Call for Papers

NEW WAYS OF ANALYZING VARIATION 54 (NWAV 54)

Université de Montréal
October 22-24, 2026
Deadline for Abstract submission: June 1, 2026

nwav54.org/call-for-pap...

🎉 it's open.

booking is now live for Spring School 2026 — Caring & Sharing: The Arts of Integrating.
📅 26–28 May · Glasgow

register here → events.humanitix.com/rielaspring2...

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✉️ questions: unesco-riela@glasgow.ac.uk

alice-ross.github.io/files/BAAP_k...

Our #BAAP2026 poster, in which we gave some sentences to a popular commercial Text-to-Speech system and asked for voices that were "kind" or "competent" etc. and then analyzed what sociophonetic indexes resulted.

Listen: alias-alice.notion.site/Kind-is-the-...

Two people smiling in front of a poster on display. The large title reads 'Kind is the Opposite of Competent: Phonetic variation in English TTS voices'.

Delighted to share our work on some of the sociophonetic cues reproduced in commercial TTS with @lhlew.bsky.social last week at BAAP (the Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians) - thanks for having me! Really enjoyed some fantastic talks 🗣️🎙️

🎉Publication day🎉 for our #CHI2026 extended abstract! I wanted to find out whose voices are commonly reproduced (and whose aren't) in a popular commercial TTS system. Read all about it! w @ninamarkl.bsky.social @lhlew.bsky.social @catlai.bsky.social @chi.acm.org
alice-ross.github.io/publication/...

Now published – 'Gaelic-medium Secondary Education: Assessment and Recommendations for Improvement', a research report for Bòrd na Gàidhlig by Jim Whannel and myself
www.gaidhlig.scot/wp-content/u...

Congratulations Viola for a brilliant publication 🙌

Exploring Meaning in Surveillance Discourses through Corpora Situated at the interface of corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and surveillance studies, this book focuses on how surveillance is define…

Today is the official publication day for the hardback version of "Exploring Meaning in Surveillance Discourses through Corpora" (ebook was published earlier). Many thanks to series editors @michamahlberg.bsky.social & @gavinbrookes.bsky.social for your support 😊 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/exploring...

Now published - A Festschrift for John Shaw
18 contributions on Gaelic ethnography and folklore in honour of Dr John Shaw
Edited by Virginia Blankenhorn, @robertdunbar.bsky.social and @ampiobaire.bsky.social
open.journals.ed.ac.uk/ScottishStud...

Designating areas of linguistic significance: Statutory guidance Statutory guidance for local authority and relevant public authorities on the process of designating areas of linguistic significance.

Tha an stiùireadh reachdail air sònrachadh Sgìrean Cànain Sònraichte air tighinn a-mach an-diugh: www.gov.scot/publications...

Tha mi air sgrìobhadh do na chomairlichean agam ann an Glaschu ag iarriadh orra Glaschu sònrachadh mar sgìre cànain sònraichte.

Delighted to bring #ICPLA2027 to Glasgow next year. Head to our website to find out more about presentation types and abstract submission dates #phonetics #linguistics #slt #slp #speechtherapy

#TEAMStirling
@rushtondr.bsky.social @nuzie.bsky.social @scrcm.bsky.social @adnanyilmaz.bsky.social

if you’ve signed our open letter to defend languages and linguistics at essex, please also take a look at the same fight at Heriot-Watt (Edinburgh)

bsky.app/profile/nina...

Labour councillor claims Edinburgh 'does not have a regional accent' The comment arose during a conversation about AI systems being piloted by the council

Conversations about AI bring up all sorts of interesting language attitudes.

news.stv.tv/east-central...

#Edinburgh #Scotland #sociolinguistics #linguistics #AI

EMC CPD Face-to-Face: Language Change and Discourses <p>Exploring contemporary language change: new words, new meanings &amp; new methods. <em>NB: This is a repeat course.</em></p>

We've got this @engmediacentre.bsky.social sky.social course coming up early next term and it should be a good one because it features @christianilbury.bsky.social stianilbury.bsky.social as co-presenter!
www.englishandmedia.co.uk/courses/cfe8...

