DistDB - improving lexicon access for field linguists and phonologists, SOAS University of London
Channel: SOAS University of London
Date: 2016-10-19

https://www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics
This seminar titled "DistDB - improving lexicon access for field linguists and phonologists" was given by Elizabeth Eden (UCL) on 4 October 2016 at the Department of Linguistics, SOAS University of London
You can find out more about this event at https://goo.gl/5NWbRk

Many claims about phonology are difficult to verify quickly and easily. My website, DistDB, is designed to improve collaboration among field linguists, phonologists and other researchers. I am looking for feedback, and for as many new lexicons as possible.

Researchers can upload lexicons in any transcription format, and convert them into the IPA with custom mappings. Lexicons can be shared among collaborators, or with the whole world. Analytical tools make it easy to look for loan words, typos, suitable experimental stimuli, syllable structure, and more. The effects of different phonemic analyses can be compared using multiple custom mappings to the IPA. Segmental patterns and inventory features can be compared across languages and dialects, corpus frequencies and word counts.