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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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Reposted by: Kevin McManus, Dorothy Bishop, Martín Haspelmath

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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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by Kevin McManus

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

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#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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Reposted by: Kevin McManus

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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
corpus.cal.msu.edu
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Reposted by: Kevin McManus, Martin Paul Eve

cborstell.bsky.social
🚨 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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linguistlist.bsky.social
Jobs: English; Neurolinguistics: Open Rank (Assistant, Associate, or Full), University of South Carolina
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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by Kevin McManus

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Open rank position in #linguistics at Rice.
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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 28d
Jobs: General Linguistics: Open Rank Faculty Position in Linguistics, Rice University
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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Jobs: General Linguistics: Open Rank Faculty Position in Linguistics, Rice University
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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Reposted by: Kevin McManus

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💡 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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Reposted by: Kevin McManus

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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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Reposted by: Kevin McManus

linguistlist.bsky.social
Confs: 14th International Conference of Construction Grammar
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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Reposted by: Kevin McManus

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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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Reposted by: Kevin McManus

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✨ New OASIS Summary! ✨

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

www.oasis-database.org/details/v88j...
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Reposted by: Kevin McManus, Stefan Hartmann, Randy Allen Harris

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📌 👉 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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Reposted by: Kevin McManus

cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org
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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Reposted by: Kevin McManus

lakens.bsky.social
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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by Kevin McManus

kmcmanus.bsky.social
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 ...
www.appliedlinguisticspress.org
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by Jim McKinley — Reposted by: Kevin McManus

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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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Reposted by: Kevin McManus

cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org
🏆 #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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by Kevin McManus

kmcmanus.bsky.social
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
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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · Aug 6
FYI: Call for Participants: Help us shape guidelines for L2 Qualitative Research
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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Reposted by: Kevin McManus

linguistlist.bsky.social
FYI: Call for Participants: Help us shape guidelines for L2 Qualitative Research
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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Reposted by: Kevin McManus

sophiaminnillo.bsky.social
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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by Kevin McManus

kmcmanus.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: Kevin McManus, Richard S.J. Tol, Dorothy Bishop

mehr.nz
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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by Kevin McManus

kmcmanus.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: Kevin McManus, Dorothy Bishop

mggaskell.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: Kevin McManus

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Hey #statsSky, what's that worst statistics-related comment/request you got from a reviewer or editor?
Did you comply - did you do what they asked?
If not, how did you push back?
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Reposted by: Kevin McManus

charlenep.bsky.social
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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by Kevin McManus

kmcmanus.bsky.social
The #quantitative / #qualitative divide in applied #linguistics: Call for papers
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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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Reposted by: Kevin McManus

Two new JESLA roles: Assistant Editor and Marketing Assistant

Call for expression of interest, deadline 10 October 2025

Details on our website:
www.eurosla.org/new-jesla-ro...
New JESLA roles – call for expression of interest – EuroSLA
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