Welcome to the 31st Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS 31)! Thank you for joining us. (Please not that we are still awaiting a few items for the schedule, and they will be added as they come in)
In-person attendees: Face masks are required for indoor events on the UH Mānoa campus and in the conference venues. Please make sure to bring and wear yours. (NOTE: Presenters can remove their masks when presenting, but attendees must keep their masks on.) Please also be advised that the presentation rooms have air conditioning, so if you tend to get cold in air-conditioned rooms, you may want to bring a sweater or jacket with you. Wi-Fi: We will be providing access to UHM Wifi for in-person attendees. There will be a new login each day, which will be posted in all presentation rooms and at the registration desk. Registration: Registration will be open from 11 AM to 4:50 PM every day in the foyer of the Campus Center Ballroom (3rd floor) Coffee Service: A coffee service will be available from 11 AM to 4:50 PM every day in Ballroom 1 of Campus Center Virtual Posters: Posters are asynchronous this year. Please refer to the two poster blocks at the top of the schedule to view the posters and brief presentation videos from the poster presenters.
This conference was co-organized by the UHM Department of Linguistics and the National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) and received generous funding from the National Science Foundation, the NFLRC, and the UHM Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS).
The acoustic properties of polysyllabic verbal forms in Sora are here presented for the first time. Comparison with nominal forms, disyllabic forms and syntactic units of the same length (phrases/short sentences) in the language are compared with these new findings.
I am a postdoctoral researcher working with the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. I am an experienced field-based researcher, specialized in conducting instrumental studies in phonetic science. My work mainly focuses on the description and documentation of Munda languages... Read More →
Project coordinator, Livingtongues Institution for Endanger Language
I am a Sora Speaker and a Sora language activist who began working with Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages in 2007 to help document. In 2008, I initiated the “Sora Talking Dictionary and Online Grammar Project” , also a Local Project Coordinator and Field Researcher... Read More →