Linguistics

In this newsletter: New publications: MADCAT Phases 1-3 Composite Evaluation Set CALLHOME German Second Edition CALLHOME German Lexicon Second Edition ________________________________________ New publications: MADCAT Phases 1-3 Composite Evaluation Set contains the evaluation data created by LDC for Phases 1-3 of the DARPA MADCAT program and the NIST OpenHaRT 2010 and 2013 evaluations. It consists of handwritten Arabic documents scanned at high resolution and annotated for the physical c

The Language Intervention Networking seminar series showcases community practitioners working to support minority and community languages across the UK. Each seminar has a different theme, and features a panel discussion followed by time for Q&A. Organised by the School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen, these seminars provide an opportunity for language practitioners to network and share their learning with colleagues in different language conte

Condividere metodi, costruire ricerca. Giornata conclusiva dei seminari "Discorsi sul metodo a.a. 2025-2026". https://unipv-larl.github.io/Discorsi-sul-metodo-2026/ 5 giugno 2026 dalle 10.30 alle 18.00 in Aula Bottigella, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Palazzo San Tommaso. L'evento prevede interventi da parte di dottorandi/e di alcuni atenei italiani, che dialogheranno del proprio progetto di ricerca con un discussant pavese e studente del dottorato di Linguistica dell'Università degli

We invite you to join the Machine Learning for Language Documentation (MELD) Lab and Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI) at 5pm CEST (UTC+2) / 8am PDT (UTC-7) on June 2, 2026 to learn about the ELAN software. Divya Kanekal is a Software Developer at MPI who recently took the lead of ELAN development from Han Sloetjes who retired after many years. She will be available to answer questions and share the history, challenges, and the current status of ELAN development, an annotation to

The ninth talk of the Data in Historical Linguistics Seminar Series will take place remotely on Monday 25th May 2026 at 5pm BST. Martijn Windelinckx (KU Leuven, Belgium) will present on Automatic detection of MWEs in Ancient Greek mathematical (technical/scientific texts). Registration for this talk will close at midnight on Friday 22nd May and the link for this can be accessed here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSehEzwLZw9qr1HeSAjcjMfxcDQaaJLO_8zwxSe54EoL74BuNA/viewform Partic

11 June 2026 17:00 UTC+2 / 17:00 GMT+2 Microsoft Teams Speaker: Sonam Tshering (Jigme Singye Wangchuck School of Law, Bhutan) Moderator: Fatemeh Akbari (Kamusi Project International/University of Vienna, Austria) Title: Bhutanese Personal Names and Identity Abstract: Bhutan, a small Himalayan kingdom between India and China, promotes Gross National Happiness (GNH). Bhutan has preserved its unique culture, strong Buddhist values, and lively social and cultural legacy despite its 400-yea

The Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) network (https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/home) an international and interdisciplinary network whose primary aim is to promote work on slurs, pejoratives, expressives and evaluative terms from less studied languages, invites you to the eight talk of the 2025-2026 academic year. The invited speaker is Yim Binh Felix Sze (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), who will give a talk entitled "Taboos and Euphemisms in Sex-Related Signs in Asian Sign

Designing and Scoping Your Next Interdisciplinary Research Project: A Panel Discussion Thursday, June 4, 2026 4:30 PM BST | 03:30 PM GMT | 11:30 AM EDT | 04:30 PM WAT | 09:00 PM IST Book your place: http://tiny.cc/InterdisciplinaryResearch Interdisciplinary research promises richer insight into complex questions, but designing and scoping such projects brings distinct intellectual, methodological, and practical challenges. In this moderated panel discussion, Oxford Intersections ed

The I-LanD Research Centre (https://i-land-researchcentre.eu/) is pleased to announce the fourth seminar in the I-LanD Seminar Series - 4th Edition (2nd semester). Innovative in format and interdisciplinary in scope, the I-LanD Seminar Series brings together scholars to discuss key issues in their fields of expertise, with particular attention to theoretical perspectives, methodological approaches, research challenges, and emerging directions of inquiry. Each seminar opens with a brief introd

The next Acquisition Sketch Project Meeting is on "An in-progress look at the Berber Acquisition Sketch”, presented by Abdellah Elouatiq. It will be held on Wednesday May 13 as follows: Los Angeles = 8 am Mexico City = 9 am New York = 11 am Berlin = 5 pm Tbilisi = 7 pm Delhi = 8:30 pm Zoom link = https://uni-kl-de.zoom-x.de/j/68724552887?pwd=lxCUOxU9mV4j84IRCa1vGs4xGaaTfH.1 Meeting ID = 687 2455 2887 Passcode = 7$d72Hp& Check https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/ for the

The upcoming meeting of Making Waves will take place next Wednesday, May 13, at 16:00! (CET, please, note that this is an hour later than usual). Serpil Karabuklu will give a talk titled “How to Capture Differences in Nonmanuals: Behavioral and Computational Analyses”. We are excited to share that this meeting will have a guest discussant, Nick Palfreyman (University of Lancashire) and will be BSL/English interpreted. We would like to thank Adam Schembri and his SignMorph project for their su

Spring season’s final Nordic Speech Research Forum webinar takes place on Tue, May 12th at 14:00 - 15:00 (Helsinki/Eastern European Summer Time EEST; UCT+3). You are warmly welcome to join the event via our website https://www.jyu.fi/nsrf. Phonetic learning of non-native speech features: Evidence from behavioral and brain activity experiments Piia Astikainen, University of Jyväskylä News: Zoom had wider problems on the day of our previous webinar. We were able to hear Míša Hejná’s pres

Call for Materials Proposals: Peer Review and Communicative L2 Writing Practices www.cultivatingconfidencebook.com Deadline: May 31, 2025 The editors are inviting proposals (100-200 words) along with a sample material for a forthcoming collection of innovative peer-review and communicative practices in L2 writing classrooms. Sharing second-language writing classroom practices that integrate communication helps address challenges like the isolating nature of writing tasks. This collection w

The Observatoire Linguistique du Discours Numérique OLinDiNUM (https://olindinum.huma-num.fr/) and the Institut des Transitions Environnementales et Sociales ITES (https://ites.univ-lille.fr/) at University of Lille (https://www.univ-lille.fr/), are pleased to invite you to the seminar series Débats sur le débat, which will be held online and in English. This seminar series offers an interdisciplinary reflection on the relationships between language, environment, and social dynamics, drawing

We are pleased to announce the release of AfBo 2.0 (https://afbo.info/), a significantly expanded and updated version of the Affix Borrowing (AfBo) database, originally published in 2013. AfBo 2.0 provides detailed descriptions of 132 cases of affix borrowing, i.e., cases where one language borrowed at least one affix from another language, involving a total of 754 borrowed affixes. It also includes an online interface with descriptions of borrowed affixes, examples of combinations of borrowed a

Mango Languages is now accepting proposals for our annual Dissertation Awards program, which supports exceptional dissertation research at the intersection of second language acquisition and educational technology. We invite advanced PhD candidates to submit applications on our website (see link below). Details: - Mango Languages will award grants in the amount of $1,000 per grant. - This year, 3 awards will be distributed. - Applications are due on June 15th, 2026. - Applicants will