SEALS 14 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Wednesday, 19 May 2004
09.00-10.20
10.30-10.45
10.50-11.50
Registration at Siam City Hotel, Bangkok
Opening ceremony by HRH Princess Galyani Vadhana
Plenary session by Dr. Anthony Diller. Mountains, rivers and
seas: Ecology and language history in Southeast Asia.
Room: Kamolthip 2/3
12.00-12.30
Parallel Sessions 1
I. Phonetics and Phonology. Room: Kamolthip 2
12:00 Pintip Tuaycharoen. Vowel gradation and semantic implication in the
Isan dialect of Thai
II. Syntax/Semantics. Room: King/Ketkamol
12:00 Kingkarn Thepkanjana and Satoshi Uehara. The polysemic status
of the verb of giving in Thai and Mandarin Chinese: A cross-linguistic study
III. Morphology and Syntax. Room: Duangkamol
12:00 Andrew Simpson. The syntax and interpretation of floating
quantifiers in Burmese and Thai
IV. Historical/Comparative Linguistics. Room: Kamolmart 2
12:00 David Stampe. Was Proto-Austroasiatic like Munda or like MonKhmer?
V. Semantics/Pragmatics. Room: Kamolruedi
12:00 Raja Rozina Raja Suleiman. Politeness strategies in Malay language
as characteristic of the ethos of the Malay people
VI. Field Linguistics. Room: Kamolmart 1
12:00 Audra Phillips. West-central Thailand Pwo Karen noun phrase
VII. Sociolinguistics. Room: Kamolthip 3
12:00 Hafriza Burhanudeen. Registers in international diplomacy
12.40-13.30
Lunch. Room: Kamolthip 1
13.30-14.10
Plenary session by Dr. Wilaiwan Khanittanan. Taoist influence
in Tai languages. Room: Kamolthip 2/3
14.10-15.10
Plenary session by Dr. Shoichi Iwasaki. What is /nia/ doing
/nia/?: Grammaticalization of topic in Thai. Room: Kamolthip 2/3
15.10-15.30
Coffee break
15.30-17.30
Parallel Sessions 2
I. Phonetics and Phonology. Room: Kamolthip 2
15:30 Patricia Donegan. The phonological adaptation of French loan words
in Khmer
16:00 Varisa Kamalanavin. Phonetic features of Central Thai spoken by
Southern Thai speakers
16:30 Ela Thurgood. An acoustic study of Javanese vowels
17:00 Kriengkrai Watanasawad. The correlation between linguistic and
musical forms in the lyrics of Thai country and city songs
II. Discourse Linguistics. Room: Kamolruedi
15:30 Cholticha Bamroongraks. Linguistic expressions referring to given/
known information in Thai
16:00 U-maporn Kardkarnklai. Managing facilitative interruptions in ThaiJapanese business talk
16:30 Carol Compton. The role of four-word phrases in Lao descriptive
discourse
17:00 Krishna Bhattacharya. Towards a linguistic explanation of verse
rhythm and musical rhythm: A case of Bangla lyric songs
III. Morphology and Syntax. Room: Duangkamol
15:30 Rattima Nitisaroj. Co-occurrences of auxiliaries in Thai: A corpusbased study
16:00 Supriya Wilawan. Are there any middle verbs in Thai?
16:30 Monthira Tamuang. A study of final particles in Myanmar
17:00 Kensei Sugayama. Why kono akai hana and akai hono hana are both
possible in Japanese: A word grammar account
IV. Historical/ Comparative Linguistics. Room: Kamolmart 2
15:30 Stephen Morey. Tonal change in the Tai languages of Northeast India
16:00 Antonia Soriente. A classification of Kenyah languages in Sarawak
and Kalimantan
16:30 Phinnarat Akharawatthanakun. Tone change: A case study of the
Lao language
V. Syntax/Semantics/Pragmatics. Room: King/Ketkamol
15:30 Gu Yang. An investigation into the syntax and semantics of the
morpheme ai in Jingpo
16:00 Sophana Srichampa. A comparison of various patterns of greetings
between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh Vietnamese speeches
16:30 Songthama Intachakra. The ambivalence of illocutionary forces:
Rethinking expressive speech acts in English and Thai
17:00 Saowaree Nakagawa. Japanese and Thai conditional expressions
VI. Field Linguistics. Room: Kamolmart 1
15:30 David Peterson. Khumi elaborate expressions
16:00 Norizan Rajak. Preliminary grammatical description of Kensiu, an
Aslian language
16:30 Marc Brunelle. Monosyllabification in Eastern (Phan Rang) Cham
17:00 Daniel T. Arisawa. A place where tense, aspect, and mood meet each
other: A case of / tu / (duqu) ‘get’ in Iu-Mienh
VII. Sociolinguistics/Discourse Linguistics. Room: Kamolthip 3
15:30 Liang Chua Morita. Thai Chinese undergraduates’ use of and
attitudes towards the Chinese language
10:50 Tommi Leung. Thai ‘ying’ and the syntax-semantics mapping of
comparative correlatives
11:20 Natthaporn Panpothong. Self-compliment in Thai censure debates:
How can S appear relevant while saying irrelevant?
