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Data and code accompanying Kirby & Alves (2021), "Exploring statistical regularities in the syllable canon of Sino-Vietnamese loanmorph phonology"

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Contents

File	Description
attested-vietnamese-syllables.csv	The attested syllable list in o,m,n,c,t format
attested-vietnamese-syllables.txt	The attested syllable list in orthography,I P A format
create-lists.sh	Bash script documenting how the lists were created and filtered
duc-filtered.txt	Unique syllables from Hồ Ngọc Đức's 74K wordlist, filtered to remove junk (see join-duc-luong.sh)
join-duc-luong.sh	Bash script documenting how the web source files were filtered and combined
join-duc-luong.txt	duc-filtered.txt and luong-sorted.txt run through sort -u
luong-sorted.txt	Hieu-Thi Luong's GitHub List run through sort(1)
no-known-sv-syllables.csv	The NSV list in o,m,n,c,t format
no-known-sv-syllables.txt	The NSV list in orthography,I P A format
print-syllable-shape-counts.py	Python helper script that calculates the number of possible syllables
sino-vietnamese-readings.csv	An edited CSV version of Chiang list with one duplicate entry manually removed (8090 lines)
sino-vietnamese-syllables.csv	The SV list in o,m,n,c,t format
sino-vietnamese-syllables.txt	The SV list in orthography,I P A format
slot-format.py	Python helper script that takes the IPA from the *.txt files and produces comma-delimited (ons,med,nuc,cod,ton) output
stats-plots.Rmd	R Markdown file to generate tables and heatmaps
stats-plots.html	Sortable tables and heatmaps
syllable-shape-counts.csv	Output of print-syllable-shape-counts.py
unique-sino-vietnamese-syllables.txt	Just the unique Vietnamese syllables from sino-vietnamese-readings.csv(1940 lines)

A note on the Sino-Vietnamese word list

The sino-vietnamese-readings.csv file is based on the dissertation of Chia-lu Chiang:

江佳路 [Chiang, Chia-lu]. 2011. 越南漢子音的歷史層次研究 [The study on phonological strata of Sino-Vietnamese]. Unpublished dissertation. 國立台灣師範大學 [National Taiwan Normal University].

We do not use Chiang's phonetic representations directly, although our representations should be broadly equivalent. More importantly, we have not verified the accuracy of this list ourselves, so cave usor. For example, there may be alternative pronunciations for some characters that are not in this list, and/or pronunciations that have been "normalized" somewhere along the line. Further research is needed.

This is also not a unique list; other Sino-Vietnamese word lists and dictionaries can easily be found by searching the Web.