Children鈥檚 vocabulary acquisition starts with the challenge of speech segmentation: dividing continuous speech into words. One way of finding the boundaries between words is by tracking the transitional probabilities between syllables, a process named Statistical Learning (SL). These probabilities reflect the chance that one syllable is followed by a certain other syllable, and a low chance indicates a likely word boundary. SL ability varies across individuals, and this variation is related to d
This work presents a first broad and systematic grammar sketch of Bangala, a contact language of Central Africa spoken by approximately 2 to 3 million speakers in the northeastern parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Like Lingala, Bangala鈥檚 鈥渟ister language鈥�, it emerged in the late 19th century from the pidginization of Bobangi in the context of very early colonial and missionary activities. Later introduced by the colonial state as a lingua franca, Bangala spread widely across areas north
Dans un contexte sociolinguistique plurilingue et multiculturel, le fran莽ais en usage au Cameroun se manifeste comme une ressource communicationnelle dynamique, fa莽onn茅e par les r茅alit茅s sociales locales. Cet ouvrage, inscrit dans une perspective pragmatique postcoloniale et interactionnelle, analyse des actes de langage socialement sensibles, compliment, r茅plique au compliment et expression de la compassion, tels qu鈥檌ls sont produits et interpr茅t茅s dans le fran莽ais camerounais, en interaction d
The book offers a fresh and multifaceted exploration of Czech clitics, drawing on historical, phonological, syntactic, and nanosyntactic perspectives. Individual chapters investigate key questions such as the role of morphological structure and phonological constraints in clitic ordering, phonological patterns in spoken Czech, and the challenges of clitic placement. Contributions also deal with the behavior of the intransitivizing reflexive SE, and examine broader theoretical implications for cl
The Department of the Lithuanian Language of the Faculty of Philology at Vilnius University and the Research Centre of Standard Language at the Institute of the Lithuanian Language invite you to participate in The 31st Jonas Jablonskis鈥� conference 鈥淟anguage as a system and process鈥�. The conference will take place at Vilnius University, Lithuania, on October 1鈥�2, 2026.
Conference Languages: English, Lithuanian.
Conference Topics:
- Studies of language structure
- Features and patterns o
Project PRECISION invites submissions for an interdisciplinary conference exploring children鈥檚 communication in digital environments and its implications for online safety.
The conference brings together researchers and practitioners to examine how children鈥檚 communicative practices and perspectives can inform more effective prevention and protection strategies.
Topics of Interest:
We welcome contributions from disciplines including linguistics, communication studies, psychology, criminolo
Call for Papers:
Co-organised by the International Linguistic Society and DELAD (Database Enterprise for Language and Speech Disorders)
Language disorders affect individuals across all ages and languages. While many are congenital and emerge in early childhood, others develop later in life as a result of neurological conditions, illness, or injury. Addressing this global and multilingual reality requires robust, well-documented, and ethically managed language disorder corpora.
This spec
The Department of the Lithuanian Language of the Faculty of Philology at Vilnius University and the Research Centre of Standard Language at the Institute of the Lithuanian Language invite you to participate in The 31st Jonas Jablonskis鈥� conference 鈥淟anguage as a system and process鈥�. The conference will take place at Vilnius University, Lithuania, on October 1鈥�2, 2026.
Conference Languages: English, Lithuanian.
Conference Topics:
- Studies of language structure
- Features and patterns o
Project PRECISION invites submissions for an interdisciplinary conference exploring children鈥檚 communication in digital environments and its implications for online safety.
The conference brings together researchers and practitioners to examine how children鈥檚 communicative practices and perspectives can inform more effective prevention and protection strategies.
Topics of Interest:
We welcome contributions from disciplines including linguistics, communication studies, psychology, criminolo
This year鈥檚 theme investigates the design, use, and academic study of AI systems that operate across modalities and models, and the implications for research in applied linguistics.
Location:
Teachers College, Columbia University
Plenary Speaker:
Veronika Timpe-Laughlin, Senior Research Scientist, Educational Testing Service (ETS)
Title: Talking with Machines: AI Interlocutors in Language Learning and Assessment
Pre-Conference Workshop Presenter:
Edward Metz, Founder of App Club
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This year鈥檚 theme investigates the design, use, and academic study of AI systems that operate across modalities and models, and the implications for research in applied linguistics.
