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Languages of Southeast Asia

UCLA – UC Berkeley Joint Conference on Southeast Asian Studies

Friday, January 30 - Sunday, February 1, 2009
314 Royce Hall
UCLA Campus
Los Angeles, CA 90095

A forum for presentations of new research and the exchange of ideas to create fresh conversations between scholars and teachers of Southeast Asian languages.

Open to the public.  No advance registration.
Cost: One-time $20 registration fee for everyone except for those with a UCLA ID card.  All-day parking at UCLA costs $9.
Web information at http://www.international.ucla.edu/cseas/events/listevents.asp?listid=157

Friday, January 30, 2009

8:30  Registration
8:50  Welcoming remarks

Session 1 Diachrony, Syntax

9:00-9:30 Bradley McDonnell, Arizona State University
    Cases of Degrammaticalization in Besemah

9:30-10:00 Pittayawat Pittayaporn, Cornell University
    De-aspirating Proto-Tai

10:00-10:30 Anna Volkova, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS
    Anaphoric Dependencies in Burmese

10:30-11:00 Lindsey N. Chen, National Taiwan Normal University
    Resultatives with Object Gap in Indonesian

11:00-11:15 Break

Session 2-A  Prosody

11:15-11:45 Chun-Mei Chen, National Chung Hsing University
    Prosody in Contact: Evidence from Budai Rukai Stress

11:45-12:15 Vincie W. S. Ho, University of Hong Kong
    When East Meets West: A Study of the Tone-Melody Interface in Contemporary Thai Pop Music

12:15-12:45 Discussion

Session 2-B Panel on language teaching (1)

11:15-12:45 Developing a BA Degree in Southeast Asian Languages: The Case of Filipino at the University of Hawaii

Ruth Elynia Mabanglo, University of Hawaii
    Introduction of the panel and topic; Advanced Filipino Abroad Program

Pia C. Andrada, University of Hawaii
    BA in Philippine Languages and Literature (concentration on Filipino)

Imelda Gasmen, University of Hawaii
    Culture promotion and community service of the program

Lilibeth Robotham, University of Hawaii
    The Filipino Placement Test

12:45-2:00 Lunch on your own

2:00-3:00 Guest Speaker I
    Nick Enfield, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
    Dynamics of Human Diversity in Mainland Southeast Asia

3:30-3:45  Break

Session 3-A  Morphology, Syntax

3:45-4:15 Michael Ewing, University of Melbourne
    Low Transitivity in Javanese Conversation

4:15-4:45  John Haiman, Macalester College
    The Origin of New Words in Khmer

4:45-5:15  Dara Non, Denis Diderot University
    About the Complex Nominal Syntagm in Modern Khmer

Session 3-B Teaching/Acquisition in Filipino
 
3:45-4:15 Evangeline Alvarez-Encabo, De La Salle University (DLSU), Manila and Irene Villarin-Gonzaga, DLSU, Dasmarinas
    Prototype Teaching Material for Filipino as a Foreign / Second / Heritage Language Course

4:15-4:45 Nenita Pambid Domingo, UCLA
    Filipino Heritage Learners and Use of Technology

4:45-5:15 Evangeline Alvarez-Encabo, De La Salle University, Manila
    Filipino Language and Cultural Immersion Program for Singaporeans

5:15-5:30 Break

Session 4  Language Resources

5:30-6:00 Herbert C. Purnell, Biola University
    Documenting a Minority Language: Features of a New Iu Mien Dictionary

6:00-6:30 Doug Cooper, Center for Research in Computational Linguistics
    The SEALang Projects: Southeast Asian Language & Linguistics Resources

6:30-7:00 Hao Phan, Northern Illinois University
    The Southeast Asia Digital Library cooperative project, an online resource for Southeast Asian studies
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Saturday, January 31, 2009

8:15 Registration

Session 5  Phonology

8:30-9:00 Peter Graff, MIT and T. Florian Jaeger, University of Rochester
    Modeling OCP Effects in the Javanese Lexicon

9:00-9:30 Regine Lai, University of Delaware
    Distributional Gaps in Thai Obstruent-Final Syllables

9:30-10:30 Guest Speaker II
    John Hartmann, Northern Illinois University
    Tai toponymic analysis: GIS insights into migration and settlement patterns

10:30-10:45  Break

Session 6-A Language Variation, Language Planning

10:45-11:15 Neil H. Olsen, University of Utah
    Ko’ho Language Strategic Planning

11:15-11:45 Candice Sheung Pui Ng, University of Hong Kong,
    The Consequences of Language Standardization: The Case of Zhuang

11:45-12:15 Thomas J. Conners, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology,
    Standard vs. Peripheral Javanese Dialects: Which is the Real Outlier?

Session 6-B Panel on Language Teaching (2)

10:45-12:15 Teaching Mixed Classes: Challenges, Tribulations and Successes

    Gyanam Mahajan, UCLA
        Overview

    Supa Angkurawaranon, UCLA
        Thai

    Juliana Wijaya, UCLA
        Indonesian

    Quyen Di Chuc Bui and Thu Ba Nguyen, UCLA
       Vietnamese

12:15-2:00 Lunch on your own

2:00-3:00 Guest Speaker III
    Bernard Comrie, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig / University of California, Santa Barbara
    Areal typology of Southeast Asian languages: evidence from the World Atlas of Language Structures

3:30-3:45  Break

Session 7-A Diversity, Typology

3:45-4:15 Antonia Soriente, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
    The languages of hunter-gatherers in Borneo: a Comparison of Punan Tubu' and Penan Benalui

