25.3626, FYI: PHOIBLE Online

Tue Sep 16 20:16:53 UTC 2014

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Subject: 25.3626, FYI: PHOIBLE Online

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Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 16:14:39
From: Steven Moran [steven.moran at uzh.ch]
Subject: PHOIBLE Online

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We are pleased to announce the release of PHOIBLE Online, a repository of
cross-linguistic phonological inventory data: 
http://phoible.org/

The 2014 edition includes 2155 segment inventories that contain 2160 segment
types found in 1672 distinct languages. These inventories have been extracted
from source documents and tertiary databases and compiled into a single
searchable convenience sample. The combined data set includes additional
genealogical and geographical information about each language from the
Glottolog (Hammarström et al 2014). A bibliographic record is provided for
each source document.

Two principles guide the development of PHOIBLE:
- Be faithful to the language description in the source document
- 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 in the sample. The feature system used was
created by the PHOIBLE developers to be descriptively adequate
cross-linguistically; the system is loosely based on the feature system in
Hayes 2009 with some additions drawn from Moisik & Esling 2011.

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:
http://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:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6069/657.2.full

Hammarström, Harald, Forkel, Robert, Haspelmath, Martin and Nordhoff,
Sebastian. Glottolog 2.3. Online: http://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.

Linguistic Field(s): Phonology
                     Typology

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