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Boston University Conference on Language Development @bucld.bsky.social · 2d

We are excited to celebrate the 50th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 50)! Join us and honor this milestone year.

Location: 775 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
Find more information at www.bu.edu/bucld

#BUCLD #BUCLD50 #BostonUniversity #LanguageDevelopment

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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · 5d

We're seeking the next Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics! Lead cutting-edge research in language & cognition. Nominations (incl. self) due 19 Dec 2025.
mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max

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Kevin McManus @kmcmanus.bsky.social · 8d

Call for proposals: Special Issue of Studies in Second #Language #Acquisition, July 2027.

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#linguistics #LangSky #LingSky

Special Issue 2027 - Call for Proposals

Special Issue of Studies in Second Language Acquisition, July 2027 Call for Proposals Studies in Second Language Acquisition (SSLA) is now entertaining proposals for the thematic issue of Volume 49:3...

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Charlene Polio @charlenep.bsky.social · 15d

The full program for our hybrid symposium on the quan/qual divide in applied linguistics is now available. October 17 - no fees or preregistration. Luke Plonsky and Bethany Gray are giving keynotes along with nine other talks and a panel discussion. corpus.cal.msu.edu/1052-2/

Hybrid symposium on the quantitative/qualitative divide in applied linguistics – Second Language Studies Corpus Lab

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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 21d

🚨 Open PhD position in sign language #linguistics 🚨

The focus should be on the structure of signed languages, or connect to other research profiles at the department (e.g. computational linguistics, acquisition, typology, multilingualism)

su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Deadline: 15 October 2025

PhD student in Linguistics, sign language

The Department of Linguistics at Stockholm University conducts research and offers education in a number of areas such as child language development, computational linguistics, general linguistics, ph

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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 22d

Jobs: English; Neurolinguistics: Open Rank (Assistant, Associate, or Full), University of South Carolina

Description: The Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders in the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina invites applicants for an assistant/associate/full, tenure track, full time (9-month) faculty position in neuroscience. The faculty member will be responsible for developing and maintaining an independent, extramurally funded program of research within their area of expertise and to maintain a teaching load of one course in the first year, and two cours

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Kevin McManus @kmcmanus.bsky.social · 28d

Open rank position in #linguistics at Rice.

Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 28d

Jobs: General Linguistics: Open Rank Faculty Position in Linguistics, Rice University

Description: The Department of Linguistics at Rice University (Houston, Texas) invites applications for a faculty position at any rank—Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Associate Professor (tenured), or Full Professor (tenured) —beginning July 1, 2026. The selected candidate must hold a Ph.D. in linguistics or a closely related discipline by June 30, 2026, and job duties entail conducting a productive research program with potential to secure external funding, the ability to teach undergrad

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Abertay University @abertayuni.bsky.social · 29d

💡 The idea that children drive language change is widely accepted — but does it hold up?

New research co-authored by Dr Vera Kempe challenges this view, showing little evidence that child-led innovations spread through communities.

Read more: www.mpi.nl/publications...

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · Sep 8

Deadline 15 Oct: Postdoc, Multilingualism and Language Learning (w/ Ø. Vangsnes, M. Anderssen), Center for Language, Brain and Learning, UiT The Arctic University of Norway www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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Second Language Research Forum (SLRF) 2025 @slrf2025.bsky.social · Sep 4

We look forward to welcoming SLRF attendees to Flagstaff in 3 short weeks! If you're registered, check your email for a link to our conference Discord—and if you're not, what are you waiting for? Save your spot at sites.google.com/nau.edu/slrf...

SLRF 2025 - Registration & Venue

Registration for SLRF 2025 is now live!

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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · Sep 4

Confs: 14th International Conference of Construction Grammar

14th International Conference of Construction Grammar will be held at Princeton University, NJ, US. The conference invites submissions of 500 word abstracts (due Dec 1st 2025). Invited Speakers: - Corrine Occhino - Dagmar Divjak - Idan Blank - Randy Allen Harris - Gary Lupyan - Laura Michaelis - Kanishka Misra Information about student travel awards, accommodations, coming soon! Scientific committee: Hans Boas, Mirjam Fried, Adele Goldberg (chair), Shahar Shirtz

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · Aug 15

📌 👉 The 14th International Construction Grammar conference will be held at Princeton, June 4-7, 2026

Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods

Stay tuned for updates!

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OASIS Database @oasisdatabase.bsky.social · Aug 27

✨ New OASIS Summary! ✨

▶️How prior knowledge affects language learning. A close replication study

www.oasis-database.org/details/v88j...

