Our next meeting will be Tuesday, March 11th at 10am in room 117. Natalia will be presenting the paper Kramer and Zec 2020 “Nasal consonants, sonority and syllable phonotactics: the dual nasal hypothesis.” The abstract is the following: Weinvestigate the phonotactic behaviour of nasal consonants in a database of over 200 languages. Our findings challenge […]
At this week鈥檚 MCQLL meeting, Massimo Lipari will present 鈥�/晒/ in 3 English dialects: Tongue shapes and formant dynamics.鈥� We will be meeting this Wednesday, March 12, at 10 AM. Meetings are held in person in room 117 of the 51吃瓜网Linguistics department and on zoom at https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/89609376104. Abstract: English approximant /晒/ is famously subject to […]
Willie Myers’s paper “The form and force of Kirundi exclamatives” was just published online in聽Linguistic Variation (and will be in an upcoming print version).聽It can be accessed at https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/lv.24010.mye. More details can be found below: Title: The form and force of Kirundi exclamatives Abstract: This paper examines the syntax and semantics of two types of […]
The 16th Syntax and Semantics Conference in Paris (CSSP 2025) will take place on November 12-14, 2025 in Paris, and will be organized by Universit茅 Paris 8 & SFL.
CSSP invites papers combining empirical inquiry and formal explicitness, and favours comparisons between different theoretical frameworks in syntax and semantics.
Invited Speakers:
- Corien Bary (Radboud University Nijmegen)
- Patricia Cabredo Hofherr (Universit茅 Paris 8 & SFL, CNRS)
- Rui Chaves (University at Buffalo, SUNY)
Conference Information:
We are pleased to announce the second Reframing Our Language Experience (ROLE) Symposium, taking place online on May 19, 2025.
The Reframing Our Language Experience (ROLE) Collective (http://www.rolecollective.org) was established in 2022 with the intent of bringing together researchers, clinicians, policy makers, and educators to move away from linguistic injustice that has been created by native speaker ideologies.
Find out more about the ROLE Collective on
Conference Information:
We are pleased to announce the second Reframing Our Language Experience (ROLE) Symposium, taking place online on May 19, 2025.
The Reframing Our Language Experience (ROLE) Collective (http://www.rolecollective.org) was established in 2022 with the intent of bringing together researchers, clinicians, policy makers, and educators to move away from linguistic injustice that has been created by native speaker ideologies.
Find out more about the ROLE Collective on
2nd Call for Papers:
Join our LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10047495/
Submit your abstract (250 words) by 4 April to kongresETFB@ufs.ac.za
The Department of South African Sign Language and Deaf Studies at the University of the Free State (RSA), in partnership with the Joint ICA/IGU Commission on Toponymy as well as the ICOS Working Group on Toponymy, is pleased to announce the next biennial international symposium on place names 鈥� ISPN 2025.
Place names serve a dual pur
A conference exploring new frontiers in dynamical models of speech. The event is co-located at the 2025 LSA Linguistics Institute and coincides with the class "Dynamics of speech production", taught by Jason A. Shaw and Michael C. Stern.
A fundamental topic of linguistic inquiry concerns the nature of phonological cognition. Dynamical models of speech 鈥� most prominently Articulatory Phonology (Browman & Goldstein 1992) / Task Dynamics (Kelso, Saltzman & Tuller 1986) 鈥� have proven great succes
A conference exploring new frontiers in dynamical models of speech. The event is co-located at the 2025 LSA Linguistics Institute and coincides with the class "Dynamics of speech production", taught by Jason A. Shaw and Michael C. Stern.
A fundamental topic of linguistic inquiry concerns the nature of phonological cognition. Dynamical models of speech 鈥� most prominently Articulatory Phonology (Browman & Goldstein 1992) / Task Dynamics (Kelso, Saltzman & Tuller 1986) 鈥� have proven great succes
At the crossroads of linguistics and cognitive psychology, the study of the multilingual mind sheds light on the human language capacity and the cognitive processes involved in processing a language, whether first or additional.
