SEALS XVII ABSTRACTS, HANDOUTS, & POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS -- LAST UPDATE: October 6, 2007
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
**Michel Ferlus - Independant Researcher (retired from Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) - �A Layer of Dongsonian Vocabulary in Vietnamese
(Presenters are listed in order by surname.)
**Dr. Mark J. Alves - Montgomery College, Department of Reading, ESL, World Languages, and Philosophy - �
Sino-Vietnamese Grammatical Vocabulary and the Sociolinguistics Conditions for Borrowing" HANDOUT
**Dr. Thai Bao - Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University - �
The Politics of Code-choice and Code-mixing in Australian Vietnamese: A Case Study of the Vietnamese Diaspora in Canberra
**Dr. George Bedell, Kee Shein Mang, and Khar Thuan - Bedell, none (retired); Shein Mang and Thuan, Payap University - �
Agreement in Laizo
**Allison Blodgett, Anita Bowles, Jessica Bauman, Jessica Shamoo, and Matthew Winn - University of Maryland Center for Advanced Study of Language � �
Same or different: A preliminary acoustic analysis comparing native- and non-native-speaker production of Vietnamese lexical tones
**Dr. Michael Boutin - Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics - �
Influence of verb classes on the realis/irrealis distinction in Bonggi
**Dr. Marc Brunelle  - Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa - �
Tonal Coarticulation in Northern and Southern VietnamesePPT FILE
**Dr. Susan Meredith Burt - Illinois State University, Department of English - �
Contact Pragmatics: Requests in Wisconsin Hmong
**Ho Leung Chan - University of Pittsburgh � �
The Emergence of the Unmarked...Tone? Examples from Cantonese Attenuative Reduplication
**Charles B. Chang - University of California, Berkeley - �
Presentation title: Phonological Scansion in Loanword Adaptation: Evidence from English Loans in BurmeseHANDOUT
**Thatsanee Charoenporn, Sareewan Thoongsup, and Virach Sornlertlamvanich; Hitoshi Isahara - Thai Computational Linguistics Laboratory, NICT Asia Research Center, Thailand; National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan - �
Thai Thai Lexicon
**Yi-Ting Chen andYi-An Lin - Arizona State University; the University of Cambridge - �
The Inner Aspect Approach to Amis Structure: The first Attempt
**Yin Lin Cheung - Purdue University - "
Modal Doubling in Hong Kong Hokkien" PPT FILE
**Svetlana F. Chlenova - Moscow State University - �
Towards the communicative strategies in Dawera-Daweloor (Eastern Indonesia)
**Dr. Doug Cooper and Saowapha Viravong - Center for Research in Computational Linguistics; Australian National Library - �
The SEAlang Archives:  Preservation, Discovery, and Access for the 'Scattered Literature' of Southeast Asian Linguistics
**Dr. Jamison Cooper-Leavitt and Dr. Deryle Lonsdale  - Brigham Young University; University of Calgary/Brigham Young University - �
Serial Verb Constructions in Hmong: resultatives and consequential
**Rikker Dockum - CRCL, Bangkok - �
From Lost to Online: A Digital eText + Image Edition of the First Thai-English Dictionary
**Dr. Jerold A.Edmondson;  Apiluck Tumtavitikul; JimmyG.Harris; JohnH.Esling - University of Texas at Arlington; Kasetsart University, (Bangkok, Thailand); University of Victoria (Canada); University of Victoria (Canada) - �
A laryngoscopic study of Chong vocal registers: another look
**Dr. John Hartmann - Northern Illinois University - �
Place Names in Laos: In Search of Khmer and Upland Khmer Toponyms
**Dr. Mathias Jenny - Department of General Linguistics, University of Zurich - �
Modality in Burmese: �May� or �Must�: Grammatical Uses of Y� �GetHANDOUT
**Dr. Chonghyuck Kim, Chang Qizhong, and Leslie Lee - National University of Singapore - �
Singlish Number Marking is not Random
**Deborah King - The University of Texas at Arlington - �
Syntactic and Pragmatic Functions of Kuki-Chin Verbal Stem Alternations and the Agentive and Nonagentive VoiceHANDOUT
