L3W-2025: L3 Workshop 2025: Workshop on Multilingual Language Acquisition, Processing and Use Nebrija University Madrid, Spain, October 3-4, 2025

Continuing an established series of meetings that have taken the study of multilingual acquisition, processing and use around the globe (Stockholm, Iowa City, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Tromsø, Poznań, Konstanz, London, and Tokyo), Nebrija University is proud to announce that the ninth L3 Workshop, as it is affectionately known, will take place in Madrid on 3-4 October, 2025.

The main goal of the Workshop is to bring together researchers who are interested in multilingual acquisition, processing and language use of a third (L3) language. Empirical and theoretical contributions are welcome. We further encourage submissions on early trilingualism as well as submissions specifying implications for educational contexts.

We seek high quality paper and poster presentations that contribute to the issues mentioned above. Priority will be given to those contributions which examine specific empirical questions related to the acquisition and processing of multilingual morphosyntax, phonology, phonetics, the lexicon, semantics and pragmatics from a cognitive perspective.

Submission Guidelines

Abstracts should not exceed 400 words (1-page, 1-inch margins, 12-point Times New Roman font), with a second page for examples, figures, tables, and references. Please submit your abstract in an anonymised PDF file (with no author names or affiliations) attached in the corresponding field during submission. Author names and affiliations will be added through the submission form. Following peer review, a number of papers will be selected for oral or poster presentations. Please indicate during the submission process whether you would like to be consider for an oral presentation, a poster, or both.

We endeavor to inform authors of the outcome by July 15th. A limited number of travel grants will be awarded to the highest rated abstracts with a PhD or Masters student as their first author. If you are interested, please send an email after submission to l3workshop.madrid@gmail.com indicating that you are eligible and would like to be considered for a graduate student travel bursary.

Invited Speakers

• Ianthi Maria Tsimpli (University of Cambridge)
• Sarah Grey (Fordham University)
• Eloi Puig-Mayenco (King's College London)
• Tamar Degani (University of Haifa)

Venue

The conference will be held in the Arturo Soria Campus of Nebrija University, in Madrid, home of the School of Language and Education. Directions, travel recommendations and accommodation suggestions will be provided on the workshop website (coming soon).

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to l3workshop.madrid@gmail.com.