ULAB 2023: The Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain Annual Conference 2023 University of Manchester Manchester, UK, April 13-15, 2023

The Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain (ULAB) was founded in 2011. Since then, ULAB has hosted an annual conference which aims to give undergraduate students, and recent graduates, a chance to showcase their research. The ULAB 2023 conference will be hosted by the University of Manchester, with participation both in-person and online being an option for attendees. The conference is being organised by a group of undergraduate students at the University of Manchester. Every year, a prize sponsored by the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB) is awarded to the best presentation, as voted on by the conference attendees. The prize consists of free LAGB membership for a year and the opportunity to attend and present the research at the following LAGB Annual Meeting with full funding, as well as the option to receive coaching and advice in presenting at academic conferences with a member of the LAGB committee.

Submission Guidelines

Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words. If you have not written an abstract before, you can find a helpful guide to writing an abstract on our website here: https://www.ulab.org.uk/about-ulab

All submissions must fall within the field of linguistics. As this is an undergraduate conference, the bulk of the work for all submissions must have been carried out whilst the author was an undergraduate student of linguistics or a related discipline, and so long as their undergraduate studies were completed no more than three years prior to submitting the abstract. We accept abstracts from students all over the world! You don't have to be studying at a British University to apply, and we gladly welcome abstracts from further afield. All abstract submissions must be in English.

This year will be two types of presentations: short talks (10-15 minute talk plus 5 minutes of questions) and poster presentations. You will be asked to indicate in the submission form what your preferred presentation type is.

List of Topics

We accept papers that fall within the field of linguistics. Potential subfields include (but are not limited to):

• Phonetics
• Phonology
• Morphology
• Syntax
• Semantics
• Pragmatics
• Language Acquisition (first, second or third)
• Dialectology
• Psycholinguistics
• Sociolinguistics
• Discourse Analysis
• Corpus Linguistics
• Language Evolution
• Sign Language Linguistics
• Animal Communication
• Neurolinguistics
• Computational Linguistics
• Language Pathology and Language Impairment
• Language Typology
• Bilingualism and Multilingualism
• Translation and Interpretation Studies
• Stylistics
• Historical Linguistics
• Philosophy of Language

Invited Speakers

tbc

Publication

We will aim to publish proceedings from the ULAB 2023 conference, and these will likely be hosted on Zenodo, an open access platform. See here for proceedings from the ULAB 2022 conference:

https://zenodo.org/record/7116695#.Y35D3-zP3t0

Venue

University of Manchester

Thursday 13 April and Friday 14 April 2023 in the following rooms:

• Theatre: Simon Theatre D

• Presentation/Lunch Room: Simon 3.44B

• Office Use: Simon 3.62

Saturday 15 April 2023

• Manchester Student Union 

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to ulab.manchester@gmail.com