Recursos lingüísticos: PHOIBLE Online: Repository of cross-linguistic phonological inventory data URL: phoible.org/ Información completa en la web de Infoling: infoling.org/informacion/RecursoL148.html PHOIBLE Online is a repository of cross-linguistic phonological inventory data, which have been extracted from source documents and tertiary databases, and compiled into a single searchable convenience sample. The 2014 edition includes 2155 inventories that contain 2160 segment types found in 1672 distinct languages. A bibliographic record is provided for each source document; note that some languages in PHOIBLE have multiple entries based on distinct sources that disagree about the number and/or identity of that language’s phonemes. Two principles guide the development of PHOIBLE, though it has proved challenging both theoretically and technologically to abide by them: - Be faithful to the language description in the source document (now often called ‘doculect’, for reasons indicated above). - Encode all character data in a consistent representation in Unicode IPA. In addition to phoneme inventories, PHOIBLE includes distinctive feature data for every phoneme in every language. The feature system used was created by the PHOIBLE developers to be descriptively adequate cross-linguistically. In other words, if two phonemes differ in their graphemic representation, then they necessarily differ in their featural representation as well (regardless of whether those two phonemes coexist in any known doculect). The feature system is loosely based on the feature system in Hayes 2009 with some additions drawn from Moisik & Esling 2011. However, the final feature system goes beyond both of these sources, and is potentially subject to change as new languages are added in subsequent editions of PHOIBLE. From Linguist List: linguistlist.org/issues/25/25-3626.html For a detailed description of PHOIBLE, see Moran 2012a: https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/handle/1773/22452 For a brief overview, see the 10-page dissertation abstract: phoible.org/static/data/Moran2012_10_page_diss_abstract.pdf For examples of some of the research we are doing with PHOIBLE, see Cysouw et al 2012, Moran 2012b, Moran et al 2012, McCloy et al 2013, and Moran & Blasi forthcoming. References Cysouw, Michael, Dediu, Dan and Moran, Steven. 2012. Still No Evidence for an Ancient Language Expansion From Africa. Science, 335, 657–b. Online: sciencemag.org/content/335/6069/657.2.full Hammarström, Harald, Forkel, Robert, Haspelmath, Martin and Nordhoff, Sebastian. Glottolog 2.3. Online: glottolog.org/ Hayes, Bruce. 2009. Introductory Phonology. Wiley-Blackwell. McCloy, Daniel R., Moran, Steven and Wright, Richard. 2013. Revisiting The role of features in phonological inventories. Paper presented at the CUNY Conference on the Feature in Phonology and Phonetics, January 16-18. New York, NY. Moisik, Scott R. and Esling, John H. 2011. The Whole Larynx Approach to Laryngeal Features. In Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVII), 1406-1409. Moran, Steven. 2012a. Phonetics Information Base and Lexicon. PhD thesis, University of Washington. Moran, Steven. 2012b. Using Linked Data to Create a Typological Knowledge Base. In Linked Data in Linguistics: Representing and Connecting Language Data and Language Metadata, Christian Chiarcos, Sebastian Nordhoff and Sebastian Hellmann (eds). Springer, Heidelberg. Moran, Steven, McCloy, Daniel R. and Wright, Richard. 2012. Revisiting Population Size vs. Phoneme Inventory Size. Language, 88(4): 877–893. Moran, Steven and Blasi, Damián. Forthcoming. Cross-linguistic Comparison of Complexity measures in Phonological Systems. In Frederick J. Newmeyer and Laurel Preston (eds), Measuring Grammatical Complexity. Información completa en la web de Infoling: infoling.org/informacion/RecursoL148.html
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