Call for Papers: The International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB 16), to be held in Saskatoon, Canada, on June 14-18, 2027, is pleased to announce the first Call for Individual Presentations Proposals (an abstract of a presentation that can be single authored or co-authored. The theme of ISB 16 is “Languages in Academia and in Communities”. ISB is the leading international conference in the field of bi/multilingualism. The five-day program will cover a broad range of topics, including biling

The Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning Workshop (X-PPL) brings together the growing community of researchers working to expand the diversity of languages in the scope of psycholinguistic and neuroscience research. After several editions held at the University of Zurich (Switzerland), the conference will become itinerant this year and will be hosted by the AHAL Aquitaine Multilingual Lab (IKER-CNRS), at the University of Pau campus in Bayonne (Basque Country, France), from

Call for Papers: The 6th International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (ISMBS 2027) will host original research on the acquisition and use of first language, second or additional language, bilingual, and (bi)dialectal speech, child and adult, typical and atypical. The Symposium encourages a multidisciplinary exchange of ideas across phonology, phonetics, morphology, syntax, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, clinical phonetics and linguistics, speech pathology, acoust

The editorial board of the Zeitschrift für Wortbildung / Journal of Word Formation (ZWJW) invites submissions for its next regular issue Vol. 11 No. 1 (2027). ZWJW is an open access and double-blind peer-reviewed international journal. It is indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). The jornal publishes papers on word formation regarding any language and linguistic field, e.g. morphology, syntax, lexicology, phonology, semantics, pragmatics, language history, typology, diale

The Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning Workshop (X-PPL) brings together the growing community of researchers working to expand the diversity of languages in the scope of psycholinguistic and neuroscience research. After several editions held at the University of Zurich (Switzerland), the conference will become itinerant this year and will be hosted by the AHAL Aquitaine Multilingual Lab (IKER-CNRS), at the University of Pau campus in Bayonne (Basque Country, France), from

Call for Papers: We are excited to announce that the 13th AZCALL Conference will be held at Arizona State University on November 14, 2026! Theme: Technology and the Evolution of Language Research The 13th AZCALL Conference is proudly organized by the Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) Club at Arizona State University, a student-led organization dedicated to advancing the exploration and integration of technology in language learning and teaching. In celebration of its thirteenth y

We are pleased to announce that the submission deadline for the BEACON 2026 Workshop — Beyond the Concrete: Grounding Abstract Concepts in Multimodal Interaction, co-located with ACM ICMI 2026, has been extended to July 17, 2026. BEACON 2026 brings together researchers working on multimodal representation learning, embodied and developmental models, robotics, cognitive science, and hybrid cognitive architectures. The workshop aims to consolidate computational approaches, datasets, and evaluat

Call for Papers: CLAVIER - Interuniversity Research Centre "Corpus and Language Variation in English Research" University of Catania - University of Trieste AIA - The Italian Association for the Study of English The contemporary landscape of Legal English is increasingly defined by a shift from a monolithic entity to a diverse array of Legal Englishes, reflecting the role of English as a global lingua franca in legal, judicial and institutional settings. Within multilayered legal system

We are pleased to announce that the submission deadline for the BEACON 2026 Workshop — Beyond the Concrete: Grounding Abstract Concepts in Multimodal Interaction, co-located with ACM ICMI 2026, has been extended to July 17, 2026. BEACON 2026 brings together researchers working on multimodal representation learning, embodied and developmental models, robotics, cognitive science, and hybrid cognitive architectures. The workshop aims to consolidate computational approaches, datasets, and evaluat

The 2027 Annual Meeting of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences (NAAHoLS) will be held in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA. NAAHoLS has been meeting as a sister society of the LSA since 1989. As members of an LSA sister society, presenters at NAAHoLS 2027 will register for the LSA Annual Meeting at the discounted LSA member rate and will have access to all LSA events and benefits, as well as events

The 2027 Annual Meeting of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences (NAAHoLS) will be held in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA. NAAHoLS has been meeting as a sister society of the LSA since 1989. As members of an LSA sister society, presenters at NAAHoLS 2027 will register for the LSA Annual Meeting at the discounted LSA member rate and will have access to all LSA events and benefits, as well as events

Introduction H. Ekkehard Wolff’s volume Lexical Reconstruction in Chadic, in my critical valuation, represents a significant ‘new’ addition to the relatively restricted list of ‘academic’ references currently available on comparative Chadic linguistics. This judgment is partly elucidated in evaluative comments that I make on specific chapters and sections of the volume at the end of this review report. But before I offer my comments, I need to indicate that I support and appreciate the vali

SUMMARY Language Teacher Education Beyond Borders: Multilingualism, Transculturalism and Critical Approaches is edited by Fernando Zolin Vesz, Darío Luis Banegas and Luciana C. de Oliveira, was published in 2024 by Bloomsbury Academic in hardback, paperback and e-book formats, and has 200 pages. The eight chapters draw on multilingual and transcultural education research from around the globe to explore language teacher education from a critical perspective. With chapters from Scotland, Thail

Focus: Cantonese linguistics, language contact. Description: First launched in 2019, the School of Cantonese Studies aims to introduce recent developments in Cantonese Studies, provide systematic and rigorous research methodologies, and foster scholarly exchange between speakers and participants. This year's theme is Language Contact. Sessions and Speakers: Kam-Tai substratum in Cantonese — Prof. Chung Pui Tai & Dr. Hanbo Liao Mutual influence between Cantonese and Standard Chinese —

Call for Papers: We are happy to announce the 6th International Conference on Discourse, Culture & Interaction that provides a forum for researchers in the areas of Pragmatics, (Applied) Linguistics, Discourse Studies among others to share their research. We welcome submissions from established scholars as well as early career researchers – including Honours, MA and PhD researchers. Keynote speaker: Assoc. Prof Lili Gong (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China) Abstracts are inv

The 6th International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (ISMBS 2027) will host original research on the acquisition and use of first language, second or additional language, bilingual, and (bi)dialectal speech, child and adult, typical and atypical. The Symposium encourages a multidisciplinary exchange of ideas across phonology, phonetics, morphology, syntax, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, clinical phonetics and linguistics, speech pathology, acoustics, neurolinguistic

Call for Papers: We are delighted by the interest our conference has received and, in response to requests from prospective contributors, we have decided to extend the abstract submission deadline to July, 15th, 2026. The contemporary world is marked by a state of ongoing tension, no longer driven by isolated crises, but by the convergence and interplay of multiple, simultaneous crises: pandemics, war, migration, climate catastrophes, economic instability, disinformation, and the erosion

Call for Papers: We are pleased to announce the extended call for submissions for the recurring meeting dedicated to computational psycholinguistics, which will take place in Utrecht on December 3 and December 4, and it will be preceded by tutorials on the afternoon of December 2. Updated deadline for the abstract submission: July 17 Description of the CPL meeting: The field has seen significant growth in recent years, not only due to developments in large language models but also to

The 6th International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (ISMBS 2027) will host original research on the acquisition and use of first language, second or additional language, bilingual, and (bi)dialectal speech, child and adult, typical and atypical. The Symposium encourages a multidisciplinary exchange of ideas across phonology, phonetics, morphology, syntax, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, clinical phonetics and linguistics, speech pathology, acoustics, neurolinguistic

The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 led to a rapid increase in Korean immigration to the United States and by the 1990s, the Korean diaspora community became one of the largest immigrant communities in the country. As a result, the main demographic of Korean language students at universities in the US during late twentieth century consisted mostly of 1.5 and 2nd generation Korean heritage learners. In the 21st century, along with the growth of non-heritage learners largely driven by the