We are pleased to announce the 17^th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition conference (GALA 2025) to be held in Tours, France, at the City of Creation and Innovation (MAME) on September 11-13, 2025.

GALA is a biennial conference that brings together researchers from across Europe and overseas, providing a forum for discussion of recent, high-quality research on first and second language acquisition, bi/multilingual acquisition, heritage language acquisition, language pathology and language impairment, acquisition of sign language and brain imaging research for acquisition and pathology.

Previous editions of GALA were held in Durham (1993), Groningen (1995), Edinburgh (1997), Potsdam (1999), Palmela (2001), Utrecht (2003), Siena (2005), Barcelona (2007), Lisbon (2009), Thessaloniki (2011), Oldenburg (2013), Nantes (2015), Palma de Mallorca (2017), Milan (2019), Frankfurt (2022), and Lisbon (2024).

Plenary speakers at GALA 2025

Cécile De Cat (Centre for Applied Education Research, University of Leeds, United Kingdom)

Franck Ramus (Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique - ENS - EHESS - CNRS, Paris, FR)

Petra Schulz (Institut für Psycholinguistik und Didaktik der deutschen Sprache, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)

Laurie Tuller (UMR 1253 iBraiN, Université de Tours, INSERM, France)

Registration is now open. Please make sure to read the information about registration first !