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For centuries, linguistics focused on written language as 鈥渢he norm鈥�, and all features of language were studied based on written and often constructed artificial examples. Spoken corpora have enabled a shift in the way we view language, e.g. from a product-based to a process-based view on grammar, from an inherently-fluent view on communication to stipulating a fluency鈥揹isfluency continuum, from a verbally-centred communication to a multimodal construction of meaning. Data from speech corpora

We are delighted to invite you to attend the third workshop of the EXREAN project* at Freie Universit盲t Berlin, focusing on the understudied Romance variety Istriot. URL: https://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/v/exrean/news/Workshop-3-Variation-and-Change-in-Present-Day-Istriot.html Friday 26, June 2026 Location: Seminarraum 0.2052, Freie Universit盲t Berlin, Fabeckstra脽e 23/25 In contrast to the abundance of studies on variation and change in the Romance world languages Span

The ATHENA R.C. team on Dialectal NLP, affiliated with the Institute for Language and Speech Processing and Archimedes, in collaboration with researchers from George Mason University, is organizing the first edition of the DialRes-LREC 2026 workshop, 鈥淒ialects in NLP: A Resource Perspective鈥�, to be held on 16 May 2026. More information is available here: https://dialres.github.io/dialres/index.html. DialRes is co-located with the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026) in Pal

John Benjamins present ASPECTS The Aspects format offers a fast and contemporary alternative to publish cutting edge research, initially in the field of Corpus Linguistics, gradually in all fields of linguistics. More compact than a monograph, less limited than a regular journal article, Aspects offer authors a new way of publishing their work. What is special about Aspects? Aspects are: - cutting edge, advanced, progressive - a swift solution for your specific publishing needs - writ

Call for Papers: 鈥淔amily Language Policy and processes of marginalization鈥� Special Issue of Social Inclusion (https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/issue/futureissues#i584) Guest Editors: Giorgia Andreolli (Eurac Research, giorgia.andreolli@eurac.edu, ORCID: 0000-0001-9511-0496) Busani Maseko (Rhodes University, busani.maseko@ru.ac.za, ORCID: 0000-0002-9550-7968) Nadja Thoma (University of Innsbruck, nadja.thoma@uibk.ac.at, ORCID: 0000-0001-9084-9638) Expected Timeline: Sub

Focus: Courses 1. A short overview and introduction to statistics and R, Dalia Cristerna-Rom谩n and Vera Xia, University of Alberta 2. Introduction to Mixed-Effects Modelling with LME4, Hannah Lam and Veranika Puhacheuskaya, University of Alberta 3. The fundamentals of data visualization in R, Guilherme D. Garcia, Universit茅 Laval 4. Embrace the Complexities: Visualizing and Modeling Multidimensional Factors in Bilingual Development, Youran Lin, University of Alberta Description: The Ce

Focus: cultures alpines, langue francoproven莽ale, cultures et langues minoritaires, approches pluridisciplinaires Description: Sont candidats 茅ligibles les 茅tudiants (tous niveaux), enseignants, chercheurs travaillant dans les domaines suivants, en liaison ou non avec l鈥檃ire francoproven莽ale : linguistique, anthropologie, sociolinguistique, dialectologie, ethnologie, g茅ographie, didactique des langues, 茅tudes francoproven莽ales, etc. Dans la limite des places disponibles sont accept茅es auss

2nd Call for Papers: The Italian Association for Cognitive Science (AISC) invites submissions for AISC 2026, an interdisciplinary forum for researchers in all areas of cognitive science. We particularly encourage submissions addressing skills and biases in both natural and artificial intelligent systems, but we welcome contributions from all areas of cognitive science, including theoretical, empirical, computational, philosophical, and interdisciplinary work that advances understanding of int

Call for Papers: Going Romance is a European conference series dedicated to the study of Romance languages from the perspective of contemporary linguistic theory. Over the past four decades, it has established itself as a leading forum for cutting-edge theoretical research on Romance languages. The 40th edition of Going Romance will be hosted by the Institute for Language Sciences at Utrecht University (the Netherlands) from November 11鈥�13, 2026. This anniversary edition marks a symbolic c

Other Specialties: Experimental Linguistics Description: In order to fill a fixed-term position in full-time (39.83 hours/week = 100%) by July 01, 2026 or at the earliest possible date, we are looking for one Post-doctoral researcher (m/f/x) The project EmDiCom 2 "Decompositional Semantics of Face Emojis in Digital Communication" will develop a formal semantics for emojis as a prime example of visual communication within the DFG priority program ViCom ("Visual Communication. Theoreti

