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</div><div dir="auto">We would appreciate if you could circulate this call to PhD students in the early stages of their project; we hope to host many peers online this coming April.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best wishes,</div><div dir="auto">STaPs17 Team</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">---
</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">17th Linguistics Conference for PhD Students (17. Sprachwissenschaftliche Tagung für Promotionsstudierende)</span></b><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><u>Meeting Description:</u></div><div dir="auto">
</div><div dir="auto">STaPs is a conference by doctoral students for doctoral students. Unlike most scientific conferences, STaPs is centred on exploring methodological challenges encountered in the ‘before’ and ‘during’ of the PhD, rather than the content and preliminary results of PhD research. As such, STaPs is particularly suited to graduate students in the initial phase of their PhD programme.
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</div><div dir="auto">We welcome presentations on empirically oriented projects from all areas of linguistics (theoretical and descriptive linguistics; psycholinguistics; neurolinguistics; sociolinguistics; computational linguistics; historical linguistics).
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</div><div dir="auto">Junior Professor Dr. Adriana Hanulikova (Uni Freiburg) will give a keynote.
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</div><div dir="auto">STaPs17 Freiburg will be held virtually on the 23rd and 24th of April 2021.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">
</div><div dir="auto"><u>Call for Papers:
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</div><div dir="auto">Please send your abstracts to staps17@linguistik.uni-freiburg.de by no later than midnight CET January 31 2021. Please write Abstract submission, (Name of author(s)), (Title of talk) in the subject line. You will receive a confirmation email upon the receipt of your abstract within a week. If you do not receive a confirmation email, please send us a short message to make sure that we received your abstract.
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</div><div dir="auto">Abstracts should be written in English or German, and should not exceed 500 words (inclusive of references and examples). Notification of acceptance will be sent by the end of February at the latest. Please note that submitting an abstract does not automatically count as registration for the conference.
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</div><div dir="auto">Oral presentations should last 20 minutes, with a further 20 minutes for discussion. The focus should be primarily on methodological issues.
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</div><div dir="auto">If you are interested in holding a workshop on linguistic methodology, please send an email to staps17@linguistik.uni-freiburg.de by December 31 2020. Please write Workshop submission, (Name of author(s)), (Title of workshop) in the subject line. These workshops should last between 60-90 minutes and should be relevant to doctoral students. Possible topics could include data analysis, thesis writing techniques or reference management.
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</div><div dir="auto">Further information regarding registration, the programme and our privacy policy can be found on the conference homepage: <a href="https://www.linguistik.uni-freiburg.de/17-staps-2021.">https://www.linguistik.uni-freiburg.de/17-staps-2021</a>.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">
</div><div dir="auto">We look forward to hosting you virtually in Freiburg!
</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><!--StartFragment--><div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(41, 41, 41);">A German version of this call is available at <a href="https://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-3880.html***">https://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-3880.html</a>. <br></div><!--EndFragment--></div></div><div class="chatflow-embed" x-type="signature"><br></div><div class="chatflow-status"><img src="https://bolt.im/t/?wIfLoiqREE0ybQ5N-MRvga05pPt9nXZMNR5HuLsaFQH4i2E8sfSr6szSqYnubRsRms--blmCrsvwA11YyMp4wg"></div>