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Cambridge University Press - Linguistics @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org · Aug 22

New issue of Studies in Second Language Acquisition now available

📚 cup.org/47eF6ql

#SSLA #appliedlinguistics #LangSky

cover of the journal Studies in Second Language Acquisition

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · Aug 17

The replication studies are not an optional extra – they are an essential part of the methodological procedure we use to make scientific claims. That is also why replications should be done way more often than they are. For more, see lakens.github.io/statistical_... 4/end

17 Replication Studies – Improving Your Statistical Inferences

This open educational resource contains information to improve statistical inferences, design better experiments, and report scientific research more transparently.

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Kevin McManus @kmcmanus.bsky.social · Aug 13

Applied #Linguistics Press is launching a new series titled: #Syllabi in Applied Linguistics. This #OA series collects and overviews syllabus descriptions for different staple courses in applied linguistics and #language #teaching. More here: www.appliedlinguisticspress.org/home/series/...

Syllabi

Syllabi in Applied Linguistics Series Editors: Benjamin Kremmel University of Innsbruck) & Paula Winke (Michigan State University) While initiatives and efforts to foster openness and transparency in ...

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Jim McKinley @jimmckinley.bsky.social · Aug 12

Open access + OASIS plain-language summaries = more views, downloads & citations — a practical path to more inclusive, impactful research! doi.org/10.1515/appl...

Do open access plain-language summaries increase engagement with research?

In a range of academic scholarship communities, the debate over the efficacy and impact of open access publishing has intensified. This discourse is strong in [language education and applied linguisti...

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Cambridge University Press - Linguistics @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org · Aug 11

🏆 #SSLA is ranked #1 in the Language and Linguistics category of Google Scholar's 2025 metrics. Congratulations to all authors, reviewers, and the editorial team for making the journal what is it today!

Learn more: cup.org/4opRiKN

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Kevin McManus @kmcmanus.bsky.social · Aug 6

Great to see this initiative, a call for researchers, educators, and practitioners in second #language (#L2) studies to review a set of ethics and accountability guidelines for #qualitative research #ResearchMethods #lingsky #langsky

Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · Aug 6

FYI: Call for Participants: Help us shape guidelines for L2 Qualitative Research

We are seeking researchers, educators, and practitioners in second language (L2) studies to review and endorse a set of ethics and accountability guidelines for qualitative research. As part of Project CLEAR-Qual (Conducting L2 Ethical and Accountable Research in Qualitative Studies), we have developed a practitioner-informed framework designed to support ethical, rigorous, and transparent qualitative research in L2 contexts. These guidelines were created based on an extensive review of the l

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Sophia Minnillo @sophiaminnillo.bsky.social · Aug 6

New article in FLA: "Does order of instruction matter? A language program intervention for preterite-imperfect learning." TL;DR for Spanish teachers: changing the order of teaching the preterite-imperfect did NOT make a difference for students' mastery of the tenses. doi.org/10.1111/flan...

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Kevin McManus @kmcmanus.bsky.social · Aug 6

New paper: Comparing #lab-based and #remote data collection methods in second #language acquisition research. A close #replication study (McManus et al., in Research Methods in Applied #Linguistics) authors.elsevier.com/a/1lYuB9sT3h... #langsky #lingsky #researchmethods #online

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · Aug 2

Imagine if all the money academics pour into OA fees at for-profit publishing corporations went instead to academic societies, which exist to support science; or to university presses, which exist to support academia

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Kevin McManus @kmcmanus.bsky.social · Jul 31

Very happy that our #replication study of Ellis and Sagarra (2010), a seminal study in the field, is now published!

Revisiting #Blocking Effects in Second #Language #Learning: A Close Replication of Ellis and Sagarra (2010b)
doi.org/10.1111/lang...

<em>Language Learning</em> | Language Learning Research Club Journal | Wiley Online Library

A one-page Accessible Summary of this article in nontechnical language is freely available in the Supporting Information online and at https://oasis-database.org

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Gareth Gaskell @mggaskell.bsky.social · Jul 31

We have two permanent lectureships currently available at York - home and overseas applicants are welcome! Please share: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Jobs - The University of York

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Kevin McManus @kmcmanus.bsky.social · Jul 25

The #quantitative / #qualitative divide in applied #linguistics: Call for papers

Charlene Polio @charlenep.bsky.social · Jul 25

Please consider submitting a proposal to our hybrid symposium in October on the quant/qual divide in applied linguistics.
corpus.cal.msu.edu/1052-2/

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