As part of her Master's Project, a graduate student at North Carolina State University is seeking participants for her study entitled: The Acquisition of Spanish as a Third Language by Native Speakers of Korean (IRB #: 28361). She is examining how learners’ first language (Korean) and second language (English) influence the acquisition of Spanish as a third language, focusing on morphosyntactic patterns. If you a Spanish learner residing in the Republic of Korea with a major/minor/specializa

We are pleased to announce the release of NE-OCR, a new unified open-source OCR recognition model developed by MWire Labs (Shillong, Meghalaya) specifically for the languages of Northeast India. NE-OCR is built on the DocTR ViTSTR-Base architecture (86M parameters) and provides high-accuracy text recognition for 12 languages (including Hindi and English) across 4 scripts: Latin script: Khasi, Kokborok, Mizo, Garo, Nagamese, Nyishi and English Bengali script: Assamese, Meitei (Bengali vari

This questionnaire investigates the knowledge and frequency of use of common German phrasemes containing the component “arm” among native speakers of German. Participants are asked to evaluate various idiomatic expressions with regard to their familiarity, meaning, and personal language use. The aim is to gain insights into participants’ familiarity with these linguistic units as well as their actual use in everyday communication. The questionnaire consists of several sections with both close

I am currently conducting a research project examining language use and stigma surrounding menstruation across different cultural contexts. The aim of this study is to collect terms used to refer to menstruation in various countries and to explore their meanings, cultural implications, and connotations. To support this research, I have created a brief Google Form to gather responses. I am seeking female participants who would be willing to share a word or expression used in their country, alo

Focus: Introduction to SPSS interface and data entry Data coding and variable management Descriptive statistics for linguistic data Inferential statistics (t-test, ANOVA, correlation) Interpreting SPSS output for research papers Description: Pakistan Corpus Studio invites you to an intensive and fully practical Three Day Workshop on Statistical Data Analysis using SPSS for Linguistic Research. This workshop is specially designed for students, researchers, and faculty who want to learn

Description: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Applications are invited for:- Department of History Postdoctoral Fellow(s) - Cross Cultural Analytics (Data Science, NLP, Computational Linguistics, Computational Humanities) (Ref: 26000063) The Chinese University of Hong Kong invites applications for two full‑time Postdoctoral Fellows to join an interdisciplinary data science project using large‑scale text data, NLP, knowledge graphs, and AI‑driven methods to study the historical in

The following books are now available for review on the LINGUIST List. If you would like to become a reviewer for one of the books announced in the AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW posting, you will need to follow steps 1-4 explained below: Step 1: Go to https://linguistlist.org/reviews/request Step 2: You will be asked to log in or create an account. Step 3: Update your personal information and add reviewer specific information on why you would be a good reviewer for the books you wish to select. Step

SUMMARY “How do we invent new words? How do we understand words that we have never heard before? What are the limits on the kinds of words we produce? How have linguists and grammarians dealt with the phenomenon of creating new words, and how justified are their ways of viewing such words?” (Bauer, 2025) Published by Cambridge University Press, Reflections on English Word-Formation, by Prof. Laurie Bauer, presents a comprehensive and reflective exploration of English word formati

SUMMARY As the editors of the present volume explain, the aim of the publication is to address a set of questions concerning the German language in Europe: Where in Europe is German spoken? How did this come about? What is the status of the German language in Europe? How does it interact with other languages? How does German fit into a multilingual repertoire? How can the vitality of German be assessed? [9] These questions are approached in two distinct ways: the first part of the volume pres

MWire Labs has released KokborokBERT, a masked language model (MLM) for the Kokborok language of Northeast India. The model was developed through domain-adaptive fine-tuning of XLM-RoBERTa-base on a curated Kokborok corpus (372,850 tokens). Training was conducted for 13 epochs on an NVIDIA A40 GPU. Validation Results: -Zero-shot XLM-R Perplexity: 396.69 -KokborokBERT Perplexity: 5.90 ~67× reduction in modeling error The model is designed to support downstream tasks such as named en

Computational Psycholinguistics discord server is an experimental research square for people working on the cross-section of NLP and Psychology to connect, discuss ideas, learn from each other, and pick up collaborators. You can join by following the link below https://discord.gg/2DUHmcnY6Z

