Dr Rowena Garcia, researcher in the area Language development and multilingualism, was honoured with the IASCL Early Career Award at the 16th Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL). The prize was awarded for the first time this year. Rowena was also invited to give the awardee plenary talk entitled ‘Casting a wider linguistic net: Language acquisition insights from an Austronesian language’. Congratulations!