Final Call for Papers: The eleventh Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America will be held online on October 15-17, 2026, by the University of Texas at Austin. This year, the conference is dedicated to celebrating the 25th anniversary of the launch of AILLA, the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America. We invite the submission of abstracts on research about any aspect of Latin American Indigenous languages. In honor of AILLA鈥檚 25th anniversary, we are particularly

Final Call for Papers: The 33rd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar will be held on August 03-04 August 2026 at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (Bergen, Norway). The HPSG 2026 conference will be a two-day main conference (03-04 August). It will be co-located with the DELPH-IN meeting held over the preceding week (27-31 July). Anonymous abstracts are invited that address linguistic, foundational, or computational issues relating to or in th

Call for Papers: Philosophica is an analytic philosophy conference series hosted by the Institute of Philosophy at Maria Curie-Sk艂odowska University. The theme of this edition of the conference is words and language, engaging with philosophical work addressing the nature of expressions, meaning, and natural language more broadly construed. We invite contributions on topics like the ontology of words, word individuation, pragmatic features of expressions, meaning in natural language (metase

Call for Papers: In Honorem L鈥檃nn茅e 2026 marque le 100e anniversaire de la fondation du Cercle linguistique de Prague, dont les travaux, les th茅ories et les concepts ont laiss茅 une empreinte profonde sur toute la linguistique moderne. 脌 cette occasion, le D茅partement d鈥櫭﹖udes romanes de l鈥橴niversit茅 de Sofia 芦 Saint Cl茅ment d鈥橭hrid 禄, en partenariat avec l鈥橴niversit茅 Masaryk (Brno), organise un colloque international consacr茅 脿 l鈥檋istoire de cette organisation informelle de chercheurs, mais

Michigan State University is pleased to host the 56th Linguistic Symposium in Romance Languages in East Lansing, MI, May 14-16th 2026. Invited Speakers: - Andr茅s Saab (Universidad de Buenos Aires / Conicet) - Karen Miller (Penn State University) - Miquel Simonet (University of Arizona) - Patr铆cia Amaral (Indiana University) The preliminary LSRL 56 program can be found here: https://lsrl56.hcommons.org/program/

Call for Papers: Conference Description: We are pleased to invite you to the 4th Annual ELIPro Conference, hosted by SDU University and organized in partnership with the 12th International Conference Building Cultural Bridges (ICBCB). The event will be held in-person from 15-16 October with an online day on 9th October. This joint event explores multilingual education, linguistic diversity, identity formation, and cross-border educational policies. We provide a vibrant platform for dialogu

Final Call for Papers: Research on young second language (L2) learners, as well as young learner (inter-)language specifically, has gained increasing attention in recent years, driven by calls for greater diversity and representativeness in both Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and Learner Corpus Research (LCR). Although a growing number of learner corpora are available (Fern谩ndez & Davis, 2021), corpora representing young learner language, broadly defined, remain comparatively rare. While e

NATESOL welcomes calls for presenters for our 42nd Annual Conference (Registration now open). Register Here https://www.natesol.org/event-details/natesol-annual-conference-2026 Submit speaker proposal here https://forms.gle/BAbYbKybpvPfDnBs9 Plenary Speaker鈥�- Professor Phil Hubbard, Stanford University USA (Integrating Generative AI into Second Language Listening: Explorations in Professional Development) Professor Phil Hubbard, PhD, is Senior Lecturer Emeritus in the Stanford Univer

The countdown is on! For its 3rd year, the International Conference-Workshop on Language and Literature (ICWoLL) is making its offshore debut. Building on our roots at MSU-IIT, we are thrilled to partner with this year鈥檚 host: King Mongkut鈥檚 Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL) 鈥� Chumphon Campus for the 2026 ICWoLL. Call for abstracts is officially open! We are looking for papers that align with the theme: 鈥淩eframing Language, Literature, and Culture for Smart and Sustainable Commun

Six years after its inaugural meeting in 2020, the second conference of the Indonesian Languages and Linguistics (InLaLi2) will take place in Yogyakarta, under the theme linguistic diversity of Indonesia. Background: The Republic of Indonesia is home to hundreds of languages. While most of them belong to the Austronesian family, a sizable number of non-Austronesian (aka 鈥淧apuan鈥�) languages are used in the eastern part of the country, not to mention the coexistence of different sign languages