Junko Shimoyama presented her joint work with Elizabeth Bogal-Allbritten (NTNU) and Keir Moulton (U of Toronto), 鈥淎naphoric propositional expressions: Nominalized clauses and proforms鈥�, at Keio University in Tokyo, as well as at Notre Dame Seishin University in Okayama. Junko also gave an outreach talk in Tokyo, to high school students at Junior & Senior High […]
成人VR视频 Linguists presented work this summer in various conferences, including: Les Francais d’Ici held at University of Moncton, Shippagan, New Brunswick Jeanne Brown & Morgan Sonderegger: Une 茅tude sociophon茅tique de la voix craqu茅e en fran莽ais laurentienMassimo Lipari, Peter Milne, & Morgan Sonderegger: Les 芦 donn茅es trouv茅es 禄 et la variation phon茅tique en fran莽ais qu茅b茅cois LabPhon […]
Hot from the press: Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Justin Royer (2024) Modal Indefinites and Semantic Variation: Lessons from Chuj, Semantics and Pragmatics.
A new article by Connie Ting, Meghan Clayards, Morgan Sonderegger, and Michael McAuliffe, titled 鈥淭he cross-linguistic distribution of vowel and consonant intrinsic F0 effects鈥�, will appear in Language. This article is based on Connie鈥檚 second evaluation paper, supervised by Morgan and Meghan.
Esmail Moghiseh successfully defended his dissertation,聽 鈥淔ree Choice Items: The view from Farsi鈥�, supervised by Luis Alonso-Ovalle, on June 20.
Congratulations to Wei Zhang, who successfully defended her dissertation, 鈥淧honetics and Phonology in the imitation of tone contrasts鈥�, supervised by Meghan Clayards and Morgan Sonderegger on August 6th.聽 Congratulations, Wei!
Congratulations to Ben LeBrun and Olivia Oppong, who both successfully defended their MA theses this summer! Ben’s thesis was titled “Grounding Language in Vision using Modular Probabilistic Representations鈥� supervised by Tim聽O’Donnell. He will be starting a PhD in EECS at MIT in Fall 2025. Olivia’s thesis is 鈥淎n experimental investigation of focus prosody in Akan […]
Call for Papers:
LINGUISTICS
- Phonetic, morphological, syntactic, and semantic changes in languages
- Longitudinal studies on language shift and maintenance
- Sociolinguistic factors influencing language choice, code-switching, and language mixing
- Educational challenges and strategies for teaching in multilingual environments
LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
- The role of cultural, religious, and social institutions in maintaining heritage languages
- The use of technology, social media, and d
2nd Call for Papers:
Due to unexpected (but happy) circunstances, the International Workshop on Romance SE/SI Constructions has been postponed to January 22-23, 2026. The new deadline for submissions is October 10, 2025.
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: We invite abstracts for 20-minute oral presentations, followed by 10 minutes of discussion, that address any aspect of Romance SE/SI constructions. Contributions examining variation among Romance languages, data from less studied varieties, contexts that r
Call for Papers:
Organizers: Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen (Manchester), Marina Terkourafi (Leiden)
The idea that messages encoded in speakers' utterances are subsequently decoded by hearers has long been abandoned within pragmatics in favor of an inferential model which views meaning derivation as an interactional process to which the subjectivities, emotions, and cognitive environments of both speakers and hearers (as well as eventual third parties) actively take part. This inferential approach
Call for Papers:
We invite researchers from all pertinent disciplines to submit abstracts for 20 minute presentations (in German or English). Abstracts should be anonymous and no longer than 500 words (plus examples and references). Please e-mail your abstract to variationslinguistik.lid.fk15@tu-dortmund.de.
Deadline for the submission of abstracts: 15 November 2024
Notification of acceptance: 13 December 2024
Registration for the conference: 13 December 2024 鈥� 04 May 2025
Conference fee: t
Hello! I am recruiting advanced speakers of Mandarin (L1 English). Participants should have completed 302-level university coursework or above in Mandarin Chinese. More requirements can be found here:
https://cla.purdue.edu/english/francislab/recruitment/
The experiment involves computer-based tasks and takes place over Zoom. Participants are compensated via an major electronic payment app of their choice.
Please contact sheuv@purdue.edu if you are interested. A million thanks, linguist frien
Morgan Sonderegger received a Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Speech Variability, to be held 2023-2028. Congratulations Morgan!
Morgan Sonderegger co-authored a paper with聽Shahin Tavakoli聽et al., “Statistics in phonetics”聽(preprint), that has been accepted for publication in聽Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application. A chapter co-authored by Morgan Sonderegger and聽James Kirby, “Actuation without production bias” (preprint), has been accepted for publication in the forthcoming book,聽Speech Dynamics: Synchronic Variation and Diachronic Change.
2nd Call for Papers:
Expressivity: Variation and Change (Workshop at DGfS 2025)
This workshop aims at filling this gap by encouraging and bringing together research on variation and change in expressivity. Questions that may be addressed at the workshop include (but are not limited to) the following:
* With respect to which parameters/aspects does the expressions of expressivity vary across languages and which aspects are rather stable (and may point towards universals regarding expressivity
The program and the abstracts of the talks can be found on this website: https://osf.io/uhq3y/
The program and the abstracts of the talks can be found on this website: https://osf.io/uhq3y/
Call for Papers:
This panel is dedicated to examining the intricacies of civil interaction on social media. Building on previous work on pragmalinguistic or interactional features which may help bring uncivil interaction back on track (see e.g. Tanskanen 2021; V谩squez 2021; Zhang et al. 2018), the panel aims to shed light on how civility is enacted and negotiated by participants in various digital communities. For the purposes of the panel, civil interaction involves exhibiting a respectful ori
Call for Papers:
We invite abstract submissions for both oral presentations (20-minute talk plus additional 10 minutes for questions and discussion) and poster presentations. We welcome abstracts from a broad field of linguistic subfields (e.g., language acquisition, morphology, phonetics/ phonology, semantics/ pragmatics, syntax) and methodologies (e.g., computational, experimental, fieldwork, theoretical).
This year there will be a special session with the theme 鈥淔eatures and their interacti
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Fall 2024 LDC Data Scholarship program
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LORELEI Uyghur Incident Language Pack
Ravnursson Faroese Speech and Transcripts
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Fall 2024 LDC Data Scholarship program
Student applications for the Fall 2024 LDC Data Scholarship program are being accepted now through September 15, 2024. This program provides eligible students with no-cost access to LDC data. Students must complete an application consisting of a data use proposa