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The Database of Eurasian Phonological Inventories: a research tool for distributional phonological typology

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From the journal Linguistics Vanguard

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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Supplemental Material

The online version of this article offers supplementary material (https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2017-0050).


Received: 2017-11-10
Accepted: 2018-02-12
Published Online: 2018-05-05

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