The 1st International Workshop
on Grammatical Gender Acquisition and Processing

The 1st International Workshop on Grammatical Gender Acquisition and Processing will take place on 28–29 September 2026 in Poznań, Poland. The workshop is organised by the Cognitive and Affective Approaches to Language Laboratory (CoALab) at the Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.

The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers investigating grammatical gender acquisition and processing across different child and adult populations, including both mono- and bi-/multilingual speakers. As the first event devoted entirely to grammatical gender, we hope to establish it as a regular meeting in the future.

We warmly invite submissions presenting original research on any aspect of grammatical gender acquisition and processing. Relevant topics include, for example, the role of gender transparency, predictive gender processing, the gender congruency effect, and the interaction between grammatical and stereotypical gender. We welcome contributions grounded in empirical or theoretical approaches that aim to make a significant contribution to the field.

The workshop will feature four plenary talks by leading researchers in grammatical gender acquisition and processing, as well as oral presentations selected through an open call for papers.

The workshop is funded by the National Science Centre project BISAGS (Bidirectional Interactions between Symmetric and Asymmetric Grammatical Gender Systems in Bilingual Language Comprehension and Production) and the Institute of Applied Linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University.