CURRENT STATE OF THE RESEARCH
Linguistic relativism is a body of research that questions the relationship between language and cognition. Also known in its early form as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, this body of research assumes that a given reality can be apprehende
At the crossroads of linguistics and cognitive psychology, the study of the multilingual mind sheds light on the human language capacity and the cognitive processes involved in processing a language, whether first or additional.
CURRENT STATE OF THE RESEARCH
Linguistic relativism is a body of research that questions the relationship between language and cognition. Also known in its early form as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, this body of research assumes that a given reality can be apprehende
Workshop title: Language, end of life, death, and bereavement: an interdisciplinary perspective
Organisers: Giuditta Caliendo, Oc茅ane Foubert, Catherine Ruchon (University of Lille)
Submission deadline: March 30, 2025
Call for paper: https://llcd2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/7
Keywords: linguistic representations of death and end of life; bereavement; taboo; euphemism; metaphor
Since the advent of transdisciplinary death studies in the 1970s, a plethora of research has been c
Workshop title: Language, end of life, death, and bereavement: an interdisciplinary perspective
Organisers: Giuditta Caliendo, Oc茅ane Foubert, Catherine Ruchon (University of Lille)
Submission deadline: March 30, 2025
Call for paper: https://llcd2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/7
Keywords: linguistic representations of death and end of life; bereavement; taboo; euphemism; metaphor
Since the advent of transdisciplinary death studies in the 1970s, a plethora of research has been c
THE FIFTEENTH INTERNATIONAL TBILISI SYMPOSIUM
ON LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND COMPUTATION
September 8-12, 2025
Kutaisi, Georgia (tbc)
https://events.illc.uva.nl/Tbilisi/Tbilisi2025/
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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
The Fifteenth International Tbilisi Symposium on Logic, Language, and
Computation will be held September 8-12, 2025 in the country of Georgia.
The Programme Committee invites submissions for contributions on all
Calling all language scientists and language enthusiasts who enjoy doing science communication about language (or who would like to start): registration for LingComm25 is now open!
LingComm25 is an international conference dedicated to linguistics communication to non-academic audiences. It鈥檚 completely online and open to all!
Here are a few highlights from our exciting 4-day program:
Panel discussions on 鈥淭alking About Hard Stuff: Ideology and Identity鈥� (with JPB Gerald, Mike Mena, Ri
Calling all language scientists and language enthusiasts who enjoy doing science communication about language (or who would like to start): registration for LingComm25 is now open!
LingComm25 is an international conference dedicated to linguistics communication to non-academic audiences. It鈥檚 completely online and open to all!
Here are a few highlights from our exciting 4-day program:
Panel discussions on 鈥淭alking About Hard Stuff: Ideology and Identity鈥� (with JPB Gerald, Mike Mena, Ri
Exploring Variation in Semitic Languages: Form-Meaning Interfaces across Arabic Varieties
The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum of discussion for cross-linguistic research on understudied phenomena in Arabic syntax and semantics, with the general goal of exploring linguistic diversity through the prism of Arabic (or more broadly, Semitic languages). It aims to bring together linguists working on Semitic languages or on Arabic and its varieties, from different approaches, discipl
Exploring Variation in Semitic Languages: Form-Meaning Interfaces across Arabic Varieties
The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum of discussion for cross-linguistic research on understudied phenomena in Arabic syntax and semantics, with the general goal of exploring linguistic diversity through the prism of Arabic (or more broadly, Semitic languages). It aims to bring together linguists working on Semitic languages or on Arabic and its varieties, from different approaches, discipl
Call for Papers
Studime Orientale "Oriental Studies" (Faculty of Philology-University of Prishtina)
Deadline for Article Submission: 01.09.2025
The journal "Oriental Studies" is pleased to announce the call for papers for its upcoming issue. We kindly invite researchers, academics, and experts from universities and research institutes to contribute with their original and unpublished works.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
Linguistics and Oriental Literature,
Focus: PhD and advanced MA students specializing in experimental linguistics and/or language acquisition
Description:
EMLaR aims at training PhD students and advanced MA students in experimental methods of language (acquisition) research. Experts in various domains of linguistic research will give lectures and hands-on tutorials that can be followed both in-person and online. We also provide the opportunity to present your (ongoing) research at the poster session.
Speakers will give met