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now open for the 15th Biennial High Desert Linguistics Society conference (HDLS 15), taking place Nov. 11 - 13 at the University of New Mexico! HDLS is an entirely student-organized conference here at UNM focused on usage-based approaches to understanding
language and linguistics. This will be the first hybrid HDLS conference, meaning all presentations will be available to both in-person and virtual attendees. Moreover, we are proud to be able to offer ASL interpretation for all presentations.</span></p>
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host a wide variety of research topics, spanning cognitive grammar, applications of phonetics and phonology, language contact phenomena, multilingualism, language acquisition, and the ways languages continue to evolve. For more information, please see the
attached provisional program (subject to change — check</span><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:18.54px;font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;margin:0px"><span class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 x_x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;margin:0px"> </span><a href="https://www.unm.edu/~hdls/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1" data-safelink="true" class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 x_x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;margin:0px;text-decoration:underline">our
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President: Devin Tankersley</div>
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Vice President: Jens Van Gysel</div>
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Secretary: Lukas Denk</div>
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Treasurer: Geunho Cho</div>
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Liaison to Faculty: Ivette González</div>
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