The Database of Eurasian Phonological Inventories: a research tool for distributional phonological typology
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Dmitry Nikolaev
Abstract
The paper presents an overview of The Database of Eurasian Phonological Inventories—a new information resource and analytical tool for research in the field of distributional phonological typology, theoretical phonology, and areal linguistics.
Acknowledgement
The author would like to thank Eitan Grossman and two anonymous reviewers for their careful reading of the manuscript and valuable comments and suggestions. The writing of this article was supported by a post-doctoral grant from the Dynamics of Language Lab of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Editorial Note
- Editorial
- Phonetics & Phonology
- The syntax-prosody interface: current theoretical approaches and outstanding questions
- The Database of Eurasian Phonological Inventories: a research tool for distributional phonological typology
- A survey of experimental evidence for diachronic change
- Morphology & Syntax
- The Yale Grammatical Diversity Project: Morphosyntactic variation in North American English
- Semantics & Pragmatics
- Language Documentation & Typology
- Historical Linguistics
- Modeling linguistic evolution: a look under the hood
- Psycholinguistics & Neurolinguistics
- Tuning to languages: experience-based approaches to the language science of bilingualism
- Language acquisition and Language Learning
- Sociolinguistics and Anthropological Linguistics
- Precision and speaker qualities. The social meaning of pragmatic detail
- The effect of perceived ethnicity on spoken text comprehension under clear and adverse listening conditions
- Computational & Corpus Linguistics
- “Too many Americans are trapped in fear, violence and poverty”: a psychology-informed sentiment analysis of campaign speeches from the 2016 US Presidential Election
- Predicting semi-regular patterns in morphologically complex words
- Toward an infrastructure for data-driven multimodal communication research
- Cognitive Linguistics
