Members of the Kanien鈥檏茅ha language research partnership between 海角社区 and the Kanien鈥檏eh谩:ka Onkwaw茅n:na Raotiti贸hkwa Language and Cultural Center (KORLCC) presented a talk titled 鈥淚akwarihw铆:saks: A community鈥搖niversity Kanien鈥檏茅ha Research Partnership鈥� at the聽Symposium on American Indian Languages (SAIL), which was held at the University of Arizona, April 2鈥�3.聽
The last presentation in this term will be on聽Monday, April 13, 12-1pm聽in聽room 117聽and on聽Zoom聽(Please use this new zoom link). Jeanne will be practising her invited talk in the creaky voice special session at ASA 2026. Topic: Rethinking 鈥測oung women鈥檚 creak鈥�: Piecing together production, perception, and social evidence Abstract: Since the early 2010s, popular narratives alongside […]
Congratulations to Myriam Lapierre who just had two papers accepted for publication! The first has been accepted to Journal of Phonetics (with Alessio Tosolini) and the second has been accepted to Laboratory Phonology. Lapierre, M., De Falco, E., Tosolini, A., & Steffman, J. (accepted). Disentangling prominence strengthening: Evidence for independent stress and length effects in […]
SUMMARY
The Cambridge Element Language, Gender and Pregnancy Loss by Beth Malory explores how language describes and shapes experiences of pregnancy loss in healthcare contexts in the UK. The book analyzes how terminology reflects pregnancy loss and how the language used affects individuals experiencing clinical pregnancy loss. It also discusses the negative impacts of certain pregnancy loss terms, as well as the ideologies surrounding reproductive norms. The analysis draws on data from 42 UK
SUMMARY
Data-intensive investigations of English (edited by Mikko Laitinen and Paula Rautionaho) consists of ten chapters, all of which address state-of-the-art data-intensive approaches in linguistic research. It includes an introductory chapter by the editors that presents the volume, eight chapters by different authors that report on data-intensive studies across various linguistic disciplines, and a final chapter that discusses issues in data analysis related to such approaches. Among the
University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 8th 鈥� 10th September 2026
Henry Sweet Lecture 2026
Prof. Martin Kr盲mer (UiT The Arctic University of Norway)
Linguistics Association Lecture 2026
Prof. Dr. Regine Eckardt (Universit盲t Konstanz)
Language Tutorial
Mapudungun - Ben Molineaux, Aldo Berrios Castillo (University of Edinburgh)
LAGBPSC Summer School
LAGB Education Committee Session
Call for Papers 鈥� Standard Abstracts:
The Linguistics Association of Great Britain and Northern
University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 8th 鈥� 10th September 2026
Henry Sweet Lecture 2026
Prof. Martin Kr盲mer (UiT The Arctic University of Norway)
Linguistics Association Lecture 2026
Prof. Dr. Regine Eckardt (Universit盲t Konstanz)
Language Tutorial
Mapudungun - Ben Molineaux, Aldo Berrios Castillo (University of Edinburgh)
LAGBPSC Summer School
LAGB Education Committee Session
Call for Papers 鈥� Standard Abstracts:
The Linguistics Association of Great Britain and Northern
The International Network for Personal Names Research invites abstracts for its 2nd Online Meeting 2026.
- 12 June 2026
- 1:00-5:00 pm (UTC+2)
- Platform: Zoom
- Students welcome!
- Deadline for registrations and abstract submissions: 16 May 2026
Abstracts are invited to be submitted by 16 May to Anna.Balbach@tu-dortmund.de for:
- Lectures (20 min + 10 min Q&A)
- Research pitches (5 min + 5 min Q&A)
- Networking/discussion groups (15 min)
The theme is deliberately broad: New Resea
The 26th Workshop on Cantonese (WOC-26)
Everything in one wok: Cantonese in multilingual environments
Saturday, 30 May 2026
We are pleased to announce that the Twenty-Sixth Workshop on Cantonese (WOC-26) is jointly organised by The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK) and the Department of Linguistics and Translation, City University of Hong Kong (LT department, CityUHK). The workshop will be held in person on Saturday, 30 May 2026, at CityUHK.
The theme of WOC-26 is 鈥淓verything in one
The International Network for Personal Names Research invites abstracts for its 2nd Online Meeting 2026.
