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

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

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

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

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

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

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-

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

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

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! ________________________ 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

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

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

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

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

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

O VI Congresso internacional formas e fórmulas de tratamento no mundo hispânico e luso-brasileiro (CCFT6 2027) acontecerá na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (Portugal) de 22 a 24 de setembro de 2027. O objetivo deste evento é reunir investigadores de diferentes países que levam a cabo estudos sobre as formas e fórmulas de tratamento (FFT) nas variedades de português e espanhol da Europa, América, África e Ásia. As pesquisas sobre FFT devem levar em consideração as seguintes abordag

What constitutes “the truth” underpins contemporary debates and is increasingly contested and politicised. This conference steps back to reflect on the role played by “telling the truth” in literary works and non-literary discourses across historical periods, languages and cultures, with the aim of bringing a wide range of perspectives to bear on a concept of enduring importance and throwing new light on present-day tensions. Drawing on a range of analytical approaches from across linguistics, l

We are pleased to present you with information about The EFL Journal (ISSN 0976-660X), published by the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. The journal serves as a platform for researchers, academics, and practitioners to share knowledge in the form of high-quality empirical and theoretical research papers in the fields of language, linguistics, and literature worldwide. The EFL Journal (EFLJ) (ISSN 0976-660X) is a blind peer-reviewed international journal, published biannual

O VI Congresso internacional formas e fórmulas de tratamento no mundo hispânico e luso-brasileiro (CCFT6 2027) acontecerá na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (Portugal) de 22 a 24 de setembro de 2027. O objetivo deste evento é reunir investigadores de diferentes países que levam a cabo estudos sobre as formas e fórmulas de tratamento (FFT) nas variedades de português e espanhol da Europa, América, África e Ásia. As pesquisas sobre FFT devem levar em consideração as seguintes abordag

What constitutes “the truth” underpins contemporary debates and is increasingly contested and politicised. This conference steps back to reflect on the role played by “telling the truth” in literary works and non-literary discourses across historical periods, languages and cultures, with the aim of bringing a wide range of perspectives to bear on a concept of enduring importance and throwing new light on present-day tensions. Drawing on a range of analytical approaches from across linguistics, l