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Jobs: Phonology: Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Tue, 07/15/2025 - 09:05
Description: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem invites applications for a tenure-track position (open rank) in the Department of Linguistics with a specialization in phonology. The position is open to all candidates who have attained a Ph.D. degree, as well as to advanced doctoral students who expect to be granted their Ph.D. by June 30, 2026. Job requirements: Responsibilities include teaching required and elective courses in the candidate’s field(s) of specialization at both the B.A. an

Calls: Formal Linguistic Approaches to MultiModality (FLAMM)

Tue, 07/15/2025 - 08:05
First Call for Papers: Formal Linguistic Approaches to MultiModality (FLAMM) will take place at Trinity College Dublin on 4-5 December 2025. The workshop aims to promote and advance the study of multimodality from a formal linguistic perspective by bringing together scholars interested in the formal study of multimodality. Invited Speakers: Cornelia Ebert (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) Donna Jo Napoli (Swarthmore College) Philippe Schlenker (CNRS - Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris / New Yor

Confs: ICAME47: A Confluence of Corpus Research in the Age of AI

Tue, 07/15/2025 - 08:05
We are pleased to announce that ICAME47 will take place in Koblenz (Germany) on 26-30 May 2026. ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English) is an annual international conference and one of the longest-standing organisations of linguists and data scientists working with English language corpora. The conference theme is “A Confluence of Corpus Research in the Age of AI”. We welcome abstracts on both traditional and innovative corpus-based approaches to the study of Eng

Calls: Heritage Language Syntax 6

Tue, 07/15/2025 - 08:05
2nd Call for Papers: We are extending the deadline for abstract submissions to 28th July 2025. Heritage Language Syntax is a workshop initiated at the University of Utrecht within the Microcontact project funded by the ERC, with the aim of investigating the syntactic properties of heritage grammars. We are happy to host the sixth edition of Heritage Language Syntax at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. We welcome all scholars interested in heritage grammars, particularly of indigenous languag

Confs: 15th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference - Call for Tutorial Proposals

Tue, 07/15/2025 - 07:05
The 15th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026) invites proposals for tutorials to be held in conjunction with the conference. We seek proposals in all areas of natural language processing and computation, language resources (LRs) and evaluation, including spoken language, sign language, and multimodal interaction. The tutorials will be held at LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca (Spain), on 11, 12, or 16 May 2026. Important Dates: 17 October 2025: Proposal su

Confs: 15th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference - Call for Workshop Proposals

Tue, 07/15/2025 - 07:05
The Organisers of LREC 2026 invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the main conference at Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma de Mallorca (Spain). We solicit proposals in all areas of language resources, language technology, and evaluation of the underlying technologies, broadly conceived to also include related disciplines such as linguistics, language documentation, natural language processing, speech and multimodal processing, computational social science, and the digit

Calls: 15th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

Tue, 07/15/2025 - 07:05
First Call for Papers: The three-day main conference will take place on 13-15 May 2026, and it will be accompanied by three days of workshops and tutorials to be held in the days immediately before (11-12 May 2026) and after (16 May 2026). The hybrid conference will bring together researchers and practitioners in natural language processing, computational linguistics, speech and multimodality, with special attention to evaluation and the development of resources that support work in these

Calls: Advances in Truthmaker Semantics 2

Tue, 07/15/2025 - 06:05
We are pleased to announce that we will make online access available for: Advances in Truthmaker Semantics 2 conference, Munich, July 28–30, 2025 To get the Zoom codes, please register for the conference (for free), indicating online participation: Registration (free): https://forms.gle/hKQFMqRzQrGYHk7J7 Program and abstracts: https://tinyurl.com/2025-tms-conference Details: There has recently been a growing interest in truthmaker semantics as an alternative to the standard possible-w

Calls: Languaging Diversity 2025

Tue, 07/15/2025 - 06:05
2nd Call for Papers: We are pleased to announce the 2nd Call for Papers for the 9th edition of the Languaging Diversity Conference (LD2025), which will take place on 3-5 December 2025 at the University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy. Please note that the deadline for abstract submission has been extended to 30 July 2025. We invite contributions that explore how language, literature and culture intersect in digital spaces, with a focus on identity formation, social belonging and exclusion onl

Confs: 1st Conference on Formal Models in Linguistics

Tue, 07/15/2025 - 06:05
The first Conference on Formal Models in Linguistics will be held on December 2nd-3rd 2025 in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. It is organized by the Laboratory of Formal Models in Linguistics (HSE University, Moscow) together with the Centre for Language and Brain (HSE University, Saint-Petersburg). The FML Conference aims to provide a platform for discussion of formal studies of natural language, be it within the generative paradigm or outside it. We encourage the use of any valid methodological devi

Review: Anthropological Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, General Linguistics, Sociolinguistics: Gavin Lamb (2024)

