Description: The Department of Linguistics at the University of Georgia invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Phonetics and Phonology with an anticipated start date of August 1, 2026. We seek a candidate with a productive research agenda and the ability to be an excellent teacher and mentor at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Special consideration will be given to applicants whose work includes a focus on laboratory phonology, speech technology, and/or corp

Convenors: José A. Sánchez Fajardo (University of Alicante) Francesca Masini (University of Bologna) Muriel Norde (Humboldt University Berlin) Kristel Van Goethem (F.R.S.-FNRS & Université catholique de Louvain) Tijana Vesić Pavlović (University of Belgrade) Organizing Team: Andrés Muñoz García (University of Alicante) Julio Torres Soler (University of Alicante) Plenary speaker: Elisa Mattiello (University of Pisa) Call for Papers: This workshop is a follow-up to the first Eva

Conference will be organized by St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory and Vaganova Ballet Academy. The goal of the International Scientific Conference is to create a comfortable interdisciplinary platform for a fruitful broad discussion of the problems of interaction in the conditions of the modern information world of the main semiotic systems that ensure human communication — language, music and gesture. Among the topics proposed for discussion du

Le 10e Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française (CMLF 2026) se tiendra à l’Université d’Artois (Arras) du 6 au 10 juillet 2026. Vous trouverez l’appel à communications ainsi que la plateforme pour déposer vos articles est ouverte sur le site du congrès : https://cmlf2026.sciencesconf.org/ Vous êtes cordialement invité.e.s à soumettre un article dans l’une des sessions thématiques suivantes : - Discours, pragmatique et interaction - Francophonie - Histoire du français : perspectives d

The Department of English, The Laboratory of Approaches to Discourse, The Laboratory of Language and Automatic Treatment, and The Doctoral School at the Faculty of Letters and Humanities of Sfax – Tunisia jointly organize: International Conference "Who Writes? Authorship and Authority in Transformative Times" 5-6-7 February 2026 Venue: FLSHS Between the moment of a work’s inception and the final act of its dissemination and reception, the author faces a variety of choices and consideration

Convenors: Ana Stulic (Bordeaux Montaigne University, AMERIBER-GRIAL) and Patrick Dendale (University of Antwerp, GAP) Abstracts (max 300 words, not counting the references) should be sent to ana.stulic@u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr & patrick.dendale@uantwerpen.be by 15 November 2025. This is a shortened version of the CFP. Please check the full version at: https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2026/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2025/10/Workshop-Turn-out-or-emergence-of-knowledge-verbs-SLE2026.pdf T

Call for Panellists The Power of Names: Naming, Renaming, and African Identity The 10th Annual Conference of the Lagos Studies Association Conference Theme: The State of African Studies in the 21st Century: The Lagos Studies Association @ 10 Naming is one of the most enduring acts of identity, memory, and power. Across Africa, names of people, places, and institutions bear the imprint of history, spirituality, and politics. This panel interrogates the politics of naming and renaming as cru

Call for Panellists Writing the City: Linguistic Landscapes and the Politics of Representation The 10th Annual Conference of the Lagos Studies Association Conference Theme: The State of African Studies in the 21st Century: The Lagos Studies Association @ 10 Cities are living texts, and their walls, billboards, signposts, graffiti, and digital screens constitute a dynamic archive of meaning. This panel aims to critically examine the linguistic landscapes of African cities as contested space

The First International Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for Health (HeaLing’26) will be held as a half-day workshop at EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco, March 24–29, 2026. Scope & Aims: Language-oriented approaches—such as discourse and conversation analysis, narrative medicine, and linguistic ethnography—have long been central to understanding how medical knowledge is produced, communicated, and experienced. Advances in NLP and AI now enable these approaches to scale across large health-related

We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for our conference "Professionalizing the Teachers of Today and Tomorrow: Language Teacher Identities (LTI) and Beyond" which will take place at Paderborn University, Germany, on November 20–21, 2025. This conference will bring together educators, researchers, and practitioners to explore the evolving identities of language teachers and the professionalization of teaching in diverse contexts. Participants will have the opportunity t

Dear Child Language Community, We are honoured to announce the first volume of TiLAR Language Overviews - an initiative of the book series Trends in Language Acquisition Research published by John Benjamins. This initiative honours the 40th anniversary of the publication of Dan Slobin’s edited volumes The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition (1985-1997). TiLAR Language Overviews provide state-of-the-art summaries of language acquisition research in individual languages and lang

Our next presentation will be on Tuesday, October 21, from 1-2 pm in room 002 and on Zoom. Tony will present a paper (attached below). Paper: Natvig, D. (2021). Modeling heritage language phonetics and phonology: Toward an integrated multilingual sound system. Languages, 6(4), 209.

Focus: The LOT schools offer a wide variety of courses. Description: The school offers a varied programme of 12 one-week courses (divided over two weeks) that are open to PhD canddiates across the world. The following instructors have confirmed: Marina Cantarutti (University of York), Bettelou Los (University of Edinburgh), Patrick Honeybone (University of Edinburgh), Francis Bond (Palacký University Olomouc), Christian Ilbury (University of Edinburgh), Menno Reijven (University of Amst

We, Mariia Pronina (University of the Balearic Islands) and Rebecca Woods (Newcastle University), are starting a new online research group on the acquisition of prosody and gesture called Making Waves. The group is intended to be an interactive, supportive and informative group that meets monthly to discuss, explore and problem-solve issues on the acquisition of prosody and gesture, rather than a platform for individuals to present research at length. In this way, we hope to create an intern

Call for abstracts for book chapter contributions Title: Language Lives: Creating Spaces for Plurilingualism in the University Curriculum Editors: Amanda Brown, Gail Bulman, M. Emma Ticio Quesada Publisher: The volume is currently under consideration with Multilingual Matters. With the decline of world language study (MLA, 2021) and consequent decline in resources and opportunities for such study, this volume will showcase how educators and students can co-create dynamic, inclusive, and

In this newsletter: Membership year 2026 publication preview Fall 2025 data scholarship recipients New publications: KAIROS Phase 2 Quizlet BOLT CTS CALLFRIEND CALLHOME Egyptian Arabic Audio BOLT CTS CALLFRIEND CALLHOME Egyptian Arabic Transcripts and Translations _____________________________________ Membership year 2026 publication preview The 2026 membership year is approaching and plans for next year’s publications are in progress. Among the expected releases are: • 2012

Overview and Scope Despite the growing recognition of World Englishes, the emphasis on intelligibility over nativeness, and the importance of culturally responsive perspectives on teaching, the education systems in this continent still largely adhere to traditional native-speaker standards in English language teaching. This is made manifest in teaching materials and standardized assessments, which continue to prioritize native-speaker models, native-speaker communicative situations, and standar

I am recruiting Japanese Heritage speakers and L2 Japanese learners for two research studies that I am running for my dissertation. Each research study (both online) takes roughly 30 minutes, and awards a $20 gift card upon completion (for a total of $40 if both studies are completed). Both require the use of a computer. Please consider participating, or even pass on the information to your Japanese-speaking communities and programs! I am also happy to answer further questions at my email add

SUMMARY The book contains an edited collection of papers from the “Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris” (CSSP) conference, which took place at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris in 2023. After a short preface by the editors, the 231-page volume comprises eight chapters, each presenting a distinct paper. The chapters are preceded by a dozen-line preface by the editors (Gabriela Bîlbîie and Gerhard Schaden) contextualising the volume as a “curated selection of papers” from CSSP 2023. T

Two new articles by McGill linguists have been published in Language and Linguistics Compass! Correlates of Object Raising in Mayan, by Justin Royer (PhD ’22) and Jessica Coon (https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.70013) Abstract: Mayan languages show variation in the morphosyntactic distribution of absolutive objects. A now commonly-adopted analysis ties this variation to differences in object movement and agreement. In so-called ‘high-absolutive’ languages, […]