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Megumi Ishikawa

Lecturer, Kokushikan University, Tokyo, Japan

Megumi Ishikawa has been a Lecturer at Kokushikan University in Tokyo, Japan, since April 2025, following her previous positions at Tsuda University and the Baby Lab of the International Research Institute for Neurointelligence (IRCN) at the University of Tokyo. Her research specializes in psycholinguistics, focusing on early childhood language acquisition. In particular, she is interested in the relationship between children’s social interaction and language development, as well as the acquisition of grammar. She is also engaged in research on English language learning.

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Natalia Kucirkova, Alexis Hiniker, Sho Tsuji, Robert Wolfe, Aayushi Dangol, Megumi Ishikawa / 13 October 2025

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Quality Coordinator at a primary school in the Netherlands 

Ellis Stevelink

PhD Candidate at the Laboratory for the Psychology of Child Development and Education, Université Paris Cité

Mélanie Maximino-Pinheiro

Associate Professor, University of Amsterdam

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