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<div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#141823"><span style="line-height: 19px;">This is the first reminder that the deadline for abstracts for the TISLR 12 </span></font></span><span style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">conference
are due on February 28, 2015. The call for papers is below.</span></div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 254, 254);">Thank you,</span></div>
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<div>Assoc. Prof. Adam Schembri, PhD <a href="https://latrobe.academia.edu/AdamSchembri">
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<div>Department of Languages & Linguistics | School of Humanities and Social Sciences | College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce | La Trobe University | Melbourne (Bundoora) | Victoria | 3086 | Australia |Tel : +61 3 9479 2887 | Twitter: @AdamCSchembri
| Director, Centre for Research on Language Diversity <a href="http://www.latrobe.edu.au/crld">http://www.latrobe.edu.au/crld</a> & Linguistics Discipline Research Program| Sign Language Linguistics Society: <a href="http://www.slls.eu/">http://www.slls.eu</a> | </div>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">12th International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR 12)</span></div>
<div><span style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, JANUARY 4-7, 2016</span></div>
<div><span style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">VENUE: Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre</span></div>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">TISLR 12 (www.tislr12.org</span><span style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">) invites unpublished research from any theoretical perspective that addresses sign languages. </span></div>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">Presentations and poster sessions will be included on such topics as:</span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">• </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">phonetics and phonology of sign languages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">• </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">lexicology of sign languages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">• </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">morphology of sign languages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">• </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">syntax of sign languages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">• </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">sign language discourse<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">• </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">semantics and pragmatics of sign languages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">• </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">historical sign language linguistics, including sign language emergence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">• </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">sign language acquisition as a first, second or additional language<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">• </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">sociolinguistic variation and change in sign languages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">• </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">contact between sign languages and spoken languages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">• </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">neuroscience and sign languages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">• </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">psycholinguistics of sign languages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">• </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">sign language literature and performance (e.g., poetry)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">• </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">computational modelling, recognition and synthesis, of sign languages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">• </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">sign language documentation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">• </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">the relationship between sign languages and gesture</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">The programme will have no parallel sessions, with 50-60 presentations over four days. The majority of papers (possibly over 100) will be accepted for poster
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">Dr. Robert Adam (University College London)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">Prof. Nick Enfield (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics/University of Sydney)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">Prospective authors are invited to submit an abstract, up to 500 words (+ 1 optional page of references, examples, and/or figures if necessary) by <b>28th
February 2015</b>. Notification will occur by late March 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">All abstracts will be handled and reviewed electronically via EasyChair (</span><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tislr12"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 233);">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tislr12</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">).
You will need to set up an Easy Chair account (if you do not already have one) before you login for your submission.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">When completing the submission form on EasyChair, you will see a space which </span><span style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">asks for an abstract to be typed
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">NOTE: To facilitate interpreter planning, <b>please indicate AFTER THE TITLE</b> of your paper <b>which language you will present in</b> if your abstract is
accepted: Auslan; ASL; International Sign; English.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">The submission form in EasyChair also asks you:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">• </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">whether you prefer a presentation/paper or a poster (note that
the final decision will be taken by the local organizing committee based on recommendations from the scientific committee)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">• </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">whether you want to be considered for best early career submission
prize (you are eligible to be considered if you are a student or within 3 years of earning your PhD, and are first author on the submitted abstract)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">• </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">which of the conference topic(s) your paper relates to (NOTE: to
facilitate the review process, <b>make sure you select at least one topic</b> though you may select more than one)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">• </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(43, 42, 41);">to include any keywords that do not appear in the topics list that
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(3) a concise summary of the research findings/conclusion. <b>These three criteria will be used by the scientific committee when reviewing your abstract, so make sure your submission addresses them.</b> Work must be unpublished at time of presentation. There
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