Registration

Register for ICAAL 14

Abstract notifications have been sent to all first-named authors

All presenting and non-presenting participants, including co-authors, are asked to complete the online registration form. This applies whether you attend onsite or online. Registering is how you receive the Zoom links before the event.

You do not pay when you fill out the form. It is for our information, to help with planning.

Open the registration form

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Fees

Registration fees

All persons named as authors on a presentation pay the registration fee. Payment confirms your place in the programme and entitles you to a presentation certificate if you need one. Non-presenting participants, onsite and online, receive complimentary registration.

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Venue & accommodation

Conference venue

ICAAL 14 will take place at Nguyen Tat Thanh University — 300A Nguyễn Tất Thành, Xóm Chiếu Ward, District 4, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

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Recommended accommodation

Onsite participants arrange their own accommodation. Please book early. A few nearby hotels and homestays within easy reach of the venue. Distances and nightly rates are approximate — please confirm on Agoda or similar booking platform or with the property before booking.

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Travel & events

Getting here, and the welcome party

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Programme

Draft programme

All times are Ho Chi Minh City time (UTC+7). This is a draft. If the timing of your session causes problems, for example because of travel or time zones, please tell us as soon as possible. Co-author names will be added in the final version.

We need volunteers to chair panel sessions. If you would like to chair a panel, please contact the organisers.

Day 1Friday 27 November

9-9.10Opening Remarks

9.10-10.20Panel: Tone and RegisterChair needed

9.10-9.45Ryan GehrmannKatu Register and Dialect Geography: Old and New Evidence from Sekong Province, Laos

9.45-10.20Nathaniel HirozKhang Tonogenesis

10.20-10.50Break

10.50-12.35Panel: Vietnamese PhonologyChair needed

10.50-11.25Andrea PhamLow-vowel fronting in south-central Vietnamese dialects: acoustic evidence for an implicational hierarchy of conditioning environments

11.25-12.00Nguyễn Thị PhươngPreliminary VOT values and laryngeal contrasts in Hanoi Vietnamese initial stops produced by first-grade children

12.00-12.35Nathan NguyenGiọng Bắc 54: A Northern Vietnamese accent in the South

12.35-1.30Lunch

1.30-3.15Panel: Phonology/Phonetics (mixed)Chair needed

1.30-2.05Chem VathoA Time-Aligned Speech Corpus and Verified Pronunciation Dictionary for Khmer: Resources for Forced Alignment and Phonetic Research

2.05-2.40Seha ThachA corpus-based pilot study of timing across Khmer and Vietnamese in FLEURS: Syllable duration, pre-boundary lengthening, and pause structure

2.40-3.15Phạm Thị Thu HàThe Transformation of PC Final Nasals in Northern Raglai and Tsat

3.15-3.50Break

3.50-5.00Panel: MixedChair needed

3.50-4.25Christian BauerComplex medials in 11th century Southern Mon

4.25-5.00Paul SidwellNicobarese classification: new lexical and grammatical considerations

Day 2Saturday 28 November

9.00-10.10Panel: Munda PhonologyChair needed

9.00-9.35Gregory AndersonTowards a comparative phonoprosodic architecture of the Munda languages

9.35-10.10Luke HoroProminence in Kharia polysyllables and a revised classification of Kharia morphotactics

10.10-10.40Break

10.40-12.25Panel: Munda and Palaungic GrammarChair needed

10.40-11.15Hilal Ahmad DarTense and Aspect in Gorum: A Descriptive Account

11.15-11.50Dinkur BorahVerbal Complexity, Valency, and Aspect in Sora: Evidence from Elicited Paradigms and Narrative Discourse

11.50-12.25Rachel WeymuthRelative constructions in Rumai Palaung

12.25-1.30Lunch

1.30-3.15Panel: Khasi LinguisticsChair needed

1.30-2.05Rymphang Rynjah et al.The Syntax of Nominal Particles in Khasi Language Varieties

2.05-2.40Ana Sánchez-MuñozLanguage Choice and Visibility in Multilingual Settings: A Linguistic Landscape of Shillong, Meghalaya (India)

2.40-3.15Tobias WeberKhasian languages from a diachronic typological perspective: Investigating features that are uncommon in Austroasiatic

3.15-3.50Break

3.50-5.00Panel: Vietnamese GrammarChair needed

3.50-4.25Phan TrầnVietnamese của as preposition

4.25-5.00Nguyễn Thuỳ NươngMetalinguistic negation in Vietnamese: The case of presuppositions and implications

Day 3Sunday 29 November

9.00-10.10Panel: HistoricalChair needed

9.00-9.35Mark Alves and Paul SidwellNew Reconstructions of Proto-Vietic and Proto-Viet-Muong: Project Status

9.35-10.10Roger BlenchReconstructing the names of large fauna in Austroasiatic

10.10-10.40Break

10.40-12.25Panel: Lexical StudiesChair needed

10.40-11.15Mark AlvesA Case Study of Problematic Etymological Research: Gregerson’s Posited Austronesian Words in Vietnamese

11.15-11.50Irina SamarinaA Comparative Study of the Basic Lexicon in the Languages of Ratanakiri Province (Cambodia)

11.50-12.25Septhia IrnandaReassessing the historical relationship between Acehnese and Gayo based on shared Austroasiatic lexemes

12.25-1.30Lunch

1.30-3.15Panel: Mixed SessionChair needed

1.30-2.05Tran HienEmbodiment of Anger: Body Parts in the Conceptualization of Anger in Vietnamese

2.05-2.40Nguyen Quy TranTeaching K’ho Cil pronunciation in a Vietnamese-dominant bilingual setting: Teacher perceptions and priorities for materials

2.40-3.15Nguyen Thi Cam NhungImproving Vietnamese Writing through Theme–Rheme Progression: An SFL-Based Classroom Study with Cambodian Learners

3.15-3.50Break

3.50-5.00Panel: Language and SocietyChair needed

3.50-4.25Đinh Lư GiangThe decline of Văn and Thị in Vietnamese personal names: A Sociolinguistic study of urban youth perceptions in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

4.25-5.00Đào Thị LanEvaluative language as argumentative strategy in Vietnamese digital advertising: an appraisal-theoretic analysis

5.00-6.00Business Meeting

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Contact

Questions

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