This will be great! We planned to hold the conference in HK, but with on-going problems in the Middle East the CL organising group thought we should switch venues. Thanks so much to Mark and Stefania for stepping in. It will be a great conference in a great location - Venice!

Corpus Linguistics 2027@cl2027.info · 4w ago

We are pleased to finally announce… 📢 Call for Papers: Corpus Linguistics 2027 Venice, Italy | 12th-16th July 2027 CfP details: www.cl2027.info/call-for-pap... Deadline: 8th January 2027 🔗 All links in bio 🔁 please share widely! #CL2027

Really looking forward to this! Please join us online or in person in September!

Tony McEnery@tonymcenery.bsky.social · last mo.

Join us online for two of these events in September, or join us in person for all three! QR codes below give you more details and allow you to register. See you there!

Join us online for two of these events in September, or join us in person for all three! QR codes below give you more details and allow you to register. See you there!

Just out: Statistical Modeling for (Actual) Hypothesis Testing: Building Cumulative Knowledge in Corpus Linguistics (Larsson & Hancock, 2026) Download for free until August 11: doi.org/10.1017/9781... On methods for evaluating empirically informed hypotheses. @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org

Statistical Modeling for (Actual) Hypothesis Testing

Cambridge Core - Research Methods in Linguistics - Statistical Modeling for (Actual) Hypothesis Testing

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New study published in TESOL Quarterly from the ComplEExity project! Thanks to brilliant Taehyeong Kim for leading this. With @tovelarsson.bsky.social Henrik Kaatari and Ying Wang doi.org/10.1002/tesq...

Introducing and Evaluating a Measure of Lexical Diversity Across Word Classes

Lexical diversity (LD) has been shown to be a strong predictor of second language (L2) proficiency. However, most current indices combine all word classes into a single measure and thus only capture ...

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Just out: Kim, Larsson, Kaatari, Wang, & Sundqvist (2026). Introducing and Evaluating a Measure of Lexical Diversity Across Word Classes Available OA: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Introducing and Evaluating a Measure of Lexical Diversity Across Word Classes

Lexical diversity (LD) has been shown to be a strong predictor of second language (L2) proficiency. However, most current indices combine all word classes into a single measure and thus only capture ....

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Canvas may be down but us Blackboard Ultra users still can't figure out where anything is so at this point it's a tie.

Hot off the press: Can humans actually be trusted to detect LLM-generated texts? Assessing reviewers’ accuracy and confidence (Richter & Larsson, 2026/AOP) Available OA for 50 days here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1n3WM9sT3h...

Just out: The effects of extramural English reading on phraseology in L2 writing (Kim, Larsson, Kaatari, Wang, & Sundqvist, 2026). Available OA: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The effects of extramural English reading on phraseology in L2 writing: A key phrase frames approach

Foreign/second language (L2) learners worldwide are increasingly exposed to English outside the classroom through self-initiated, extramural English (…

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The deadline for TaLC2026 has been extended to February 22nd. If you're working on language education, technology, & corpus linguistics, come along! This year focuses on AI & corpus linguistics and I'm excited to be among the plenary speakers! See below for details on location & abstract submission!

Pascual Pérez-Paredes@perez-paredes.bsky.social · 10mo ago

17th International Teaching and Language Corpora (TALC) conference, University of Extremadura, Jarandilla de la Vera, Cáceres, Spain, 15-18 July 2026. Submission deadline is 18th January 2026 #corpuslinguistics #language #languagelearning #languageteaching ℹ️ ℹ️ eventos.unex.es/136933/detai...

💡Doing linguistic research? Exploring new methods in teaching & learning? Analysing grammatical patterns in your fav genre?💡 Definitely present your work at IVACS 2026! Great panel of plenaries this year, as always: @niallrcurry.bsky.social @tovelarsson.bsky.social @phil-durrant.bsky.social ⬇️ CfP ⬇️

Mícheál Johnny | MJM@momeachair.bsky.social · 8mo ago

⏰Féach seo - Take note⏰ Cuireadh síneadh leis an ngairm ar pháipéir d'IVACS na bliana seo go 23 Eanáir! The deadline for this year's #IVACS CfP has been extended until 23 January! Gach eolas - All info : www.um.edu.mt/events/ivacs... #corpus #linguistics #language

Just out! Yaw, Kytö, Larsson, Plonsky, & Sterling (2026). Mentoring ethically reflexive quantitative researchers in applied linguistics. Available OA: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Nice to be featured in Grixoni et al.'s recap of SLRF 2025 in Language Teaching: doi.org/10.1017/S026...

