Our next T&T meeting will be accompanied by a few changes: 1. We will start at 1 p.m. as an exception. 2. we will change our "Behind the Scenes of MAIN" section to an open Q&A session for all to at least one of the MAIN authors.

Lari is an Iranian language which was identified as one of the endangered languages in the Atlas of endangered languages by UNESCO. You can access all language versions after registration!🥳

It is expected by September 2022 🤓 Stay tuned!!!

MAIN has been adapted to URDU. The reference data has been collected from the Urdu-speaking ethnic minority children in Hong Kong 🇭🇰 and their age and grade matched peers from Pakistan 🇵🇰. The study is undergoing, the results will be published soon. Please, stay tuned!

Program information and the zoom link can be found here

Have you checked out the latest special issue entitled "Children's Acquisition of Referentiality in Narratives"? Follow this link to do so: 🔗

Check out this very interesting contribution📄: De Cat, C. (2022). Opportunities and challenges in the analysis of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN). First Language, 42(2), 321–329.

We are growing globally 🌍 You can access all material after registration, just follow We hope to see you at our Bi-SLI 2022 conference, starting this Monday 9th May, and we are looking forward to the global exchange🤩⁠!

We are more than happy to announce that we are the organizers of the Bi-SLI 2022 Conference! 🎉🎉🎉 It will be hosted as a hybrid conference in Berlin on 9th-10th May 2022. You can find more information about our conference here:

Preliminary findings based on MAIN narrative comprehension data from the ‘left-behind’ Kam-Mandarin ethnic minority bilingual children suggest that the comprehension of inferences is modulated by culture and cognitive experience (Yang, Chan & Gagarina, 2021).

The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants for the documentation of endangered languages. The application must be submitted online by 15th October, 5 pm CEST. Please find more info here: https:/​/​

We are delighted to announce the MODE Conference which will take place via zoom on November 1-3, 2-4 (CET). You are welcome to express your interest by filling in this form: until September 15th Please check our MAIN Homepage for more information

We are excited to announce our next T&T! You want to learn about how to transcribe or code in MAIN or are interested in the process of adapting a language like Bosnian to MAIN? Don't miss our meeting on April 15th, 2-4 PM (CET). More info: Save the date!

Hello Twitter community! MAIN has now arrived on Twitter - to find out more about us, visit our homepage: