We are delighted to welcome Prof Loewen to Swansea to give a talk titled “How effective are language learning apps?: Studies of Duolingo and Babbel” on 5th March @ 2pm. The event will by hybrid and all are welcome. SWANSEA UNIVERSITY LANGUAGE RESEARCH CENTRE SEMINAR SERIES Wednesday, 5th March, 14:00-15:00 Singleton Campus, Keir Hardie Annex 038 Zoom link: https://swanseauniversity.zoom.us/j/92225426267?pwd=tNzDLuejWK6tNCO8iaHTfAqcMoWl8I.1 Meeting ID: 922 2542 626

Hi, I am searching for speech samples (spontaneaous or read speech, 1 min of speech is great !) from these different languages (at least 1 male and 1 female). Could anyone provide me with these data? Of course, I will cite you as contributors in the aknowledgment section of the forthcoming paper :) My study intends to quantify vocal dimorphism in several languages and investigate some cultural evolutionary hypothesis to explain cross language/culture differences. Thanks a lot in adva

2025. iii, 159 pp. Table of Contents Articles Regrounding work in elite discourse: Mediatizing and amplifying entitlement Crispin Thurlow & Adam Jaworski | pp. 151–173 “I never said that”: Negotiating misunderstandings in police interviews Chi-Hé Elder & Luna Filipović | pp. 174–200 Talking about the deceased in the Jish linguaculture: A semantic and pragmatic analysis Sandy Habib | pp. 201–225 Gendered subtle bias in Danish TV election debates Mie Femø Nielsen | pp. 226–254

2025. iii, 158 pp. Table of Contents Articles Shared syntax and cross-linguistic influence in bilingual children: Evidence from between- and within-language priming Sharon Unsworth | pp. 117–151 How cross–linguistic influence affects the use of duration in the production and perception of corrective and non–corrective focus types Farhat Jabeen & Bettina Braun | pp. 152–178 Inter-generational attrition: Language transmission between long-term UK residents and heritage speakers o

We are delighted to announce the publication of Himalayan Linguistics 23(3). Himalayan Linguistics is a free peer-reviewed web journal and archive devoted to the study of the languages of the Himalayas. https://escholarship.org/uc/himalayanlinguistics/23/3 Caritive expression in Suansu Jessica Katiuscia Ivani https://doi.org/10.5070/H9.35193 Causative Derivations in Tenyidie Kikrokhol Kraho https://doi.org/10.5070/H9.35219 A pan-dialectal survey of the Horpa preinitial systems Sa

Call for Papers: We invite submissions for a special issue of Philosophical Studies on topics lying at the widely construed intersection of semantics and philosophy of memory. Description Recent work on reference in memories from dreams, on self-referential memory contents, and mnemic accuracy, among others, has shown the high relevance of semantic concepts (broadly construed) to issues in philosophy of memory. However, philosophical exploration of the topics at the intersection of semant

Focus: - Field methods & glossing sessions - Team-based work with native speakers of Tsova-Tush - Hands-on linguistic analysis (morphosyntax, phonology, semantics) Description: The CauLaGe Summer Program is an intensive linguistic expedition. Participants will engage in fieldwork, linguistic analysis, and workshops led by experts in the field. While it is focused on a Caucasian language, the program is open to anyone who wants to gain hands-on experience in language documentation and

Call for Papers: Au-delà d’un usage de l’anglais comme lingua franca désormais bien établi, les individus vivent des expériences plurilingues diverses qui prennent place dans de nombreux contextes (professionnels, académiques, relationnels, de loisirs, que ce soit en ligne ou en présentiel) et qui témoignent du caractère multilingue des interactions caractéristiques du monde d’aujourd’hui (Kalaja & Melo-Pfeifer, 2024). Cette pluralité se retrouve dans de nombreuses offres de formation en lang

Call for Papers: The Romance Linguistics Forum of the Modern Language Association welcomes a wide range of participants and approaches to Romance Linguistics to its 2026 panel at the MLA Convention. We invite abstracts exploring any area of Romance Linguistics (theoretical, socio-pragmatic, or applied) within any framework. Although preference will be given to papers addressing resemblances within the Romance family, all submissions will be considered. Abstracts of up to 500 words should b

Les Journées d’études "Dialogues acquisition-didactique des langues en milieux guidés" proposeront un espace d’échanges (interrogations, convergences et/ou désaccords !) autour de la question de l’apprentissage des langues secondes/étrangères (L2) en contextes non naturels. Dans la continuité des réflexions menées lors des Journées d’études RéAL2 De l’acquisition à la didactique (et vice-versa) qui se sont tenues en 2021, les Journées d’études Dialogues acquisition-didactique des langues en mi

