Full Title: 39th International Conference of Croatian Applied Linguistics Society
Short Title: CALS

Date: 12-Jun-2025 - 14-Jun-2025
Location: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb; Ivana Lučića 3, Zagreb, Croatia, Croatia
Contact Person: Ana Vidović Zorić
Meeting Email: [email protected]

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

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2025

Call for Papers:

Submissions will open on 3rd February 2025, and the submission deadline is 31st March 2025.

Language research, from discourse analysis to articulatory details, is usually based on typical speakers. A typical speaker is commonly defined as a native speaker who uses broadly acceptable variants of the language and has no speech or language disorders. However, finding a typical speaker can sometimes be challenging. Due to today's social interactions and changes, native speakers have been influenced by other languages from an early age, both through the media and through daily communication with non-native speakers. In addition, there are more and more multilingual families and children growing up in different language communities due to migration for economic or other social reasons. Furthermore, defining broadly acceptable variants of the language depends on many different factors and is subject to different interpretations. Finally, kinematic measurements reveal considerable inter- and intra-speaker variability in articulatory movements when reaching the same acoustic goal. At the same time, these articulatory variations are not necessarily audible, and they are often considered irrelevant for phonemic differentiation. Such findings, at least in some cases, raise doubts about where to draw the line between typical and atypical speech and language. The conclusion from all this is that the study of atypical production is extremely important for a comprehensive understanding of speech and language mechanisms. Therefore, the main goal of this conference is to re-examine the boundaries and overlaps of typical and atypical at every level of linguistic analysis. In this context, atypical variants refer to cases of speech and language disorders, but also, in a broader sense, to all deviations from the rules of language, i.e. marginal cases. These issues can be approached from further perspectives (but are not limited to):
- Foreign/second language acquisition
- First language acquisition
- Multilingualism
- Foreign language teaching
- Speech and language disorders
- Psycholinguistics
- Neurolinguistics
- Cognitive Science
- Morphology
- Phonology
- Phonetics
- Syntax
- Lexicology and lexicography
- Dialectology
- Phraseology
- Stylistics
- Rhetoric
- Discourse Analysis
- Cognitive Grammar
- Sociolinguistics
- Standards and norms in language
- Language and identity
- Metaphor, metonymy, conceptual integration
- (Public) communication
- Language of digital communication
- Language policy
- Gender and sex in language
- Translation
- Experimental linguistics
- Corpus Linguistics
- Data processing software
- Qualitative research software
- Information Technology

Participants are also invited to expand on the above topics and areas by pursuing other topically similar issues and study areas.

Conference languages: Croatian and English

Submission:

Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes. Each presentation will be followed by a 10-minute discussion. The submission should include the title of the presentation (maximum length: 150 characters), abstract (300 to 350 words) and three to five key words. The title, abstract and key words need to be submitted in:
- Croatian and English if the language of the presentation is Croatian, or
- In English if the language of the presentation is English.

The abstract should propose a clear research problem, a viable theoretical framework and a clear link between previous studies and the research problem presented in the paper. The hypothesis and research methodology need to be clearly presented, together with the research results and potential scientific and/or professional contribution of the work. We kindly ask you to limit the number of references in the abstract to four. Abstracts should be proofread. All abstracts will undergo an anonymous review process. All accepted abstracts will be published in the Book of Abstracts and accessible to all conference participants on CALS official web pages.

Submissions will open on 3rd February 2025, and the submission deadline is 31st March 2025.

Presenters may submit only one paper proposal, exceptionally two (as presenters or co-presenters).

Submission for presenters and listeners are available via:
https://form.jotform.com/250214565346050

Notification of acceptance: 14th April 2025.

Please visit the conference website for more information: https://hdpl.hr/hdpl-conference-2025/