/linguistics/aggregator Linguistics - aggregated feeds en https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/903/ DrivenData has launched the On Top of Pasketti: Children’s Speech Recognition Challenge, which focuses on developing open, high-quality ASR models designed specifically for children’s speech. These tools have the potential to support early literacy, speech screening, assessment, and other educational and accessibility applications. A key feature of the challenge is the dataset itself: participants will work with nearly 560k transcribed utterances representing 519 hours of child speech, includ Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:05:01 -0500 https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/902/ Have you ever tried to "make eye contact" with a faceless robot to figure out what it's about to do? Join us for an exciting research project at the forefront of robotics innovation, to figure out a better way for robots to communicate with people! Robots are entering human spaces, but they are still struggling to communicate effectively with us. Whether assisting older adults, delivering goods, supporting education, or navigating busy public environments, robots must make their intentions u Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:05:01 -0500 https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/901/ As a linguist engaged extensively in fieldwork and linguistic elicitation (wordlists, paradigms, sentence frames, and more), I began to notice a recurring pattern: most of us prepare our elicitation materials in spreadsheets. That observation led to a simple question: Why not let the spreadsheet become the elicitation sheet? From that idea, I developed Elisheet — a Google Sheets–based script designed to support structured linguistic elicitation and audio data collection directly within a spre Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:05:02 -0500 https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/900/ Call for Papers: The YAR (ANR) and Cais (B-Monde/Agile Cymru) projects are co-organizing a workshop on tools for minority languages with a focus on teaching contexts. The workshop will take place on 5 May 2026 in Brittany (France), at Technopôle Brest-Iroise in Plouzane, on the premises of the Institut National Polytechnique de Bretagne. The aim of the workshop is to discuss the digital practices of teachers, learners, and speakers of minoritized languages and “non-standard” variants. H Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:05:02 -0500 https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/899/ Call for Papers: The International Linguistic Society is delighted to invite you to participate in the International Conference of Linguistic Research and Applications, Linguistics 2026 Athens, to be held from 23rd to 25th April 2026 in Athens, Greece. The primary aim of the conference is to advance key areas of contemporary linguistics, welcoming innovative approaches to linguistic research and applications. The Linguistics 2026 Athens conference envisions a vibrant platform for collabora Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:05:02 -0500 https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/897/ Workshop on Bilingual Language Processing: Bridging Human and Artificial Cognition (BiLaP 2026) Time: April 23-24, 2026 Place: Auditorium, Campus De La Nive, Uppa. Thursday, April 23 9.00-9.20 Registration 9.20-9.30 Welcome [Urtzi Etxeberria & Evelina Leivada] [session chair: Evelina Leivada] 9.30-10.30 Blended Conceptual Representations in the Bilingual Mind Invited speaker: Esti Blanco-Elorrieta 10.30-11.00 Preliminary Analysis of Brain-to-Speech Stimulus Reconstruction Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:05:02 -0500 https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/898/ Call for Papers: The research group Pragmatics. Discourse. Cognition (PraDiC), from the Centre for Humanistic Studies of the University of Minho (CEHUM), will organize an in-person international congress on Everyday Discourses on July 9–10, 2026. Everyday life is fundamentally made up of discourses. As beings of language, discourse sustains social experience. It encompasses varied ways of expression—oral, written, imagetic, and multimodal—typically formed through brief interactions that ar Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:05:02 -0500 https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/897/ Workshop on Bilingual Language Processing: Bridging Human and Artificial Cognition (BiLaP 2026) Time: April 23-24, 2026 Place: Auditorium, Campus De La Nive, Uppa. Thursday, April 23 9.00-9.20 Registration 9.20-9.30 Welcome [Urtzi Etxeberria & Evelina Leivada] [session chair: Evelina Leivada] 9.30-10.30 Blended Conceptual Representations in the Bilingual Mind Invited speaker: Esti Blanco-Elorrieta 10.30-11.00 Preliminary Analysis of Brain-to-Speech Stimulus Reconstruction Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:05:02 -0500 https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/896/ Call for Papers: The Centre for Latin American Studies of the University of Ghana (UG) in collaboration with the Ghanaian Association of Hispanists, the Department of European Languages (UG) and the Institute of African Studies (UG), is pleased to announce that it will be hosting the VII International Conference on Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian, and Latin American Studies (ICALLAS 2026) from August 5-7, 2026. The theme of the conference is Transatlantic Pathways: Culture, Politics, and Know Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:05:01 -0500 https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/894/ The contemporary world is marked by a state of ongoing tension, no longer driven by isolated crises, but by the convergence and interplay of multiple, simultaneous crises: pandemics, war, migration, climate catastrophes, economic instability, disinformation, and the erosion of social trust. This polycrisis has become a new paradigm of experiencing reality — complex, unpredictable, and difficult to articulate in simple terms. In this context, language gains critical importance — not only as a to Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:05:02 -0500