Language research, from discourse analysis to articulatory details, is usually based on typical speakers. A typical speaker is commonly defined as a native speaker who uses broadly acceptable variants of the language and has no speech or language disorders. However, finding a typical speaker can sometimes be challenging. Due to today’s social interactions and changes, native speakers have been influenced by other languages from an early age, both through the media and through daily communication with non-native speakers. In addition, there are more and more multilingual families and children growing up in different language communities due to migration for economic or other social reasons. Furthermore, defining broadly acceptable variants of the language depends on many different factors and is subject to different interpretations. Finally, kinematic measurements reveal considerable inter- and intra-speaker variability in articulatory movements when reaching the same acoustic goal. At the same time, these articulatory variations are not necessarily audible, and they are often considered irrelevant for phonemic differentiation. Such findings, at least in some cases, raise doubts about where to draw the line between typical and atypical speech and language. The conclusion from all this is that the study of atypical production is extremely important for a comprehensive understanding of speech and language mechanisms. Therefore, the main goal of this conference is to re-examine the boundaries and overlaps of typical and atypical at every level of linguistic analysis. In this context, atypical variants refer to cases of speech and language disorders, but also, in a broader sense, to all deviations from the rules of language, i.e. marginal cases. These issues can be approached from further perspectives (but are not limited to):

• Foreign/second language acquisition
• First language acquisition
• Multilingualism
• Foreign language teaching
• Speech and language disorders
• Psycholinguistics
• Neurolinguistics
• Cognitive Science
• Morphology
• Phonology
• Phonetics
• Syntax
• Lexicology and lexicography
• Dialectology
• Phraseology
• Stylistics
• Rhetoric
• Discourse Analysis
• Cognitive Grammar
• Sociolinguistics
• Standards and norms in language
• Language and identity
• Metaphor, metonymy, conceptual integration
• (Public) communication
• Language of digital communication
• Language policy
• Gender and sex in language
• Translation
• Experimental linguistics
• Corpus Linguistics
• Data processing software
• Qualitative research software
• Information Technology

Participants are also invited to expand on the above topics and areas by pursuing other topically similar issues and study areas.