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Linguistic Service Award: Prior to the Presidential Address, Saturday, 5 January, 5:30 – 6:00 PMThis award honors members who have performed distinguished service to the Society and the discipline. In 2013, it will be givento David Lightfoot (Georgetown University) for his diligent and effective leadership of the Publications Committee in planningLSA's transition into a much larger presence in the world of digital scholarly communication.LSA Business Meeting: Friday, 4 January, 5:30 – 7:00 PM, Fairfield/Exeter/DartmouthThis Handbook contains written reports, beginning on page 41, from the LSA Secretary-Treasurer, Program Committee, and theeditors of Language and eLanguage. The 2013 LSA Fellows will be inducted, and Honorary Members proposed, during thismeeting. Time has also been allotted for discussion of recent and proposed changes to the LSA’s Publishing Program (see noticeon p. 6 of this Handbook).New England’s Contributions to the History of Language Study (Special Organized Session): Saturday, 5 January, 10:45 AM –12:15 PM, Grand Ballroom Salon AThe North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences (NAAHoLS) presents an organized sessionintroducing how New England has contributed to the history of American linguistics from the late 1500s to the present day. Thepresentation features student-produced video footage of key local sites and archival materials, and first-hand narratives by threedistinguished scholars who participated in the development of linguistics in New England: Stanley Insler, Michael Silverstein,and Samuel Jay Keyser.Presidential Reception: Saturday, 5 January, 7:00 – 9:00 PM, Ballroom Foyer/Atrium FoyerJoin the LSA for hors d’oeuvres and cash bar to celebrate the accomplishments of the past year, catch up with old friends andmake new ones.Recovering Voices: Saturday, 5 January, 12:00 – 2:00 PM, Boston UniversityRecovering Voices is an initiative led by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, in partnership with the NationalMuseum of the American Indian and the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, that promotes the documentationand revitalization of the world’s endangered languages and knowledge.Student Abstract Awards: Prior to the Presidential Address, Saturday, 5 January, 5:30 – 6:00 PM, Grand Ballroom Salons G-KThese awards provide stipends for the submitters of the three highest-ranked student-authored abstracts for the LSA AnnualMeeting. For 2013, the awards will be presented to John Sylak, University of California, Berkeley (“The Phonetic properties ofvoiced stops descended from nasals in Ditidaht”), Marc Garellek, University of California, Los Angeles (“Prominence vs. phraseinitialstrengthening of voice quality”), and Josef Fruehwald, University of Pennsylvania (“Differentiating phonetically andphonologically conditioned sound change”).13