PLC 50: 2026-02-28 to 2026-03-01
Location: UPenn

Submission deadline: 2025-11-01
Submission page: https://openreview.net/group?id=UPENN.edu/PLC/2026/Conference
Conference website: https://sites.google.com/sas.upenn.edu/plc50/

PLC 49: 2025-04-05 to 2025-04-06
Location: University of Pennsylvania

Invited speakers:

• Jessica Coon (McGill University)
• Annette D’Onofrio (Northwestern University)

Submission deadline: 2024-11-18
Submission page: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/76611/submitter
Conference website: https://sites.google.com/sas.upenn.edu/plc49/

PLC 48: 2024-03-16 to 2024-03-17
Location: University of Pennsylvania

Keynote speaker: Vera Gribanova (Stanford University)

Panel on Morpho-phonological learning:

• moderator: Charles Yang (University of Pennsylvania)
• Dan Swingley (University of Pennsylvania)
• Jane Chandlee (Haverford College)
• Micha Elsner (Ohio State University)

Submission deadline: 2023-11-17
Submission page: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/6955/submitter
Conference website: https://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/plc48/

PLC 47: 2023-03-18 to 2023-03-19
Location: UPenn
Hosted by UPenn

Invited speakers: Keith Johnson

Submission deadline: 2022-12-18
Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=plc47
Conference website: https://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/plc47/index.html

PLC 45: Mar. 19-21, 2021.
Location: online.

Invited speaker: Caroline Heycock

Special theme panel: Rules and generalizations in language and the brain.

Extended submission deadline: Nov. 19, 2020.
Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=plc45
Conference website: https://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/plc45/index.html

PLC 43: Mar. 22-24, 2019.
Location: UPenn.

Keynote speaker: Ruth Kramer (Georgetown University)

Special panel: Interplay between Linguistics and Biology
Moderator: Gareth Roberts (University of Pennsylvania)
Invited panelists:
Stephen Alter (Gordon College)
Becca Morley (Ohio State University)
Tandy Warnow (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Extended submission deadline: Nov. 27, 2018.
Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=plc43
Conference website: https://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/plc43/index.html

PLC 42: Mar. 23-25, 2018.
Location: University of Pennsylvania.

Keynote Speaker:
John Rickford (Stanford University, sociolinguistics)

Special Panel:
Signals and Symbols: Linking continuous and discrete representations

Panel speakers:
Mark Liberman (University of Pennsylvania, moderator)
Daniel Swingley (University of Pennsylvania, acquisition)
Kathryn Davidson (Harvard University, Sign language Semantics and Pragmatics)

Extended submission deadline: Nov. 27, 2017.
Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=plc42
Conference website: http://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/plc42/index.html

PLC 41: Mar. 24 – 26, 2017.
Location: UPenn.

Keynote speaker: Ashwini Deo
Special Panel: Current Issues in Language Acquisition

Conference website: http://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/plc41/