Query Details
| Query Subject: |
Seeking recent phonemic neutralizations
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| Author: | Andrew Wedel | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Historical Linguistics
Phonetics Phonology |
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| Query: |
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 wedel@u.arizona.edu. |
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| LL Issue: | 22.4454 | |
| Date posted: | 08-Nov-2011 | |
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