Workshop announcement: 'r-atics 9 (Vienna, Austria; 2-4 June 2027)
Meeting Description:
The Acoustics Research Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences organizes the 'r-atics 9 workshop in Vienna, Austria, on June 2-4 2027. 'r-atics gathers an international network of researchers working on different issues concerning r sounds. It is an international mid-size specific conference that enhances mutual cooperation in a friendly environment on phonetic, phonological, sociolinguistic and diachronic aspects of rhotics.
We invite contributions on any theme concerning rhotic sounds, including but not limited to:
- The diversity of /r/ realizations in the world’s languages
- The production and perception of rhotics in a language or in a language family
- The socio-phonetic aspects of /r/ realizations
- The phonological status of /r/ sounds
- Diachronic aspects of /r/ sounds
- The acquisition of rhotics in L1 and L2
- Phenomena of /r/ sandhi
Information about the workshop and abstract submission can be found and will be updated on the website r-atics9.org<https://www.oeaw.ac.at/isf/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/r-atics9/>
The prospective timeline is
Start of abstract submission: 1 December 2026.
Deadline for Abstract Submission: 31 January 2027
Notification of acceptance: 15 February 2027
Registration Deadline: 5 March 2027
Meeting Description:
The Acoustics Research Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences organizes the 'r-atics 9 workshop in Vienna, Austria, on June 2-4 2027. 'r-atics gathers an international network of researchers working on different issues concerning r sounds. It is an international mid-size specific conference that enhances mutual cooperation in a friendly environment on phonetic, phonological, sociolinguistic and diachronic aspects of rhotics.
We invite contributions on any theme concerning rhotic sounds, including but not limited to:
- The diversity of /r/ realizations in the world’s languages
- The production and perception of rhotics in a language or in a language family
- The socio-phonetic aspects of /r/ realizations
- The phonological status of /r/ sounds
- Diachronic aspects of /r/ sounds
- The acquisition of rhotics in L1 and L2
- Phenomena of /r/ sandhi
Information about the workshop and abstract submission can be found and will be updated on the website r-atics9.org<https://www.oeaw.ac.at/isf/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/r-atics9/>
The prospective timeline is
Start of abstract submission: 1 December 2026.
Deadline for Abstract Submission: 31 January 2027
Notification of acceptance: 15 February 2027
Registration Deadline: 5 March 2027
www.oeaw.ac.at
International Phonetics Workshop 2027
Die Österreichisch Akademie der Wissenschaft
❤2👏2
Если Вы зарегистрировались на ECIEC, не забудьте про неё!
Начало 19 июня
https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/east-coast-indo-european-conference-eciec-45
Начало 19 июня
https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/east-coast-indo-european-conference-eciec-45
www.torch.ox.ac.uk
East Coast Indo-European Conference (ECIEC 45)
❤1👏1
Mande and Bantu in the Niger-Congo context
https://iling-ran.ru/web/ru/publications/journals/languageinafrica/7-1
https://iling-ran.ru/web/ru/publications/journals/languageinafrica/7-1
That Mande family belongs to the Niger-Congo macro-family was first proposed by Joseph Greenberg in the middle of the 20th century. Over the last two decades this affiliation has regularly been questioned, the main argument for skepticism being the well-known fact there is no trace of any noun class in Mande. Our study proves that these doubts are groundless as far as the lexicon is concerned. If we establish cognacy between specific Mande and Bantu roots, these roots can be regarded as candidates for membership in the Niger-Congo common lexical stock. We thus provide materials for a Proto-Niger-Congo comparative etymological dictionary: 207 common roots and their probable reflexes in contemporary languages and lower level proto-languages are proposed for future discussion by specialists.
❤3
Estimados/as,
Nos complace invitarles al Coloquio de Investigación Lingüística 2026-1 de la Universidad de Sonora.
