LINGUIST List 22.4495 Thu Nov 10 2011 Qs: Seeking recent phonemic neutralizations Editor for this issue: Zac Smith <zaclinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ We'd like to remind readers that the responses to queries are usually best posted to the individual asking the question. That individual is then strongly encouraged to post a summary to the list. This policy was instituted to help control the huge volume of mail on LINGUIST; so we would appreciate your cooperating with it whenever it seems appropriate. In addition to posting a summary, we'd like to remind people that it is usually a good idea to personally thank those individuals who have taken the trouble to respond to the query. To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Andrew Wedel , Seeking recent phonemic neutralizations Message 1: Seeking recent phonemic neutralizations Date: 10-Nov-2011 From: Andrew Wedel <wedelu.arizona.edu> Subject: Seeking recent phonemic neutralizations E-mail this message to a friend We are collecting a database of diachronically recent phonemic neutralizations (mergers or deletions) in languages for which there exist reasonably good corpora and associated word-lists. The neutralizations can be context-sensitive or context-free, but for our purposes, the neutralization needs to be complete in some dialect of the language. The corpus needs to have a phonemic transcription (or the orthography needs to be shallow enough that we can reconstruct one); it needs to encode the pre-neutralization state of the language either in the phonemic transcription or the orthography; and it needs to reflect (other than the neutralization) the phonemic system of the dialect in which the neutralization has taken place. As an example, for the LOT~THOUGHT and PIN~PEN mergers that have taken place in varieties of American English, we can use an American English phonemic transcription of the English portion of the CELEX database. To see a regularly updated list of the neutralizations and associated corpora that we currently have, please point your browser to http://tinyurl.com/8y7pgpe We currently have neutralizations in English, German, Dutch, French, Slovak, Korean and Hong Kong Cantonese. If you have any suggestions for additions to this list, please contact Andy Wedel at wedelu.arizona.edu Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics                             Phonetics                             Phonology Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 10-Nov-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.