Utrecht University is looking for a PhD candidate in Early Bilingual Language Development. In this NWO-funded project, led by PI dr. Frans Adriaans, you study how the speech sounds that bilingual infants hear at home guide their discovery of two languages. Bilingual infants have astonishing learning capabilities that allow them to learn sound properties of two different languages in the first year of life. But how do they discover and distinguish two languages in their speech environment? In

The Institute of Linguistics at the Department of Modern Languages of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main offers a position in cotutelle with the Department of Translation and Language Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, in the project “Co-Speech Gestures and Prosody as Multimodal Markers of Information Structure” as a Doctoral Researcher (E 13 TV-GU, 65% part-time) starting earliest possible date funded for three years by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsg

The central theme of this conference is Creative Interpretation of Variability, pertaining to the enrichment of intrinsic variation found in languages. We especially encourage submissions pertaining to this theme. We also invite submissions on any aspect of South Asian languages and Linguistics. A non-exhaustive list of topics of interest is as follows: - Comparative and typological studies - Computational Linguistics - Corpus and quantitative Linguistic studies - Descriptive st

Le Réseau Linguistique de l’énonciation se propose depuis 2018 de réunir des représentant.es des théories de l’énonciation, sans privilégier une approche spécifique, pour permettre une confrontation de points de vue. Il se veut un espace d’échanges qui invite par différentes modalités de parole (tables rondes, ateliers sur des objets partagés, conférences thématiques) à aborder la pluralité tout en questionnant, dans le cadre des recherches exposées, les formes d’appropriation, entre continuité(

LAL is an international conference organized by the Faculty of Ethnolinguistics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań since 2016. With more than 30 years of tradition in teaching and researching languages and cultures of Asia, we bring together researchers working in various subfields of Asian linguistics. We welcome contributions from a wide range of areas in linguistics, including, but not limited to, the following, as well as session proposals on current topics: - Pragmatics - Semantics

We are excited to announce the opening of registration and the preliminary programme for the international conference “Backlash? Gender-Inclusive Language in a Time of Resistance”, taking place online on Friday 27 and Saturday 28 March 2026. To ensure fair access, the conference will be held online and free of charge. You can find all relevant information, including details on how to register as an attending-only participant (i.e. without presenting, but still able to take part in discussi

The Corpus Research Center (CRC) at Minhaj University Lahore is organizing an insightful webinar titled "Language Documentation: Challenges, Strategies, and Future Directions" Resource Person: Prof. Dr. Sadaf Munshi, Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of North Texas, Denton Host: Prof. Dr. Zafar Iqbal Bhatti, Director, Corpus Research Center, Minhaj University Lahore Why This Session Matters? Language documentation plays a vital role in preserving linguistic diversity, su

Focus: Descrizione, documentazione e valorizzazione del patrimonio linguistico. Variazione linguistica. Dialettologia. Description: Si segnala la 1^ edizione della Winter School "Descrivere e Documentare la Diversità Linguistica" che si terrà dal 26 al 30 gennaio 2026 presso l'Università di Firenze. La Winter School propone un percorso intensivo di formazione teorica e applicata rivolto a chi si occupa di descrizione, documentazione e valorizzazione del patrimonio linguistico. Il program

Starting with volume 60 (2025), Johan Pedersen (University of Copenhagen) will succeed Richard Waltereit and join Julio Jensen (University of Copenhagen) as editor of the John Benjamins journal Revue Romane. Richard Waltereit will remain member of the board. Revue Romane publishes studies about Romance languages and literature as well as reviews of linguistic and literary works. Revue Romane is especially interested in articles that focus on methodological and/or theoretical arguments of the

Focus: Summer Institute for the Languages of the Muslim world (SILMW) is a program offered by the Less Commonly Taught Languages Program at the University of Illinois since 2008. SILMW provides a unique opportunity to explore the languages and cultures of the Muslim World while interacting with experts on the region. In addition to classroom instruction, SILMW offers a variety of extra-curricular learning activities designed to enhance and enrich the language learning process, provides additiona

This edited volume is a timely and significant contribution to second language development research from a Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST) perspective. The book addresses the growing need for consistent and practical methodologies for CDST research. Each chapter presents an innovative method or approach, illustrating its use in concrete applications to empirical studies and highlighting its value in capturing the dynamic, time-sensitive, and interconnected nature of L2 development. The vol

This volume consists of corpus-based analyses of progressive aspect constructions in Germanic and Romance. By adopting a variety of methodologies and theoretical frameworks, these studies provide valuable insights into the development, grammaticalization and use of various progressive structures across two subgroups of the Indo-European family. The progressive constructions under scrutiny range from widely studied and seemingly well understood constructions to relatively infrequent and obscure o

