The organizers of LabPhon 20 are delighted to announce that the conference will be held in Montréal, Québec, Canada from June 26–28, 2026, with pre-conference workshops and a keynote lecture on June 25. For more…
About
The Association for Laboratory Phonology, a non-profit organization, promotes the scientific study of all aspects of the phonetics and phonology of spoken and signed languages through scholarly exchange across disciplines. The association is an international body open to scholars world-wide, and is committed to the advancement and diffusion of knowledge on the phonetics and phonology of all human languages.
Journal
The Association journal Laboratory Phonology is published in online only open-access format on the Janeway platform, run by the Open Library of Humanities (OLH).
Volumes 1-6 of the journal are freely available via the Mouton de Gruyter website.
The journal is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and it also is a member of the Free Journal Network.
Conference
The ALP Executive Council is delighted to announce that LabPhon 20 — marking the 40th anniversary of the conference! — will be held in Montréal, Québec, Canada, in the (North American) summer of 2026, with the theme “Looking back and looking forward.”
LabPhon 20 is jointly organized by members from McGill University, Université du Québec à Montréal, Carleton University, and University of Ottawa. Meghan Clayards, Morgan Sonderegger, Beth MacLeod, and Suzy Ahn are the conference co-chairs.
More information about dates, thematic sessions, invited presenters, and other details is forthcoming from the organizing committee.
Announcements
The Association for Laboratory Phonology is excited to announce the 2025 ALP off-season programming, which is a series of events on prosody and suprasegmentals. This series is headlined by the 2024 ALP Honorary Member, Dr. Fernanda Ferreira, a psycholinguist…
The LabPhon 19 hosting institute, HIPCS, will offer a special discounted rate for students by subsidizing $30 of the banquet ticket cost for each student. To qualify, students must register for the main conference by the Late Registration deadline, though an even more discounted rate is…
Please take advantage of the reduced registration fees by registering early by April 30 (Early Registration). If you miss this deadline, consider the Late Registration by May 20, 2024, which still offers fees lower than onsite registration. We have made every effort to keep the registration fees…
The LabPhon 19 program is now live on the LabPhon 19 official website. The caliber of papers set to be presented is nothing short of remarkable, spanning a diverse range of captivating topics and inquiries across various sub-disciplines within LabPhon, with many of them in alignment with…