Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
The Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society accepts submissions written in English that deal with general linguistic issues which further the lively debate that characterizes the annual SEALS conferences. Devoted to a region of extraordinary linguistic diversity, the journal features papers on the languages of Southeast Asia, including Austroasiatic, Austronesian, Hmong-Mien, Tibeto-Burman, and Tai-Kadai.
Topics may include descriptive, theoretical, or historical linguistics, dialectology, sociolinguistics, and anthropological linguistics, among other areas of linguistics of languages of Southeast Asia. JSEALS also admits data papers, reports, and notes, subject to an internal review process.
Although we normally expect that JSEALS articles will have been presented and discussed at the SEALS conference, submission is open to all, regardless of participation in SEALS meetings. Each original article undergoes double-blind review by at least two scholars, usually a member of the Advisory Board and one or more independent referees.
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- Recent Articles
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Proposing a Facilitated Participatory Approach for Southeast Asian Minority Language Orthography Design
Posted on Tuesday January 01, 2019Spatial Relations along the In-On Continuum in Thai Sign Language
Posted on Tuesday January 01, 2019Tones in the Cuoi Language of Tan Ki District in Nghe An Province, Vietnam
Posted on Tuesday January 01, 2019Vietnamese Initial Consonant Clusters in Quốc Ngữ Documents from the 17th to Early 19th Centuries
Posted on Tuesday January 01, 2019Types and Functions of Reduplication in Palembang
Posted on Tuesday January 01, 2019Book Notice: Mainland Southeast Asian Languages - A Concise Typological Introduction, by N. J. Enfield
Posted on Tuesday January 01, 2019In Memoriam: Thomas M. Tehan (1949-2019)
Posted on Tuesday January 01, 2019Request Modifications Used by Chinese Learners and Native Speakers of Thai
Posted on Tuesday January 01, 2019Two-part Negation in Yang Zhuang
Posted on Tuesday January 01, 2019Tonal Variation in Pyen
Posted on Tuesday January 01, 2019A View on Proto-Karen Phonology and Lexicon
Posted on Tuesday January 01, 2019The Labial Causative In Trans-Himalayan
Posted on Tuesday January 01, 2019Non-finite Clauses in Thai
Posted on Tuesday January 01, 2019Papers from the Seventh International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics
Posted on Monday January 01, 2018Languages and Scripts Reflecting Patani Malay Multiple Identities in Thailand’s Deep South
Posted on Monday January 01, 2018Review of: Thurgood, Graham, and Randy LaPolla, eds. The Sino-Tibetan Languages. Second Edition
Posted on Monday January 01, 2018Temporal Expressions In Balinese: Focused On The Semantic Functions Of Temporal Adverbials
Posted on Monday January 01, 2018Notes on Chinese Words in Shorto’s Proto-Austroasiatic Reconstructions
Posted on Monday January 01, 2018Preliminary Phonology of Rera, a Tangsa Variety of Northeast india
Posted on Monday January 01, 2018Twos and Fore: Dual Organization and the Importance of Foreshadowing in Prai Story Structure
Posted on Monday January 01, 2018Rhetorical Questions in Papuan Malay, Other Malayic Languages, and the Papuan Languages of West Papua
Posted on Tuesday October 02, 2018A Phonology Of Eastern Kmhmu' With Special Reference To Palatal Continuant Codas And Neutralisation Of Vowel Length Contrast
Posted on Tuesday October 02, 2018Papers from the Chulalongkorn International Student Symposium on Southeast Asian Linguistics 2017
Posted on Tuesday October 02, 2018Sequential Organization of Requests by Learners Of Vietnamese
