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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#323232'>Conference Title: 16th China International Conference on Contemporary Linguistics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#323232'>Date: October 28 - 30, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#323232'>Location: Tongji University, Shanghai, China<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#323232'>Organizer: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, School of Foreign Languages of Tongji University, and Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages of The Chinese University of Hong Kong<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#323232'>Invited Speaker of the session: Onno Crasborn (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#323232'>Deadline for abstract submission: July 6, 2016 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#323232'>Notification of acceptance: August 20, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#323232'>Contact and conference information: <a href="mailto:contempling@163.com">contempling<span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>@163.com</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> (email) <a href="http://sfl.tongji.edu.cn/mt/index.html">http://sfl.tongji.edu.cn/mt/index.html</a> (conference website) <a href="http://www.ddyyx.com/home/show?channelID=137&contentID=9720">http://www.ddyyx.com/home/show?channelID=137&contentID=9720</a> (Contemporary Linguistics website)</span><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial-BoldMT;color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial-BoldMT;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#323232'>Description:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#323232'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#323232'>The 16th China International Conference on Contemporary Linguistics will be held at Tongji University, Shanghai, on 28-30 October, 2016. Given the recognition of the importance of Sign Linguistics and the burgeoning interest in sign language research in China, the 16th China International Conference on Contemporary Linguistics is pleased to announce a thematic session on Sign Linguistics on this occasion. Papers addressing issues in the following areas from any theoretical perspectives are welcome. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#323232'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#323232'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#323232'>Phonetics and phonology <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#323232'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#323232'>Morphology <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#323232'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#323232'>Syntax <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#323232'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#323232'>Semantics and pragmatics <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#323232'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#323232'>Acquisition of sign language as a first or second language, including bimodal bilingual acquisition <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#323232'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#323232'>Psycholinguistics processing <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#323232'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#323232'>Neuroscience and sign languages <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#323232'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#323232'>Sign Language Documentation & Corpus linguistics <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#323232'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#323232'>Sociolinguistics <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:ArialMT;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#323232'>Abstract format:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#323232'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#323232'>1. Abstracts should be written in English or in Chinese. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#323232'>2. Abstracts written in English should not exceed 500 words. Abstracts written in Chinese should not exceed 600 characters.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#323232'>3. Two copies of abstract should be prepared:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='margin-bottom:3.4pt;text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#323232'>a. one copy with abstract title, key words, and information of the author (name, postal address, email address, and contact phone <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='margin-bottom:3.4pt;text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#323232'> number(required)).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#323232'>b. one anonymous copy with abstract title and content only.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#323232'>c. the subject category (i.e. field of research, such as syntax, semantics, acquisition …) should be added on the left side of the header in <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#323232'>both copies.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#323232'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Jafi Lee <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Centre for Sign Linguistics and Deaf Studies, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>