Following the success of the inaugural edition last year, the Linguistics & Language Variation group at the Meertens Institute in Amsterdam (LiME), is pleased to announce the second edition of the LiME Conference on Language Variation (LiCLA 2). The conference aims to promote work in socio-syntax—the intersection of syntax and sociolinguistics—as a venue not only for worked-out interdisciplinary socio-syntactic contributions but also contributions from one of these subdisciplines which are seeki

Workshop Description: Over the past 20 years, the NLP community has given steadily-increasing attention to the idea of regarding human annotation disagreement not as a nuisance but as a potential asset that can be exploited for understanding the respective task better. In practice, this means that multiple annotations are not just adjudicated or averaged (and the individual annotations then thrown away) but taken as a spectrum that constitutes a "complex ground truth", for instance in the for

You are invited to submit an abstract for a poster presentation during ISC’s 2026 Summer School on Knowledge, Reasoning, and Decision-Making organized by University of Quebec in Montreal’s Institute of Cognitive Sciences (ISC). This event will take place from May 27 to June 10 2026 (poster presentation date TBD). Knowledge plays a determinant role in effective decision-making. This is why humans use a considerable amount of cognitive energy to reason and make decisions by mobilizing and tran

Following the success of the inaugural edition last year, the Linguistics & Language Variation group at the Meertens Institute in Amsterdam (LiME), is pleased to announce the second edition of the LiME Conference on Language Variation (LiCLA 2). The conference aims to promote work in socio-syntax—the intersection of syntax and sociolinguistics—as a venue not only for worked-out interdisciplinary socio-syntactic contributions but also contributions from one of these subdisciplines which are seeki

The Diversity in Linguistics Talk Day is a one-day online event that brings together linguists from diverse social and linguistic backgrounds to present their work across all areas of linguistics. Contributions from all subfields and theoretical perspectives are welcome. The event will take place on 11 August 2026 and will be held via Zoom. Talks will be grouped thematically, with regular breaks, and we will make every effort to accommodate different time zones. Participation is free of charg

We are pleased to announce the program of the 18th meeting of Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA-18) which will take place at the University of Cambridge, April 16-18, 2026. Invited speakers - Laura Dominguez, University of Southampton On languages, multilingual grammars and the status of mental representations - Ayşe Gürel, Boğaziçi University What can agglutinative morphology tell us about inflectional variability in the L2: Evidence from Turkish - Cr

The Diversity in Linguistics Talk Day is a one-day online event that brings together linguists from diverse social and linguistic backgrounds to present their work across all areas of linguistics. Contributions from all subfields and theoretical perspectives are welcome. The event will take place on 11 August 2026 and will be held via Zoom. Talks will be grouped thematically, with regular breaks, and we will make every effort to accommodate different time zones. Participation is free of charg

SUMMARY Joanna Wall’s (2024) dissertation is assuredly a contribution to Minimalist theorizing and forges ahead in the true spirit of how that program was envisioned. That is, it fulfills the goal handed to us by Chomsky (2021), i.e., to always be sharpening the Strong Minimalist Thesis (SMT), and she undertakes this by innovating and pointing us “Towards a Label-less Grammar”. Having said that, if you are a person who is inclined to believe that the success of a research work in linguistics

The Syntax-Semantics Group will hold its next meeting on Thursday, April 2nd, at 2-3pm in Room 002 of the McGill linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/84180431566 Nicolas Poisson (McGill) will be presenting. Abstract is below. The original Carlsonian claim that bare plurals unambiguously denote kinds received much support from Chierchia (1998), […]

The article “Disentangling acoustic and social biases in creaky voice perception: The effects of f0 and face gender on creakiness ratings”, co-authored by Jeanne Brown and Meghan Clayards, has just appeared online at Laboratory Phonology: https://doi.org/10.16995/labphon.24285. The abstract is below. Creaky voice has historically been associated with men’s speech, supported by acoustic studies. Since around […]

Next presentation will be on Monday, Mar 30, 12-1pm in room 117 and on Zoom.  Yue Qiu, a visiting PhD candidate from the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, will be presenting her research ReadCalibration: Exploring the Links between Reading Acquisition and Speech Sound Processing. All relevant documents (schedules, abstracts, papers and slides/handouts) will be available on this Google Drive.