WSCLA (Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas) is an annual conference dedicated to the formal and theoretically-informed linguistic study of Indigenous languages of North, Central, and South America. The 28th edition will be held at Memorial University of Newfoundland on June 16–18, 2025. Abstracts are invited for a 30-minute talk or a poster. Papers can be in any area of formal linguistics (including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pr

Deadline for submissions: May 5th 2025 Date of seminar: November 19th 2025 Contact email:masculinitieseurope@gmail.com Planned platform: MS Teams Aims and scope of the seminar The interdisciplinary seminar offers researchers from various fields the opportunity to reflect on the diversity of masculinity in mediated spaces in widely understood European contexts. We are interested in contributions that interpret masculinity in its hybrid sense (Bridges & Pascoe, 2014) or investigate

The fourth conference “Indigenous Languages of Russia in Contact with Russian” will be held in a hybrid format at the Vinogradov Russian Language Institute (RAS), Moscow, on 19–20 September 2025. We invite abstract submissions addressing the following topics: – Borrowing of grammatical and lexical patterns from Russian into indigenous languages of Russia or of other areas. – Borrowing of grammatical and lexical patterns between indigenous languages of Russia. – Contact-induced features in

Description: Postdoctoral position in computational phonology & cultural evolution on "Rational Evolutionary Phonology" Prof Erich Round is seeking qualified applicants for a fully-funded two-year postdoctoral project on “REVOLUPHON: Rational Evolutionary Phonology". This postdoctoral project contributes to the core cultural-evolutionary and modelling components in the ERC-selected, UKRI-funded project "Rational Evolutionary Phonology", 2024–2029. The position is based at the Surrey Morph

Friday, March 7th, 11.30am ET (4.30pm UTC) Presentation in Zoom, accessible via the C-STAR website: http://cstar.sc.edu/lecture-series/ Syntactic processing in bilingual aphasia Danielle Fahey, PhD University of Montana Roughly half of the global population is bilingual in that they speak (or sign) two or more of the world's 7000+ languages. Mainstream psycholinguistic models of bilingualism propose a single language system with grammars that interact across languages. Following t

To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the University Heinrich Heine (Düsseldorf, Germany) and International Moher Language Day you can listen to the Poem "Die Loreley" by Heinrich Heine in more than 35 languages including some (very) endangered languages here: https://media.hhu.de/group/Heinrich-Heine26230393Bs-poem-26quot3BDie-Lorelei26quot3B-translated/1e53c461bc41b034c19556a2c7670944#media Complete readings of the poem and small translations (first 4 verses) that have been made specifically

The Language Attrition Network invites you to our next session on the 27th of March at 2pm CET (1pm UK time) on Microsoft Teams. If you are not yet on the mailing list, please send us an e-mail to attrition.network@gmail.com Beatriz Duarte Gonçalves Ventura de Paula Wirth (Université de Lausanne, Switzerland) will present us her project "Language development in Portuguese and English multilingual immigrants in Switzerland: bridging sociolinguistic narratives and psycholinguistic models of at

We are delighted to announce that our next Swansea University LRC (Language Research Centre) seminar by Keighley Perkins will be on Wednesday 26th Feb from 1pm to 2pm GMT on zoom. Zoom link: https://swanseauniversity.zoom.us/j/93354933823?pwd=1iMymYf4OfY4gP7dXz74qcVOTA5bYR.1 "It's not all work being an activist after all”: A discursive analysis of in-group identities on radical right Twitter. Dr Keighley Perkins, Lecturer in Applied Linguistics (Swansea University) Identity is un

I am looking for a home for about 40 hours of Sourashtra conversations recorded in 1989-90, mostly transcribed and digitized. The paper fieldnotes contain Tamil translations (no English glosses), mostly not digitized. If anyone has a suggestion for where this material can be archived, please let me know.

The Center for Thai as a Foreign Language is about to accept applications for the Master’s Degree Program in Thai as a Foreign Language – Second Semester, Academic Year 2025- at the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University. 📌 Application Schedule: 📣 Application Period: 🗓 June 1 – August 1, 2025 🔗 Apply at: www.grad.chula.ac.th 📣 Announcement of Eligible Candidates for Examination: 🗓 September 23, 2025 🔗 Check at: http://arts.chula.ac.th/CTFL 📣 Interview Examination: 🗓 October 7