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      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><small>Apologies


          for multiple postings. </small><b><br>
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      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b>Empirical
          Methods in Cognitive Linguistics 7 – João Pessoa, Brazil </b></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b>August 2<sup>
          </sup>-8, 2015</b></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b> </b></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><a class=""
            href="https://sites.google.com/site/emcl7joaopessoabrazil/">https://sites.google.com/site/emcl7joaopessoabrazil/</a></b></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b> </b></p>
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      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:8pt">To precede the 7th Conference on
          Linguistics and Cognition (7a Conferência Linguística e
          Cognição) August 9-11, 2015</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><a
          href="http://cogvii.virtual.ufpb.br"><span
            style="font-size:8pt">http://cogvii.virtual.ufpb.br</span></a><span
          style="font-size:8pt"></span></p>
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          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">*****Application deadline: February 28,
          2015</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">*****Notification of Acceptance: March
          15, 2015</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">We invite applications for the 7th
          Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics workshop to be held
          in Joao Pessoa, Brazil, August 2-8, 2015. This is the first
          time EMCL comes to Latin America, and we are very excited for
          this opportunity. </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">The goal of EMCL is to facilitate
          dialogue among language researchers with different
          methodological backgrounds, i.e. those working on theory,
          experimentation, corpus linguistics, etc. We do this by
          hosting a series of minilabs. Each minilab is led by two
          internationally recognized researchers from different
          backgrounds, who collaborate in guiding a group of eight
          students through the steps of developing and carrying out an
          empirical project during the course of a week. </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">The minilabs for EMCL 7 are as follows.</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><b><span
            style="font-size:10pt">Minilab 1.</span></b></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">Topics: Cognitive linguistics,
          grammatical theory, spoken language, gesture, thinking for
          speaking, metaphor, semantics and conceptualization,
          conversation, political discourse, psycholinguistics, language
          acquisition, sentence processing, coreference</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><b><span
            style="font-size:10pt"> </span></b></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><b><span
            style="font-size:10pt">Alan Cienki</span></b><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam &
          Moscow State Linguistic University</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><a
href="http://www.let.vu.nl/en/about-the-faculty/academic-staff/staff-listed-alphabetically/staff-a-d/dr-a-cienki/index.asp"><span
            style="font-size:10pt">http://www.let.vu.nl/en/about-the-faculty/academic-staff/staff-listed-alphabetically/staff-a-d/dr-a-cienki/index.asp</span></a><span
          style="font-size:10pt"></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><b><span
            style="font-size:10pt">José Ferrari Neto</span></b><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> Universidade Federal da Paraiba</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><a
          href="http://lattes.cnpq.br/7211922429806274"><span
            style="font-size:10pt">http://lattes.cnpq.br/7211922429806274</span></a><span
          style="font-size:10pt"></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><b><span
            style="font-size:10pt">Minilab 2. </span></b></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><b><span
            style="font-size:10pt"> </span></b></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">Topics: interaction between language
          and vision, sentence processing, word recognition, visual
          attention, visual memory, eye movements, computational
          modeling, construction grammar, lexical semantics, argument
          structure</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><b><span
            style="font-size:10pt">Michael Spivey</span></b><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> University of California, Merced</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><a
          href="http://www.ucmerced.edu/content/michael-j-spivey"><span
            style="font-size:10pt">http://www.ucmerced.edu/content/michael-j-spivey</span></a><span
          style="font-size:10pt"></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><b><span
            style="font-size:10pt">Diogo Pinheiro</span></b><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><a
          href="http://lattes.cnpq.br/8691039251844677"><span
            style="font-size:10pt">http://lattes.cnpq.br/8691039251844677</span></a><span
          style="font-size:10pt"></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><b><span
            style="font-size:10pt">Minilab 3.</span></b></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><b><span
            style="font-size:10pt"> </span></b></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">Topics: mental simulation in language
          understanding, embodiment of linguistic constructions,
          processing of literal, abstract, and metaphorical language,
          thinking and driving, word meaning and phonaesthemes, language
          acquisition, psycholinguistics, primary metaphors, figurative
          language comprehension by the hard of hearing</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><b><span
            style="font-size:10pt">Benjamin Bergen</span></b><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> University of California, San Diego</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><a
          href="http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/%7Ebkbergen/"><span
            style="font-size:10pt">http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~bkbergen/</span></a><span
          style="font-size:10pt"></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">Topics: </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><b><span
            style="font-size:10pt">Maity Siqueira</span></b><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do
