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Advances in the Acquisition of Prosody
edited by Mariapaola D'Imperio and Sónia Frota
submission deadline 20 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 1025 | 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
L2 Speech Perception and Production in the Globalized World
edited by Okim Kang and Maria Kostromitina
submission deadline 20 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 622 | Submission Open
Escaping African ‘Islands’
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 9811 | 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 536 | Submission Open
Keywords: language change; historical linguistics; language reconstruction; historical sociolinguistics
Exploring Linguistic Boundaries: From the Acquisition of Languages to Multilingual Practices
edited by , An Vande Casteele and
submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 826 | Submission Open
Keywords: language contact; codeswitching; multilingualism; language acquisition; linguistic identity; bilingual settings; sociolinguistics; interlinguistic pragmatics; migration and language
Innovations in Language Assessment Practices
edited by Antony Kunnan, Rama Mathew and Disha Maheshwari
submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 602 | Submission Open
Keywords: classroom-based assessment; assessment for learning; language assessment literacy; multilingual assessment; technology-based assessment
Linguistics of Social Media
edited by Andreea S. Calude
submission deadline 1 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3711 | Submission Open
Pragmatic Diachronic Study of the 20th Century
edited by Salvador Pons Bordería and Adrià Pardo Llibrer
submission deadline 7 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 374 | 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 3319 | 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 951 | Submission Open
Keywords: second language acquisition; sociolinguistics; crosslinguistic perspectives
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 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 764 | Submission Open
Keywords: usage-based approaches; second language acquisition (SLA); crosslinguistic perspectives
Exploring Pragmatics in Contemporary Cross-Cultural Contexts
edited by Veronika Makarova
submission deadline 1 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 599 | Submission Open
Keywords: pragmatics; intercultural communication; 21st century
Current Trends in Discourse Marker Research
edited by Ludivine Crible
submission deadline 15 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 537 | 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 657 | 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 547 | Submission Open
Keywords: Japanese; ellipsis; ellipsis mismatch; identity condition; linguistic interface; cross-linguistic variation
Digital Literacy Environments and Reading Comprehension
edited by Nance S. Wilson and
submission deadline 20 May 2025 | Viewed by 222 | Submission Open
Keywords: comprehension; learning environments; sociocultural theories; critical literacies; metacognition; linguistic diversity; cognitive processes; multimodal literacies
Translanguaging and Intercultural Communication
edited by
submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 19445 | 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
Language Input Effects in Atypical Language Development
edited by and Imme Lammertink
submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2667 | Submission Open
Keywords: language input; atypical language development; language environment; language acquisition
Non-representational Gestures: Types, Use, and Functions
edited by Elena Nicoladis and Maria Graziano
submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 384 | 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 151 | 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 192 | Submission Open
Keywords: indigenous; aboriginal; first nations languages; language acquisition; language learning; language revitalization
The Development of Dynamic Syntax
edited by Christine Howes and Stergios Chatzikyriakidis
submission deadline 15 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 42 | Submission Open
Keywords: dynamic syntax; language change; semantics/pragmatics; dialogue modelling
Sociolinguistic Variation and Change: Focus on English as a Second and Foreign Language
edited by Julia Davydova
submission deadline 25 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 631 | Submission Open
Keywords: variationist sociolinguistics; second language acquisition; world englishes
Acoustic-Phonetics in Phonology
edited by
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 404 | Submission Open
Keywords: acoustic phonetics; speech perception; phonological patterns; sound change; language development
A Citizen’s Perspective on Code-Switching: Language Attitudes and Language Ideologies
edited by Brian Hok Shing Chan
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 238 | Submission Open
Keywords: code-switching; language attitudes; language ideology; translanguaging; societal bi/multilingualism
From Migrant to Heritage Languages: Transgenerational Language Change in Diasporic Communities
edited by Vladislava Warditz, Bernd Heine and Paul Widmer
submission deadline 15 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 617 | Submission Open
Keywords: language evolution; multilingualism; language contact; transgenerational language shift and language change; migrant heritage languages
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 871 | Submission Open
Keywords: L1 attrition; L2 acquisition; bilingualism; cross-linguistic influence; linguistic input; processing; experimental design/methodology; morphosyntax; semantics; phonology
Prosody in Human AI Interaction
edited by John Hellermann
submission deadline 1 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 117 | Submission Open
Keywords: prosody; AI; human AI interaction
Cognitive Neuroscience in Multilingualism Research
edited by Mariana Vega Mendoza
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 405 | Submission Open
Keywords: bilingualism; multilingualism; neuroscience; language; cognition
Greek Speakers and Pragmatics
edited by Maria Economidou-Kogetsidis and Christine Savvidou
submission deadline 1 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 257 | Submission Open
Keywords: Greek; pragmatics; development; performance; L2 learners; cross-linguistic pragmatic influence
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 834 | 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 583 | 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 542 | 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 532 | Submission Open
Keywords: gradience; probability; grammar; experimental; stochastic
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