FYI: ATRAS Journal - "Call for Editorial Committee Members"

The LINGUIST List - Thu, 06/05/2025 - 13:05
Atras Journal (ISSN: 2710-8759) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to fostering interdisciplinary scholarship in literature, linguistics, cultural studies, gender studies, and translation. Issued by the University of Saida, Algeria, we prioritize multilingual contributions (English, French, and Arabic) and aim to bridge academic discourse across global communities. Learn more: https://atras-univ-saida.dz/en/ We invite applications for editorial roles. We seek

Confs: Corpus Linguistics in the AI Era

Conferences - Thu, 06/05/2025 - 12:05
The corpus-linguistic sections of the Department of English and the Department of German at Justus Liebig University (JLU) Giessen, Germany, jointly host the conference ‘Corpus Linguistics in the AI Era’, which will take place in-person only at Schloss Rauischholzhausen from May 07 to May 09 2026. Approximately 40 papers, which we plan to spread over two sections and frame by plenary talks, can be presented. The language of the conference will be English. The conference seeks to establish and

Confs: Studi italiani e sfide del Terzo Millennio (Italian Studies and Challenges of the Third Millennium)

Conferences - Thu, 06/05/2025 - 12:05
Under the patronage of Prof. Mohamed Diaa Zain El Abedeen, President of Ain Shams University Prof. Amani Osama Kamel, Vice President of the University for Graduate Studies and Research Prof. Salwa Rashad, Dean of the Faculty of Languages (Al-Alsun) Prof. Ashraf Attia, Deputy Dean for Graduate Studies and Research Is to be held International Conference of the Department of Italian Studies Italian Studies and Challenges of the Third Millennium Faculty of Al-Alsun (Languages) – Ain Shams Univer

Confs: Corpus Linguistics in the AI Era

The LINGUIST List - Thu, 06/05/2025 - 12:05
The corpus-linguistic sections of the Department of English and the Department of German at Justus Liebig University (JLU) Giessen, Germany, jointly host the conference ‘Corpus Linguistics in the AI Era’, which will take place in-person only at Schloss Rauischholzhausen from May 07 to May 09 2026. Approximately 40 papers, which we plan to spread over two sections and frame by plenary talks, can be presented. The language of the conference will be English. The conference seeks to establish and

Confs: Studi italiani e sfide del Terzo Millennio (Italian Studies and Challenges of the Third Millennium)

The LINGUIST List - Thu, 06/05/2025 - 12:05
Under the patronage of Prof. Mohamed Diaa Zain El Abedeen, President of Ain Shams University Prof. Amani Osama Kamel, Vice President of the University for Graduate Studies and Research Prof. Salwa Rashad, Dean of the Faculty of Languages (Al-Alsun) Prof. Ashraf Attia, Deputy Dean for Graduate Studies and Research Is to be held International Conference of the Department of Italian Studies Italian Studies and Challenges of the Third Millennium Faculty of Al-Alsun (Languages) – Ain Shams Univer

Calls: Reči (Words) – A Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (Jrnl)

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Call for Papers: We invite papers for the 18th issue of our Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Reči until September 1, 2025 to reci@alfa.edu.rs. Reči (Words) – A Journal of Language, Literature and Culture is an open access peer-reviewed international journal published by Alfa BK University (Republic of Serbia). The journal Reči is dedicated to all areas of enquiry pertaining to language, literature and culture. The journal thus welcomes the submission of works that focus on various

Jobs: English; Lexicography, Ling & Literature, Sociolinguistics: Researcher, Oxford Dictionary of African American English, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University

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Description: The Oxford Dictionary of African American English is a landmark scholarly initiative documenting the lexicon of African American English (AAE) in a dictionary based on historical principles. The ODAAE will be compiled and edited by a team of researchers, lexicographers, and editors sponsored and led by the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) and Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research. The joint team will apply the depth and rigor of the OED’s his

Calls: Studies in Second Language Acquisition - "SSLA Call for Replication Studies" (Jrnl)

The LINGUIST List - Thu, 06/05/2025 - 07:05
Studies in Second Language Acquisition (SSLA) recently published Replication Studies in Second Language Acquisition, a special issue of eleven high quality replication studies designed to revisit important claims and influential results in the field of Second Language Acquisition. Given the journal’s long-standing commitment to replication, we seek to build on this milestone by soliciting replications of studies with open materials and/or data that the editorial board considers important, imp

Calls: Bulletin suisse de linguistique appliquée - "Second language listening comprehension: challenges and didactic considerations" (Jrnl)

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Speech comprehension is one of the most fundamental domains of human cognition, and its importance in language acquisition is well-established (Feyten, 1991; Freedle & Carroll, 1972). Extensive research in cognitive science – particularly in psycholinguistics – has shed light on the complex processes involved in listening comprehension, highlighting their diversity (phonological, lexical, syntactic, semantic, and discourse-level processing), and their dynamic interactivity (Christiansen & Chater