11:50 Rujiwan Laophairoj. A comparative analysis of Thai and Vietnamese
color terms
V. Language Teaching/Language Acquisition/Psycholinguistics.
Room: Kamolmart 1
10:20 Deeyu Srinarawat. English pragmatic ability of Thai students: An
investigation of suggestions
10:50 Mahmoud Al-Khatib. ESP in Jordanian institutions: Use, funding
and attitude
11:20 Jennie Tran. Aspect marking and modality in child Vietnamese
11:50 Marleiny Radjuni. Turn signal mechanism in communicative
interaction
VI. Lexicography/Typology/Language Planning. Room: Kamolthip 3
10:20 Gregory James and Bronson So Ming-Cheung. The first European
dictionary of Chinese: A missionary learning tool
10:50 Nick Enfield. Linguistic typology and face-to-face interaction: Data
from Southeast Asian languages
11:20 Mark Post. Grammaticalization and the discourse distribution of
serial verb in Assamese
11:50 Sikder Monoare Murshed. Language planning for ethnic community
development
VII. Historical/Comparative Linguistics/Language Teaching. Room: Kamolmart 2
10:20 Amara Prasithrathsint. A comparison of ways of talking in Dehong
Tai, Ahom Tai, and Sukhothai Thai with a focus on nominalization
10:50 Norizan Rajak. Emergence of auxiliary verbs in Northern Malay
dialects
11:20 Nanna Jonsson. From Proto Kam-Tai to Modern Thai: The story of
16:00 John Draper and Rattana Jantao. Isan: The planning context for
language maintenance and revival
16:30 Shoji Azuma and Tsuji Miyako. The rhetoric of politicians and
democratization: The solidarity strategy in post-war Japan
17:00 Siriporn Phakdeephasook. Speech play in Thai political journalistic
discourses
19.30-21.30
Reception at the Reception Room on the 2nd floor of
the Anekprasong 2 Bldg., Thammasat University, Prachan Campus
Thursday, 20 May 2004
08.00-09.00
09.00-10.00
Registration at Siam City Hotel, Bangkok
Plenary session by Dr. Martha Ratliff.
Lexical stability in Southeast Asia. Room: Kamolthip 2/3
10.00-10.20
Coffee break
10.20-12.20
Parallel Sessions 3
I. Phonetics and Phonology. Room: Kamolthip 2
10:20 Brian Migliazza. Khamti Tai Phonology
10:50 Uri Tadmor. Clustering patterns in Jakarta Indonesian
11:20 Chutamanee Onsuwan. Vowel nasalization in Thai: Acoustic and
perceptual studies
11:50 Saovapak Kallayanamit. The phonetics and phonology of Thai
intonation
II. Discourse Linguistics. Room: Kamolruedi
10:20 Chanokporn Puapattanakun. Discourse on “Khmer” in Thai daily
newspapers: The case of the anti-Thai riots in Phnom Phen
10:50 Jaranya Thepphornbanchakit. How a discourse peak is revealed in
Kukrit’s short stories
11:20 Satarupa Dattamajumdar. Language of advertisement and gender
stylistics: A discursive approach
11:50 Vincent Tao-hsun Chang. Multimodal communication in advertising
discourse: Analysing the captions for the Olympics 2008
III. Morphology and Syntax. Room: Duangkamol
10:20 George Bedell. Pronouns and agreement in Chamoru
10:50 Chiu-Hung Chen. Double-gapped restrictive relatives in Mandarin: A
syntactic or a processing account? Evidence from language attrition
11:20 Mark Donohue. Alternative event codings
11:50 Kiyoko Takahashi. Post-verbal nominal for a part in Thai
IV. Syntax/Semantics/Pragmatics. Room: King/Ketkamol
10:20 Sorani Wongbiasaj, Hattaya Chantaramungkorn and Satanan
Chua-Maharwan. Teach your children well: Age and gender biases in Thai
children’s books
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11:50 Sasiwimol Klayklueng. Lexis in teaching Thai as a foreign
language
12.20-13.30
Lunch. Room: Kamolthip 1
13.30-14.30
Plenary session by Dr. William Foley. The notion of ‘event’ and
serial verb constructions. Room: Kamolthip 2/3
14.30-14.50
Coffee break
14.50-16.50
Parallel Sessions 4
I. Computational Linguistics/Transcription. Room: Kamolthip 2
14:50 Suwilai Premsrirat. Field linguistics in endangered ethnolinguistic
communities of SEA
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15:20 Boonruang Chuensuwimol. Transcriptions of Thai sounds in Thai
