In a Working Scientist profile, conservation researcher Anne Poelina speaks with Nature Careers about giving first authorship to a source with deep knowledge about water, the river itself. 🌍 🧪

New Paper with Tongpan Rabo Fwangwar, titled "Iconicity and expressiveness of grammatical tones targeting ideophones in Mwaghavul". All tonally derived verbs in Mwaghavul have ideophonic bases and are derived through one of two lexically determined alternations. doi.org/10.1007/s110...

“Articulatory correlates of consonantal length contrasts: The case of Japanese mimetic geminates” by Francesco Burroni, Shigeto Kawahara and Jason A. Shaw (Jan. ’25) doi.org/10.1121/10.0...

“Sound symbolism can count three segments (whereas phonological constraints presumably cannot)” by Shigeto Kawahara and Gakuji Kumagai (July ’25) www.researchgate.net/profile/Shig...

💡New publication: In the latest volume of Pacific Linguistics, William B. McGregor provides a full grammatical description of Warrwa (north-western Australia), based on fieldwork with the last two speakers of the language. 🔗https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111401959

More than $3000 USD for open access fee. Kuku comot my head na!

New publication by Prof. Adrien Zakar 🗺️ “Gimmicks of War” shows how Ottoman maps were reactivated to legitimize territorial claims, mobilized as affective tools of political authority 🔗https://read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/article/45/3/429/402209/Gimmicks-of-War @dukepress.bsky.social #History #STS

We've revamped the Futures of Language website! Read about the project, team, papers, and other news at futuresoflanguage.org Also, our weekly updates are collated in the Futures Library, a growing collection of short pieces on ideas & people that drive the project: futuresoflanguage.org/library/

I realise this is like focusing on kitchen hygiene in the Titanic at this point, but: the LLM the NEH asked "Does the following relate at all to DEI?" (!) usually - though inconsistently - cited language documentation and preservation as grounds for grant termination. ("Yes" => "Defund")

“Tomoip phonetics and phonology” by Russell Barlow and Don Killian (2023) pure.mpg.de/rest/items/i...

Does anyone know a copy editor who specializes in editing phonetics and phonology paper? I need their service. I don't want to pay any company #linguistics #language #phonology

Day three of #IcoLL In the blink of an eye it’s already over. Here’s Pamela Perniss during the final keynote.

Opening of #IcoLL, *the* conference on iconicity in language and literature. Looking forward to sharing and learning much. And of course reconnecting with and meeting new scholars. And all of this in Nagoya, Japan! #ILL26 #IcoSem26 #IcoLL26

This new paper in Science is also accompanied by a cool perspective piece by @mperlman.bsky.social & @bodowinter.bsky.social! #language #linguistics www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

“The Vastness of Language Variation Across the Globe” organized by Lenore Grenoble and Jeff Good today at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Phoenix, AZ aaas.confex.com/aaas/2026/me...

'Queer and Trans Speech Science and Technology', an #Interspeech2026 Special Session offering a space to build community and provide a foundation for future trans- and queer-driven speech research sites.google.com/view/is-quee...

Join us for the SFU Multilingual Week keynote by Kyra Borland, titled “Many Worlds: Experiences working in Indigenous language revitalization outside academia.” Feb 26, 12:30pm. Zoom: Email [email protected] for the link. Register & learn more: www.sfu.ca/linguistics/... @sfu.ca

Our paper (w/ @bodowinter.bsky.social and @mperlman.bsky.social) is finally out, officially 🥳. In it, we set ourselves the lofty goal of defining iconicity, focusing on its subjectivity, context-dependence, and gradability. Let us know if you agree with our definition? 🤔 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

History of Publishing on Black Language and Culture Friday, February 6, 2025 | 6–7:30 PM ET Join JBLAC for an illuminating conversation on the history of publishing practices surrounding Black language and culture. www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...

Call for Abstracts: The T.W.I.S.T. conference is back again, and we're looking for linguists! Whether you're undergraduate (BA), graduate (MA) or postgraduate (PhD), we want you to present your findings! If this seems interesting to you, please fill out the form below! forms.gle/U648GG813EjJ...

Statistical Rethinking with brms, ggplot2, and the tidyverse Second edition by A Solomon Kurz #RStats https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/statistics.html#statistical-rethinking-with-brms-ggplot2-and-the-tidyverse-second-edition

📘 Just published! ⚖️ Edited by Jacqueline Visconti, this book explores the language of texts written by #lawyers in Italy and other European countries, combining legal and #linguistic expertise. 🔗 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111340982/html#overview #LegalLinguistics #Justice

Interested in submitting your article to Canadian Journal of Linguistics? Click here for more information. 📚 https://cup.org/3MzUt43 @canadaling

canto.hk/youth-2025/ 犀利，竟然可以集合到咁多小朋友寫嘅粵文作品！ A really cool collection of Cantonese stories and poetry from kids all around the world!