Location:
Teachers College, Columbia University
Plenary Speaker:
Veronika Timpe-Laughlin, Senior Research Scientist, Educational Testing Service (ETS)
Title: Talking with Machines: AI Interlocutors in Language Learning and Assessment
Pre-Conference Workshop Presenter:
Edward Metz, Founder of App Club
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Description:
An der TU Dortmund (Fakult盲t Kulturwissenschaften/Germanistik), an der Professur 鈥濴inguistik des Deutschen: Grammatik und Fachdidaktik鈥�, ist eine auf insgesamt f眉nf Jahre angelegte Postdoc-Stelle zu besetzen. F眉r diese Position suchen wir zum 01.10.2026 eine engagierte, selbstst盲ndige und zuverl盲ssige Pers枚nlichkeit.
Ihr Profil:
- 脺berdurchschnittlich abgeschlossenes Studium und Promotion im Bereich Linguistik, vorzugsweise Germanistische Linguistik
- Sehr gute Deutschke
2026. v, 158 pp.
Table of Contents
Introductory article
Indigenous knowledges and translation as practice of epistemic defiance
Rafael Y. Sch枚gler, Christina Korak & Edson Krenak | pp.鈥�1鈥�19
Articles
Secularization, colonial benevolence, and Indigenous agency: Tropes of translation knowledge in the Philippines between two empires
Marlon James Sales | pp.鈥�20鈥�39
Losing sight: Amerindian cosmovisions in translation
Melanie Strasser | pp.鈥�40鈥�64
Towards a defiant theory of tra
2026. iii, 103 pp.
Table of Contents
Articles 鈥� Art铆culos 鈥� Aufs盲tze 鈥� Artikoloj
Placing religious language policies: Locative to utopian
Brian P. Bennett | pp.鈥�1鈥�21
One language, many hierarchies: Corpus 鈥� status interplay in intralingual translation between Classical Arabic and Egyptian Arabic
Hisham M. Ali | pp.鈥�22鈥�43
Language ideologies and practices of international students in a course in Chinese for Academic Purposes (CAP)
Juan Dong, Yawen Han, Dan Li & Haoxuan Kong | p
2026. iii, 94 pp.
Table of Contents
Articles
Infrastructure: A keyword for linguistic and semiotic landscapes
Sean P. Smith | pp.鈥�237鈥�268
The semiotic construction of cha chaan teng tea caf茅s in Hong Kong: A geosemiotic and historical perspective
Andrew Sewell & Xinyi Huang | pp.鈥�269鈥�298
Stickers as commemoration: Spatial responses to personal and collective trauma after October 7 2023
Tami Yair | pp.鈥�299鈥�323
Book reviews
Olaf K眉hne. 2019. Landscape Theories: A Brief Int
2026. iii, 159 pp.
Table of Contents
Articles
Introducing TURLEC: A learner corpus for Turkish L2
Yi臒it Savuran & Stefanie Wulff | pp.鈥�139鈥�153
From theory to data: Testing introspective claims on synonymous French adjectives 鈥榩rochain鈥� and 鈥榮uivant鈥� using corpus-based methods
Jarvis Looi, Patricia Nora Riget, Alex Boulton & Roshidah Hassan | pp.鈥�154鈥�192
Is human translation more conservative than machine translation? A corpus-based study measuring formality across translation v
A 100% position is available at the University of Agder, Faculty of Humanities and Education as a PhD Research Fellow in linguistics, affiliated to the Department of Foreign Languages and Translation, for a period of three years. The position is located at Campus Kristiansand. The starting date is 1.1.2027 or as agreed with the Faculty.
The Department of Foreign Languages and Translation has 23 permanent academic staff members and approximately 300 students enrolled on the various study progr
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This workshop is organized as part of the World Congress of African Linguistics 鈥� WOCAL 12, 2027
Workshop Description:
Object marking has long been central to debates about the nature of agreement and clitic doubling. While traditionally treated as distinct phenomena, a growing body of work has shown that the empirical picture is more complex and that the distinction is often difficult to maintain (Jaeggli 1982; Borer 1984; Sportiche 1996; Roberts 2010; Kramer 2012; Zel
Call for Papers:
This workshop is organized as part of the DGfS 49th Annual Conference 2027 'Language under the Microscope 鈥� Observation, Analysis, Theory'
Workshop Description:
Clitic pronouns and agreement markers are traditionally treated as distinct elements of grammar: clitics as (deficient) pronouns, agreement as a purely morphological reflex of syntactic relations. However, a growing body of work has pointed to systematic similarities between them, raising the question of whether
Description:
Two Fully Funded Doctoral Positions in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, linguistics, language studies
The University of Eastern Finland is pleased to announce two fully funded doctoral positions within the Marie Sk艂odowska鈥慍urie Doctoral Programme (MSCA) in Finland. While the programme broadly focuses on interdisciplinary research on the sustainable forest鈥慴ased bioeconomy, two positions are specifically dedicated to language鈥憆elated research on sustainability, nature, an