The special session of the World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL) will be hosted by the Department of Linguistics 
	of the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and will be held between August 11 and 15, 2008.  The deadline for abstracts is 
	December 31, 2007 (address below).

	The conference theme is Exploring the African Language Connection in the Americas.  We welcome papers addressing the conference 
	theme, focusing on issues related to the contact between African languages and European and Indigenous languages in the Americas, 
	or any other topic related to African languages and linguistics.  The topics include, but are not limited to:

	Computational linguistics
	Language acquisition
	Language learning
	Language planning
	Language use
	Morphology
	Phonetics
	Phonology
	Pragmatics
	Semantics
	Sociolinguistics
	Syntax 


CALL FOR PAPER AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS

	Abstracts are solicited for 20-min oral presentations to be presented in parallel sessions, and for poster presentations. 
	Each proposal will be reviewed anonymously by two members of a large international panel.  Notifications of the Organizing 
	Committee's decisions will be sent out by February 15, 2008.

	ABSTRACTS

	Please submit by December 31, 2007 an abstract, in English or French, containing the following information:

	 - author name(s) and affiliation(s)
	 - address information (incl. fax and email)
	 - title of presentation
	 - preferred format (oral presentation or poster)
	 - three to five keywords
	 - a 500-word summary (about one page) 

	Abstracts should be submitted by PDF or postscript attachments to the following email address:  gela@usp.br

	REGISTRATION

	Registration and payment of fees should be made at the registration desk only, from August 11 through August 13, 2008.

	Fees:
	USD 100 for participants from outside of Africa.
	USD  40 for participants from African countries and for students.

	Local Organizing Committee:

	Margarida Maria Taddoni Petter
	Diana Luz Pessoa de Barros
	Didier Demolin
	Esmeralda Vailati Negrão
	Evani Viotti
	José Luiz Fiorin
	Márcia Santos Duarte de Oliveira
	Cristiane Benjamim Santos

	Address:

	Special WOCAL 6 (Margarida Maria Taddoni Petter)
	Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas
	Departamento de Lingüística
	Universidade de São Paulo
	gela@usp.br