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Research on Articulation and Prosodic Structure
edited by Donna Erickson and Malin Svensson Lundmark
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3752 | Submission Open
Keywords: articulation; prosodic structure; prominence patterns; segmental articulation; syllabic articulation; phrasing/boundaries; articulatory planning
Recent Developments on the Semantics of Perception Verbs submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 829 | Submission Open
Keywords: perception verbs; syntax-semantics interface; corpus studies; typology; cross-linguistic approaches; grammaticalization
Social Communication Disorders in Childhood: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Assessment and Intervention
edited by and
submission deadline 5 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1483 | Submission Open
Keywords: social communication disorder; cognitive and linguistic development; interprofessional practice; speech– language pathology; childhood language disorders; culturally responsive assessment; global paediatric health; inclusive communication; developmental language disorder; telepractice in communication therapy
Exploring World Englishes
edited by Patricia Friedrich
submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 1305 | 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 449 | 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 1124 | Submission Open
Keywords: second language acquisition; linguistics theory; language development; mental representation; mind; brain
The Syntax of Child Language
edited by
submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 757 | Submission Open
Keywords: sentence structures; language acquisition; innate structural knowledge; processing mechanisms; linguistic input
Advances in Variationist Linguistics on German—Focus on Lexis and Pragmatics
edited by Alexandra Lenz
submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1499 | Submission Open
Keywords: German; lexical variation; pragmatic variation
(Not-) At-Issueness
edited by Todor Koev and Maria Esipova
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 501 | Submission Open
Keywords: at-issueness; semantics and pragmatics; super linguistics
New Trends in Syntactic Islands
edited by Thomas Graf and Aniello De Santo
submission deadline 5 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3012 | Submission Open
Keywords: syntactic islands; theoretical linguistics; computational linguistics; experimental linguistics
The Modern Dialect of Lesbos: Selected Topics
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 329 | Submission Open
Keywords: Lesbian Greek; endangered dialect; description; analysis; contrastive linguistics
New Advances in Chinese Formal Semantics
edited by Haihua Pan and
submission deadline 17 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 580 | Submission Open
Keywords: Chinese formal semantics; natural language quantification; information structure; focus-sensitivity; questions; intentionality
Innovative Methods in Endangered Language Documentation
edited by K. David Harrison and Lisa Lim
submission deadline 1 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 167 | Submission Open
Keywords: documentary linguistics; language diversity; digital lexicography; language revitalization
Heritage Languages in Italy: New Issues and Perspectives submission deadline 30 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 722 | 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 | 1 articles | Viewed by 959 | Submission Open
Keywords: contact-Spanish syntax; contact-Spanish morphology; crosslinguistic influence; language dominance; code-switching; contact-induced language change
The Impacts of Phonetically Variable Input on Language Learning
edited by Kiwako Ito
submission deadline 25 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 363 | 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
Grammatical Deficits in Children with Language Disorder submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 181 | Submission Open
Keywords: language acquisition; grammatical deficits; developmental language disorders; under-researched languages; typological diversity; language interventions
Dialectal Diversity in Estonia: Structure, Change, and Contact
edited by Karl Pajusalu and Uldis Balodis
submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 115 | Submission Open
Keywords: Estonian; dialects; language variation; language contacts; language change
Advances in Syllabic Structure: Where Are the Syllables in the World’s Languages?
edited by
submission deadline 1 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 571 | Submission Open
Keywords: syllable structure; phonological theory; prosody; phonological models; phonological typology
The Phonological Foundations of Language Acquisition: Variations in Babbling and Early Lexical Productions in Children Learning One or More Languages submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 255 | Submission Open
Keywords: cross-linguistic interaction; speech development; babbling; phonological acquisition; infants; toddlers
Gradience in Syntax and Semantics: Experimental, Modeling, and Formal Perspectives
edited by Rui Pedro Chaves and Elaine Francis
submission deadline 15 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2550 | Submission Open
Keywords: gradience; probability; grammar; experimental; stochastic
The Impact of Cognates on Comprehension and Memory
edited by
submission deadline 15 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 1726 | Submission Open
Keywords: cognates; bilingualism; reading comprehension; listening comprehension; memory
Chinese Languages and Their Neighbours in Southeast Asia submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 1415 | Submission Open
Keywords: language contact; Southeast Asia; Chinese languages; sociolinguistics; minority languages
Constructional Idioms Across Languages
edited by Carmen Mellado Blanco and
submission deadline 15 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 60 | Submission Open
Keywords: constructional idiom; phraseology; productivity; creativity
Experimental Insights into Acoustic and Articulatory Variability: Coarticulation and Prosodic Effects in Greek Speech Production
edited by Katerina Nicolaidis, Mary Baltazani and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2027 | Viewed by 151 | Submission Open
Keywords: speech production; acoustic variability; articulatory variability; coarticulation; prosody; Greek
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