<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><H1><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Call for Papers—Rice Working Papers in Linguistics</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></H1><DIV class="MsoNormal">**DEADLINE EXTENDED**<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">The Rice Linguistics Society (RLS) solicits sumbissions from all subfields of linguistics for online publication in the Rice Working Papers in Linguistics. Graduate students and postdocs are strongly encouraged to submit. We especially welcome submissions in line with our department’s focus on functional, usage-based aproaches to language study, including but not limited to the following topics:<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><UL style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"><LI class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">cognitive/functional linguistics<O:P></O:P></SPAN></LI><LI class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">typology and language universals<O:P></O:P></SPAN></LI><LI class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">field studies in Native American, Australian, Austronesian, African, and other languages<O:P></O:P></SPAN></LI><LI class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">sociolinguistics<O:P></O:P></SPAN></LI><LI class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">discourse studies<O:P></O:P></SPAN></LI><LI class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">phonetics and speech processing<O:P></O:P></SPAN></LI><LI class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">laboratory phonology<O:P></O:P></SPAN></LI><LI class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">corpus linguistics</SPAN></LI><LI class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">neurolinguistics<O:P></O:P></SPAN></LI><LI class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><SPAN style="">language change and grammaticization</SPAN><O:P></O:P></LI></UL><P class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align: left;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></P><DIV class="MsoNormal">**<B>The new deadline for receipt of submissions is October 1, 2008.**</B><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">Papers submitted to RLS's working papers must be previously unpublished works. Copyright remains with the author(s) of the individual papers, however, and publication in the Working Papers does not prevent publication elsewhere at a later date.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">RLS accepts only electronic submissions for the working papers. These must be sent to <B><A href="mailto:rls@rice.edu">rls@rice.edu</A></B><SPAN style=""> and the body of the e-mail should include:<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoListBullet"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Symbol" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10.6667px;">·</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </SPAN></SPAN>title of paper<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoListBullet"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Symbol" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10.6667px;">·</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </SPAN></SPAN>name(s) of author(s)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoListBullet"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Symbol" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10.6667px;">·</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </SPAN></SPAN>affiliation<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoListBullet"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Symbol" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10.6667px;">·</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </SPAN></SPAN>address<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoListBullet"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Symbol" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10.6667px;">·</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </SPAN></SPAN>phone number<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoListBullet"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Symbol" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10.6667px;">·</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </SPAN></SPAN>contact e-mail address<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoListBullet"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">Papers submitted must meet the following minimum style requirements:<O:P></O:P></DIV><P class="MsoListBullet" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt; tab-stops:list 9.0pt"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Symbol" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10.6667px;">·</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </SPAN></SPAN>15–25 single-spaced pages (normally 5000–8000 words) with 1” margins (size 8.5 x 11" paper)<FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9.33333px;">; </SPAN></FONT><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="font:7.0pt " times="" new="" roman";="" font-family:="" roman;="" font-size:="" 9.33333px;=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9.33333px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN>additional pages may be used for references, tables, and figures</SPAN></P><P class="MsoListBullet" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt; tab-stops:list 9.0pt"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Symbol" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10.6667px;">·</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </SPAN></SPAN>size 12 font, Times New Roman or Doulos SIL<FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9.33333px;"> </SPAN></FONT><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="font:7.0pt " times="" new="" roman";="" font-family:="" roman;="" font-size:="" 9.33333px;=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9.33333px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN>(if another font is necessary for linguistic symbols, please contact the editors prior to submitting your paper)</SPAN></P><P class="MsoListBullet" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt; tab-stops:list 9.0pt"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Symbol" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10.6667px;">·</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </SPAN></SPAN>title should appear at the top of the first page, but in order to maintain anonymity in the review process, <B>the author's name must not appear anywhere in the document</B><SPAN style="">. 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