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Bill Labov: Looking Back, Looking Forward Bill Labov passed away peacefully at home on December 17, 2024, with his wife and fellow Penn linguist Gillian Sankoff by his side. He leaves behind a legacy so large that it is hard to put into word...

@jslx.bsky.social are proud to publish an obituary for William Labov, written by three of Bill’s students @betsysneller.bsky.social, @laurelmack.bsky.social & M Tamminga. We are grateful to Bill’s colleagues and family for the OA costs onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @lhlew.bsky.social

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Linguists! Is someone here aware of a documented/proposed change retroflex stop (phonemic or allophone) > implosive? (Not the other way round!)
thank you! 🤗
#linguistics #phonetics #historicalphonology

LINGUIST List 36.2251 Confs: Cambridge Romance Linguistics Seminar 53 (United Kingdom) The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.

The *53rd* Cambridge Romance #Linguistics Seminar is coming down the pipe (6-7 Jan 2026) - very friendly and informal/great for PhDs (with a sterling conference dinner if the budget will stretch) - CfP for a very doable 300 word abstract here: linguistlist.org/issues/36/22... #edusky #langsky

Including linguistics in A-level language classes is easy and effective according to teachers: an accessible summary of our 2024 @berj-2025.bsky.social study (doi.org/10.1002/berj...) is now available via @oasisdatabase.bsky.social: www.oasis-database.org/details/mctu... #linguistics #languages

Lovely dedication to Bill Labov at #NWAV-AP www.facebook.com/share/r/15kK...

Anyone here going to Interspeech and wants to do a student a big favor? He was accepted & paid, but ultimately cannot leave the U.S. due to ongoing fascism (he’s on a visa). They will pull his paper if he can’t find anyone to present it for him. DM if you’re attending & may be able to help!

Community-based sociolinguistic research panel starting NOW @ LSA Institute! Looking forward to this day, ft:

@mixedlinguist.bsky.social @charliefarrington.bsky.social, me (@midiariesprojet.bsky.social), @robindodsworth.bsky.social, Annette D'Onofrio, Minnie Annan, @charlottevaughn.bsky.social,

William (Bill) Labov (1927–2024) – Obituary by Penelope Eckert.

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2 Ph.D. positions (48m/100% FTE) in the project "Description of the endangered Mönpa language of Bhutan” headed by Tim Bodt at Trinity College Dublin
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Language & History — Henry Sweet Society Published in 3 issues per year both online and in print, Language & History is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that aims to promote the study of the history of all branches of linguistic…

Are you working on topics related to the history of linguistics?🫵
Consider submitting an article to ✨Language & History✨, the journal of the Henry Sweet Society! It is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal published 3 times per year both online and in print.
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Absolutely beautiful obituary for Bill Labov, describing a life rich in insights and in humanity www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Our work was cited in the new @hepi-news.bsky.social report as an example of how #linguistics can help to reverted the decline in language learning in schools 👇

Students in England shun foreign languages at A-level, report finds Ofqual figures show a sharp fall in pupils taking exams in French and German

New @hepi-news.bsky.social report shows continued fall in foreign language study in England at A-level.

Language teacher recruitment consistently falls well below government targets – in 2024, just 43% of the target was reached.

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(Full report www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/07/31/n...)

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I am advertising 2 positions in language evolution with my group at ‪‪@dondersinst.bsky.social:
📢 Fully-funded PhD position (Robotics/AI 🤖) www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
📢 Postdoc position (Virtual Reality 🎮)
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Deadline for applications is August 14th. Please RT! :)

Did alcohol facilitate the evolution of complex societies? - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Did alcohol facilitate the evolution of complex societies?

Breaking: booze good for us after all www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations Dr Barnard !

The abstracts for the upcoming SLE conference in Bordeaux are now available – over 600 talks, with abstracts on 1150 pages: societaslinguistica.eu/sle2025/sche...

Oh yee of such exaggeration! The private sector is not so bad!

@economist.com are hiring an intern in London

Just tuned in! Good to see the Beeb getting an actual linguist on for a #linguistics issue. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

This is brilliant.

LANGUAGES, SOCIETY AND POLICY - HOME | LSP Languages, Society and Policy

✨ The Languages in UK Education special issue is now complete! Many thanks to our guest editors @wendya-b.bsky.social & @cforsdick.bsky.social for compiling this important collection, and to every contributor for sharing bold ideas to shape language education policy.
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China’s language policies impact over 60 languages spoken across the Tibetan Plateau. Linguistic diversity is “collapsing” in the region, with China refusing to recognize Tibet's minority languages & only acknowledging a single standard Tibetan language.
documentedny.com/2025/06/23/t...

Our permanent German lectureship now has an extended deadline of 21st July. Apply here: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Call for Papers: Sociolinguistics Circle 2026 VUB - Brussels Centre for Language Studies We invite abstracts for oral and poster presentations at the 12th edition of the Sociolinguistics Circle, to be held in Brussels on April 24th, 2026. Contributions should deal with topics in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, dialectology, variationist linguistics, social dimensions of multilingualism and language contact, language policy and planning, or related disciplines. We welcome submissions from scholars with a connection to the Low Countries and/or on topics relevant to language varieties used in the Low Countries. Abstracts should be submitted before December 1st, 2025 via e-mail to sociolinguisticscircle2026@vub.be. They should be between 300 and 500 words, not including references. Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts, at most one of which may be sole- or first-authored. Abstracts should situate the study within the field and clearly identify the research aim, theoretical and methodological framework, main results and implications. Contributions can be submitted in Dutch, French, or English. Given the Sociolinguistics Circle’s orientation to the Low Countries, we would like to emphasise that contributions in Dutch and French or multilingual formats are warmly welcomed (e.g., presentation in Dutch/French, slides in English). All submissions will be reviewed by the organising committee. We aim to decide on acceptance before February 1st, 2026. Organising committee Rik Vosters Wim Vandenbussche Laura Rosseel Philipp Krämer

Sociolinguists in and around Benelux or working on Beneluxian languages and varieties: come present your work at next year's Sociolinguistics Circle in Brussels!
Nous avons hâte om jullie bij ons te verwelkomen - venez nombreux.ses !

Deadline for abstracts: December 1st, 2025.

No not me on this one! Perhaps @lanegreene.bsky.social knows?

Evidence for the cognitive advantages of #bilingualism may be inconclusive, but it’s still a superpower! #edusky #langsky #mflsky #linguistics