I am a doctoral student at CUNY Graduate Center studying Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences. I am conducting a research on vowel devoicing, which is one of the characteristic phenomena in Japanese, especially so-called standard Japanese (Tokyo Japanese). I am looking for native speakers of Japanese who are interested in participating in the study. I will ask a participant to read some Japanese words while observing tongue movements using a diagnostic ultrasound machine as well as tracking movemen
The Research Synthesis in Applied Linguistics SIG of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) (https://researchsynthesis.weebly.com/) has a new section in our monthly newsletter to SIG members, where we ask our members ONE question about research synthesis to get a sense of its state-of-play in Applied Linguistics. We would also like to involve the rest of the applied linguistics community in this.
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The Institute is the largest linguistics summer school in the world, and has been held since 1928. This year's institute will feature over 90 courses arranged over 2 terms, each 2.5 weeks long, July 7 - 22, and July 24 - August 8, 2025.
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UMRs in Boston Summer School 鈥� 1st Call for Applications
June 9-13, 2025
Brandeis University, Massachusetts, USA
We invite applications for a five-day summer school on Uniform Meaning Representations (UMR).
Impressive progress has been made in many aspects of natural language processing (NLP) in recent years. Most notably, the achievements of transformer-based large language models such as ChatGPT would seem to obviate the need for any type of semantic representation beyond what can be encoded
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Greetings, Linguists!
The October 2024 issue of Speculative Grammarian鈥攖he premier scholarly journal featuring research in the neglected field of satirical linguistics鈥攊s now available online for your browsing pleasure.
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The editors and publishers of Speculative Grammarian are pleased to announce that another issue of our esteemed journal is now available. This issue offers many excellent articles, including our unprecedented endorsement for president, an info
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Marijke Beersmans, Evelien De Graaf, Margherita Fantoli, Alek Keersmaekers, Wouter Mercelis, Saskia Peels-Matthey, and Silvia Stopponi
2nd Call for Papers:
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Les langues de sp茅cialit茅 (LSP), que l鈥檕n peut d茅finir largement comme les usages sp茅cialis茅s de la langue par une communaut茅 dans un domaine particulier, font partie int茅grante de la culture populaire. Selon Johns (1994, p. 4), les discours 茅crits et oraux des langues de sp茅cialit茅 peuvent 锚tre vus comme des 芦 art茅facts culturels 禄, voire des 芦 genres servant des objectifs de communication au sein de groupes d鈥檌ndividus qui se consid猫rent comme apparten
November 16 (Sat)
9:00-9:30 Registration
9:30-9:35 Opening Remarks
9:35-10:35 (Keynote Speech) "On the subject of subject depictives and subject-oriented adverbials"
Marcel den Dikken (Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Budapest & Centre of Linguistics of the
University of Lisbon)
(10 minute break)
10:45-11:20
November 16 (Sat)
9:00-9:30 Registration
9:30-9:35 Opening Remarks
9:35-10:35 (Keynote Speech) "On the subject of subject depictives and subject-oriented adverbials"
Marcel den Dikken (Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Budapest & Centre of Linguistics of the
University of Lisbon)
(10 minute break)
10:45-11:20
Call for Papers:
We invite 100-word abstracts until October 25, 2024. Please send your abstract to Diogo Pinheiro (diogopinheiro@letras.ufrj.br). We will let you know whether we can incorporate your abstract in the proposed theme session by the end of October. If our theme session is accepted, we will ask authors of provisionally accepted abstracts to submit an extended abstract (max. 500 words) via the conference submission system until January 15th. The extended abstract will then be subject
Call for Papers:
Working languages: French and English
Abstracts (1 page) should be sent to pierre-yves.modicom (at) univ-lyon3.fr and clea.patin (at) univ-lyon3.fr by January 15th.
The full call can be found under: https://minimamodica.wordpress.com/tea/
or: https://cel.univ-lyon3.fr/cel-colloque-transferts-materiels-discursifs-et-linguistiques-dans-le-domaine-du-the-de-1856-a-nos-jours
For more information, please visit the conference link below.
For more information, please visit the conference link below.
Call for Papers:
Translating the Caribbean
Heterolingualism is one of the defining characteristics of literature in the Caribbean, as authors switch between languages and language varieties in unique and organic ways. The Caribbean region in fact constitutes one of the world鈥檚 most extensive and most varied sites of creolization. Caribbean creoles have become important objects of study in linguistics, literary and postcolonial studies, and translation studies.
Due to the heterolingual nature o
Call for Papers:
Clause linkage in Iranian languages is a fascinating topic. It includes often seemingly inconsistent systems of clause linking strategies with competing right and left branching patterns, sometimes allowing for several interpretations. We welcome papers that address clause linking in Old, Middle, and New Iranian languages and/or in languages from language families that are in contact with Iranian, e.g. Turkic, Semitic, and Indo-Aryan languages. The presentations can take a synt