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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 893 | Submission Open
Keywords: Japanese; ellipsis; ellipsis mismatch; identity condition; linguistic interface; cross-linguistic variation
SinFonIJA 17 (Syntax, Phonology and Language Analysis)
edited by Madeleine Butschety, Guy Tabachnick, Franc Lanko Marušič, Petra Mišmaš and Rok Žaucer
submission deadline 16 May 2025 | Viewed by 224 | Submission Open
Keywords: multifunctionality; syntax; semantics; phonology
Digital Literacy Environments and Reading Comprehension
edited by Nance S. Wilson and
submission deadline 20 May 2025 | Viewed by 396 | 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 | 6 articles | Viewed by 24340 | 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 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4649 | 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 570 | 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 341 | 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 286 | 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 250 | 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 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2249 | Submission Open
Keywords: variationist sociolinguistics; second language acquisition; world englishes
Research on Articulation and Prosodic Structure
edited by Donna Erickson and Malin Svensson Lundmark
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 867 | Submission Open
Keywords: articulation; prosodic structure; prominence patterns; segmental articulation; syllabic articulation; phrasing/boundaries; articulatory planning
Acoustic-Phonetics in Phonology
edited by
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 533 | Submission Open
Keywords: acoustic phonetics; speech perception; phonological patterns; sound change; language development
East Asian Perspectives on the Acquisition of Argument Structure
edited by and Yasuhiro Shirai
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 491 | Submission Open
Keywords: argument structure; east asian languages; language acquisition; crosslinguistic; typology; universals; information structure; transitivity; event structure; event representation; learnability
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 958 | 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 1154 | Submission Open
Keywords: L1 attrition; L2 acquisition; bilingualism; cross-linguistic influence; linguistic input; processing; experimental design/methodology; morphosyntax; semantics; phonology
Usage-Based Approaches to Second Language Acquisition: Crosslinguistic Perspectives
edited by Sanako Mitsugi, Zoe Pei Sui Luk, Nozomi Tanaka, and Yasuhiro Shirai
submission deadline 1 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 1276 | Submission Open
Keywords: usage-based approaches; second language acquisition (SLA); crosslinguistic perspectives
Prosody in Human AI Interaction
edited by John Hellermann
submission deadline 1 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 300 | Submission Open
Keywords: prosody; AI; human AI interaction
The Impacts of Phonetically Variable Input on Language Learning
edited by Kiwako Ito
submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 90 | Submission Open
Keywords: phonetic variability; variation in speech production and its effect on comprehension; individual differences; dialectal/sociolectal variation; effect of phonetically variable input on language processing or acquisition
Cognitive Neuroscience in Multilingualism Research
edited by Mariana Vega Mendoza
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 572 | 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 469 | 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 1136 | Submission Open
Keywords: syntactic analyzability; internal syntax; Romance syntax; diachronic syntax; re/decategorization; complex construction; univerbation; syntactic freedom
A Citizen’s Perspective on Code-Switching: Language Attitudes and Language Ideologies
edited by Brian Hok Shing Chan
submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 694 | Submission Open
Keywords: code-switching; language attitudes; language ideology; translanguaging; societal bi/multilingualism
Morpho(phono)logy/Syntax Interface
edited by and Rugna Giuseppe
submission deadline 1 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 170 | Submission Open
Keywords: syntax; morphology; morphophonology; order and movement; prosody; morphosyntax
New Trends in Syntactic Islands
edited by Thomas Graf and Aniello De Santo
submission deadline 7 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 643 | Submission Open
Keywords: syntactic islands; theoretical linguistics; computational linguistics; experimental linguistics
The Syntax of Child Language
edited by
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 212 | Submission Open
Keywords: sentence structures; language acquisition; innate structural knowledge; processing mechanisms; linguistic input
Exploring World Englishes
edited by Patricia Friedrich
submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 787 | Submission Open
Keywords: world Englishes; sociolinguistics; applied linguistics; concentric circles of English; humanities
The Morphosyntax and Morphosemantics of Pluractionality
edited by Patrícia Amaral
submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 136 | Submission Open
Keywords: pluractionality; verbal number; nominal number; plurality; event internal; event external; aspect; imperfective; iterative; frequentative; habitual; reduplication; affixation
The Interaction between Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theory
edited by
submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 697 | Submission Open
Keywords: second language acquisition; linguistics theory; language development; mental representation; mind; brain
Advances in Variationist Linguistics on German—Focus on Lexis and Pragmatics
edited by Alexandra Lenz
submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 297 | Submission Open
Keywords: German; lexical variation; pragmatic variation
New Advances in Chinese Formal Semantics
edited by Haihua Pan and
submission deadline 17 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 166 | Submission Open
Keywords: Chinese formal semantics; natural language quantification; information structure; focus-sensitivity; questions; intentionality
Heritage Languages in Italy: New Issues and Perspectives submission deadline 30 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 167 | Submission Open
Keywords: heritage languages; language contact; bilingualism; multilingualism; variation and change; second language acquisition; family language policies; sociolinguistics
Shifting Borders: Spanish Morphosyntax in Contact Zones submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 162 | Submission Open
Keywords: contact-Spanish syntax; contact-Spanish morphology; crosslinguistic influence; language dominance; code-switching; contact-induced language change
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 832 | Submission Open
Keywords: gradience; probability; grammar; experimental; stochastic
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