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<span style="color:#212121">I am writing because Gašper Beguš (UC Berkeley) and I are putting together a special issue of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Linguistics Vanguard</i> of particular interest to many members of this list. LV is<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>a
relatively new journal that aims to publish short, 3000-4000 word articles on cutting-edge issues of interest to linguists). Because the journal is online, multimodal submissions are encouraged.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121">The issue is on the implications of language learning models (LLMs, other neural networks, Bayesian or instance-based models) for linguistic theory. We are especially interested in model comparisons, but are also open to position
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<span style="color:#212121">Abstracts will be due July 1, with invitations for full papers to follow. Full papers will be expected in late fall, with the special issue coming out early next year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121">The full call and the link to submit abstracts are here:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>https://blogs.uoregon.edu/ublab/lmlt/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121">Please feel free to forward to anyone else who might be interested! And also to contact me with any questions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Best,</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Volya</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">-- </span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Vsevolod Kapatsinski</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Professor</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Department of Linguistics, University of Oregon<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">visiting at Department of English, University of Freiburg</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Area Editor,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Linguistics Vanguard</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(cog, exp, comp)</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">blogs.uoregon.edu/ublab/</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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