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Adult and Child Sentence Processing When Reading or Writing submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 11674 | Submission Open
Keywords: reading; writing; sentence (processing); child; adult; typical; atypical
An Acoustic Analysis of Vowels
edited by
submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5791 | Submission Open
Keywords: acoustic analyses; acoustic– phonetics; vowels; speech perception; speech production; heritage language; bilingualism; language variation; accent variation; language change; language contact; minority languages; apraxia; dysarthria; language documentation; regional variation; sociophonetics
Cognition in Second Language Writing submission deadline 15 Oct 2024 | Viewed by 1055 | Submission Open
Keywords: writing; cognition; cognitive processes; cognitive strategies; writing-to-learn; process-oriented
Current Issues in Vietnamese Linguistics
edited by Trang Phan, Nigel Duffield and Tim Chou
submission deadline 15 Oct 2024 | Viewed by 562 | Submission Open
Keywords: vietnamese linguistics; phonetics; phonology; morphology; syntax; semantics; pragmatics; historical linguistics
Impacts of Phonetically Variable Input on Language Learning
edited by Kiwako Ito
submission deadline 31 Oct 2024 | Viewed by 396 | Submission Open
Research on Articulation and Prosodic Structure
edited by Donna Erickson and Malin Svensson Lundmark
submission deadline 15 Nov 2024 | Viewed by 473 | Submission Open
Keywords: articulation; prosodic structure; prominence patterns; segmental articulation; syllabic articulation; phrasing/boundaries; articulatory planning
The Aspectual Architecture of the Slavic Verb: Analogies in Different Languages and Other Grammatical Domains
edited by and Petr Biskup
submission deadline 20 Nov 2024 | Viewed by 259 | Submission Open
Keywords: aspectual composition; aspectual markers; aspectual analogies; aspect and clausal embedding; experimental methods
L2 Speech Perception and Production in the Globalized World
edited by Okim Kang and Maria Kostromitina
submission deadline 30 Nov 2024 | Viewed by 416 | Submission Open
Linguistics of Social Media
edited by Andreea S. Calude
submission deadline 1 Dec 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2341 | Submission Open
Usage-Based Approaches to Second Language Acquisition: Crosslinguistic Perspectives
edited by Sanako Mitsugi, Zoe Pei Sui Luk, Nozomi Tanaka, and Yasuhiro Shirai
submission deadline 15 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 600 | Submission Open
Keywords: usage-based approaches; second language acquisition (SLA); crosslinguistic perspectives
Innovations in Language Assessment Practices
edited by Antony Kunnan, Rama Mathew and Disha Maheshwari
submission deadline 15 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 388 | Submission Open
Keywords: classroom-based assessment; assessment for learning; language assessment literacy; multilingual assessment; technology-based assessment
Advances in the Acquisition of Prosody
edited by Mariapaola D'Imperio and Sónia Frota
submission deadline 20 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 526 | Submission Open
Keywords: language acquisition; language development; prosody; intonation; rhythm; phrasing; prominence; stress; tone; language impairment; multimodal prosody; atypical prosody; word prosody; phrasal prosody; production of prosody; perception of prosody; infants; toddlers; children
Escaping African ‘Islands’
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6397 | Submission Open
Keywords: island insensitivity; extraction from islands; probe-agree into islands; A-bar relations across island boundaries; African languages
Analyzing Language Change
edited by Alvaro Cerron-Palomino
submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 408 | Submission Open
Keywords: language change; historical linguistics; language reconstruction; historical sociolinguistics
Cognitive Neuroscience in Multilingualism Research
edited by Mariana Vega Mendoza
submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 326 | Submission Open
Keywords: bilingualism; multilingualism; neuroscience; language; cognition
Exploring Linguistic Boundaries: From the Acquisition of Languages to Multilingual Practices
edited by , An Vande Casteele and
submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 35 | Submission Open
Keywords: language contact; codeswitching; multilingualism; language acquisition; linguistic identity; bilingual settings; sociolinguistics; interlinguistic pragmatics; migration and language
Pragmatic Diachronic Study of the 20th Century
edited by Salvador Pons Bordería and Adrià Pardo Llibrer
submission deadline 7 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 275 | Submission Open
Keywords: 20th-century diachrony; pragmatics; grammaticalization; constructionalization; colloquialization; orality and social interaction; media discourse
New Research on the Role and Effects of Structured Input in Assessing the Nature of Language Processing
edited by
submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2744 | Submission Open
Keywords: input processing; structured input; processing instruction
Second Language Acquisition and Sociolinguistic Studies
