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Rightward Movement is a two-day inaugural workshop of the AHRC funded project 'The Structure and Processing of Rightward Scrambling in Hindi-Urdu.鈥� The workshop will bring together researchers working on the syntax of (apparent) rightward movement in any language. It aims to advance our understanding of
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We invite abstracts for either oral presentation (20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of discussion) or poster presentation for AMP and its special session on phonological malleability (details below). Abstracts must be anonymous, so please be sure to eliminate any identifying information and metadata from the document. Length is limited to a maximum of two single-spaced pages (US Letter/A4), figures and references included. Font size should be 12-point, with margins of at lea
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Implicit arguments 鈥� participants in an event or relation that are not overtly realized but are nonetheless interpreted and syntactically active 鈥� pose persistent challenges for theories of argument structure, linking, and the syntax-semantics interface. Canonical examples include, among others, the unexpressed external argument of passives (The ship was sunk), null internal arguments of certain transitive verbs (Tom already ate), and unsaturated thematic roles in dever
The Department of English at the American University of Sharjah invites applications for a full-time Graduate Research Assistant (GRA) position associated with a Faculty Research Grant (FRG26-S43) project titled: The Role of HVPT and GenAI in Technology-Supported L2 Pronunciation Development. Adopting a mixed-methods experimental design, the project investigates how High Variability Phonetic Training (HVPT) and Generative AI-mediated interaction support the perceptual and productive development
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Pronominal systems represent one of the most fertile testing grounds for understanding grammar as a symbolic system adapted to a stochastic cognitive environment. Pronouns are minimal in descriptive content but maximal in context dependency: they enable reference-tracking without lexical repetition, interact closely with information structure, and frequently give rise to mismatches between form and meaning (Onea et al. 2023).
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Written by Jack Pun and Audrey Chan, Exploring Clinical Communication in Asia begins with an introduction chapter. The content is divided into two sections: (i) Insights from interviews with clinicians and (ii) Skills for effective clinical communication. Section one consists of nine chapters where interviews covered a broad range of specialised fields, such as Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) to oncology, neurology and veterinary science. Section Two consists of four chapters where
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You are all cordially invited by the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics to a public lecture by Professor John Baugh (Rice University) on Tuesday 12th May 2:00 - 3:30 at Aston University (Room MB419)
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The Experimental & Empirical Methods in Linguistics (EEL) workshop was initiated in 2017 to introduce students and researchers to methods used in experimental and computational psycholinguistics. The previous editions were hosted by IIT Delhi (2017), IIT-BHU (2018), and IIT Kanpur (2025). The salient features of the workshop are
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The GUM Corpus - Public Survey
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The Corpling Lab at Georgetown University would like your participation in this survey (https://forms.gle/SQkfN8MTHNXo32Z3A) to help us better understand GUM usage and preferences regarding current and potential new genres in the GUM corpus, which would be of great help for our future selection of genres and availability of formats and annotation layers.
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The development of international proficiency tests such as IELTS, which entail important decision making about people鈥檚 academic lives, requires complex processes to ensure item discrimination. Previous research has indicated that IELTS has been ineffective in omitting distractor components, which may offer limitations in differentiating among the candidates. Among all the sections, particular attention has been paid to the reading comprehension component and it is considered as a criterion for
This book investigates Polarity Mood (PM) in Peninsular Spanish and how the phenomenon has evolved diachronically. In particular, it explores from a theoretical and empirical perspective the interaction of PM with five other linguistic phenomena: (i) the verb class of the matrix predicate, (ii) the presence of a first-person subject; (iii) the type of matrix clause, (iv) information structure, and (v) the presence of Negative Polarity Items. Drawing inspiration from the competing grammars framew
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We are pleased to announce that the 51st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 51) will be held on November 5-8, 2026.
We are honored to announce the keynote and plenary speakers for BUCLD 51:
- Keynote: Prof. Jesse Snedeker (Harvard University, Department of Psychology)
- Plenary: Prof. Kathryn Schuler (University of Pennsylvania, Department of Linguistics)
Special topic for BUCLD 51: "Acquiring Rules"
Beginning with BUCLD 51, we are adding a new annual
We are pleased to announce that the 51st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 51) will be held on November 5-8, 2026.
We are honored to announce the keynote and plenary speakers for BUCLD 51:
- Keynote: Prof. Jesse Snedeker (Harvard University, Department of Psychology)
- Plenary: Prof. Kathryn Schuler (University of Pennsylvania, Department of Linguistics)
Special topic for BUCLD 51: "Acquiring Rules"
Beginning with BUCLD 51, we are adding a new annual
The organizing committee of New Ways of Analyzing Variation 54 (NWAV 54) invites abstract submissions for the conference to be held at the Universit茅 de Montr茅al from October 22 to 24, 2026.
Since its first meeting in 1972, NWAV has served as a major international forum for research on language variation and change. The conference brings together scholars interested in understanding how linguistic practices vary across speakers, communities, and social contexts, and how such variation contrib
The organizing committee of New Ways of Analyzing Variation 54 (NWAV 54) invites abstract submissions for the conference to be held at the Universit茅 de Montr茅al from October 22 to 24, 2026.
Since its first meeting in 1972, NWAV has served as a major international forum for research on language variation and change. The conference brings together scholars interested in understanding how linguistic practices vary across speakers, communities, and social contexts, and how such variation contrib
We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the International Symposium on Language Science and Human Well-being (ISLSHW 2026), jointly hosted by Tongji University, City University of Hong Kong, and the China Association for Medical Language and Translation Studies, to be held at City University of Hong Kong on 14 November 2026. Centered on the theme 鈥淟anguage Resources for Better Well-being Across the Human Lifespan鈥�, the symposium seeks to create an international platform for cutting-ed