          Sul</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><a
          href="http://lattes.cnpq.br/6160773661816756"><span
            style="font-size:10pt">http://lattes.cnpq.br/6160773661816756</span></a><span
          style="font-size:10pt"></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><b><span
            style="font-size:10pt">Minilab 4.</span></b></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><b><span
            style="font-size:10pt"> </span></b></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">Topics: cognitive linguistics, temporal
          order, tense, aspect, gesture, eye movements, working memory,
          evidentiality, mental spaces and conceptual blending,
          construction grammar, deixis and viewpoint</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><b><span
            style="font-size:10pt">Raymond Becker</span></b><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> RWTH Aachen University</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><a
href="http://www.humtec.rwth-aachen.de/index.php?article_id=1214&clang=0"><span
            style="font-size:10pt">http://www.humtec.rwth-aachen.de/index.php?article_id=1214&clang=0</span></a><span
          style="font-size:10pt"></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><b><span
            style="font-size:10pt">Lilian Ferrari</span></b><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><a
          href="http://lattes.cnpq.br/4652172144789181"><span
            style="font-size:10pt">http://lattes.cnpq.br/4652172144789181</span></a><span
          style="font-size:10pt"></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><b><span
            style="font-size:10pt">Minilab 5.</span></b></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><b><span
            style="font-size:10pt"> </span></b></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">Topics: multilingual cognition,
          language acquisition, conceptual development, conceptual
          transfer, color perception, motion event construal, object
          categorization, grammatical number, grammatical gender,
          grammatical aspect, conceptualization, conceptual
          representation, conceptual blending, sentence comprehension,
          inferential processing, language and motor action</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><b><span
            style="font-size:10pt">Panos Athanasopoulos,</span></b><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> Lancaster University</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><a
          href="http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/profiles/panos-athanasopoulos"><span
            style="font-size:10pt">http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/profiles/panos-athanasopoulos</span></a><span
          style="font-size:10pt"></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><b><span
            style="font-size:10pt">Jan Edson Leite</span></b><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> Universidade Federal da Paraiba</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><a
          href="http://lattes.cnpq.br/6349030710525621"><span
            style="font-size:10pt">http://lattes.cnpq.br/6349030710525621</span></a><span
          style="font-size:10pt"></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><b><span
            style="font-size:10pt">Minilab 6.</span></b></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><b><span
            style="font-size:10pt"> </span></b></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">Topics: methods, embodied social
          psychology, replication, emotion, language acquisition and
          processing, neurocognitive aspects of reading comprehension,
          aging and semantic processing</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><b><span
            style="font-size:10pt">Daniël Lakens</span></b><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> Eindhoven University of Technology</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><a
          href="https://sites.google.com/site/lakens2/Home"><span
            style="font-size:10pt">https://sites.google.com/site/lakens2/Home</span></a><span
          style="font-size:10pt"></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><b><span
            style="font-size:10pt">Rosangela Gabriel</span></b><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><a
          href="http://lattes.cnpq.br/5511040461102482"><span
            style="font-size:10pt">http://lattes.cnpq.br/5511040461102482</span></a><span
          style="font-size:10pt"></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><b><span
            style="font-size:10pt">Minilab 7.</span></b></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><b><span
            style="font-size:10pt"> </span></b></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">Topics: lexical semantics, spatial
          language, psycholinguistics, acquisition of semantics,
          language and cognition, cross linguistic semantic comparisons
          and metaphor, neurolinguistics, social cognition, memory and
          language in aphasics</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><b><span
            style="font-size:10pt">Michele Feist</span></b><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> University of Louisiana at Lafayette</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><a
          href="http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/%7Emif8232/"><span
            style="font-size:10pt">http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~mif8232/</span></a><span
          style="font-size:10pt"></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><b><span
            style="font-size:10pt">Edwiges Morato</span></b><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> UNICAMP - Universidade Estadual de
          Campinas</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><a
          href="http://lattes.cnpq.br/6794591756569605"><span
            style="font-size:10pt">http://lattes.cnpq.br/6794591756569605</span></a><span
          style="font-size:10pt"></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span
            style="font-size:10pt">Intended audience:</span></b><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> Language researchers with an
          embodiment, situated cognition and/or cognitive linguistics
          background. No prior experimental or corpus training is
          required though an understanding of the theoretical issues is
          necessary. Participants can be at different early stages in
          their careers, i.e. graduate students/post-grads, post-docs,
          junior faculty, etc. </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span
            style="font-size:10pt">Format:</span></b><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> Participants will join one of seven
          hands-on mini-labs for the duration of the week-long workshop.
