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Whistled languages offer a natural laboratory for studying how human speech can be acoustically reduced yet remain intelligible. This interdisciplinary workshop explores their phonetic, phonological, and neurocognitive dimensions across the world鈥攆rom Greek Sfyria to Silbo Gomero and Tashlhiyt Berber. By integrating acoustic analysis, typology, and recent EEG and behavioral findings, the meeting investigates how left- and right-hemispheric processes cooperate in decoding melodic s
Communication is essential to tourism. International tourism, particularly, is situated at the crossroads of language, culture, marketing communication, and 鈥渨orldmaking鈥�.
As destinations compete for visibility in an increasingly global and digital environment, where traveller expectations shift rapidly, where the challenges for destinations in terms of sustainability and managing tourism responsibility become imperative, the ability to mediate experiences and translate local identity into co
Description:
Whistled languages offer a natural laboratory for studying how human speech can be acoustically reduced yet remain intelligible. This interdisciplinary workshop explores their phonetic, phonological, and neurocognitive dimensions across the world鈥攆rom Greek Sfyria to Silbo Gomero and Tashlhiyt Berber. By integrating acoustic analysis, typology, and recent EEG and behavioral findings, the meeting investigates how left- and right-hemispheric processes cooperate in decoding melodic s
Final Call for Papers:
Extended Deadline Until Monday 18 May 2026
Language variation and change has been a major focus of linguistic research for decades, and empirical approaches to language variation can strongly benefit from systematic manipulation of variables. The goal of ExAPP is to gather scholars employing experimental methods to investigate linguistic variation. We welcome abstracts for posters and papers that cover aspects of variation on all linguistic levels, and the perception
The symposium will take place online on Thursday 2 - Friday 3 July 2026
Registration (free) is now open: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr
Invited Speakers:
Stefan Gries (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Martin Hilpert (University of Neuch芒tel, Switzerland)
Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK)
Presentation abstracts: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr/lxgr2026-abstracts
Organiser: Costas Gabrielatos (Edge Hill University)
If you have problems registering, or h
Call for Papers:
Extension due to infrastructure issues: The DETEC website has been unavailable due to a large fire in a datacentre in the Netherlands. We have therefore decided to extend the deadline to Wednesday noon (CEST).
Abstracts can be submitted through OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=DETEC/2026/Conference
Submission Requirements:
Abstracts must be anonymous and should be limited to a maximum of two pages of text, including tables, figures, and references. Pages sho
The symposium will take place online on Thursday 2 - Friday 3 July 2026
Registration (free) is now open: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr
Invited Speakers:
Stefan Gries (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Martin Hilpert (University of Neuch芒tel, Switzerland)
Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK)
Presentation abstracts: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr/lxgr2026-abstracts
Organiser: Costas Gabrielatos (Edge Hill University)
If you have problems registering, or h
The 9th International H-INET Conference marks a decade of H-INET activities, celebrating ten years of collaboration, research, and innovation in language education. Organized in collaboration with the Israeli Forum of Academic Writing (IFAW), this special anniversary conference brings together language educators, researchers, and practitioners to explore new perspectives on language teaching and learning in rapidly changing educational, technological, and social contexts. Day 1 (September 6) wil
The 9th International H-INET Conference marks a decade of H-INET activities, celebrating ten years of collaboration, research, and innovation in language education. Organized in collaboration with the Israeli Forum of Academic Writing (IFAW), this special anniversary conference brings together language educators, researchers, and practitioners to explore new perspectives on language teaching and learning in rapidly changing educational, technological, and social contexts. Day 1 (September 6) wil
Argumentaire:
La po茅sie fran莽aise est souvent 茅tudi茅e dans la continuit茅 de ses fondements antiques, grecs et latins, en particulier sur les plans th茅matiques et g茅n茅riques. En revanche, le recours des po猫tes 脿 l鈥櫭﹖ymologie a fait l鈥檕bjet d鈥櫭﹖udes plus sporadiques ou int茅gr茅es 脿 de plus vastes enqu锚tes linguistiques (Rigolot 1977 ; Demonet 1992), alors que l鈥檋istoire d鈥檜n mot, depuis son berceau grec ou latin principalement, a de longue date passionn茅 les po猫tes. Ces journ茅es d鈥櫭﹖ude proposent
Edith W. Clowes conceptualises post-Soviet culture in Russia on the Edge: Imagined Geographies and Post-Soviet Identity (Cornell University Press, 2011) and 鈥淭he Return of Eurasia: Imagining Empire in Post-Soviet Russia鈥� (Ab Imperio, 3 (2005), 69鈥�96). Clowes鈥檚 article shifts imperial imaginaries and frames the Black Sea as a dynamic cultural site rather than a periphery.
