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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-a700497e-7fff-83a5-d394-6cc0b656d28d"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are excited to announce the Second Edition of </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Words in the World (WoW) International Conference (WOW2021)</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. In the spirit of the first WOW Conference held in 2020, this virtual gathering offers a venue for the communication of ideas, intellectual exchange, and networking for trainees. We encourage students and postdoctoral fellows from all over the world to present their in-progress or completed work on the mental lexicon and word and language processing & representation in different contexts — from the lab to the real world — and in diverse populations across the life span. We invite presenters and attendees to engage in conversations with their colleagues on both academic research and non-academic topics.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This conference will take place online November 26-27, 2021.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Conference will include both brief (10-minute) talks via Zoom as well as posters that will take place in gather.town. The conference will strive to create presentation opportunities for trainees (for example, undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, recent graduates, and others). Papers presented can, of course, include a mix of trainees and faculty members as authors. Non-trainee first-authored papers will be considered for poster presentation only.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Abstract submission deadline: September 10, 2021</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submissions open: August 15, 2021 </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Decisions of the Scientific Committee will be announced: October 10, 2021</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">All further information, including submission guidelines, will be made available at <a href="http://wordsintheworld.ca">http://wordsintheworld.ca</a></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Questions? You can contact the organizers at <a href="mailto:wordsintheworldconference@gmail.com">wordsintheworldconference@gmail.com</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:A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<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(69,129,142)"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Dr. Juhani Jarvikivi (he/him)<br>
<br>Professor, </span></span><span style="color:rgb(69,129,142)"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Associate Chair - Undergraduate Studies<br></span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(69,129,142)"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><b>Department of Linguistics</b><br>4-55 Assiniboia Hall <br>University of Alberta<br>Edmonton T6G 2E7<br>CANADA <br><br>Tel: (780)-492-5697<br>Fax: (780)-492-0806<br><br>Homepage: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/~jarvikiv/" target="_blank">http://www.ualberta.ca/~jarvikiv/</a></span><br></span></div><span style="color:rgb(69,129,142)"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Centre for Comparative Psycholinguistics: </span><a href="http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/ccp/" target="_blank">http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/ccp/</a><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><ul><li><span style="color:rgb(69,129,142)"></span><span style="background-color:rgb(39,78,19)"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span></span><span style="color:rgb(56,118,29)"><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19)">(Co-)Editor: </span><b><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19)">The Mental Lexicon</span><span></span></b></span></span></span> <a href="https://benjamins.com/catalog/ml" target="_blank">https://benjamins.com/catalog/ml</a><br></li><li><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19)"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b>STEP2021:</b> <a href="http://ccp.artsrn.ualberta.ca/step/" target="_blank">http://ccp.artsrn.ualberta.ca/step/</a></span></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19)"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b><span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b>SSHRC </b></span></span>Words in the World: </b><a href="http://wordsintheworld.ca/" target="_blank">http://wordsintheworld.ca/</a></span></span></li></ul></div><div style="margin-left:40px"><span><span style="color:rgb(56,118,29)"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>