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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">Dear colleagues and friends:</p>
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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">I am pleased to announce that <i><a href="https://escholarship.org/uc/himalayanlinguistics">Himalayan Linguistics</a></i>, 17.2/December 2018 is now published and available for your reading pleasure. <i>Himalayan Linguistics</i> is completely open access, and there is no charge to access articles or to subscribe for updates. You can do any of this by visiting this page:</p>
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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">In this issue, we have three articles and one archival contribution:</p>
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<p class="gmail-p3" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">1. Joanna Bialek: </span><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-kerning:none">The Proto-Tibetan clusters sL- and sR-and the periodisation of Old Tibetan</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p3" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span class="gmail-s3" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">2. </span><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-kerning:none">Kalyan Das, Shakuntala Mahanta: Distribution of lexical tones in Boro</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p3" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span class="gmail-s3" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">3. </span><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-kerning:none">Sh. Francis Monsang, Sahiinii Lemaina Veikho: Sound system of Monsang</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p3" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span class="gmail-s3" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">4. </span><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-kerning:none">Linda Konnerth, Sikari Tisso: Karbi texts</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p4" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(51,51,51);min-height:14px"><span class="gmail-s4" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p5" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span class="gmail-s4" style="font-kerning:none">Past and current authors will notice a nice (and relatively new) feature of <i>HL</i> articles as they are housed on the eScholarship platform: They all have DOI (digital object identifiers), which greatly aids in tracking digital publications over the long term, for example when you enter this information into various online portals. Other changes and improvements to the HL page are in the pipeline, and I will announce these changes as they happen.</span></p>
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<p class="gmail-p5" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span class="gmail-s4" style="font-kerning:none">As we look towards the future, I want to let potential authors know that issue 18.2/December 2019 will be a regular issue in the sense that any articles submitted and peer-reviewed for acceptance by the end of September/October are eligible for publication in that issue. But in 18.1 and for 2-3 issues afterwards, we will have a series of themed/special issues coming out. Please stay tuned into the <i>HL</i> site to find out more about these exciting developments!</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p4" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(51,51,51);min-height:14px"><span class="gmail-s4" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p5" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span class="gmail-s4" style="font-kerning:none">Finally: I want to remind everyone that <i>HL</i> is maintained entirely through the (uncompensated) volunteer efforts of the editor, the editorial board, and the advisory board. I wish to extend my gratitude to our editorial and advisory board, and especially to our copy-editor You-Jing Lin, who always helps me to get these important publications out in beautiful form.</span></p>
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<p class="gmail-p5" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span class="gmail-s4" style="font-kerning:none"><a href="mailto:khildeb@siue.edu">khildeb@siue.edu</a></span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Orche<br>('Thanks' in Manange)<div><br><i>Kristine A. Hildebrandt</i></div><div><i style="font-size:12.8px">Associate Professor, <a href="http://www.siue.edu/artsandsciences/english/" target="_blank">Department of English Language & Literature</a></i><i><br></i></div><div><i>President, <a href="http://www.endangeredlanguagefund.org/" target="_blank">Endangered Language Fund</a></i></div><div><i>Secretary, <a href="http://www.linguistic-typology.org/" target="_blank">Association for Linguistic Typology</a><br></i></div><div><i>Editor, <a href="http://escholarship.org/uc/himalayanlinguistics" target="_blank">Himalayan Linguistics</a></i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>Southern Illinois University Edwardsville</i><br></div><div><div><i>Box 1431<br>Edwardsville, IL 62026 U.S.A.<br>618-650-3991 (department voicemail)</i><div><i><a href="mailto:khildeb@siue.edu" target="_blank">khildeb@siue.edu</a><br><a href="http://www.siue.edu/~khildeb" target="_blank">http://www.siue.edu/~khildeb<br></a></i></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>