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Keynote Talk (Video): Alex Smith: Bridging the gap between Island and Mainland Southeast Asia: Austronesian and Kra-Dai Vowel Evolution

Abstracts / Slides / Talks

The following abstracts were accepted for presentation at SEALS34. Links to talk slides and videos are provided where authors have agreed to make these available. Note: The quality of audio in some videos is problematic; in some cases no sound was recorded, and we did not retain those videos.

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Edith Aldridge: Proto-Austronesian Voice in Nominalizationsslides

Mark Alves & Rikker Dockum: Etymological Notes on Words for Textiles and Fabric Production in Mainland Southeast Asiaslidesvideo

Jerwin Amarillo: How ergativity operates in the morphosyntax of Binukidvideo

Greg Anderson: Information structuring in Santali narration: Morpho-syntax, phono-prosody and gestureslidesvideo

Friedrich Aquino: Verbal morphology of some northeastern Luzon languagesslides

Russell Barlow: How spirits count to ten: esoteric numeral systems in Oceanic and (the) beyondslides

Nikay Besa & Walling Pangersenla: Phonological structure of Wakching Konyak with special reference to fricatives and approximants

Abhisara (MeAon) Bolnarattana: The acquisition of Thai serial verb constructions: a developmental perspective on Asian learners

Bui Thi Ngoc Anh: The situation of using Mang Coong language of Bru–Van Kieu people in Quang Binh province, Vietnam

Madhurjya Burhagohain: Modern Standard Tai-Ahom (MSTA): crafting a Posteriori-Conlang based on Old Ahomslidesvideo

Chan Kin-wing (Kevin): On the syncretism of TWO, comitative, and NP-conjunction in Southeast Asian languages: implication on typologyvideo

Chem Vatho: Phonetic reduction in Central Khmervideo

Yi-Ting Chen: Adverbial realization in Amis slides

Cheng Chihjen (Adam): Comparative Constructions in Yami

Gyandeep Chetia & Sahiinii Veikho: A preliminary study on interaction between tone and phonation in Liangmaislidesvideo

Maria Chomcha: The mergers of voiced and voiceless consonants in the Siamese, Lanna and Lao languages: Evidence from inscriptionsslidesvideo

Chu Man-Ni: Nasal Coda Identification in Zhangzhou Dialect

Alec Coupe: Khiamniungan case-marking morphologyslide svideo

Ashrol Damit: Language choice among the Tutong ethnic groups in Brunei Darussalam: a preliminary studyslides

Alessandro David-Toledo et.al.: Perspectives on language conservation among Tani-Speaking youth in Northeastern Indiaslidesvideo

John Michael De Pano & Patricia Asuncion: Towards Continuous Community Collaboration in Language Documentation: Insights from Bugkalot/Egongotslidesvideo

Dominika Dhapa et.al.: Making Space for Local Languages in Our Classrooms: Reflections from a Workshop Held in Flores, Indonesiavideo

Nelson Dino & Atsuko Kanda Utsumi: The vitality of an ethnic language in multi-linguistic Southern Philippines societiesslides video

Rikker Dockum: A tone by any other name: Two centuries of descriptions of the Thai tonesvideo

Holly Drayton: Voice and Telicity in Belaitslides

Jennifer Engelkemier: Identifying Adjectives in Iu Mienslidesvideo

Edward Estrera: Consonant clusters in South Mindanao languagesvideo

Evelyn Fettes: The DP Structure of Standard Indonesianslides

Ge Jiaqi & Zhao Zhuocheng: The formation of *r-initials with odd-numbered tones in Northern Tai branchslidesvideo

David Gil: Passive constructions in mainland and insular Southeast Asia: three diachronic scenariosslidesvideo

Andre Goderich: Weak verbal roots in Atayalslides

Sayanjyoti Gogoi: An account of verb stem alternation in Tutsavideo

Ifwah Fauzani Haji Chuchu: Between recognition and reality: the struggle for Belait language revitalization in Bruneislidesvideo

Ellie Hall: Uses of the unspecified pronoun tíˀ ‘SELF’ in Muak Sa-aakslidesvideo

Nathaniel Hiroz: Following the trail of Proto-Austroasiatic suprasegmentals: challenges and perspectives in Austroasiatic historical phonology

Luke Horo: The phonoprosodic architecture of Santalislides

Henrison Hsieh & Jed Sam Pizarro-Guevara: An experimental investigation on sub-extraction in Tagalogslides

Huang Haiping: Comparative expressions in Longming Zhuang

Hung Phan Luong: The phonetic system of Hani language in Vietnamvideo

Huziwara Keisuke: Chakma morpho-syntax from a Tibeto-Burman perspective

Elissa Ikeda et.al.: Clarifying the role of voice quality in Kanise Khumi phonologyslidesvideo

Kitima Indrambarya: Acceptability in the Variation of Thai Passive Sentence Patterns in People of Different Agesslides

Marina Infimate: Ideophones in Trans-Himalayan languages of Northeast India

Jheng Wei-Cherng Sam: Two Types of non-restrictive relative clauses in Siwkolan Amis? A reply to Cinque’s typologyslides

Rodney Jubilado: Grammatical number in Cebuano: plural, pluractional, plurifactive verbsvideo

Richard Kerbs & Mithun Banerjee: A comparison of Sgaw Karen and Mru tones: contextual variation and typological considerationsvideo

