Asia-Pacific Language Variation

APLV is thrilled to announce our new EICs, Maya Ravindranath Abtahian and Rebecca Starr, as well as new Associate Editors Wilkinson Gonzales and Nick Palfreyman. As always, we welcome your submissions on language variation and change in Asia! benjamins.com/catalog/aplv?s…

New on APLV: Đinhet al., Registers in the Bahnar dialects in Vietnam: A sociophonetic study. benjamins.com/catalog/aplv.2…

New on APLV: Wan & Liu, Embodying shifting political styles: Sibilant and gestural variation by a Taiwanese young legislator benjamins.com/catalog/aplv.2…

New on APLV: Wilkinson Gonzales. Variation and change in Philippine languages Trends, challenges, and pathways forward. benjamins.com/catalog/aplv.2…

New on APLV: Justin Leung on directional motion event expression in the Cantonese spoken in Toronto and Hong Kong! benjamins.com/catalog/aplv.2…

APLV Call for Papers: Special Issue on Multilingualism and Language Contact! More info on our Facebook page: buff.ly/3Xe4F48

Join us at NWAV AP-7! 14-16 December at Chulangkorn, Bangkok, Thailand: arts.chula.ac.th/ling/nwavap7/

NWAV AP-7 will be held 14-16 Dec at Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. Abstract submissions are due 31 August, and more information can be found at the conference website: arts.chula.ac.th/ling/nwavap7

And including authors Bodean Solan, @FelicityMeakins, Cassandra Algy, Aini Li, @eleanor_ridge, Miao-Chin Chiu

Volume 8.1 is out now! benjamins.com/catalog/aplv.8… Featuring papers on Gurindji Kriol, Mandarin Chinese, and Vatlongos.

Our APLV Editors are pleased to welcome five new members of our Editorial Board: Felicity Meakins, Nick Palfreyman, Rebecca Starr, James Walker, and Jingwei Zhang @rlslinguistics @FelicityMeakins @NickPalfreyman

Working on language variation and change in the Asia-Pacific region or on Asia-Pacific languages? Submit to APLV! The unique emphasis of the journal is to promote understanding of the multifaceted linguistic communities of Asia-Pacific.

We are pleased to announce that Asia Pacific Language Variation (ISSN / E-ISSN: 2215-1354 / 2215-1362) has been accepted as a Scopus indexed journal. @Scopus

Also including a paper by Catherine Travis and @InasGhina

Volume 7.2, a Special Issue on Variation and change in the languages of Indonesia, is now published and available online! With papers by @rlslinguistics and @ZenEvynurul; Khairunnisa; Misnadin; @MAbtahian, Abigail C. Cohn, Dwi Novi Djenar and Rachel C. Vogel

Part II of the Special Issue on Variation in the Pacific, expected in June 2021 (Volume 7.1). Edited by @yammering_on and Miriam Meyerhoff. With papers by @paluai @katelynnlindsey Brooke Ross, Elaine Ballard, and Catherine Watson

A bit neat that a year after publication, me n Gautier's article on variation in the Kriol reflexive was the most read article in the @aplv_journal last month 😎 now to find time to write up another analysis from my dialectology project 😭 jbe-platform.com/content/journa…

Please join us at #nwavap6, going on now in Singapore and around the world!

Timeline: Abstracts (or paper drafts) submitted: 1 April 2021 Acceptances: 15 April 2021 Full papers submitted for review: 1 July 2021 Revised papers submitted: November 2021 Publication: 2022, volume 8

Papers should ideally be 4,000-5,000 words in length. An abstract of no more than 500 words (or a paper draft) should be submitted through the Asia-Pacific Language Variation journal portal by 1 April 2021: editorialmanager.com/aplv/default.a…

The editors of APLV see a need to foreground the role of urbanization in language change (focused on but not limited to the Asia-Pacific region) and are planning a special issue on the topic. Please see our CFP on LinguistList here: linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-3…