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SegBo: A Database of Borrowed Sounds in the World's Languages

SegBo is the first large-scale cross-linguistic database of borrowed phonological segments. It is a work in progress by:

and can be cited as:

If you use the SegBo data in your research, please cite the specific version for replicability purposes. We archive each release of SegBo in Zenodo.

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SegBo data are availble in the Cross-Linguistic Data Format here:

https://github.com/cldf-datasets/segbo

This data format integrates Glottolog metadata about the languages in the SegBo sample.

Preliminary studies based on SegBo have been presented at the following conferences:

  • Elad Eisen, Eitan Grossman, Dmitry Nikolaev and Steven Moran. Defining and operationalizing `borrowability' in phonology. 5th Usage-Based Linguistics Conference (Tel Aviv, July 5-7 2021).

  • Steven Moran and Eitan Grossman. Temporal bias: a new type of bias for typologists to worry about. 5th Usage-Based Linguistics Conference (Tel Aviv, July 5-7 2021).

  • Eitan Grossman, Elad Eisen, Dmitry Nikolaev and Steven Moran. How different were phonological distributions?: The World Survey of Phonological Segment Borrowing and the Uniformitarian Assumption. Societas Linguistica Europaea 52 (Leipzig, August 2019). Slides here.

  • Eitan Grossman, Elad Eisen, Dmitry Nikolaev and Steven Moran. The typology of phonological segment borrowing. Association for Linguistic Typology 13 (Pavia, September 2019). Slides here.

  • Eitan Grossman and Steven Moran. What 'contact typologists' want from descriptive grammars. Descriptive Grammars and Typology: The Challenges of Writing Grammars of Underdescribed and Endangered Languages (Helsinki, March 2019). Slides here.

  • Eitan Grossman. Rethinking the Uniformitarian Hypothesis. Prague Linguistics (Prague, 2019).

The following published work is based on SegBo:

Several articles using SegBo are in the works, and we are working on setting up a website to make the data accessible via a GUI, so stay tuned.