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The 11th International Conference on Speech Prosody (Speech Prosody 2022) will be held from May 23 to 26, 2022, at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. Prosody is the organizational structure of speech. The functions and forms of prosody are multifold, and prosody plays a role in many aspects of language and communication. Speech Prosody, the […]

From 16 to 19 September 2021, the 50th PoznańLinguistic Meeting (PLM) took place in Poznań, Poland. The conference celebrated its anniversary in a fully online format, but that didn’t make it any the less interesting. For four days many interesting lectures were given in four parallel tracks. There were sessions on phonetics/phonology, sociolinguistics, syntax, morphology, […]

The chair for Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Diversity in the World at Leiden University is a joint initiative of CIPL and CIPSH. The chairholder, Prof. Dr. Felix Ameka, has been elected as a Member of Academia Europaea (Class 2021). The chair organized a number of activities over the last year. We highlight a couple of these: […]

By Hans Van de Velde Fryske Akademy Fryske Akademy is a research institute dedicated to the Frisian language, culture and history, located in Leeuwarden (Ljouwert), the Netherlands. West-Frisian, usually called Frisian, is recognized as the second official language in the Friesland (Fryslân) province, in addition to Dutch. The foundation Fryske Akademy was established in 1938. […]