37.1686, Confs: 4th Workshop on Spoken Corpus Linguistics (Germany)

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Subject: 37.1686, Confs: 4th Workshop on Spoken Corpus Linguistics (Germany)

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Date: 04-May-2026
From: Laura Merino Hernández [laura.merino at hu-berlin.de]
Subject: 4th Workshop on Spoken Corpus Linguistics


4th Workshop on Spoken Corpus Linguistics
Short Title: LingCor

Date: 05-Oct-2026 - 07-Oct-2026
Location: Berlin, Germany
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/view/26-lingcor/home

Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics
Subject Language(s): Catalan (cat)
                     English (eng)
                     French (fra)
                     Italian (ita)
                     Spanish (spa)

Submission Deadline: 18-May-2026

The 4th edition of LingCor: Workshop on Spoken Corpus Linguistics will
take place at the Institut für Romanistik of the Humboldt-Universität
zu Berlin from the 5th till the 7th October 2026. It builds on three
previous editions held at the Universitat de València (2018), the
Universitat d’Alacant (2019), and the University of Vienna (2024),
continuing an established international forum dedicated to spoken
corpus research. LingCor aims to bring together researchers working
with spoken corpus data in order to advance methodological innovation,
foster cross-linguistic comparison, and strengthen collaboration in
the field of spoken corpus linguistics. While the workshop has a
particular focus on Romance languages and varieties, contributions
from other linguistic contexts are equally welcome.
The workshop pursues two main objectives. First, it seeks to promote
empirically grounded research on spoken language across domains such
as morphosyntax, semantics, pragmatics, phonetics and phonology, as
well as variationist and quantitative approaches. Second, it provides
a platform for discussing best practices in spoken corpus
construction, including data collection, sampling strategies,
sociolinguistic and dialectal stratification, transcription,
labelling, and annotation.
To encourage broad participation within the linguistics community,
contributions will be accepted in English as well as in all Romance
languages. This multilingual policy reflects both the linguistic
diversity of the field and the workshop’s commitment to inclusive
scholarly exchange.
By explicitly connecting analytical research with questions of corpus
design and infrastructure, LingCor aims to strengthen methodological
standards in spoken data research and to foster sustainable
international cooperation in this rapidly developing field.
The workshop is open to all theoretical approaches and welcomes
contributions dealing with spoken corpus data from various angles. We
welcome:
 - Studies on dialectal, diastratic and register variation observed in
spoken corpora;
 - Studies on linguistic change observed in spoken corpora;
 - Theoretical analyses based on empirical research with spoken data;
 - Oral constructions and the grammar of spoken language;
 - Design and annotation schema of spoken corpora;
 - Tools and new technologies for spoken corpora;
 - Spoken corpora of (Romance) languages and their varieties;
 - Spoken corpora of languages and varieties in contact with Romance
languages;
 - Spoken corpora of minoritized languages.
Submission Instructions:
 - Length: 300–500 words (excluding references)
 - Format: Word and PDF, anonymized for blind review
 - Content: Abstracts should explicitly mention the research
question(s), theoretical framework, methodology, (preliminary)
results, and potential theoretical and/or methodological implications.
Complete references should be added in the bibliography.
 - Languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, Catalan, and any
other Romance languages
The workshop is planned to consist of oral presentations. Your
proposals can be submitted via EasyAbs:
https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/LingCor/.
Submissions open: March 5, 2026 – May 18, 2026
Abstract review period: May 18, 2026 – June 19, 2026
Contact Email: miriam.bouzouita at hu-berlin.de



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