Final Call for Papers: The Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS) will host the 27th Annual International Conference. Dates: Sep. 19 (Sat) – 20 (Sun), 2026 Venue: Ochanomizu University (2-1-1, Otsuka Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan) Plenary Lecturer: Dr. Kamil Deen (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa) Submission Deadline: April 7 (Tue), 2026, by 23:59 JST (extended from March 31) For more information, please check the following sites. CFP English Version: https://jslsweb.sakura.ne.jp/w

2nd Call for Papers: The deadline for submitting abstracts to the 7th Saami Linguistics Symposium (SAALS 7) is coming up on 10 April! On 4–5 November 2026, the 7th Saami Linguistics Symposium will be held at Nord University in Bodø, Norway. The symposium is the continuation of a series of international symposia previously held in Tromsø 2006 and 2009, in Freiburg 2017, in Uppsala 2019, in Tartu 2022, and in Helsinki 2024. The purpose of the symposium is to give scholars an opportunity to

English: The linguistic landscape (LL), comprised of items displaying written language in the public space, is the product of linguistic choices that are executed by a myriad of actors who are guided by numerous pragmatic or symbolic motivations. Written language in the public space has unique semiotic properties that extend beyond its communicative function. It indexes power relations and identities, and, as such, is utilised to impose or negotiate these. The LL is thus a symbolic construct fin

Linguistic landscape (LL) research is a recent development in the field of sociolinguistics. The LL is written language in the public space; and the study thereof focuses on the linguistic choices in the LL and the motivations behind these choices. Language in the LL has unique semiotic properties and the LL hence offers a new approach to investigate sociolinguistic themes. The themes most commonly addressed are language policy and linguistic diversity. As a result of the bidirectional relati

Other Specialties: Language evolution, Human evolution, Evolutionary linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Cultural evolution. Description: This 4-year PhD project will focus on experimentally testing the social and cognitive pressures that shape human language evolution from the very early stages of language emergence, to the ongoing diversification and change we see across languages today. The project will use group communication games and artificial language learning experiments to investi

The 6th International Symposium on Corpora (PACOR 2027), which will take place at the University of Córdoba from 25 to 27 January 2027. Organised by the research group LinguaCor (HUM-1144), PACOR is a biannual international conference dedicated to corpus research. Under the theme “Re-thinking Evidence: Corpus Linguistics in a Changing Language Landscape”, PACOR 2027 invites contributions that examine how linguistic evidence is being reshaped by digital communication, multilingual realities,

Short Description: The aim of the international study day Linguistics and Economics: New Scenarios in the Age of Artificial Intelligence is to share ideas on how AI is conceived and possibly integrated into a given economic or linguistic space, and what role AI has or could have in the construction of such spaces, in light of the objectives of Agenda 2030. Proposals may address one or more of the above topics, from a diachronic or synchronic, historical or contemporary, theoretical or appl

Description: The Experimental Linguistics Laboratory (ELL) of the University of Agder is recruiting a postodoctoral researcher to join our ERC Synergy research project entitled Phonological cognisance and allied linguistic representations: acquisition, bilingualism, change and script (PAAL). A fixed-term 100 % position is available at the University of Agder, Faculty of Humanities and Education, as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow affiliated to the Department of Foreign Languages and Translati

The 6th International Symposium on Corpora (PACOR 2027), which will take place at the University of Córdoba from 25 to 27 January 2027. Organised by the research group LinguaCor (HUM-1144), PACOR is a biannual international conference dedicated to corpus research. Under the theme “Re-thinking Evidence: Corpus Linguistics in a Changing Language Landscape”, PACOR 2027 invites contributions that examine how linguistic evidence is being reshaped by digital communication, multilingual realities,