Pitch at the Crossroads: Experimental Approaches to the Language鈥揗usic Connection
Date and Time:
Thursday, June 25, 2026
1:00鈥�4:30 pm
Location:
Montr茅al, Qu茅bec, Canada
Satellite Workshop of LabPhon 20
Pitch is central to both language and music, yet the relationship between linguistic and musical pitch remains under-theorized within laboratory phonology. While LabPhon has long advanced the experimental study of tone and intonation, explicit cross-domain research on the language鈥搈us
The PILL Conference Series brings together scholars and researchers to explore one of the most compelling questions in linguistics and discourse studies: How is identity constructed, performed, and negotiated through language?
This year鈥檚 edition of PILL invites scholars to critically engage with the concept of identity in (post)modernity, with particular attention to the challenges and dilemmas that arise in both the discursive construction of identity and the methods used to investigate ide
Workshop Overview:
The International Workshop on Grammaticalization and Syntactic Representations (IWGSR), organized by the Center for Sustainable Development of Linguistic Diversity, will be held October 16 (Friday) 鈥� 17 (Saturday), 2026, at National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. We welcome submission of presentations that explore the dynamic field of grammaticalization and syntactic theory. The workshop will feature two distinguished keynote speakers, namely, Anna Roussou (University
Pitch at the Crossroads: Experimental Approaches to the Language鈥揗usic Connection
Date and Time:
Thursday, June 25, 2026
1:00鈥�4:30 pm
Location:
Montr茅al, Qu茅bec, Canada
Satellite Workshop of LabPhon 20
Pitch is central to both language and music, yet the relationship between linguistic and musical pitch remains under-theorized within laboratory phonology. While LabPhon has long advanced the experimental study of tone and intonation, explicit cross-domain research on the language鈥搈us
The Institute of Linguistics (Russian Academy of Sciences) is pleased to announce the 12th conference 鈥淟anguage issues: a young scholars鈥� perspective鈥�, which will be held in person on 2鈥�3 April 2026. Exceptions can be made for valid reasons 鈥� please contact us at smu@iling-ran.ru to discuss online attendance.
Abstracts on the following topics are welcome: theoretical linguistics, comparative studies, descriptive linguistics, typology, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, multimodal communica
Students of the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad are pleased to announce that the 10th Student Linguistics Conference will take place from 15 to 17 May 2026 at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad, Serbia.
Stulikon is an international academic conference for students of all levels of study. Its aim is to provide a platform for presenting original research from all areas of linguistics, as well as to foster cooperation and the exchange of knowledge among linguistics students from the region.
Final Call for Papers:
Abstracts are invited for 20-minute talks at the workshop "Constructions with multiple wh-words across languages", to be held as part of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) in Osnabr眉ck, Germany, August 26鈥�29, 2026.
This workshop invites contributions addressing the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of constructions with multiple wh-words across languages. We understand multiple wh-word constructions as configurations containing two or
The Institute of Linguistics (Russian Academy of Sciences) is pleased to announce the 12th conference 鈥淟anguage issues: a young scholars鈥� perspective鈥�, which will be held in person on 2鈥�3 April 2026. Exceptions can be made for valid reasons 鈥� please contact us at smu@iling-ran.ru to discuss online attendance.
Abstracts on the following topics are welcome: theoretical linguistics, comparative studies, descriptive linguistics, typology, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, multimodal communica
Students of the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad are pleased to announce that the 10th Student Linguistics Conference will take place from 15 to 17 May 2026 at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad, Serbia.
Stulikon is an international academic conference for students of all levels of study. Its aim is to provide a platform for presenting original research from all areas of linguistics, as well as to foster cooperation and the exchange of knowledge among linguistics students from the region.
This volume contains 48 papers, including the presentation from invited speaker Yimei Xiang, presented at the 42nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 42), which took place from April 12 to 14, 2024, at the University of California, Berkeley. It also includes five papers inadvertently excluded from the WCCFL 39 proceedings. The complete table of contents is available at http://www.lingref.com/cpp/wccfl/42/index.html along with abstracts and the complete papers in PDF format.
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2025. ii, 136 pp.
