Contributions
Comics
Drawings: Clara
Texts: Monica
Themes
Language at Home: Irena and Hiromichi
Language Acquisition Across Cultures: Camila and Georgia
Bilingualism: Cécile, Irena, Andrea and Rachel
Sign languages: Charlotte
Literacy: Camillia and Charlotte
Translations
French: Cécile and Camillia
Japanese: Hiromichi, Mei, Yuka and Carlee
Arabic: Yasmeen and Amalia
Profiles
Clara is a Master 2 student in Neuroscience and an intern at the LSCP (ENS, Paris) working on how different inputs from different cultures affect language acquisition. She dreams of combining science and art, and doodles all day long. She speaks French, English, Spanish and Arabic. #art #scienceisfun! 
Monica dreams of creating educational language learning games for children and adults, for native and second languages. She is a post-doctoral researcher at the IRCN Babylab in Tokyo, and moonlights as a writer. She speaks a bunch of languages, and adores listening to languages she does not know. #thewriter #JaneAustenJr #webdesign 
Georgia works on the role of linguistic and cultural diversity on early language learning. She is currently doing a postdoc at the Language and Cognition Lab at Stanford University. She recently completed her Ph.D at the Laboratoire des Sciences Cognitives and Psycholinguistique, Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. She speaks Greek, English, French and Italian. #languageacrosstheworld 
Irena recently completed her Ph.D at Western Sydney University working on early language development in infants with Hearing Loss. She is about to commence the Postdoc at IRCN BabyLab in Tokyo. #languageathome #bilingualism 
Camila works on the role of socio-ecological diversity on language and cognitive development. She is currently doing a postdoc at the Institute of evolutionary medicine in Zurich. She speaks French, Spanish, English and a little bit of Tsimane’. #languageacrosstheworld 
Hiromichi works on the developmental change of early word meanings. He is a Ph.D. student at Kyoto University and a pediatric occupational therapist. He speaks Japanese and English.
#languageathome
Camillia works on language acquisition with a special focus on speech perception and processing and later literacy skills emergence. She is a lecturer in Developmental Psychology at University Paris Est Créteil.
#screentime #literacy
Cécile works on the role of social environment in the language acquisition process, doing an intervention study in daycares. She is a PhD candidate at the Cognitive Science and Psycholinguistics Lab, at ENS, Paris, and speaks French, English, and a bit of Italian.
#bilingualism
Charlotte works on the syntactic description of French Sign Language, using both fieldwork with Deaf consultants and experimental studies. She is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institut Jean Nicod, at ENS, Paris, and speaks French, English, and signs French Sign Language. #SignLanguages 
Andrea Sander-Montant is a Mexican-Canadian graduate student at Dr. Byers-Heinlein’s Infant Research Lab at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Her research focus is early language acquisition in bilingual environments. She is passionate about language in all its expressions and about doing creative and impactful science communication. She speaks Spanish, English and French. #bilingualism 
Sho works on the role of the social environment on early language learning. She directs the IRCN Babylab in Tokyo and speaks German, Japanese, English, and French.
#screentime
Mei is a fifth-year medical student at the University of Tokyo and an intern at the IRCN Babylab in Tokyo. She is interested in how children acquire languages and works hard to learn how to conduct research. She speaks Japanese and English. 
Yuka is a rising senior at Middlebury College, and an intern at RIKEN Brain Science Institute Language Development Lab in Japan. She is majoring in neuroscience and her thesis project is focusing on “the production effect”, which is the improvement in memory performance of words studied with vocal production relative to silently studied words. Her interests in linguistics are: phonetics, articulation, prosody, multilingual brain and language acquisition (especially L2). My favorite linguistics joke is: “I wanna be a schwa. (because it’s never stressed.)” 
Carlee is a graduate student at Dr. Yuki Hirose’s lab in the Department of Language and Information Sciences at the University of Tokyo. They are interested in bilingualism and second language acquisition/processing (phonetics/prosody). They are Japanese-American and speaks English and Japanese.
Leticia is a Brazilian researcher interested in investigating how children uncover the structure of the sentences they hear, and what helps them understand spoken and written words and sentences. She has a PhD in Linguistics from the State University of Campinas, in Brazil, and will soon start a postdoc at the Laboratory of Developmental Psychology and Child Education at the University of Paris. She speaks Brazilian Portuguese, English and French. #languageathome #literacy 
Rachel works on bilingualism and cross-cultural differences in early language development and is interested in how variations in language environment impacts infants’ language experience. She is a post-doctoral researcher at RIKEN CBS Laboratory for Language Development in Japan, and speaks English, Cantonese, Japanese, and Mandarin. #bilingualism