Posted on Monday July 16, 2018Bhoi Khasi Compared to Standard Khasi
Posted on Monday July 16, 2018Descriptions of Co-extension Paths in Khasi
Posted on Monday July 16, 2018Acoustic Correlates of Statement and Question Intonation in Southern Vietnamese
Posted on Monday July 16, 2018Two Birds with One Stone: The Aerodynamic Voicing Constraint and the Languages of Borneo
Posted on Monday July 16, 2018Review of the Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics
Posted on Friday June 01, 2018Differential Case Marking in Bodo
Posted on Friday June 01, 2018Top-Down Historical Phonology of Rote-Meto
Posted on Friday June 01, 2018West-Central Thailand Pwo Karen Phonology
Posted on Friday June 01, 2018Nasal substitution and the limited role of *NC̥ in Malay Dialects
Posted on Friday June 01, 2018The Barito Linkage Hypothesis, with a Note on the Position of Basap
Posted on Friday June 01, 2018The Loss of Proto-Tibeto-Burman Final Velars in Standard Jinghpaw
Posted on Friday June 01, 2018Book Notice: A Grammar Of Papuan Malay
Posted on Friday December 01, 2017Differences in Language Used by Deceivers and Truth-Tellers in Thai Online Chat
Posted on Friday December 01, 2017On the r>h Shift in Kiên Giang Khmer
Posted on Friday December 01, 2017A Phonological Reanalysis of Eastern Lawa
Posted on Friday December 01, 2017Review of Tone in Yongning Na: Lexical Tones and Morphotonology by Alexis Michaud
Posted on Friday December 01, 2017Changes in Tai Dam Vowels
Posted on Friday December 01, 2017Notes on Northern Katang Kinship and Society
Posted on Friday December 01, 2017On the Linguistic Affiliation of 'Tai Loi'
Posted on Friday December 01, 2017Sources of Written Burmese –ac and related questions in Burmese historical phonology
Posted on Friday December 01, 2017Old Burmese ry- – a Remark on Proto-Lolo-Burmese Resonant Initials
Posted on Friday December 01, 2017Quality of Javanese and Sundanese Vowels
Posted on Friday December 01, 2017Issues in Austronesian Historical Linguistics
Posted on Thursday June 08, 2017Myanmar-based Khamti Shan Orthography
Posted on Thursday June 01, 2017A Description and Linguistic Analysis of the Tai Khuen Writing System
Posted on Thursday June 01, 2017The Historical Phonology of Kriang, A Katuic Language
Posted on Thursday June 01, 2017Khmuic Linguistic Bibliography with Selected Annotations
Posted on Thursday June 01, 2017Discourse Functions of Zero Pronouns in Tai Dam
Posted on Thursday June 01, 2017Phonological Sketch of Helong, an Austronesian Language of Timor
Posted on Thursday June 01, 2017Phonological Sketch of the Sida Language of Luang Namtha, Laos
Posted on Thursday June 01, 2017On the Number of Voices in Madurese
Posted on Thursday June 01, 2017Biliteracy across Scripts: Implications for Language Development in Southeast Asia
Posted on Thursday June 01, 2017An evaluation of So language vitality in Thailand
Posted on Thursday June 01, 2017A Phonological Comparison of Gamale, Sheram and Ghusbang – Three Kham Varieties
Posted on Thursday June 01, 2017 - Read Online
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Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society is an open-access journal available online on ScholarSpace.
ScholarSpace, 2017 to present. 
JSEALS, back content starting in 2009. - Pricing Guide
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This journal is an open-access and peer reviewed online-only journal. Read online here.
- Author Guidelines
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Submissions to JSEALS may be made at any time of year. Papers will go into the queue for review and will be published in the first scheduled issue after being formally accepted.
Find Submission Guidelines for the Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society here.
