Linguistics

Language and Communication is on the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator (GESDA) science breakthrough radar (https://www.gesda.global/) for the first time this year! That means we as a field have a chance to tell the world what exciting discoveries linguistics has made, and where the field is headed. I will present a report on this at the UN in September, and GESDA has commissioned a survey to accompany the report. Language evolution, AI, empirical method in linguistics, and multilingualism

Public Talk: Human Language Technology for SASL English/SASL interpreting provided When Friday, June 20, 2025 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Where MS Teams About this event The Interdisciplinary Centre for Digital Futures (ICDF) invites all staff and students to an exciting brownbag session titled ‘Human Language Technology for SASL at the University of the Free State’ featuring Dr Herkulaas Combrink, the Co-Director of the ICDF, and a Senior Lecturer at the UFS in Economic and Management Scie

I’m pleased to share the interview series “Talking About Languages,” which features conversations with leading linguists in the fields of second language acquisition, bilingualism, and multilingualism. These interviews can be used as teaching material in the classroom. New interviews are added regularly, and I hope you find the series useful. Please find the link enclosed. https://tv.uvigo.es/series/679a63164e20f40f98159db3 Current interviews include: • Luke Plonsky (Northern Arizona Uni

Launched in 2025, the Languages Best PhD Thesis Award is presented annually to recognize young scholars who are judged to have completed the most outstanding PhD thesis in various areas of linguistics and to encourage the continuation of their outstanding work and further contribution to their field. The application process for this award is open from May, and winners are announced in July next year. Apply here: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/languages/awards/3347 The Prize: – Bonus (CHF 80

Is the language in comics particularly simple? Which words from Star Wars have already become part of everyday language? And does the German afternoon last as long as the English afternoon? The new podcast “Linguistics Behind the Scenes” answers these questions and many more in an entertaining and accessible way. Join German professor of English and Digital Linguistics Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer and American language enthusiast Dominic Piazza as they chat about all the many fun and interes

The editors of Language in Society and Journal of Sociolinguistics are jointly sponsoring an online seminar on the theme of publishing in academic journals. This 60-minute webinar is intended to provide practical suggestions on how to navigate the peer review publication process. Early-career researchers, postdocs, and Ph.D students are the target audience for the webinar but all interested parties are welcome. The webinar will be facilitated by the editors of two sociolinguistics peer-revi

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Paradigm welcomes John Benjamins eBooks to its partner program Esteemed linguistics publisher’s eBooks will be sold by Paradigm alongside De Gruyter Mouton and Multilingual Matters Boston/Warsaw/London - 17/03/2025 - Paradigm Publishing Services, a division of De Gruyter Brill, welcomes John Benjamins to its consortium of university and smaller specialized presses that form the partner program. Under this agreement, John Benjamins’s titles will be sold in the U

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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