SUMMARY Joanna Wall’s (2024) dissertation is assuredly a contribution to Minimalist theorizing and forges ahead in the true spirit of how that program was envisioned. That is, it fulfills the goal handed to us by Chomsky (2021), i.e., to always be sharpening the Strong Minimalist Thesis (SMT), and she undertakes this by innovating and pointing us “Towards a Label-less Grammar”. Having said that, if you are a person who is inclined to believe that the success of a research work in linguistics

The Syntax-Semantics Group will hold its next meeting on Thursday, April 2nd, at 2-3pm in Room 002 of the McGill linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/84180431566 Nicolas Poisson (McGill) will be presenting. Abstract is below. The original Carlsonian claim that bare plurals unambiguously denote kinds received much support from Chierchia (1998), […]

The article “Disentangling acoustic and social biases in creaky voice perception: The effects of f0 and face gender on creakiness ratings”, co-authored by Jeanne Brown and Meghan Clayards, has just appeared online at Laboratory Phonology: https://doi.org/10.16995/labphon.24285. The abstract is below. Creaky voice has historically been associated with men’s speech, supported by acoustic studies. Since around […]

Next presentation will be on Monday, Mar 30, 12-1pm in room 117 and on Zoom.  Yue Qiu, a visiting PhD candidate from the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, will be presenting her research ReadCalibration: Exploring the Links between Reading Acquisition and Speech Sound Processing. All relevant documents (schedules, abstracts, papers and slides/handouts) will be available on this Google Drive.

Final Call for Papers: The Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS) will host the 27th Annual International Conference. Dates: Sep. 19 (Sat) – 20 (Sun), 2026 Venue: Ochanomizu University (2-1-1, Otsuka Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan) Plenary Lecturer: Dr. Kamil Deen (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa) Submission Deadline: April 7 (Tue), 2026, by 23:59 JST (extended from March 31) For more information, please check the following sites. CFP English Version: https://jslsweb.sakura.ne.jp/w

2nd Call for Papers: The deadline for submitting abstracts to the 7th Saami Linguistics Symposium (SAALS 7) is coming up on 10 April! On 4–5 November 2026, the 7th Saami Linguistics Symposium will be held at Nord University in Bodø, Norway. The symposium is the continuation of a series of international symposia previously held in Tromsø 2006 and 2009, in Freiburg 2017, in Uppsala 2019, in Tartu 2022, and in Helsinki 2024. The purpose of the symposium is to give scholars an opportunity to

English: The linguistic landscape (LL), comprised of items displaying written language in the public space, is the product of linguistic choices that are executed by a myriad of actors who are guided by numerous pragmatic or symbolic motivations. Written language in the public space has unique semiotic properties that extend beyond its communicative function. It indexes power relations and identities, and, as such, is utilised to impose or negotiate these. The LL is thus a symbolic construct fin

Linguistic landscape (LL) research is a recent development in the field of sociolinguistics. The LL is written language in the public space; and the study thereof focuses on the linguistic choices in the LL and the motivations behind these choices. Language in the LL has unique semiotic properties and the LL hence offers a new approach to investigate sociolinguistic themes. The themes most commonly addressed are language policy and linguistic diversity. As a result of the bidirectional relati

Other Specialties: Language evolution, Human evolution, Evolutionary linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Cultural evolution. Description: This 4-year PhD project will focus on experimentally testing the social and cognitive pressures that shape human language evolution from the very early stages of language emergence, to the ongoing diversification and change we see across languages today. The project will use group communication games and artificial language learning experiments to investi

The 6th International Symposium on Corpora (PACOR 2027), which will take place at the University of Córdoba from 25 to 27 January 2027. Organised by the research group LinguaCor (HUM-1144), PACOR is a biannual international conference dedicated to corpus research. Under the theme “Re-thinking Evidence: Corpus Linguistics in a Changing Language Landscape”, PACOR 2027 invites contributions that examine how linguistic evidence is being reshaped by digital communication, multilingual realities,

Short Description: The aim of the international study day Linguistics and Economics: New Scenarios in the Age of Artificial Intelligence is to share ideas on how AI is conceived and possibly integrated into a given economic or linguistic space, and what role AI has or could have in the construction of such spaces, in light of the objectives of Agenda 2030. Proposals may address one or more of the above topics, from a diachronic or synchronic, historical or contemporary, theoretical or appl

