Call for Symposia — ISB 16 (International Symposium on Bilingualism), 14–18, 2027, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Submit proposals by June 30, 2026:
app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/82055...
Language shapes everything, from how we think to how we connect and innovate.
Linguists are essential to understanding communication, and to creating ethical, responsible AI. We need more linguists.
#TalkAboutSocialSciences #TalkAboutHumanities
Dr. Tseng, Professor of Spanish and Linguistics at American University, will discuss the history of Latin American immigration to the DC Metro Area and how its shaped a unique regional language. RSVP to attend: alexlibraryva.org/event/15710620
New paper out on speech perception consistency by @brianwwl.bsky.social! 👏
“In memoriam Ian Maddieson (1942–2025)” by Patricia Keating (Apr. ’26) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Honored to be a recipient of this year’s Chao Prize 😅 I regularly teach about the Chao ‘tone letters’ in my phonetics courses so kind of wild to be receiving an award named after him!
Come and be my colleague! 🙂
We (the Linguistics program at Hanyang University, Korea) are looking for a tenure-track faculty member in any area of linguistics, with a slight preference for computational linguistics.
site.hanyang.ac.kr/web/faculty/...
PhD students @jupitararay.bsky.social & Meixian Li will both give posters at #LabPhon20 🇨🇦! 🤩
- "Perception and production change out of sync" (Ray, @cbchang.bsky.social)
- "Cross-language variation in sociophonetic perception reflects language effects" (Li, Yao, Chang)
🐦🐦 @labphon.bsky.social
Registration for #LabPhon20 in Montreal is now open! Early registration is available through April 30, 2026. All registrants must be members of the Association for Laboratory Phonology.
labphon.org/labphon20/re...
En el marc de les estades de mobilitat PDI 2025-2026, el prof. Miquel Llompart, ha gaudit de la seva estada al
@pamlab.bsky.social
#ErasmusPlus
📍Més informació sobre les mobilitats PAS i PDI 👇
🔗 www.upf.edu/web/internat...
@mllompart.bsky.social @traduccioupf.bsky.social
I am shocked to see this language from the NSF.
“The U.S. National Science Foundation's Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request reflects a strategic alignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment while eliminating woke and weaponized grant programs that previously funded radical DEI projects.”
This is the NSF program that funds all of linguistics (and which funded my graduate study). Because of course knowing about how language works is woke nonsense that couldn't possible be in anyone's national interest 🫠
A line graph showing awards over time at NSF's SBE. The line for this year, 2026, is extremely FLAT compared to prior years. By this time in 2025, 179 grants had been awarded. In 2021, it was 243. This year... 16.
NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Directorate has awarded only 16 grants since October.
No big budget cuts went through. No freeze. The courts have acted to keep funds flowing at every turn. The money just isn't going out.
Why...?
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source: grant-witness.us/funding_curv...
🟦🧠 #academicsky
Hi everyone! As Chair of the Local Planning Committee for ICPhS 2027, I am excited to share with you the ICPhS 2027 website, hot off the press! Between the website and social media, you should find all you need to plan your trip to beautiful Victoria BC! ➡️ icphs2027.ca
Call for papers now out for the 5th Int'l Conference on Language Attrition & Bilingualism (#ICLA5) at @ufrgs.br 🇧🇷 this October!
www.even3.com.br/icla5/
Check out the list of invited speakers, including Prof. @cbchang.bsky.social!
#LanguageAttrition #Bilingualism #Multilingualism #langsky 🐦🐦
📢 New paper in JEP:HPP
Speech perception gradiency (sensitivity to fine-grained phonetic detail) has been shown to enhance speech perception flexibility (recovery from misleading information) in L1 English.
But does it play the same role in L2?
doi.org/10.1037/xhp0...
@bcbl.bsky.social
What’s next for the future of linguistics? Join LSA President Alicia Beckford Wassink and early career linguists for Futuring the LSA: Bold Visions on April 15 (7–8:30 PM ET). Share ideas and imagine the next 10–20 years of the LSA. More information: buff.ly/t8fj8CT
The lab is excited to welcome Dr. Miquel Llompart @mllompart.bsky.social to CityU this week! During his visit, Dr. Llompart will give lectures, meet with our faculty and students, and learn about teaching and research in Hong Kong 🇭🇰
#phonetics #phonology #bilingualism #psycholinguistics 🐦🐦
A fascinating plenary talk on perception-production link by Prof. Chang at the 5th international conference on heritage/community languages at UCLA @cbchang.bsky.social
Prof. @cbchang.bsky.social is giving a plenary address at this week’s 5th International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages: “Implications of heritage language sound systems for understanding perception–production links” ✨
nhlrc.ucla.edu/nhlrc/event/...
#phonetics #phonology 🐦🐦 #langsky
A line curve showing number of awards for fiscal year 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025 for the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences. The fiscal year 2026 curve lies well below curves for other fiscal years.
Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Social Sciences
7/11
Available today on Google Books! "Sociophonetics: Implications for Phonological and Phonetic Theory" edited by me and @jennycz.bsky.social
books.google.co.uk/books?id=T6m...
New #phonetics & #phonology talk series in 🇭🇰 - CityU Phorum! Our 1st speaker this term: Yao Yao (PolyU), on how "Gender Biases Shape Artificial Word Learning Even with Robot‑Like Voices".
Schedule: thepamlab.github.io/phorum/2526-...
Hong Kong folks: email the lab if you'd like to attend! 🐦🐦
Logo for 2026 Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA
Check out our own Jupitara Ray at this week’s #LSA2026! Her talk w/ Prof. @cbchang.bsky.social is “L2 accommodation-led drift: Asymmetries between L1 production and perception” & is in the Fri morn “Phonetics: Perception” session 🗣️👂🐦🐦 #langsky @lingsocam.bsky.social @bulinguistics.bsky.social
We’re excited to announce the launch of the third cohort of our Editor Learning Community!
This ELC will create a space for editors to share strategies, challenges, and opportunities to improve peer review — read more here: go.iu.edu/8wnE
Interested editors can complete our interest survey here:
A nice piece in the Harvard Gazette about research my lab has been doing on the impact of political conflict and displacement on language endangerment in Cameroon 🌍 🇨🇲 news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
Short-term fellowships for 2026 at the University of Potsdam, Germany (linguistics and psychology): linguistlist.org/issues/36/38...
