Call for papers International Conference on Phonetic Variation: Diversity within and across

Languages (ICPhoV)

The International Conference on Phonetic Variation: Diversity within and across Languages

(ICPhoV) will be held at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Granada (Spain) from Monday

19th until Wednesday 21st January 2026.

This conference will provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of research on

different issues related to phonetic variation within and across languages. The papers presented

at the conference will cover a wide range of topics (e.g., dialectology, cross-linguistic

variation), methodological approaches (e.g., experimental phonetics, theoretical analyses,

interdisciplinary research), and perspectives (e.g., synchronic analyses, language change

through time); this list is by no means exhaustive and other topics, approaches, and perspectives

are welcome, as long as the focus of the study is phonetic variation.

ICPhoV aims to celebrate phonetic diversity. Submissions on under-studied languages or

language varieties are particularly welcome.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

1. Production and perception of phonetic variation

2. Phonetic variation and language contact

3. Sociophonetic variation

4. Regional phonetic variation

5. Prosodic variation

6. Phonetic variation and language change

7. Phonetic variation in second language acquisition

8. Technological and computational approaches to phonetic variation

9. Phonetic variation and speech disorders

10. Cross-linguistic phonetic variation

11. Phonetic variation in child language development

12. Forensic and applied perspectives on phonetic variation

13. Multimodality and phonetic variation

14. Phonetic variation, cultural heritage, and archival research

15. Prosodic variation in media and speech

16. Phonetic variation and psycholinguistics

17. Historical analyses of phonetic variation

Submissions close on Sunday 1st June 2025 at 23:59 Madrid time.

Notification of acceptance will be sent in late July 2025.

Plenary speakers:

Paul Boersma, University of Amsterdam.

Ghada Khattab, Newcastle University.