Description: The Experimental Linguistics Laboratory (ELL) of the University of Agder is recruiting a postodoctoral researcher to join our ERC Synergy research project entitled Phonological cognisance and allied linguistic representations: acquisition, bilingualism, change and script (PAAL). A fixed-term 100 % position is available at the University of Agder, Faculty of Humanities and Education, as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow affiliated to the Department of Foreign Languages and Translati

The 6th International Symposium on Corpora (PACOR 2027), which will take place at the University of Córdoba from 25 to 27 January 2027. Organised by the research group LinguaCor (HUM-1144), PACOR is a biannual international conference dedicated to corpus research. Under the theme “Re-thinking Evidence: Corpus Linguistics in a Changing Language Landscape”, PACOR 2027 invites contributions that examine how linguistic evidence is being reshaped by digital communication, multilingual realities,

Short Description: The aim of the international study day Linguistics and Economics: New Scenarios in the Age of Artificial Intelligence is to share ideas on how AI is conceived and possibly integrated into a given economic or linguistic space, and what role AI has or could have in the construction of such spaces, in light of the objectives of Agenda 2030. Proposals may address one or more of the above topics, from a diachronic or synchronic, historical or contemporary, theoretical or appl

Final Call for Papers: Please scroll down for English version. 滑下查看標準漢語版本。 敬啟者： 第一屆粵語應用語言學研討會 × 第九屆粵語語言學論壇（CALA-1 × FoCaL-9）聯合會議會由香港粵語應用語言學學會（CALA）同香港語言學學會（LSHK）一齊主辦，香港理工大學專業及持續教育學院語文及傳意學部（LC, CPCE, PolyU）合辦，將於2026年7月4號（星期六）喺香港理工大學西九龍校園舉行。希望大家嚟分享最新研究進展，聽吓同儕意見，促進跨院校嘅交流同合作。 【特邀講者】（按姓氏英文排序） 林珮怡博士 （愛丁堡大學） 劉藴怡博士 （香港理工大學專業及持續進修學院） 梁慧敏教授 （香港理工大學） 【兩大主題】 - 粵語應用語言學 （例如語言獲得、人工智能與語言科技、語文或語言教育（教與學）、跨文化傳意與移民研究、流行文化中的語言、教學語言、語言評估、數碼人文等）；同埋 - 粵語理論語言學（例如語音學、音系學、形態學、句法學、語義學、心理語言學、神經語言學等）。 歡

The Columbia School Linguistic Society (henceforth the Society) is considering proposals for research funding for the coming 2026-2027 academic year. All applications will be considered for either a research fellowship or a seed grant. Funding is intended to support research studies that adhere to the general characteristics of a Diverian Columbia School analysis. The successful applicant will develop a linguistic research project that addresses a grammatical, lexical, or phonological problem

2nd Call for Papers: Pronominal systems represent one of the most fertile testing grounds for understanding grammar as a symbolic system adapted to a stochastic cognitive environment. Pronouns are minimal in descriptive content but maximal in context dependency: they enable reference-tracking without lexical repetition, interact closely with information structure, and frequently give rise to mismatches between form and meaning (Onea et al. 2023). The 2026 edition of the Vienna Workshops on

Building on the success of the first edition, we are pleased to announce the call for papers for the 2nd International Conference on Language Research (CIIL2026). As an in-person scientific event, CIIL26 will be held in the city of Vigo. In addition to invited plenary lectures, its programme will include communications (20-minute presentations) and poster exhibitions. Conference Topics: Proposals that fit the research lines of the Lingua Institute, organiser of CIIL26 (internal linguist

Building on the success of the first edition, we are pleased to announce the call for papers for the 2nd International Conference on Language Research (CIIL2026). As an in-person scientific event, CIIL26 will be held in the city of Vigo. In addition to invited plenary lectures, its programme will include communications (20-minute presentations) and poster exhibitions. Conference Topics: Proposals that fit the research lines of the Lingua Institute, organiser of CIIL26 (internal linguist

Final Call for Papers: Faculty of Foreign Languages is pleased to announce two confirmed keynote speakers: Prof. Danimir Mandić (Faculty of Education, University of Belgrade) and Prof. Jozef Štefčik (Bratislava University of Economics and Business). Our 15th International Conference on Language and Literary Studies will be held on 29 and 30 May 2026. The topic for this edition of our annual conference is "Language, Literature, and Artificial Intelligence". Artificial Intelligence has ra