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Dear Colleagues Below is the Call for Abstracts (with links), for the (SCOPUS / ISI) SOAS GLOCAL AFALA 2024, the African Assembly on Linguistic Anthropology, December 4-7, 2024. The major event will foreground the Linguistic Anthropology, Sociolinguistics, and Language and Society of Africa, globally. Please be at liberty to disseminate this CFA / CFP to networks. ____________________________ Call For Abstracts - The SOAS GLOCAL AFALA 2024 (the GLOCAL African Assembly on Linguistic Anthropolo

“The Basics of Bidi” is a webinar on bidirectional text, a problem for many working with scripts such as Arabic and Hebrew. This free webinar will take place Tuesday, June 25, 2024 at 08:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada) and will include a live question and answer portion. The entire session will be recorded. It is part 1 of a 2-part series, with the second more in-depth session to take place August 13, 2024. Below is additional information, including how to register. Background A number of s

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is privileged to announce that Prof. Peter HAGOORT, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, and Prof. William Shiyuan WANG, Chair Professor of Language and Cognitive Sciences of PolyU, are bestowed the Lifetime Achievement Award at the inaugural Yuen Ren Chao Prize in Language Sciences (Chao Prize). The Prize Presentation Ceremony was held on 10 May 2024. The Chao Prize, initiated and hosted by the PolyU Faculty of Humanities, is

Bilingual Speech Intelligibility Ann Bradlow Northwestern University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1Gz_6gKDlI Speech intelligibility – the accuracy with which a particular speech signal produced by a particular talker is understood by a particular listener in a particular communication setting – is notoriously difficult to predict. Nevertheless, all else being equal, variation in intelligibility as assessed by word recognition accuracy is a common distinguishing feature of first-language (L

We are pleased to share the History, Identity, and Linguistic Diversity Podcast--available at https://eutopia-hild.eu and through Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Google Podcasts. The podcast features interviews with members of the Eutopia History, Identity, and Linguistic Diversity (HILD) Connected Research Community Incubator. Colleagues respond to the challenge: “How can we reduce present-day European conflict through knowledge of historical multilingualism, language conflict, and language polic

We are pleased to share the History, Identity, and Linguistic Diversity Podcast--available at https://eutopia-hild.eu and through Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Google Podcasts. The podcast features interviews with members of the Eutopia History, Identity, and Linguistic Diversity (HILD) Connected Research Community Incubator. Colleagues respond to the challenge: “How can we reduce present-day European conflict through knowledge of historical multilingualism, language conflict, and language polic

Professor Jette G. Hansen Edwards of the Department of English at The Chinese University of Hong Kong has created a website entitled Telling Stories: Linguistic Diversity in Hong Kong. It is open access and available at: https://www.eng.cuhk.edu.hk/ENGE-TellingStories/. Telling Stories: Linguistic Diversity in Hong Kong was created to showcase the languages of Hong Kong, past and present. Hong Kong has always been a site of vibrant multiculturalism and multilingualism; this website seeks to hig

Professor Jette G. Hansen Edwards of the Department of English at The Chinese University of Hong Kong has created a website entitled Telling Stories: Linguistic Diversity in Hong Kong. It is open access and available at: https://www.eng.cuhk.edu.hk/ENGE-TellingStories/. Telling Stories: Linguistic Diversity in Hong Kong was created to showcase the languages of Hong Kong, past and present. Hong Kong has always been a site of vibrant multiculturalism and multilingualism; this website seeks to hig

La publicación del corpus de Pola de Siero, que se realizó en 2014, tiene como objetivo la presentación sistemática de una serie de materiales audio que se llevaron a cabo dentro de la tesis doctoral (en cotutela: Universidad de Oviedo y Universität Zürich, coordinadores: Ramón de Andrés Díaz y Johannes Kabatek) Aproximación al habla de La Pola Siero. Variación lingüística: descripción y percepción, que se leyó el 19 de noviembre de 2018. La Pola Siero: corpus de entrevistas semidirigidas, encu