Confs: 7th Conference on Corpora for Language and Aging Research

Conferences - Thu, 06/05/2025 - 06:05
CLARe conferences bring together scholars engaged in the study of language and aging, with a focus on fostering interdisciplinary collaboration. The 7th Conference on Corpora for Language and Aging Research (CLARe7) invites submissions under the theme Negotiating Age-related Changes. Contributions are welcome from corpus linguistics, multimodal communication, discourse studies, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and applied linguistics, including emerging AI tools. The conference seeks to adva

Confs: DGfS 2026 Computational Linguistics Poster Session

Conferences - Thu, 06/05/2025 - 06:05
We invite the submission of abstracts for the Computational Linguistics poster session of the 48th annual meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), hosted by the University of Trier. We invite submissions from all areas of computational linguistics, ranging from models of language across all linguistic areas to corpus lingusitics, multimodal approaches and studies on LLM capability assessment. We especially encourage students and junior researchers to participate. The poster session is

Confs: 6th International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children

Conferences - Thu, 06/05/2025 - 06:05
The Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (https://research.reading.ac.uk/celm/) at the University of Reading, UK, is delighted to announce that the 6th International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC 2026) will be held from June 18th-19th, 2026 at the University of Reading, UK. Our keynote speakers will be: Elma Blom, Utrecht University. Edith Kaan, University of Florida and Souad Kheder, University of Algiers. Kate Messenger, Lancaster University.

Confs: 7th Conference on Corpora for Language and Aging Research

The LINGUIST List - Thu, 06/05/2025 - 06:05
CLARe conferences bring together scholars engaged in the study of language and aging, with a focus on fostering interdisciplinary collaboration. The 7th Conference on Corpora for Language and Aging Research (CLARe7) invites submissions under the theme Negotiating Age-related Changes. Contributions are welcome from corpus linguistics, multimodal communication, discourse studies, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and applied linguistics, including emerging AI tools. The conference seeks to adva

Confs: DGfS 2026 Computational Linguistics Poster Session

The LINGUIST List - Thu, 06/05/2025 - 06:05
We invite the submission of abstracts for the Computational Linguistics poster session of the 48th annual meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), hosted by the University of Trier. We invite submissions from all areas of computational linguistics, ranging from models of language across all linguistic areas to corpus lingusitics, multimodal approaches and studies on LLM capability assessment. We especially encourage students and junior researchers to participate. The poster session is

Confs: 6th International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children

The LINGUIST List - Thu, 06/05/2025 - 06:05
The Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (https://research.reading.ac.uk/celm/) at the University of Reading, UK, is delighted to announce that the 6th International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC 2026) will be held from June 18th-19th, 2026 at the University of Reading, UK. Our keynote speakers will be: Elma Blom, Utrecht University. Edith Kaan, University of Florida and Souad Kheder, University of Algiers. Kate Messenger, Lancaster University.

Confs: 12th International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics

Conferences - Thu, 06/05/2025 - 05:05
The research group “Intercultural pragmatic studies (English-Spanish): Pragmatic and discourse issues” is pleased to announce the upcoming 12th International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics (EPICS XII, after the Spanish abbreviation for “Encuentros de Pragmática Intercultural, Cognitiva y Social”). Under the aegis of the PATDISC research project (“Discourse pathologisation in Twitter, Instagram and TikTok”, grant PID2022-136840O, MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and ER

Calls: 16th International Conference on Computational Semantics

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Final Call for Papers: IWCS is a biennial conference on computational semantics. This year's edition is organized by Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. The conference is endorsed by SIGSEM, the ACL Special Interest Group on Computational Semantics. The aim of the IWCS conference is to bring together researchers interested in any aspects of the computation, annotation, extraction, representation and learning of meaning in natural language, whether this is from a lexical or structural seman

FYI: Publication of the ATLAs database

The LINGUIST List - Wed, 06/04/2025 - 20:05
We are pleased to announce the publication of a new typological resource, the Areal Typology of Languages of the Americas (ATLAs) database. The aim of ATLAs is to capture areally relevant typological variation across North and South America, together with a baseline sample from the rest of the world. Our sample includes 325 languages worldwide, of which 220 are in the Americas. For each typological domain present in the database, we have attempted to encode as fine-grained features as possible,

Support: New Funding Opportunity for Students, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

The LINGUIST List - Wed, 06/04/2025 - 20:05
The DFG-funded Research Training Group ‘Dimensions of Constructional Space’ at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg is seeking to appoint 1 doctoral researcher for project 12: ‘Frequency effects in morphology: qualitative and quantitative aspects.’ The PhD researchers will be employed on a 65% basis on an TV-L13 scale (which amounts to a starting salary of about € 3000 per month before tax) for three years, starting 1 October 2025. More details about the Projects 2025 and

FYI: Call for participants: PhD study on language & emotion

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I am a PhD student from the Universität Koblenz, conducting a study on the developmental trajectory of emotion concepts in late German-English bilinguals. I am currently looking for participants in the following groups: - German & English native speakers (aged 20-30), who do not speak any language other than their L1 above B1-level - German-English late bilinguals (aged 20-30), who speak both German and English at C-level, but no other language above B1-level You can participate in my s

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