language teaching books
15:50 Nantana Ronakiat. Sign language: Romanization of Thai street signs
16:20 Wirote Aroonmanakun, Nuttakorn Thapthong, Pakaket Wattuya,
Benjawan Kasisopa and Sudaporn Luksaneeyanawin. Automatic Thai
transcription of English words
II. Field Linguistics/Morphology/Syntax. Room: Kamolmart 2
14:50 Pornsawan Ploykaew. Semantic thesaurus of Samre language: A
reflection of their world view at the final stage of language endangerment
15:20 Greg Aumann and Misako Aumann. Hezhou Iu Mien: A brief
description
15:50 Kirk Person and Yang Wenxue. The tones of Tai Ya
16:20 David Gil. Repetition and reduplication in Riau Indonesian
III. Morphology/Syntax. Room: Duangkamol
14:50 Celeste Lee and Loren Billings. Clitic-pronoun clusters in Central
Philippine
16:20 Prang Thiengburanathum. Aspect in Lahu Shi: A cognitive
perspective
IV. Syntax/Semantics/Pragmatics/Orthography. Room: Kamolruedi
14:50 Wi-vun Chiung. Learning pattern for Vietnamese Chu Quoc Ngu
15:20 Chatchawadee Saralamba. Emotion metaphors in Thai
15:50 Sureepan Thepud. An error analysis in the writing of Standard Thai
by 6th grade deaf students at Sotsuksa Anusarsunthorn school
V. Language Teaching/Language Acquisition/Psycholinguistics.
Room: Kamolmart 1
14:50 Alice Y.W. Chan. The effectiveness of using an algorithmic approach
to error correction
15:20 Belinda Ho. Using error codes to help error correction
15:50 Titima Suthiwan. The acquisition of tones by second language
learners of Thai
16:20 Hyeran Lee. English immersion effects for Korean students
VI. Sociolinguistics/ Discourse Linguistics. Room: Kamolthip 3
14:50 Panduangjai Budkinree. A comparative study of advertisement
interpretation in quality and quantity magazines
15:20 Sirinart Pariyawongkorn. A comparative study of language used by
third grade students in recalling a narrative and a procedural discourse
15:50 Kritsana Athapanyawanit. Cohesive devices in narrative songs of
Jaran Manopetch
16:20 Usitara Juntawieng. Cultural references in Northern Thai legends
VII. Syntax/Semantics/Pragmatics. Room: King/Ketkamol
14:50 Chun-Mei Chen. Temporal use of the particles and sentential-LE in
Mandarin Chinese
15:20 Kanako Mori. Khmer directional verb “coh”
15:50 Robert S. Bauer and Cheung Kwan-hin. A glossary of words with
the deminutive changed-tone in Cantonese
Friday, 21 May 2004
08.00-09.00
09.00-09.45
Registration at Siam City Hotel, Bangkok
Plenary session by Dr. Teresita V. Ramos. The politics of teaching
Southeast Asian languages in the United States. Room: Kamolthip
2/3
09.45-10.30
Plenary session by Dr. Pranee Kullavanijaya and Dr. Walter
Bisang. Another look at aspect in Thai. Room: Kamolthip 2/3
10.30-10.50
Coffee break
10.50-11.50
Parallel Sessions 5
I. Literacy/Orthography. Room: Kamolthip 3
10:50 Anthony Diller. Innovation and reaction in early Thai orthographic
practice
11:20 Somsonge Burusphat. Hlai (Li) orthography
II. Phonology. Room: King/Ketkamol
10:50 Amon Thavisak. Fundamental frequency behavior of vowels
influenced by initials and finals in Southeast Asian languages: Implications
for tonogenesis theories
11:20 Wyn Owen. A preliminary phonology of Khun Muang Lung
(Southwestern, Tai)
III. Language Teaching. Room: Kamolmart 1
10:50 Yuphaphann Hoonchamlong. A karaoke approach for language
learning: A case of “learning to read Thai from songs” project
11:20 Chhany Sak-Humphry. Technology and modern language teaching:
The case of CD-ROM
IV. Discourse/Historical Linguistics. Room: Kamolmart 2
10:50 Paul Sidwell. The origins of the Chamic lexicon: Evidence for ancient
lexification and subsequent back-borrowing into MK languages
11:20 John Hartmann. Linguistic and historical continuities of the Tai Dam
and Lao Phuan: Case studies in boundary crossings
V. Phonetics and Phonology. Room: Kamolthip 2
10:50 Sandy Ng and Lisa Lim. Investigating the Voice Onset Time of five
Asian languages and their substratum influence on Singapore English
11:20 Jerold A. Edmondson, John H. Esling, Jimmy Harris and Huang
Tung Chiou. The glottal, epiglottal, and pharyngeal stops in Amis: An
Austronesian language of Taiwan
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VI. Discourse Linguistics/Language Teaching. Room: Kamolruedi
10:50 Emily Jothee Mathai, Leele Susana Jamian and Suchithre Nair.
Assessing Malaysian university students’ English vocabulary knowledge
11:20 Tepee Jaratjarungkiat. Everybody loves to know somebody’s story: A
new way of advertising in Thai women’s magazines
VII. Morphology and Syntax. Room: Duangkamol
11:20 Suda Rangkupan. The scope of preverbal operators in Thai
11.50-12.20
Closing Session by Dr. Jerold A. Edmondson.
Room: Kamolthip 2/3
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