SHAPE: The system of shape representations in cognition, development and across languages - News
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Keynote Speaker
Mila Vulchanova gives a keynote at the Non-interactive language acquisition in autism International Workshop, Fribourg March 7th, 2026.
SHAPE Kick-off
We are excited to announce the SHAPE Kick-off Conference in Paris, June 8-12, 2026.
Lecture at 2026 Summer School
Prof. Larissa Samuelson to give a frontier lecture at the 2026 Summer School on Analytical Connectionism in Gothenburg, Sweden
Upcoming talks by the SHAPE Consortium
Seifart, Frank, Nour Efrat-Kowalsky, Caroline Larson, Magdalena Lemus Serrano, Pamela Perniss, Larissa Samuelson, Linda B. Smith & Mila Vulchanova. 2026. Towards a typology of SHAPE in language: From vision to grammar. Accepted for presentation at the ALT-2026: 16th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology.
Seifart, Frank, Nour Efrat-Kowalsky, Magdalena Lemus Serrano, Pamela Perniss & Linda B. Smith. 2026. Towards a typology of SHAPE in language:
From vision to grammar. Presented at the the 59th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2026).
Heien, A., Larson, C., Vulchanova, M., Smith, L.B., Samuelson, L.K., ⌂Barth, S., Perniss, P., & Seifart, F. The critical role of shape in word learning: Implications for autism and developmental language disorder. Oral presentation at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Annual Convention. Indianapolis, IN.
Larson, C., Dang, J.J., Hirni, M., & Vulchanova, M. Spatial cognition and language in autism spectrum disorder. Technical talk at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Annual Convention. Indianapolis, IN.
Dang, J., Hirni, M., Vulchanova, M., & Larson, C. Spatial cognition versus language: What best differentiates autistic and neurotypical individuals? Poster presentation at The Annual Meeting of the International Society for Autism Research. Prague, Czech Republic.