Our booth at the 2026 Latinx Studies Association Conference is up and running: Come say hi to our Acquisitions Editor Maxim Karagodin and browse through our newest titles in Latina/o/x & Latin American Studies! #LSA2026

⏰ DEADLINE EXTENDED ⏰ #LSA2026

Abstract submission for ***LSA Conference 2026*** @Brunel University London extended until 5pm (GMT) 14 February.

Submit using the following link: lnkd.in/eWdYZD6J

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🔍 LSA Conference 2026 @Brunel University London 🔍

More updates slated for release soon including:

… Academic Programme Announcements (this month!)
… PGR & ECR Training Programme Announcement (March)

Keep watch on the LSA website and socials for the latest news.

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Purdue Linguistics goes to New Orleans for LSA 2026 – ExLing

I had a great time in New Orleans at #LSA2026. So nice to catch up with old friends and meet new people! Linked here are some updates from the ExLing lab and Purdue Linguistics. cla.purdue.edu/english/fran...

What I learned at #LSA2026, part 2 (a very long thread)

Preference for expletives in tough-construction-y adjectives cannot be derived from LLMs trained on child-sized amounts of input, so the human preference might come from somewhere else (Gotowski & Davis) (W&M MENTIONED)

I don't know who to tag to thank but I have ALREADY used stuff from the SOTL session at #LSA2026 in my teaching, not even 24 hours after learning it (I looked again at the data in my slides, and talked to students about where it came from and how it was cited). #linguistics

And some fun language itself at #LSA2026 / ADS and WOTY: NOPSI, the pseudonym Rex Forest, Devil's Night, lowkirkenuinely, Alegreya typeface, San Martín Duraznos 🍑, diabolical (it's trending!), book-correct 2/2

I was much enriched by #LSA2026 / ADS and the WOTY process this week. Some fun terms about language have now entered my enclosure: epistemic necessity, data fragility, emphatic reduplication, pocket stories, Otomanguean, Trique, Chatino, the Catalanosphere, simultaneous bilinguals, fishbowl 1/2

It’s the final day of #LSA2026! The last poster session is underway this morning, and we’re still energized by the outstanding presentations and meaningful connections from yesterday. Final sessions are coming up soon—get ready for an exciting close to the Annual Meeting! #NewOrleans #AnnualMeeting

Ethan and Danica celebrating Danica’s success

In 2020, I came to LSA in New Orleans as a 5th year PhD student. I was anxious, scared, and unsure about my future. In #LSA2026, my graduate student, Danica, presented her work on Korean-American accents and it was a humbling moment to experience how much six years can change your life.

Kelly and Ethan holding the LSA2026 sign

@kellykendro.bsky.social gave a fantastic talk on bilingualism today. We also stole the #LSA2026 sign for a photo.

Watching the #lsa2026 awards ceremony and thinking about how linguists are really great at pronouncing people's names

(I assume because the presenters have checked with awardees in advance and made annotations in IPA where needed)

I am so proud to watch the @jblackstream.bsky.social Journal of Black Language and Culture session at the @lingsocam.bsky.social annual meeting #LSA2026.

Day 3 of #LSA2026 is in full swing! From lively posters to sessions on semantics, bilingualism, and computational linguistics, the conversations keep flowing. More sessions, the awards ceremony, and the Presidential Address still to come today! #LSA2026

Thanks to everyone who stopped by my poster at #LSA2026!

A 2D image of "How Deeply is Human Language: Chomsky, the Brain, and the AI Fantasy" by Yosef Grodzinsky on a light purple background.

We're raffling off copies of Yosef Grodzinsky's "How Deeply Human is Language?" at #LSA2026. Winners will be chosen after the conference to receive a copy when the book publishes this April. Visit us at booth 200 to enter! @lingsocam.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026205200...

Yesterday was jam-packed with exciting moments! From -slop being named the ADS Word of the Year, to the insightful Five-Minute Linguist session, to vibrant networking in the poster session & exhibit hall—there truly was something for everyone. We can’t wait to see what today has in store! #LSA2026

Me and who at this yarn store this evening or tomorrow? #LSA2026

Everything I learned at #LSA2026, part 1 (a very long thread)

Unsupervised grouping methods are computationally cheap and reveal unexpected results (Larson & Amaral)

Translated texts are a means of studying authors' metalinguistic knowledge of language differences/change (VanMeter)

Journal of Black Language and Culture | Cambridge Core Journal of Black Language and Culture - Anne H. Charity Hudley

Wow, very cool!

Cambridge University Press and the LSA are excited to announce that Cambridge University Press will publish the Society's new

Journal of Black Language and Culture (JBLAC) from 2027

Editor: Anne H. Charity Hudley Stanford University, USA

#LSA2026 #Linguistics

#LSA2026

Phonological Data & Analysis

#LSA2026, did you know? All articles accepted for publication from Volume 8 (2026) onwards in Phonological Data and Analysis will be open access!

We have an OA option for every author: learn more and submit your work today.

🔗 https://cup.org/4aPUwmK

@lingsocam.bsky.social

2025 Word of the Year Is “Slop” New Orleans Marriott–Jan. 9—The American Dialect Society, in its 36th annual words-of-the-year vote, selected slop as the Word of the Year for 2025. More than three hundred attendees took part in the…

The 2025 Word of the Year is "slop," both as a noun for low-quality AI-generated content and as a combining form for anything of little value. Read the full press release. #WOTY2025 #ADS2026 #LSA2026
americandialect.org/2025-word-of...

“The morphosyntax of the Modern Irish verb: insights from initial mutation” presented today by Jack Pruett (@jackpruett.bsky.social) at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in New Orleans, Jan. 8–11 #LSA2026

“The typology of contrastive nasality: The case of Kwa” presented today by Katherine Russell at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in New Orleans, Jan. 8–11 #LSA2026

“Dorsals are the Least-Marked Codas in Obolo” presented today by Emiyare Cyril Ikwut-Ukwa at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in New Orleans, Jan. 8–11 #LSA2026

“Tone anticipation in Gbanu (Gbaya)” presented today by Kenneth S. Olson at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in New Orleans, Jan. 8–11 #LSA2026

“Reevaluation of Vowel Length and Lengthening in Modern Standard Persian” presented today by Elnaz Azimi at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in New Orleans, Jan. 8–11 #LSA2026

“Vowel Reduction is Conditioned by Quality and Quantity Interactions: Evidence from Bolognese” presented today by Brandon Robert Osgan at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in New Orleans, Jan. 8–11 #LSA2026

Very cool: “Falling yones in Feixiang Chinese differ in tonal alignment but not in pitch height” presented today by Jianfeng Steven Guo at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in New Orleans, Jan. 8–11 #LSA2026