Graduate Program in Linguistics at the City University of New York

Informataion for poster presenters

The poster session will be held on Friday, May 25, starting immediately after the last talk of the day, at 5:20 p.m. It will take place in the Linguistics Lounge (room 7400) on the 7th floor of the CUNY Graduate Center building. A small reception for all conference participants will be organized in the same space.

Large poster boards will be made available to all poster presenters. Their approximate dimensions are as follows: 4 feet wide x 6 feet high (1.25 meters wide x 2 meters high). Your poster may be positioned either vertically or horizontally on the easel, as you choose; only one side of the board can be used for displaying the poster. (We will provide pushpins to attach your poster to the board.) The poster boards will accommodate posters measuring up to 34" x 44" (A0 size) in either portrait or landscape formats (the former format is recommended).

Your poster should include the title and name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s), and a short abstract. We recommend that you use a font for the title large enough to be read from a distance of 12 feet (~4 meters); the rest of the poster should be readable from a distance of 6 feet (~2 meters).

The poster boards will be made available from 12noon on the day of the poster session. Poster presenters are encouraged to set up their posters well in advance of the poster session.

We recommend that you bring a handout describing your work that can be handed out to interested parties. Speakers at the conference are asked to bring at least 50 copies of their handout. Presenters of posters that are listed on the conference program as alternate papers are encouraged to bring this amount as well. The conference organizers cannot provide photocopy services; however, there are copy shops in the immediate vicinity of the CUNY Graduate Center (e.g., Kinko's at 191 Madison Avenue, between 34th and 35th Streets).