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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">It's Yuko Kitada, the moderator of the Austronesian Linguists' Discord community.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This time, we are supposed to submit papers before ICAL.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">A member of our Discord server asked the following questions concerning the papers on the 16-ICAL thread in our Discord
community (<a href="https://discord.gg/kHAykSdS" target="_blank" id="OWA7ce4a246-9fb1-973b-0d3b-9a9478e51b16" class="OWAAutoLink" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" data-ogsc="" style="margin: 0px;">https://discord.gg/kHAykSdS</a>),
and I asked a local committee member several days ago; however, we have yet to receive a response. The questions are as follows:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">1. When and where are the papers going to be published? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">2. Are they going to be peer reviewed? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">3. Will we have a chance to revise the manuscript to reflect discussions at the conference (or even withdraw a paper if
this becomes relevant after the presentation)?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Does someone answer the questions? We prefer a response from an ICAL steering or
local committee member; however, even if you are not a current member, you could also share your experience at another conference requiring a pre-conference paper.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Thank you very much!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Best regards,</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Austronesian Linguists' Discord community: <a href="http://discord.gg/ZmUzRqssBB" target="_blank" id="OWA8dca25d8-04bf-7515-d8ae-d5db93f79162" class="OWAAutoLink" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1" data-ogsc="" style="margin: 0px;">http://discord.gg/ZmUzRqssBB</a></span></div>
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