The 9th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (Evolang IX) will be held in the historical city of Kyoto, Japan, from the 13th to 16th of March 2012.
Abstract Submission Deadline Extended
The deadline for submissions has been extended to 8th September, 2011. No submissions will be accepted after that date. All submissions will be peer-reviewed, and authors will be notified of acceptance/rejection in early November.
Authors are limited to one first-authored podium presentation and one first-authored poster per person. There is no limit on second-authored presentations or posters. There are two possible types of submission: Full Papers, which can have a length of between 6 and 8 pages, and Abstracts, which can be up to 2 pages long. Either type of submission can be a talk or a poster.
As with the previous three Evolang conferences, the proceedings will be published by World Scientific. Submissions must be formatting according the following guidelines/stylesheets:
MS Word doc
MS Word pdf
Latex zip archive
Latex pdf
Submissions that do not conform to these guidelines will not appear in the conference proceedings. In particular, please do not change the margins, line spacing, font size, etc.Any queries regarding submissions can be sent to evolang9@ling.ed.ac.uk.
The submission site is undergoing some final preparations, and will be live in early-August.