Linguistics

It is our pleasure to invite you to the next Onomastics Online lecture (International Council of Onomastic Sciences): Onomastics Online 10 April 2025 18:00 (GMT+2) Microsoft Teams Speakers: Dariusz Gierczak: Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe (Germany) Francis Harvey: Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (Germany) Eric Losang: Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (Germany) Moderator: Peter Jordan: Austrian Academy of Sciences (Austria) Study

Date: 12-May-2025 - 13-May-2025 Location: Nantes, France Meeting URL: https://anamariafalaus.org/workshop/ We are pleased to announce a workshop on the morphosyntax-semantics mapping of bare nominals across languages, organized around the volume "The Open Handbook of (In)definiteness: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Interpreting Bare Arguments”, edited by Veneeta Dayal and forthcoming with MIT Press. Speakers: Veneeta Dayal (Yale University) Rajesh Bhatt (UMass Amherst) Ivano Caponigro

Call for Contributors! Brill is calling for scholars to join the team of our longstanding tradition of "The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies". We are looking for contributors who are motivated to keep up with the newest publications in their field of study and write an annual critical bibliographical survey on it. Your survey will be an invaluable resource for your fellow scholars to stay informed of what really matters and stands out. Each contribution covers publications on a m

The sixth talk of the Data in Historical Linguistics Seminar Series 2025 will take place remotely on Monday 31st March 2025 at 5pm BST. Zinaida Geylikman (Université Paris Cité) will present on ‘Quantitative methods on small corpora for historical sociolinguistics: a case study of Old French fabliaux.’ Registration for this talk will close at midnight on Friday 28th March and the link for this can be accessed here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSciGltVD7ft6dgyMu45DrYbEB0WyJ67RyURLD

Help CARLA support language teachers! CARLA is conducting a short survey to assess teachers' needs in using technology in their language classrooms. Language teachers at all levels are invited to participate in this survey and help shape the future of technology-focused professional development from CARLA. This anonymous survey will take only 10-15 minutes to complete. Win a free CARLA Summer Institute! Upon completion of the survey, participants will be invited to complete a separate Google

In this newsletter: LDC data and commercial technology development New publications: 2015 NIST Language Recognition Evaluation Test Set The Xi’an Multi-Language Learner Corpus ________________________________________ LDC data and commercial technology development For-profit organizations are reminded that an LDC membership is a pre-requisite for obtaining a commercial license to almost all LDC databases. Non-member organizations, including non-member for-profit organizations, cannot

Online MapLE Masterclass on Epistemicity See https://epistemicity.net/masterclass/ *What is this course about?* When people communicate, they not only exchange information, but they also indicate how the speaker’s and addressee’s knowledge relate to that information. What is the source of the information, how certain is the speaker of it, is it unexpected for the speaker or addressee? All these aspects fall under epistemicity – the expression of the speaker’s and addressee’s knowledge in g

ELLMEnet Webinar: "Bridging Worlds: Driving Policy Change in Early Multilingual Education Worldwide" on the 28th of March. Webinar link: https://www.ellmenet.com/events/webinar-bridging-worlds-driving-policy-change-in-early-multilingual-education-worldwide The online webinar is free but registration is needed at least 48 hours before the webinar.

Dear colleagues, The next Nordic Speech Research Forum webinar takes place on Fri, March 21 at 12:00 - 13:00 (Helsinki/Eastern European Time EET; UCT+2). Join the webinar at https://jyufi.zoom.us/j/65558081185 or via our website www.jyu.fi/nsrf. Acceptability as a crucial dimension for measuring pronunciation: What we can learn from Danish as an L2 Lisa Tulaja, Kiel University News: Our April webinar is given by Magdalena Wrembel and Jolanta Sypiańska on Fri, Apr 11 at 14:00 - 15:00

The Department of Languages and Literature at the University of Nicosia is pleased to host a guest lecture titled 'Responsible AI Applied to Multilingual Technologies' by Dr Helena Moniz from the University of Lisbon, as part of the MA in TESOL Webinar Series. This online event will take place via WebEx on Thursday, 27th of March 2025 at 15:00 (Cyprus time) and is free of charge. Please see the link below: https://globaltraining.webex.com/globaltraining/j.php?MTID=ma9dabf395b518e49572d70fe

