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Publication status

We follow the policies of the ROA (Rutgers Optimality Archive) regarding the status of the articles at Dialect Syntax:

Archiving is not a form of publication. By accepted academic convention, well-establisched in the hard sciences, electronic archiving is completely independent of publication, future or prior. It is the equivalent of mailing out a typescript, pre-print, or off-print to colleagues. Electronic archiving shares and generalizes the advantages of private circulation of papers. Authors are put in a position to receive maximal feedback form th entire community of interested researchers. Ideas and results are disseminated rapidly and widely, unchanneled by sociological limitations. Journals, volumes, and other venues of publication receive a boost in quality from the vastly broader pre-publication review of work, and benefit commercially from the visiblility accorded to the material they publish. Authors should, of course, take care in the matter of signing over their intrinsic copyright. When in doubt, negotiate with your publisher of potential publisher.