Crcl Inc

THE CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS WAS INCORPORATED AS CRCL INC IN 2003 FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES UNDER THE CALIFORNIA NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION LAW. CRCL'S MISSION IS TO PROMOTE RESEARCH AND STUDY OF MODERN AND HISTORICAL LANGUAGES, FOCUSING ON SOUTHEAST ASIA, AND HELPING TO FILL THE GAP BETWEEN THE EMERGING DISCIPLINE OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS, AND THE TRADITIONAL METHODS OF THE SOUTHEAST ASIAN LINGUISTICS / LANGUAGES COMMUNITY. SINCE ITS FOUNDING CRCL HAS SUCCESSFULLY PROMOTED DEVELOPMENT AND DISSEMINATION OF RESOURCES AND METHODS WITH THE SUPPORT AND COLLABORATION OF COLLEAGUES IN THE US SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES NATIONAL RESOURCE CENTERS, THE COALITION OF TEACHERS OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN LANGUAGES, THE COMMITTEE ON RESEARCH MATERIALS ON SOUTHEAST ASIA, AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION, THE SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES SUMMER INSTITUTE (UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON), SOAS LONDON, U OF EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND AND OTHER US / INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITIES.

LINGUISTIC TONE IS WIDELY STUDIED AND RECORDED, BUT TONE DATA HAS NEVER BEEN BROADLY AND SYSTEMATICALLY COLLECTED AS A RESEARCH RESOURCE IN MORE THAN CURSORY FASHION. THE CRCL "TONE IN LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS" PROJECT INVOLVES ACQUISITION, NORMALIZATION, PHONOLOGICAL, AND SOME SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF DATA FOR THE TONE LANGUAGES OF SOUTHEAST ASIA AND NEARBY REGIONS, IN PARTICULAR CHINA AND THE HIMALAYAS. OUR RESEARCH DEALS WITH BOTH MODERN LEXICAL DATA, AND HISTORICAL PATTERNS OF TONE CHANGE, AND IS ASSISTED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH AS PART OF THEIR EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL PROJECT "EVOTONE: EMERGENCE AND EVOLUTION OF LINGUISTIC TONE". ALL DATA AND RESULTS ARE FREELY SHARED UNDER AN OPEN CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE, AND MADE AVAILABLE VIA THE WEBSITE.

CRCL MAINTAINS THE "SEALANG LIBRARY," A MULTI-YEAR PROJECT THAT HAS DEVELOPED AN EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF OPENLY ACCESSIBLE ON-LINE DICTIONARIES, TEXT CORPORA, RESEARCH JOURNALS AND PUBLICATIONS, AND OTHER RESOURCES FOR SOUTHEAST ASIAN LANGUAGES. WE MAINTAIN THE WEBSITES OF SEVERAL LONG-ESTABLISHED JOURNALS AND CONFERENCES, INCLUDING THE MON-KHMER STUDIES JOURNAL, THE SOUTHEAST ASIAN LINGUISTICS SOCIETY, THE NORTHEAST INDIAN LINGUISTICS SOCIETY AND THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUSTROASIATIC LINGUISTICS, AND MANAGE THE SEALANG-L MAILING LIST, ONLINE SINCE 1994. CRCL'S SOUTHEAST ASIAN LINGUISTICS ARCHIVES (SEALANG SALA) PROVIDES OPEN ACCESS TO MANY THOUSANDS OF ARTICLES NOT AVAILABLE ELSEWHERE, INCLUDING MKSJ, JSEALS, LTBA (LINGUISTICS OF THE TIBETO-BURMAN AREA), NUSA (LINQUISTIC STUDIES OF INDONESIAN LANGUAGES), AS WELL AS MANY CONFERENCE SERIES; IN ADDITION, WE HAVE MADE THE FIRST 50 YEARS OF PACIFIC LINGUISTICS PUBLICATIONS (MORE THAN 500 VOLUMES), FREELY AVAILABLE.