10th Southeast Asian Linguistics Conference Program, Madison, May 4-7

David Stampe stampe at hawaii.edu
Mon Apr 24 21:51:20 UTC 2000


          10th Annual Southeast Asian Linguistics Conference
                   University of Wisconsin, Madison
               http://www.wisc.edu/ctrseasia/seal.html
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Thursday, May 4, 200   Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street

     Workshop on Teaching the Languages of Southeast Asia
          11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Thursday, May 4, 2000   Tripp Commons, Memorial Union, 800 Langdon Street

     Workshop on Hmong Language, Culture and Communities
          1:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
     Reception for Workshops and Conference   7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
     Performance - Music, Song and Dance   8:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

May 5-7, 2000, Conference Presentations   Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street

Friday, May 5, 2000

8:00 a.m.   Registration
8:30 a.m.   Burusphat Somsonge, Mahidol University, Thailand
              Pragmatic word ordering in Bouyei
9:00 a.m.   Ellen Rafferty, University of Wisconsin, Madison
              Pragmatic considerations of noun and adjective reduplication
              in Indonesian
9:30 a.m.   John Haiman, Macalester College
              Khmer phrase structure
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15 a.m.  Charles Randriamasimana, Massey University, New Zealand
              Malagasy clause structure
10:45 a.m.  Mark Alves, University of Hawaii
              Distributional characteristics of causative verbs in
              Mon-Khmer languages
11:15 a.m.  George Bedel, International Christian University, Tokyo, and
            Kenneth Van Bik, University of California, Berkeley
              Lexical and syntactic causatives in Lai
11:45-1:00  Lunch

1:00 p.m.   Gregory D. S. Anderson and John P. Boyle, University of Chicago
              Switch-reference in South Munda
1:30 p.m.   Tom McClive, State University of New York, Buffalo
              The question of Kh\^ong: Use and effects of the Vietnamese
              negative and interrogative \"uber-particle
2:00 p.m.   F. K. Lehman with A. Ceu Hlun,
            University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
               Number marking on nominals in Lai Chin and its theoretical
               consequences
2:30 p.m.   Carol Compton, University of Wisconsin, Madison
              Uses of pronouns and kinship terms in Lao performance texts
3:00-3:15   Break
3:15 p.m.   Robert B. Allen, University of Pittsburgh
              Spatial orientation in the Spice Islands
3:45 p.m.   Premin Karavi, Prince of Songkhla University, Hatyai, Thailand
              Thai and Malay lexical geography of the 5 southern
              border provinces of Thailand
4:15 p.m.   John Hartmann, Northern Illinois University
              Examining Haudricourt's hypothesis about the origins of
              Tai and rice agriculture
4:45 p.m.   Li Jinfang, The Central University for Nationalities,
            Beijing, P. R. China
              Linguistic evidence for studies on the origin of
              cultivated rice in Eastern Asia

5:15-7:30 p.m. Dinner
8:00 p.m.   Keynote Address   Theraphan L. Thongkum,
            Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
              The role of the endangered Mon-Khmer languages of Xekong
              Province, Southern Laos in the reconstruction of Proto-Katuic

Saturday, May 6, 2000

8:00 a.m.   Registration
8:30 a.m.   Juliana Wijaya, University of California, Los Angeles
              Typographical input enhancement for learning Indonesian
              transitivity
9:00 a.m.   Herbert Purnell, Biola University
              Steps toward standardization of a minority orthography:
              An update on Mien (Yao)
9:30 a.m.   Nguyen Van Hieu, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam
              The linguistic situation of the Hmong community in
              Northwestern Vietnam
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15 a.m.  Jerold A. Edmondson and Kenneth J. Gregerson,
            University of Texas, Arlington
              The Laha language of Noong Lay
10:45 a.m.  Nguyen Van Loi, Linguistics Institute, Hanoi, Vietnam
              The Mang language of Northern Vietnam
11:15 a.m.  Abdulrahman Almansour, University of Wisconsin, Madison
              A sequential analysis of prenasalization: Evidence from Hmong
11:45-1:00  Lunch

1:00 p.m.   Keynote Address:   Jackson Gandour, Purdue University
              Neurophonetics of Thai tones

2:00 p.m.   Phinnarat Akharawatthanakun, Chulalongkorn University,
            Bangkok, Thailand
              Tonal variations and changes in a language mixture area
              Northeastern Thailand
2:30 p.m.   Christopher Court, University of Hawaii
              Is postvocalic [h] a significant pitch depressor?
3:00-3:15   Break
3:15 p.m.   Zaharani Ahmad, University Kebangsaan, Malaysia
              Onset satisfaction and violation in Malay: An optimality
              account
3:45 p.m.   Michael Boutin, SIL
              Blocking nasal spread in Bonggi
4:15 p.m.   Marlys Macken, University of Wisconsin, Madison
              Hmong licensing
4:45 p.m.   Chutamanee Onsuwan, University of Michigan
              Effects of VOT on vowel duration in Thai:
              Acoustic and perceptual studies

5:30-7:30 Banquet:   SukhoThai Restaurant, 453 W. Gilman Street

8:00 p.m.   Keynote Address:
            James Matisoff, University of California, Berkeley
              Three TB/ST word families: set (of the sun);
              peacock/pheasant; scatter/pour

Sunday, May 7, 2000

8:30 a.m.   Shoici Iwasaki, University of California, Los Angeles
              Structural reanalysis in Thai discourse
9:00 a.m.   Joseph Finney, Monterey, California
              Will the real Proto-Austronesian please stand up?
9:30 a.m.   Richard McGinn, Ohio University
              Where did the Rejangs (and Malays) come from?
10:00-10:15 Break
10:45 a.m.  Patricia Donegan and David Stampe, University of Hawaii, Manoa
              Southeast Asian features of Munda phonology
              (In memory of Eugenie Henderson and A. K. Ramanujan)
11:15 a.m.  Norman H. Zide and Gregory D.S. Anderson, University of Chicago
              Nominal derivation in Proto-Austroasiatic
11:45-1:00  Lunch

1:00 p.m.   Tony Diller, Australian National University
              Orthographic evidence for sequencing Thai and Lao sound changes
1:30 p.m.   Rungpat Roengpitya, University of California, Berkeley
              A historical and a perceptual study of vowel length in Thai
2:00 p.m.   Graham Thurgood, California State University, Chico
              Long-term language shift, L2 acquisition and the
              structure of Modern Cham
2:30 p.m.   Roberto D. Tangco and Ricardo Ma. Nolasco, University of
            the Philippines
              Taglish verbs: How English loans make it into Philippine
              languages
3:00-3:15   Break
3:15 p.m.   Robert Bickner, University of Wisconsin, Madison
              Linguistic evidence for a literary argument
3:45 p.m.   Jean Longmire, University of the Pacific
              Mentoring identity: How one Khmer speaking child learned
              who she was
4:15 p.m.   Tran Tri Doi, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam
              Traditional culture in teaching and learning Vietnamese
              Ethnic languages
4:45 p.m.   Alan Stevens, Queens College
              A comprehensive Indonesian-English dictionary



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