Editors Oksana Moroz, PhD; Messiah University, PA, USA Silvia Vaccino-Salvadore, PhD; American University of Sharjah, UAE Gloria Park, PhD; Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA Note: This edited volume is under contract with Brill | Sense Kessler and Casal (2024) recently introduced a practical guidebook to help graduate students navigate the challenges and opportunities of pursuing a doctoral degree. While the book primarily targets students in applied linguistics, education, a

The editorial team of the journal Language Problems & Language Planning is pleased to present the second webinar of the series on language policy and planning (LPP). The webinar series aims to stimulate and promote research and discussion on LPP. Each webinar invites two distinguished speakers to discuss important aspects of LPP from different perspectives. The webinar lasts 90 minutes and registration is free. The topic of the second webinar is “Do linguistic human rights exist?” Invited speake

PAN 2025: Shared Tasks on Authorship Analysis, Computational Ethics, and Originality Call for Participation We'd like to invite you to participate in the following shared tasks at PAN 2025 held in conjunction with the CLEF conference in Madrid, Spain. 1. Voight-Kampff Generative AI Detection. Subtask 1: Given a (potentially obfuscated) text, decide whether it was written by a human or an AI. Subtask 2: Given a document collaboratively authored by human and AI, classify the extent to

El Seminario Interinstitucional de Onomástica (México) tiene el gusto de hacerles llegar la convocatoria del Premio Ignacio Guzmán Betancourt a las tesis sobre toponimia defendidas durante el 2023 y el 2024. Los detalles van en la convocatoria siguiente. Premio Ignacio Guzmán Betancourt a las mejores tesis de licenciatura o posgrado en Toponimia defendidas entre el 1° de enero de 2023 y el 31 de diciembre de 2024. Los Premios que otorga el SIO tienen como objetivo estimular, reconocer y fomen

The next online Acquisition Sketch Project Meeting will focus on Morphology in Child Language. It will be held on Tuesday 11th March (Americas) and Wednesday 12th March (elsewhere) at two times: Time 1: Los Angeles = 3 pm Tuesday Mar. 11 (note later time due to daylight savings) New York = 6 pm Tuesday Mar. 11 (note later time due to daylight savings) Melbourne = 9 am Wednesday Mar. 12 https://unimelb.zoom.us/j/89841332233?pwd=Xxa1ANnmbjvM2UMyIKMXrr6aX8wAe0.1 Meeting ID: 898 4133 22

The Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) network (https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/home) invites you to a talk by Claire Horisk (University of Missouri) entitled "Derogatory Speech: Conversations, Hearers, and Listeners". The talk will take place online on MARCH 10, 14:30-16:00 Central European Time (CET) and is part of the of STAL network seminar series (https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/seminar). If you want to participate, please write to stalnetwork@gmail.com for the Zoom

Hello everyone! We are conducting a study on gamers' motivation and speaking anxiety, for which we would love to get your inputs. If you play multiplayer games, are currently a tertiary level student, and English is your additional language (second language) please help us by participating in the brief survey using the following link: https://ee.kobotoolbox.org/MbzaJ208 Participation is completely voluntary and will not take more than 5-10 minutes of your time. Please read each quest

Brain Awareness Week is a global campaign to spread information about the brain and how it is researched. The Psycho-Neurolinguistics Chair (Linguistics Institute) of the Heinrich Heine University (Düsseldorf) has organized two fantastic evenings full of science and fun with researchers from inside and outside of the University. Do you know which brain hemisphere is more dominant in language? Do you know what is a whistled language? Any idea about how alcohol affects the way you speak? What c

En UPM hemos desarrollado un MOOC de LLMs, abierto y gratuito en el que podrás aprender los fundamentos y aplicaciones de los LLMs a tú ritmo. Todas las actividades son online y el curso de puede completar hasta octubre y obtener un diploma de superación, todo ello sin coste para los estudiantes. Todos los detalles y la página de registro en: https://eventos.upm.es/130197/detail/introduccion-a-la-inteligencia-artificial-generativa-a-traves-de-los-grandes-modelos-de-lenguaje.html

The fifth talk of the Data in Historical Linguistics Seminar Series 2025 will take place remotely on Monday 17th March 2025 at 5pm GMT. Cecilia Valentini (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy) will present on ‘Tracing the characteristics of early medieval notarial scripta with the help of a Latin database.’ Registration for this talk will close at midnight on Friday 14th March and the link for this can be accessed here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc3GDH4hYkvduAzrKmMsCbDtSDmyTEK

