Special Issue of Studies in Language Assessment (2028) Call for Abstracts
Beyond test scores: Investigating L2 test-taker cognition, affect, and behaviour using biometric methods
Guest editors: Ruslan Suvorov (University of Western Ontario) and Vahid Aryadoust (Nanyang Technological University)
The purpose of this special issue is to advance process-based validation research in language testing by bringing together cutting-edge studies that employ biometric methods and sensor technologi
This study investigates pinky extension (PE) in American Sign Language (ASL). PE involves extending the pinky finger in signs, even though this feature is not present in standard dictionary representations of those signs. Although PE has been previously described as conveying emphasis, this account does not fully explain its distribution. This study asks whether PE reflects a meaningful part of how signs are structured in ASL, rather than a matter of individual style or variation. Focusing on ad
This dissertation develops a unified, cognitively plausible account of copredication: the pervasive linguistic phenomenon where a single nominal expression simultaneously satisfies multiple predicates requiring distinct and often incompatible facets (e.g., That book is heavy but informative; Lunch was delicious but lasted hours). While ubiquitous in everyday language, copredication poses a fundamental challenge to theories of meaning composition by demanding simultaneous access to different aspe
Social media platforms have been increasingly marked by rising antagonism and divisive language practices; nevertheless, pragmatics offers unique insights into both the mechanisms driving polarization and potential pathways toward more constructive dialogue. This panel directly addresses the conference theme "Building Bridges" by examining how pragmatic principles operate in multimodal digital contexts鈥攚here text, images, emojis, formatting, and platform affordances converge to shape meaning-mak
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The Center for Data Science in Humanities at Chosun University is building a set of multimodal datasets spanning the lifespan. Over the past year, we have been collecting infant-perspective head-mounted video (BabyView Korea) and bilingual daylong audio recordings (LENA) from families in Korea, both still actively growing. We have also completed a dataset of daylong speech recordings from older adults, linked to PET imaging and cognitive test data. Alongside these, the center has
Social media platforms have been increasingly marked by rising antagonism and divisive language practices; nevertheless, pragmatics offers unique insights into both the mechanisms driving polarization and potential pathways toward more constructive dialogue. This panel directly addresses the conference theme "Building Bridges" by examining how pragmatic principles operate in multimodal digital contexts鈥攚here text, images, emojis, formatting, and platform affordances converge to shape meaning-mak
We are proud to announce that the International Workshop on Language Production (IWoLP) 2027 will take place from 6鈥�8 January 2027 at City University of Hong Kong. This marks the first time IWoLP will be hosted in the Asia-Pacific region, and we hope to bring together researchers and practitioners working on language processing, computational linguistics, natural language processing, and related interdisciplinary fields.
Our newly launched conference website is now live: https://lt.cityu.edu
Recursos para el Aula de Espa帽ol: investigaci贸n y ense帽anza is an annual, peer-reviewed journal published by the Universidad de Alcal谩 (Spain), bringing together research and teaching resources on Spanish language instruction. The journal welcomes contributions to any of its three sections: Sala de lectura (research and review articles on Spanish language teaching), Aula (classroom resources for Spanish instruction), and Biblioteca de medios (reviews, bibliographic news, and multimedia materials
We are proud to announce that the International Workshop on Language Production (IWoLP) 2027 will take place from 6鈥�8 January 2027 at City University of Hong Kong. This marks the first time IWoLP will be hosted in the Asia-Pacific region, and we hope to bring together researchers and practitioners working on language processing, computational linguistics, natural language processing, and related interdisciplinary fields.
Our newly launched conference website is now live: https://lt.cityu.edu
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The 58th Algonquian Conference will be held in St. John鈥檚, Newfoundland/Ktaqmkuk/Akami-assi at Memorial University, from Friday, 23 October to Sunday, 25 October, 2026.