La publicación del corpus de Pola de Siero, que se realizó en 2014, tiene como objetivo la presentación sistemática de una serie de materiales audio que se llevaron a cabo dentro de la tesis doctoral (en cotutela: Universidad de Oviedo y Universität Zürich, coordinadores: Ramón de Andrés Díaz y Johannes Kabatek) Aproximación al habla de La Pola Siero. Variación lingüística: descripción y percepción, que se leyó el 19 de noviembre de 2018. La Pola Siero: corpus de entrevistas semidirigidas, encu

Cultural heritage professionals aim to improve the way we understand paintings by generating descriptions of them. However, since millions of cultural objects have been created throughout history, completing such a task seems impossible, but only for humans. The goal of the Saint George on a Bike (SGoaB) project is to provide high-performance metadata enrichment capability by using High Performance Computing (HPC) resources in the cultural heritage domain. The project trains natural language pr

Cultural heritage professionals aim to improve the way we understand paintings by generating descriptions of them. However, since millions of cultural objects have been created throughout history, completing such a task seems impossible, but only for humans. The goal of the Saint George on a Bike (SGoaB) project is to provide high-performance metadata enrichment capability by using High Performance Computing (HPC) resources in the cultural heritage domain. The project trains natural language pr

The Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management (2022 MIT Press, ed. by Berez-Kroeker, McDonnell, Koller & Collister) is now available free and open source at https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/5244/The-Open-Handbook-of-Linguistic-Data-Management. The Handbook is a guide to principles and methods for the management, archiving, sharing, and citing of linguistic research data, especially digital data. “Doing language science” depends on collecting, transcribing, annotating, analyzing, storing, and

The Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management (2022 MIT Press, ed. by Berez-Kroeker, McDonnell, Koller & Collister) is now available free and open source at https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/5244/The-Open-Handbook-of-Linguistic-Data-Management. The Handbook is a guide to principles and methods for the management, archiving, sharing, and citing of linguistic research data, especially digital data. “Doing language science” depends on collecting, transcribing, annotating, analyzing, storing, and

Hello and /jəʊhəʊhəʊ/! Here we are again, ready to hang up our mortar boards with our stockings, and enjoy a well-earned period of grading, reading, preparing, writing, and maybe some eating, drinking and being merry. And of course, there’s also my Christmas poem! In case you’re tired of it by now, I’ve gathered up – as I do every year – some new amusing seasonal bells and baubles related to linguistics! Last year, I ended with a rendition of Mariah Carey’s Christmas classic, where the lyrics

Hello and /jəʊhəʊhəʊ/! Here we are again, ready to hang up our mortar boards with our stockings, and enjoy a well-earned period of grading, reading, preparing, writing, and maybe some eating, drinking and being merry. And of course, there’s also my Christmas poem! In case you’re tired of it by now, I’ve gathered up – as I do every year – some new amusing seasonal bells and baubles related to linguistics! Last year, I ended with a rendition of Mariah Carey’s Christmas classic, where the lyrics

A selection of recorded talks given at Protolang 6 that was held in Lisbon are now available at https://sites.google.com/view/protolang-6/videos or directly on AppEEL's YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/appeellisboa/playlists?view=50&shelf_id=4. More info on Protolang 7 that is coming up in September 2021 is available at https://blogs.phil.hhu.de/protolang7/. About Protolang The Protolang conference series creates an interdisciplinary platform for scholarly discussion on the orig

A selection of recorded talks given at Protolang 6 that was held in Lisbon are now available at https://sites.google.com/view/protolang-6/videos or directly on AppEEL's YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/appeellisboa/playlists?view=50&shelf_id=4. More info on Protolang 7 that is coming up in September 2021 is available at https://blogs.phil.hhu.de/protolang7/. About Protolang The Protolang conference series creates an interdisciplinary platform for scholarly discussion on the orig

Field Notes, a podcast about linguistic fieldwork, is back for a third season! This season will focus exclusively on researchers working on their own languages in their own communities. The inaugural Season 3 episode is now out, featuring Dr. Nancy Kula (University of Essex), who works with speakers of Bemba in Zambia. Field Notes is a podcast about linguistic fieldwork hosted by Martha Tsutsui Billins (SOAS, University of London). Each episode features one linguist who works in language docume

