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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Dear typologists,</span>
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<div class="">I would appreciate it if you could point to me any literature on <b class="">phonological distance</b> <b class="">between the phonological systems of multiple languages.</b></div>
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<div class="">I do not refer to:</div>
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<li class="">Distance between phonological segments (for example, the distance between English <i class="">father </i><span class="">and German </span><i class="">Vater</i><span class="">)</span></li><li class=""><span class="">Dialectometry (for example, the distance between British English and American English, based on how the two dialects pronounce the same words)</span></li></ul>
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<div class="">I only refer to:</div>
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<li class="">Distance between the phonology of two languages (for example, the distance between English phonology and Japanese phonology, in terms of its phonemic inventory, phonotactic rules, allophones, segmental frequency, etc.)</li></ul>
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<div class="">So far I have only found the following works:</div>
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<li class="">Afendras, E. A. (1970). “Quantitative distinctive feature typologies and a demonstration of areal convergence”. In: ITL-International Journal of Applied Linguistics 9.1, pp. 49–81. DOI: 10.1075/itl.9.05afe.</li><li class="">Avram, Andrei (1964). “Sur la typologie phonologique quantitative”. In: Revue roumaine de Linguistique IX, pp. 131–134.</li><li class="">Eden, S. Elizabeth (2018). “Measuring phonological distance between languages”. PhD thesis. University College London.</li><li class="">Kučera, Henry and George K Monroe (1968). A comparative quantitative phonology of Russian, Czech, and German. 4. New York: American Elsevier Publishing Company.</li><li class="">Macklin-Cordes, Jayden L, Claire Bowern, and Erich R Round (2021). “Phylogenetic signal in phonotactics”. In: Diachronica 38.2, pp. 210–258.</li><li class="">Nikolaev, Dmitry (2019). “Areal dependency of consonant inventories”. In: Language Dynamics and Change 9.1, pp. 104–126.</li><li class="">Postovalova Постовалова, V. I. В. И. (1966). “O sočetajemosti differencial’nyx priznakov soglasnyx fenomen sovremennogo russkogo jazyka О сочетаемости дифференциальных признаков согласных фонем современного русского языка [On the compatibility
of the differential features of consonantal phonemes of contemporary Russian]”. In: Problemy lingvističeskogo analiza: Fonologija, grammatika, leksikologija Проблемы лингвистического анализа: Фонология, грамматика, лексикология [Problems of linguistic analysis:Phonology,
grammar, lexicology]. Ed. by E. A. Э. А. Makajev Макаев. Moscow Москва: Nauka Наука, pp. 34–46.</li></ul>
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<div class="">Please let me know if you are aware of any other works measuring this type of phonological distance.</div>
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<div class="">From Hong Kong,</div>
<div class="">Ian</div>
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