- 12 June 2026
- 1:00-5:00 pm (UTC+2)
- Platform: Zoom
- Students welcome!
- Deadline for registrations and abstract submissions: 16 May 2026
Abstracts are invited to be submitted by 16 May to Anna.Balbach@tu-dortmund.de for:
- Lectures (20 min + 10 min Q&A)
- Research pitches (5 min + 5 min Q&A)
- Networking/discussion groups (15 min)
The theme is deliberately broad: New Resea
The 26th Workshop on Cantonese (WOC-26)
Everything in one wok: Cantonese in multilingual environments
Saturday, 30 May 2026
We are pleased to announce that the Twenty-Sixth Workshop on Cantonese (WOC-26) is jointly organised by The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK) and the Department of Linguistics and Translation, City University of Hong Kong (LT department, CityUHK). The workshop will be held in person on Saturday, 30 May 2026, at CityUHK.
The theme of WOC-26 is 鈥淓verything in one
Final Call for Papers:
Natural Language Processing (NLP) has witnessed remarkable progress in recent years, largely driven by the emergence of deep learning architectures and, more recently, large language models (LLMs). Nevertheless, these advances have disproportionately benefited high-resource languages that possess abundant data for model training. By contrast, low-resource languages which account for at least 85% of the world鈥檚 linguistic diversity and are often spoken by smaller or marg
Studies in Polish Linguistics is pleased to invite submissions for our upcoming 2026 and 2027 volumes.
We are a Scopus-indexed, peer reviewed journal dedicated to high-quality linguistics research with a primary focus on the Polish language. We welcome full-length research papers from both established and emerging scholars.
SPL鈥檚 scope includes, but is not limited to:
- analysis of naturally-occurring data across various genres, registers and contexts of use involving Polish and/or other
Final Call for Papers:
We would like to inform you that the deadline for abstract submission for XPRAG.it 2026 has been extended to April 20, 2026 (23:59 CET) due to several requests.
The OpenReview submission platform remains open, and authors are warmly encouraged to submit their abstracts.
Detalled information on submission guidelines, conference themes, and important dates can be found below.
We welcome submissions on any topic related to experimental pragmatics, broadly construed. A
Final Call for Papers:
NeoTerm 2026 is the second International Workshop on Terminological Neologism Management, organized by the ENEOLI COST Action. The first edition (Neoterm 2025) was held in Thessaloniki (Greece) as a co-located event with MDTT 2025.
This year, NeoTerm goes north and will be organized by the University of Bergen, Norway, on 3 September 2026.
The 2nd NeoTerm workshop will be co-located with the Nordic/European event aimed at initiating joint Nordic鈥揈uropean collabora
AUTHOR: BEAUSETHA JUHETHA BRUWER
ABSTRACT
The Bilingual-Bicultural approach is considered the best approach to teach deaf learners. This approach also provides the best opportunity for deaf learners to become biliterate. Namibia too has adopted the Bilingual-Bicultural approach to teaching deaf learners and are a signatory to national and international policies and laws to ensure deaf learners are provided with the best opportunity for an education. Contrary to the adoption of the Bilingual-
AUTHOR: BEAUSETHA JUHETHA BRUWER
ABSTRACT
Sign Language-based Bilingual Education is a known Bilingual-Bicultural model that offers the best chance for a deaf learner to achieve academic success. Even though the Ministry of Education in Namibia also claims to have adopted this approach to teaching deaf learners, the education system still remains unable to produce deaf learners who can exit school with a valid grade twelve certificate.
The study constitutes a programme evaluation design in
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Episode 6 of HELLO Lab Presents has just been released 鈥� How does screen time affect language development? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCTOS3yxyM8
Script with evidence here: https://hellolab.speech-language-hearing.uconn.edu/parent-resources/hello-labs-presents-reference-library/episode-1/
Hope you enjoy!
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I鈥檓 excited to announce a fun project that students in my lab and I have been developing this year 鈥� A YouTube channel called HELLO Lab Presents. Our goa
Join our online reading group to discuss hot-off-the-press publications in historical sociolinguistics with the authors!
The third session of "Reading with NARNiHS" is taking place on Wednesday, 06 May 2026, at 11:00 am US Eastern time / 5:00 pm European Central time and features Justin Power and Richard Meier with their recent work on the application of a broad set of historical methods and the consultation of underutilized sources of data in the historical sociolinguistic investigation of s