Field Notes, a podcast about linguistic fieldwork, is back for a third season! This season will focus exclusively on researchers working on their own languages in their own communities. The inaugural Season 3 episode is now out, featuring Dr. Nancy Kula (University of Essex), who works with speakers of Bemba in Zambia. Field Notes is a podcast about linguistic fieldwork hosted by Martha Tsutsui Billins (SOAS, University of London). Each episode features one linguist who works in language docume

The CorpAGEst project - ‘A corpus-based multimodal approach to the pragmatic competence of the elderly’ - aims to establish the verbal and gestural profile of very old people, looking at their pragmatic competence in real-world settings (Bolly & Boutet, 2018). The corpus data consist of semi-directed, face-to-face interviews between an adult and a very old subject (75 y. old and more) that were audio-video recorded, transcribed and aligned to the sound signal. All participants are native-speaker

The CorpAGEst project - ‘A corpus-based multimodal approach to the pragmatic competence of the elderly’ - aims to establish the verbal and gestural profile of very old people, looking at their pragmatic competence in real-world settings (Bolly & Boutet, 2018). The corpus data consist of semi-directed, face-to-face interviews between an adult and a very old subject (75 y. old and more) that were audio-video recorded, transcribed and aligned to the sound signal. All participants are native-speaker

There's a new podcast about languages, bi/multilingualism, and culture and identity on the block! At Much Language Such Talk (MLST), we talk about bi- and multilingualism and what it means to speak more than one language. We explore the benefits, the advantages, the struggles of bilingualism, what it entails, and what it means in the daily life of people who speak, know, and study more than one language. We address topics such as language change, how we learn languages at different ages, biling

There's a new podcast about languages, bi/multilingualism, and culture and identity on the block! At Much Language Such Talk (MLST), we talk about bi- and multilingualism and what it means to speak more than one language. We explore the benefits, the advantages, the struggles of bilingualism, what it entails, and what it means in the daily life of people who speak, know, and study more than one language. We address topics such as language change, how we learn languages at different ages, biling

Hello one and all, and /jəʊhəʊhəʊ/! Happy Non-Denominational Solstace-Related Period of Universal Annual Leave! ???? Every year I spam round this parody poem of mine, because of the dangerous level of positive feedback I receive each year. I always warn people of this endless circle, but every year I receive messages of delight and appreciation. Stay quiet and I'll stop! But to keep things fresh ever year, I try to include some other new fun seasonal linguistics-related baubles. This year I thoug

Hello one and all, and /jəʊhəʊhəʊ/! Happy Non-Denominational Solstace-Related Period of Universal Annual Leave! ???? Every year I spam round this parody poem of mine, because of the dangerous level of positive feedback I receive each year. I always warn people of this endless circle, but every year I receive messages of delight and appreciation. Stay quiet and I'll stop! But to keep things fresh ever year, I try to include some other new fun seasonal linguistics-related baubles. This year I thoug

A celebratory blog has been published in honor of renowned scholar of Hausa linguistics, Philip Jaggar, on the occasion of his 75th Birthday in 2020. The blog, hosted by the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), features a biography of Phil and tributes from colleagues and friends, with accompanying photographs. Biography: https://study.soas.ac.uk/jaggar-hausa-champion-soas/ Tributes: https://study.soas.ac.uk/tributes-to-philip-j-jaggar/

A celebratory blog has been published in honor of renowned scholar of Hausa linguistics, Philip Jaggar, on the occasion of his 75th Birthday in 2020. The blog, hosted by the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), features a biography of Phil and tributes from colleagues and friends, with accompanying photographs. Biography: https://study.soas.ac.uk/jaggar-hausa-champion-soas/ Tributes: https://study.soas.ac.uk/tributes-to-philip-j-jaggar/

We are very happy to announce the open-access publication of the multimedial proceedings of the workshop “Language in Mind and Brain” (https://doi.org/10.5282/ubm/epub.70356). The aim of the workshop was to bridge the gap between the different research traditions in neuroscience, psycholinguistics and linguistics, and to explore and expand their common ground in order to contribute to an interdisciplinary, more integrated investigation of human language. The multimedial proceedings present short