SegBo: A database of borrowed sounds in the world's languages

Eitan Grossman; Elad Eisen; Dmitry Nikolaev; Steven Moran

SegBo: A database of borrowed sounds in the world's languages

Eitan Grossman, Elad Eisen, Dmitry Nikolaev, Steven Moran

Department of Linguistics

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Abstract

Phonological segment borrowing is a process through which languages acquire new contrastive speech sounds as the result of borrowing new words from other languages. Despite the fact that phonological segment borrowing is documented in many of the world's languages, to date there has been no large-scale quantitative study of the phenomenon. In this paper, we present SEGBO, a novel cross-linguistic database of borrowed phonological segments. We describe our data aggregation pipeline and the resulting language sample. We also present two short case studies based on the database. The first deals with the impact of large colonial languages on the sound systems of the world's languages; the second deals with universals of borrowing in the domain of rhotic consonants.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	LREC 2020 - 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Conference Proceedings
Editors	Nicoletta Calzolari, Frederic Bechet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
Publisher	European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
Pages	5316-5322
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9791095546344
State	Published - 2020
Event	12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2020 - Marseille, France Duration: 11 May 2020 → 16 May 2020

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Name	LREC 2020 - 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Conference Proceedings

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Conference	12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2020
Country/Territory	France
City	Marseille
Period	11/05/20 → 16/05/20

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© European Language Resources Association (ELRA), licensed under CC-BY-NC

Keywords

Language contact
Linguistic database
Phonology
Typology

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Grossman, E., Eisen, E., Nikolaev, D., & Moran, S. (2020). SegBo: A database of borrowed sounds in the world's languages. In N. Calzolari, F. Bechet, P. Blache, K. Choukri, C. Cieri, T. Declerck, S. Goggi, H. Isahara, B. Maegaard, J. Mariani, H. Mazo, A. Moreno, J. Odijk, & S. Piperidis (Eds.), LREC 2020 - 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Conference Proceedings (pp. 5316-5322). (LREC 2020 - 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Conference Proceedings). European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

Grossman, Eitan ; Eisen, Elad ; Nikolaev, Dmitry et al. / SegBo : A database of borrowed sounds in the world's languages. LREC 2020 - 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Conference Proceedings. editor / Nicoletta Calzolari ; Frederic Bechet ; Philippe Blache ; Khalid Choukri ; Christopher Cieri ; Thierry Declerck ; Sara Goggi ; Hitoshi Isahara ; Bente Maegaard ; Joseph Mariani ; Helene Mazo ; Asuncion Moreno ; Jan Odijk ; Stelios Piperidis. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2020. pp. 5316-5322 (LREC 2020 - 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Conference Proceedings).

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Grossman, E, Eisen, E, Nikolaev, D & Moran, S 2020, SegBo: A database of borrowed sounds in the world's languages. in N Calzolari, F Bechet, P Blache, K Choukri, C Cieri, T Declerck, S Goggi, H Isahara, B Maegaard, J Mariani, H Mazo, A Moreno, J Odijk & S Piperidis (eds), LREC 2020 - 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Conference Proceedings. LREC 2020 - 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Conference Proceedings, European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pp. 5316-5322, 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2020, Marseille, France, 11/05/20.

SegBo: A database of borrowed sounds in the world's languages. / Grossman, Eitan; Eisen, Elad; Nikolaev, Dmitry et al.
LREC 2020 - 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Conference Proceedings. ed. / Nicoletta Calzolari; Frederic Bechet; Philippe Blache; Khalid Choukri; Christopher Cieri; Thierry Declerck; Sara Goggi; Hitoshi Isahara; Bente Maegaard; Joseph Mariani; Helene Mazo; Asuncion Moreno; Jan Odijk; Stelios Piperidis. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2020. p. 5316-5322 (LREC 2020 - 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Conference Proceedings).

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Grossman E, Eisen E, Nikolaev D, Moran S. SegBo: A database of borrowed sounds in the world's languages. In Calzolari N, Bechet F, Blache P, Choukri K, Cieri C, Declerck T, Goggi S, Isahara H, Maegaard B, Mariani J, Mazo H, Moreno A, Odijk J, Piperidis S, editors, LREC 2020 - 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Conference Proceedings. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). 2020. p. 5316-5322. (LREC 2020 - 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Conference Proceedings).

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