edited by Rebecca Pozzi and Chelsea Escalante
submission deadline 15 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 611 | Submission Open
Keywords: second language acquisition; sociolinguistics; crosslinguistic perspectives
Exploring Pragmatics in Contemporary Cross-Cultural Contexts
edited by Veronika Makarova
submission deadline 1 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 452 | Submission Open
Keywords: pragmatics; intercultural communication; 21st century
From Migrant to Heritage Languages: Transgenerational Language Change in Diasporic Communities
edited by Vladislava Warditz, Bernd Heine and Paul Widmer
submission deadline 1 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 99 | Submission Open
Keywords: language evolution; multilingualism; language contact; transgenerational language shift and language change; migrant heritage languages
Current Trends in Discourse Marker Research
edited by Ludivine Crible
submission deadline 15 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 370 | Submission Open
Keywords: discourse markers; corpus; experimental; interaction; processing; pragmatics
Language Processing in Spanish Heritage Speakers
edited by Óscar Loureda and
submission deadline 20 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 400 | Submission Open
Keywords: Spanish as Heritage Language language processing; experimental psycholinguistics; bilingualism
Current Issues in Ellipsis and Ellipsis Mismatch: Studies in Japanese and Beyond
edited by Yosuke Sato, Kensuke Takita and Yuta Sakamoto
submission deadline 15 May 2025 | Viewed by 199 | Submission Open
Keywords: Japanese; ellipsis; ellipsis mismatch; identity condition; linguistic interface; cross-linguistic variation
Translanguaging and Intercultural Communication
edited by
submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 17360 | Submission Open
Keywords: translation; interpreting; subtitling; fansubbing; literary translation; intercultural communication; multilingualism; translanguaging; sociolinguistics; applied linguistics; language use; language contact; language teaching; language learning; multimodality; identity; power imbalance
Non-representational Gestures: Types, Use, and Functions
edited by Elena Nicoladis and Maria Graziano
submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 235 | Submission Open
Keywords: gestures; language learning; development; second language acquisition
Language Attitudes and Language Ideologies in Eastern Europe
edited by and Kapitolina Fedorova
submission deadline 1 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 35 | Submission Open
Keywords: language ideology; language attitudes; sociolinguistics; Eastern Europe; language policy
The Acquisition of Indigenous Languages
edited by Rhonda Oliver and Carly Steele
submission deadline 15 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 64 | Submission Open
Keywords: indigenous; aboriginal; first nations languages; language acquisition; language learning; language revitalization
Sociolinguistic Variation and Change: Focus on English as a Second and Foreign Language
edited by Julia Davydova
submission deadline 25 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 475 | Submission Open
Keywords: variationist sociolinguistics; second language acquisition; world englishes
Acoustic-Phonetics in Phonology
edited by
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 311 | Submission Open
Keywords: acoustic phonetics; speech perception; phonological patterns; sound change; language development
Determining the Scope, Nature and Causes of Attrition in Adult L1 Grammars
edited by Lewis Baker, Laura Domínguez and Glyn Hicks
submission deadline 1 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 726 | Submission Open
Keywords: L1 attrition; L2 acquisition; bilingualism; cross-linguistic influence; linguistic input; processing; experimental design/methodology; morphosyntax; semantics; phonology
Romance Historical Syntax: Special Issue on Syntactic Analyzability in Diachrony
edited by Manuel Delicado Cantero and Josep Alba-Salas
submission deadline 21 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 429 | Submission Open
Keywords: syntactic analyzability; internal syntax; Romance syntax; diachronic syntax; re/decategorization; complex construction; univerbation; syntactic freedom
Exploring World Englishes
edited by Patricia Friedrich
submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 434 | Submission Open
Keywords: world Englishes; sociolinguistics; applied linguistics; concentric circles of English; humanities
The Interaction between Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theory
edited by
submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 457 | Submission Open
Keywords: second language acquisition; linguistics theory; language development; mental representation; mind; brain
Gradience in Syntax and Semantics: Experimental, Modeling, and Formal Perspectives
edited by Rui Pedro Chaves and Elaine Francis
submission deadline 15 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 265 | Submission Open
Keywords: gradience; probability; grammar; experimental; stochastic
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