The Nordic Speech Research Forum is back after a summer break. We have the great pleasure of presenting a season of interesting talks with varied topics related to speech. You are warmly welcome to join the events via our website https://www.jyu.fi/nsrf. Our season launches with a special guest talk on September 16, 2026, at 16:00–17:00 EEST (Helsinki, UCT+3): Listener training on L2 accents for non-academic university staff Alice Henderson, Grenoble University Presentations coming up

The latest issue of Lexis edited by Camille Biros, Denis Jamet-Coupé and Adeline Terry and devoted to the words about Climate Change is now online: https://journals.openedition.org/lexis/9727?lang=en - Camille Biros, Denis Jamet-Coupé and Adeline Terry Introduction: Words about Climate Change [Full text] - Papers Articles - Morphological and semantic approaches to neology o Natalie Kramar Bursting the carbon bubble or defusing the carbon bomb? Framing of carbon dioxide in Engli

Formulating Times and Places in Interaction: Action, Sequence, and Turn Design Submission Deadline (Abstracts): 31 October 2026 Theme Since Sacks’s lectures and Schegloff’s subsequent publications on the subject, references to persons, times and places have become a topic of abiding interest in conversation analysis (Sacks 1992; Sacks & Schegloff 1979; Schegloff 1972, 1996). For Sacks, far from being merely alternative ways of describing “the same thing”, formulations of persons, times, pla

As of volume 10, Simon Harrison (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) will succeed Jürgen Streeck (The University of Texas at Austin) as new editor of the John Benjamins bookseries Gesture Studies. Jürgen Streeck will remain member of the board. Gesture Studies aims to publish book-length publications on all aspects of gesture. Topics may include, but are by not limited to: the relationship between gesture and speech; the role gesture may play in communication in all the circumstances of

2026. iii, 148 pp. Table of Contents Articles Are myths really metaphors? Searching for metaphor in fantastical discourse Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. | pp. 275–292 The retrospective sense of the English preposition from : An argument from and for Cognitive Grammar Shinya Hirasawa | pp. 293–326 Does firsthand vs. non-firsthand evidential framing affect a narrative’s construal? A preliminary study of Turkish and English users Sümeyra Tosun & Jyotsna Vaid | pp. 327–355 A reader-base

2026. iii, 179 pp. Table of Contents Articles Modality, evidentiality and (inter)subjectivity: What attitudes and sources reveal about the Spanish modals tener que and haber de Miriam Thegel | pp. 167–195 “Qué lengua más avasalladora, oiga…”: El caso de oiga y sus correspondencias alemanas Alejandro González Villar & Mailyn Lübke | pp. 196–227 Indefinite readings of generic noun cristiano in Spanish diachrony Aaron Yamada | pp. 228–251 Environmental content across Romance l

2026. iii, 189 pp. Table of Contents Articles Synchronic and historical phonology of the Gzitsha language Guillaume Jacques, Shang Li, Zhenyang Liu, Sangsrgyas Tshering & Qingxia Yang | pp. 159–183 Pronominal proclitics in Tibeto-Burman languages Scott DeLancey | pp. 184–208 Discourse prominence, communicative goal and differential object marking in Bodo Krishna Boro | pp. 209–244 Causative alternation in Tibetic and Trans‑Himalayan Joanna Bialek | pp. 245–297 From erga

2026. iii, 104 pp. Table of Contents Article Peircean semiotics, magic and the runes: A new approach to the elder-fuþark inscriptions Articles Some dialectal derivatives of PGmc *ƀū̆wa- ‘dwelling, farm’: PGmc *ƀewwa- ‘grain’ and Old Norse byggva/byggja ‘inhabit’ Aurelijus Vijūnas | pp. 1–34 Palatalization of word-medial *g in Coastal Dutch: A Frisian substrate sound law? Maxim Dauenhauer & Arjen P. Versloot | pp. 35–54 Zur e-Fuge nominaler Komposita im Inselnordfriesischen V

Focus: Linguistics and Literary Studies, Multilingualism Description: The Autumn School "A Linguistic and Literary Perspective on Multilingual Societies" invites Bachelor's and Master's students from the EUTOPIA Network and beyond to reflect on the challenges that highly multilingual societies are faced with, and on the opportunities that such diverse societies can offer. We will address this topic from both a linguistic and a literary perspective, raising questions and opportunities that

