Call for Abstracts

Note: Abstract Submission Deadline for 2015 will be announced soon. Stay tuned!

PSUxLing Travel Awards

Four travel stipends of up to $500 will be awarded to students with the most exceptional abstracts.
Penn State University is excited to announce the first Penn State Undergraduate Exhibition in Hispanic and General Linguistics (PSUxLing) to be held at Penn State (University Park) on Friday, October 3rd, 2014.

PSUxLing is dedicated to promoting excellence in undergraduate research in all fields of linguistics and aims to bring together undergraduate linguists from across the country to present their research. High quality undergraduate linguistics research projects will be showcased at a two-hour poster session where undergraduates will gain experience in and learn about research in the language sciences.

We invite undergraduate students to submit up to one single-authored and one jointly authored abstract for consideration. Abstracts should be 350-500 words, not including references, and should be submitted through the conference website (psuxling.weebly.com). Abstract submission deadline is May 15th. Notification of acceptance will be sent out early August. Please contact members of the PSUxLing organizing committee  at psuxling@gmail.com for more information.
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Tips for writing a competitive abstract...

  • Clear, interesting title
  • Brief discussion of the linguistic question your research addresses (Why is this research of interest to the linguistic community?)
  • Summarized information about your study (Participants, Stimuli, Experimental tasks, names of corpora if applicable, etc.)
  • Short, numbered examples if they help make your topic clearer
  • Results and a brief discussion
  • Only cite references that you actually refer to in the abstract, not the reference list from your study