<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Dear typologists,<div><br></div><div>it is my pleasure to announce the first release of Phonotacticon, a cross-linguistic phonotactic database.</div><div>Phonotacticon contains the following information of each spoken lect:</div><div><br></div><div>1. Phonemes</div><div>2. Tones</div><div>3. Onset sequences</div><div>4. Nucleus sequences</div><div>5. Coda sequences</div><div><br></div><div>For example, the phonotactic information of Catalan (Hualde 1992) is as follows:</div><div><br></div><div>Phonemes: p t k b d ɡ t͡ʃ d͡ʒ f s ʃ z ʒ m n ɲ ŋ l ʎ r ɾ i u e o ɛ ɔ a ə</div><div>Tones: None</div><div>Onset sequences: # p t k b d ɡ t͡ʃ d͡ʒ f s ʃ z ʒ m n ɲ l ʎ r ɾ pɾ bɾ tɾ dɾ kɾ ɡɾ fɽ pl bl kl ɡl fl</div><div>Nucleus sequences: i u e o ɛ ɔ a ə iu io iɛ iɔ ia iə uo uɛ uɔ ua uə ui ei oi ɛi ɔi ai əi eu ou ɛu ɔu au əu ii uu</div><div>Coda sequences: # p b t d t͡ʃ k ɡ f s ʃ m n ɲ ŋ l ʎ r lp lk rp rt rk sp st sk ns ls ps ts ks fs ms ns ɲs ŋs ls ʎs rs lps lks rps rts rks sps</div><div><br></div><div>where # represents zero onset/coda.</div><div><br></div><div>The first version, Phonotacticon 1.0, contains 512 Eurasian lects. In the future, later versions will include lects spoken outside of Eurasia as well.</div><div><br></div><div>The database is available in this Github page, along with a manuscript explaining its building process and providing some descriptive visualizations.</div><div><br></div><div><div style="display: block;"><div style="-webkit-user-select: all; -webkit-user-drag: element; display: inline-block;" class="apple-rich-link" draggable="true" role="link" data-url="https://github.com/ianjoo/Phonotacticon/"><a style="border-radius:10px;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;display:block;-webkit-user-select:none;width:300px;user-select:none;-webkit-user-modify:read-only;user-modify:read-only;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none;" class="lp-rich-link" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/ianjoo/Phonotacticon/" dir="ltr" role="button" draggable="false" width="300"><table style="table-layout:fixed;border-collapse:collapse;width:300px;background-color:#E5E6E9;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="lp-rich-link-emailBaseTable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="300"><tbody><tr><td vertical-align="center" align="center"><img style="width:300px;filter:brightness(0.97);height:150px;" width="300" height="150" draggable="false" class="lp-rich-link-mediaImage" alt="Phonotacticon.png" src="cid:5956D4D6-D5DF-4CD2-B5FC-7D9B0A724C87"></td></tr><tr><td vertical-align="center"><table bgcolor="#E5E6E9" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="300" style="font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;table-layout:fixed;background-color:rgba(229, 230, 233, 1);" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:8px 0px 8px 0px;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStackItem"><div style="max-width:100%;margin:0px 16px 0px 16px;overflow:hidden;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:500;font-size:12px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-topCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/ianjoo/Phonotacticon/" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#272727" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.847059);">ianjoo/Phonotacticon: Phonotacticon: A cross-linguistic database of basic phonotactic information.</font></a></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:400;font-size:11px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-bottomCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/ianjoo/Phonotacticon/" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#808080" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039);">github.com</font></a></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div></div><br></div><div>May this database be of interest to many phonologists, typologists, and anyone else interested in the distribution of phonotactical patterns in the world.</div><div><br></div><div>From Hong Kong,</div><div>Ian</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div></div><div></div></body></html>