The call for abstracts for the Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL) is open now. It is an annual conference held in rotating locations in the western part of the United States and Canada since 1988. It focuses on any aspect of linguistics based at California State University, Fresno.

-Applied linguistics: language acquisition, language teaching, pragmatics, discourse analysis, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics.

-Theoretical linguistics: phonetics, phonology, morphology, semantics, syntax.

-Computational Linguistics

Submission Guidelines

All submissions must be original and not previously published. Submissions are limited to one individual and one joint abstract per author, or two joint abstracts per author. Abstracts are invited for 20-minute talks (with 10 minutes for discussion). Abstracts must be limited to 500 words, excluding references.

Please send your abstract in .docx, .doc format to the email of the conference: wecol2025.conf@gmail.com

In the body of the email, please include these information: title of paper, name(s) of author(s), affiliation, and research area.

Important Dates

Abstract Submission Deadline: 30 August 2025.

Conference Date: 21-22 November 2025.

The language of the conference is English.

Publication

All submitted conference papers will be published in the WECOL 2025 conference proceedings.