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Thank you for volunteering your services as an abstract reviewer for the LSA's 2014 Annual Meeting. We appreciate your offering your time for this important task.

Please ensure that your LSA membership is current at least through the end of August; you will need to log in to the LSA website to access the abstracts you will be reviewing.

Please also take a moment to update your LSA membership profile. Log in to the LSA website, click on the “Profile” link under your name, and then on the “Research & Teaching Interests” tab you’ll see on the left-hand side of the page. Make sure your selections in the Linguistic Subfields, Languages, and Language Families sections are up to date, and add any specific interests in the box provided. Be sure to click on the “Save” button at the bottom of the page.

We will contact you later this year with further instructions for signing in through the LSA website as a volunteer External Reviewer, and for making further updates to your reviewer profile.

You should expect to receive no more than twenty abstracts to review. You will receive them around the second week in August, and will have until the end of the month to review them.

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