Review: Mikko Laitinen; Paula Rautionaho (eds.) (2025)
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
Confs: Linguistics Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Annual Meeting 2026
University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 8th – 10th September 2026
Henry Sweet Lecture 2026
Prof. Martin Krämer (UiT The Arctic University of Norway)
Linguistics Association Lecture 2026
Prof. Dr. Regine Eckardt (Universität Konstanz)
Language Tutorial
Mapudungun - Ben Molineaux, Aldo Berrios Castillo (University of Edinburgh)
LAGBPSC Summer School
LAGB Education Committee Session
Call for Papers – Standard Abstracts:
The Linguistics Association of Great Britain and Northern
Confs: Linguistics Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Annual Meeting 2026
University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 8th – 10th September 2026
Henry Sweet Lecture 2026
Prof. Martin Krämer (UiT The Arctic University of Norway)
Linguistics Association Lecture 2026
Prof. Dr. Regine Eckardt (Universität Konstanz)
Language Tutorial
Mapudungun - Ben Molineaux, Aldo Berrios Castillo (University of Edinburgh)
LAGBPSC Summer School
LAGB Education Committee Session
Call for Papers – Standard Abstracts:
The Linguistics Association of Great Britain and Northern
Confs: 2nd Meeting of the International Network for Personal Names Research 2026
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
Confs: 26th Workshop on Cantonese
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 “Everything in one
Confs: 2nd Meeting of the International Network for Personal Names Research 2026
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
Confs: 26th Workshop on Cantonese
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 “Everything in one
Calls: Language Technologies for Low-resource Languages
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’s linguistic diversity and are often spoken by smaller or marg
Calls: Studies in Polish Linguistics - "Volumes 2026 and 2027" (Jrnl)
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’s 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
Calls: 6th Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference
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
Calls: 2nd International Workshop on Terminological Neologism Management
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–European collabora
Diss: The Implementation of a Bilingual-Bicultural Literacy Intervention Programme for Deaf Learners in Namibia
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-
Diss: A Sociolinguistic and Socio-Educational Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Bilingual and Biliterate Education for Lower Primary Deaf Learners in the Khomas Region of Namibia
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
Qs: Seeking German-Speaking Participants for Online Questionnaire on Gender Perception in Voices
Liebe Studieninteressierte,
wir laden herzlich zur Teilnahme an einem online Hörexperiment zur Wahrnehmung von Geschlecht in Stimmen ein. Die Teilnahme dauert circa 15 Minuten. Wir verlosen unter allen Teilnehmer*innen insgesamt 7 Gutscheine von wunschgutschein.de im Wert von 50€.
Aufgabe:
- Sie hören kurze Audio Ausschnitte von Stimmen und sollen diese beurteilen.
Teilnahmevoraussetzungen:
- ruhige Umgebung, möglichst wenig Umgebungslärm
- keine bekannten Höreinschränkungen
- keine
Media: HELLO Lab Presents How Does Screen Time Affect Language Development?
Episode 6 of HELLO Lab Presents has just been released — 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’m excited to announce a fun project that students in my lab and I have been developing this year — A YouTube channel called HELLO Lab Presents. Our goa
FYI: Reading with NARNiHS - Session #3 of the Reading Group of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics
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
Confs: 16th International Symposium on Bilingualism
The International Symposium on Bilingualism 2027 (ISB 16) invites symposia submissions. The conference will take place June 14–18, 2027, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The symposia abstracts submission deadline is June 30, 2026.
Call time span: April 8 – June 30, 2026
Symposia are 120-minute sessions with a thematically united set of related papers. Each symposium includes four slots: either four presentations or three presentations plus a discussion. For the latter option, no discussio
FYI: ALPHA Seminar by Ignasi Adiego: The Lydian Word for 'king' and Its Origin
ALPHA seminar, lecture by Ignasi Adiego, "The Lydian word for 'king' and its origin",
April 15th, 17:00 CEST,
online upon registration
https://unive.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MthFqFrxSV2VWpaKV3nO7w#/registration
ALPHA (Anatolian Linguistics, Philology, History and Archaeology) seminar is an academic lecture initiative organized within the ERC-funded project CAncAn – Communication in Ancient Anatolia (PI Annick Payne, ERC Grant Agreement No. 101088363).
Each seminar brings together sch
Calls: 38th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop
Final Call for Papers:
The Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop is a theoretically-oriented forum for dealing with all aspects of comparative Germanic syntax, from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives. The 38th workshop will take place on September 17-18, 2026, at the University of Potsdam. This year, we also encourage submissions that use experimental methods to investigate issues in formal Germanic syntax.
The abstract submission deadline has been extended to April 22, 2026! We in
Confs: 16th International Symposium on Bilingualism
The International Symposium on Bilingualism 2027 (ISB 16) invites symposia submissions. The conference will take place June 14–18, 2027, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The symposia abstracts submission deadline is June 30, 2026.
Call time span: April 8 – June 30, 2026
Symposia are 120-minute sessions with a thematically united set of related papers. Each symposium includes four slots: either four presentations or three presentations plus a discussion. For the latter option, no discussio