Elaine R. Kharbanda: A sketch of Black Loloslidesvideo

Yuko (Ayu) Kitada: Sources of general undergoer voice forms in Sulawesi

Pristina Koon: Comparing the pronominal paradigms of two Malayophone Creoles – Manado Malay and Betawislidesvideo

Pawarut Kratognok: The acoustic properties and phonological implications of minor syllables in Eastern Lawaslides

Jennifer Kuo: Vowel-matching and the loss of composite URs in Maga Rukaislidesvideo

Lee Hui-chi: The Visual Perception Verb in Hlai

Hsiu-chuan Liao: Terms for pots, pans, and jars in Philippine languages: Implications for PAn and PMP reconstructionsslides

Hong-sui Lim: From Falling to High: the change of stress realization in Pazeh-Kaxabuslides

Wesley Lincoln & Marlyse Baptista: Singapore Colloquial English pre-nominal relative clauses and the systemic transfer of Chinese premodifiers

Luong Thi Hien  et.al.: Gender representation in Vietnamese internet memes: a multimodal critical discourse analysisvideo

Edmundo Luna: On the Old Javanese discourse particles ta, pwa, and t: a usage-based accountvideo

Naparat Meechanyakul: On the morphological and syntactic basis of metalinguistic negation in Thai

Marc Miyake: Revisiting the Five Pyu Urn inscriptions a century latervideo

Yoshimi Miyake:  Variation between local and national allomorphs of suffixes in Belitung Malay

Francesca Moro: Tagalog as a heritage language in Italy: syntactic and lexical contact-induced changesslidesvideo

Risa Mufliharsi et.al.: Revitalizing indigenous language: need analysis for promoting Batak Angkola language through mother tongue-based multilingual educationslidesvideo

Zakaria Muhammad & David A. Peterson: Accounting for isomorphism between applicative, causative, and middle: a South Central Tibeto-Burman caseslides

Mijke Mulder: A preliminary phonology of Chuyo (Tibeto-Burman)

Benito Vargas Jr. Nolasco: Notes on the structure and functions of serial verb constructions in Ilokano

Reb Nuñez: Morphosyntactic Realizations of Imperatives in Two Central Philippine Languagesslides

Ong Phinting:  Loanword adaptation of consonants in Qapedang Paiwanslidesvideo

Pan Yu-hsiang (Samuel) & Hian-chi Song: Regional Wanderwörter of Formosan languages in northwestern Taiwan: a case study of some plant namesslidesvideo

Pattra Pindabaedya: The Influence of shape on classifier choice for unfamiliar objects in Thaivideo

David A. Peterson: An overview of Mru’s phonology and morphosyntax

Dan Sachs: Christian Indonesian in public: a religiolinguistic perspective slidesvideo

Rotsuprit (Ford) Saengthong: Backward Object Control in Thai and Lao

Shen Ruiqing: When and where did Proto-Hmong-Mien acquire loanwords from Sino-Tibetan languages?slidesvideo

Kye Shibata: In search of the Austronesian L: a phonetic reconstruction of Proto-Austronesian laterals‍ ‍slidesvideo

Paul Sidwell: In defense of Bit-Khang as a Palaungic sub-group (Austroasiatic)sildesvideo

Apinya Singsopa:‘Code-Mixing Is Not Annoying to That Extent': Exploring Intergenerational Attitudes of Thai Speakers Toward English-Thai Code-Mixingslides

Song Hian-chi (Walis): Allophonic variations of Proto-Atayal *gslidesvideo

M. Natsir Fachruddin Suryatama: The Precedence for a Conservative Apical Rhotic in Malayic: Evidence from Early Western and Chinese Sourcesslidesvideo

Victor Bogren Svensson: Reduction and syncretism in the Takituduh Bunun voice system

Debrani Swargiary: Tai-Aiton kinship terminology in ethnolinguistic perspective

Omah Talakop: Revisiting the structural encoding of adverbial modifiers in Siwkolan Amis: A comparative perspectivevideo

Shinnakrit Tangsiriwattanakul & Tummabhorn Kumken: Tonal Comparative Reconstruction: The case study of the Laoic branch and Early Common Laovideo

Sathon Thaiklang: Shift of markedness of relative clause markers /thi:3/, /sɯŋ3/, and /ʔan1/ in Thaislides

Prapatsorn (Anne) Tiratanti: Challenges in F0 analysis for prosodic prominence investigation: a case study of Thai

Trần Quang Minh: Vietnamese tones in the pronunciation of young Hanoian

Christina Truong & Victoria Chen: Towards a typology of pseudo-antipassive constructions in Western Austronesian languagesvideo

Li-yang Tseng: Loanwords in Kavalan and Basay: Language Contact with Formosan and Philippine Languagesslidesvideo

Atsuko Kanda Utsumi: Functions and uses of tense and aspect expressions in discourse in Talaudslides

Jozina Vander Klok: Distinguishing future markers in Semarang Javanese

James C. Wamsley: The pragmatic distribution of personal pronouns in Falam Chinslidesvideo

Wang Xingyue: Reflexive construction in Heima Laloslidesvideo

Nathan White: Toward a typology of localizers: an areal perspectivevideo

Grace Wivell & Michelle Mayro: Serial Verb Constructions in Lio

Yang Chih-hung:  The b-g/ŋ dissimilation across Rukai dialectsslidesvideo

Piyapat Yimnoi & Khanin Chaiphet: Binding dynamics of R-expressions in Thai: an experimental studyslides

Chun-Jan  Young: Strategies of focus marking in Tao/Yami

Elizabeth Zeitoun: Nominalization in Pazeh-Kaxabu