31st Penn Linguistics Colloquium - Second Call for Papers

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The 31st Penn Linguistics Colloquium:
Second Call for Papers

The 31st Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium will take place February 23-25, 2007
at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Keynote Speaker:
Harald Clahsen
University of Essex
"Psycholinguistic studies of grammatical representation:
Evidence from acquisition, processing, and disorders"

Special Session:
"Integrating Models of Language Change"

Papers on any topic in linguistics and associated fields are welcome. We
particularly encourage submissions for work done on the topic of the special
session.

Speakers will have 20 minutes for their presentations and 5 minutes for
discussion and questions.

Deadline: Abstracts are due by Wednesday, November 15, 2006. Notification of
acceptance/rejection will be given on Monday, January 15, 2007.

Length: Please limit abstracts to one page, single- or double-spaced, using 1''
margins on all sides and 11pt font size. An additional page may be used for
examples, references and tables. Do not include your name or affiliation within
the abstract.

Abstract submission will be done online, on the PLC website:
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/. Follow the instructions under "Abstract
Submission". When submitting your abstract, please specify whether you would
like to be considered for the general sessions or the special session.
Submissions must be in PDF format.

Proceedings: Conference proceedings will be published as a volume of the Penn
Working Papers in Linguistics. Speakers will be invited to provide camera-ready
copies of their papers after the Colloquium.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Email plc31 at babel.ling.upenn.edu
Visit http://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/

Penn Linguistics Colloquium
Department of Linguistics
619 Williams Hall
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

This event is supported by funding from GSAC, the Graduate Student Association
Council of the University of Pennsylvania.