Great new episode of James McElvenny’s History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences Podcast: Paul Kiparsky on Pāṇini hiphilangsci.net/2025/12/01/p...

Literary Maps: Real Maps for Imaginary Places blogs.loc.gov/loc/2025/12/... Treasure Island at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc... #books #literature

In which I articulate the case that AGI is impossible and machines just plain cannot think. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/on-inco...

A single fact that drives me crazy is that slavery in Saudi Arabia began in antiquity and was only reluctantly abolished in 1962, without any real process of reconciliation. What’s even more troubling is that many aspects of the country’s culture still retain elements from its slavery era. #Africa

It’s out! Free download until Dec. 5th

Calls: 62nd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society

CEDL is proud to announce Oluwasegun Amoniyan as one of four winners of the 2026 CEDL Travel Grants! Oluwasegun Amoniyan is a PhD student in Linguistics at the Univ of Pittsburgh & his interests include socio-phonetics and co-speech. Join us in celebrating at #LSA2026! web.cvent.com/event/d45318...

Working with brain imaging data in R? The ggseg package for ggplot2 offers an effective way to visualize neuroimaging data with clear and customizable brain segmentations. Visualization: github.com/ggseg/ggseg More: statisticsglobe.com/online-cours... #coding #package #advancedanalytics #ggplot2

Bihar / Tomorrow Don't miss it! #Basque #Euskara #Linguistics #Ideophone @ehu.eus @iphunizar.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️⬇️

PhD students - please don't compare yourselves to other PhD students. Some topics really are more challenging than others! If, for example, you're working on an under-described and under-documented language, never compare your work with people working on English. It's almost not the same discipline!

Not sure I've ever published something so blatantly personal -- and it's a book review, of all things! I even cited my mom's book! Here's to normalizing the practice of positionality statements. Thanks to the editors and authors for the opportunity. #inclusion journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

So honored to have JBLAC featured in the Stanford University report today. And so grateful to all who have made this work possible. news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

You're Saying It Wrong #podcast: It's Spooky Season!

3 new #DiamondOpenAccess papers out in @glossa-linguistics.bsky.social. See glossa-journal.org/articles/ Powered by the @janewayolh.bsky.social platform, copy-edited & typeset by @siliconchips.bsky.social , & financially supported by the scholar-owned consortial library model of @openlibhums.org

The Nigerian Government is about to take an action that could endanger the country’s 512 languages and cultures even further! #Language #Linguistics #Biodiversity #Africa

UGent's copy of the Oxford Guide to the Bantu Languages has finally arrived in the library - absolute unit of a book!

“A grammar of Kangri” by Anil Swadeshi (Oct. ’25) lincom-shop.eu/epages/57709...

“What makes a consonant a geminate?” by Lia Saki Bučar Shigemori and Felicitas Kleber (Oct. ’25) opendata.uni-halle.de/bitstream/19... (big file; whole Proceedings)

“The 11th iteration of the Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic (TU+) will be hosted by MIT Linguistics. The workshop will be held at MIT, Cambridge, MA, on April 11-12, 2026 in-person. The abstract submissions are now open.” turkicworkshop.github.io/tu11/

New paper with @ryanlepic.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1515/ling.... Our previous research showed that ✨️inherently plural meanings✨️ favor two-handed signs across sign languages, now we see that hearing non-signers also produce more two-handed forms when asked to gesture plural meanings! 👐🏼 #linguistics

Just published "Notes on the grammar of Andakí" by Jelien Moens and Matthias Pache #openaccess #ela langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

Confs: 2026 Conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association

We just presented our work on automated IPA transcription at AMP 2025 in Berkeley. We fine-tuned Wav2Vec on the Buckeye corpus. Slides and links, including to a web-based interface with text grid support, can be found here: websites.umass.edu/pater/handou... Phone alignment output coming soon!

Congratulations to Fiona, Nicole, and Paula! 🎉 Félicitations à Fiona, Nicole et Paula! 👏 #CASLT2025AGMND #langsky #edusky

Just published "Cross-disciplinary approaches to Information Structure in Niger-Congo languages" edited by Akinbiyi Akinlabi, Sampson Korsah, Sharon Rose & Abdul-Razak Sulemana #openaccess #cal langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

"A compelling and thought-provoking analysis of human sociality and the origins of language." The Interaction Engine by Stephen C. Levinson (@mpi-nl.bsky.social), Out Now & #OpenAccess https://cup.org/4nusznG #OA #Linguistics #LangSky 🐦🐦