Sharynne McLeod is Distinguished Professor of Speech and Language Acquisition at Charles Sturt University, Australia. This blog records the work of her team to support multilingual children's speech acquisition throughout the world. The associated Multilingual Children's Speech website contains resources for over 100 languages: http://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech
March 13, 2026
Children Draw Talking and Playing
Today Cyrena Hunt-Madden and I began the analysis of data to consider what children say about their talking while they are playing. This child was interesting. He said he was "Not talking. Just playing".
