SECOND CIRCULAR (23-02-2004)

Dear Colleagues,

Please find below some further information concerning PLM 2004.

Abstracts

Our abstract submission and reviewing procedure for this year’s PLM is in full swing. We have already received and reviewed a fair number of abstracts, and those of you who have submitted a paper will be soon notified of acceptance. Abstracts of accepted papers will be progressively posted on our WWW page, starting Monday, 23 February 2004.

However, we have decided to extend the abstract submission deadline until 28 February 2004, so there is still some time left for those of you who have not sent us an abstract yet but would like to do so. Please note, too, that the deadlines for certain individual sessions and workshops may be different.

Registration

We would like to remind you that we need your registration to be able to book a hotel room for you and organise all the necessary logistics for the Meeting. If you have not registered yet, please visit our WWW page as soon as possible and use the registration form, or contact us directly by e-mail. Information on your date of arrival is vital, as are details of the equipment you might need for your presentation.

The fee

The registration fee will be 50 Euros. This will cover:

• conference materials;

• coffee/tea/biscuits during coffee breaks;

• transportation to and from the conference venue on the first and last day of the meeting.

Prices for meals and social events will be as follows:

• conference banquet: 20 Euros;

• lunch: 8 Euros;

• supper: 6 Euros.

The payment of the fee may be made in two ways:

• in cash upon arrival at the conference venue;

• by direct transfer to our bank account:

Bank Zachodni WBK, 6/O Poznań

account no. 77 1090 1362 0000 0000 3601 7903, subkonto 249 30 687.

IMPORTANT NOTE for Polish participants: You MUST use the account above if you need an invoice for your conference fee. Please transfer the funds as soon as possible to allow for the time taken by administrative procedures.

Programme

Our programme has meanwhile taken on a more tangible shape. The sessions confirmed so far include:

• A PLM/PASE joint session "The model of English pronunciation for foreign learners: three dictionaries, one model?" A panel discussion chaired by Jacek Fisiak and Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk. The invited speakers are: Peter Roach, Peter Trudgill, Clive Upton, John Wells, and Włodzimierz Sobkowiak.

• The latest advances in speech technology: Plenaries by Ron Cole and Dafydd Gibbon

• Intercomponential interfaces: Phonetics/phonology, morphology/syntax, etc.: Session organised by Geoff Schwartz.

• Controversial issues in Polish phonetics and phonology (19 May): Session organised by Marzena Zygis and Silke Hamann, with Wiktor Jassem as a special guest and a keynote speech by Jerzy Rubach.

• The potential of corpora (20 May): Workshop organised by Przemysław Kaszubski, with Dafydd Gibbon as a special guest.

• Phonology and phonetics.

• Morphology and syntax.

• Language and gender: Session organised by Agnieszka Kiełkiewicz-Janowiak and Joanna Pawelczyk.

• English in contact.

• Language typology.

More information can be found on our WWW page, which is updated on a regular basis.

Contact details

If you have any questions or doubts, please contact us by replying to this message.

Our regular mailing address is:

PLM 2004

Organising Committee

School of English

Adam Mickiewicz University

Collegium Novum

al. Niepodleglosci 4

61-874 Poznan

Poland

tel: +48 61 829 3506

fax: +48 61 852 3103

Best regards – looking forward to seeing you in Poznań.

PLM 2004 Organising Committee

Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk

Jarosław Weckwerth