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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;mso-bidi-language:BN">The Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics at the University of Oxford will be hosting the 25<sup>th</sup> International
Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL25)<b>,</b> from <b>1<sup>st</sup> to 5<sup>th</sup> August 2022</b>
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-bidi-language:BN">(with the possibility that some workshops will take place immediately before the conference, on
<b>Sunday, 31<sup>st</sup> July</b>).</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;mso-bidi-language:BN">
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>This conference has been postponed from the originally planned year of 2021. <o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;mso-bidi-language:BN">The ICHL brings together historical linguists and specialists in related fields to explore advances in
areas including methods and practices of linguistic reconstruction; formal approaches to language change; historical sociolinguistics; computational approaches to historical linguistics; contact and areal linguistics; interfaces between historical linguistics
and other disciplines; and many other related areas. </span></i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;mso-bidi-language:BN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;mso-bidi-language:BN">Abstracts are now invited for papers in the general session and for poster presentations:
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-bidi-language:BN">Each paper accepted will be allocated 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for questions and discussion.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>In addition, two 90-minute poster sessions are planned.<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-bidi-language:BN">Please note the following points<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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</span>Abstracts should be submitted as an anonymous, single pdf document in 12pt Times Roman font, and be no more than one A4 page long (you may include a second page for references).<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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</span>Abstracts should be submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ichl25). The deadline for submission is
<b>15<sup>th</sup> December 2021</b>.<o:p> <i>[Please note this is later than originally advertised!]</i></o:p></span></p>
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</span>You should indicate whether you wish your paper to take the form of a <b>talk</b> or a
<b>poster</b> (or whether you will accept either format).<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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</span>You should indicate whether you would prefer your talk to be assigned to a workshop* (see below).<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Details of workshops will be announced in early November 2021.<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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</span>Acceptance of papers will be announced by the end of January 2022. <o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;mso-bidi-language:BN"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;mso-bidi-language:BN">Authors may submit a
<b>maximum of two</b> abstracts, whether sole authored or co-authored: this includes submissions to workshops.
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<i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;mso-bidi-language:BN">* Abstracts may be submitted for the general session or for one of the workshops. Abstracts submitted
for a workshop, but not accepted there, will automatically be considered for inclusion in the general session. If authors wish to submit an abstract for a workshop, we encourage them to contact the workshop organizers ahead of time for advice on workshop coherence. <o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;mso-bidi-language:BN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;mso-bidi-language:BN;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">Workshop proposals and abstracts for the general session will be reviewed
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-bidi-language:BN;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">(in anonymized form)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;mso-bidi-language:BN;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">
by members of the ICHL25 Abstract Reading Committee. <o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-bidi-language:BN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;mso-bidi-language:BN">Workshops:
<o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
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</span>The afternoon of Tuesday, 2 August is reserved for six workshops, with a maximum of seven talks each (20 + 10 minutes each)<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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</span>Sunday, 31 July has also been reserved for two workshops; which may be full-day or half-day.<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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