Submission guidelines:

Abstracts for papers (15 minutes in length with 5 minutes for questions) must clearly articulate the theoretical significance of the project and provide clear evidence of results. 

Abstracts for posters should provide clear evidence of a completed project with clear results of original research.  

NWAV 52 will continue the tradition of project launch, in which undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdocs may present a project in its early stages in order to get feedback from the NWAV community. This option is available for the poster session only. 

Abstracts may be submitted in any of the languages of the conference: English, Spanish, Portuguese, or Haitian Creole. We encourage authors submitting in Spanish, Portuguese, or Haitian Creole to submit an English language version of the abstract (in translation) as an addendum. We encourage authors submitting in English to submit a second version of the abstract in one of the other languages of the conference (in translation) as an addendum. The language of the primary submission will be the language of the presentation.

All abstracts must be anonymized and submitted using the online submission page. They should be no more than 500 words in length. Authors also have the option to include a bibliography, glossed/transcribed examples, tables and/or images; these do not count toward the word limit. An optional (but encouraged) second version in a second language of the conference follows the same guidelines. 

Individuals are limited to a maximum of two submissions, with only one being single-authored.

All submissions will be anonymously reviewed and considered for both presentation formats (poster and presentation). There will be 4 concurrent sessions consisting of a 15min presentation and 5min period for questions, as well as a 2hr poster session providing for free-flow presentation and discussion.