From codemixing to bullet captioning to enregisterment to full dual-language or multilanguage productions, the ways in which bilingualism is represented on television has begun to evolve. More and more bilingual characters and content including bilingual interactions have proliferated on the small screen. Indeed, researchers, producers, and fans are all acknowledging the value of multiple languages on the small screen for everything from cognitive benefits to marketing to wider audiences, to mor

My PhD project investigates the acquisition and representation of Norwegian prosody among Norwegian speakers, with a particular focus on tonal accents. Norwegian is characterized by a contrast between two tonal accents which are anchored in word stress. The stressed syllables in Norwegian can be prosodically realized in two ways, resulting in Accent 1 and Accent 2 contrast, which further varies by dialect and which in some cases can differentiate word meanings through distinct tonal patterns on

The next Acquisition Sketch Project Meeting is on "An in-progress look at the Maltese Acquisition Sketch”, presented by Alexandra Vella and her team. It will be held on Wednesday September 9 as follows: Los Angeles = 8 am Mexico City = 9 am New York = 11 pm Berlin = 5 pm Tbilisi = 7 pm Delhi = 8:30 pm Zoom link = https://uni-kl-de.zoom-x.de/j/68724552887?pwd=lxCUOxU9mV4j84IRCa1vGs4xGaaTfH.1 Meeting ID = 687 2455 2887 Passcode = 7$d72Hp& Check https://www.worldtimeb

Other Specialties: Natural language processing Description: The Department of English Language and Literature at Ajou University (Suwon, South Korea) invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant or Associate Professor level with an anticipated starting date of March 1, 2027. The successful candidate must have a Ph.D. in computational linguistics, natural language processing or a related field and will be expected to teach and advise students at both the graduat

Other Specialties: TESOL Description: Te Reo Inarihi me te Mātai Wetereo - English and Linguistics Programme Te Pae Takata - School of Arts Founded in 1869, the University of Otago is the oldest University in New Zealand. We like to think of the English and Linguistics Programme, however, as both the oldest and the newest with regard to the range of our teaching and research, with offerings from Medieval literature through to narrative fiction and poetry in digital media. We have cre

Expression of interest for a PhD position We are seeking expressions of interest from prospective PhD students for a four-year doctoral position at the Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics at the National Distance Education University (UNED), Madrid. The successful candidate will write a doctoral dissertation on a topic related to either formal syntax/semantics or language acquisition, especially L2 acquisition. The successful candidate will enrol in the Doctorate program in Philo

We are happy to announce that The English Linguistic Society of Japan 20th Spring Forum is to be held as described below. All presentations and discussions will be conducted in English. All abstracts must be written in English. Forum Dates: Saturday May 22 – Sunday May 23, 2027 Location: Kobe University (Rokkodai 2nd Campus), Kobe, 1-1, Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, 657-8501, Japan Invited Speakers: Daiki Hashimoto (Joetsu University of Education), Masako Maeda (Kyushu University), Sujin Par

The Language Attitudes and Popular Linguistics Area of the Popular Culture Association is seeking presentations on any language attitude or language-related popular culture topic, such as: - the language attitudes of X (for example, new baby greeting cards, truck drivers, student writers, first generation immigrants, etc.) - issues with prescriptivism - language and advertising or other media; - professional, corporate, or other industry-related language; - dialect, code-switching, o

The relationship of Linguistics, Language Attitudes, and Popular Culture is of paramount importance in understanding how meaning is constructed and communicated in our everyday lives. Exploring how language is used and the ideas, attitudes, and information it conveys, overtly and in more implicit ways in our popular culture allows us to better understand ourselves and the cultures we live in. Presentations may address topics in language attitudes or language-related popular culture, such as:

We are happy to announce that The English Linguistic Society of Japan 20th Spring Forum is to be held as described below. All presentations and discussions will be conducted in English. All abstracts must be written in English. Forum Dates: Saturday May 22 – Sunday May 23, 2027 Location: Kobe University (Rokkodai 2nd Campus), Kobe, 1-1, Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, 657-8501, Japan Invited Speakers: Daiki Hashimoto (Joetsu University of Education), Masako Maeda (Kyushu University), Sujin Par

The Language Attitudes and Popular Linguistics Area of the Popular Culture Association is seeking presentations on any language attitude or language-related popular culture topic, such as: - the language attitudes of X (for example, new baby greeting cards, truck drivers, student writers, first generation immigrants, etc.) - issues with prescriptivism - language and advertising or other media; - professional, corporate, or other industry-related language; - dialect, code-switching, o