Información del evento:
· Fecha: Viernes 19 de junio de 2026
· Hora: 12:00 p.m. (GMT-7 | Huso horario del Pacífico [México/Arizona, US] (UTC-7))
· Lugar: Plataforma ZOOM
Detalles de la sesión:
· Ponente: Eunice Núñez Castro
· Afiliación: Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia
· Título de la ponencia: Frecuencia relativa de ítems léxicos: base para un análisis de seguimiento de referencia en la lengua odami
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 814 0674 9503
Passcode: 560706
Nos complace invitarles al Coloquio de Investigación Lingüística 2026-1 de la Universidad de Sonora.
Información del evento:
· Fecha: Viernes 19 de junio de 2026
· Hora: 12:00 p.m. (GMT-7 | Huso horario del Pacífico [México/Arizona, US] (UTC-7))
· Lugar: Plataforma ZOOM
Detalles de la sesión:
· Ponente: Eunice Núñez Castro
· Afiliación: Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia
· Título de la ponencia: Frecuencia relativa de ítems léxicos: base para un análisis de seguimiento de referencia en la lengua odami
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 814 0674 9503
Passcode: 560706
🔥4❤🔥2❤1
Lu, J., Legate, J. A., & Yang, C. (2026). The learnability of bridge effects. Journal of Linguistics, 1–43. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226726101297
Cambridge Core
The learnability of bridge effects | Journal of Linguistics | Cambridge Core
❤1
Xu, L. (2026). A Model of Iterative Morphophonological Learning: Two Empirical Studies [UCLA]. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2179c3g7
escholarship.org
A Model of Iterative Morphophonological Learning: Two Empirical Studies
Author(s): Xu, Lily | Advisor(s): Sundara, Megha; Moore-Cantwell, Claire | Abstract: This dissertation aims to bridge the gap between theoretical and computational research on phonotactic learning and infant language acquisition, focusing on the morphophonological…
❤1
Schwartz, G., Wojtkowiak, E., Hermes, A., & Święciński, R. (2026). Consonant cluster production and the phonetics-phonology interface – articulatory and acoustic evidence from Polish-English bilinguals. Folia Linguistica. https://doi.org/10.1515/flin-2025-0178
❤2
Last-minute call for abstracts: Typology in historical phonology (Uppsala, 24–26 August 2026)
Dear colleagues,
We (myself, Stephen Nichols, Pavel Iosad, and László Károly) will be running a friendly and informal workshop on the theme of ‘typology in historical phonology’ at Uppsala next month. A small number of slots remain for contributed papers — if you have something that would fit the remit below, please do get in touch with me by July 19 with a < 500-word abstract, and I’ll get back to you within a few days thereafter! (Apologies for the rather short notice.)
The workshop will run from 24–26 August, with full-length days on the 24th and the 25th. Thanks to generous support from the Swedish Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, we should be able to cover travel and accommodation costs for contributions we accept, within reasonable limits.
—
Workshop description:
It is near-universally known that certain contrasts, alternations, and sound changes recur across languages, while others are vanishingly rare or altogether unattested; yet answers as to why are not always forthcoming. Explaining these asymmetries falls awkwardly across the boundaries of research communities whose efforts have not traditionally been well coordinated: phoneticians, theoretical phonologists, typologists, philologists, and historical linguists all have something essential to contribute, but the study of cross-linguistic phonological distributions has not consolidated into a coherent enterprise. Progress here bears on an unresolved tension in phonological theory: to what extent is phonological typology the product of synchronic, system-internal pressures, and to what extent is it the accumulated residue of diachronic processes? This workshop aims to bring into dialogue researchers who work on these deeply related questions but publish in largely separate literatures, with the goal of identifying the most productive directions for future work at the intersection of these fields.
—
Do get in touch with any questions!
All very best wishes,
Deepthi
Dear colleagues,
We (myself, Stephen Nichols, Pavel Iosad, and László Károly) will be running a friendly and informal workshop on the theme of ‘typology in historical phonology’ at Uppsala next month. A small number of slots remain for contributed papers — if you have something that would fit the remit below, please do get in touch with me by July 19 with a < 500-word abstract, and I’ll get back to you within a few days thereafter! (Apologies for the rather short notice.)
