We invite submission of abstracts relating to any of these five themes. Please send a single copy of your abstract either by postal mail to

or by email to

Abstracts must arrive at MPI by 14 January 2000. Please leave sufficient time for delivery.

Abstracts sent by postal mail may contain up to one page of text and up to one additional page for references, figures, examples, etc.

Abstracts submitted by email may contain up to 800 words (including references, examples, etc.) and should be submitted as the main body of the message (not as any type of attachment). They should contain ASCII text only; for phonetic symbols in emailed abstracts, please use the SAMPA symbols described at http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/home.htm.

Faxed abstracts will not be accepted.

Abstracts should be anonymous. If sending an abstract through the post, please attach a card to the abstract stating your name, mailing address, email address, affiliation, title of your abstract, and preference for poster or oral presentation, as well as the theme which you feel your abstract most closely addresses. For email submissions, list this information at the bottom of your message. The organizers reserve the right to assign accepted abstracts to an alternate theme and to assign abstracts to poster presentation.

Authors should note that the schedule for publication for the LabPhon proceedings is being changed as of LabPhon 7. Authors will be required to submit draft papers by 28 April 2000, and to bring nearly final versions of their papers (to be sent out for review) to the conference. The deadline for absolutely final versions (after the review process) will be 1 December 2000. Only papers accepted for oral presentation will be considered for publication.