37.3231, Confs: 63rd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (USA)

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Date: 06-Oct-2026
From: Sadira Lewis [sadiralewis at uchicago.edu]
Subject: 63rd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society


63rd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society
Short Title: CLS 63

Date: 26-Mar-2027 - 28-Mar-2027
Location: Chicago, USA
Contact: Sadira Lewis
Contact Email: chicagolinguisticsociety63 at gmail.com
Meeting URL: https://www.chicagolinguisticsociety.com/

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics; Phonology; Semantics;
Sociolinguistics; Syntax

Submission Deadline: 20-Nov-2026

The Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) is the oldest student-run
linguistics organization in the United States. This academic year, CLS
will host its 63rd Annual Meeting (CLS 63), to be held from March 26th
through March 28th, 2027 at the University of Chicago. Upholding a
longstanding tradition, the conference serves as a forum for leading
scholars and researchers from around the world to engage in the
exchange of ideas across all areas of linguistics. CLS is particularly
committed to fostering interdisciplinary engagement and promoting the
value of diverse theoretical perspectives and methodological
approaches within the field.
Invited Speakers:
Melissa Baese-Berk (University of Chicago)
J Calder (University of Colorado Boulder)
Kyle Johnson (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Liina Pylkkanen (New York University)
Justin Royer (University of Montreal)
Alexis Wellwood (University of Southern California)
We invite submission of abstracts for 20-minute talks and poster
presentations on any topic of linguistic inquiry pertaining to spoken
or signed languages. Subfields may include but are not limited to
syntax, morphology, semantics, pragmatics, language acquisition,
phonetics, phonology, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics,
sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and their various
interfaces. We also welcome work situated in adjacent disciplines
across the cognitive and social sciences.
This year, we particularly encourage submissions that engage with the
following broad themes:
Sources of variability in speech perception and production
Queer and trans linguistics
Acquisition of form-function mappings
Formal architectures of syntax, and cross-linguistic syntactic
variation
Syntactic interfaces with semantics and prosody
The semantics of measurement and comparison
Neural and cognitive bases of linguistic composition
Abstract Guidelines:
Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format with the filename
PaperTitle.pdf through the Oxford Abstracts platform
(https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/83832/submitter) by November
20, 2026 at 11:59 PM Central Time.
All submissions must be anonymized by not including author name(s) nor
affiliations in the abstract or filename.
The paper title and keywords should be included within the abstract.
Abstracts should not exceed two US letter-sized or A4 pages in length,
including data and references (just select references are acceptable).
Abstracts must have one-inch margins on all sides and use a font no
smaller than 11-point.
Data, tables, figures and graphs should be incorporated into the main
text of the abstract.
Submissions are limited to one individual abstract and one joint
abstract per author, or two joint abstracts per author.
Important Dates:
Submission deadline: November 20, 2026 at 11:59 PM Central Time
Notification of acceptance: Mid-January
Conference dates: March 26 - March 28, 2027
For questions, please contact the CLS 63 Organizing Committee at
chicagolinguisticsociety63 [at] gmail [dot] com.
Call for Papers:
https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/83832/submitter
Conference Website: https://www.chicagolinguisticsociety.com/



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