Webinar Series: Conversations on Language Policy in Africa Challenges and Initiatives in Radio Language Policy Implementation Registration link: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/8a16b3f8-87d3-4c8c-a3a1-a6cee8f9600c@d400387a-212f-43ea-ac7f-77aa12d7977e Abstract The concern of radio language policy in Nigeria is uneven. The multiannual broadcasting, which overtly appears in Nigerian radio, is the subject of this webinar. It explores radio stations implementation of the legal posit

¿Eres hispanohablante y te gustaria participar en un estudio relacionado con el lenguaje y la IA? Ayúdanos respondiendo un cuestionario de 15 minutos, solamente necesitas un dispositivo electrónico y unos audífonos. El cuestionario te tomará alrededor de 10-15 minutos. Ingresa al link: https://lablinguisticaunam.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_57HV9rizfy9GYCy

The aim of this database is to provide information on the designations of biota (flora, fauna, etc.) in the traditional Great Andamanese languages, i.e. these languages as they were documented from the mid-19th to the early 20th centuries. The current version covers Akabea and Akajeru/North Andamanese. The database can be accessed here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18748966

Intercultural Pragmatics welcomes Marta Dynel (University of Łódź) as its new Editor-in-Chief, as of January 2026. Joining her on the editorial team are Monika Kirner-Ludwig (University of Innsbruck) and Wei Ren (Beihang University) as Associate Editors. Intercultural Pragmatics is an international forum for pragmatic research across languages and cultures. The journal makes a special effort to cross disciplinary boundaries, welcoming submissions from all areas of pragmatics and its interface

Description: The Department of Linguistics at the University of Michigan invites applications for a one-year Postdoctoral Research Fellow, with the possibility of renewal for a second year, to work with Dr. Huteng Dai on computational modeling of language acquisition. The postdoc will play a central role in developing publishable research that connects formal inductive biases, modern language modeling, and human language acquisition. We are especially interested in candidates who are excit

Description: Tasks and Expectations: The Faculty is seeking applications from leaders in the field who will make a significant contribution to shaping interdisciplinary linguistics with a strong focus on research and cooperation in conjunction with other linguistic disciplines at JGU. The successful candidate will represent the field of General Linguistics with a focus on Neurolinguistics in its full breadth in research and teaching and will collaborate closely with the professorship in Gene

The Linguistic Society of Korea (LSK) is pleased to announce the 2026 Seoul International Conference on Linguistics (SICOL-2026), to be held on August 10–11, 2026 at Sungshin Women’s University in Seoul, Korea (Participation mode: in person). Recent advances in artificial intelligence—particularly large language models (LLMs)—have reshaped how language is processed, modeled, and analyzed. As AI systems increasingly simulate aspects of linguistic competence and performance, foundational questi

Description: Tasks and Expectations: The Faculty is seeking applications from scholars who will make a significant contribution to shaping interdisciplinary linguistics with a strong focus on research and cooperation in conjunction with other linguistic disciplines at JGU. The successful candidate will represent the field of General and Comparative Linguistics with a typological focus in appropriate breadth in both research and teaching and will work closely with the professorship specializi

Call for Papers: Please scroll down for English version. 滑下查看標準漢語版本。 敬啟者： 第一屆粵語應用語言學研討會 × 第九屆粵語語言學論壇（CALA-1 × FoCaL-9）聯合會議會由香港粵語應用語言學學會（CALA）同香港語言學學會（LSHK）一齊主辦，香港理工大學專業及持續教育學院語文及傳意學部（LC, CPCE, PolyU）合辦，將於2026年7月4號（星期六）喺香港理工大學西九龍校園舉行。希望大家嚟分享最新研究進展，聽吓同儕意見，促進跨院校嘅交流同合作。 【特邀講者】（按姓氏英文排序） 林珮怡博士 （愛丁堡大學） 劉藴怡博士 （香港理工大學專業及持續進修學院） 梁慧敏教授 （香港理工大學） 【兩大主題】 - 粵語應用語言學 （例如語言獲得、人工智能與語言科技、語文或語言教育（教與學）、跨文化傳意與移民研究、流行文化中的語言、教學語言、語言評估、數碼人文等）；同埋 - 粵語理論語言學（例如語音學、音系學、形態學、句法學、語義學、心理語言學、神經語言學等）。 歡迎教研人員、