This book is a panorama of contemporary quantitative linguistics, as developed over decades. It highlights the main topics of QL: statistical laws of language, taxonomy of linguistic phenomena, authorial attribution, quantitative analysis of syntax (e.g., dependency grammar), measurement of text difficulty, and other phenomena at the intersection of linguistics, literary studies, semiotics, and information science. It also reflects on the relevance of these time-honoured approaches in our new re

This book aims to provide an overview of the various methods adopted for terminology planning in the languages under examination. Collectively, the authors will attempt to establish an overall understanding of terminology planning in Europe, starting from an examination of the organizations engaged in terminology planning in different European linguistic contexts. Each chapter will focus on a specific language or language landscape, focusing on issues such as: - the defining features of the

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access – for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and functioning of language – to the different topics, traditions and methods which together make up the field of pragmatics, broadly conceived as the cognitive, social and cultural study

University of Naples "L'Orientale" and the NooJ association organize the 20th NooJ Conference in Naples, Italy from 24-26 June, 2026. NooJ is a linguistic development environment that allows linguists to formalize several levels of linguistic phenomena: orthography and spelling; lexicons of simple words, multiword units and frozen expressions; inflectional, derivational and agglutinative morphology; local, constituent and dependency syntax; transformational grammars and semantic analysis. For

The English Department of the Faculty of Letters, History, Philosophy and Theology, West University of Timișoara, is pleased to announce its 34th international conference on British and American Studies, on the theme “Reconfiguring Borders and Boundaries in/through the Lens of Literature, Language and Culture,” which will be held on 14-16 May 2026. Recent times have seen the creation of new borders and boundaries, such as those between humans and artificial intelligence, as well as the re-em

Final Call for Papers: We are excited to announce that the 18th meeting of Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA-18) will take place at the University Cambridge on 16-18th of April 2026. GASLA is a biennial conference where linguists present theoretically informed research on second language acquisition. Presentation Format: All submissions will be considered for both oral presentations (30 minutes, including 10 minutes for discussion) and poster presentation. The

The 16th Students’ Conference of Linguistics in India, known as SCONLI will be held from 07th to 09th of January 2026, hosted by the School of Language Sciences, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. The conference continues its tradition of intellectual rigor while actively embracing new methodologies and interdisciplinary approaches that display the changing face of linguistic research. From theoretical explorations to applied studies, SCONLI remains committed to enhancing c

We are thrilled to announce that the next Conference on Multilingualism COM2026 will take place from May 27-29th at the University of Toulouse Jean-Jaurès (France). Abstract submission opens soon on the conference homepage https://com2026.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/9 The Conference on Multilingualism has a longstanding tradition, albeit under different names. Founded in 2005 at the University of Trento (Italie) as ‘Workshop on Bilingualism’, it has been held unter the titel ‘Works

Final Call for Papers: This is the final call for submissions to the 38th Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians (BAAP), to be hosted at University of Warwick, 8th-10th April 2026. Submissions are welcome in any area of phonetics. We look forward to bringing together excellent, inspiring, and thought-provoking work on phonetic theory, application, and practice, as well as collaborations between phonetics and other disciplines and fields. Abstracts are invited for

Call for Papers: We are delighted to announce that the 8th Prescriptivism Conference will be hosted by Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and will take place at Hoek 38, in the city center of Brussels, on 24-26 June 2026. Building on the success of previous conferences held in Sheffield (2003), Ragusa (2006), Toronto (2009), Leiden (2013), Park City, Utah (2017), Vigo (2021), and Aix-en-Provence (2024), this edition continues the tradition of exploring prescriptivism in its many historical, cultu

The Human Sciences Faculty and the ILA (Institute of Applied Linguistics) are pleased to announce that the 4th Gibraltar International Conference will be held at the University of Cádiz from 6-8 May 2026. Following on from the success of previous editions held in Cambridge, Vigo and Basel, this conference aims to continue raising awareness and provide a forum for the growing interest in Gibraltar studies. Its proximity to Gibraltar makes Cádiz an ideal setting and springboard from which to

HIPCS (Hanyang Institute for Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language) at Hanyang University, together with Departments of English Language and Literature and Chinese Language and Literature, holds its 5th annual international symposium on current issues on phonetics and cognitive sciences of language (HISPhonCog) 2026 on May 22-23, 2026. Theme for HISPhonCog 2026: Speech Across the Lifespan: From Early Acquisition to Skilled Interaction Over the past decades, research on speech has in

The Symposium for American Indian Languages (SAIL) is dedicated to discussion of the documentation & description, conservation, and vitalization of the Indigenous languages of the Americas. SAIL provides a forum for the exchange of scholarly research. It brings together scholars, members of the Indigenous communities, native speakers, educators and language activists who are interested in sharing experiences and best practices on topics related to language documentation, conservation, reclama