International Thematic Conference on Pronunciation Research and Applications
Short Title: Pronunciation 2026 Online

Date: 25-Feb-2026 - 27-Feb-2026
Location: Online
Contact: The Linguistic Society
Contact Email: [email protected]
Meeting URL: https://linguistic-society.com/event/pronunciation-2026-online/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Phonetics; Phonology

Submission Deadline: 01-Oct-2025

The International Linguistic Society is delighted to invite you to participate in the International Thematic Conference of Pronunciation Research and Applications, Pronunciation 2026 Online, to be held online from 25-27 February 2026. The primary aim of the conference is to advance key areas of pronunciation, welcoming at the same time innovative approaches to pronunciation research and applications.

The Pronunciation 2026 Online conference envisions a vibrant platform for collaboration and dialogue between established researchers, research groups, and emerging scholars in an integrated context. This unique gathering will foster an enriching environment of knowledge exchange, collaboration, and inspiration.

Keynote lectures will be delivered by distinguished scholars across various fields of pronunciation, presenting new perspectives and expanding the horizons of language study and applications:

Keynote Speakers:
Paola Escudero, Western Sydney University

Conference Themes and Scope:

Pronunciation 2026 Online will feature diverse and pioneering work in pronunciation, including but not limited to:

Core areas: speech articulation, pronunciation variability, language intelligibility

Thematic areas: segmental systems, prosodic systems, phonetic typology, intonation, phonetic rules, phonetic transcriptions

Interdisciplinary areas: psychophonetics, neurophonetics, sociophonetics, computational phonetics, corpus phonetics

Applied areas: language education, language pathology, language technology

AI and pronunciation: phonetic transcription, orthography-pronunciation conversions, education, pathology, technology systems

Accepted abstracts will be published as expanded 4-page conference papers in the Linguistic Proceedings Series.

We warmly invite researchers and research groups engaged in any area of pronunciation and related applications to submit one-page abstracts for consideration at the Pronunciation 2026 Online conference.

Submission Deadline: 01 October 2026