- Editorial Board
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Editor-in-Chief
Mark Alves (Montgomery College, USA) Vietnamese linguistics, Austroasiatic languages, Chinese linguistics, Southeast Asian Historical Linguistics and Language
Managing Editors
Nathan Hill (University of London, SOAS) Tibeto-Burman and Historical linguistics
Sigrid Lew (Payap University, Thailand) Applied Linguistics, Austroasiatic and Tibeto-Burman phonetics and phonology, Latin-based and Brahmi-based orthography development
Paul Sidwell (Australia National University, Australia) Austroasiatic languages, Historical linguistics, Phonology, Phonetics
SEALS EDITORIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Luke BRADLEY (University of Freiburg, Germany) – Psycholinguistics, Orthography, Sound change, Morphology, Vietnamese
Marc BRUNELLE (University of Ottawa, Canada) – Phonetics and phonology, Tone and voice quality, Language contact, Vietnamese and Chamic languages
Christopher BUTTON (Independent researcher) – Old Chinese, Old Burmese, Kuki-Chin, Proto-Sino-Tibetan / Proto-Tibeto-Burman, Comparative/Historical Phonology, Morphology & Semantics, Palaeography (Oracle Bone Inscriptions)
Kamil DEEN (University of Hawaii, USA) – Thai syntax, First language acquisition
Gerard DIFFLOTH (Cambodia) – Historical Austroasiatic linguistics, Ethno-zoology, Ethno-botany, Expressives
Rikker DOCKUM (Yale University, USA) – Kra-Dai languages, Historical linguistics, Tone systems, Quantitative comparative linguistics, Thai epigraphy, Language documentation
David M. EBERHARD (Ethnologue general editor, SIL International) – Language Shift, Language Development
Ryan GEHRMANN (Payap University) – Historical phonology, Tone and voice quality, Austroasiatic languages
San San HNIN TUN (INCALCO, France) – Burmese language, Discourse marking, Corpus linguistics
Kitima INDRAMBARYA (Kasetsart University, Thailand) – Thai linguistics, Thai Syntax, Language acquisition
Peter JENKS (UC Berkeley, USA) – Thai linguistics, Syntax, Semantics, Kra-Dai languages
Mathias JENNY (University of Zurich, Switzerland) – Languages of Myanmar and Thailand, Austroasiatic languages, Language contact, Language change, Historical syntax, Language and ethnicity, Language endangerment
Daniel KAUFMAN (Queens College, City University of New York & Endangered Language Alliance, USA) – Austronesian languages, Historical linguistics, Typology, Syntax, Morphology
James KIRBY (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) – Phonetics and phonology, Sound change, Evolution of voicing, Tone and register, Language and music, Khmer, Vietnamese, Tai languages
Hsiu-chuan LIAO (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan) – Austronesian linguistics, Historical linguistics, Syntax, Morphology, Language documentation
Bradley MCDONNELL (University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, USA) – Austronesian languages, Phonology, Syntax, Language documentation
Alexis MICHAUD (CNRS (Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), France) – Tibeto-Burman languages, Phonetics/phonology, Prosody, Language documentation
Marc MIYAKE (The British Museum) – Historical phonology, Writing systems, Language contact, Chinese and Indic influence on Southeast Asian languages, Pyu
David MORTENSEN (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) – Hmong-Mien Languages, Phonology, OT, and Computational linguistics
Peter NORQUEST (University of Arizona, USA) – Languages of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, Kra-Dai and Austronesian languages, Historical phonology, Long-range relationships, Language contact
Christina Joy PAGE (Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada) – Literacy development, Latin- and Brahmi-based orthographies
John D. PHAN (Columbia University, USA) – Sino-Vietnamese linguistics, Austroasiatic linguistics, historical phonology, language contact
Pittayawat PITTAYAPORN (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand) – Thai linguistics, Kra-Dai languages, Historical linguistics, Phonology, Language contact
Amara PRASITHRATHSINT (Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand) – Syntax, Syntactic change, Language contact, Sociolinguistics, Ethnolinguistics, Translation
Alexander D. SMITH (University of North Texas) – Austronesian Comparative Linguistics, Island Southeast Asia, Historical linguistics, Phonology, Field work
Joseph (Deth) THACH (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, France) – Khmer language, Discourse marking, Morphology of Mon-Khmer languages, Syntax and semantics analyses of Khmer language
Kenneth VAN BIK (California State University, Fullerton, CA) – Kuki-Chin Linguistics, Comparative-Historical Linguistics, and Endangered Languages
Seth VITRANO-WILSON (Payap University, Chiang Mai, Thailand) – Orthography, Writing Systems
Alice VITTRANT (Aix-Marseille Université / CNRS-DDL, France) – Languages of Burma, Burmese dialects, Hmong, Endangered languages, Typology, Syntax, TAM, Classifiers, Motion and space, Deixis
Heather WINSKEL (Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia) – Psycholinguistics, Reading Research
- Indexes
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Articles appearing in the Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society are indexed in the following sources:
Brill–
Linguistic Bibliography (Online)DOAJ-Directory of Open Access Journals
EBSCOhost–
Communication Source, 12/1/2011-
TOC Premier (Table of Contents), 12/1/2011-Elsevier BV–
Scopus, 2014-ProQuest–
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (Online), Core
Linguistics Collection, 1/1/2016-
Social Science Premium Collection, 1/1/2016-Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.–
Linguistics Abstracts (Online)