The Permanent International Committee of Linguists/Comité International Permament des Linguistes (CIPL) announces 5 travel grants of € 500 each (approx. US$ 525) for participation at a linguistics conference. Advanced students in linguistics without a Ph. D. are eligible to receive a one-time grant to help fund their participation at a linguistics conference. Read the procedure https://ciplnet.com/news/application-round-travel-grants-is-open-now-6/ and fill in the application form. Contac

Multimodal analysis of caregiver/patient interaction in the intensive care unit Through a real-life observational study, the project aims to explain the conditions for handling pragmatic disorders in the context of intensive care unit. In order to ultimately improve interactional conditions in this emergency situation (i.e., where the life prognosis is at stake), the goal will be to project the requirements for efficient communication and to clarify the operational conditions for implementing

The Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) network (https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/home) invites you to a talk by Claire Horisk (University of Missouri) entitled "Derogatory Speech: Conversations, Hearers, and Listeners". The talk will take place online on MARCH 10, 14:30-16:00 Central European Time (CET) and is part of the of STAL network seminar series (https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/seminar). If you want to participate, please write to stalnetwork@gmail.com for the Zoom

We are delighted to welcome Prof Loewen to Swansea to give a talk titled “How effective are language learning apps?: Studies of Duolingo and Babbel” on 5th March @ 2pm. The event will by hybrid and all are welcome. SWANSEA UNIVERSITY LANGUAGE RESEARCH CENTRE SEMINAR SERIES Wednesday, 5th March, 14:00-15:00 GMT Singleton Campus, Keir Hardie Annex 038 Zoom link: https://swanseauniversity.zoom.us/j/92225426267?pwd=tNzDLuejWK6tNCO8iaHTfAqcMoWl8I.1 Meeting ID: 922 2542

Friday, March 7th, 11.30am ET (4.30pm UTC) Presentation in Zoom, accessible via the C-STAR website: http://cstar.sc.edu/lecture-series/ Syntactic processing in bilingual aphasia Danielle Fahey, PhD University of Montana Roughly half of the global population is bilingual in that they speak (or sign) two or more of the world's 7000+ languages. Mainstream psycholinguistic models of bilingualism propose a single language system with grammars that interact across languages. Following t

To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the University Heinrich Heine (Düsseldorf, Germany) and International Moher Language Day you can listen to the Poem "Die Loreley" by Heinrich Heine in more than 35 languages including some (very) endangered languages here: https://media.hhu.de/group/Heinrich-Heine26230393Bs-poem-26quot3BDie-Lorelei26quot3B-translated/1e53c461bc41b034c19556a2c7670944#media Complete readings of the poem and small translations (first 4 verses) that have been made specifically

The Language Attrition Network invites you to our next session on the 27th of March at 2pm CET (1pm UK time) on Microsoft Teams. If you are not yet on the mailing list, please send us an e-mail to attrition.network@gmail.com Beatriz Duarte Gonçalves Ventura de Paula Wirth (Université de Lausanne, Switzerland) will present us her project "Language development in Portuguese and English multilingual immigrants in Switzerland: bridging sociolinguistic narratives and psycholinguistic models of at

We are delighted to announce that our next Swansea University LRC (Language Research Centre) seminar by Keighley Perkins will be on Wednesday 26th Feb from 1pm to 2pm GMT on zoom. Zoom link: https://swanseauniversity.zoom.us/j/93354933823?pwd=1iMymYf4OfY4gP7dXz74qcVOTA5bYR.1 "It's not all work being an activist after all”: A discursive analysis of in-group identities on radical right Twitter. Dr Keighley Perkins, Lecturer in Applied Linguistics (Swansea University) Identity is un

The Center for Thai as a Foreign Language is about to accept applications for the Master’s Degree Program in Thai as a Foreign Language – Second Semester, Academic Year 2025- at the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University. ???? Application Schedule: ???? Application Period: ???? June 1 – August 1, 2025 ???? Apply at: www.grad.chula.ac.th ???? Announcement of Eligible Candidates for Examination: ???? September 23, 2025 ???? Check at: http://arts.chula.ac.th/CTFL ???? Interview Examination: ???? October 7

This event inaugurates the Annual Le Page Lecture, hosted by the Department of Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York, in honour of our founding professor, the eminent linguist and creolist Robert Le Page (1920-2006). The first speaker is Dr. Aneta Pavlenko, who is currently a visiting scholar in our department. The lecture is free to attend in person or through livestream (sign-up information below). Abstract: In the past decade, applied linguists and sociolinguists have