southeast conference linguistics secol 30th anniversary meeting spring 1999 linguistics twenty first century call papers due december 7 old dominion university host spring 1999 meeting secol held norfolk waterside marriott norfolk virginia april 8th 9th 10th celebrating 30th anniversary founding organization featured speakers spring meeting william labov university pennsylvania walt wolfram north carolina state university labov make presentation triumph southern sound changes showing certain elements southern dialect found occurring throughout north america walt wolfram presentation southern context earlier aave based examination longstanding african american communities pamlico sound area north carolina argues earlier african american speech much diverse contemporary version vernacular explains aave undergone dramatic movement toward normative vernacular last half century addition natalie schilling estes moderate discussion group younger scholars fieldwork new century deal ethical issues approaches fieldwork current emerging technologies fieldwork priorities 21st century abstract guidelines please send six copies abstract paper exceed 300 words secol office consideration program committee put name abstracts may judged anonymously please copy fill following form staple one copy abstract papers refereed notify committee decisions abstracts must arrive secol office later 7 december 1998 guidelines give title paper top page give name identifying information abstracts judged program committee without knowledge identity authors ii abstracts longer 300 words must typewritten doublespaced copies may xeroxed iii statement topic purpose paper included preferably first paragraph paper involves analysis linguistic materials give appropriate examples along brief indication important argument b paper present results experiments yet results indicate nature experiments results significant c state relevance ideas past work future development field state conclusion however tentative avoid saying things like solution problem presented taking stand controversial issue simply say side take summarize arguments lead take position name affiliation mailing address title paper indicate special equipment needs papers meeting designed 20 minutes delivery time abstracts must arrive secol office later 7 december 1998 send six copies abstract marvin ching joan weatherly southeastern conference linguistics department english university memphis memphis tn 38152