Lexibank datasets are presented in the Cross-Linguistic Data Format (CLDF).[4]
Phonological and lexical features are automatically computed in Lexibank.[2]
The datasets are publicly accessible and are archived at Zenodo[5] and are also publicly available on GitHub.[6] Lexibank is also part of the Cross-Linguistic Linked Data project. All of the datasets are released under the CC BY 4.0 license.
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Greenhill, SJ; Blust, R and Gray, RD (2008): The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From bioinformatics to lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics. 4. 271-283.
Bodt, Timotheus Adrianus and List, Johann-Mattis (2019): Testing the predictive strength of the comparative method: An ongoing experiment on unattested words in Western Kho-Bwa languages. Papers in Historical Phonology 4.1: 22-44.
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Castro, Andy; Crook, Brian; Flaming, Royce (2010): A sociolinguistic survey of Kua-nsi and related Yi varieties in Heqing county, Yunnan province, China. SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2010-001. Dallas: SIL International.
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Kolipakam, Vishnupriya, Michael Dunn, Fiona M. Jordan & Annemarie Verkerk. (2018). DravLex: A Dravidian lexical database. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Duong, Thu Hang and Nguyen, Thu Quynh and Nguyen, Van Loi (2021): The Language of the La Chí People in Bản Díu Commune, Xín Mần District, Hà Giang Province, Vietnam. In: Studies in the Anthropology of Language in Mainland Southeast Asia. Ed. by N. J. Enfield, Jack Sidnell, and Charles H. P. Zuckermann. University of Hawaii Press: Honolulu. 124-138
Gao, Tianjun (2020): Reconstruction and analysis of phylogenetic network on Tibeto-Burman languages in China. Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 48:1, 257-293.
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Lee, Sean, Hasegawa, Toshikazu (2011). Bayesian phylogenetic analysis supports an agricultural origin of Japonic languages. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 278(1725), 3662–3669. doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.0518
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Kate Lynn Lindsey and Bernard Comrie. 2020. Ende (Papua New Guinea) dictionary. In: Key, Mary Ritchie & Comrie, Bernard (eds.) The Intercontinental Dictionary Series. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at http://ids.clld.org/)
List, Johann-Mattis (2014): Investigating the impact of sample size on cognate detection. Journal of Language Relationship. 11. 91-102. doi:10.31826/jlr-2014-110111
Líu, L.; Wáng, H.; Bǎi, Y. (2007): Xiàndài Hànyǔ fāngyán héxīncí, tèzhēng cíjí 现代汉语方言核心词·特征词集 [Collection of basic vocabulary words and characteristic dialect words in modern Chinese dialects]. Nánjīng: Fènghuáng.
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Laurent Sagart, Jacques, Guillaume, Yunfan Lai, and Johann-Mattis List (2019): Sino-Tibetan Database of Lexical Cognates. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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