Welcome to the Language Acquisition Lab at MIT! Our research investigates how the ability to speak and understand a language develops in children.

Joined September 2020
We are thrilled to debut our adorable new logo, designed by our researcher Katie Dretler!
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For recent and ongoing experiments in Language Acquisition, take a look at our 2021 Newsletter! childlanguage.mit.edu/files/…
Please join us on Saturday, November 7th at 12:15 PM in Main Session 2 of #NELS51, where our own Dr. Martin Hackl and Curtis Chen of the Experimental Syntax and Semantics Lab are giving a talk on their experimental work!
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Please join us on Saturday, November 7th at 10:00 am in Session B of #BUCLD45, where our PI Athulya Aravind, Professor Martin Hackl, and our Lab Manager Cindy Torma will be giving two talks on their work!
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Please join us on Thursday November 5th at poster session 1 of #BUCLD45, where our researchers Cater Chen and Ella Apostoaie will be presenting the results of two projects conducted under Prof. Martin Hackl!
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