Table of Contents
Articles
A closer look at the pragmatic marker s苇b猫 in Akan
Jemima Asabea Anderson, Rachel G. A. Thompson & Isaac Adjei Forson
pp. 3-38
The Limba verb stem (Th蓴nk蓴 dialect)
Larry M. Hyman & Daniel Ibrahim Kamara
pp. 39-123
Book reviews
Zygmunt Frajzyngier: Locative predications in Chadic languages: Implications for semantic analysis
Joseph Lovestrand
pp. 125-130
Sergio Baldi: Dictionary of Portuguese loanwords in the languages of
PhD in Evolutionary Semantics
The ISLE Institute invites applications for two PhD positions in a project investigating the evolution of abstract concepts in diverse languages. The project is situated in the Anthropological Linguistics Group at ISLE (https://www.isle.uzh.ch/en/AnthroL.html), and will also be connected with a much broader research consortium, the NCCR Evolving Language (https://evolvinglanguage.ch/).
Each of the PhDs will develop a regional case study, and write a thesis con
Description:
The Department of Romance Languages at the University of Georgia (https://rom.uga.edu/) invites applications for the position of tenure-track Assistant Professor of Spanish Applied Linguistics with a specialization in Spanish Second Language Acquisition and/or Bilingualism to begin fall 2026. The responsibilities of the position include teaching a 2/2 course load in Spanish Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and/or Bilingualism, which will include a graduate-level course on differen
Description:
The Center of Linguistics of the University of Lisbon (CLUL, https://www.clul.ulisboa.pt/en/aboutus) is calling for statements of interest from researchers working in any of CLUL's areas of research (http://www.clul.ulisboa.pt/en/research) who fulfil the conditions to apply for a fully funded 3-year contract within the scope of the Individual Call to Scientific Employment 2025 (CEEC https://www.fct.pt/en/concursos/concurso-estimulo-ao-emprego-cientifico-individual-8-edicao ), from
My name is erynn young and I am a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam/Amsterdam Center for Language & Communication. I am currently conducting the first phase of my PhD project on how screen reader users engage with multimodal algospeak on TikTok and I am recruiting participants for adapted interviews.
- The study invites you if you are a screen reader user (in any capacity), use TikTok, are 18 years or older, and have working English proficiency. Importantly, you do not need to disclo
I am a researcher at the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics at the University of Oxford, and I would be very grateful for the help of adult (18+) Cantonese speakers in a short online study.
The study takes about 10鈥�12 minutes to complete. You will be asked to read short Cantonese sentences and rate how natural they sound. No background knowledge is needed, and you can take part from anywhere using a computer, tablet, or smartphone.
If you are interested, you can find more info
Starting with volume 16 (2026), Sarah Turner (Coventry University) will succeed Aletta G. Dorst (Leiden University) and join Susan Nacey (University of Inland Norway) and Dennis Tay (Nanyang Technological University) as editor of the John Benjamins journal Metaphor and the Social World. Aletta G. Dorst will remain member of the board.
The journal Metaphor and the Social World aims to provide a forum for researchers to share with each other, and with potential research users, work that explor
The Linguistic Association of Great Britain Postgrad Committee's Applying to PhDs series returns on the 8th of January with a workshop on interviews.
The session will begin with us sharing some tips and tricks for PhD interviews. Then the main body of the workshop will consist of mock interviews where you can practice your technique, give feedback to your peers, and receive feedback from current PhD students. The aim of this session is for you to put your skills into practice so we ask that
Overview and Rationale
In recent years, trans-speakerism has materialized as a critical framework for interrogating and moving beyond native-speakerist ideologies in language education, teacher and researcher professionalism, and applied linguistics more broadly (e.g., Hiratsuka, 2024a, 2024b, 2025a, 2025b, 2025c, 2026, in press-a, in press-b; Hiratsuka et al., 2023a, 2023b). By foregrounding speakerhood as fluid, experiential, and socially negotiated rather than biologically or nationally dete
Call for papers
Thematic volume
Pragmatics, culture and society (vol.1)
Alessandro Capone, editor in chief for the series Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy, Psychology (Springer) would like to solicit contributions for the volume Pragmatics, culture and society (vol 1.).
Papers should be sent to
alessandro.capone@unime.it
before the end of July 2026.
I am planning to publish a number of books on the same topic on a yearly basis.
Papers in theoretical pragmatics, pragmati