New year, new book! Out now: 'Applications of Corpus Linguistics: Established and Emergent Contexts', edited with @niallrcurry.bsky.social and @robbielove.org and published by @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org. More info in thread ⬇️ www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

Applications of Corpus Linguistics

Cambridge Core - Applied Linguistics - Applications of Corpus Linguistics

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Corpus linguists: Come join us at the Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) conference in Malta in July! Submission deadline: Jan 9 CfP: www.um.edu.mt/events/ivacs...

Call for papers - L-Università ta' Malta

Call for papers

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New article out: Sampling through the lens of QRPs (Sterling, Kytö, Plonsky, Yaw, & Larsson, 2025). Available open access for 50 days: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Sampling through the lens of QRPs

From an ethical standpoint, it is important that we ensure that our sampling procedures allow us to make generalizations about the populations we wish…

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University of Hawai’i at Mānoa is hiring for a tenure track assistant professor with expertise in second language corpus linguistics. Check out the position and apply on UH’s website: www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawa...

Career Opportunities at the University of Hawai'i | University of Hawai'i

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Interested in doing an MA in Applied Linguistics/Teaching of English as a Second Language? Please join our information session! When? Friday October 17, at 2:30-3:30pm (US Mountain Standard Time) Please RSVP by October 1 to get the Zoom link: forms.gle/oQS2cMWpcAui...

Larsson, Kim, & Egbert (2025): We compare two new methods of extracting key lexical bundles (n-grams) + provide the Python script, in case anyone would like to use the methods in their work. The article is available OA for 50 days: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lVd99sT3h... @jesse-egbert.bsky.social

Happy to see our chapter (with @perez-paredes.bsky.social) on "Corpus Linguistics in Languages for Specifc Purposes" out in "Specialized Communication: An International Handbook", edited by Thorsten Roelcke, Ruth Breeze, and Jan Engberg! @um.es @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1515/9783...

Just out: Accounting for the entire system of grammatical complexity: Evidence for general oral vs. literal grammatical complexity dimensions (Biber & Larsson). www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Accounting for the entire system of complexity features: evidence for general oral versus literate grammatical complexity dimensions

Two recent studies (Biber, Douglas, Larsson Tove & Gregory R. Hancock. 2024a. The linguistic organization of grammatical text complexity: Comparing the empirical adequacy of theory-based models. C...

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The Lancaster-Northern Arizona Corpus of Spoken American English (LANA-CASE) is featured in the Guardian! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... @theguardian.com

AAAL2025 has started! We had a presentation from the ComplEExity Project this morning and Terry nailed it! Such a blessing to team up with these fabulous corpus linguists! @tovelarsson.bsky.social Henrik Kastari, Ying Wang. #extramuralenglish meets #corpuslinguistics

I'm thrilled to have passed my dissertation defense and to have accepted a job as an assistant professor at USF 🎉 Thanks to everyone for the support, especially my committee: @jesse-egbert.bsky.social (co-chair), @tovelarsson.bsky.social (co-chair), Doug Biber, @tonymcenery.bsky.social, Randi Reppen

Most of our commonly used statistical techniques in CL only help us identify differences between groups. But what if we instead want to empirically test whether two groups are similar/practically equivalent? Just out: Larsson & Hancock (forthcoming) www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) What if we want to test for similarities between groups, rather than differences? Equivalence testing techniques for corpus linguistics

PDF | Tests in the null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) framework are designed to identify differences between groups. Thus, researchers wishing... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

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📣Call for papers📣 SLRF is back! Come join us in Flagstaff, AZ, in September.

Deadline extended until Jan 31!

Tove Larsson@tovelarsson.bsky.social · 2y ago

📣CALL FOR PAPERS📣 Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research (VAR4LCR), Louvain-la-Neuve, 7-8 July 2025: uclouvain.be/en/research-...

Call for papers - Corpus Linguistics 2025! Closing date for proposals 17th January 2025. More information here: www.cl2025.co.uk

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Welcome to the thirteenth international Corpus Linguistics conference (CL2025), co-organised by Aston University, Birmingham City University and the University of Birmingham. CL2025 will take place fr...

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Corpora's 7th most downloaded article is "Introducing the Swedish Learner English Corpus: a corpus that enables investigations of the impact of extramural activities on L2 writing" by Henrik Kaatari, Ying Wang and @tovelarsson.bsky.social (open access) www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....

Introducing the Swedish Learner English Corpus: a corpus that enables investigations of the impact of extramural activities on L2 writing | Corpora

This paper introduces the Swedish Learner English Corpus (slec), which consists of argumentative texts in English that are written by Swedish junior and senior high school students. slec includes rich...

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I am excited to share my new paper with @marine_matte about AI's ability to simulate student writing. Open access link for the next 50 days. authors.elsevier.com/a/1kBXz3n6UY...