The 2025 ICPLA Conference will be from the 24th to 27th of June 2025 at the University of Patras, Conference and Cultural Centre, Greece, hosted by Dr Eleftheria Geronikou 

If you have any questions about the conference please email the dedicated conference email icpla2025@upatras.gr  

Key Dates:

Abstract Submission is Now Closed. 

Conference: 24th to 27th June, 2025

More Information on the Conference Website

ICPLA holds a biennial Symposium in different countries to allow members to meet and present research papers. The meetings typically last three days and include oral presentations, poster presentations, an ICPLA business meeting, and plenty of opportunity for informal discussions.

Past ICPLA Meetings

2023 Salzburg, Austria

2021 Glasgow, Scotland

2018 St Julians, Malta

2016 Halifax, Canada

2014 Stockholm, Sweden 

2012 Cork, Republic of Ireland

2010 Oslo, Norway

2008 Istanbul, Türkiye

2006 Dubrovnik, Croatia

2004 Lafayette, USA

2002 Hong Kong, China

2000 Edinburgh, Scotland

1999 Montreal, Canada

1997 Nijmegen, The Netherlands

1996 Munich, Germany

1994 New Orleans, USA

1993 Helsinki, Finland

1992 London, England

1991 Cardiff, Wales

NICOLE Müller and Martin Ball Prizes for Best Oral Presentation and Best Poster

In association with Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics two bi-annual prizes for “Best Oral Presentation” and “Best Poster” are awarded at the ICPLA conferences. The prizes, introduced in 2021, honour the longstanding editors of the journal, Nicole Müller and Martin Ball. Sponsored by Taylor and Francis, the awards is given out every two years at the ICPLA conference, starting at ICPLA 2021.

Two prizes introduced in 2021:

Winner of the Nicole Müller and Martin Ball Prize for Best Oral Presentation:

Eddy C.H. Wong

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Tone Perception and Production in Childhood Apraxia of Speech: A small scale study.

Co-Authors: Kathy Lee and Michael Tong

Winner of the Nicole Müller and Martin Ball Prize for Best Poster:

Stephanie Hearnshaw

The University of Sydney

“I said shoe, not shoe!” The complex relationship between speech perception, speech production, vocabulary, and age.

Co-authors: Elise Baker, Natalie Munro, Jan Edwards and Karla McGregor