Final CfP: Rice Working Papers in Linguistics. Deadline this Friday.

[Benjamin Chauvette]

RICE WORKING PAPERS IN LINGUISTICS, VOLUME 4
FINAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
DEADLINE: Friday, December 14, 2012

Rice Working Papers in Linguistics is currently soliciting submissions 
for its fourth volume. Please see the guidelines below and consider 
submitting your work to the editors at <rwpl at rice.edu>.

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Rice Working Papers in Linguistics (RWPL; ISSN 1944-0081) is a refereed, 
open-access online publication of the Rice Linguistics Society, with 
support from the Department of Linguistics at Rice University in 
Houston, TX.

RWPL publishes working papers and squibs that emphasize functional, 
usage-based approaches to the study of language. The publication focuses 
on issues related to empirical aspects of linguistics. To that end, we 
especially welcome methodological and ethical discussions, 
sociolinguistic and areal survey reports, field reports, and project 
post-mortems. Presentations of intriguing or difficult data, 
particularly ones that merit further research, are also encouraged.

With the exception of ESL/TESOL and speech-language pathology, 
submissions in almost all subfields of linguistics will be considered 
for publication. Acceptable subfields include, but are not limited to 
cognitive/ functional linguistics, documentary and descriptive 
linguistics, language revitalization, sociolinguistics (including 
sociophonetics), discourse and corpus linguistics, language typology and 
universals, language change and grammaticalization, laboratory phonetics 
and phonology, language processing, and psycholinguistics.

Information about past volumes of the working papers is available at 
<http://rls.rice.edu/rwpl/>.

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Submissions must meet the following minimum style requirements:

* Maximum 30 pages in length, not including references,
appendices, tables, and figures
* 12pt font size, using one of the following typefaces:
- Linux Libertine
- FreeSerif
- Liberation Serif
- Times New Roman
* One inch (1”) margins on all sides
* Letter sized paper (8.5”x11”)
* Double spaced throughout

In addition, to ensure a fair review process, all information that could 
reveal a paper's authorship must be removed from both its content and 
metadata prior to its submission.

Accepted submissions will be required to follow the RWPL Style Sheet, 
available at <http://rls.rice.edu/rwpl/style-sheet/>.

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RWPL accepts only electronic submissions, which must be emailed to the 
editors at <rwpl at rice.edu>. The body of the email must contain the 
following information:

* Title of paper
* Author name(s)
* Author affiliation(s)
* Author contact information
* Acknowledgments (if desired)

All submissions must also attach the following items as separate files 
to the email:

* A document containing the title of the paper, at least
3 keywords, and a maximum 350 word abstract
* A copy of the paper in one of the following formats:
- Word 97/2000/XP/2003 (.doc)
- Word 2007/2010 (.docx)
- OpenDocument (.odt)
- LaTeX (.tex)
* A copy of the paper as a PDF


The deadline for submissions is Friday, December 14, 2012.

Questions regarding the submissions process or style requirements may be 
addressed to the editors via email at <rwpl at rice.edu>.