The 2008 Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL) will be held November 21-23 at the University of California, Davis. This year's conference will include a general session, a poster session, and a special session on language pathology.

Invited Speakers:

Harald Baayen
Diane Brentari

General Session:

The general session will cover all areas of linguistic interest and welcomes papers from all major linguistic subfields and frameworks, as well as from related cross-disciplinary areas.

Special Session on Language Pathology:

Papers on any aspect of language pathology are invited, including clinical and linguistic studies. We especially encourage submissions in two areas:

1. Language pathology and brain imaging (including fMRI's and ERP's)
2. Linguistic investigations of language pathology (including theoretical approaches as well as acoustic studies, etc.).

Poster Session:

Submissions are also welcome for a poster session featuring posters on any of the above topics or any other area of linguistic interest.

Submission guidelines

Abstracts are invited for 20-minute talks (plus 10 minutes of discussion) or for the poster session. Abstracts can be submitted through the Abstract Submission page. You may submit your abstract for the general session or the regular session

Only online PDF submissions through the Abstract Submission page will be accepted. Abstracts should be anonymous, and limited to two pages (using 1'' margins on all sides and 12pt font size). Data and examples must be given within the body of the text rather than at the end. Any non-standard fonts should be embedded in the PDF document.

Please choose up to four keywords to help us match your abstract to relevant reviewers. These could include the subfield and relevant languages for your paper.

Presented papers will be published in the online WECOL proceedings.

Submission deadline: extended to August 15th, 2008
Notification of Acceptance: September 15th, 2008