Conference on Multilingualism COM 2026

The Conference on Multilingualism (COM) 2026 will be held from May 27th-29th 2026 at University Toulouse-Jean Jaurès in Toulouse (France).

The Conference on Multilingualism actually has a longstanding tradition, albeit under different names. Founded in 2005 at the University of Trento (Italie) as ‘Workshop on Bilingualism’, it has been held unter the titel ‘Workshop of Neurobilingualism’ in Donostia/San Sebastian (Spain) in 2010, and Groningen (NL), among others. Since the 2016 edition held at Ghent University in Ghent (Belgium), the conference has adopted the title ‘Conference on Multilingualism’, to include a broader range of aspects of multilingualism. Recent editions have been held in Konstanz (2021) and Aix-en-Provence (2024).

Following the tradition, the conference is open to the numerous aspects of bi- and multilingualism within the broad scope of cognitive sciences, particularly language and speech sciences, neuro- and psycholinguistics, psychology, neurology, education, among others. However, the 2026 edition will, as reflected by the invited keynote speakers, focus specifically on the topic of language control, that has given rise to fierce debates in recent years, and on acquired language disorders in multilingual speakers, topics traditionally developed at the host laboratory, LNPL.

Additionally, we specifically invite studies focusing on the relation between bilingual speakers and their environment, as for example in the perception of accented speech.

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