Public talk on accent bias in HE, led by Christian Ilbury from the University of Edinburgh, at the University of Birmingham, UK, at 6pm on 29th April.
I have long been aware that our students (and staff) who speak with local accents experience discrimination.
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/tackl...

well, one good thing is, I'm delighted to say I'll be sharing my work on "The Sound of Silencing: Identities and Ideologies in Commercial Text-To-Speech" with wonderful collaborators @ninamarkl.bsky.social @catlai.bsky.social @lhlew.bsky.social as a poster at @chi.acm.org 2026! ⛱️

@unioflimerick.bsky.social #SLT team are looking for a #phonetics lecturer 👇

I’ve posted updated versions of two comprehensive bibliographies relating to Gaelic in Scotland.
The first deals with sociolinguistics and language planning concerning Gaelic from 1980 on:
tinyurl.com/bdeda7br
The other covers Gaelic literature from 1900 to the present:
tinyurl.com/caxbjv9s

Arabic Linguistics Arabic Linguistics is an international peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles on all aspects of the scientific study of Arabic in all its varieties. The focus may be on one or more varieties, t...

Volume 1, Issue 2 of Arabic Linguistics is now published online. This is a special issue with selected papers from the 37th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (ASAL37), held in New York City in February 2024. Guest editors: Reem Khamis & Mira Goral.

www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

Save the date #ICPLA2027 - 14th to 16th June 2027 @unistrathclyde.bsky.social, Glasgow UK.

Find out more here: www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/p...

Super happy to see our paper (w/ @riannawalcott.bsky.social) in Journal of Sociolinguistics: "‘Gen Z Language? Y'all Mean AAVE’: The Appropriation of African American Vernacular English as ‘TikTok Language’ 🧵

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Gaelic Week is under way! There are lots of special events in Edinburgh, including
Cruinn Còmhla Community Day, Saturday 28 February, 10am-4pm (ionaddhuneideann.org)
Discussion about the role of Gaelic media, Thurs 26th, 530pm (www.nls.uk/whats-on/gae...)
snagde.com/events/
@sngaidhlig.bsky.social

I'm thrilled to have contributed my research to this new report for the Scottish government on Multilingualism and New Scots Refugee Integration, calling for a renewed national commitment to supporting multilingualism for integration, education and community wellbeing: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

One of my former Sociolinguistics students (now a PG student at St Andrews) is co-organizing a student conference on 'Voice'. Submission details below!

N.B. Student travel from Edinburgh to St Andrews will be reimbursed by the organisers!

If you are an English language teacher in Bangladesh, India, or Sri Lanka, this British Council scholarship for *20 fully-funded* spaces on our MSc TESOL (Online) may be of interest. Information webinar on 5 March – please spread the word!
#BritishCouncilScholarsELT #TeamStirling

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 We’re hosting the Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference in Edinburgh this year!

If you work on queer linguistics topics, please submit an abstract, we’d love to see you there!

Conference dates: 2nd-4th September

Submission deadline: 28th March

CfP: lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk?page_id=231

Grants 2026 LingComm Grants – Small Grants for Communicating Linguistics to Wider Audiences We want to see more linguistics in the world!  The 2026 LingComm Grants are $300 (USD) to support lin…

Are you an early career researcher interested in communicating linguistics to broader audiences?

Consider applying for a @lingcomm.org grant!
Deadline April 30, via @lingthusiasm.com

lingcomm.org/grants/

Really happy to have my work featured again in this amazing resource pack. Projects like this are how we get linguistics into the classroom, and show students that linguistics/English language is more than applying Grice's maxims to a passage from Hamlet*.

'gen z slang' 😬 If there was ever a time for our paper to come out, it's now...

We submitted the revisions in December, here's hoping it's out soon: "Ilbury, C. & R. Walcott. ‘Gen Z language? Y’all mean AAVE’: The appropriation of AAVE as ‘TikTok language’".