Congrès annuel de l’Association canadienne de linguistique (ACL) – 2025 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA)
Date: 03-Jun-2025 – 06-Jun-2025
Location: Montreal, Canada
Contact Person: Richard Compton
Meeting Email: prog@cla-acl.ca
Web Site: https://cla-acl.ca/news/appel-acl-2025-cla-call.html
Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics; Phonology; Semantics; Sociolinguistics; Syntax
Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2025
Meeting Description:
The association organizes an annual conference which is a forum for discussion and cooperation in any area of linguistics, in any theoretical framework. Members of the association may submit a paper for the conference in either English or French, the two official languages of the association. // L’association organise un congrès annuel qui est un forum d’échanges et de coopération dans tous les domaines de la linguistique, ouvert à tous les cadres théoriques. Les membres de l’association peuvent soumettre une communication au congrès en français ou en anglais, les deux langues officielles de l’association.
Call for Papers:
The Canadian Linguistic Association will hold its annual conference at McGill University, in Montreal, June 3-5, 2025. Members are invited to submit abstracts representing all areas of linguistics. In addition, the local organizers have proposed a special session on transcription challenges for Indigenous languages. All authors must be CLA members upon abstract submission (exceptions can be made for co-authors from Indigenous communities or large teams of authors: contact Association Secretary (sec@cla-acl.ca), for details). To become a member of the CLA or check your membership status, visit: https://www.cambridge.org/core/membership/claacl. Abstracts may be submitted in two categories: oral presentation (20 min. plus 10 min. for questions) or poster presentation.
Submission URL: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/76020/submitter
Deadline: Friday, January 31, 2025, 11:59pm PST
***Abstract requirements
– Abstracts may be no longer than one (1) page (21.6×27.9cm, 8½×11in.), single-spaced in 12-point font with 1-inch (2.54cm) margins, excluding references.
– A complete list of references cited in the abstract must also be submitted on a second page.
– Examples, figures, and tables must be included on the first page.
– PDF format; if you use phonetic transcriptions or any other special symbols, ensure necessary fonts are embedded.
– Authors should identify themselves only on the abstract submission form — abstracts must be anonymous.
– To help ensure anonymity, abstracts should not contain excessive references to the authors’ publications and should not contain acknowledgements to granting agencies.
Abstracts should contain:
– a title;
– a clear and explicit statement of the research question;
– a clear statement of the research context, including key references;
– an indication of the main arguments involved, including key examples, if applicable (for research in progress, pilot results must be included and identified as such);
– a statement of the conclusions reached and an assessment of their significance.
-Members are limited to one individual and one joint abstract submission, or two joint submissions.
★New★ Exceptions to this limit are acceptable where a lab PI/supervisor’s name is included as last author in multiple student presentations, assuming the presentations are delivered by different individuals.
No author should be a main presenter (i.e. delivering the talk or poster) of more than two presentations.
Papers must be presented in the language used in the title of the abstract.
***Special session (open to abstract submissions): Transcription challenges for Indigenous languages
Ongoing initiatives across Canada are bringing to light important challenges regarding best practices for the transcription of Indigenous languages that prioritize Indigenous voices and experiences. This special session will feature papers selected from submissions to the session’s CfP. (See full call for details)
***Best student paper and poster prizes
There will be awards for the best student paper and the best student poster at the CLA conference. To be eligible, presentations must be delivered in their entirety by students, including the question period, and students must be the first and primary authors of the work. (Further information about selection criteria: https://cla-acl.ca/prix-etudiants-student-awards.html.)
***CLA crash courses for students on Friday, June 6, 2025
A day of intensive courses geared to students will be offered on Friday, June 6—the day after the CLA. Classes are open to all CLA members. This year’s courses:
– ELAN: Tool for annotation, segmentation and transcription (Anne Bertrand, UBC)
– Data management, data storage and data sovereignty (Austin Kraft & Wishe Mittelstaedt, McGill)
– Data exploration with R (Gui Garcia, Laval)
– LaTeX for linguistics and language documentation (Richard Compton, UQAM)