2007 Mid-America Linguistics Conference

Oct. 26-28, 2007 at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

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How to Submit Your MALC Proceedings Paper

Title of Your MALC Paper

Justin Jayhawk and Diana Truman
University of Kansas and University of Missouri

1.  Introduction

The Proceedings of the 2007 Mid-America Linguistics Conference (MALC) will be published as a special online volume of the Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics (KWPL), vol. 30.  Your contribution to the Proceedings volume is due Feb 1, 2008.  Please send the pdf file of your paper to Prof. Jie Zhang at zhang@ku.edu.  Queries about the Proceedings should also be directed to zhang@ku.edu.  We expect the Proceedings to appear online mid 2008.
     You can access all KWPL volumes at http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/handle/1808/276.  You can also find the link to KWPL from the website of the KU Linguistics Department at http://www.linguistics.ku.edu/.
     This paper template is formatted according to the style of the Proceedings.  Please follow the instructions on this stylesheet.  The easiest way is to use this template in the preparation of your paper and check the details against this file.

2.  Page layout and style

2.1.  Basic layout

Your page format should be US Letter, and your paper should be a maximum of 15 pages (25 pages for invited speakers), single-spaced.  Set margins to 1 inch on all four sides.  Please do not number your pages and leave the header and footer empty; they will be added later.  The basic font for your paper should be Times or Times New Roman.  If you are using special fonts for IPA symbols or trees, make sure you embed all the fonts when making the pdf file.  Please justify your text on both sides.

2.2.  Title, author(s), and affiliation(s)

The title of your paper should be in 14 point bold.  Leave a blank line, and then type your name(s) in italic.  On the next line, type your affiliation(s) in italic.  The title, the author’s name(s) and affiliation(s) should be centered on the page.  Leave two blank lines, and start the body of your paper.

2.3.  Headings

Section headings (including sub-headings and sub-sub headings) are left justified in 12 point bold with the first letter capitalized and the rest of the heading in lower case.  See examples in this file.  No more than 3 levels of headings should be used.
     The headings are separated from the text and other headings by an empty line.  The first paragraph of a section is flushed to the left.  Later paragraphs are indented 0.25 inch.

2.4.  Figures and tables

Figures and tables should be centered on the page.  Captions should follow the figures and tables, centered, with a 0.5 inch indentation on both sides.  Figure x or Table y should be in 12 point bold.  The rest of the caption should be in regular 12 point.

Figure 1:  The vowel chart in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).

2.5.  Examples

Examples should be set out from the text with an empty line, with continuous numbering (1), (2), etc.  Use roman letters followed by a dot for sub-examples, as shown below.  Please make sure that your example numbers are consistent with your text references.

(1) a.   This is an example.
      b.  This is another example.

(2)  This is a free-standing example.

2.6.  Footnotes

Footnotes, not endnotes, should be used.  Footnotes should be in 10 point font, justified on both sides.  Here is an example.

2.7.  References

As shown in the examples below, “References” should be in 12 point bold, centered on the page, separated by two empty lines from the end of the last section and one line from the references.  Each reference should be in regular 12 point font, with a hanging indent of 0.25 inch, justified on both sides.  There should be no line separating individual references.
     As general guidelines, the examples below show how journal articles, books, conference proceedings, papers in edited volumes, and dissertations should be referenced.  You may deviate slightly from these examples according to your own style, but make sure you are consistent throughout your reference section.

2.8.  Authors’ contact information

At the very end of your paper (two empty lines after the last reference), list the email(s) of the author(s) in italic as shown in this document.

References

Berko, Jean (1958).  The child’s learning of English morphology.  Word 14: 150-177.
Broselow, Ellen (1995).  Skeletal positions and moras.  In John A. Goldsmith (ed.), The
      handbook of phonological theory.  Blackwell, Cambridge, MA and Oxford, UK.  175-205.
Jun, Jongho, Jungsun Kim, Hayoung Lee, and Sun-Ah Jun (2006).  The prosodic structure and
      pitch accent of Northern Kyungsang Korean.  Journal of East Asian Linguistics 15: 289-317.
McCarthy, John (1999).  Sympathy and phonological opacity.  Phonology 16: 331-399.
Sumner, Megan (2003).  Testing the abstractness of phonological representations in Modern
      Hebrew weak verbs.  Ph.D. dissertation, State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Tsay, Jane and James Myers (1996).  Taiwanese tone sandhi as allomorph selection. Proceedings
      of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society.  394-405.
Urbanczyk, Suzanne (2001).  Patterns of reduplication in Lushootseed.  Garland, New York.

Author contact information:

Justin Jayhawk:          justinjayhawk@ku.edu
Diana Truman:           dianatruman@missouri.edu

contact: malc@ku.edu

Phone: (785) 864-3450

1541 Lilac Lane
Blake Hall, Room 427
Lawrence, KS 66044-3177