Positioned at the intersection of empires, languages, and shifting cultural hegemonies, the Black Sea constitutes a complex
Argumentaire:
La po茅sie fran莽aise est souvent 茅tudi茅e dans la continuit茅 de ses fondements antiques, grecs et latins, en particulier sur les plans th茅matiques et g茅n茅riques. En revanche, le recours des po猫tes 脿 l鈥櫭﹖ymologie a fait l鈥檕bjet d鈥櫭﹖udes plus sporadiques ou int茅gr茅es 脿 de plus vastes enqu锚tes linguistiques (Rigolot 1977 ; Demonet 1992), alors que l鈥檋istoire d鈥檜n mot, depuis son berceau grec ou latin principalement, a de longue date passionn茅 les po猫tes. Ces journ茅es d鈥櫭﹖ude proposent
Final Call for Papers:
The International Linguistic Society is delighted to invite you to participate in the International Conference on Phonetics and AI in Language Education, Phonetics 2026 Hong Kong, to be held from 3rd to 5th June 2026 in Hong Kong. The primary aim of the conference is to advance key areas of contemporary developments in phonetics and the rapidly evolving applications of AI in language education.
The Phonetics 2026 Hong Kong conference envisions a vibrant platform for
Edith W. Clowes conceptualises post-Soviet culture in Russia on the Edge: Imagined Geographies and Post-Soviet Identity (Cornell University Press, 2011) and 鈥淭he Return of Eurasia: Imagining Empire in Post-Soviet Russia鈥� (Ab Imperio, 3 (2005), 69鈥�96). Clowes鈥檚 article shifts imperial imaginaries and frames the Black Sea as a dynamic cultural site rather than a periphery.
Positioned at the intersection of empires, languages, and shifting cultural hegemonies, the Black Sea constitutes a complex
Final Call for Papers:
OASIS 6 (Ontology As Structured by the Interfaces with Semantics 6) will take place at the Centro de Lingu铆stica da Universidade de Lisboa, 13-16 October, 2026.
The OASIS conference series aims to promote conversation across different disciplines that interface with semantics, using ontological questions as shared reference points. The broad questions in the background are these:
1. What basic ontological building blocks do we use to talk and think about the world?
Call for Papers:
What constitutes 鈥渢he truth鈥� underpins contemporary debates and is increasingly contested and politicised. This conference steps back to reflect on the role played by 鈥渢elling the truth鈥� in literary works and non-literary discourses across historical periods, languages and cultures, with the aim of bringing a wide range of perspectives to bear on a concept of enduring importance and throwing new light on present-day tensions. Drawing on a range of analytical approaches from a
2nd Call for Papers:
The Linguistic Society of Korea (LSK) is pleased to announce the 2026 Seoul International Conference on Linguistics (SICOL-2026), to be held on August 10鈥�11, 2026 at Sungshin Women鈥檚 University in Seoul, Korea (Participation mode: in person).
Recent advances in artificial intelligence鈥攑articularly large language models (LLMs)鈥攈ave reshaped how language is processed, modeled, and analyzed. As AI systems increasingly simulate aspects of linguistic competence and performa
We are happy to announce the 15th edition of the NLP4CALL workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer-Assisted Language Learning. This year, NLP4CALL will be a two-day in-person event that will take place in Gothenburg, Sweden on November 19-20, 2026.
The workshop series on Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL) is a meeting place for researchers working on integrating Natural Language Processing and Speech Technologies in CALL systems an
We are happy to announce the 15th edition of the NLP4CALL workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer-Assisted Language Learning. This year, NLP4CALL will be a two-day in-person event that will take place in Gothenburg, Sweden on November 19-20, 2026.
The workshop series on Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL) is a meeting place for researchers working on integrating Natural Language Processing and Speech Technologies in CALL systems an
We are currently in need of speakers of Spanish and German for our research project on language processing. We are looking at how native, non-native and non speakers of German and Spanish are receiving samples of different German and Spanish standard varieties respectively. The study is conducted as part of a university research seminar. Thank you in advance for anyone who wants to participate!
Survey link: https://sosci.univie.ac.at/GermanSpanish/