LINGUIST List 15.2816

Fri Oct 08 2004

FYI: Lexical Morphology; XTone Tonal Database

Editor for this issue: Naomi Fox <foxlinguistlist.org>

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1. Sergio Scalise, Lexical Morphology: A Bibliography
2. David Mortensen, XTone Crosslinguistic Tonal Database

Message 1: Lexical Morphology: A Bibliography

Date: 07-Oct-2004
From: Sergio Scalise <scalise

lingue.unibo.it>
Subject: Lexical Morphology: A Bibliography

I've put on the web my 'famous' bibliography of lexical morphology.
7600 and more entries, searchable. You can look at it at

http://morbo.lingue.unibo.it/mmm/

(and then click Morphology at Bologna, at the end of the page, on the right)

prof. Sergio Scalise
Linguistica Generale
Dipartimento di Lingue
Via Cartoleria 5 - 40126 Bologna
Linguistic Field(s): Morphology

Message 2: XTone Crosslinguistic Tonal Database

Date: 07-Oct-2004
From: David Mortensen <dmort

socrates.berkeley.edu>
Subject: XTone Crosslinguistic Tonal Database

We wish to announce the public availability of XTone: the Crosslinguistic Tonal
Database. It is available to the general linguistic public at

http://xtone.linguistics.berkeley.edu

The purpose of XTone is to provide a forum to which interested researchers can
contribute and access basic descriptive characterizations of as many tone systems
as possible. The database has been set up in such a way that researchers can
enter and query data in simple prose with a minimum of effort.

Although a later phase of the project will further encode the data for
cross-linguistic comparision, the query system currently in place is
designed to provide an immediate benefit to those interested in
consulting the growing number of entries.

This project is expected to provide an important cross-linguistic 'clearing house'
of tonal information for descriptive, historical, typological and theoretical
studies of tone and prosodic systems in general.

XTone is the project of Larry Hyman, David Allison, and David Mortensen of
University of California, Berkeley. The web interface and database design
are by David Allison.

David Mortensen
UC Berkeley
Linguistic Field(s): Phonology; Typology
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