Österreichische Linguistiktagung (December 5-8, 2025) 🇦🇹
09 Dec 2025The 49th Austrian Linguistics Conference took place at the University of Klagenfurt and featured the phonetics workshop „Laute von allen Seiten: Phonetik und ihre Teilbereiche als transdiszplinäres Interessensfeld“ where we presented and discussed our work-in-progress on question intonation in Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish. We thank the organizers Nathalie Elsässer, Hendrik Behrens-Zemek, Jan Luttenberger (ISF Austrian Academy of Sciences), Dragana Rakocevic (University of Graz), and Lukas Nemestothy (University of Vienna) for putting together a highly varied program and for fostering a very pleasant atmosphere of exchange.
I would like to highlight the plenary talk by Brigitta Busch (University of Vienna) entitled Hinhören! Poslušajmo. Slowenisch sprechen in Kärnten. Govoriti slovensko na Koroškem, which discussed the historically multilingual region of Kärnten/Koroška. The talk explained how confronting suppressed history and focusing on people’s lived emotional experiences of language can support a new and more open process of reclaiming Slovene in the region today.