Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

• I/we have read the Notes to Contributors section of the webpage, and have followed the guidelines given on that page.
• I/we have used this tool to confirm that the pdf manuscript conforms to the limits on manuscript length.
  
  
• I acknowledge that I may be responsible for covering the additional costs associated with printing for an article that contains color images. See the Notes to Contributors for more information.
• The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
• The submission does not contain any personally identifying information, as this is a double-blind peer-review process. See this page for more information about how to ensure anonymity.
• This submission conforms to the LSA's guidelines with regard to inclusive language, both in terms of general writing style and in terms of examples.
• I/we understand that at least one author must be a current member of the Linguistic Society of America at the time of publication.
• If the work contains copyrighted material in any format or media that is owned by a third-party or supplemental copyrighted material in any format or media that is owned by a third-party, then I/we, as the licensing author or authors, shall at my/our sole expense, obtain written permission from the copyright owner(s), in a form and scope acceptable to the LSA, for use of the material in the work or in connection with its publication.
• The author or authors understand that submission of an item to this journal constitutes acceptance of the policies on personal data collection and use mentioned in the Privacy Statement at the bottom of this page.
• The field or fields of linguistics that best characterize this submission have been indicated on the form embedded here. Note: submission of this form does not constitute completion of the submission process. There are several additional steps.