@inproceedings{f3aada66df0e4c5c8768dd61cda2c9bc,
title = "SegBo: A database of borrowed sounds in the world's languages",
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.",
keywords = "Language contact, Linguistic database, Phonology, Typology",
author = "Eitan Grossman and Elad Eisen and Dmitry Nikolaev and Steven Moran",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} European Language Resources Association (ELRA), licensed under CC-BY-NC; 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2020 ; Conference date: 11-05-2020 Through 16-05-2020",
year = "2020",
language = "الإنجليزيّة",
series = "LREC 2020 - 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Conference Proceedings",
pages = "5316--5322",
editor = "Nicoletta Calzolari and Frederic Bechet and Philippe Blache and Khalid Choukri and Christopher Cieri and Thierry Declerck and Sara Goggi and Hitoshi Isahara and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Helene Mazo and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis",
booktitle = "LREC 2020 - 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Conference Proceedings",
}