34.3212, Calls: Phonological Databases

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Subject: 34.3212, Calls: Phonological Databases

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Date: 28-Oct-2023
From: Ian Joo [ian_joo at nucba.ac.jp]
Subject: Phonological Databases

Full Title: Phonological databases

Date: 22-Aug-2024 - 22-Aug-2024
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Contact Person: Ian Joo
Meeting Email: ian_joo at nucba.ac.jp

Linguistic Field(s): Phonology

Call Deadline: 19-Nov-2023

Meeting Description:

Phonological databases
Convener: Ian Joo
Nagoya University of Commerce and Business
October 28, 2023
Phonological typology in the 21st century is endowed with an
increasing number of phonolgoical
databases, containing various types of phonological information, such
as phonemic inventories
(Maddieson 2009; Moran and McCloy 2019), phonotactic constraints
(Mielke 2008; Maddieson,
Flavier, et al. 2013; Nikolaev 2018; Joo and Hsu 2023), loan segments
(Grossman et al. 2020), and
ancient sounds (Moran, Grossman, et al. 2021). These databases open
door for a myriad of datadriven
approaches on phonological universals and areal patterns. Phonological
typologists may
benefit from a methodological discussion on how to profit from the
possibilities of such large data.
To host such a discussion in a tentative workshop at the 57th annual
meeting of the Societas
Linguistica Europæa, abstracts related to the following questions and
other related topics are called
for:
• How to use the databases? The phonological databases can be used for
diverse purposes,
such as detecting the areal distribution of consonant inventories
(Nikolaev 2019) or investigating
the correlation between climate and physiology (Maddieson and Benedict
2023). With
our creativity, the available databases can be exploited yet further
for endless research possibilities,
especially when we combine the phonological databases with the
non-phonological
ones, such as Grambank (Skirgård et al. 2023).
• How can the databases complement each other? Each database, by the
nature of its design
and the first-hand data it relies on, is limited in one way or
another. Anderson et al.
(2023) have shown that the descriptions of the same sample of lects
are alarmingly inconsistent
across different databases. Employing multiple databases, therefore,
can be the desired
methodology in order to prevent a database becoming a data bias. How,
then, can we extract
cross-compatible data from differently designed databases, with
different lect classifications,
phonological transcriptions, and theoretical backgrounds?
• What’s next? What are some phonological (or phonetic) properties of
human language
that are not covered by the databases published so far? For example,
no currently available
database contains extensive data on prosody, vowel formant
frequencies, sign language
phonology, morphohphonological rules, and many other important
phonetic-phonological
variables. If you are working on a database that fills in one of these
gaps, then this venue can
be the right place to present your ongoing research and receive
feedback from other linguists
working on previous databases.

References
Anderson, Cormac, Tiago Tresoldi, Simon J. Greenhill, Robert Forkel,
Russell D Gray, and Johann-
Mattis List (2023). “Measuring variation in phoneme inventories”. In:
Journal of Language
Evolution (accepted).
Grossman, Eitan, Elad Eisen, Dmitry Nikolaev, and Steven Moran (2020).
“SegBo: A database of
borrowed Sounds in the world’s languages”. In: Proceedings of the 12th
language resources and
evaluation conference. European Language Resources Association, pp.
5316–5322.
Joo, Ian and Yu-Yin Hsu (2023). “Phonotacticon: a cross-linguistic
phonotactic database”. In: Language
Resources and Evaluation (under review). DOI:
10.21203/rs.3.rs-3269302/v1.
Maddieson, Ian (2009). Patterns of sounds. Cambridge University Press.
Maddieson, Ian and Karl Benedict (2023). “Demonstrating environmental
impacts on the sound
structure of languages: challenges and solutions”. In: Frontiers in
Psychology 14.
Maddieson, Ian, Sébastien Flavier, Egidio Marsico, Christophe Coupé,
and François Pellegrino
(2013). “LAPSyd: Lyon-Albuquerque

Call for Papers:

Please send your abstract (up to 300 words excluding references, 12pt
Times New Roman, 2.5cm
margin, pdf format) on one of these or other related topics to
ian_joo at nucba.ac.jp by 19 November
2023. If I receive eight or more abstracts, I will send a workshop
proposal to the Chair of SLE
workshops for their approval.

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