CALL FOR PAPERS
LingCor: Workshop on Spoken Corpus Linguistics

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

The 4th edition of LingCor: Workshop on Spoken Corpus Linguistics will take place at the Institut für Romanistik of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin from the 5th till the 7th October 2026. It builds on three previous editions held at the Universitat de València (2018), the Universitat d’Alacant (2019), and the University of Vienna (2024), continuing an established international forum dedicated to spoken corpus research. LingCor aims to bring together researchers working with spoken corpus data in order to advance methodological innovation, foster cross-linguistic comparison, and strengthen collaboration in the field of spoken corpus linguistics. While the workshop has a particular focus on Romance languages and varieties, contributions from other linguistic contexts are equally welcome.

The workshop pursues two main objectives. First, it seeks to promote empirically grounded research on spoken language across domains such as morphosyntax, semantics, pragmatics, phonetics and phonology, as well as variationist and quantitative approaches. Second, it provides a platform for discussing best practices in spoken corpus construction, including data collection, sampling strategies, sociolinguistic and dialectal stratification, transcription, labelling, and annotation.
To encourage broad participation within the linguistics community, contributions will be accepted in English as well as in all Romance languages. This multilingual policy reflects both the linguistic diversity of the field and the workshop’s commitment to inclusive scholarly exchange.

By explicitly connecting analytical research with questions of corpus design and infrastructure, LingCor aims to strengthen methodological standards in spoken data research and to foster sustainable international cooperation in this rapidly developing field.
The workshop is open to all theoretical approaches and welcomes contributions dealing with spoken corpus data from various angles. We welcome:

• Studies on dialectal, diastratic and register variation observed in spoken corpora;
• Studies on linguistic change observed in spoken corpora;
• Theoretical analyses based on empirical research with spoken data;
• Oral constructions and the grammar of spoken language;
• Design and annotation schema of spoken corpora;
• Tools and new technologies for spoken corpora;
• Spoken corpora of (Romance) languages and their varieties;
• Spoken corpora of languages and varieties in contact with Romance languages;
• Spoken corpora of minoritized languages.

Submission guidelines:
- Length: 300–500 words (excluding references)
- Format: Word and PDF, anonymized for blind review
- Content: Abstracts should explicitly mention the research question(s), theoretical framework, methodology, (preliminary) results, and potential theoretical and/or methodological implications. Complete references should be added in the bibliography.
- Language: English, Spanish, French, Italian, Catalan, and any other Romance Languages
The workshop is planned to consist of oral presentations. Your proposals for a talk or poster shall be submitted via EasyAbs https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/LingCor/.
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Important dates:
Submission deadline: 4th May 2026
Notification of acceptance: by 19th June 2026
Conference dates: 5th to 7th October, 2026