          Each mini-lab will be responsible for completing a joint
          research project. A select group of students (max. eight per
          group for a total of 56) will be invited to participate. Each
          group will work with two researchers who will guide them in
          selecting an idea to investigate. They will then participate
          in structuring and organizing a research project, and carrying
          it out. The session will end with a mini-conference where
          findings will be presented, followed by a general discussion.
        </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span
            style="font-size:10pt">Please note that the mini-conference
            will be open to everyone, including but not limited to
            participants of the 7<sup>th</sup> Conference on Linguistics
            and Cognition</span></b></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">Language of instruction will be
          English.</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">Topics to be covered include, </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">- Deciding on a research topic </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">- Transforming the research topic into
          a research question </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">- Developing experimental hypotheses </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">- Designing an experiment to test
          hypotheses</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">- Making clear predictions based on the
          design</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">- Data collection </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">- Statistical analysis and
          interpretation </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">- Presentation of findings to an
          audience </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm 0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b>Participation

          Fee:</b></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> US$150, or R$360, payable by bank
          transfer or upon arrival by prior arrangement. (This fee helps
          cover the costs of organization and faculty travel.) </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b>Application:

        </b></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">To apply, please send the following by
          February 28, 2015. All materials must be submitted
          electronically to emcl.admin (at) <a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a>
        </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">1. A maximum of two (2) pages, (1000
          words, excluding references), describing: </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"
        style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:36pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">- your academic background, </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"
        style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:36pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">- your reasons for wanting to
          participate, </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"
        style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:36pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">- the research groups you would like to
          work in and why. Please list 3 in order of preference,</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"
        style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:36pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">  with number one being your preferred
          group.</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"
        style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:36pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">- a brief description of your research
          interests. </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"
        style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:36pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">All topics listed above must be
          addressed. Incomplete applications will not be reviewed. </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">2. A copy of your curriculum vitae
          (C.V.) including a list of (any) publications. For
          publications, the names of all authors must appear as only
          initials for first and last names, i.e. Farah, Martha ->
          F.,M.</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">3. Formatting of your application must
          be as follows:</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">- Please write 'application' in the
          subject line.  </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">- All documents must be submitted as a
          single pdf, labeled with your full name only, </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">   last name first. Note, though, that
          all identifying features of applicants will be removed to
          allow for   </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">   anonymous review.</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">- C.V. should appear first.  Your name
          should only appear at the top of your C.V. and nowhere else.</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">- Please remove any photographs, as
          well as references to your age or marital status.   </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">   Your C.V. should only contain
          professional information beginning with your </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">   university training.</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">- Any deviations will result in the
          application being returned to you for correction. Samples of </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">   properly completed applications can
          be found on the EMCL 7 website.</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">All identifying features of applicants
          will be removed to allow for anonymous review.</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">The application deadline is February
          28. Accepted applicants will be notified on or before March
          15. </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">**We realize that some of you will be
          applying for external funding. If you need proof of acceptance
          before the notification date, then please contact us
          immediately to see if we can accommodate you.)</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">Two (2) tuition scholarships will be
          awarded by lottery to students experiencing financial
          hardship. The scholarship will be for the participation fee
          only, as unfortunately, we do not have funding to cover
          accommodation or travel.  If you would like to be included in
          the lottery, please include a brief description of your
          situation (500 words maximum). </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">Please note: Attendance is strictly
          limited to accepted participants. No exceptions will be made
          so as to preserve pedagogical integrity. That said, <b>everyone


            is invited to attend the mini-conference where the labs will
            present their research results.</b></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">Please send all correspondence to:</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><a
          href="mailto:emcl.admin@gmail.com"><b><span
              style="font-size:10pt">emcl.admin@gmail.com</span></b></a><b><span
            style="font-size:10pt"></span></b></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span
            style="font-size:10pt"> </span></b></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span
            style="font-size:10pt"><a class=""
              href="https://sites.google.com/site/emcl7joaopessoabrazil/">https://sites.google.com/site/emcl7joaopessoabrazil/</a></span></b></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">EMCL 7 Organizing Committee: </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Chair, Cornell
          University & Bielefeld University</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">Raymond Becker, RWTH Aachen University</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">Marianne Cavalcante, Universidade
          Federal da Paraiba </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt" lang="NL">Alan Cienki, Vrije
          Universiteit,<span class=""><ins cite="mailto:AC"
              datetime="2014-10-18T11:58"> Amsterdam & Moscow State
              Linguistic U.</ins></span></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">Michele Feist, University of Louisiana
          at Lafayette</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">Jan Edson Leite, Universidade Federal
          da Paraiba </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">Danielly Lima, Universidade Federal da
          Paraiba</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt">Mábia Toscano, Universidade Federal da
          Paraiba </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
          style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
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