4:15-4:45  Christopher Schmidt, Rice University
    Genealogical and Typological Issues in Western-Central Flores

4:45-5:15  Angela Nonaka, University of Texas
    Signs of the Need for Expanding "Deaf-initions" of Linguistic Diversity in Southeast Asia

Session 7-B    Teaching/Acquisition

3:45-4:15 Chhany Sak-Humphry, University of Hawaii, Manoa
    Opportunity and Access: Technology, Language Teaching and Learning: The Case of Khmer

4:15-4:45 Yuphaphann Hoonchamlong, University of Hawaii, Manoa
    Teaching Reading Thai to Second Language Learners: Issues, Challenges and Strategies
 
4:45-5:15 Yang Kao-Ly, California State University, Fresno
    The Challenge of Teaching a Heritage Language: The Hmong Case

5:15-5:30 Break

Session 8-A  Phonetics

5:30-6:00 Cassandra Pace, Rice University
    The Speech Rhythm of Northern Vietnamese: A PVI Study

6:00-6:30 Phanintra Teeranon, Mae Fah Luang University
    The Interaction between Pitch and Vowel Length in Mon-Khmer and Tai Languages: Evidence for Tonogenesis Theory

Session 8 –B Teaching/Acquisition

5:30-6:00 Mong Thi Nguyen, UC Davis
    Vietnamese Heritage Language: Opportunities for Research

6:00-6:30 Tri C. Tran, UC Irvine
    Teaching Diphthongs and Triphthongs and the Interference of Spelling – Vietnamese to Spanish Speakers and/or Spanish to Vietnamese Speakers

7:00 - 8:30 Conference Dinner
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Sunday, February 1, 2009

8:15 Registration

Session 9-A Syntax

8:30-9:00 Yasutada Sudo and Tue Huu Trinh, MIT
    The Indefiniteness Effect in Vietnamese

9:00-9:30 George Bedell, Payap University
    Passives in Lai and Mizo

Session 9-B Contact Linguistics

8:30-9:00 Katherine Thornton, University of Washington, Seattle
    The Contact Relationship between Chinese and Vietnamese

9:00-9:30 Hannah Pritchett, UC Berkeley
    The Grammatical Influence of Arabic on Modern Indonesian: A Textual Analysis

9:30-10:30 Guest Speaker IV
    Andrew Simpson, University of Southern California
    Vietnamese and the typology of passive constructions

10:30-10:45  Break

Session 10-A Syntax, Semantics

10:45-11:15 Cheng-Chuen Kuo, Academia Sinica
    Modes of Comparison in Formosan Languages

11:15-11:45 Yosuke Sato, University of British Columbia
    Underspecification and the Mass/Count Distinction in Indonesian: The Interface Substantiation Hypothesis

11:45-12:15 Naonori Nagaya, Rice University
    The End of the Subject-only Constraint: Another Approach to Tagalog Relative Clauses

10:45-12:15 Session 10-B Panel on Language Teaching (3) -  Literature in the Language Learning Space

    Bac Hoai Tran, U.C. Berkeley
       Teaching Vietnamese Literature through Poetry

    Susan Kepner, U.C. Berkeley
       Teaching Thai through early modern and contemporary correspondence and fiction

    Maria Josephine Barrios-Leblanc, U.C. Berkeley
       Teaching Advanced Filipino through Poetry

12:15-1:30 Lunch Break

Session 11-A Phonetics

1:30-2:00 James Kirby, University of Chicago
    Spectral Cues to Voice Quality in Vietnamese

2:00-2:30 Priyankoo Sarmah, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and Caroline Wiltshire, University of Florida
    An Acoustic Study of Rabha Tones

2:30-3:00 Seung Ah Hong, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies; Priyankoo Sarmah, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies; and Caroline Wiltshire, University of Florida
    An Acoustic Study of Tiwa Tones

Session 11-B Translation, Writing, Literature

1:30-2:00 Laura Sacia, University of Hawaii, Manoa
    Translation Strategies When There Is No Cultural Equivalent: Vietnamese Address Forms and their Descriptions in Bilingual Dictionaries

2:00-2:30 Suria Binta Baba, Malaysia Language Institute of Teacher Education and Zahara Aziz, National University of Malaysia
    Smart Teaching and Learning Strategy in Pre-Writing in Bahasa Melayu

2:30-3:00 Raniela Barbaza, SUNY Binghamton
    Orosipon: Writing Against Community

3:00-3:15 Break

Session 12 First and Second Language Acquistion

3:15:3:45 Josefina Mangahis, De La Salle University
    Second Language Acquisition and Assimilation of Culture

3:45-4:15 Jennie Tran, University of Hawaii
    How Do Young Vietnamese Children Learn Classifier Phrases?

4:15-4:45 Merav Shohet, UCLA
    Indexing Sacrifice and Respect through Language and Interaction in Central Vietnam

4:45-4:50 Closing remarks
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Undergraduate Poster Session

Dustin Chacon, University of Minnesota
    The Bengali DP

Aellon Krider & Violeta Osegueda, UCLA
    Loanword Adaptation in Samoan

Nicole Wong, UCLA
    /l/ Deletion within Consonant Clusters in Singlish
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Conference Organizing Committee:
Shoichi Iwasaki (Asian Languages and Cultures)
Kie Zuraw (Linguistics)
Juliana Wijaya (Asian Languages and Cultures)
Barbara S. Gaerlan (Center for Southeast Asian Studies)
Luisita Cordero (Center for Southeast Asian Studies)
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Dr. Justin McDaniel
Dept. of Religious Studies
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University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
951-827-4530
justinm at ucr.edu