6th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium and 5th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages (held jointly) October 18-20, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa Conference organizers: Carlos Eduardo Pieros, Paula Kempchinsky and Judith Liskin-Gasparro Invited speakers: Juana Liceras, University of Ottawa Joan Mascari, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Abstracts are invited for all topics in Hispanic linguistics, including acquisition, discourse analysis, historical linguistics, morphology, phonology, pragmatics, semantics, sociolinguistics and syntax. Guidelines: 1. Authors can submit two abstracts-one individual and one joint. 2. Five (5) copies of an anonymous, clearly titled one-page abstracts single spaced with 1 inch margins throughout, Times New Roman 12) for review. There can be an additional page for references. 3. One (1) copy of the same abstract with name and institutional affiliation. 4. For each author, an index card with the following information: title of paper, area of research, conference (Hispanic Linguistics Symposium OR Conference on Acquisition), name, academic affiliation, current/summer address, phone and fax number, e-mail, and audiovisual requests. DEADLINE: May 1, 2002 Send to - HLS Organizing Committee Department of Spanish and Portuguese 111 Phillips Hall University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242 USA e-mail: HLS6@uiowa.edu