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Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
Editor-in-Chief:
Mark Alves, Montgomery College
Open Access
This journal is an open-access and peer reviewed online-only journal.
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E-ISSN: 1836-6821
Frequency: Semiannual
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.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
JSEALS
publishes fully open access content, which means that all articles are available on the internet to all users immediately upon publication. Non-commercial use and distribution in any medium is permitted, provided the author and the journal are properly credited. Authors retain copyright of their material. The journal does not charge Article Processing Fees.
Sponsor:
Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
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2017 to present
Back content starting in 2009
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Pricing Guide
This journal is an open-access and peer reviewed online-only journal.
Read online here.
Author Guidelines
Submissions to JSEALS may be made at any time of year. Papers go into the queue for review and are published in the first scheduled issue after acceptance.  JSEALS does not charge authors any fees at any stage of the process, from submission to final publication.
For Author Guidelines, including formatting and submission procedures see the
Submitting Articles to JSEALS page
, maintained by the journal editors. The same page includes a
description of the journal’s peer review process
, and an accompanying
JSEALS Statement of Ethics
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Mark Alves
(Montgomery College, USA) Vietnamese linguistics, Austroasiatic languages, Chinese linguistics, Southeast Asian Historical Linguistics and Language
Managing Editors
Mathias Jenny (Chiang Mai UniversIty, Thailand) – Languages of Myanmar and Thailand, Austroasiatic languages, Language contact, Language change, Historical syntax, Language and ethnicity, Language endangerment
Sigrid Lew (Dallas International University, USA) 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
JSEALS EDITORIAL BOARD
Edith ALDRIDGE (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) – Syntax (especially case, voice, word order, alignment), syntactic change & reconstruction, Austronesian, Chinese
Nathan BADENOCH (Villanova University, USA) – Austroasiatic linguistics, Tibeto-Burman linguistics, linguistic anthropology, ideophones/expressives
Kenneth Van BIK (California State University, USA) – Kuki-Chin Linguistics, Comparative-Historical Linguistics, and Endangered Languages
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)
Thomas CONNERS (University of Maryland, USA) – Javanese, Indonesian, Dialectology, Fieldwork, Language documentation
Kamil DEEN (University of Hawaii, USA) – Thai syntax, First language acquisition
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
Nathan HILL
(Trinity College Dublin, UK) Tibeto-Burman and Historical linguistics
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
Daniel KAUFMAN (Queens College, City University of New York & Endangered Language Alliance, USA) – Austronesian languages, Historical linguistics, Typology, Syntax, Morphology
James KIRBY (Ludwig-Maximilians-
Universität München, Germany) – 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
Teresa Wai See ONG (Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore) – language maintenance and language shift, language planning and policy, linguistic landscape, multilingualism
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
Trang PHAN (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy)  – Vietnamese syntax, syntactic theory
Pittayawat PITTAYAPORN (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand) – Thai linguistics, Kra-Dai languages, Historical linguistics, Phonology, Language contact
Nathaniel A. SIMS (University of Oregon, USA) – Tibeto-Burman Phonology and Morphology, Historical Linguistics, Community-based Language Documentation
Alexander D. SMITH (University of North Texas) – Austronesian Comparative Linguistics, Island Southeast Asia, Historical linguistics, Phonology, Field work
Napasri TIMYAM (Kasetsart University, Thailand) – Thai linguistics, Syntax, Morphology
Seth VITRANO-WILSON (Payap University, Chiang Mai, Thailand) – Orthography, Writing Systems
Alice VITTRANT (University Lumière Lyon 2 /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
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)
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