Call for papers

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 19^th until Wednesday 21^st 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:

Production and perception of phonetic variation
Phonetic variation and language contact
Sociophonetic variation
Regional phonetic variation
Prosodic variation
Phonetic variation and language change
Phonetic variation in second language acquisition
Technological and computational approaches to phonetic variation
Phonetic variation and speech disorders
Cross-linguistic phonetic variation
Phonetic variation in child language development
Forensic and applied perspectives on phonetic variation
Multimodality and phonetic variation
Phonetic variation, cultural heritage, and archival research
Prosodic variation in media and speech
Phonetic variation and psycholinguistics
Historical analyses of phonetic variation
Historiography of phonetics

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.
Daniel Recasens, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Preparing your submission

Presentations will be 20-minutes long, followed by a 10-minute discussion. Papers must be written and presented in English. Submissions are limited to two per author and they can be individual or joint. ICPhoV will be an in-person event, so at least one author per paper must register and present at the conference.
Each submission can be up to three pages long, with the third reserved exclusively for references and acknowledgments. Papers should be written in Times New Roman size 12, with single line spacing, and margins of at least 2.5 cm.
Figures and tables can be included in the submission; please include a caption under each figure and table in Times New Roman size 10.
Please do not leave lines between paragraphs. Instead, insert a 0.5-cm indent in the first line of every paragraph which is not after a heading, a table, or a figure.
In line with our double-blind review process, ICPhoV submissions must be anonymised. Please upload your submission as a PDF (anonymised) and as a Word document (not anonymised).
Accepted submissions will be included in an electronic booklet, which will be available for download prior to the conference.

Submissions should be uploaded via this link https://forms.gle/4cKL7EzN4RKaKPCy8

For further information, you can email the organising committee on icphov2026@gmail.com

Please use the template below for your submission. You can download the template in .docx and .odt.

Title

Author (removed in the PDF)
Affiliation (removed in the PDF)
Email (removed in the PDF)

Abstract
Max 400 words. Please refrain from citing works in the abstract.
Keywords: max 5, max 5, max 5, max 5, max5.
We recommend using the following structure for the rest of the submission. However, authors are invited to organise their submission differently if they prefer.

1. Introduction and background
Text
1.1. Subsection (if any)
Text
1.1.1. Subsection (if any)
Text

2. Methodology
Text
2.1. Subsection (if any)
Text
2.1.1. Subsection (if any)
Text

3. Results
Text

4. Discussion and conclusion
Text

5. References

In-text citations
As Author (Year) explains, …
As Author (Year: first page-last page) explains, … (include pages for books).
As Author1 & Author2 (Year) explain…
As Author1 et al. (Year) explain…
… (Author Year).
… (Author Year: first page-last page) (include pages for books).
… (Author1 & Author2 Year).
… (Author1 et al. Year).
If there are more than two authors, use “et al.” after the first author’s surname for in-text citations but include all names in the references.

Articles
Surname, Name. Year. Title of article. Journal, Volume(Issue), First page-last page.
Surname1, Name1 & Surname2, Name2. Year. Title of article. Journal, Volume(Issue), First page-last page.

Book
Surname, Name. Year. Title. Place of publication: Publisher.
Surname1, Name1 & Surname2, Name2. Year. Title. Place of publication: Publisher.

Book chapters and conference proceedings
Surname, Name. Year. Title of the chapter. In N1, Surname1 & N2, Surname 2 (eds.), Title of the book (First page-last page). Place of publication: Publisher.

Computer programs or online publications
Surname1, Name1 & Surname2, Name2. Year. Name of software or publication Version. URL. Accessed on DD/MM/YYYY.