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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">[Apologies for cross-postings]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="cdt4ke"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">We herewith invite abstracts for presentations at the 16th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology. This is being organized by the Laboratoire
Dynamique du Langage (DDL), CNRS, and will be held at <b>the Lumière University of Lyon, France, on 1-3 July 2026.</b> The preceding day (30 June) will be reserved for a series of teach-ins (see below for the provisional programme).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="cdt4ke"><u><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Abstract submission site opens</span></u><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">: 14 July, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="cdt4ke"><u><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Abstract submission deadline</span></u><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">: 15 October, 2025 (anywhere on Earth)</span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="cdt4ke" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><u><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Notification of acceptance</span></u><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">: 15 January,
2026<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="cdt4ke" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="cdt4ke" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Abstracts on any topic in linguistic typology, including its interfaces with language documentation and signed language research,
are invited for oral presentations or posters. Non-members of ALT may submit abstracts but will be expected to join ALT in order to present a paper at the meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="cdt4ke" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:12.0pt">Abstracts should be submitted to the ScienceConf managing system via the conference website (https://alt-2026.sciencesconf.org/; “login” at top right of page). If you do not yet have a ScienceConf
account, you will need to create one at the time of submission.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Please be aware that this system is not compatible with all email addresses. For example, there may be issues with addresses ending in .ru. If you encounter any problems, you can contact the Organizing
Committee at the backup address: alt2026.lyon@gmail.com.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="cdt4ke"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Abstracts may be submitted for the general session, for a poster session, or for one of the scheduled workshops (see below for the list of workshops). Abstracts submitted
for a </span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">workshop
</span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">but not accepted there will be automatically considered for inclusion in the general or poster session, depending on the reviewer scores.
</span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">One individual may be involved in a maximum of two abstracts (of which only one as sole author), regardless of category (oral, poster, workshop talk).</span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="cdt4ke" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Abstracts will be anonymously reviewed by a pool of external referees and by members of the ALT 2026 Program Committee. Abstracts submitted
to a </span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">workshop
</span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">will be jointly reviewed by members of the ALT 2026 Abstract Review Committee and the
</span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">workshop
</span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">organizers.</span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="cdt4ke" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Abstract specifications</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="cdt4ke" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="cdt4ke" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">§<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Abstracts must be
<b>anonymous</b>: do not put your name or other identifying information on the abstract and please ensure that the file properties do not contain any such information.</span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="cdt4ke" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">§<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Abstracts should be submitted as
<b>pdf files</b>, with a maximum length of one<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> single-spaced page, 12pt font, with another page (at maximum) for references and examples</span></strong>.</span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="cdt4ke" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">§<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Please put this information at the top of your abstract: abstract title; abstract category (oral, poster, oral/poster); workshop title (if applicable).</span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="cdt4ke" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span lang="EN-ZA" style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="cdt4ke" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Categories of submission</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="cdt4ke" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">§<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><u><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Oral presentation</span></u><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">, for general session or workshop (single or multiple
author).</span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="cdt4ke" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">§<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><u><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Poster</span></u><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">: One or more dedicated poster sessions will be organized, depending
on the number of abstracts received for this category.</span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="cdt4ke" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">§<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><u><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Oral/Poster</span></u><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">: This means you prefer an oral presentation but can also
present a poster. If there are more good abstracts than we can accommodate, the Programme Committee will schedule some as posters.</span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:12.0pt">List of workshops:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:12.0pt">We plan to have two workshops per day over the entire duration of the conference. The following one-day workshops have been accepted (descriptions are available on the conference website: https://alt-2026.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/13):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:12.0pt">WS1: Associated Posture (Antoine GUILLAUME & Albert
<span style="text-transform:uppercase">Álvarez González)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:12.0pt">WS2: Diversity in systemic expansion and contraction (Oliver BOND & Dávid GYŐRFI)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:12.0pt">WS3: Incorporating the spoken signal into grammatical typology (Laura BECKER & Naomi PECK)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:12.0pt">WS4: Parametrization of tonal systems (Valentin VYDRIN, Dmitry GERASIMOV, Kirill MASLINSKY)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:12.0pt">WS5: Quantitative typology – New directions in assembling and analyzing cross-linguistic data (Annika TJUKA, Christian BENTZ & Johan Mattis LIST)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:12.0pt">WS6: Semantic shifts and the dynamic of lexification patterns (Alexandre FRANÇOIS, Anna ZALIZNIAK & Anna SMIRNITSKAYA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:12.0pt">Teach-ins:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:12.0pt">Tuesday, 30 June, will be dedicated to full-day teach-ins. These will be held at the
<span style="color:black">Lumière University of Lyon, France and will be free of charge for conference attendees, although registration will be required. The following teach-ins will be offered:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">* Describing languages using Neural Speech Processing Models: Recent advances and illustration with two creole languages (William
<span style="text-transform:uppercase">Havard</span> & Emmanuel <span style="text-transform:uppercase">
Schang</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">* Mande languages in a typological and areal perspective (Maria
<span style="text-transform:uppercase">Khachaturyan</span>, Denis <span style="text-transform:uppercase">
Creissels</span>, Maria <span style="text-transform:uppercase">Konoshenko</span>, Valentin
<span style="text-transform:uppercase">Vydrin</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">* Phonological typology (Shelece
<span style="text-transform:uppercase">Easterday</span> & potentially others)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">* Practical R for quantitative typology (Marc
<span style="text-transform:uppercase">Allassonnière-Tang</span> & potentially others)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:12.0pt">We look forward to welcoming you to Lyon next year, which is not only the home of DDL, a research unit with a long history of studying minority languages, writing grammatical descriptions, doing
field research, and working on typology, but also the culinary capital of France and a World Heritage Site.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-ZA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-ZA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">*******************************</span><span lang="DE" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Brigitte PAKENDORF (she/elle/sie/</span><span lang="RU" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">она</span><span lang="DE" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">)</span><span lang="DE" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Directrice de recherche / Senior scientist</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dynamique Du Langage<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="http://www.ddl.cnrs.fr/pakendorf"><span style="color:blue">http://www.ddl.cnrs.fr/pakendorf</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">CNRS & Université Lumière Lyon 2</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">14 avenue Berthelot</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">69007 Lyon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">FRANCE</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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