The workshop will run from 24–26 August, with full-length days on the 24th and the 25th. Thanks to generous support from the Swedish Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, we should be able to cover travel and accommodation costs for contributions we accept, within reasonable limits.
—
Workshop description:
It is near-universally known that certain contrasts, alternations, and sound changes recur across languages, while others are vanishingly rare or altogether unattested; yet answers as to why are not always forthcoming. Explaining these asymmetries falls awkwardly across the boundaries of research communities whose efforts have not traditionally been well coordinated: phoneticians, theoretical phonologists, typologists, philologists, and historical linguists all have something essential to contribute, but the study of cross-linguistic phonological distributions has not consolidated into a coherent enterprise. Progress here bears on an unresolved tension in phonological theory: to what extent is phonological typology the product of synchronic, system-internal pressures, and to what extent is it the accumulated residue of diachronic processes? This workshop aims to bring into dialogue researchers who work on these deeply related questions but publish in largely separate literatures, with the goal of identifying the most productive directions for future work at the intersection of these fields.
—
Do get in touch with any questions!
All very best wishes,
Deepthi
❤🔥3❤1
Journal of Historical Linguistics, Volume 16, Issue 1
1. Visual perception verbs in Old Anatolian Turkish
Zeynep Erk Emeksiz and Julian Rentzsch.
Volume 16, Issue 1, pages 1 - 25, 2026
http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jhl.00017.erk
2. Variant patterns of sibilant debuccalization in Camuno
Juliette Blevins and Michela Cresci.
Volume 16, Issue 1, pages 26 - 75, 2026
http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jhl.00016.ble
3. Joint innovation
Joan Bybee and Rena Torres Cacoullos.
Volume 16, Issue 1, pages 76 - 111, 2026
http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jhl.24028.byb
4. Interaction of scope and cliticization domain
Andrei Sideltsev.
Volume 16, Issue 1, pages 112 - 186, 2026
http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jhl.24008.sid
1. Visual perception verbs in Old Anatolian Turkish
Zeynep Erk Emeksiz and Julian Rentzsch.
Volume 16, Issue 1, pages 1 - 25, 2026
http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jhl.00017.erk
2. Variant patterns of sibilant debuccalization in Camuno
Juliette Blevins and Michela Cresci.
Volume 16, Issue 1, pages 26 - 75, 2026
http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jhl.00016.ble
3. Joint innovation
Joan Bybee and Rena Torres Cacoullos.
Volume 16, Issue 1, pages 76 - 111, 2026
http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jhl.24028.byb
4. Interaction of scope and cliticization domain
Andrei Sideltsev.
Volume 16, Issue 1, pages 112 - 186, 2026
http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jhl.24008.sid
John Benjamins Publishing Catalog
Visual perception verbs in Old Anatolian Turkish
This study aims at describing the verbs of the visual sensory domain in Old Anatolian Turkish (oat), including basic and compound verb forms. We shall specifically focus on intra-field and trans-field meaning extensions of visual perception verbs such as…
Diachronica. Online First Article
1. The Unterland basis of Hasidic Yiddish
Chaya R. Nove.
2026
http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dia.24072.nov
2. Integrating linguistic and geographic methods in toponymic analysis
Nicholas Q. Emlen and Sietze Norder.
2026
http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dia.25043.eml
1. The Unterland basis of Hasidic Yiddish
Chaya R. Nove.
2026
http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dia.24072.nov
2. Integrating linguistic and geographic methods in toponymic analysis
Nicholas Q. Emlen and Sietze Norder.
2026
http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dia.25043.eml
John Benjamins
The Unterland basis of Hasidic Yiddish
Abstract Yiddish, once spoken by millions, is now maintained primarily within Hasidic communities in urban centers like New York. While recent scholarship emphasizes innovation in Hasidic Yiddish (HY), verifying change is challenging due to limited documentation…
❤1🔥1
Зайцев, Л. Ступенчатая реконструкция в морфонологии и уральская градация согласных.
https://starlingdb.org/confer/Zaitsev-2026.pdf
https://starlingdb.org/confer/Zaitsev-2026.pdf
😍16🔥3❤1💩1