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Welcome to the homepage for the 2024 ULAB conference, to be held at the University of Sussex.
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 network with each other and showcase their research. The ULAB 2024 conference will be hosted by the University of Sussex, 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 Sussex. 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.
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 network with each other and showcase their research. The ULAB 2024 conference will be hosted by the University of Sussex, 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 Sussex. 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.
Venue
University of Sussex
Presentations will be held in Silverstone 309 and Silverstone 121, and lunch will be in Silverstone 317. All further information is in the conference programme, to be downloaded under in the documents section.
Presentations will be held in Silverstone 309 and Silverstone 121, and lunch will be in Silverstone 317. All further information is in the conference programme, to be downloaded under in the documents section.
Schedule
Friday 5th April:
9:00-9:30 Registration Silverstone ground floor social space (112)
9:30-10:00 Welcome to ULAB Sussex 2024 Silverstone 121
10:00-11:00 Alba Arias Álvarez: Sociophonetic variation in Puerto Rican Spanish: who gives a roll about r’s? Silverstone 121
11:00-12:00 Student presentations Silverstone 121, Silverstone 309
12:00-13:00 Lunch Silverstone 317
13:00-14:00 Panel: Postgraduate study Silverstone 121
14:00-15:15 Student presentations Silverstone 121, Silverstone 309
15:15-16:15 Workshop: Lynne Murphy, SAVE THE NEWS!!! Silverstone 121
Saturday 6th April:
9:00-9:30 Registration Silverstone ground floor social space (112)
9:30-10:30 Rhys Sandow: Lexis-Oriented Sociolinguistics: Opportunities and Insights from Vocabulary Variation Studies Silverstone 121
10:30-12:00 Student presentations Silverstone 121, Silverstone 309
12:00-13:00 Lunch & QMUL PG opportunities Silverstone 317
13:00-14:00 Workshop: John Walker, Introduction to British Sign Language (BSL) Silverstone 121
14:00-15:15 Student presentations Silverstone 121, Silverstone 309
15:15-16:00 Student poster presentations Silverstone 317
Sunday 7th April:
9:00-9:30 Registration Silverstone ground floor social space (112)
9:30-10:30 Laura Bailey: Exploring non-standard syntax: Insights from Tyneside English and the Online Discourse Community Silverstone 121
10:30-11:00 Student presentations Silverstone 121, Silverstone 309
11:00-12:00 Panel: Being involved with ULAB Silverstone 121
12:00-13:00 Lunch Silverstone 317
13:00-14:00 Workshop: Melanie Green & Shammah Makpu, Crosslinguistic patterns Silverstone 317
14:00-15:00 Student presentations Silverstone 121, Silverstone 309
15:00-17:00 Annual General Meeting Silverstone 121
Socials
Friday 5th April
19:00-21:00 TaskmArtie Room 76, Falmer House
Saturday 6th April
19:00-21:00 Conference dinner The Font, Union Street, South Lanes, BN1 1HA
*Please note dinner will not be provided by ULAB
Sunday 7th April
19:00 ULAB closing party Silverstone building (third floor)
Submission guidelines*
*Submissions now closed.
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 we aim to have three presentation formats: long talks (roughly 20-25 minutes), short talks (roughly 5-10 minutes), and poster presentations. You will be asked to indicate which format you would prefer.
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 we aim to have three presentation formats: long talks (roughly 20-25 minutes), short talks (roughly 5-10 minutes), and poster presentations. You will be asked to indicate which format you would prefer.