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.
References
Bickel, Balthasar. 2015. Distributional typology. In Bernd Heine & Heiko Narrog (eds.), The Oxford handbook of linguistic analysis, 901–923. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Search in Google Scholar
Campbell, Lyle. 2017. Why is it so hard to define a linguistic area? In Raymond Hickey (ed.), The Cambridge handbook of areal linguistics, 19–39. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.10.1017/9781107279872.003Search in Google Scholar
Catford, John C. 1977. Mountain of tongues: The languages of the Caucasus. Annual Review of Anthropology 6(1). 283–314.10.1146/annurev.an.06.100177.001435Search in Google Scholar
Creanza, Nicole, Merritt Ruhlen, Trevor J. Pemberton, Noah A. Rosenberg, Marcus W. Feldman & Sohini Ramachandran. 2015. A comparison of worldwide phonemic and genetic variation in human populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112(5). 1265–1272.10.1073/pnas.1424033112Search in Google Scholar
Daumé III, Hal. 2009. Non-parametric Bayesian areal linguistics. In Proceedings of human language technologies: The 2009 annual conference of the north american chapter of the association for computational linguistics, 593–601. Association for Computational Linguistics.10.3115/1620754.1620841Search in Google Scholar
Donohue, Mark, Rebecca Hetherington, James McElvenny & Virginia Dawson (eds.). 2013. World phonotactics database. Canberra: Department of Linguistics, The Australian National University. http://phonotactics.anu.edu.au.Search in Google Scholar
Hammarström, Harald & Mark Donohue. 2014. Some principles on the use of macro-areas in typological comparison. Language Dynamics and Change 4(1). 167–187.10.1163/22105832-00401001Search in Google Scholar
Ladd, D. Robert, Seán G. Roberts & Dan Dediu. 2015. Correlational studies in typological and historical linguistics. Annual Review of Linguistics 1(1). 221–241.10.1146/annurev-linguist-030514-124819Search in Google Scholar
Ladefoged, Peter & Ian Maddieson. 1996. The sounds of the world’s languages. Oxford, OX, UK and Cambridge, Mass., USA: Blackwell Publishers.Search in Google Scholar
Lindblom, Björn & Ian Maddieson. 1988. Phonetic universals in consonant systems. In Victoria Fromkin, Larry M. Hyman & Charles N. Li (eds.), Language, speech, and mind: studies in honour of Victoria A. Fromkin, 62–78. London and New York: Routledge.Search in Google Scholar
Maddieson, Ian. 1984. Patterns of sounds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.10.1017/CBO9780511753459Search in Google Scholar
Maddieson, Ian & Kristin Precoda. 1992. UPSID and PHONEME (version 1.1). Los Angeles: University of California at Los Angeles.Search in Google Scholar
Michael, Lev, Tammy Stark, Emily Clem & Will Chang (eds.). 2015. South American phonological inventory database v1.1.4. Berkeley: University of California. http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~saphon/.Search in Google Scholar
Moran, Steven, Daniel McCloy & Richard Wright (eds.). 2014. Phoible online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. http://phoible.org/.Search in Google Scholar
Supplemental Material
The online version of this article offers supplementary material (https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2017-0050).
©2018 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