**Seunghun J. Lee - Rutgers University - �
Anti-depressor consonants in MulaoHANDOUT
**Dr. Marlys Macken - University of Wisconsin-Madison - �
Tones in Hmong:  Underlying binarity in Asian tonal contours
**Dr. Marlyna Maros - School of Language Studies and LinguisticsFaculty of Social Sciences and Humanities;  Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia - �
Social Functions of Complaints in a Malay Speech Community
**Bradley McDonnell - Arizona State Unversity - �
Word Classes in Endenese
**Naonori Nagaya - Rice University Department of Linguistics - �
The Middle Voice in Tagalog
**Tam Nguyen - University of Oregon - �
Ede serial verb constructionsHANDOUT
**Thu Ba Hoai Nguyen - Vietnamese Lecturer, UCLA, Department. of Asian Languages and Cultures �
Contrastive Topic in Vietnamese
**Waranya OTA - Doctoral Course, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan - �
Noun Phrase of Kuy Language
**Songgot Paanchiangwong - Ph.D. candidate of Faculty of Linguistics and Vietnamese studies, University of Social Science and Humanities, Hanoi National University, Hanoi, Vietnam - �
The Influence of Final Consonants on the Tones of Vietnamese Spoken in Udon Thani Province, ThailandPPT FILE
**Dr. Pham Phu Quynh Na - Institutional affiliations: MTC Training Solutions - �
Vietnamese Learners Studying English and Australian Learners Studying Vietnamese: Is There Any Difference?
**Waranya Ota - Tokyo Universityof Foreign Studies - "The Noun Phrase in the Kuy Language"
HANDOUT
**Dr. Amara Prasithrathsint - Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand - �
The Role of Complementizers in Verb Classification in ThaiHANDOUT PPT FILE
**Miss Chanokporn Puapattanakun - Mahidol university, Thailand   - �
�Do You Feel Lucky?� : A Study of Thai Astrological Discourse
**Dr. Herb Purnell & Greg Aumann - Biola University (emeritus) & SIL International - �
Same Language, Different Contexts, Different Dictionaries for Iu Mien
**Dr. Martha Ratliff - Wayne State University - �
Numerals and reckoning in Hmong-MienHANDOUT
**Dr. Sugunya Ruangjaroon - Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, Srinakharinwirot University - �
Thai Wh-adjuncts
**Yosuke Sato - University of Arizona, Tucson - �
Reduplication Asymmetries inBahasa Indonesia: A Distributed MorphologyApproach
**Dr. Paul Sidwell - Centre for Research in Computational Linguistics & Australian National University - �
Proto-Mon-Khmer Vocalism: Moving Forward from Shorto�s �Alternances�HANDOUT
**Dr. Unchalee Singnoi - Faculty of Humanities, Naresuan University (Thailand) - "
On the functions of marked clausal constructions in Thai"
**Dr. Uri Tadmor - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology - �
Marked Patterns of Lexical Borrowing in Southeast Asia
**Dr. Uri Tadmor and Dr. Yanti - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the University of Delaware - �
On the Origin and Distribution of Third-Person Pronominal Enclitics in Jambi Malay
**Dr. Kiyoko Takahashi - Kanda University of International Studies - �
Arrival expressions in ThaiHANDOUT
**Dr. Thuan Tran - University of California San Diego and Universityof Delaware - �
Quantificational Strategies in Vietnamese
**Thi-Thuy-Hien Tran and Nathalie Vall�e - The Speech and Cognition Department of GIPSA-lab, Grenoble, France - �
An Acoustic Study of the Segments in the Vietnamese Consonant SequencesHANDOUT
**Dr. Juliana Wijaya - University of California, Los Angeles, Asian Languages and Cultures - �
Pronominal Shift, Code-Mixing and Code-Switching in Indonesian Reported Speech
**Dr. Cathy S.P. Wong, Dr. Robert Bauer, and Dr. Zoe Wai Man Lam - Department of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University - �
The Integration of English Loanwords in Hong Kong CantoneseHANDOUT
**Dr. Ngee Thai Yap - English Department, Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia - �
Nonexhaustive Syllabification in Temiar
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