Language Variation and Change

Loss of Inflection Database

Loss of Inflection Database

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The Loss of Inflection Database is a digital repository of examples of language change from 50 languages, each involving the loss of inflectional contrasts within paradigms. Users may filter records by a broad range of parameters to find examples meeting particular criteria, or navigate through a timeline of changes to explore the historical development of individual languages and families
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Fife Place-Name Data

Fife Place-Name Data

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This was a pilot project to retroactively create an online database from the (purposefully laid-out) volumes of The Place-Names of Fife. It was successful, and allowed the researcher, Simon Taylor, and the systems developer, Brian Aitken, to work together on a prototype of what will become the full Scottish Place-Name database for the future (based on older models, which underlie the survey volumes).
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Dinka_BorDialects_2010to2012_controlled_VerbForms

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The dataset consists mostly of speech recordings. At the center are 1766 elicited Dinka utterances (wav format), collected through controlled elicitation from 14 speakers of the Bor dialects of Dinka. They are accompanied by annotations and f0-related files. In addition, the dataset includes a perception study carried out with 6 Dinka people. The dataset was collected in order to investigate the phonological contrast between early- vs. late-aligned falling contours in Dinka. This motivation is laid out in detail in a published paper: Remijsen, Bert (2013). Tonal alignment is contrastive in falling contours in Dinka. Language 89(2), 297-327.
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