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<p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><b>44th International Conference on Salish and Neighboring Languages</b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The 44th International Conference on Salish and Neighboring Languages will be co-hosted by The University of Montana Linguistics Program and The Salish Kootenai College Native American Language Teacher Training Institute.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The conference will take place <b>August 3-5, 2009</b></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> with events in both Missoula and Pablo, Montana. Details regarding locations, accommodation, registration, etc. will be circulated in April. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Papers on all aspects of the study, preservation, and teaching of Salish and neighboring languages are welcome.</span></p>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><u>Abstract guidelines</u>: abstracts should be <b>150-200 words</b></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> and should include the paper <b>title</b></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, <b>author(s)</b></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, <b>affiliation</b></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, and <b>e-mail address</b></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">. Abstracts should be sent by e-mail to <a title="mailto:ICSNL44@umontana.edu" href="mailto:ICSNL44@umontana.edu">ICSNL44@umontana.edu</a> as a <b>pdf attachment</b></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">. If you anticipate any problems sending your abstract in this way, please contact the organizing committee. Please include the primary authors snail mail address and phone number in your e-mail.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Deadline for receipt of abstracts is <b>June 15, 2009</b></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">. The program will be announced early July.</span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Following recent changes in the structure of ICSNL conferences, papers will be published <i>after</i></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> the conference as a University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics (UBCWPL) proceedings volume (and not as preprints as had been done in the past). Details regarding the submission of papers will be available at the conference. The deadline for completed papers will be mid-October.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Questions about the conference can be forwarded to <<a title="mailto:ICSNL44@umontana.edu" href="mailto:ICSNL44@umontana.edu">ICSNL44@umontana.edu</a>></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We look forward to seeing you this summer in Montana!</span></p>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Leora Bar-el, for the ICSNL 44 Organizing Committee<span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"></span></span></div></div></div><br><br>-- <br>**********************************************************************************************<br>
Susan D. Penfield, Ph.D.<br>(Currently on leave to the National Science Foundation.<br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:spenfiel@nsf.gov">spenfiel@nsf.gov</a>)<br><br><br>Department of English (Primary)<br>Faculty affiliate in Linguistics, Language, Reading and Culture, <br>
Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT), <br>American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI)<br>The Southwest Center<br>University of Arizona,<br>Tucson, Arizona 85721<br><br><br>