Call for Papers:
We herewith invite abstracts for presentations at the 16th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology. This is being organized by the Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage (DDL), CNRS, and will be held at the Lumière University of Lyon, France, on 1-3 July 2026. The preceding day (30 June) will be reserved for a series of teach-ins (see below for the provisional programme).
Abstract submission site opens: 14 July, 2025
Abstract submission deadline: 15
Linguistic research and theory construction has for a long time been conducted from a very Eurocentric perspective and mainly based on intuition. This type of armchair linguistics has been rightfully criticized, but fortunately, the last decades have seen a shift to more empirically oriented methods. Naturally, these methods were initially applied to well-known languages like English and German. However, more recently, empirical methods have also been more consistently applied to understudied la
The aim of this conference is to bring together specialists in didactics, linguistics, geography, and second language acquisition, as well as teacher trainers and secondary school teachers to discuss the teaching and learning of English as a Second Language (ESL) using a CLIL approach, in geography classes more specifically.
The CEFR (2001, 2018) promotes an action-oriented perspective for the teaching of foreign languages and considers learners as social actors. This approach aims to engage
Final Call for Papers:
Until recently, language resources supporting many tasks in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and other areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI) have been based on the assumption of a single ‘ground truth’ label sought via aggregation, adjudication, or statistical means. However, the field is increasingly focused on subjective and controversial tasks, such as quality estimation or abuse detection, in which multiple points of view may be equally valid; subjectivity, indeed,
Linguistic research and theory construction has for a long time been conducted from a very Eurocentric perspective and mainly based on intuition. This type of armchair linguistics has been rightfully criticized, but fortunately, the last decades have seen a shift to more empirically oriented methods. Naturally, these methods were initially applied to well-known languages like English and German. However, more recently, empirical methods have also been more consistently applied to understudied la
The aim of this conference is to bring together specialists in didactics, linguistics, geography, and second language acquisition, as well as teacher trainers and secondary school teachers to discuss the teaching and learning of English as a Second Language (ESL) using a CLIL approach, in geography classes more specifically.
The CEFR (2001, 2018) promotes an action-oriented perspective for the teaching of foreign languages and considers learners as social actors. This approach aims to engage
The third edition of this popular guide for linguistics students offers clear, practical advice on how to succeed in graduate school, earn a degree, and find a job. Along the way, the author explains how to speak at conferences, publish journal articles, write grant applications, and complete a dissertation, all while developing vital skills and making important connections within the field and in the wider world. The book's discussion of the structure and funding of graduate school and the proc
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Formal Diachronic Semantics 10 (FoDS 10) will be hosted by the Linguistics Department at the University of Texas, Austin from October 16 to October 18 2025. In keeping with its tradition, FoDS brings together scholars interested in the exploration of the semantic and pragmatic aspects of diachronic processes in natural languages from a formal perspective. FoDS has been meeting yearly since 2016.
It being the 10th Anniversary of FoDS, we will be marking it with presentations
Hi! My name is Malak Elmessiry. I am a PhD student at Northwestern University and I am seeking Arabic-English bilinguals for a paid online study on how bilinguals learn and judge academic information. In order to participate, you must currently reside in the U.S., be proficient in both Arabic and English, and have learned Arabic first.
In this study, you will be asked to take two online surveys two weeks apart from each other. On average, participants take 30 minutes to complete the first su
We are pleased to announce the publication of the C-ORAL-ESQ corpus. C-ORAL-ESQ is a spontaneous speech corpus of Brazilian individuals with schizophrenia, comprising 43 recordings of psychiatric consultations — 19 audio-video recordings and 23 audio-only recordings. Each recording documents a consultation that is part of ongoing treatment provided by two public health institutions in Belo Horizonte, Brazil: Instituto Raul Soares (IRS-FHEMIG) and the Hospital das Clínicas da UFMG (HC-UFMG/EBSERH
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I am a PhD candidate in Psycholinguistics at NOVA University Lisbon, currently looking for native European Portuguese speakers aged 18 and older for a rating study. The study takes about 20 minutes. You will listen to and transcribe a sentence, then rate it for comprehensibility and accentedness (in Portuguese). After the study, there will be a raffle for 16 digital amazon.es gift cards worth 5� each.
This study can be done only on computers. You are also required to wear headphones
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the first seminar organized by the Observatory on Italian and Dialectal Lexicon (OLID) at the University of Florence.
The event will take place on July 2nd, from 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm (CEST).
The seminar will be held in Italian and will be presented by Simonetta Montemagni. The title of the talk is:
“Computational explorations of the Atlante Lessicale Toscano: from database modeling to the analysis of linguistic variation dynamics.”
Remote atte
My name is Abigail Baier, and I am currently undertaking my dissertation as part of my MA at Aston University. I am running a study to explore the impact that identity has on individuals' writing style by eliciting narratives from people with a range of demographic characteristics and linguistic backgrounds.
What's involved?
Writing tasks in 2 online forms (~60 minutes and ~30 minutes) spaced out over ~1.5 weeks
Who can participate?
English speakers (native or non-native)
If you are
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Actitudes lingüísticas hacia el cambio de código entre valenciano y castellano
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Factores pragmáticos en el
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Review article – Ra
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The role of working memory and attention control in incidental L2 vocabulary learning from reading-while-listening
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Three yěs in Mandarin
Zhaole Yang | pp.?1–37
Labeling through percolation
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Split Reduplicant Hypothesis: Evidence from tetrasyllabic reduplicated adjectives in Taiwanese
Ad?mrys Chihjen Cheng | pp.?66–93
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Book review
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