Mon, 07/14/2025 - 11:05
Summary This book offers an engaging ethnographic account of sea turtle ecotourism in Hawai‘i, providing a critical lens on how conservation practices, multispecies relations, and neoliberal environmental imaginaries are discursively constructed and contested. Chapter 1 lays the empirical and theoretical foundation for Lamb’s ethnography of sea turtle ecotourism in Hawai‘i, focusing on the discursive production and commodification of conservation. Lamb critiques how sea turtles are spectac

FYI: Call for Contributions – Language Attrition Network (2025/26)

Mon, 07/14/2025 - 11:05
Dear all, The Language Attrition Network meets once a month in a 1h session online to discuss projects, papers and chapters related wit Language Attrition. We are now welcoming proposals for presentations and contributions for the upcoming academic year, starting October 2025. If you are interested in sharing your research or proposing a session, please don't hesitate to get in touch with us (attrition.network@gmail.com) Stay connected with us on Instagram for updates and event highlights:

FYI: Parsed Corpus of Medieval Venetian [first version]

Mon, 07/14/2025 - 11:05
The Franco-German project MICLE (Micro-cues of language evolution: A Multifactorial model of V2 loss in Central Romance, ANR-20-FRAL-0001-01 / DFG-449439301), led by Pierre Larrivée and Cecilia Poletto between 2021 and 2024, is happy to announce the availability of another corpus. The open access, syntactically annotated set of Medieval Venetian legal texts is accessible in two locations: on searchable interface https://txm-crisco.huma-num.fr/txm/, where it joins the Medieval French comparable c

Summer Schools: Africa Computational Linguistics Summer School

Mon, 07/14/2025 - 10:05
Focus: 1. Courses on Python for linguists, machine learning for linguist, database development for linguist 2. Workshops on choosing the best instrument for language documentation and LaTeX for linguists 3. Coterie on building a successful career as linguists who want to go to tech 4. Ingathering from a linguist who is present using their linguistics skill in the industry 5. A talk with language technology founders for those who desire to have startups Description: Africa Computationa

Review: Phonetics: Elizabeth C. Zsiga (2024)

Mon, 07/14/2025 - 10:05
REVIEW This book about the linguistic study of sounds is an excellent resource to introduce students of linguistics and new linguists into the field of phonetics and phonology. Not only does it include theoretical explanations which are beautifully contextualised, but it also includes practice activities in the book and on a website. It consists of 24 chapters grouped into six different parts. At the end of each chapter, further readings to expand on the topics presented are suggested. Fur

FYI: Call - Book chapters - Critical Perspectives on Inclusion in English as a Foreign or Second Language

Mon, 07/14/2025 - 10:05
Call for Book Chapters Title: Critical Perspectives on Inclusion in English as a Foreign or Second Language Organizer: Antonio Henrique Coutelo de Moraes — antonio.moraes@ufr.edu.br To be published by the Federal University of Rondonópolis (UFR), Brazil This e-book, to be published by the Federal University of Rondonópolis (UFR) in Brazil, aims to bring together critical reflections, research, and practical experiences that explore the teaching of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) or

Confs: Die Sprachentwicklung neuzugewanderter Schüler:innen in deutschen Schulen (AG 14 bei DGfS 2026)

Mon, 07/14/2025 - 07:05
Sonja Eisenbeiß (Universität zu Köln), Nicole Marx (Universität zu Köln), Matthias Schwendemann (Universität Leipzig) AG 14 bei der 48. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft in Trier (https://www.uni-trier.de/universitaet/fachbereiche-faecher/fachbereich-ii/forschung-und-zentren/dgfs2026) Abstract: Aktuell machen Zugewanderte etwa 13% der Gesamtpopulation im Alter von 5-20 Jahren in Deutschland aus, wobei ca. 9% erst im schulpflichtigen Alter immigriert sind – ein

Confs: 59th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea

Mon, 07/14/2025 - 06:05
The Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) and the Osnabrück University are pleased to announce the “59th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2026)”, to be held in Osnabrück, 26-29 August 2026. SLE meetings provide a forum for high-quality linguistic research from all (sub)domains of linguistics. The upcoming edition of the SLE meeting will also host a round table of experts to discuss topics of special linguistic interest. Workshop Proposals: Submission Guidelines Works

Confs: AFLiCo 10: Interaction and Discourse

Mon, 07/14/2025 - 06:05
The French Cognitive Linguistics Association (AFLiCo) is pleased to announce its 10th international conference (AFLiCo10), to be held in Paris from June 22nd to June 24th 2026. The theme of the conference will be Interaction and Discourse. Going back to Clark’s (1996) joint action hypothesis, language is seen as a joint activity, which draws on a common ground shared among speakers, who have to constantly coordinate with each other in order to make their intentions known to the discourse par

Confs: International Travelling Conference 2026: "Who Are We Translating For? Who Is Translating?"

Mon, 07/14/2025 - 06:05
Is it the end of translation? Should we bid farewell to universality? Our era is not only one of artificial intelligence (AI); it is also marked by the fragmentation of societies, political entities, professions (particularly translation) and audiences. Translation and translation training are at the heart of these developments, which affect professionals, teachers, students, and translation audiences alike. We propose to examine how a narrower focus on a specific audience can lead to different

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