This conference is an international meeting for Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars and community members to share research and practice relating to Algonquian peoples, the largest First Peoples group in Canada. Fields of interest include anthropology, archaeology, art, biography, education, ethnography,
By the term non-standard languages we mean linguistic varieties defying a proper standard because they serve as minority language within a state or region, and/or they are used as alternative expressive means forming part of the repertoire of the community in which a standard language is spoken, and/or finally they deviate from the standard insofar as they function as regiolects, slang, or informal sociolects (Nic Craith 2006, Hogan-Brun & O鈥橰ourke 2019). While often stigmatized or deemed 鈥渋nfor
In mediated political talk, participants continuously position themselves and others in relation to each other as well as to broader political discourses that shape and constrain their interaction. Through such positioning practices, situated interaction becomes interwoven with and related to wider (trans-situational) discursive formations. This panel invites contributions that explore this intersection between interaction and discourse by focusing on positioning and stancetaking (cf. Du Bois 20
Sign languages and the diverse paths to their acquisition offer a unique opportunity to gain insight into linguistic theory and human cognition. Structurally, the visual-gestural modality has different affordances and demands than the oral-aural modality and these have implications for linguistic theory (Perniss 2018). Socially, signer demographics are extremely varied due to factors such as (familial) hearing status, language ideology, and access to a sign language community (De Meulder 2019).
By the term non-standard languages we mean linguistic varieties defying a proper standard because they serve as minority language within a state or region, and/or they are used as alternative expressive means forming part of the repertoire of the community in which a standard language is spoken, and/or finally they deviate from the standard insofar as they function as regiolects, slang, or informal sociolects (Nic Craith 2006, Hogan-Brun & O鈥橰ourke 2019). While often stigmatized or deemed 鈥渋nfor
In mediated political talk, participants continuously position themselves and others in relation to each other as well as to broader political discourses that shape and constrain their interaction. Through such positioning practices, situated interaction becomes interwoven with and related to wider (trans-situational) discursive formations. This panel invites contributions that explore this intersection between interaction and discourse by focusing on positioning and stancetaking (cf. Du Bois 20
Sign languages and the diverse paths to their acquisition offer a unique opportunity to gain insight into linguistic theory and human cognition. Structurally, the visual-gestural modality has different affordances and demands than the oral-aural modality and these have implications for linguistic theory (Perniss 2018). Socially, signer demographics are extremely varied due to factors such as (familial) hearing status, language ideology, and access to a sign language community (De Meulder 2019).
We are pleased to announce the 38th annual conference of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics (IATL), which will take place at Bar-Ilan University on October 18 and 19, 2026 (or a week later). We aim to hold the conference during the Israeli Science and Academia Week. The conference will consist of a general session and a special session on Computational Models for Linguistic Processing. Talks will be 30-minute long with 10 additional minutes for discussion. The conference will als
We are pleased to announce that the second conference on Formal Models in Linguistics (FML 2026) will take place on November 11-12, 2026, hosted by the Faculty of Humanities at HSE University. The conference focuses on the study of natural language within both generative and non-generative formal approaches, using any methodological tools (experimental, corpus-based, etc.).
We invite submissions of original work focusing on formal analysis of natural language data. Submitted abstracts will un
We are pleased to announce the 38th annual conference of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics (IATL), which will take place at Bar-Ilan University on October 18 and 19, 2026 (or a week later). We aim to hold the conference during the Israeli Science and Academia Week. The conference will consist of a general session and a special session on Computational Models for Linguistic Processing. Talks will be 30-minute long with 10 additional minutes for discussion. The conference will als
Call for Papers:
Confirmed Speakers:
Anna Papafragou (University of Pennsylvania)
Devyani Sharma (University of Oxford)
Sandrine Zufferey (University of Bern)
After the successful workshop Social Meaning and Grammar, which took place in Z眉rich in March 2026 (https://www.ds.uzh.ch/de/tagungen/social-meaning-and-grammar.html), we are now moving on to the second round. The term 鈥榮ocial鈥� plays a central role in the acquisition and learning literature in general (e.g., in broad topics such