**CALL FOR PAPERS** 28th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DEVELOPMENTS IN LANGUAGE THEORY (DLT 2024) DLT is an event organized to bring together members of the academic, research, and industrial community who have an interest in formal languages, automata theory, and related areas (list of topics below). This iteration of the DLT conference will be held in conjunction with the 14th International Workshop on Non-Classical Models of Automata and Applications (NCMA 2024) in Göttingen, Germany in August 2024. Alongside the regular programme of contributed talks and social events, there will also be four invited talks (see below), a mentoring workshop, highlights talks, and an evening lecture on linguistics by Anke Holler (Göttingen). The conference will also see the 2024 Salomaa Prize (https://math.utu.fi/salomaaprize/) awarded, named to honour the scientific achievements and influence of Academician Arto Salomaa, a founder of the DLT symposium. The prize consists of a diploma and 2000 euros, funded by the University of Turku, Finland, the home university of Arto Salomaa. **Important Dates** Deadline for paper submission: 8 March 2024 Notification: 3 May 2024 Final Version: 17 May 2024 DLT 2023: 12-16 August 2024 **Invited Speakers** Laura Ciobanu (Edinburgh, UK) Sandra Kiefer (Oxford, UK) Pawel Gawrychowski (Wroclaw, Poland) Martin Kutrib (Gießen, Germany) **Program Committee** Marie-Pierre Béal (Paris) Joel Day (Loughborough, chair) Dora Giammarresi (Roma) Yo-Sub Han (Seoul) Markus Holzer (Gießen) Mika Hirvensalo (Turku) Tomohiro I (Kyushu) Zsuzsanna Liptak (Verona) Sebastian Maneth (Bremen) Florin Manea (Göttingen, chair) Ian McQuillan (Saskatchewan) Robert Mercas (Loughborough) Cyril Nicaud (Paris) Svetlana Puzynina (Saint Petersburg) Daniel Reidenbach (Keele) Arseny Shur (Bar Ilan) Manon Stipulanti (Liège) Bianca Truthe (Gießen) Mikhail Volkov (Ekaterinburg) Markus Whiteland (Liège) Georg Zetzsche (Kaiserslautern) **Venue** The conference will be held at the historic University of Göttingen in Germany, hosted by the TCS research group of Florin Manea. For more information, see https://dlt2024.uni-goettingen.de/. **Publication** The Proceedings of DLT 2024 will be published in the Springer LNCS series. **Submission Guidelines** Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research. The proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series by Springer. Simultaneous submission to journals or other conferences with published proceedings is not allowed. Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages excluding bibliography and must follow the LNCS-style LaTeX2e (available at https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui...). In order to facilitate the review process, all proofs omitted due to page limitations can be given in an appendix or made accessible through a reliable link to a freely available electronic preprint. Please note that the paper should be self-contained; reviewers are not required to read any additional pages, thus consulting the appendix is up to the reviewer. Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF through the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dlt2024. Questions about submissions should be emailed to dlt2024@easychair.org. Typical topics include, but are not limited to: grammars, acceptors, and transducers for words, trees, and graphs algebraic theories of automata algorithmic, combinatorial, and algebraic properties of words and languages relations between formal languages and artificial neural networks computational linguistics variable length codes symbolic dynamics cellular automata groups and semigroups generated by automata polyominoes and multidimensional patterns decidability questions image manipulation and compression efficient text algorithms relationships to cryptography, concurrency, complexity theory, and logic bio-inspired computing quantum computing **Sponsors** The German Research Foundation (DFG).