimore: University Park Press, 1981. Pp. xiv + 402. You can find paper copies of the book in libraries but here is a review of it: Tager-Flusberg, H. (1983). Book Review. Applied Psycholinguistics, 4(2): 165 - 168.

• Proceedings of the First International Congress for the Study of Child Language.
  Edited by David Ingram, Fred C. Peng, and Philip S. Dale. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1980.

• Baby talk and infant speech.
  Edited by Walburga von Raffler-Engel, Yvan Lebrun, Éric Buyssens & the International Symposium on First Language Acquisition. Amsterdam: Swets & Zeitlinger, 1976. Pp. 362. You can find paper copies of this seminal book in libraries. The book refers back to the invited 1972 symposium in Florence at which the IASCL started to be formed and its first officers were named