WECOL 2018: Western Conference on Linguistics 2018 California State University, Fresno Fresno, CA, United States, November 30-December 2, 2018 |
| Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wecol2018 |
| Abstract registration deadline | September 9, 2018 |
| Submission deadline | September 9, 2018 |
| Abstract notification | October 15, 2018 |
The Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL) is an international conference on any aspects of theoretical, experimental, documentary, or computational linguistics. It publishes conference presentations (talks and posters) in the WECOL Proceedings online at the website of the Department of Linguistics at the California State University, Fresno: http://www.fresnostate.edu/artshum/linguistics/wecolproceedings.html.
Submission Guidelines
All submissions (talks and posters) must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.
Abstracts are invited for 20-minute talks (with 10 minutes for discussion) or poster presentations on anys aspect of theoretical, experimental, documentary, or computational linguistics.
Abstracts must be limited to 500 words, with one extra page for examples, figures, tables, and references. The format of the abstract should follow the guidelines below:
- Title centered at top of page, in bold, in sentence case.
- Including word count at the end of the abstract.
- Anonymous: authors’ names and affiliations should not be indicated anywhere on the abstract pages.
- Filename: lastname_firstname.pdf
List of Topics
- Theoretical linguistics
- Documentation of endangered languages
- Psycholinguistics
- Lanugage acquisition
Plenaries (titles TBA)
Henry Davis University of British Columbia
Junko Ito & Armin Mester University of California Santa Cruz
Bill vanPatten Michigan State University (retired)
Workshop ‘Metadata Creation for Digital Archiving’
Martha Tsutsui SOAS University of London
Committees
Program Committee
- Chris Golston
- Jidong Chen
- Brian Agbayani
- Xinchun Wang
- Michael Shepherd
- John Boyle
- John Lyon
Organizing committee
- Chris Golston
- Jidong Chen
- Brian Agbayani
- Michael Shepherd
- John Boyle
- John Lyon
- Matthew Driscoll
Publication
Conference papers will be published in the WECOL 2018 Proceedings online at: http://www.fresnostate.edu/artshum/linguistics/wecolproceedings.html
Venue
The conference will be held in California State University, Fresno.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Chris Golston (chrisg@mail.fresnostate.edu).