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  • Student contest: 2021 Babel Young Writers' Competition

    From Tristan Miller@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 30 14:32:01 2021
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    Dear all,

    Below is a call for submissions to our annual contest for student
    writers. (Cross-posted to comp.ai.nat-lang as contributions from
    undergraduate students of computational linguistics are also most welcome.)

    Sincerely,
    Tristan Miller
    Babel Advisory Panel

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    This year, Babel: The Language Magazine <https://babelzine.co.uk/> will
    be running the eighth edition of our Young Writers' Competition, which encourages young linguists who are starting out on their study of language.

    The competition is open to all linguistics students in further and
    higher education (i.e., at sixth-form, college or university). If you
    are a keen Babel reader and language lover, get writing to be in with a
    chance of getting yourself published -- as well as a year's subscription
    to Babel!

    Keep an eye on @Babelzine on Twitter for inspiration from previous
    winners on topics ranging from sign language to spoonerisms, and from
    language birth to language death.

    The winners will be announced in October 2021. Good luck!


    Individual and group prizes
    ---------------------------

    We will publish two winners in our November 2021 issue -- one by an
    individual young linguist, and one by a group of young writers. This new
    option to submit as a team recognises the importance of group study in linguistics.


    This issue's theme: Attitudes to languages ------------------------------------------

    We want to hear about your views about and experiences of attitudes to language. Have you found that your use of certain words winds up older speakers? Has moving to university made you aware of varying perceptions
    to do with accent and dialect?


    Guidelines
    ----------

    Deadline: Friday 27 August 2021

    Length: Entries must be no more than 2,500 words.

    Topic: Entries can be about any topic that to do with languages and
    linguistics -- the important thing is that the article is accessible and interesting for Babel readers.

    Format: Entries should be clearly presented in a Word file, with images submitted as separate JPEGs.

    Submission: Entries should be emailed to
    babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com with the title "Young Writer's
    Competition".

    --
    Dr.-Ing. Tristan Miller, Research Scientist
    Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI)
    Freyung 6/3, 1010 Vienna, Austria | Tel: +43 1 5324621 3 https://logological.org/ | https://punderstanding.ofai.at/

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